SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH! - Subnautica - FINALE - Blind Playthrough

Hello everyone and welcome to the FINALE of my Subnautica blind playthrough! Today it's finally time to meet with the mysterious Sea Emperor and to build the last of the Neptune, which should allow us to escape 4546B once and for all!
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[@LukaelPlays]

Enjoy the episode guys! This is the end of Subnautica for now, but we'll be back on 4546B with Below Zero in the future! In the meantime, I do hope you'll stick around on the channel and enjoy some of my other playthroughs as well! Thank you for joining your Captain on this journey!

[@tomesofawesome8041]

At 1:32:06, The best part about the time capsule is this. The company that made this game, "Unknown Worlds" their website saves the data from every capsule on their site. Every time someone starts a new game, it downloads one of them some where onto that player's new world. Maybe no one will ever get yours. But maybe someone will. And they'll see the message you wrote, and they will know. It's just a little thing, but you've made the journey Lukael. Somewhere, sometime, someone will get your message. And they'll know. They'll know you were here. That you made the journey. That your story mattered. Because if you could do it, then so can they. 😭😭😌😀🥰🥰🥲😁😁😁 GODSPEED LUKAEL. FOR EVERY DESTINATION IS BUT THE DOORWAY TO ANOTHER ADVENTURE. THANKS FOR PLAYING AND CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!

[@goldleaf5266]

Ah yes! please don’t take too long with the sequel💕 I can’t wait for you to play it, it has a much more polished storyline so I think you’d enjoy it!

[@mirthy8219]

Yey! I cant wait for Below Zero. I know people will dissagre but I like it more than the first part

[@TheOrganicartist]

my theory about why the neptune rocket has storage => so your citizen of Alterra can bring back enough loot to pay off their crushing debt

[@rebeccamellott4998]

Found the channel through this series, but definitely looking forward to exploring your other series' 😊 excited for your Below Zero playthrough!

[@IroAppe]

Final episode: Subnautica: I will just throw ALL the bugs at you that I have!

[@LukaelPlays]

😅

[@apelcius]

yeah i feel like he was robbed from the full experience, from these bugs. i've nearly finished the whole playthrough myself (all i have left is just building the ship). and i didn't experience these bugs. so, it's just sad for him really. kind of a let down for him. we only get that first playthrough once. so i was disappointed for him

[@IroAppe]

@@apelcius Why? They were no game-breaking bugs. The worst bug did not occur: The prawn getting stuck in the ground. He only got the good bugs. And if I see bugs like these, that are only some funny occasions, it's kinda a rare view. I wouldn't look so negatively at that, and my comment was in no way meant that negative as you portrait it.

[@YetiUprising]

Best time capsule ever: picture of Sea Treader pooping, capsule filled with poo, message "Get pood on".

[@LukaelPlays]

🤣

[@AssassinRyuu]

Fun fact: after you beat the game and load your save again you can find the babies, slightly larger, in different biomes and near the crater's edge.

[@LukaelPlays]

Oh that's pretty cool!

[@danielhomant2832]

Even more fun fact, you don't need to save and load. You can follow them from the gate to where they eventually reside and they will grow the entire time. The children actually legitimately travel through the ocean and steadily grow rather than just teleporting.

[@Archangeltama]

The Sea Emperor… She was old when she was captured, and then her captors died and left her trapped with no way out, no way for her children to hatch. She held on for so long, held on the the slim hope that someone, anyone, would help her.

[@lillykawaiifox]

R.I.P Sea Empress. We love you on Earth and you will never fail to make me sob like a baby in any playtrough. 😢

[@TheOrganicartist]

same o7

[@ikeking6797]

Goodbye captain. I’m honored to have served(seen) in this play through.

[@LukaelPlays]

🫡

[@Alfonso88279]

I really enjoyed the playthrough. Lukael is a funny guy, the more freely he talks, the funnier and the better. It has been challenging, trying to not judge the blind playthrough. I mean, my first playthrough was a disaster, I had to ask for help to get to the primary containment facility. It's easy to get frustrated for him not finding this or that but, he is actually crazy good if you think about it.

[@Ryukoreed]

You are too pure a soul. Not wanting to leave her to die alone is so sweet.

[@stainedglassstories7735]

I love that you stayed with the Emperor for so long! She was so kind, and tolerated so much, and only wanted her children to be free. I didn't know when I gathered the plant samples for the enzymes that you could still use them if they fully decomposed. So I wound up building a grow-bed at my shallows base so I could gather seeds of each, and then harvest fresh samples all at the same time. By the time I finished that, it occurred to me that since I had to go far and around to gather the plants... the young emperors wouldn't have a viable breeding ground anywhere, and they'd have to make their own if they could or would go extinct. The same thoughts had been hitting me that you voiced of "I'm leaving all these vehicles and bases and junk everywhere..." So I built them something positive to remember me by, too. I made a ton of outdoor grow-beds around the safe shallows, and worked on propagating all the plants for the enzyme across them as I was gathering materials for my escape ship. By the time I was ready to leave, I left them a garden to eventually lay their eggs in, and seed other breeding grounds with. I still like to imagine and hope they found it.

