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Subnautica 2 | Update Vlog: Early Access 1.2 - Buddy System (www.youtube.com)
submitted 4 days ago by QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social to c/subnautica2@lemmy.world
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This update releases tomorrow (August 19) with the following features (and more):

  • Proximity voice chat
    • The further away you get from a buddy, the more radio-like your voice will sound. When you're really, really far away your voice will start breaking up more.
  • Emotes
  • Inventory sharing, when in proximity of other players.
  • player revives (timer based to bring them back to life)
  • 2 new characters with 2 new suit colors (more coming in future updates)
  • Tracking tag (a short range beacon) to help find things. Ex: You can put it in a container or on your character to easily find inventory after a death.
  • Improved HUD icons, icons will be smaller but when focusing on one it will scale up with more information about it.
  • Improvements to recipes
  • Improvements to base building for when you can or can't build something somewhere.
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[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I get the immersion angle regarding the proximity chat. But honestly, when I play, we chat about lots of different stuff and making it based on proximity makes it kind of useless

[–] bonesawmcl@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It seems to me that it's not proximity chat in the "traditional" sense, so as to get quieter the further away you are, but instead modifying the voice. Which could be kinda fun, if it's not too aggressive (and the distance where it starts isn't too small)

[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

From the video ~0:59 I understand it will start breaking up around 100m

[–] bonesawmcl@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Oof okay, I didn't watch the video. That's not far enough at all.