This latest addition does have me tempted.
It costs £14.99 on Steam to get in, if you're curious. Subnautica will still be in Early Access for a fair while yet, but Marsh Davies had fun larking about in the shallows with his snorkels, flippers, and dread of what lurks in the deep. (At least, thats what I think was done by that update - 'SN70444 by Igor Popov: SUB-1816 - preventing building props in Cyclops docking bay'- I admit I havent checked myself. I love the idea of this mod, and it’s way better than not having the mod, but the tiny little tube connecting the cyclops to the base looks terribly insufficient. Even at 100 metres, water pressure means idly knocking into things brings a real risk of hull breaches you'll need to run around fixing. Ah, this could be why there was an update about ten days ago in experimental to remove the ability to build inside that part of the cyclops. I’d prefer to see a docking platform extend to the side of the cyclops, instead of underneath like this, so it could be a beefier connection point.
It's made to go comfortably to 200 metres, which seems awfully shallow for such a fancy-looking vessel but I suppose alien seas have their own hostile rules. It's got room for a choice of expansion modules too, though Subnautica only has one anyway at this stage of development. The fifty-metre Cyclops is intended to be a home away from home in the depths, a place to return to for crafting, to replenish your air, and to hide from terrible things. An update yesterday added a big new multi-level submarine you can dock smaller subs with and clamber around inside of.
Docking ships in video games is pretty great in general, a small moment hinting at the grand scale of a world, and even better is docking inside a larger vessel you can also control. Explore-o-survive 'em up Subnautica might not have yet left Early Access, but it has now entered my cool books.
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