Personally Subnautica below zero still feels rushed to me it feels like a lot of stuff is missing or even incomplete now after full release

Maaaan, I still think they should have kept the old story. I loved the development arc between Robin and AL-AN, where he was distrustful and hostile towards her but later befriends her the more they talk to each other. Don't get me wrong, I love AL-AN in the current story, and his situation was not a good one so he had no other option, but I would still be untrustful of the person I hitched a ride on because I don't know them and I don't know if they would turn against me and tell their peers what happened, even if they told me they weren't actually with the organization that made their equipment, I wouldn't trust 'em at the beginning And, the interaction between AL-AN and Robin in the fabrication facility in the old story was really nice, it shows how far they've come from being "enemies" to sort of friends. If they had managed to keep the old story and mix it with the current one, that would've been awesome

3:01 For anyone who doesn't know, after scanning the snowman, you can actually build it in your base, at least in the finished build of Below Zero!

Remember that concept art with the cyclops in that glacial trench? That had me hyped that we would eventually get to go super inland into sector zero! Ah, what could (and honestly should) have been...

these earlier builds had my favorite place to base. there was an isolated cave that had only one entrance at the top. it was around the island a bit from the mining cave near where that big ass Chelicerate roams. they patched it out sometime after the ice worms were added

if i remember correctly, in a few versions before the new story was put in, there was a button under the shield base that triggered the entire ending sequence of the original story might be cool to check that out again

After seeing the opening scenes for early release… I was *super* disappointed when I started up the game for the first time 🙁 I wish they didn’t try to force an “all alone survivor” scenario.. it’s okay to evolve a series.. having a friendly NPC chatting with you over the radio and sending you goodies and directions.. instead I’m stuck chatting with a voice in my head once in a blue moon, Y’know, just whenever they finally decide to speak up about something… and the rest of the time I’m just all on my own again.

I did some digging and struck *GOLD* there was a rough cut of the ending before the original writer left. Essentially what happened was, we disable the shield, the vesper apparently explodes for no reason, we immediately went into Alan’s space ship, just before we got to the phase-gate Jeff comes out of nowhere in a literal warship (dont ask me I have no clue) there was some placeholder “censored for early access” dialogue between Alan and jeff, then marg comes out of nowhere and lands on jeffs ship attacking it and making it fall a few feet, Alan’s ship moves towards the phase gate but the warship moves back into position to block us, marg is gone (presumably inside the warship) there is some more censored dialogue and the ship flies away (backing up the theory that marg took over the warship) then Alan’s ship flys into the phasegate and the screen goes black. I’ll get the video link and edit it into this comment if I can find it for you… Ok found it, heres the video of the ending kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a9x9qtyUxpOqfYE.html Theres also a video of marg giving you the white tablet: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i7B8hseTq9nQkaM.html Enjoy!

Watching this brings back memories of every KZfaqr playing the early access then forgetting about it. Thanks mate!

I remember this version of Below Zero. It was really disappointing to find out there was nothing in the giant precursor outpost. Hope you feel better soon!

I'm still bitter they've changed the story :( I loved it so much.

This makes me miss the old story, I remember being so hyped to check out every update

the rocket was how you sent samples up to the alterra ship

A bit of a fun fact: that deep icy cave network you found is called the methane ice caves, a biome i wish wasn't cut.

Hope you feel better soon! Good on you for pushing through even though you’re not feeling well.

From what I remember there were like 2 cut stories here: 1st was that u help alan and he blows up the wesper station (or something like that) 2nd (the one that was added little before they started testing the one we got in the finished product) jeffrey is in the moutain base and activated the planet shield because he wants to own the cure to the karar bacteria wich he wants to use to be the richest man in the world and he also destroid all enzyme-42 on wesper and put in some karar infested stuff on board of the wesper as his first step in becoming rich....

