I Explored A FORGOTTEN Subnautica Story that got CUT (Below Zero Early Access)
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Hello my friends and welcome to another video! I'm sick in this one but nevertheless, our voyage to explore the cursed and forgotten early access builds of Subnautica continues! Today, with the version of Below Zero none of us got to play to completion! So join me as we venture into the early access build from 2019.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:54 - The story we never saw
03:32 - Precursor Base
04:54 - The Avalanche
05:34 - Exploring the map
06:59 - The Far Lands
08:36 - Marge Base
09:03 - The Rocket
10:17 - Outro
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3:01 For anyone who doesn't know, after scanning the snowman, you can actually build it in your base, at least in the finished build of Below Zero!
Oh that's cool! :)
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i did NOT know this! =)
I do know this and i have it in my snow base (mini base in snow area for helping me search it sorta like what Sam and her friends were doing)
Maaaan, I still think they should have kept the old story. I loved the development arc between Robin and AL-AN, where he was distrustful and hostile towards her but later befriends her the more they talk to each other. Don't get me wrong, I love AL-AN in the current story, and his situation was not a good one so he had no other option, but I would still be untrustful of the person I hitched a ride on because I don't know them and I don't know if they would turn against me and tell their peers what happened, even if they told me they weren't actually with the organization that made their equipment, I wouldn't trust 'em at the beginning
And, the interaction between AL-AN and Robin in the fabrication facility in the old story was really nice, it shows how far they've come from being "enemies" to sort of friends. If they had managed to keep the old story and mix it with the current one, that would've been awesome
Yeah I also think it's a shame we never got to see any of this developed further :)
I was really been curious to see how the original storyline would've gone with Jeffreys. He could've been used as an enemy or a secret ally to AL-AN fighting like Maida does against Alterra in the finished storyline. I was really excited at the idea that you'd have to be sneaky with what you did because the higher-ups would be above you watching from the Vesper. So many lost possibilities :(
I'm honestly glad they changed it. Robin was really dumb in the original version. Al-an is going "I'm literally going to kill you" and she's all "Oooh, what does this button do? I'm gonna push it, lol!" And then is surprised when something happens. So frikkin' dumb.
Remember that concept art with the cyclops in that glacial trench? That had me hyped that we would eventually get to go super inland into sector zero! Ah, what could (and honestly should) have been...
Yesss totally! Having like rivers and canyons would be so cool! :)
A bit of a fun fact: that deep icy cave network you found is called the methane ice caves, a biome i wish wasn't cut.
Ooh nice! :)
They used to have a Meth cave?!
@@Johanimate I mean it certainly looked like Walter whites magnum opus.
Methane is farts 💀 it would be methamphetamine lmao
glad to see i'm not the only one who knows about the methane ice caves
Watching this brings back memories of every UA-camr playing the early access then forgetting about it. Thanks mate!
Really takes me back :) Good times!
was that youtuber coryxkenshin?
@@mikeypugh8279 No it was every u tuber in existence
@@mr.noblemuffin6532 oh cause cory did that
@@mikeypugh8279 everyone played the early access so hyped for the game then forgot it. sed
if i remember correctly, in a few versions before the new story was put in, there was a button under the shield base that triggered the entire ending sequence of the original story
might be cool to check that out again
Oh I believe you're right! Dang now I gotta find that one :D
Can I see this anywhere? I can't find anything about it online.
@@TheLastBacon Sadly that button didn't work. it doesn't actually trigger it
Yeah when it was pressed it said something like “VESPER EXPLODES AND END CREDITS START”
I did some digging and struck *GOLD*
there was a rough cut of the ending before the original writer left.
Essentially what happened was, we disable the shield, the vesper apparently explodes for no reason, we immediately went into Alan’s space ship, just before we got to the phase-gate Jeff comes out of nowhere in a literal warship (dont ask me I have no clue) there was some placeholder “censored for early access” dialogue between Alan and jeff, then marg comes out of nowhere and lands on jeffs ship attacking it and making it fall a few feet,
Alan’s ship moves towards the phase gate but the warship moves back into position to block us, marg is gone (presumably inside the warship) there is some more censored dialogue and the ship flies away (backing up the theory that marg took over the warship) then Alan’s ship flys into the phasegate and the screen goes black.
I’ll get the video link and edit it into this comment if I can find it for you…
Ok found it, heres the video of the ending ua-cam.com/video/5vMwyca-FMM/v-deo.html
Theres also a video of marg giving you the white tablet: ua-cam.com/video/UJLSdbFslao/v-deo.html
Enjoy!
