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Emperor Leviathan, which produced an enzyme ("Enzyme 42") that could cure Kharaa. Unfortunately, the only living Sea Emperor was too elderly to produce the enzyme in enough potency to develop a cure. Although the Precursors attempted to force the Sea Emperor's eggs to hatch, hoping to acquire a more potent form of Enzyme 42 from her offspring, they were unsuccessful. In an attempt to better understand the egg-hatching process of the Sea Emperor, the Precursors took the egg of a Sea Dragon Leviathan (an evolutionary cousin of the Sea Emperor) to study. The Sea Dragon whose egg they took tracked down where the eggs were being held and destroyed the lab, leaking the Kharaa bacterium into the planet's ecosystem. The Precursors enabled a facility known as the Quarantine Enforcement Platform, a large weapon that fires on any spacecraft attempting to land on, or leave, 4546B, before evacuating. Kharaa was prevented from wiping out life on 4546B by a small amount of Enzyme 42 that was spread around (unintentionally) by a vent system the Precursors had built which connected the open ocean to the Sea Emperor's containment chamber and her children.
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held above the surface of the water by massive, buoyant creatures permanently stuck to its underside. The crew built a base and two observatories on the island. Eventually, waning food supplies, worsening weather, lack of resources, and curiosity as to the origin of an alien artifact discovered on the beach drove the crew to leave the island and search the ocean for answers. After constructing a new base in the "Grand Reef" biome, the crew discovered that they had been infected by the Kharaa
Bacterium. Bart realized that, since Kharaa was unknown to humans, it had no known cure, and so he took on the task of developing one himself. Marguerit, under the guise of providing a test subject for Bart, attacked a predatory Reaper Leviathan and towed it back to the base using a submarine. A few minutes afterwards, the base was attacked by a Reaper Leviathan (either the one Marguerit subdued, or a second one drawn by the first's scent) and Paul was killed. Bart, believing Marguerit to be dead, returned to the Floating Island, and succumbed to Kharaa. Marguerit defeated the attacking Reaper and, using its bloated corpse as a raft, floated to 4546B's polar region, returning in
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Precursors and asking Ryley to activate the teleporter within her containment chamber and hatch her eggs so that her young may be free. She gives Ryley the recipe for an enzyme that will allow her eggs to hatch. After the eggs hatch, the juvenile Sea Emperor Leviathans spit out a concentrated form of Enzyme 42 which cures Ryley's infection as well as all the other infected fish on 4546B, finally eradicating the disease. Now cured, Ryley is able to disable the Quarantine Enforcement Platform (it can only be disabled by a person who is not infected with Kharaa), build the escape rocket, and leave the planet.
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and providing him with the access code for the room. Ryley also begins receiving telepathic communications from the Sea
Emperor Leviathan in the Primary Containment Facility, a complex constructed by the Precursors to contain and study the Sea Emperor. The Sea Emperor helps Ryley find her containment
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In creative mode, all depleting characteristics, such as health and thirst, are removed, all blueprints are unlocked, and the player can craft without needing resources. Additionally, the submersibles, a stasis rifle, a
Seaglide, a mobile vehicle bay, and a propulsion cannon are provided, which do
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came too close to 4546B and was shot down by the
Quarantine Enforcement Platform. Only three of the six crew members survived: the captain, Paul Torgal; his son, Bart Torgal; and the ship's mercenary, Marguerit Maida. The three washed ashore on the Floating Island, an island-- visitable in-game--
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over that learning period they would get to the point where they internalized that activity as pleasurable on its own and they would continue". Cleveland opted for this after reading an essay by Jamie Cheng who implemented similar philosophies into his game
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Quarantine Enforcement Platform while landing, exploding mid-air and leaving no survivors. After this, Ryley receives a final transmission from Alterra HQ, informing him of the escape rocket blueprint in the captain quarters aboard
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Alterra due to harvesting resources from 4546B, and will only be granted permission to land once he has paid it off.
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1714:"Subnautica: Below Zero is Now Available for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S"
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would be like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole."
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Making of Subnautica - Charlie Cleveland - Game Direction
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1203:"Subnautica: Descend into the Depths"
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2271:"Premature Evaluation: Subnautica"
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1867:Shabana, Arif (January 30, 2019).
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1980:"Subnautica for Xbox One Reviews"
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129:Cory Strader
57:Publisher(s)
45:Developer(s)
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2768:Indie games
2733:MacOS games
2659:Moonbreaker
2482:January 14,
2406:GamesRadar+
2374:Tom's Guide
2320:January 14,
2192:January 29,
2053:Destructoid
2021:GamesRadar+
2000:January 11,
1961:January 11,
1852:October 29,
1821:October 29,
1603:January 10,
1572:February 7,
1481:January 20,
1448:November 5,
1383:November 5,
1373:Gaming Bolt
1186:January 20,
1150:January 20,
791:GamesRadar+
755:Destructoid
745:Publication
729:(PC) 87/100
542:Development
468:Oculus Rift
389:submersible
178:Platform(s)
156:Composer(s)
113:Jonas Bötel
110:Max McGuire
87:Designer(s)
81:Hugh Jeremy
77:Producer(s)
67:Director(s)
2712:Categories
2645:Subnautica
2578:Subnautica
2449:January 4,
1985:Metacritic
1946:Metacritic
1907:Metacritic
1657:Comic Book
1532:Subnautica
1351:. YouTube.
1117:References
1096:Nominated
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1000:Nominated
990:Nominated
946:Metacritic
936:Subnautica
926:Subnautica
922:Subnautica
912:Subnautica
910:described
902:Subnautica
725:Metacritic
716:Aggregator
696:Below Zero
653:Subnautica
636:Subnautica
632:Subnautica
628:Subnautica
624:Subnautica
620:Subnautica
570:Subnautica
514:Andromedan
415:The Aurora
407:open world
405:set in an
396:Subnautica
385:Subnautica
315:Subnautica
289:Subnautica
149:Tom Jubert
27:Subnautica
2583:MobyGames
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