![]() In fact, if you watch the stream you will see the developers pushing the red launch button, which will take the game out of the early access. The release of Subnautica will surely be special as the developer will stream the release from an aquarium in Monterey. As this marks the beginning of a new journey the developers, Unknown Worlds Entertainment, will live stream the release, with actual sea creatures as background. You can pick it up on Steam for £19.49/$25, although the upcoming winter sale is almost certainly going to take a chunk of that figure if you don't mind waiting a little longer to get your feet wet.After being in early access since 2014, the beloved underwater survival Subnautica will be fully released on PC at January 23rd. Subnautica may still be in Early Access, but it's an enormous critical success on Steam, with thousands of recent reviews almost all giving it a thumbs up - a rarity for open-world sandboxes like this. Before that, the game expanded on the dramatic beats of its progression with an alien plague, a cure found deep within the ocean, and dark depths now haunted by luminous and impressively menacing predators. Other recent updates to the game have brought a somewhat more tangible improvements to the game, including the adorable (and pun-tacular) Cuddlefish, a creature that seems to fill a previously unnoticed void in-between Excitable Puppy and Octopus - truly a critter worthy of being an aquatic Disney Princess' sidekick. Personally, I think a certain haziness is an intuitive part of the deep-sea diving experience. Plus, some people would prefer to have the underwater world pin-sharp and perfectly defined. Rendering bugs aside, almost all the new visual features of the Eye Candy update seem to be optional, meaning that your PC shouldn't creak and groan too much if you lack the hardware to drive the fancy new shader-based effects. Mechanically, the Dive Reel has also been buffed to leave a breadcrumb trail of glowing markers, a work-in-progress tweak allowing easier escapes from dark underwater tunnels. There's a few small additions to the world itself in this update, with abandoned bases seeing the most love, gaining audio-logs detailing the plight of those who came before you. These renderer improvements coincide with a variety of graphical bugs that they've managed to squash, including stars being visible through the moon, sun-shafts piercing through shadows and more. ![]() But that's just a land-lubber talking, so take it as you will. ![]() You've seen it in a thousand other games this year, but it really does seem to give the alien, underwater environments of Subnautica a boost, and it just feels right to have the underwater world feel a little murkier. That familiar cocktail of detailed depth-of-field, motion blur, color grading, lens artefacts, chromatic aberration and more. Rub your eyeballs all over the update trailer within or take a peek at the full update notes here.Įssentially, the Eye Candy update brings your usual suite of post-processing effects to the table. That's because the Eye Candy update makes the game (visually) better, down where it's wetter. I've been meaning to sink some proper time and energy into Subnautica, Unknown Worlds' game of submarine exploration and underwater survival, but looking at the latest update suggests I might be best waiting until I get my shiny new PC. ![]()
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