Holy moly that's pretty crazy! Amazing find thought! :)
Ooooooooo
Whoa
That’s insane. I do remember the giant shield around the planet I’m sad it was cut.
This would have made marg more relevant to the story given that the official explains how she survived but makes her seen as a bad person to not trust as much as Alterra on this planet given her attacks on Alterra facilities killing a good chunk of the staff including Sam to a extent with the idea of the explosives. This makes her seem more open in helping you and Alan so that Alterra doesn't get it's hands on power they would never understand let alone control.
After seeing the opening scenes for early release… I was *super* disappointed when I started up the game for the first time 🙁
I wish they didn’t try to force an “all alone survivor” scenario.. it’s okay to evolve a series.. having a friendly NPC chatting with you over the radio and sending you goodies and directions.. instead I’m stuck chatting with a voice in my head once in a blue moon, Y’know, just whenever they finally decide to speak up about something… and the rest of the time I’m just all on my own again.
Yeah I also really liked this opening! :)
That reminds me of Neebs Gaming's playthrough of both Subnauticas. They played different characters. One was the player character in the game, and the others w|re a bunch of idiot Altera employees that he would talk to.
I justs started it and i expected it to be like this, i didnt know they changed everything
I abandoned the game when they moved away from this story. This is the game I wanted, not what they changed it to.
I remember this version of Below Zero. It was really disappointing to find out there was nothing in the giant precursor outpost. Hope you feel better soon!
Thank you! Yeah I remember just wanting to be able to explore more :)
Hope you feel better soon! Good on you for pushing through even though you’re not feeling well.
Thank you very much :)
This makes me miss the old story, I remember being so hyped to check out every update
Yeah I kinda miss it too :)
Me too!
I'm still bitter they've changed the story :( I loved it so much.
It was a solid start yeah :)
Personally Subnautica below zero still feels rushed to me it feels like a lot of stuff is missing or even incomplete now after full release
Yeah the development certainly wasn't smooth :)
I have the same feeling, it’s story is almost completely different so it is like a new game, yet the game’s story is so short that it doesn’t feel like it’s own game.
Yeah, the original version was way more ambitious, and, well, original.
@@arcusal3744 not to mention the reused assets from the original lol
@@ShinyDracovish oh yes absolutely
From what I remember there were like 2 cut stories here:
1st was that u help alan and he blows up the wesper station (or something like that)
2nd (the one that was added little before they started testing the one we got in the finished product) jeffrey is in the moutain base and activated the planet shield because he wants to own the cure to the karar bacteria wich he wants to use to be the richest man in the world and he also destroid all enzyme-42 on wesper and put in some karar infested stuff on board of the wesper as his first step in becoming rich....
Huh that's super interesting actually :) I remember never following up on the story too much before the game was reworked.
Wow, that is trully interesting. I remember that original storyline has way more characters and their interactions, than release. Maybe, you'll want to try to recover this storyline using later builds of early access in future)
Also, I hope you'll get well soon!
Thank you kindly :) And yeah I'll definitely check out more of the early builds!
i ended up getting below zero about a week ago and was so confused about the opening lol, was so used to this one
Yeah it has sure changed a lot :)
Just thought I’d mention that deep cave you thought was crystal caverns was going to be the ice dragon cave (also probably expanded) if i remember correctly I recommend going on the scraped content section of the wiki and trying to find the things in the scraped stuff next episode
Huh interesting :) Didn't know that was a planned thing!
i still prefer this old story than the current one
There was something to it :)
Yea , also the sheild thingi was pretty cool
@@TheLastBacon the frozen leviathan was originally suppose to be underwater in an ice wall so its like that that in early access build
Me as well!! But the new one is alright.
4:50 i played that version in surrvival and thought "lets explore some land" then somehow clipped myy way up some walls and was at that base. just outside. then i fell beside the elevator like that, but in survival. Then i had to jump around there until i died of thirst.
Sounds like you REALLY explored some land :)
I just played below Zero on the Switch for the first time and since the begining I was wondering: "Now this is different you don't start in that base that gets crushed by snow", and until the end game I just found said base and was like "Wow they really changed it" haha
Seeing this video reminded me of the time I played one of these early releases and kinda disliked it, now that I played the entire game I liked it, not as much as the first one but still, it was a good experience.
Keep up the good work and hope you feel better soon, I've been watching your past vids and really had a nice time learning more and more about these fabolous games. Cheers :D
Yeah I think overall they did a great job with the rework :) I still wonder what the plan with this story was though.