Wow, that is trully interesting. I remember that original storyline has way more characters and their interactions, than release. Maybe, you'll want to try to recover this storyline using later builds of early access in future) Also, I hope you'll get well soon!

i still prefer this old story than the current one

Just thought I’d mention that deep cave you thought was crystal caverns was going to be the ice dragon cave (also probably expanded) if i remember correctly I recommend going on the scraped content section of the wiki and trying to find the things in the scraped stuff next episode

The far lands having skeleton remains makes it 10x scarier

4:50 i played that version in surrvival and thought "lets explore some land" then somehow clipped myy way up some walls and was at that base. just outside. then i fell beside the elevator like that, but in survival. Then i had to jump around there until i died of thirst.

i ended up getting below zero about a week ago and was so confused about the opening lol, was so used to this one

I remember the old voice actor. Its kinda sad that her voicelines didn’t make the final cut because they were pretty good. But the new story and new voicelines is very good, I might even consider it better than the old one(obviously)

I think at 600m near Marguerits Base was a giant cube like room. Also you could find a Red Glowing Raw Precursor Facility at 700m

9:04 I really miss them, when I first saw it on the early access I thought maybe we will get it in the finished build..

Epic video! Also, hope you feel better. I am playing No Mans Sky now and it’s so cool. This is so cool to see that there was a different story that was cut before the final release.

I just played below Zero on the Switch for the first time and since the begining I was wondering: "Now this is different you don't start in that base that gets crushed by snow", and until the end game I just found said base and was like "Wow they really changed it" haha Seeing this video reminded me of the time I played one of these early releases and kinda disliked it, now that I played the entire game I liked it, not as much as the first one but still, it was a good experience. Keep up the good work and hope you feel better soon, I've been watching your past vids and really had a nice time learning more and more about these fabolous games. Cheers :D

I really needed a video from bacon today, and here it is🔥💪 also I’m sorry to hear that ur sick, just keep on doing what ur doing, awesome work❤️

1:03 gotta love the sound of someone's back snapping like a twig 😆

I hope you get better soon and i love ur vids!

you are my all time fav yter and i used to watch u but forgot the name of the channel but all i remembered is that i absolutly loved ur content so thanks for the amazing content

i miss this version so so much. there are so ways the story could've gone. i feel like they pushed the lone survivor storyline because it was a massive staple to the first game. don't get me wrong, i love the story of the first game, but here it just feels so much more natural for there to be other people with you. what you said about this being what sam experienced is a super cool take on it though. minus the al-an stuff, it's pretty neat to think that this was what she went through. bleh, this got rambly. i just wish the final release had kept this story, it makes my inner writer sad to see it trashed :(

Yo bacon I love your Subnautica videos they are always fun to watch and are well produced I hope that you'll get better stay safe man

Yo this is super nostalgic to watch. I remember when I saw 8-bitryan play this version and damn, it was pretty cool. Also fun fact: the far lands in Below Zero still remain but in a much smaller form. They can be found in the void in the form of small pillars and Flat plains.

It's been awhile since I seen your content. Glad to see you are still uploading

9:14 I know I am a bit late but what I think happened was as the devs updated the game the sea emperors got more and more broken and the devs eventually decided that instead of fixing them they would remove them

Hi bacon, thanks for keep uploading. Hope you get better soon!

BROOO that beginning is genuinely SO cool, I'm actually kinda sad it wasn't in the full game. The beginning of the full game isn't bad, it's just kinda quick and not as cool

aw, i remember when you could straight up live on the "broken" bases in delta station!

imagine the menu screen of subnautica "where its above water" would be the game running in the background and fish could swim wherever new players seing a reapers tail would be the most hilarious thing ever

Thanks for getting into mine and nearly everyone's request here. ( I have actually started playing Subnautica BZ again after almost one year and it is stoll so much fun!) I actually had to skip trough a few sections since I have never actually finished the game in my first playtrough, but I hope I'll finiyh it soon. For now get well and buy gold! (Lol)

I bought below zero in early access and I remember all of this so well ahh good times

That's super cool! Also, get well soon! :)

3:00 the last bacon: now what kind of monster would do that? the last bacon:*DESTROY'S SNOWMAN*

As I remembered correctly in Deep Lily Pads in early access were mushrooms from the original subnautuca

Hope you get better soon and I’ll have to play this early access version

I feel like they could re-release the whole old story as paid dlc that would be awesome

Feel better soon Bacon! (And if your sickness gets worse please take a break! We will all be waiting in our Seamoths for you! Take care.♡)

i was watching this right when i was sick very good timing

I did this just yesterday(exploring an early EA build of the game), and that giant fish skeleton scared the everliving crap out of me!! Not only is it freaky and I didn't expect it at all, but it also loaded in very suddenly, almost got a heart attack 😅 so scary!!

i love your vids dude, you're awesome.

