Blueprints for fighting back : Subnautica

Apologies I have some audio dropping out in this video, I thought I had isolated the issue but it still happens occasionally. Will be working to eradicate it from next video, apologies again.
I'm not saying the scanner rooms were a bad idea, but it turns out just driving about the place is pretty fast at finding the necessary blueprints. Map is only about 3.5 * 3.5 Km.
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Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Credits song - Point Being - Go By Ocean _ Ryan McCaffrey
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[@Sheldezare]

Irish man lost in Waterworld kills angry alien noodle with the power of bubbles. More at 11.

[@alexbennie]

Thanks for this! You gave me a good chuckle! This is why we watch a guy literally panicking about his ship being eaten, but still take the time to try and pick up a booze bottle!

[@RemoraDFC343]

The deep underwater base you found, when you were super low on power in your Seamoth. You missed a lot. It was 3 stories tall. You only explored the 1st floor, and missed 2nd and 3rd floors.

[@Brownsheep1]

The Cyclops should obviously be called the Pot of Gold.

[@thr3308]

this is really the best possible answer. I came here with one but yours beats it by a mile. maybe the prawn suit could be the Fergus mac Leti? according to Wikipedia, the earliest documented mention of leprechauns is an 8th century story in which Fergus, then the King of Ulster, takes a nap on a beach and wakes to find himself being dragged into the sea by leprechauns. then again, maybe I'm doing too much, lol

[@Brownsheep1]

@@thr3308 No no. I think you might be onto something.

[@gcl2783]

Yes

[@RFC3514]

Failing to paint it brown and calling it "The Potato" would be an insult to all his ancestors.

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

Francis, Cyclops Engine Efficiency module is given you first thing in Aurora for a reason: you picked it up, so put it in Cyclops, it helps ALOT with battery power, really!..

[@werbaali7638]

Also for the love of whatever you wish use the cameras while you operate Cyclops, and turn off the engines when you are done!

[@asishreddy7729]

Nice gameplay! Two things: 1. you can change the view in the cyclops by clicking on the camera and scrolling through the cameras, the different views really help out. 2. The degassi base had 3 levels, you only explored the first level in the hurry. There is a really nice surprise in one of the levels, and a few more pda’s, if you wanna go back for it. Not critical for the game progression. It looks very ordinary but it is a special thing. A fun Easter ‘Egg’ of sorts. 😉

[@fallatiuso]

Additionally, You can still move the Cyclops while in camera mode! Makes it much easier to navigate.

[@Adrox05]

Next Subnautica Video, let's go. Oh I love that Francis went blind it's so much fun watching him discover everything.

[@PolluxaC]

Yes! And I hope he ignores some of the backseating in the comment section.

[@TheMalT75]

@@PolluxaC This episode "vindicated" FJs decision to be completionist about it! He found everything the methodical way, love it...

[@judman13]

@@TheMalT75 Still missing a suit!

[@thr3308]

it's great, it's the next best thing to getting to play the game for the first time again

[@artur6912]

Francis: -Kills a reaper. Casually explores the dunes with a reaper chilling next to him. Also Francis: -A crabsquid, I better tuck away my ship in a safe spot and be extra terrified of it. The way his mind works will never cease to amaze me.

[@martinbennett9908]

Congrats on displaying your superior intellect on the internetz.

[@artur6912]

@@martinbennett9908 Feel free to bask in my glory.

[@TheCheese1988]

The problem with the crabsquid is that they attack the Seamoth when you aren't in it, potentially leaving you alone down there.

[@artur6912]

@@TheCheese1988 only when the lights are on as far as I remember. The funnier part for me was that he's already comfortable killing bonesharks to work in peace, is not scared of the leviathans but didn't try stabbing the squid so he can explore. From my own experience, exploring Degrassi base 3 was very annoying because there was that one squid hanging out that was constantly turning off my flashlight, so I went full Rambo on it. At the same time, I never killed a leviathan and the reapers still scare me. That's why I found it funny that he can chill next to the danger noodle but the far less dangerous squid got him spooked.

[@KainYusanagi]

@@TheCheese1988 Also they drain the batteries big time.

