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Welp. I just deleted my save and uninstalled Subnautica.
I was going into the final stretch, like, almost literally the end game (aside from actually leaving the planet). I was in my Cyclops, in the Lava Lakes, around 1300m down. I hopped in my Prawn and went out a short way, then decided to leave the Prawn for a bit to swim back to the Cyclops to grab a few Marblemelons to top off before I went back. Saved the game while I was back in the Cyclops. Then, when I went back out to return to my Prawn... the Prawn was gone. No icon for it either. Just vanished. I don't know if it somehow got destroyed in the 30 seconds or so I was inside my Cyclops or if it just glitched out of existence or what. All I know is that it was gone, and I'd already saved after it was gone, without realizing it was gone.
Then, when I saw that I didn't have enough materials on hand with me to rebuild a Prawn (which in addition to all the materials needed for the Prawn itself, also required building another Mobile Vehicle Bay, a Moonpool in which the MVB could actually function in the underwater cave I was in, a power source for the Moonpool, and a Vehicle Upgrade Console to remake all the various upgrades to the Prawn that I'd made which were also lost), without navigating through the labyrinthine caves all the way back up to the surface again in my Cyclops, I just said "Fuck it," deleted the 20-something hour save, and uninstalled the game.
If this had been my first playthrough, I probably wouldn't have done that. I'd have probably just rage-quit for a week or a month or so, then went back into it. (Or, maybe, I'd have deleted my save and uninstalled in that situation, too, I don't know. I've quit-deleted-uninstalled other games on an incomplete first playthrough for less.) However, I've already done all that shit before in the previous playthrough (and, fuck, I'd already done all that shit before in this playthrough, too, at least as far as going through all the steps to build and upgrade a Prawn, anyway), and with this setback, I just didn't feel the need or desire to continue.
I was going into the final stretch, like, almost literally the end game (aside from actually leaving the planet). I was in my Cyclops, in the Lava Lakes, around 1300m down. I hopped in my Prawn and went out a short way, then decided to leave the Prawn for a bit to swim back to the Cyclops to grab a few Marblemelons to top off before I went back. Saved the game while I was back in the Cyclops. Then, when I went back out to return to my Prawn... the Prawn was gone. No icon for it either. Just vanished. I don't know if it somehow got destroyed in the 30 seconds or so I was inside my Cyclops or if it just glitched out of existence or what. All I know is that it was gone, and I'd already saved after it was gone, without realizing it was gone.
Then, when I saw that I didn't have enough materials on hand with me to rebuild a Prawn (which in addition to all the materials needed for the Prawn itself, also required building another Mobile Vehicle Bay, a Moonpool in which the MVB could actually function in the underwater cave I was in, a power source for the Moonpool, and a Vehicle Upgrade Console to remake all the various upgrades to the Prawn that I'd made which were also lost), without navigating through the labyrinthine caves all the way back up to the surface again in my Cyclops, I just said "Fuck it," deleted the 20-something hour save, and uninstalled the game.
If this had been my first playthrough, I probably wouldn't have done that. I'd have probably just rage-quit for a week or a month or so, then went back into it. (Or, maybe, I'd have deleted my save and uninstalled in that situation, too, I don't know. I've quit-deleted-uninstalled other games on an incomplete first playthrough for less.) However, I've already done all that shit before in the previous playthrough (and, fuck, I'd already done all that shit before in this playthrough, too, at least as far as going through all the steps to build and upgrade a Prawn, anyway), and with this setback, I just didn't feel the need or desire to continue.
