This update releases tomorrow (August 19) with the following features (and more):

• Proximity voice chat
  • The further away you get from a buddy, the more radio-like your voice will sound. When you're really, really far away your voice will start breaking up more.
• Emotes
• Inventory sharing, when in proximity of other players.
• player revives (timer based to bring them back to life)
• 2 new characters with 2 new suit colors (more coming in future updates)
• Tracking tag (a short range beacon) to help find things. Ex: You can put it in a container or on your character to easily find inventory after a death.
• Improved HUD icons, icons will be smaller but when focusing on one it will scale up with more information about it.
• Improvements to recipes
• Improvements to base building for when you can or can't build something somewhere.

Subnautica 2’s Early Access 1.1 update, Adaptive Measures, is out now!

4min video featuring Anthony Gallegos (creative director for Subnautica 2):

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.

Official video with 33 minutes of the soundtrack with a visualizer.

Any tips or tricks for co-op? I'm not planning on playing it single player at all, at least for a while.

More details on the official site, here: https://unknownworlds.com/en/news/subnautica-2-early-access-roadmap

::: spoiler Tap for full text from link Subnautica 2 Early Access Roadmap As you all dive into your first thrilling adventures in Subnautica 2, we wanted to share a little bit about our plans for the game over the next few months.

Our plan for Subnautica 2 is to ensure we’re providing our community with regular updates. But not all updates will look the same!

Updates will vary from focused improvements that address systems and smaller features, to hot fixes when needed, and then our larger expansions.

So, as we build towards the next big drop that expands on the world, biomes, creatures, resources, tools, vehicles, and brings you the next chapter of the story, we’ll be planning on adding several improvement updates in the meantime!

The entire dev team has been working hard to put together some great quality-of-life fixes for our first update. This should help adjust and address some areas that need a little tweaking to make your Subnautica 2 experience even better.

And for those of you who have been choosing co-op to adventure together with your friends, we’ve got some requested improvements and additions coming in our second update.

This roadmap is subject to change or adjustment. We want to hear from you, our community, on what we should be looking at while we develop Subnautica 2. Community input is key to shaping the game throughout Early Access!

As you play Subnautica 2, make use of our in-game feedback tool to let us know what you think. Also, head over to our Nolt to leave your suggestions for what you’d like to see next! You can upvote suggestions from the community, which will help us determine what you’d all like to see most.

And, of course, we will continue to roll out bug fixes, balance tuning, optimizations, and other related updates throughout Early Access. We’ll be monitoring your feedback very closely to help guide those ongoing improvements!

Thank you for joining us on the Early Access journey. We’re excited to build the game alongside you all.

Keep diving. :::

Access Subnautica 2's command console to use god mode, unlock all blueprints, craft without resources, and change your FOV.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/64708767

Video Description:

To celebrate the launch of Subnautica 2 into Early Access, we had the incredible opportunity to collaborate with the artist behind LEVIATHAN, a post-apocalyptic Webtoon where beings known as leviathans pose a deadly threat to humanity.

Noh Mi-young combines her distinct artwork and characters with three iconic Subnautica Leviathans, and discusses her thoughts about the Subnautica universe.

Read LEVIATHAN on Naver Webtoon: https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/leviathan/list?title_no=7391

The deadline is May 25th.

Link to verification:
https://store.steampowered.com/verified/1962700/Subnautica_2

The community manager has also mentioned that Subnautica 2 is Handheld Optimized on the ROG Xbox Ally.

Unknown Worlds has announced the exact time across the world that the game will release:
May 14th, 2026 @ 15:00 UTC+0

Discord timestamp (will appear in your local time):
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Discord countdown:
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The final Dev Vlog ahead of the upcoming early access launch.

They show off some system specs and early access release dates/times.

Aryon is the Lead Producer at Unknown Worlds.

As a "True Early Access Release" I would expect a lot of bugs and a lot of crashing to desktop.

::: spoiler Tap for copypasta of the message:

We need to ensure that people understand, this is a True Early Access Release. We anticipate to be working in the game for 2-3 years AFTER early access release. Why? cause that's how we build games. We build foundations and then work with the community to build the game you all want. :::

Announcement from the official discord channel.

Some of the team members have even updated their name to point this out:

Early Access begins May 14.

Video description from YouTube:

A young family begins their life as part of a Mongolian settlement on an alien planet. Uncertainty surrounds them as a not-so-distant threat creeps ever closer.

The first episode in a short-form audio drama series. Voices from Beyond will follow this young family in the Subnautica universe as they navigate an ever-changing world.