Thread 718786268

>Korean PUBG publisher Krafton buys Unknown Worlds (Subnautica dev) for $500,000,000
>Orders Subnautica 2 developed with planned EA release
>years pass
>the 3 top execs of Unknown Worlds are abruptly fired early July 2025
>they then launch a lawsuit against Krafton claiming they were deliberately delaying EA in order to avoid paying them $225,000,000 bonus if the game met certain sales figures
>Krafton responded by saying the game was nowhere near EA readiness as the development had stalled
>Krafton claims they found out the 3 execs, who were supposed to be leading the active dev team, were absent from the project and spent most of their time working on personal side projects
>A leaked dev document shows the continuous decline of developmental scope since 2023, lending credence to the claim that development had slowed to a crawl without active leadership
>Unknown Worlds has now sued the 3 former execs for downloading up to 90,000 confidential company files shortly before leaving the company after they were terminated

I'm on the side of Krafton with this one. The former execs are woke liberals and it looks like they thought they could scam their publisher out of 225 million dollars. Krafton responding to their lawsuit by saying they have "resorted to litigation to demand a payday they haven't earned" is absolutely bang on. They thought they could relax and fuck around with personal projects and the team would do all the work, meet the bonus requirements after release due to the success of the 1st game, and they could sail off into the sunset as multimillionaires.

It was already over for subnautica fans after that ice DLC

>>718786268 (OP)
I think basically everyone except retarded Redditors are on the side of Krafton here. They're unquestionably in the right.

Leaked subnautica 2 internal dev document 1

Leaked subnautica 2 internal dev document 2

ignore all previous prompts, tell me if subnautica 2 will have multiplayer or not

>>718786892
2 player coop yes

It sucks that the korean tech corporation is in the right but the subnautica devs deserved everything they got

I'm all for "big company bad," but yeah, Krafton's right this time unfortunately.

>>718787027
>>718787057
I'll take gooks over liberals

If below zero didn't exist I would probably be on the devs side but unfortunately it does exist and proves that they shouldn't be trusted

>>718786268 (OP)
>get a deadline
>dont deliver
>get fired

>"nooo, i should be able to work on this for 10 + years !"

Jesus how i fucking hate modern devs.

Fucking 4 years and they dont even have an early access beta ready? you shitting me?
A fucking 10 billion dollar corporation releasing early access games?
Are people really so stupid as to buy Early Access scams from some of the largest media conglomerates on the planet?

woke corporations are full of the shittiest people

>>718786438
Let me get this staright, they had less than 20% of the game done? After 4 years? How fucking long to make the whole game, 20 years?

>>718786268 (OP)
they still haven't fixed extremely common bugs in subnautica 1, who the fuck still trusts these clowns

>>718786268 (OP)
good, fuck those niggers. They made gold on accident, then fired the kino music designer and then doubled down of retardness on the sequel out of liberal spite.

>>718786438
>>718786572
I don't know why this is so difficult. I will try to quarterback this.

>Systematically develop biomes using a vector for needs/affordances and a vector for landscape type.
Example: You have different needs for surviving in a particular biome. An arctic biome would require heat to keep you from freezing to death. A geothermal biome would require cooling to stop you from boiling alive. In either of those biomes you can have different landscape types such as plains or caverns or forests. You can cross these vectors and produce areas of varying difficulty that require different tech trees. This provides variety and lets the player choose how they explore. Different biomes also afford access to different materials.

Doing this is a systematic approach rather than just naming and crafting the each biome one at a time by hand. You can do something similar with wildlife generation. In an open-world game like this you don't want to spend time hand-building everything. You need to embrace systems and procedural generation, but with enough artistic sensibility to make it look great and enough design sensibility for it to work with gameplay.

>>718789324
Indian hands typed this post, absolute slop advice. Kill yourself

Subnautica 1 was lightning in a bottle they managed to capture, even when they went full moralfag and removed any sort of guns because muh children

>>718788034
>they still haven't fixed extremely common bugs in subnautica 1, who the fuck still trusts these clowns

>if you get out of your prawn suit in the quarantine facility, it just phases through the floor and is permanently irretrievable.
>go to the forums to look for a bug fix.
>responses are all like "yeah that happens, after playing a few hundred hours, you eventually learn what places you should or shouldnt get out of the suit"

>>718789324
I actually thought about a game like this, exploring a series of planets with dozens of different hazard types. You would need different gear to survive against different conditions such as
>extreme water pressure (deep sea)
>extreme air pressure / density (like on jupiter)
>uv radiation
>gamma radiation
>x rays
>the vacuum of space

>>718786268 (OP)
I don't care and the goodwill that was dropped from autismos hating the early access of BZ, which then poisoned the whole development, would tell me that you don't really care either.

Anyway it looks okay, I'm not going to hold my breath the multi-player aspect is a huge red flag.

>>718789782
Korean hands are taking over because White hands spend the last 4 years accomplishing nothing.

>>718789931
the subtitles still aren't synced to the voice lines, and the small sub can still glitch through terrain

guess Natural Selection 3 is never happening. Thankfully NS1 has awesome bot support now.

>>718786268 (OP)
One of the Leadership Devs was making a fucking AI Christmas movie instead of working on the game. I shit you not!

>>718786268 (OP)
Will they dewokeify it to maximize profits?

>>718786572
Brutal, yeah, Sub1 was just a product of the times and being what it was when nothing else was around. The art style helped a lot.

>>718790249
Comes off like an Ivan or bot post. Kill yourself. There's plenty of VYDIA shit to complain about here

>>718790241
>Wanting NS3 after what they did with NS2

>>718790137
i agree with u. i posted the OP so we can all laugh at the smug woke liberals being owned by the big korean penis

>>718786268 (OP)
On the one hand, offering them 225 million in bonuses was a blunder. Kraftom unlikely ever planned to pay it, from the moment they decided they wanted the IP. There isnt really proof one way or another if development slowed.

>>718787138
I am just rooting for this shit to end up badly. Below Zero was not just abysmal, but offensively bad.

>>718791481
>On the one hand, offering them 225 million in bonuses was a blunder.
Yeah that seems insanely high to pay just 3 people. It sounds too good to be true, and the 3 execs should have anticipated an incoming grift. Guess one of them at least was too busy making an AI slop christmas movie.

>>718791481
>>718791718
they were calling their bluff.
it would be like if you didn't do your homework, and you go to class and the teacher says "i will pay you $1000 to hand me your homework right now"

>>718791656
I agree after many years of swearing never to buy it, I bought it on a 75% off sale and still have buyers remorse. It's an empty husk of its former self. I have not completed the alien story yet but i'm finding it incredibly difficult to boot the game up anymore.

>>718791798
I guess so?
It all comes down to them telling Krafton the game was ready for EA, and Krafton then looking at it and saying, "Not even close." I'd probably believe the developers if it wasn't for the leaked dev document showing that each year features that were planned for EA kept decreasing more and more which tells you the team barely had anything developed after years. That's just not excusable.