[@UgatoSA]

You can absolutely find the big nodes by scanning. There isn’t a setting for them specifically, but when you can scan for, say, Gold, you know the results are a big node as Gold doesn’t appear in raw form naturally otherwise

[@aniafaery]

It's much easier to see the world outside the Cyclops if you turn off the interior lights while you navigate.

[@mattvoelker241]

Watching you fight with the cyclips is hilarious. Took me a while to learn how to swap between the different views for proper navigation but those external cameras are the only way to do it with any kind of accuracy. Can now take the cyclops on the entire endgame route without hitting anything. It just takes some experimentation and flipping between the 3 cameras.

[@judman13]

For real! Use the dang cameras Francis! Also I found turning off the interior lights helped a lot.

[@daw840]

Yeah. I got mine to the final portion of the game before it got stuck on a phantom rock. Wouldn’t move anywhere. Made the final grind a pain.

[@RFC3514]

Also, has he really not even _tried_ pressing the "rig for silent running" button?

[@LiraeNoir]

Yes, the Cyclop driver can move the sub/pilot while viewing through its cameras. Not everyone get that, and the game doesn't tell you irc. Also, a mindset change do help. You have to drive it like a semi, a big truck; totally different from the Seamoth or the Prawn. Stopping, assessing around, trying a different path, are all normal things. It's less Mario Kart and more Mudrunner or Eurotruck Simulator.

[@MrLancar]

The Cyclops sonar also works. It's not that useful on the Seamoth, but on the Cyclops it's great.

You can still drive the Cyclops while on external camera view. It's much better than looking down/up from the cockpit.

[@Tacitude]

Exactly what I was thinking. I honestly drive mine almost always in one of the cameras. Very useful switching between them in tight spaces.

[@christophergadson6413]

@@Tacitude I drove without the camera for while before I was like this can't be right and tried the cameras and realized I was still driving. Game changer!

[@RemoraDFC343]

I believe you have a Cyclops Energy Efficiency Module at your main base. You got it when you repaired Aurora Radiation Leaks.

[@ravingodd]

I knew the multiple Scanner rooms was overkill. But at the same time I wanted to see how ridiculously optimized one could make Subnautica. Well played.

[@Genesis8934]

I'd like to see him expand it to where he fills in the gaps

[@RFC3514]

Except it's not really "optimised"; I don't think he got anything useful from the scanner rooms (though he did discover some useful stuff while _traveling_ to those locations), and just keeps hoarding titanium that he'll never need. The "optimal" way to play Subnautica for the first time is to get the resources you need _when you actually need them,_ and follow the story / radio messages (which will always take you close to the blueprints / fragments you'll need for the next section). Also, there are two whole "layers" of caves _below_ the surface, one of which he sort of discovered and then ignored so he could build more scanner rooms in less interesting areas, which he has already explored anyway. He's trying to "game the system" without quite understanding the system (which doesn't _need_ to be gamed - the game will nearly always give you what you need when you need it). This isn't Rimworld, where maps are procedurally generated and resources spawn randomly and are lost whenever you rebuild something. Everything in Subnautica is hand-placed and hand-crafted. The game will show and give players what they need when they need it, you just need to pay attention to "story" locations. Exploration is fine (and encouraged). Hoarding is totally unnecessary and "checklisting" is detrimental to the whole experience. On the plus side, building all those scanner rooms does mean he'll probably find most of the things he missed when they were right in front of his face and he was in a rush to leave so he could go hoard more titanium. 😁

[@bobnewkirk7003]

What I find impressive about his system is that it lines up with a lot of the "Holes" into late game. I never really considered it but they laid the map out using a very similar system.

[@LiraeNoir]

@@RFC3514 Strongly disagree. One doesn't know what one doesn't know. The point of putting up a grid, or just a smack of Scanner Rooms (like roughly one in each biome for example) is to be reasonably SURE that you didn't miss anything.

[@RFC3514]

@@bobnewkirk7003 - Not really. If you look at a Subnautica map you'll that the biomes are neither circular nor do they form a 3x3 grid. In some parts there are seven biomes across the same latitude, the whole SE corner (two "grid slots" in FJ's map) is a single biome, etc..