Yo this is super nostalgic to watch. I remember when I saw 8-bitryan play this version and damn, it was pretty cool.
Also fun fact: the far lands in Below Zero still remain but in a much smaller form. They can be found in the void in the form of small pillars and Flat plains.
Oh I should try to explore the far lands in the latest builds then! :)
I remember the old voice actor. Its kinda sad that her voicelines didn’t make the final cut because they were pretty good. But the new story and new voicelines is very good, I might even consider it better than the old one(obviously)
Yeah I really liked the old voiceactor as well! :)
I think at 600m near Marguerits Base was a giant cube like room. Also you could find a Red Glowing Raw Precursor Facility at 700m
Oh dang I should look for those :D
i miss this version so so much. there are so ways the story could've gone. i feel like they pushed the lone survivor storyline because it was a massive staple to the first game. don't get me wrong, i love the story of the first game, but here it just feels so much more natural for there to be other people with you.
what you said about this being what sam experienced is a super cool take on it though. minus the al-an stuff, it's pretty neat to think that this was what she went through.
bleh, this got rambly. i just wish the final release had kept this story, it makes my inner writer sad to see it trashed :(
Yeah I was also very curious about this version of the story :)
seeing that picture with everyone and riley made me wish that riley appeared in below zero somehow. maybe that, for riley to pay his debt, he was made to work on 4546B and research and whatnot
Ikr! That would've been so cool! :)
you are my all time fav yter and i used to watch u but forgot the name of the channel but all i remembered is that i absolutly loved ur content so thanks for the amazing content
Thank you very kindly! :) Really appreciate it!
I remember there was a sea emperor in the first few versions (and many of the first Subnautica creatures too, such as the stalker, boneshark, i think the crashfish, tho im not sure) i checked if it got updated every week, i was really hyped and had really high expectations (i even thought it would be better than the original) and im kinda sad they removed everything, but at least we got an improved base building system (only reason i kept playing after finishing the game)
Yeah I remember all the theories we had about those emperors :) Good times…
Honestly, there's not much to the first build of SBZ, they took a bunch of assets, systems, and routines from the first game and built a new world that used them.
What really impresses me is how fast they were able to build the layout. Assets like the elevator can be plunked down, but laying out the depth of the twisty bridges is something that probably had to be done by hand.
Yeah plus some pretty grand stuff like the animation of the base being swept away :)
Epic video! Also, hope you feel better. I am playing No Mans Sky now and it’s so cool. This is so cool to see that there was a different story that was cut before the final release.
That’s awesome! I need to get back to that game! :)
I hope you get better soon and i love ur vids!
Thank you kindly :)
1:03 gotta love the sound of someone's back snapping like a twig 😆
Haha a little disturbing :)
9:14 I know I am a bit late but what I think happened was as the devs updated the game the sea emperors got more and more broken and the devs eventually decided that instead of fixing them they would remove them
Maybe you're right :)
The fact that the bridges at the start kinda looks like the OG Subnautuca Reafback Leviathan legs is hilarious tbh, ngl-
Haha good point yep :D
How funny that this is first story in this game i ever saw. So i were guessing where is this place, and why we start somewhere
Yeah it was what I saw at the start too :)
9:04 I really miss them, when I first saw it on the early access I thought maybe we will get it in the finished build..
I really wonder why they got cut :)
i was watching this right when i was sick
very good timing
Haha perfect :D
Thanks for getting into mine and nearly everyone's request here. ( I have actually started playing Subnautica BZ again after almost one year and it is stoll so much fun!) I actually had to skip trough a few sections since I have never actually finished the game in my first playtrough, but I hope I'll finiyh it soon. For now get well and buy gold! (Lol)
Thank you! :) And luckily the story got reworked - so I don’t think there are any spoilers here.
9:58 rocket:d u p l i c a t e
Yep :D
The far lands having skeleton remains makes it 10x scarier
Yeah right? What a freaky place :)
I really needed a video from bacon today, and here it is🔥💪 also I’m sorry to hear that ur sick, just keep on doing what ur doing, awesome work❤️
Thank you kindly :) And I'm already getting better!