[@LukaelPlays]

Very kind of you! I love this type of roleplaying stuff we can do in games, even if it doesn't matter it's fun to do!

[@Maholix]

Regarding the sea crown, it's actually just in the tank to prevent you from not being able to complete the game. It's meant to be rare and can actually be found in most biomes (including the jelly caves) by searching hard. The point is that the aliens never knew. The Khraa wiped out the live forms that used to spread it's seeds.

[@CrystalClear5617]

Infinite oxygen is a nice bug to get 😂

[@LukaelPlays]

I was blessed by the Sea Empress!

[@eliahdayton3448]

I loved the solemnity and respect you gave to the passing of the Sea Empress. It shows more about you than how they set up the story. Congrats on your first playthrough! This game does have good replay value but it really isn't the same as the first time. If I could play a game over again, fresh without any memory of it, this would be *the* game. Glad this series helped grow your channel! Good luck and godspeed Captain Lukael!

[@Gazer75]

Never had this many glitches with the leviathans in any of my playthroughs. The O2 and food/drink bug happens sometimes when you enter the primary containment facility. It will return to normal if you save and reload.

[@peteryarnold9707]

Agreed, never seen that many glitches

[@iceboundwolf7431]

I think the bugs are really bad this time around bc he recorded for like 6 hours unlike the other parts. From my experience the game would mostly start becoming a glitchy mess (more than usual) whenever my graphic settings were too high or my pc became too hot or something like that. He also mentioned earlier it gets pretty hot in his room so that probably doesn't help. A save and reload probably would have fixed it yea.... Anyway i loved this playthrough, one of the best i've seen. Lukael was very thoughtful reading every little thing, making theories, engaging with comments and overall just funny editing :D

[@Gazer75]

@@iceboundwolf7431 Not sure what defines hot, but I have up around 28-30C in my apartment in summer if its warm enough outside. Never had any issues with temps, and modern PCs would not have any issue as they would just reduce clock speed on GPU and CPU if overheating. I've also played for over 6 hours many times without issues. My most common bug is falling out of the cyclops due to some weird physics. Standing still in it the cyclops sometimes slowly moves it a tiny bit which eventually cause you to fall through. The game then thinks the world is void of water so you're either dead from falling or can't get anywhere. The O2 and food/drink bug must have been introduced in the last patch where they added some BZ features like the big room. I had never seen it before. I like how he seem to instantly understand the purpose of the four gates. I've seen many that had no clue.

[@iceboundwolf7431]

@@Gazer75 Could just be your pc is just better than mine (or you clean it more often) :/ not sure about the o2 food drink issue might just be what you are saying. I just know in general the game seems to be more unstable/glitchy if my pc is overheating. So that was just my theory as to why creatures were clipping through walls so much, or how the sea emperor dialouge was weirdly delayed at the end etc. idk to me it just kinda made sense. I had alot of issues with using the prawn suits in the tempels and just clipping issues in general . One time a reaper dragged me under the island temple out of nowhere i almost peed my pants (and i also lost my prawnsuit :( ) or jumping underwater but landing on the edge of something and walking around underwater like i was still on land... but i reported them and to subnauticas credit they fixed it so fast. It was really cool how they just even after years of it being complete they read and fix stuff in their game, it shows they care. And agreed Lukael figured things out so quick :D alot of the time watching other playthroughs it can seem like they are just hitting their heads against the wall untill they get it due subnautica being such an open game. But since he read all the data entries he had a much easier time figuring out where to go or what to do just by learning how the game/world works :)

[@NickCombs]

You've seen more game bugs than I have and I've played it through at least half a dozen times!

[@maddy3109]

I think it’s because he used mods pretty early in the game. That can kinda fck with your gameplay right?

[@NickCombs]

@@maddy3109 I hope not because I'm using the Subnautica+ modpack right now

[@LukaelPlays]

Only mod I have is the 2 extra quickslots, I doubt it messed up the whole game lol

[@NickCombs]

@@LukaelPlays It's working fine for me today with a full modpack, but it doesn't include that mod. Btw, I actually finished the containment facility before accepting Sunbeam's radio message this time. It turns out you can save them! Instead of giving the 20 minute timer for pickup, they say there's too much debris in orbit and leave you hanging.

[@Drazden8]

That last goodbye gets me every time. RIP Sea Emperor.

