Developer Unknown Worlds Leisure issued an announcement clarifying that Subnautica 2 is not going to be launched in 2024. It additionally corrected the document on different miscommunications. These included incorrect experiences that it might be a multiplayer-focused live-service sport.
Subnautica 2 devs set the document straight on the sport’s launch window and extra
Subnautica 2 writer Krafton lately shared its This fall 2023 Earnings report. The report included a “Strategic Titles for 2024” slide itemizing Subnautica 2 alongside different upcoming video games. This was mistakenly taken to imply the sport was launching in 2024 when that isn’t the case. The slide was meant to convey that Unknown Worlds would start sharing extra details about the sport this 12 months. The developer nonetheless plans to launch Subnautica 2 in early entry in 2025. The misunderstanding was widespread sufficient that Unknown Worlds made a blog post clarifying it and different misconceptions.
Studio additionally set the document straight relating to multiplayer and dwell service components. Whereas the sport will characteristic co-op, it’s elective, and Subnautica 2 shouldn’t be multiplayer-focused. Moreover, using the phrase “games-as-a-service” right here refers back to the studio’s plans to constantly replace the sport over a number of years. Unknown Worlds pressured that Subnautica 2 is not going to characteristic any season or battle passes and won’t require a subscription.
Subnautica 2 Coming in 2025
Additional particulars on Subnautica 2 are scarce, however the brand new sport will reportedly take gamers to “a completely new alien planet.” Regardless of the radically completely different climates, Subnautica and Subnautica: Under Zero each befell on Planet 4546B. Whereas Under Zero launched loads of new creatures, there have been additionally a couple of returning faunae. Others have been regional variations or evolutionary kinfolk of creatures gamers encountered within the first sport. Whereas there’s nothing unsuitable with that, a brand new planet presumably means an entire new world of issues to find.
It should even be attention-grabbing to see how Subnautica 2 continues the favored sequence’ ongoing metanarrative. The primary sport noticed gamers racing to seek out the treatment for an alien pathogen referred to as the Kharaa Micro organism. An alien race referred to as the Architects got here to Planet 4546B to review the micro organism however deserted the planet after the illness broke containment. Under Zero ended on a cliffhanger relating to the destiny of the Architects, and the brand new sport will hopefully reveal what occurred to them.
Followers will little doubt even be keen to find what occurred to Robin and Al-An, the protagonists of Subnautica: Under Zero. The final sport ended with their arrival on the Architect homeworld. Krafton’s point out of a brand new planet implies that the following Subnautica sport will doubtless choose up from there.