“Now, what kind of monster would you have to be to do that?” *destroys the penguin regardless*

I played the 2019 BZ and i remember the rocket sequence! Really fascinating!!

4:44 “i do wonder why they made so small in the fin-“ *clips through wall* “Ok… that is- um”

well I started playing later (and only a little before the story rework) but thanks to videos and the wiki I can tell you a lot: the base you found in the scrabed biome was indeed margs who stole one of the parts for AL-AN's body. the test fish skeli was used as a frolo placeholder indeed (you should be able to find some creatures from subnautica as one as well)

Sickness sucks. Hope ya get better. Seems as if nowadays so many KZfaqrs more often get sick so be careful

i miss the old dialogue between robin and al-an it had a lot of charm :( i wish they brought it over to final release

great video! get well soon!

What’s funny is I remember playing this build or one close to it that was available on Xbox Game Preview. Then I purchased the game and was a bit upset they changed the story, what’s worse is no one believed me when I said there was a different story than what we were given.

3:24 I totally remember when the precursors used the alterra keypad for their gates.

The fact that the bridges at the start kinda looks like the OG Subnautuca Reafback Leviathan legs is hilarious tbh, ngl-

The first story was still the best, as well as the voice actors, they were top notch, the story was so much more intriguing and focused on specifically the precursor origins, compared to the release one that is just do stupid, you go looking for your sister and spend most of the game for Allan, pushing the original objective so much into the background that you forget about it, it was executed so stupidly. I really wish they kept the first one, and if they kept that they would have had time to polish it properly.

Hope you feel better soon!

Below Zero should have been a DLC in some way. Maybe an ice comet hits the planet before you're able to leave, brings with it strange life contained within, and crushes the aurora in the process, both locking the ending behind the DLC, AND difficulty gating it (to some degree). I think this was a big missed opportunity... despite having bought both games myself lol

I’m pretty sure you know but the line “Die Peacefully” inspired a song by First Sun, which can be played via jukebox. (It’s really good music, let’s be honest.)

Sick bacon is chill bacon. I like the vibe.

Honestly, there's not much to the first build of SBZ, they took a bunch of assets, systems, and routines from the first game and built a new world that used them. What really impresses me is how fast they were able to build the layout. Assets like the elevator can be plunked down, but laying out the depth of the twisty bridges is something that probably had to be done by hand.

I hated not being able to play Subnautica Early Access so when I heard Below Zeros release date for early access I immediately waited out the clock until the first hour it came out and bought it. I had a blast with the story back then and loved exploring he biomes and in my personal opinion the Lilies pad islands were much better before then after. I small change to the game was near the island instead of the Cyr Monsters their was Bonesharks which is an uncommon fact that people forget about early access

I would love a DLC with this storyline

i like listening to ur videos while drawing, painting, act ;D !

I think the thing that made below zero not hit as hard as the first game is that Robin is subjecting herself to the situation where as in the first game and the original story for below zero, you are thrown into it which, having the base get snowed over as it does, helps with that

It’s crazy how much the story changed

1:42 seeing how Ryley has streak of blue hair gave me an idea for multiplayer, and that the color could change for each player if they all use the same model, like in the multiplayer mod you reviewed in a previous video

I bought it the week early access came out and I went as far as you could in early access in survival mode. I remember finding the baby sea emperor and thinking how it was cool that one swam all the way over there, and needing to put some sample in the rocket and then launching it. I also remember finding Marge's unfinished base and finding that orange tablet, I remember you just waking up and turning off the alarm and the story being about finding your roommate instead of investigating Sam's death. Sam was alive and would like yell your name through a call thing if you died. I remember finding that big leviathan skeleton in the ice. I think I remember Alan actually didn't want to be in head at all and him trying to trap you in the facility. I also remember that it was weird because it would usually work perfectly fine, but if I went to certain spots it would just crash for some reason. I remember I would keep track of the updates and looked at this things of their todo list. Then, I didn't keep up with it for a while and then when I came back, it was the current story and completely different.

Boy am i tired. Had a long work shift. We had 16 orders of big ass cakes, that was not very CRISPY! But the feeling you get when you get home and see CRISPY boy here has uploaded again, cant beat it. How CRISPY!