[@ancatdal]

That's one naughty larvae 😂 Regarding the storage aboard the Neptune; regular mortals not blessed by the bug might wish to bring food and water for the journey. I ended up never finishing the game. I couldn't bring myself to leave the Sea Emperor, despite leaving Cuddlefish with them for company. They had been alone for so, so long, my heart couldn't bear for them to die alone. And if I disabled the defense system and returned to Alterra, wouldn't they just send people to strip the planet of precious metals, or to colonise it? I just helped the Sea Emperors back from the brink of extinction, it didn't seem right to potentially doom them immediately after. Besides, I had everything I needed at this point, more or less. I was farming plenty of food indoors and outdoors, I had containments with breeding fish, I had water filtration and multiple sources of renewable energy. I had minerals enough to replace anything broken for far beyond a lifetime. I had multiple homes with comfortable living spaces in various beautiful places. I had the Cuddlefish and the Sea Emperors for companionship. What awaited at home? As far as I knew, a debt to be paid Alterra, as the PDA had warned me. Somewhere along the way, the planet I sought to escape became my home. Thank you for allowing us to join you on this wonderful journey, it's been amazing ❤

[@TheOrganicartist]

Seriously agree! Why would i leave my home?! the new sea emperors will be able to talk telepathically eventually and i could help them with technology \o/

[@ancatdal]

@@TheOrganicartist Exactly! I made sure to find all the rapidly growing Sea Emperors around the map ❤️

[@On-iv7rr]

It was one of the most interesting and so unlike others in a good way. There were some moments, but thank you for the full BLIND playthrough!

[@biodieseler1]

You are first streamer I've seen (and I've seen maaaany) that has noticed the frozen island in the closing cut scene.

[@SuperTallBird]

This is the first playthrough I've ever watched all the way through for any game. You have a great personality and it was a lot of fun watching you play through subnautica. I really hope there is a Subnautica Below Zero playthough coming in the future. 10/10

[@LukaelPlays]

Oh wow, that's a huge compliment! Thank you for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Below Zero playthrough is coming in the future, definitely!

[@allenwilding8569]

Thank you! I loved that you read all the scans. It really set you apart from others playing

[@mostlygizzards]

Your O2 has been glitched a while.

[@chekote]

I’ve not finished episode 14 yet, so imma just comment for the algorithm and come back later.

[@teoderb1239]

"DO NOT JETTISON MY GIFT" Very good line. Its prob in the museum of time capsules.

[@maksphoto78]

The Sea Emperor sounds so much like Cate Blanchett (Galadriel) in the Lord of the Rings.

[@RabbitsFunWorld]

Lani Minella’ll always be Night Mother (Skyrim) and Nancy Drew to me. 😊 And Sea Empress too, of course.

[@andrewwturner]

Fantastic series, Luke. To start with, I was watching it to see things I'd missed. At the end, it showed me the floating enzyme cure which for the life of me I couldn't see. What really shone through is you are a professional gamer and I'm an outright amateur, your approach certainly taught me a few things. I'll stick around for Below Zero.

[@Sandro_de_Vega]

I'm pretty sure that "Swiming with the current or against it" isnt some primary english saying. It means "are you pasively live just by taking what you get or you fight against destiny". She just ask you if you wanna die or you wanna live.

[@peachesplums]

it's more of a "would you fight against nature or not"

[@tophergerkey]

That's the exact opposite of her meaning. She's asking if you can work in harmony with the natural cycles of this planet, or if you are like the precursor aliens who saw everything on 4546B as resources to be exploited and enemies to overcome. The aliens swam against the current and died. Ryley swam with the current and lived.

[@manug2508]

What a great title for the episode! Subnautica really is like "Fear of the Dark" -> "Down with the Sickness" -> "So long, and thanks for all the Fish!" 😂

[@LukaelPlays]

I'm pretty proud of that one! 😂

[@manug2508]

@@LukaelPlays It's just so fitting! And no worries, i doubt that too many would stop following now that it's over. You have a really nice playstyle trying not to miss anything and to get the most out of the game in a nice sympathetic way. I think i found you through papers please, stayed for subnautica and am now curious about your first playthrough of Detroit become Human, or rather how your variant of the story will continue since there are just so many little things that can actually change a lot, sometimes even whole chapters that can be different.

[@loftypenalty91]

One of the times I played through this game after curing myself my food, thirst, and oxygen stopped depleting.

[@Elgsdyr]

"Once I'm in the tank with the Sea Dragon, I don't think I can get out," Man, your mind sure says "no" a lot without even trying, doesn't it? 😜

[@LukaelPlays]

Gotta make some guesses, and naturally some of them will be wrong!

[@Elgsdyr]

@@LukaelPlays I have noticed, though, you have a tendency to guess something is impossible without testing your hypothesis. 😉

[@NickCombs]

Congrats on completing the game! It's far from perfect, but that's true for every great classic. A successful game experience has a lasting effect on us, and that's certainly true for Subnautica. In particular, overcoming the deep water fears and really being able to dig into a fully fleshed ecosystem are both things that we just don't see in other games. Hopefully other devs will take the cue and build out more genres around those ideas.