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

Finally, after countless episodes we have marblemelons up & running!.. Thanks to that hero who left them behind in TC =)

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

One more tip, or two: just THREE pots of melons will keep you fed and drunk (in a good sense) indefinitely + SLICE for seeds first, then grab 3 melons. Much easier and faster!

[@krisztiankohut3241]

Still only 3rd best food solution, for cyclops bulbo tree is superior, for base reginald en masse plus water filter is the way to go

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

@@krisztiankohut3241 check nutrition numbers and growth speed and realize that you're wrong about bulbo tree. Breeding fish is totally different story, but considering required infrastructure melons are superior in each and every respect

[@KainYusanagi]

@@peterlyaskovsky1473 Actually, bulbo is superior. Melons grow faster, are 1x1 in the growbed (so 16 plants) and give more per fruit, sure, but you need to slash 4 of them to get a growbed's worth of replanting (annoying to do separately from harvesting food) and you only get 1 edible fruit per for a total of 12 samples, while bulbo gives 10 samples per tree via slashing, each sample being edible, and as a 2x2 a growbed gives you 4 plants, total 40 samples. Overall, in the same time period, bulbos actually give the same food (288) and more water than melons do (360 vs 336, or 7.14%, specifically). Divide values by 4 to use the small growpots, ofc, but it's the same ratios. Furthermore, if you use a bioreactor, bulbo samples give max return of 420 energy, same as a full melon (melon seeds only give 70 per, so slashing a melon gives you 280 energy, actively worse though necessary for replanting obviously), making it way more efficient that way as well.

[@gimplygoose3448]

I think both this video and the last one seem to have some audio issues. When you speak, certain words aren't getting picked up. The issue is apparent at 9:50 in this video.

[@jmatya]

Ok and I was thinking it's my headset that's dying

[@judman13]

Agreed!

[@Bulbasauros]

He's probably using some filter like a low pass filter and its too sensitive

[@benjaminnafziger8737]

Ditto, wanted to comment the same thing

[@MrTomyCJ]

DW, he's aware of it, the video description says this should be the last video with this issue.

[@shialewd2476]

Cyclops has three cameras, you'll want to get use to them before really going down to fossil caves. As for blueprints, you seam to be missing two useful ones. The nuclear reactor and the reinforced dive suit.

[@Liwet.]

Thermal's probably enough if he builds in the cave next to the Tree down there.

[@CraftMine1000]

*closes pda* *gets forcefully teleported* *"bep bep seek fluid intake"* Typical subnautica experience

[@diante50]

Name suggestion, going with the theme (and not inappropriate this time): Pot of gold It's where the leprechaun goes to keep it's stash!

[@ariedge2435]

nice,,,

[@RFC3514]

Paint it brown and call it "The Potato".

[@gus.smedstad]

You know you missed 2 of the 3 levels of the 500m Degasi habitat, right?

[@GeneralNan]

Watching you drive the Cyclops without the cameras is impressive that you're not crashing into more things. Also, I'm sure someone else may have mentioned how you missed a whole section of the Degasi wreck.

[@madrabidfish]

Gonna have to learn how to use those cameras on the cyclops. You can look around with them giving you nearly full vision everywhere around the sub it's really important to use especially for navigating through tight areas.

[@Sytesh]

Stasis Rifle is fantastic. The battery lasts absolutely forever and holding the trigger to charge it up more means the stasis lasts a good while. Also I'm hopeful that after driving the Cyclops around at the start you realize you can drive while looking through the camera. Far easier to steer. Lastly consider turning off the cyclops engine when not driving to save power, it'll still make oxygen.

[@aldrea6506]

I'm loving the Subnautica series. My only sadness is wanting to see FJs reaction to making and interacting with the "strange doll" he scanned, knowing full well that it probably will never happen because he's not one to decorate his base...

[@skilz8098]

The only major recipe that you appear to be currently missing is the nuclear reactor. Other than that you are almost set to go and you're about to enter into the mid game. I would highly suggest getting use to using your prawn suit more often than the seamoth. The seamoth is great for fast travel to and from one place to another, but the prawn suite is more diverse in what it can do. As for the prawn suit craft the upgrades that you can such as for more inventory space, and perhaps the jet propulsion pack if you can. Also when you go out it is advisable to take at least 1 extra set of fully charged power cells with you at all times, perhaps even two sets with the prawn suite. You have a lot more sea to explore, and the seamoth will only take you so far!

