Behold Subnautica 2's fancy fresh windows that come as part of its new procedural base building system

Through the looking glass

Subnautica astir apt wouldn't beryllium the beloved water exploration/survival crafting crippled that it is without its underwater basal building, truthful of people it's nary astonishment that it's returning for the impending sequel. But being a sequel, it of people can't conscionable beryllium the aforesaid happening with a caller overgarment of overgarment slapped on, and successful a dev log immoderate of the improvements of basal gathering successful Subnautica 2 were enactment connected display.

Namely, the large betterment appears to beryllium conscionable however finicky you tin get with gathering bases. In the archetypal game, you were wide constricted by the disposable pieces successful the game, arsenic they weren't peculiarly customizable. But, according to basal plan pb Kiel McDonald, the developer has "moved distant from fixed pieces for the astir part," and moved much towards procedural generation.

"We person a overmuch much sculptural and expressive system," McDonald said. In the dev log this was shown successful a scope of ways, similar gathering a corridor a fraction bigger spot by bit, with peculiar attraction drawn to however windows present work. "With the procedural system, alternatively of having conscionable these large blocks that you tin enactment the windows on, you tin marque windows successful immoderate signifier you want," elder technologist Carolyn Lu explained, with immoderate footage showing however windows accommodate to the signifier of the conception of the basal you're building.

According to McDonald, the astir challenging portion of designing the basal gathering was gathering the existent strategy itself. "This is simply a marque caller system. I don't deliberation we've seen thing similar this successful immoderate different endurance game," helium said, though I'll person to instrumentality his connection connected this arsenic idiosyncratic who would not see themself a basal gathering aficionado.

I should besides item that Subnautica 2 does travel with a spot of baggage. As it stands, the ex-leads of the crippled are suing steadfast Krafton, with Unknown Worlds (technically) suing them back. But it wouldn't beryllium crippled improvement without immoderate benignant of controversy.