Subnautica 2’s Voices from Past movies are giving us a way more detailed take a look at the story than we first thought

Brief, animated movies have been showing on the Subnautica YouTube channel, mysteriously titled ‘Voices from Past’. Set throughout the Subnautica universe, there are 5 movies within the collection, with the newest now drawing to its disastrous conclusion, and doubtlessly being a springboard for the place we bounce off. The primary episode takes us to a snapshot of a scene of a mongolian dwelling on an alien planet, and it appears like one thing Lofi Lady could be happy with, full with a messy bookcase, steaming mug of tea, and the form of litter that solely true cosiness can justify. The books are filled with hope and promise, with names like The Nomadic Life, The Enterprise of Botany, and Surviving the Unattainable. Actually, I might simply hold this on a loop for some time.

By these movies, we’re slowly getting the larger image of what may very well be on the way in which in Subnautica 2, and every of the 5 episodes steadily spirals into devastation as our hopeful household – heard within the creaks of floorboards, child gurgles, sips of tea, and quiet chatter – is overshadowed by the unavoidable unhealthy information coming via the radio.

The Kharaa bacterium is rampaging via the land, and as individuals flee, the political local weather solely ramps up, and our household could be heard discussing their future and their dream of opening a free-range ranch. If this all sounds a bit acquainted, Subnautica started after the occasions of an unsuccessful try and cease an outbreak of the lethal illness. Now the advancing bacterium is mutating, the household are left with the selection of becoming a member of Alterra’s Pioneer Program – providing journey on the Cicada spaceship heading in the direction of a promising new planet, Zezura – or to remain put and anticipate the arrival of the Frontiersmen to assist cease the outbreak.

As soon as our household has weighed up their choices, mom and daughter keep behind as the daddy ventures onto the Cicada looking for a brand new planet for them to put down roots. Because the mom and daughter dwell throughout the dishevelled home and ruins of their village, the drone of the radio splutters on, finally capturing their consideration amid studies that the Cicada has vanished.

Within the newest and last video, titled ‘Mayday’, we take heed to the misery name of the Cicada – which, after an ‘unscheduled phasegate transit’, has ended up in an uncontrolled descent. The radio delivers the chaotic name from a radio in what appears like an underwater – and really rundown – station, solely the sound of heavy respiration within the background, and the shadow of a giant creature outdoors of the window accompanies it.

We have been right here earlier than… and it appears very very similar to the start of our hero’s journey. Will our purpose be to save lots of the souls aboard the Cicada? Or to proceed the mission of discovering a hospitable new residence? We all know from the Subnautica Steam web page that we play as a Pioneer tasked with carrying on the ship’s mission – might this be the identical ship that obtained us into this mess? No matter lurks outdoors the underwater seabase, it appears like we’re heading on the market.

You’ll find the remainder of the Subnauctica 2 Voices From Past movies could be discovered on the sport’s official YouTube channel forward of the Subnautica 2 launch date, which we have been ready for for a very long time.