[@Yggdrasil42]

Your forgot your towel! Every hitchhiker's survival equipment.

[@hagron5702]

T'es mon premier "Let's Play" et c'était vraiment cool de te voir découvrir 4645b. T'as fait ça comme un capitaine et j'aime le fait que t'as pris ton temps et lu tous les "Databank". Merci du partage Lukael! =)

[@LukaelPlays]

Honoré d'avoir été le premier! thanks for watching 😄

[@lindaj_stl6283]

I just wanted to say I enjoyed your playthrough. I have played the game a few times. I started a new playthough because of you. Keep up the good work.

[@chekote]

This was fun! Thanks for sticking with it and playing the survival mode. I'm glad you were happy about the decision and appreciated what we all were hoping you would. I'm looking forward to seeing what you think of Below Zero.

[@carlosyoung1984]

To anyone who enjoyed this, I highly recommend watching the Neebs gaming playthrough, it's very different but hilarious. Thank you Lukael, this was great. One of the shittiest time capsules ever haha but one of the best playthroughs on KZbin.

[@minifremi]

watched since ep1 and loved the whole series, ive never played subnautica myself so i went in blind too and enjoyed every second

[@daKwolf]

So funny...the o2 bug had me thinking I was procuring o2 from a gelsac ...doh!

[@coffeetunic8458]

Now I'm really looking forward to your Subnautica: Below Zero playthrough! 😊

[@letzplayosaurus]

Should have filled the storages with diamonds to repay that debt lol

[@LoaRicardo]

I did that haha

[@ZacChilds]

One of the PDA messages tells you that as an Alterra employee, all the materials you are collecting are the property of Alterra. Your PDA tracks everything you pick up and adds it to your debt, including those diamonds.

[@GuestyBoi_]

I believe below zero has a lot less bugs, the regular subnautica had a lot of bugs is because when they first made it they had a small team and they never made this type of game, the devs do come back every once in a while they add new items that below zero had and fix a few bugs, but their primary focus are the on new games

[@snorpenbass4196]

The Emperor didn't share the hatching enzyme with the others because they couldn't hear her - you (well, Ryley, the PC) can. That, and they were kind of being insensitive pricks about it.

[@hayunnie]

That dance party at the end took me out :D What a way to end a game.

[@ZacChilds]

This was a great playthrough! The game definitely has some unpolished gameplay and plenty of bugs, but the sense of progression and exploration it gives makes it a really fun adventure. One thing I think the game was missing is some kind of long distance expedition at the end. Maybe instead of gathering different plants for the hatching enzyme, you had to go get something from a place they normally lay their eggs or something. After getting my cyclops down to my base by the glowing tree I built a bunch of stuff in it, loaded up a ton of materials, put up decorations and everything, then I drove it a few minutes to the containment facility and ended the game. I loved using the cyclops and the idea of having a mobile base capable of a longer adventure away from my home base, but the game ends before I had a chance to really use it at all.

[@CiszHelion]

The O2 (and afaik also water/food meter) glitch happens when you use a gate whilst driving the prawn suit.

[@IvanBaAl961]

The biggest mistake in Subnautica is to leave the planet.

[@bobmay1515]

Thanks Lukael for the great playthrough. One other thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is you got to do your playthrough on the 2.0 version, that most of us had completed the game way before they even released it. This will help you when you play Below Zero, I think, because they brought the game controls in line with each other. You really did hit a lot of bugs the last episode, but I agree, you were pretty much there already and it wasn't impactful to the end of the game. I think if you had reloaded the game, you would have been able to continue as normal, but 5 hours in, I'm not surprised that you just wanted to finish. You could have used your prawn with thermal reactor as a power cell charger for your cyclops. Also, try driving the cyclops using the cameras. I find it to be a much more enjoyable experience.

[@InfiniteIshaanYT]

Thank you Lukael for this playthrough, cause for me this playthrough gets closer to my very first playthrough, almost as if like I am watching me again play this game again, from scratching my head to how to make a reed fiber to making base at the cove tree, to exact same place. from abusing Sonar to finding PCF first before Thermal plant, finding a alien base only to realise that i forget to bring a tablet like always, and it even ended same like leaving my cyclops down in depth with my Nepture rocket almost ready. Most players didn't even start making the Neprune rocket untill they turn off the QEP. So yeah again, yours is the most same as mine, or maybe harder because when I played this game there was no pinned recipe option, i used to write or memorize most of the recipes for many things.

[@projectdelta50]

I was laughing so fucking hard when I saw lava larva giving the prawn suit a rim job 😂😂😂 also youre the only one ive seen have leviathans get stuck so much, that never happens to me. Most ive seen is a gasopod get stuck in a coral tube or the occasional stalker stuck in ship wreck pieces. Btw you didnt get infinite air as a reward, you had the infinite oxygen glitch.