Lol yeah I played it when it first came out I did like the plant ships trap u get in to that was fun

Early access Below Zero my beloved! Aw man, I really enjoyed the original plot, and Robin's whole personality and interactions with Al-An. "Alien in my brain? ...COOL!" I guess they gave the whole rebelling against Alterra bit to Sam, and their interactions here are very different, but man that first plot was so cool. Yup, the old skeleton was a placeholder for the Frozen Leviathan. Even more fun, the placeholders for Al-An's body parts? The alien building block thing from the PCF, and the rifle and the doomsday device from the QEP! Oh damn, yeah, it really does have vibes of playing as Sam. Time travel! The rocket was originally used to send up stuff to the Vesper, ranging from biomarker samples to the Emperor enzymes to, uh, a fresh Kharaa sample, which of course they had TOTALLY innocent intentions for... Hope you feel better soon!

Honestly I prefer the old story. Bz story wasn't horrendous but the fact that she goes there willingly and can leave at pretty much any time kinda kills the whole stranded vibe of subnautica. Was more intense and purposeful that she was a researcher there and got trapped. I guess it had to be changed to suit new development changes or something.

God bless you feel better! 🙏

I really like that a song featuring the original Al-An voicelines found its way into the final game. They are so intimidating.

One of the biggest things of this game that really killed it for me was how not scary it was I had to scan the Leviathan to realize that it was the one that I was supposed to be afraid of simply because it didn't look scary it wasn't that aggressive and it was clumsy I'm going to redownload the game and give it another chance this time try and progress further into the game since I've just starting to get back into the first one and realizing how much PTSD the reaper Leviathan actually gave me

If I remembered correctly, I believe after you launched a rocket or something in one of the early access builds it would trigger a partly voiced dialogue between Robin and the vesper saying something along the lines they were sending people down to get Robin. I'm sure if do some digging around online you could find it.

Oh my, I remember this. I miss this start! :(

Man, it seems like all the youtubers I've been fallowing have gotten sick lately. Get well soon Bacon.

I remember there was a sea emperor in the first few versions (and many of the first Subnautica creatures too, such as the stalker, boneshark, i think the crashfish, tho im not sure) i checked if it got updated every week, i was really hyped and had really high expectations (i even thought it would be better than the original) and im kinda sad they removed everything, but at least we got an improved base building system (only reason i kept playing after finishing the game)

If my memory isn't wrong, in the big facility, if you didn't cheat your way across the second barrier, there would be a text when interacting with it telling you that that area would be the endgame area and that's is why it's blocked. I think they had the same idea as in Subnautica where the early access versions, would not include the ending until full release.

Wow been forever since I’ve last seen this channel

If you make another episode of this, i highly suggest the look at the very early description of the noot fish after a scan, its, an interesting one to say the least

I remember in Early Access being told to take a wiring kit and scrap metal to the tower to fix it. Of course this was before any of the ship parts were fully even in the game.

I played that version on day one. It felt really unfinished but that was fine since it was a beta and I had REALLY much fun playing it! :D

the low poly ice are was actually used for testing the snow fox,i remember teleporting in there wih a goto command and playing around with the snowfox and the jumping module lol

I remember one of the early access storylines ending in that other guy we researched with activating a giant planetary ion shield to isolate us. I am still so curious where that would have gone

seeing that picture with everyone and riley made me wish that riley appeared in below zero somehow. maybe that, for riley to pay his debt, he was made to work on 4546B and research and whatnot

6:50 I am shocked at how much was already in the very earliest version of subnautica

This gives me so many memories 😭

I bought BZ on the day it published and this video brings back memories... Holy god

bit late but the skeleton was probably not used because of how similar it would look to the skeleton of the gargantuan leviathan in the first game. probably why they just put it in a giant ice block.

Yes! BZ is back!

I wish they had given you the option to play the legacy story. Like on the play screen it says "Enable/disable legacy features" or something. Way back when I first discovered Subnautica, Below Zero was already out on full release, so I never got to see any of this amazing stuff (And I honestly like it that way. Cause if I get early access for Subnautica 3, They'll probably have some crazy leviathan that ends up cut, so it's best to wait for full release in my opinion)

Get well soon bud. What do you think of the latest dev posts and how they are still updating Subnautica with new systems? That's pretty neat from a developer in this day and age.