[@LizBee32]

Anytime a Francis video drops I know it's going to be a good day.

[@cheetored20]

You forgot to load the power efficiency module you found in the Aurora into your cyclops! Also you should build a fabricator in your cyclops

[@danmerillat]

fab and modification station in the cyclops, and throw some of each advanced component into storage so you don't have to go back to homebase to build the new toys when you find them. keeping a second depth module for the cyclops around is nice so you don't have to come all the way back up to the surface to upgrade them, just upgrade the extra, put it in, and take out the original.

[@APS_Inc]

Offshore wind turbines aren't floating. They're still attached to the sea floor! Also, you missed the entire top section of the last habitat. There's more stuff in there. Mostly lore, but also a nice little Easter egg.

[@Narcissist86]

On the other hand, floating solar farms are a real thing.

[@anil1svnit]

They can be floating. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_wind_turbine

[@Liwet.]

Egg should probably be in quotes.

[@chisenchou]

Just think of the electric lines as the cables that links it to the floor. :)

[@dickinabox666]

I see what you did there lol "egg"

[@marshallspohn9220]

I concur with all other comments about driving the cyclops while looking through the cameras. Also, I only had issues with battery power on the cyclops when using silent running, and it never made me silent enough to avoid enemies. Just keep driving!!

[@pookage]

That seamoth sonar upgrade is really useful once you start going deep, as sunlight doesn't penetrate and there's a lot of times that you want to keep your own headlights off! Same goes for the Cyclops sonar!

[@MalcolmAkner]

The cyclops can be a magnificent thing to steer when mastered, you gotta believe me here! It's fine to use the max speed when it's open and clear, it is quite a bit faster than the seamoth. You have full access to the steering while in the different camera modes. Go into them as you did on the top right, and then cycle through. There's like 5 modes, 2 are useful iirc xD The 3rd person perspective while in deep waters at sunset/rise, where you can just make out the structure of the bottom is damn magnificent.

[@Splatahking]

Without giving spoilers there a still a few things that you have not found topside in terms of upgrades but you have everything that is necessary now to continue into later game areas. (the cyclops depth module) The only piece of advice I would give now that you are almost done topside is that you have all of the necessary components discovered to explore topside infinitely without having to return to base, and anything that helps you explore without interruptions a good thing.

[@piotrsawek3613]

Your prawn is very sad, gathering dust. Here's some fun facts to convince you to give it a chance: - with good grappling technique it's the fastest vehicle you have - your grapple does not only grab terrain ;)

[@iceymanz]

Down with prawn suits and their puny jets, seamoth is king. Protip: You can move faster if you hold *three* directions at once (I'll let you figure out how)

[@Momo-808]

The Cyclops Sonar Upgrade makes it so much easier to see while piloting. Especially in the caves.

[@dylanfisher8365]

The cyclopse sonar upgrade is great for knowing what is around you! It helps alot while decending

[@ryanallen2001]

The Prawn suit really shines as soon as you get the hang of the grappling arm. It's a harder learning curve, but it's a much more capable vehicle than the Seamoth, and a ton of fun to zip around in!

[@alliepiper4772]

Two things: 1) Use the cyclops camera, especially while trying to go straight down through narrow cracks. Much easier! 2) There are a few things you missed in that degasi habitat that might be worth going back for.

[@MrRobidas]

Really enjoyed the outro montage, the crazy amount of things being scanned with chill ocean music in the background. Made me laugh

[@VertusQuick]