[@LukaelPlays]

I'm gonna consider it a reward from the Sea Empress 😌

[@Thomas99.99.5]

My favorite subnautica playthrough ever

[@LukaelPlays]

My favorite profile picture EVER 🦆

[@eKko0]

@1:16:56 regarding a super scary super dark ending area: if you go to the bottom of the void with a seaglide map there is actually ghost terrain down there so maybe thats exactly what they planned but then changed their mind?

[@SoulPhoenixFire]

I was playing this game about the same time as you (I started a long time ago and came back to my play through) and I had to pause watching you when we reached about the same point. I finished the game for the first time a few days ago!! So I finally finished watching your play through to the end. I got the exact same bug at the end with infinite oxygen/food/water. I also felt suddenly blessed by the Sea Emperor. I sat with her for a while too. It was sad that she lived so long only to die. You had a lot more intuition and bravery than I did, I didn’t go toe to toe with any of the leviathans and screamed constantly hahaha I made no comments throughout until this one, there are many silent commenters I’m sure. The next step for me: play in hardcore and try to max it by finding all the things I probably didn’t find! I died only twice in my original playthrough so who knows. I’ll also play below zero so see you there when you play! Followed.

[@LukaelPlays]

Love reading your thoughts! Thank you!

[@andyman286]

Loved it all mate, can't wait for your Subnautica Below Zero playthrough!

[@pembrokeisland9954]

Yay! That was a very good and entertaining play-through! Thank you very much! Your play made me play along with you. That was quite fun watching your episodes and playing approximately at the same pace and doing the same objectives. Quite fun, thank you! Yes, that "infinite oxygen" bug is quite annoying. Reloading the game fixes it but still. I don't know for sure but my guess is that it's supposed to be like you thought, inside the Containment Facility you are oxygenated and the bug is then that leaving that containment pool does not clear the effect... I was a bit surprised that you never tried using outdoor grow plots to farm the aquatic plants. Would have solved your problem of getting creep vine in your Glowing Tree biome. Or getting deep shrooms in your surface base. But, as your proved, you managed quite well without. Thank you for the episodes! I hope you try Below Zero at some point.

[@LukaelPlays]

Thank you for watching and playing alongside me! 😄

[@SmokyYuwe]

Goodbye Captain. Im a bit late to the party but this playthrough was really fun and i loved how you scanned and read as much as you could. Looking forward to seeing you in Below Zero and whatever else you play!

[@neoedge2646]

Such an awesome playthrough, it was an honour to take a deepdive with you, captain Luk :) and dont bother, there was no complaining and especially no need for a minmax optimal first playthrough, just a lot of fun and legit thoughts on a blind playthrough :) aaaand now I can finally call it out without backseating, so you can profit on your next playthrough: if you want to repair your submersives inside the moonpool without to dispatch, you have to aim your repairtool directly at the upgrademodule-slots ;) Thanks again for this great adventure, a crashfishfirework and a bladderfishsoda-cheers to our awesome Captain :)

[@wingedyera]

I am sooo glad you released the cuddle fish ❤ the cuddle fish have a huge xp pool so they dont die easily

[@Boedullus1]

Thank you for this play-through. This was a gift.

[@htewing]

I LOVE that you got the infinite health/oxygen/food/water bug in your very last episode. i don't know why that's so funny, but it really is. (And nah I don't think you cheated.) I love how long you spent with her. My first playthrough I did much the same. Every time I've played I still come back after building the rocket to say goodbye again (and to prepare to cry through her outro speech, because that gets me every time). Also yeah, the Neptune just refuses to launch if the gun is still active. I think the storage is more for RP reasons -- I usually bring my cuddlefish (because I'm weak), some food/water, and a bunch of expensive crap to try and placate Alterra lol. Looking forward to more! :D Really enjoyed your playthrough!

[@hollyw6319]

Great series! I love how immersed you were by the end, wanting to clean up and sit with the sea emperor ❤

[@jadestpc]

I loved this playthrough, it brought me to your chanel and now I will watch more of your other playthrough.

[@infernoboy7392]

Finally finished the playthrough! It was great, really enjoyed it. I love the fact that you got to find out everything yourself. I love watching people play, but most of the times they are streamers, and what happens is that chat is constantly back seating. The minute the streamer misses a PDA, chat would start screaming at the streamer. The minute they missed a material, or forgot something, chat would start yelling. Or chat would always tell the steamer where everything is, so there would be no sense of actually finding something yourself. Or they would spoil everything Because u have all edited vods, I got to watch someone play without any live backseating, and it was a ton of fun! Gonna check out your channel to see if there are any other games I’ve played before. Love your play style! You mentioned control which I have played before, so if that ever comes I’ll be excited for that. If I were to recommend a game I would recommend hollow knight. That games has a ton of hidden lore and I would love to watch you decipher it. And hollow knight is a really popular game for people to watch, so I would expect a lot of views on it, just like how people enjoy watching subnautica For example, Jedi survivor is a great games, but it’s not really a game that people watch others play.

