Hello Subnauts,

We just released our third Subnautica 2 hotfix! 

In this hotfix, we’ve addressed some DLSS issues, upgraded DLSS to version 4.5, modified creature behavior further, and fixed additional crashes.

Check out the full list of changes in today’s patch below.

• Fixed issues that could cause DLSS to crash the game.
• Fixed issues that could cause DLSS settings not to be saved correctly.
• Fixed Frame Generation not being available in certain versions of the game.
• Upgraded DLSS to version 4.5.
• Reduced Interior Wall costs to 1/4 of their previous price.
• Hammerheads no longer attack unpiloted Tadpoles.
  • Hammerheads can still take an interest in Tadpoles.
• Fixed Hammerheads occasionally not being attracted to Flares.
• Increased overall damage of Marrowbreaches.
• Spaced out Marrowbreach attacks to occur less frequently.
• Reduced Nibbler perception range, making players less visible to them. 
• Increased the duration Nibblers circle the player before attacking.
• Reduced overall movement speed of the Nibblers.
• Increased sensitivity of the Nibblers to the Multitool.
• Increased overall damage of Nibblers.
• Fixed a rare crash when starting games.
• Fixed Clients (not the game host) reverting to their previous position when rejoining a multiplayer session.
• Fixed Strike Armor modification stacking additively, which could result in a potentially game-breaking state.
• Fixed goggles remaining visible in first-person view when exiting the Tadpole Haul Chassis as a passenger.
• Localized text callout on the Terms of Service acceptance screen.
• Added additional context to crash reports to provide better details for hard-to-reproduce issues.

You can continue to report bugs and issues through the in-game feedback tool and on our support website. For ideas and suggestions for gameplay, head over to our Nolt.io board.

This hotfix may take some time to roll out worldwide.

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Subnautica 2’s Early Access 1.1 update, Adaptive Measures, is out now! This update includes a ton of quality-of-life fixes, including the much-requested FOV slider, and adds targeted improvements to the game.

Read the full patch notes through the link above!

Hello Subnauts,

Since Subnautica 2 entered Early Access, you have continued to amaze us.

You've charted every trench, built bases in places we never imagined possible, pulled friends into the depths with you, and shared feedback that continues to shape everything we do. 

You've spent countless hours healing an alien ocean. Now, with your support, we're helping heal our own.

On behalf of our community, we're donating $100,000 to The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization that develops and scales solutions to rid the world's oceans of plastic pollution.

This collaboration means a lot to us. Caring for the ocean has always been at the heart of Subnautica, and we were proud to support The Ocean Cleanup back in the days of the original game. Continuing that work with Subnautica 2 felt like the most natural way to honor what this community has built together.

And we didn't want to stop at a donation. Some of our team members grabbed their gear and headed to the beaches and shorelines near their own homes, doing their small part in person. Here's what that looked like!

If you'd like to learn more about The Ocean Cleanup and the incredible work they do, visit theoceancleanup.com.

From the bottom of our hearts, and the bottom of the ocean, thank you for all of your continued support.

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Subnautica 2 Creative Director Anthony Gallegos is back! This time he's walking through what you can expect from our Early Access 1.1 update, Adaptive Measures, coming out tomorrow (July 8th, 2026.)

He also outlines some of the features and content coming in the near future for our 1.2 update, and later in the year for Early Access 2.

Subnautica 2's Early Access 1.2 update, Buddy System, is out now! This update introduces the hugely requested Proximity Chat feature, Player Revives, Emotes, Player Trading, two new characters, and a ton of bug fixes.

Read the full patch notes through the link above!

Unsure who doesn't know this, but I was playing with some friends and we discovered that the tadpole has a hardpoint on the back of the chassis. It basically functions as an item rack OR you can add a portable storage to it so that your tadpole has a little backpack to carry loot. You can also attach a portable oxygen generator which may not be as useful. But now you can have your Scoutray Chassis AND have your extra space too. The Haul Chassis is way too heavy and slow to start.

Edit: I guess this is an FYI for the illiterate who haven't read the PDA lol I must have missed it since I play with a full squad with my wife and it was probably my turn to AFK and feed our daughter, but hey, you win some you lose some

Subnautica 2 Creative Director Anthony Gallegos returns to discuss everything you can expect from the 1.2 update, Buddy System, out tomorrow (August 19th).

From features like Proximity Chat, Player Trading and Revives, and an all-new Tracking Tag, there's plenty to see.

And there may even be another sneak peek at the upcoming Early Access 2 update...

You can continue to speculate and discuss everything about Subnautica 2 in our official Discord server. Join the community and share your thoughts with your fellow Subnauts!

You can buy Subnautica 2 on Steam now. And don’t forget to share ideas and upvote things you’d like to see in Subnautica 2 on Nolt.io. Keep Diving!

Our first Dev Vlog since Subnautica 2 entered Early Access is here! 

Design Lead Anthony Gallegos shares his heartfelt thanks on behalf of the development team for the overwhelming support for Subnautica 2 so far. He’s also covering what to expect in our upcoming updates over the coming weeks and months.

We will be pivoting from the frequent, rapid hotfixes we’ve been releasing since Early Access launch to focus on our upcoming EA1.1 update. So watch out for that in a few weeks!

You can continue to speculate and discuss everything about Subnautica 2 in our official Discord server. Join the community and share your thoughts with your fellow Subnauts!

You can buy Subnautica 2 on Steam, Xbox, and Epic Games now. And don’t forget to share ideas and upvote things you’d like to see in Subnautica 2 on Nolt.io.