Tips (no spoilers) take them or leave them :) - Be bold! Since you have a stasis rifle, you're pretty hard to kill. TBH, you're pretty hard to kill in general even without it if you have a medkit or two. Food, water, O2 and environmentals are the real killers in this game. Things you drop from your body can be picked up at your death location if it happens. - Keep the lights on. Unless you have a Leviathan right by you, you want to enjoy the game experience and be sure not to miss out on things - Build up your Cyclops. Any interior modules you have in your base (except room specific ones) can be built. Throw in a fabricator, radio, modification station, etc. The only modifications you can't craft are moonpool upgrades BUT you can throw one of those on a scanner room if you're out in the wild, craft the modification, then deconstruct the moonpool. - The biggest loss in this game is a vehicle getting destroyed as everything on it is destroyed. I'm fairly certain most non-leviathan enemy's will ignore your seamoth parked with it's lights off somewhere safe as long as you haven't been in it recently. ie I don't think they actively seek out your vehicles when you're no around. - The charge fins are actually strong enough to charge the seaglide. You can actually just swap low batteries from other tools into your seaglide and use it as a battery charger. - Get used to carrying your PRAWN around in the cyclops instead of your seaglide. As a resource-hoarder, you can get a ridiculous amount from large nodes and using the Cyclops with the cameras easily allows you to spot them. Maybe spoiler-ish, kind of, but not really? - You figured it out when you mentioned that you were getting the same tech from the mushroom forest: each biome type has the same consistent tech and resources scattered throughout it. This is not true of the wrecks in a biome: they each have their own tech with enough items to obtain that tech. Some databoxes do have a double, but not all - that's the true treasure. Love your vids - good luck and enjoy the game :)

[@dahemac]

I really look forward to these videos. You got me to have another go at Subnautica. Thank you.

[@gus.smedstad]

Same here. I last played in 2018. Main drawback is that I didn't want to, uh, spoil my spotty memories of the game, so I had to delay watching the videos until I'd done that section myself first. I played with the SubmersedVR mod that enables motion controls in VR, and finished it yesterday.

[@dahn57]

I've reinstalled it as well, gonna give it a shot with my VR headset 😉

[@gus.smedstad]

@@dahn57 - It's really a first-rate VR game, particularly if you're using the mod to enable VR controllers. The game is so much about exploration and spectacle, and that is a really good fit for VR.

[@AddisonLuh]

You can drive the cyclops while viewing through one of its external cameras. Driving the cyclops with the interior lights off reduces glare and makes it easier to see. Creatures are attracted to the cyclopse's engine sound, but not its lights, so you can keep the exterior flood lights on. You can build a fabricator and radio and modification station and other stuff in the cyclops so you don't have to keep going back to bed for those things. Edit: typo

[@bobnewkirk7003]

what a pure Subnautica episode. You are firmly through midgame and approaching the endgame run, don't worry the map gets smaller from here so it should be pretty straight forward. My only recommendation is to stock the cyclops with Enameled glass (stalker teeth), lithium as well as titanium: pressure on the hull increases with depth. also ditch the moth for the prawn from here on, it cant handle the depth. Edit: Oh and there is more than one camera on the Cyclops. when you clicked into the camera you saw the Keel view; I want to say there are at least 4 others all of which have a better FOV than the cockpit. The keel is probably the most useful as it puts you eye level with the bottom of the ship meaning you can navigate along the bottom much easier.

[@jacob6885]

I recommend making a set of decoys and loading one in the tube. It will help when (not if) an angry leviathan sneaks up on you while you are in transit.

[@bazijoewhl]

The trick to drive the cyclops is to always be on the cameras and cycle between them with the mouse wheel when navigating tight places

[@UgatoSA]

ONI brain never let me see if the desalinators would function if you left the salt in them. I’ve beaten this game several times and never knew that. I could only conceive of the salt as a waste product that had to be managed

[@LiraeNoir]

The Scanner Room can scan for the big ore deposits. It's just listed as "______ Ore" in your scanner. In your example, it was listed as "Copper Ore". Because usually you never find copper by itself, it's inside Limestone, which is a different entry in the scanner. One thing it can't do (irc) is differentiate (between big and small) if the metal is outside of a mineral chunk, like it is for Magnetite or Lithium.

[@gus.smedstad]

I found those jam-packed shelves in the Cyclops seriously painful. Yeah, that's dense, but wall lockers have labels so you can tell what's where, and of course there's the aesthetics. I didn't actually have that much extra storage in my Cyclops. Just a couple in the engine room for power cells, and a couple extras in the storage area. Of course I didn't have Francis' titanium problems due to exhaustively scanning everything.

[@judman13]

Absolutely! The walls in the mobile vehicle bay with a fab station in the middle is a great spot to store tons of stuff.

[@tennyson988]

im really impressed on how much you have done/explored but almost zero alien stuff.

[@Liwet.]

