Hello Subnauts,

We’re delighted to bring you the long-awaited 2.0 update to Subnautica across all platforms.

This update has been a labor of love for the entire Subnautica team. As you might have seen in some of our previous blog posts, a lot of time has been spent addressing a ton of tech debt and bringing across some improved code from Below Zero.

Our goal was always to bring both Subnautica and Below Zero onto unified versions of Unity, and with today’s update, that goal has been achieved. By doing this, we’ve been able to implement several quality of life features, fix many outstanding bugs, and introduce some performance improvements that were already available in Below Zero.

We’ve also added …

A new update has arrived for Subnautica: Below Zero. Tailor your game experience with Custom Game modes, utilize an all-new Seatruck Dock base piece, enjoy the most stable version of the game to date with tons of bugs smashed, and an unstuck button for more sticky situations. Check out the What the Dock trailer and read on for more details!

Custom Game Mode

Tailor your Below Zero experience to the finest of details with a new Custom Game Mode option. Toggle everything from Player Damage, to Day and Night Length, to Creature Hostility, to implementing a Vegetarian Diet, and much, much more. The challenges are endless and yours to create!

Seatruck Dock

Looking for a way to dock your Seatruck …

Hello Subnauts,

In our last major blog post, we outlined our current and future plans for the Subnautica series. We’ve been slowly and steadily chipping away at several items on that list and are thankful for your continued patience.

Some updates have made their way out already – including for the PS5, to address the disappearing saves and screen tearing – and we have a lot more still to come.

This blog post might get a little long, but if you stick it through to the end, we hope it’ll get you excited for what’s coming next.

Switch patch released

We mentioned last time that we wanted to address the high volume of crashes on the …

Hey Subnauts!

We are looking at making some improvements to vehicle docking in Subnautica: Below Zero. We would love your feedback so that we can prioritize which features to work on.

As you answer the questions in the linked survey, please keep in mind that any features we bring up are just ideas and are not guaranteed to make it into the game.

Subnautica Community Feedback: Vehicle Docking Survey

Keep Diving,

Unknown Worlds Team…

Hello, Subnauts!

Since we launched Below Zero 1.0 – and Subnautica on Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series – back in May we’ve been in a non-stop loop of investigating and fixing bugs. And in late August, we also brought support to Below Zero in four new languages.

But there’s still a lot more to do, and we have plenty of things planned, so we wanted to let you know what else we’ve been up to and what you can expect from us in the coming months. Please think of this as a summary of our priorities – as you may already know we do not make many public commitments to specific dates.

What are we up to now?

Hi Subnauts!

It has been a couple of weeks since we last posted to our blog about the issues we’re focused on quickly resolving post-launch. We wanted to give you an update on where we’re at with various patches and investigations.

❗ Disclaimer ❗ 

As always, this isn’t everything we’re working on, and we appreciate your continued patience and support while we track down and fix these bugs.

Critical Issues:

[Subnautica – PS5] Screen Tearing

We see and hear your reports of excessive screen tearing on PS5. Some backstory here: v-sync was turned on during development but was creating a nauseating “rubber-band” like sensation due to performance (framerate) fluctuations. The solution we chose at the time …

Hi Subnauts!

We are overwhelmed by the reception to Below Zero’s launch on Friday, and the team is immensely proud that we were able to simultaneously bring the game to so many platforms. We’re also proud to have brought the original Subnautica to the PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch platforms as well. What a wild ride!

All that said, no launch is perfect, and the team has been keeping a close eye on issues that players have been reporting since the game’s launch. There are a few bugs that are particularly concerning for us, and we wanted to take a moment to review what those are and which ones are currently under investigation. 

❗ Disclaimer ❗ 

This isn’t everything we’re …

As we hurtle ever closer to the launch of Subnautica: Below Zero, we are excited today to debut the cinematic trailer for you all to enjoy!

Created in partnership with RealTime UK, the trailer provides a tantalizing glimpse at life on 4546B prior to the mysterious events that bring you planetside. 

Subnautica: Below Zero arrives May 14th, 2021 on Steam and Epic Game Store for PC and Mac, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S|X, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. 

In addition to physical edition pre-orders, Below Zero is now available to pre-order on digital storefronts. In select regions, PlayStation Plus and Nintendo Switch players can get a 10% discount off the retail price of $29.99 (USD).

We want …

Xbox adventurers, we want to thank you for your patience while we brought our console development back in-house.

Our dedicated console team has been hard at work on some long-requested performance related bug fixes and improvements. They have also added save-game fixes with improved error messaging to provide more comprehensive feedback.

Here are all the changes included in this update:

Improvements

• Save game improvements and logging
• Performance and lots of under-the-hood improvements
• Improved world streaming: You should no longer be able to outrun terrain or fall through the world in a PRAWN suit
• Incremental garbage collection added to help smooth out framerate
• Hardcore mode: Low oxygen will no longer warn you
• Added ability to switch users from main menu
• Rocket

Hey everybody!

People have been asking us what our plans are for Below Zero on consoles, and I’d like to expand a little on what has been happening on that front since my roadmap post in July!  

We are planning to ship Below Zero on Xbox One and PS4. Our goal is to ship simultaneously with PC v1.0, but it’s probably too soon to know if that’s realistic. We have more work to do to make Below Zero as good as it can be before releasing it on any platform.

Behind the scenes, we’ve been working to improve our console efforts in-house. We learned a lot from the process of taking Subnautica to Xbox and PS4 (with …