[@LukaelPlays]

Glad you enjoyed the playthrough! I can't imagine streaming a game while having chat backseating me every step of the way lol would drive me insane, the backseating was bad enough just in the comments..... I played Hollow Knight before creating the channel, sadly! but Control is one that's still on my to-do list!

[@mrniba7280]

A youtuber I used to watch called this game Bugnautica. Sounds pretty accurate to me

[@jesssu2602]

I love Subnautica to death but yeah, it's buggy as heck in endgame. Although, if you have to get bugged, infinite air could be worse. You are one of the few streamers I've watched who figured out the four gates = four ingredients concept. You can find the sea crown in a handful of places near the surface, but they're hiding. They're so pretty though. There's a distressing number of reapers on the map, but they're out around the edges and you can absolutely avoid them unless you're an exploration completionist. They're only my third-place choice for worst critter on 4546B. (The bleeders are number one worst just for being annoying. Bone sharks are two for being overly aggressive.) I think the Emperor lived so long just out of sheer stubbornness :) She wasn't dying until her kids had a chance to live. I think she mentioned that the previous aliens couldn't hear her talking, and the Degasi crew just didn't find the right path. Spite is a wonderful motivator. I wish aspirin worked as quickly as Enzyme 42 does. Several hundred hours of gameplay and I've never hit the infinite air/food/water bug. I'm still fond of calling the seamoth 'Appetizer' and then tempting fate around leviathans. I usually name mine 'Nothing' because then in the moonpool it says 'Nothing is docked' and I think I'm funny. I appreciate the little on-screen commentary text :D The best way to find silver is to desperately need gold. See also: the best way to find copper :) I mean, arguably you could have made a whole new cyclops instead of going back down. Not sure that would be faster, but technically it was an option. Also, trust me, you're not the first one to have to make that trip repeatedly. I used to guess how far people had played in the game by asking them what they thought was the scariest creature so far. Playing with the cuddlefish is such fun. I definitely didn't see one get chomped by a bone shark once. Love that there does not seem to be anything resembling a seat belt in the cockpit. Alterra might want to look into their panel attachment protocols, that's twice one tried to murder us. Philosophy 101, with Professor Sea Emperor. The music in this game is just so good. That last bit about our outstanding bill is amusing. I've never tried it, but I always wanted to fill the ship with like, diamond and ion cubes and see if that does anything. If you ever decide to play through again, I recommend being on the island surface when the Sunbeam arrives, and then go ahead and try to launch without deactivating the gun. What's the worst that could happen? :D Also talk to the cuddlefish after you finish the rocket. Worth it. This has been such a fun trip, so glad I found your channel.

[@LukaelPlays]

Ahah thank you for this comprehensive comment, this was fun to read! Glad you found the channel, thank you for watching!

[@Thunderstrife1]

Lukael, I'd recommend exploring the world more on your own. There are quite a few biomes and wrecks that you didn't get to experience. Kit out the cyclops as a mobile base and use it to tour the world.

[@Brainader]

This have been such a fun and awesome playthrough to watch! Watched all episodes and did learn several new things, even tho I've played this game sooo much. Can't wait to see Below Zero as well. Stay awesome, Lukael

[@LukaelPlays]

Thank you!

[@TasteTheWine.]

26:50 Whoa! How did that fellow get stuck back here? Lol.

[@CKMCardesign]

Im a you tuber my self since 12 years and I realy like you and saw this to the end. Dont wait to long for Below Zero since its kind of a story continue and you forget things from the OG quickly. 😊

[@Armpitfan]

The first time i played i almost puked out of fear when i had to jump into the containement unit. This playthrough has been amazing! You actually have done an amazing job exploring the world and you have had a really whole experience of the game. Cant wait to check out your other series, maybe ill watch your eldenring playthrough next 🤔

[@LukaelPlays]

Thank you! 😊 Elden Ring was such a fun playthrough! I hope you'll enjoy it too!

[@JusticeBlinded]

I have never in my entire life wanted a game to bug out and add a requirement for the rocket which somehow needed the cyclops, after you built the Cockpit. Pulling all the power cells out of the cyclops was a brand new way (from all the playthroughs I've seen) to unintentionally (almost) cause yourself lots of problems. Each playthrough of this game is it's own long-form movie and is fun to watch. I greatly enjoyed yours. Fake ratings: Efficiency - 2/10 Success at Predicting Storylines / Plot Elements - 9.5/10 Ability to Spot all PDAs on the Screen - 0.5/10 Complaints - 15/10 (not an actual thing I care about, only putting it in here for the memes) Names of Vehicles - 7/10 Time Capusle Contents - 8/10 Dry Humor which (always kept it interesting) - 10/10 Cuddlefish Usages - 0.5/10 (YOU KEPT THEM IN A LOCKER, YOU MONSTER) Credits Dance Sequence - 12/10 Amazing watch, will be checking out some of your other playthroughs. Cheers.