Considering how zealous he is of exploration, I'm wondering if he finds the Disease Research area before ever bothering to look up its location on his PDA.

[@rainbowlemon]

I always found the intonation of the 'Welcome aboard, captain' voiceline to sound like 'Welcome, a bored captain'. It still makes me laugh hearing it now.

[@poio2162]

You don't have to angle the Cyclops downwards to swim down (or upwards for up for that matter) - pressing "C" will get you to dive and "Space" will make you go up. Might be easier to navigate like that, it was for me anyway.

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

29:04 In the next episode: Francis grows a swarm of nasty beasts to go hunt nastier beasts! 😂 😂 His new pets will be called Lunk I, Lunk II, ...

[@dmd733]

I always like how fitting the outro music is to the game :)

[@xxduskxx9563]

Building a planter on the cyclops with two lantern trees and two bulbao bushes = never ending food/H2O while exploring.

[@mikkelborg241]

Your commentary seems to cut in and out slighty most of the time

[@luipaardprint]

This was already happening last episode

[@TheVilmoreSlither]

And the one before that. I wasn't sure if he was talking to quick or I was going crazy

[@benjaminnafziger8737]

Agreed, the voice audio is cutting in and out often

[@daw840]

I believe if you wander around with the scanner room cameras you can access new things to scan for.

[@derrickobara6806]

So Salvner is a very good Subnautica speedrunner. One of the best parts of his runs is he speaks a script describing what he's doing and why throughout the run. Also he did a speedrun of killing every leviathan in the game, and found that the placement of the gas pods was very important. They spread out when you dump a bunch so he only ever used 5 at a time, and swam into the middle of the Reaper hitbox to get to the best drop location. It takes practice, but you can fill the damage gap by putting gaps in the Reaper with your knife.

[@alexformation]

When Francis Subnautica drops: Like first, watch second

[@GyattGPT]

I enjoy the unique playthrough style of this. It is a lot more entertaining for sure.

[@clarfonthey]

You mentioned speedruns being fast because they know where all the tech is, and you'll be either saddened or pleased to know that they get about none of it. You know about the base exploit, where bases will act as a save point even if they have no O2, and that's the main way the speedruns work; you just dive deeper and make a base right before you drown to die in, deconstruct it, then go deeper.

[@dunnpahineh640]

If the camera drones bother you just pick them up and either store them or throw them away in the trash can. Also, one thing you may want not to do without... There is a reinforced dive suit. It's pda was in one of the wrecks were you found the moonpool fragments that you didn't finish exploring. It makes you less squishy and is helps in hot areas. You also only explored 1/3rd of the Degasi habitat at 500m. There is a special tablet there. I think there is a cutefish egg there. Everyone likes the cutefish. And just a fyi, there are 4 entrances to the underground 'lost river.' One is under the Degasi base you just found. There is another just south of Life Pod 2. You found the one in the bloodkelp area. The last one is in the bulb forest NW of the Aurora. The largest entrance is the bulb forest. But all are possible with a cyclops. Just some are more possible than others.

[@moistnuggests]

Whoever thought of using the gas pods as a weapon is a bleeping genius, I've always just gone with the "stab it till it dies" approach...while satisfying it takes too long. Also FJ, the crabsquids in the cave are very stabbable. The teleporter guys just need a gentle stab in butt to make them go away for a while, haven't been able to kill them yet but they're more of a nuisance than a threat. That habitat in the cave with crabsquids has a few floors you missed.

[@MrSaigot]

I know the rimworld expansion has come out, but I hope you continue with this series, it's very enjoyable!

[@justinrozran7571]

Cyclops can be a pain to drive, especially in tight quarters, which are pretty much anything other than open water. I find driving in camera view to be the best way to do it, usually whichever is closer to a wall. Also, the cameras do have their own lights.

[@TheBumblescum]

The FJ method of staring directly at the steering wheel is hilarious to watch😂

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

I love that the way games tell us something is dead is it goes upside down. Like okay the shark was swimming right way up, I don't think it was constantly fighting the whole time to be right way up.

