I’ve been which means to sink some correct time and power into Subnautica, Unknown Worlds’ sport of submarine exploration and underwater survival, however trying on the newest replace suggests I is likely to be greatest ready till I get my shiny new PC. That’s as a result of the Eye Candy replace makes the sport (visually) higher, down the place it’s wetter. Rub your eyeballs everywhere in the replace trailer inside or take a peek at the full update notes here.
Essentially, the Eye Candy replace brings your traditional suite of post-processing results to the desk. That acquainted cocktail of detailed depth-of-field, movement blur, coloration grading, lens artefacts, chromatic aberration and extra. You’ve seen it in a thousand different video games this yr, nevertheless it actually does appear to present the alien, underwater environments of Subnautica a lift, and it simply feels proper to have the underwater world really feel a little bit murkier. But that’s only a land-lubber speaking, so take it as you’ll.
These renderer enhancements coincide with a wide range of graphical bugs that they’ve managed to squash, together with stars being seen by the moon, sun-shafts piercing by shadows and extra. There’s a couple of small additions to the world itself on this replace, with deserted bases seeing essentially the most love, gaining audio-logs detailing the plight of those that got here earlier than you. Mechanically, the Dive Reel has additionally been buffed to go away a breadcrumb path of glowing markers, a work-in-progress tweak permitting simpler escapes from darkish underwater tunnels.
Rendering bugs apart, nearly all the brand new visible options of the Eye Candy replace appear to be non-compulsory, which means that your PC shouldn’t creak and groan too a lot if you happen to lack the to drive the flamboyant new shader-based results. Plus, some individuals would like to have the underwater world pin-sharp and completely outlined. Personally, I feel a sure haziness is an intuitive a part of the deep-sea diving expertise.
Other latest updates to the sport have introduced a considerably extra tangible enhancements to the sport, together with the adorable (and pun-tacular) Cuddlefish, a creature that appears to fill a beforehand unnoticed void in-between Excitable Puppy and Octopus – actually a critter worthy of being an aquatic Disney Princess’ sidekick. Before that, the sport expanded on the dramatic beats of its development with an alien plague, a remedy discovered deep throughout the ocean, and darkish depths now haunted by luminous and impressively menacing predators.
Subnautica should still be in Early Access, nevertheless it’s an unlimited vital success on Steam, with 1000’s of latest opinions nearly all giving it a thumbs up – a rarity for open-world sandboxes like this. You can pick it up on Steam for £19.49/$25, though the upcoming winter sale is sort of actually going to take a bit of that determine if you happen to don’t thoughts ready a little bit longer to get your toes moist.