[@LukaelPlays]

🤣🤣🤣 thank you thank you, these are quite accurate I think

[@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris]

Not sure if you saw that, but there is the sequel on the planet that you get to see

[@PatrikStandar]

The end of the best Subnautica playthrough I have seen and I have seen many by now. Will stick around and see what you will cook up next, however I only watch games I have finished myself so lets hope you play some of them. Waiting for SubZero and hope you play Prey. Thanks for bringing some extra fun to fridays!

[@LukaelPlays]

Thank you! Prey is on my list for sure!

[@ghspeedyg]

Congratulations! What an adventure!

[@christinahankins4114]

Have really enjoyed your playthrough, it's been a hell of a journey! For your first blind playthrough you did an awesome job, and I am really glad you had someone screening your comments so you got to enjoy the story first hand. Looking forward to more from you!

[@Prototype-357]

Now I got the movie's intro song stuck in my head, thanks Luka.

[@Trencha]

Don't worry about the infinite oxygen, food and hunger bug. It's not the first time I've seen it, and by that point you've basically finished the game anyway - you're already self-sufficient as far as food and water are concerned, you have effectively infinite oxygen just by parking a vehicle nearby, and even without that you have almost 4 minutes of oxygen (I seem to remember in one of your videos you said that you went from the tree in the depths back out to the surface with just your seaglide). A little extra convenience that you weren't supposed to have as you're going around collecting the enzyme ingredients is hardly going to ruin the experience! On the note of bugs, yeah the game is a bit buggy in places. Ironically I think they accidentally introduced more of them when they tried to update the original Subnautica's engine with improvements they made in Below Zero.

[@MasterNinjaTeddyBear]

infinite oxygen is a common bug for the alien containment unit for the sea emperor. Would it be ok to empower you with some in game knowledge of the game now that you're done? If so, there's a final animation after you've completed the ship for the cuddlefish. Go check it out and ready the f11. The tiny hologram of the cyclops on the hud is a display of sound. There's a shade of blue that's in the shape of an orb that expands with the more noise you make. You don't need to cook fish right away, you can store them and cook them when needed and they don't rot until you've killed them. There's other lore stuff also out of the way of the main story but requires exploration.

[@hiloboy4life2002]

Loved this whole playthrough

[@daKwolf]

Can you imagine how much longer it would've taken had the o2/food/water glitch not been in effect?

[@LukaelPlays]

Not that much longer tbh, food and water really aren't much of an issue at this point of the game!

[@Averssem]

I personally was very proud of you when you immediately solved the "riddle" of those four gates when you were given the recipe for hatching enzyme. Most other playthroughs that I've watched people had to scour the map for the ingredients completely ignoring the readily available shortcuts. And to give you a little bit of a preview of a sequel I'll just say that of all the bioms of two games my number one favourite one is in the Below Zero. I'll tell you which one when you get to it though. (:

[@Yggdrasil42]

I'm impressed that you immediately thought of the four portals to get the enzyme ingredients. I spent an hour scouring the map. 😅

[@Panboy2k]

I could never imagined not enjoying the cyclops , its so big and awkward and bad , how could you not enjoy driving the only thing in the game with any challenge , but i get it, and it made for a funny ending run. for me it was pretty much the mobile base for mid to end game, i had everything in there. using thermal power so charging was never an issue

[@Johanna_smiley3]

This was my favorite playthrough of Subnautica to watch and I am very happy to have found this channel. Thank you for playing. :)

[@LukaelPlays]

Thank you!

[@reverendsaul]

Not everything is random, but where your pod lands, the order of some of the radio messages, and some fragments are. Some of that can affect the difficulty slightly, because something important can be in a biome that is more dangerous or that you can't get to. I would say your randomness was mid difficulty. Growing things in the outside beds would have made your life a lot easier, like the deep shrooms, gel sacks, and even the creepvine when you went deep. It's one thing you have to bring... You probably hit 60% of the major wrecks, and you did hit almost all the biomes at least once. The dunes you did not, and that is where you get the still suit that makes water from bodily fluids. The dunes is full of reapers though. One last thing, you can kill everything in this game with enough effort. I know you were saying you wished you could, well if you stun it, and knife it, you can. Also perimeter defense also helps kill.

[@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears]

You have an abnormal amount of bugs. lol I have not seen that much clipping happening in any other play though.

[@peteryarnold9707]

Agreed

[@pavelgoldfinger6403]

Great series. Just a few things you missed of course, even a few locations, like where the Repears pop up, so it would be great to do another episode where you maybe go through the online map of Subnautica or watch a video of someone describing it. Otherwise, I'm really looking forward to your Below Zero series.

[@peteryarnold9707]

Thank you, enjoyed your play-through. Also, never seen as many glitches in a play through, ever.