[@MasterNinjaTeddyBear]

I used the propulsion cannon to scan the propulsion cannon. 21:00 how many times do i have to teach you this lesson old man. Good to see you found a way to kill the danger noodles and didn't have to spoil how. 57:54 Good job finding that alien site, not many find that one. 1:11:00 that base might have the other missing pdas, i'm sure you can figure how to deal with the big heads in the area now that you've killed a reaper.

[@bradmeg128]

@Francis if you havent already figured it out, try driving the cyclops while using the different cameras, its SO MUCH EASIER

[@SaraH-ph4qm]

Watching you play is a gift, but also somewhat frustrating. I love it, keep it up, you’re doing great! You inspired me to play thru again.

[@thecodewarrior7925]

When you’re looking up speedruns, Salvner has a bunch of great videos on his channel, and they tend to explain stuff a bit while doing it (apparently mostly to remind themself). They did a run at GDQ and I think they did even more explaining there

[@SpicySpleen]

Fun video again Francis! excited to see the deeper stuff, not sure I ever finished this game so end game is all new for me

[@Jakeurb8ty82]

Cyclops is pretty amazing once you realise you can attach base things like more storage, battery chargers, and even planters inside it.

[@Dragonlord7012]

suggested Name for the Prawn Suite: The Whisky Shot You will probably want to leave the sea-moth behind, You're going to out-depth it with serious deep exploration. You can spider-man up to the cyclopes if need be. Upgrade it as best you can before heading out.

[@OhmIsFutile]

Fun fact about the Reapers: the line about them circling to attack from behind isn't just fluff. That's why they seem a little shy to attack when you charge them sometimes, but if you float around near one and aren't paying enough attention, they really can sneak up on people... I've seen them jump scare youtubers and streamers quite a bit because of that... 😜

[@anthonyzepeda2171]

Also, that base with the spider octopus thing... there’s more. I don’t remember if it was important There’s a lab above the bedroom. Requires different entrance.

[@airwick4631]

You can pick up the camera drones out of the water, then either store them or toss 'em in the trash can. Cleans up your beacon list! They always come back when you reconstruct a scanner, so there's no reason to keep them.

[@danmerillat]

You can drive the cyclops while using the external cameras. There's three - one on the keel (bottom) just behind the vehicle bay, one on the conning tower, and one on the stern. It makes maneuvering in tight spaces a lot easier if you get used to them.

[@ahmataevo]

What I did for mass storage of raw materials is make 2 sets of 4 large rooms (only one set needed) side by side, 16 plasteel ingots not counting connections, ladders etc. In one set I make the inside section dividers aligned in 4 rows and place large storages along them. Top floor is for titanium/rare miscellaneous with processor, battery and power cell chargers on the wall next to my moonpool side (3 power cell chargers per full set of cyclops cells). 2nd floor is for common starter materials plus - quartz, copper, silver, gold and magnetite, 3rd for uraninite, lead, lithium, ruby and diamond, bottom layer for nickel, kyanite and more complex processed goods like advanced wiring kits. 2nd set of large rooms, floor 1 and 2 have 2 large fish tanks for biofuel and salted fish, 2nd floor has seeds and egg, 3rd floor has 4 water purifiers and all the food crops and a bioreactor, bottom has storage for salt, water, salted fish, medkits and plant samples. Build reinforced walls in the inner sections facing each other and windows facing out and window connections out, and all on foundation platforms for more support and space for external grow beds and lights (moonpools block placing foundations below, but they can be built above foundations).

[@mitechko]

Yay! Looking forward to the big cyclops trip next video. Just like other people said, you already have the engine efficiency module. With that module and a couple of spare power cells you can drive cyclops for a long, long time. And just like other people said, you can use external cameras while driving which makes it a lot easier to navigate tight spots. Cyclops doesn't get damaged the same way seamoth does. Regular fish, including sharks and spiders and all that don't do anything to it. It can only get damaged by leviathans and if you bump it into a wall hard enough. There is a damage report map on one of the walls in the cockpit. There used to be a funny bug where if you build a power cell charger inside cyclops it charges power cells faster than they drain from it, but I think it got fixed at some point. I don't think the shield module is very helpful, but you do want to have decoy launcher loaded with decoy rockets. And fire suppression module is useful in case something does bump you around a bit.