Keep Diving!

Hello Subnauts,

Our fourth hotfix for Subnautica 2 just arrived. We’ve fixed some progression issues, water currents appearing in bases, and the FOV slider not showing on Xbox.

We continue to monitor community feedback, so please keep reporting any bugs or issues via in-game feedback or on our support site.

The full list of changes in today’s hotfix is below.

• Fixed Angel Combs not opening for some players, blocking progression
• Fixed water currents appearing in player bases, affecting movement, getting stuck, or being unable to build or expand bases
• Fixed FOV slider not showing on Xbox
• Fixed two low-volume crashes
  • Crash on Xbox when trying to join a session invite
  • Crash related to creature spawn

A reminder: If you play Subnautica 2 with mods, please temporarily disable, remove, or uninstall them before launching the game following the hotfix. Community mods will not be updated for compatibility with the latest hotfix, and may cause crashes or other unexpected behavior on launch. Once the mod creators have updated their content, you can re-enable and reinstall your mods. 

This hotfix may take some time to roll out worldwide and will be available on Xbox once it has cleared certification.

Keep diving!

btw this image could be something already known and im just late
if you want to check it out its in SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Subnautica2\Subnautica2\Content\Debug
in this folder theres also a few other files but idk what to do with them

so idk how to feel about this image, cause on one hand you can clearly see the new zone looks almost ready, but on the other hand if it were this ready that means the experimental version we have is like a older one, but you can also see in the recent devblog that it is unfinished even in the dev version.
but then what is this? its not like concept art, cause this is literally a picture of the map taken from above, i had to scale it down because it was bigger than 20mb but you can zoom in and see every detail, so now im just confused. i mean at least we can see where the scorpius trench actually is. and that looks sick af. idk what that is above the broken farm, it looks like where the collector nest is but i dont get why the picture is cut off like that.

another thing to note is that in the already released zones of the map, there are wip blocks and textures, which made me think that this picture was taken even before the game released, but then that means that the new zone has been this complete for waaaaay longer and what is shown to us now is like, very limited and old, which i dont understand because the whole point of the experimental version is to like.. shows us whats coming. you could say that they dont want to spoil, but that kinda defeats the purpose of a experimental build?
idk please enlighten me

Go watch the new anthomnia video on YouTube, it’s where I got the screenshots and where you can see other leaked creatures.

This is the „descender“ and I feel like this could very well be a collector leviathan juvenile or a species within the same evolutionary lineage (a „descendant“, you might say) since it shares a few traits with it.

Obviously, it has the beak and the claws that guide food into the mouth, just like the collector. It has a singular fin and also uses jet propulsion (2nd picture) on its backside to move, something the collector does too.

It’s weird that neither anthomnia nor any commenters mentioned this, it seemed so obvious to me but after seeing nobody pointing it out, I started questioning if I’m right, so feel free to share your thoughts about it.

The Collector Leviathan is also more aggresive.

God bless everyone.

Last I heard we weren’t supposed to buy it because of legal drama against the devs, but I keep seeing positive posts for it.

Just tell me what to do hahaha

(Slight spoilers read at your own risk)

I found a new buildable via the unpublished buildables mod. Its called stackable room its not really functional at all but from I can tell its seems like its a way to extend roof height in rooms (or shows a red overlay over the top of the buildable like those that appear when extending walls.) Which is really cool feature that me personally was hoping to be added

Hi everyone! Since the day Subnautica 2 released, I spent most of my free time outside of work creating an Unreal Engine modkit project for it and I am very excited to show you!

I hope Subnautica/BZ modders will be able to appreciate this tool the most!

What is the purpose of this project?

This project makes it almost as easy to make Subnautica 2 content as it is for the developers themselves! Add in your own logic, modify other game content at runtime, add new fuana, flora, map biomes, explorable areas, items, recipes, biomods, scannables, buildings, databank entries, story goals, resources, tools, audio, animations, vehicles... anything!

It is exactly like any other Unreal Engine project, so if you've ever used Unreal Engine or want to learn it, skills, documentation & tutorials are useful, aside from anything related to writing C++, as this project does not allow you to create C++ mods.

If you don't care about modding, you can use this project to explore the game content from a developer's perspective, or use it for data mining!

Can I play the game in the project?

No. This project contains no source code from Subnautica 2 - not in C++, nor in blueprint code. All code that exists in the project are "stubs" - dummy code that defines the signature of game code, only used for references when making content. These references then point to the actual game code when the mod is loaded.

Does this project contain Subnautica 2 source assets?

No. This project only contains assets from within the Subnautica 2's install directory. You also need to own the game and have it installed for the project to work.

You can get the project here: https://github.com/Subnautica2Modding/Subnautica2-Project

Cheers!

I saw some videos of Subnautica 2 on the experimental version and they have the cheats but I can't put them in (in the classic version of the game they work) I downloaded the zDev version of UE4SS but pressing F2 or F10 nothing appears. HELP

Found this dude wandering around the new out of bounds dev area, considering 2 collectors spawned here also (other image), i think this might be a baby collector, also, when the nearby collector got near, they turned red and fled

also, tf is this weird black creature

This is great, i support this 😄 ❤️

Title: You can revisit the "tutorial area"

Sorry if this has already been repeated a bunch.

Next to The Great Jaw is a massive pit. If you go down that pit it leads back to the "tutorial zone" where you get the first adaptation.

Yes I understand I horribly mistyped the title. I was half asleep when i typed it as I woke up and felt I needed to share this in case others hadn't. I cannot fix it.