[@axelschweiss9925]

How sad, that the Playthrough is over :( Great to see that you enjoyed the game. To me this is definately one of the best games ever made.

[@Great_Olaf5]

I do still highly recommend Aquaria. It's a very different kind of game from this, more of a metroidvania style game, but it's still an investeert exploration game with a story.

[@kingabnus2983]

Final episode hell yes! Congratulations!! I highly suggest play Subnautica with mods before trying below zero there are some interesting mods, i dont know the names but one bring back the Extinct creatures , its extreamly cool Ill comment once i watch the episode😁 😅

[@faaridfarooq]

Luke!!! I absolutely NEED to see you play Minecraft Story Mode!!! Please consider it!

[@erionissemliw5412]

Finally finished watching the finale and here's my final thoughts. First off, thank you for the journey dear Captain. Retire your Captain hat...for now...dont let it collect too much dust, I'll definitely be back for dredge and below zero. Congrats on finishing the game! Dont worry too much about the could have dones, you finished the game your way, thats the priority here. As soon as I realized you were leaving the cyclops down below before the neptune was complete, i was 😬. Anyone who's played blind has been there lol. And even more so when you were determined to just make a new module...without the cyclops lol. Classic. Sorry for all the bugs you experienced in the end. As much as i love subnautica, it happens. It used to be worse, the prawn suit used to get stuck out of water; like dead weight on land, couldn’t move or boost. Your only hope was to grapple and drag the prawn along the ground back to water. Frozen stats still happens to me, if you notice it again, save quit and restart, that usually does it. Next, ive said it before, but i want to add it again here at the end: i would love to see a "loose ends" episode happen if you were up for it. Now that you've beaten the game, set up challenges to complete using this same game file. Things id recommend: say goodbye to the cuddlefish (cute interaction you missed once the neptune rocket is complete)(speaking of neptune, that can be customized like all the other vehicles back at the build console, just wanted to mention it bc i dont think you saw before launch), find ALL cuddlefish (5 total in game), find hidden caches (i believe 3 purple tablet ones left you didnt find), find all wrecks to get all upgrades/tech; etc. I'd love the bonus journey with you as you try some of these. Nice added challenge now that you're finished. If you were curious, the baby sea emperors are still in the game. Youll find them as adults in various biomes. No interaction happens but its neat to see them free. Lastly, subnautica brought me to your channel (along with many many others apparently lol). I've enjoyed the ride. I've started watching some of your other things and enjoying the content so far, i'm really enjoying your Detroit experience at the moment. Keep up the good work, Lukael! I look forward to more adventures you'll take us all on, whether its back to 4546b or beyond. "Farewell, friend."

[@LukaelPlays]

Ahaha I was just thinking how I'm gonna have to use the captain hat again soon for Dredge! I can't believe how many times in this playthrough I spent time collecting resources to build something, only to realize I couldn't build the thing... you'd think a guy would learn from his mistakes. None of the bugs really bothered me all that much! Getting killed through a wall the one time was kinda lame, but it only took a few minutes to get back to where I was, so... I know there's quite a few more things in the game, and I might dive back into things on my own time, but not sure I'll do it on the channel, I do want to move on to new games for now, but we'll be back in the world of Subnautica soon enough! Thank you for checking out my other series, and I'm glad you found the channel!

[@ExoUrsa]

Yeah the game has its faults and bugs, but I think we're all so attached to it because it is such a unique gaming experience. This game, like Outer Wilds, is one of those games I keep looking for new playthroughs for. I really liked yours! Looking forward to seeing what you pick up next.

[@Elgsdyr]

Thanks for an interesting playthrough. Would be fun if you reacted to a speedrun. I can recommend Salvner's runs, as he explains everything he does.

[@Elgsdyr]

Oh, and I love the Hitchhiker reference with the title. ❤️

[@TasteTheWine.]

1:41:50 Every CCer I watch seems to favor one item or feature over another. For you it was the sonar. I never even built it as the dark didn't bother me. I love the water bladder as do some CCer's I watch. Another CCer used the grav gun for *a Lot* of stuff to include catching fish. Subnautica lets you play this game your own way.

[@LukaelPlays]

Sonar my beloved!

[@zcany]

Havent watched a playthrough episode by episode in a long time. Fun journey!

[@joshoplays]

Such an amazing playthrough i cant wait for below zero ❤

[@mfcollette2225]

Vous avez commandé des enzymes sans oignions? 😂 me dying of laughter while eating fromage skouik skouik

[@LukaelPlays]

😂😂

[@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris]

Big Sub: Oxygen offline You: I don't give a beep I am god!

[@TESI303]

I played this way back not far from release, still on my Windows 7. And I never had so many bugs and glitches as I've seen here and other live streams. I think Windows 10/11 (DX12) probably has more to do with the bugs and glitches than the game.