[@RFC3514]

1:04:33 - BTW, near there, there's a great location for a base (it's close to 3 different biomes), and if you build a moonpool, that reaper will come visit. I kept him as a pet for ages.

[@spidery7618]

Huge fan of this series, I'm really glad you're making these videos

[@aidantvhead]

Don't forget to check out the alien cave you need a tablet for! Also, you missed the entire top section of the last habitat. And you have 3 camera views for the cyclops for driving. PS the thermal reactor for the cyclops is a must PPS bring the Prawn suit with you when you go into the deeper caves. PPPS Install a modification station for further depth module upgrades on the go in the cyclops(at least I think they are in the modification station)

[@croneryveit9070]

When you turn off the lights and the engine on a vehicle, enemies just think its another inanimate rock or something. Also, the scan upgrade for both cyclops and seamoth will be extremely useful once you start going down that cave.

[@ahmataevo]

A cheap-ish way to recharge the cyclops when exploring is to give the seamoth a solar charge module. Give it a drained power cell at the start of the day and as long as you're not too deep it'll start recharging. Not a good way to do it, but it can work for emergencies.

[@salemprompthous3820]

Guessing this'll only get one or two more episodes. Been fun watching FJ go about this game, could be fun seeing FJ go for the Subnautica sequel aswell, but really looking forward to the next "channel" playthrough now that Anomaly is out.

[@guyincognito1406]

The cameras on scanners drove me nuts til I realized you can just pick it up, which is why my scanner base always has a storage for it’s cameras.

[@kaka6shi]

The sonar upgrade is a godsend! Also, use the downwards facing camera for a much better experience:)

[@ahmataevo]

If you want to get rid of the scanner room drones, you could always pick them up and chuck them into the garbage can module.

[@jonumine6250]

Here, Francis about to 100% collect all fragments in the game. Next episode in the bone cave is gonna be fun I feel it.

[@efethecaptain6]

6:18 The mushroom forest ambient is the best ambient in the game imo. When you're safe, just stop and listen, it's so relaxing.

[@Neuromancerism]

Yup, whats killed stays dead other than the small edible fish (in early builds those did, too, leading to players whov played a long time to run out of fish) - they can wander to some degree though so it is still possible something comes back from elsewhere to where youve cleared before.

[@nickierv13]

The butt bubbles/gas idea sort of worked in that it hurt it a good bit. Its just the angry noodles need a lot of hurting to kill.

[@FerrybigGaming]

5:05 Use the external cams, I recommend using the tail mounted camera for going down

[@dmd733]

I only pilot from the cam views!

[@cryoine7194]

"good news is we stopped sinking" yes that because you hit the sea floor 500m down also most of the prawn suit arms functions as weapons as well, so you could have spidermanned onto a reaper and punch/drill it to death plus the prawn can take a beating, I'm surprised you haven't taken it much out yet

[@dahn57]

I think it's the speed that's dissuading him, although he did say that he was going to take it out to play soon

[@cryoine7194]

@@dahn57 ik, I remember him saying that but the grappling arms change all that when you sling your way across the sea, he is going to have to rely on it more and more the deeper he goes though

[@rauminen4167]

The grapple grabs everything. Do you mean everyth.... Yes. EVERYTHING. Yeeeehaaaaw!

[@robertlee2473]

Best time of the day when your subnautica vids pop up 😊

[@ladislavpopelka3052]

Damn I wish I had nerves like Francis to treat reaper circling me like minor inconvenience... :D

[@michaelsebastian2842]

Others have probably said it but the big resource nodes show up on the scanner as the actual material (titanium, lead, etc) as the individual pieces are inside breakable rocks normally.

[@All_Night]

A gun shooting smaller guns. That is 100% a Borderlands reference.

[@20985229147]

FYI, the Bulbo Trees are slightly more efficient than Marblemelons. Same nutrition but a bit more water.

[@Iamwyza]

You can drive the cyclops while using the cameras at the same time which makes going down much, much easier.

[@williamculverwell7738]

Loving is man! Thanks for doing a spoiler/guide free run

[@thepiperpie]

the wind turbines off shore are not floating, they are attached to the seabed, they do a lot of VERY loud blasting to make the foundation's attachment points, several groups are very concerned that it is causing creatures that use sonar, like whales, to be harmed