#pour one out for the hyperfixation gang who doesnt realize theyre hungry or thirsty until forcibly removed from interest 😔👊

[transhoverfish]

more below zero thoughts bc i SHOULD be doing my schoolwork but my brain is screaming OCEAN forever

ONCE AGAIN SPOILER WARNING (UNDER THE CUT)!!

-LOVE how this game gets you to go into the different biomes! like the first game did a good job of "hey theres a thing here, you want it??" but i feel like theres still biomes that u can go the entire game w/o visiting (dunes, sea treaders path, crag zone). although i haven't finished the game yet i feel likes done a good job at throwing me into Scary Places that i would just avoid otherwise

-saying that, FUCK the arctic spires, all my homies hate the arctic spires. i keep forgetting to make a snowfox and im p sure i already explored basically all of it. on foot. half of which without a cold suit. and no flares. it was TORTURE.

-also love the difference in blueprint speeds compared to the first game! getting a compass + ion battery/power cell + stillsuit earlier than, you know, mid-late game is v nice! granted i basically never use the compass anyways bc i just use the signals to remember my way around but still

-"adding Hope to databank."

-i love the seatruck SO much i wish i could add a bed and just sleep on the go :( i hate exploring at night!! wait maybe theres a bed module i havent got yet. I HOPE THERES A BED MODULE. IF THERE IS ILL GIVE MY SEATRUCK A LITTLE SMOOCH AND PAINT HER A NEW COLOR.

-marguerit just has so much shit happen to her huh,,,, i SWEAR TO GOD if anything happens to her or preston im gonna start crying i will not stop!!!!

-i spent like an hour in the crystal caverns bc i refused to bring my seatruck down even tho i could bc i was scared of a levi destroying her. i instead opted for gathering as many bladderfish as possible, swim as long and far out as i could, eat the bladderfish, collect MORE bladderfish and eat them, then swim back, all while getting the items and scans i need and avoiding being attacked by the big mean fish. i drowned like 12 times, dehydrated to death, lost all my items several times, finally collected a good amount only for my game to crash exactly as i hover over the save button. had to do it all over again.

-could have just brought the seatruck down. please remember the seatruck. somehow i avoided being killed by any leviathans! so that's a plus at least!

-the precursor body requires... materials less difficult to find than i would have expected?? like i feel like i already had all the stuff i just needed to craft it. which is nice!! gives me more time to make my base... i built a bathroom and a big aquarium for my children <3