I assume that the intention is for you to ride the SnowFox and be able to glance left or right while still maintaining the current direction, and only an exaggerated change of view results in a change of direction. As a player, you are initiating an action but the game only catches up eventually and does what you want. Changing direction by having to turn your head far to one side or the other is awkward. Some thoughts about the recent SnowFox update:ġ) Awkward SnowFox controls. Users also have complained about the Snowfox over one year ago on this Message-Board: I haven’t picked it up since then and would advise anyone who wants to explore the glacial basins to skip the snowfox alltogether and go there with the prawnsuit. I’m not the only one who got motion sick. In the end, I quit playing the game, because I had gotten seriously motion-sick and it took me half a day to recover from this. I missed the right height and died from the fall. My only choice was to warp myself up again with cheats. I jumped off the Fox only to fall out of the level, down and down. At one point, I just got stuck in the ground. I just couldn’t wrap my head around steering this thing. But the open roads are short and I wanted to explore the area, so, whenever I tried out something else, i got stuck again. For one or two seconds I had a good feeling about it. The best experiences I had was driving the Fox along the frozen rivers. That solves a lot of the trouble of being stuck. It’s a really good feature that you can pick the vehicle up and place it again. It only got worse when I tried exploring caves. Often speeding out of them with the Foxs boost-ability helped, but it also made me crash fast forward into the next obstacle. But the area was so dense that I kept crashing into objects. I had great trust in the developers and didn’t want to give up yet. I thought, I just had to learn to drive it properly like the other vehicles before. Looking around with the mouse sometimes made it not turn, sometimes made it turn. How was I steering the thing? Sometimes, the A and D keys made it strife, sometimes the A and D keys made it turn. When I started moving, i got very confused. I was jumping on and of the thing, eventually making my peace with just going one direction. Whenever i was trying to move to the other side of the hoverpad, the snowfox automatically reconnected to the pad because i lacked the space to maneuver. The whole mess started with me trying to place a snowfox-hoverpad. So I loaded a seatruck with materials, ready to build a small base to go exploring. It was quite enjoyable, finding a few fruits to keep me warm, i kept on pushing forward, eventually stumpling on the frozen leviathan, i loved it 😊 I figured, the game wants me to come back and explore with a snowfox. At one point, I explored the glacial basin by foot. Until that point, I enjoyed all of the early content. Now I fear another dealbraking vehicle-design is going to mess up Subnautica Below Zero. However, most upvoted negative reviews on Steam tackle this issue. I think the Devs don‘t bother to fix it, it might be too hard to do, and it will probably stay as a major bug in the game. It was the only way to finish the game smoothly. I overcame this by spawning a prawnsuit through cheating. Considering this happens at more than 1000 meters below zero. For those who don’t know: The suit tends to glitch through walls, resulting in its destruction, dissappearance and often in your own death. The Prawn-Suit bugging out in the end of Sub 1 was a real dealbreaker for me though. I have loved to move through the story, occasionally being very confused on what to do next, but the internet has helped me move along with a few game guides 😊 I love the story of subnautica, it fits so perfectly in our time right now.

My main occupation though is that of an editor. Managing oxygen, overcoming the fear of diving deep, survival and base building and avoiding wildlife rather than killing it: Great!!! I have 25 years of gaming immersion, regularly read gaming- and story-design-articles and even designed a few small games and created maps for existing ones. Diving on an alien planet is so new and refreshing unlike any game experience i have had before.

I love Subnautica and I love Subnautica Below Zero. TL DR: The Snowfox has destroyed hours of great gameplay and immersion for me.

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