Subnautica Living Large Update Released

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 some base pieces to Subnautica that were previously only available in Below Zero, specifically the Large Room, Glass Dome, and surface hatches. Now you can make your bases even more epic than before!

On top of these changes, we’ve also refactored and optimized our save system, which means it’s now even faster and more reliable to save and retrieve your save.

Adding the TextMeshPro plugin, to improve UI readability and visual quality

Adding an ‘Unstuck’ button to the menu to help get you out of some sticky situations

Bringing over PDA pause, the ability to disable light flashes, and item bars from Below Zero

As for bug fixes, we’ve closed out over 800 in total, including multiple issues related to base building (server clipping, deconstructing buildings whilst inside them), vehicle navigation and piloting.

If you’re not quite ready to move to the new update, because you’re using mods on your save file or otherwise, you can also roll back to the ‘legacy’ beta on Steam to continue playing. Just head to ‘Properties,’ then ‘Betas,’ and choose ‘legacy’ from the drop down. You should do this before you open your save file to play.

We really hope that all of these changes make your Subnautica experience even better than ever! And as some eagle-eyed fans might have spotted, we might have some more exciting news for you in the new year.

But for now, enjoy, and happy diving!

Improved font rendering to increase UI readability and visual quality

Adds accessibility features: UI scaling, PDA pause, option to disable light flashes

Adds the Large Room and Glass Dome base pieces from Subnautica: Below Zero

Adds Land Hatches from Subnautica: Below Zero

Pings are now visible when piloting the Cyclops

Improved control mapping, for things like transferring items between inventory and storage

Fixed some creatures not spawning properly

Fixed multiple terrain streaming issues (vehicles/items falling through)

Fixed multiple issues related to base-building, vehicles

Fixes for many possible photosensitive issues

… And many more various bug fixes!

Changed how the dev menu is accessed to SHIFT + `

Less likely to get stuck in Alien Bases while operating the Prawn

Added an option to limit FPS

Legacy Steam branch for Mod Integrity

Fixed VR frame lag in PDA UI screen movement

Fixed a VR issue with player orientation being slanted in some scenarios

Fixed Sunbeam countdown timer not showing up in VR

Fixed VR Main Menu prompts on selecting and interacting with the menu

Adds Portuguese (Portugal), Ukrainian and Spanish (Latin America) official support

Adds trophy translations for Finnish, Swedish, Chinese (Sim), Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish (Latin America)

Fix for Scanner Room not showing option to scan items

Fix for dying from fire damage repeatedly if died in intro cinematic

Fix for several items repairing automatically with save/load in some circumstances

Fix for the PDA Blueprints tab scrolling down and up by itself

Adds Ukrainian & Portuguese (Portugal) official support

Adds translations for trophies in Ukrainian, Portuguese (Portugal)

Adds achievements in a number of languages

Fixed Graphical Corruption when approaching Alien Bases on Low Preset

Xbox One, Xbox Series (Coming soon)