@@TheLastBacon so glad to hear that🙌
I bought below zero in early access and I remember all of this so well ahh good times
Good times! :)
BROOO that beginning is genuinely SO cool, I'm actually kinda sad it wasn't in the full game. The beginning of the full game isn't bad, it's just kinda quick and not as cool
Yeah the avalanche was amazing! :)
well I started playing later (and only a little before the story rework) but thanks to videos and the wiki I can tell you a lot: the base you found in the scrabed biome was indeed margs who stole one of the parts for AL-AN's body. the test fish skeli was used as a frolo placeholder indeed (you should be able to find some creatures from subnautica as one as well)
Oh nice! :) I didn't know about that Marg/Al-An story!
imagine the menu screen of subnautica "where its above water" would be the game running in the background and fish could swim wherever new players seing a reapers tail would be the most hilarious thing ever
I like the idea :)
I hated not being able to play Subnautica Early Access so when I heard Below Zeros release date for early access I immediately waited out the clock until the first hour it came out and bought it. I had a blast with the story back then and loved exploring he biomes and in my personal opinion the Lilies pad islands were much better before then after. I small change to the game was near the island instead of the Cyr Monsters their was Bonesharks which is an uncommon fact that people forget about early access
Yeah same :) It was so much fun to follow the game's development!
“Now, what kind of monster would you have to be to do that?”
*destroys the penguin regardless*
Average bacon moment :)
3:00 the last bacon: now what kind of monster would do that? the last bacon:*DESTROY'S SNOWMAN*
Yep :D
3:24 I totally remember when the precursors used the alterra keypad for their gates.
Good times haha :D
aw, i remember when you could straight up live on the "broken" bases in delta station!
Good times :D
It's been awhile since I seen your content. Glad to see you are still uploading
Welcome back :)
Sickness sucks. Hope ya get better. Seems as if nowadays so many UA-camrs more often get sick so be careful
Thank you kindly! :) Getting better already!
8:02 that's where Saitama and genos sparred
Haha sure looks like it :)
this took me back when i originally got below 0 way back when it first dropped in early access
Same :) Good ol’ times!
Wow been forever since I’ve last seen this channel
Welcome back :)
bit late but the skeleton was probably not used because of how similar it would look to the skeleton of the gargantuan leviathan in the first game. probably why they just put it in a giant ice block.
Yeah probably :)
Hope you get better soon and I’ll have to play this early access version
Thank you very much! :)
Subnautica: Below Zero - "Die Peacefully" starts a bit like al-an when he is found
Yep exactly :)
Sick bacon is chill bacon. I like the vibe.
Haha it was a very chilly vid ;)
5:45 I would just draw my eyes to the bottom left hand side of the screen to find that the temp bar is missing.
It was indeed! :)
As I remembered correctly in Deep Lily Pads in early access were mushrooms from the original subnautuca
Oh I believe you're right :)
4:44 “i do wonder why they made so small in the fin-“
*clips through wall*
“Ok… that is- um”
Haha yep :D
@@TheLastBacon i love your vids now, and to think i found it when looking through youtube shorts and saw a subnautica one that showed the farlands which then i searched up and found your amazing channel
1:42 seeing how Ryley has streak of blue hair gave me an idea for multiplayer, and that the color could change for each player if they all use the same model, like in the multiplayer mod you reviewed in a previous video
I love that idea! :)
I played the 2019 BZ and i remember the rocket sequence! Really fascinating!!
Good times! :)
Hi bacon, thanks for keep uploading. Hope you get better soon!
Thank YOU for watching! :)
Feel better soon Bacon! (And if your sickness gets worse please take a break! We will all be waiting in our Seamoths for you! Take care.♡)
Thank you kindly! :) I got better quickly luckily!
Before the new story came in and after building alan, he quarantines the whole planet with green type of shield. So sad we never got to see whats that all about
That would be so sick to see fully realized :)
@@TheLastBacon i think it was accessible in version 2020 feb 24283? im not so sure its been a long time :D idk if that version even exist or not
edit: it happens when you try to shoot the rocket
Ohh booyyy! I think thats exactly the version I played before it got into full release 1.0 :D
Oh nice! :)
I really like that a song featuring the original Al-An voicelines found its way into the final game. They are so intimidating.
Yeah like why tf does he just randomly say die peacefully
Yeah some of Al-An's voicelines are kinda weird :D
The last bacon has finally turned into Thinknoodles again
Haha full circle :D
God bless you feel better! 🙏
Thank you kindly :)
My favorite UA-camr is back
Yay thank you kindly! :)
"I'm not gonna lie" *cough. cough* "-I'm dying"
Oof :D
Bacons feeling a little greasy
Haha yeah no kidding :)
I did this just yesterday(exploring an early EA build of the game), and that giant fish skeleton scared the everliving crap out of me!! Not only is it freaky and I didn't expect it at all, but it also loaded in very suddenly, almost got a heart attack 😅 so scary!!
Haha yeah it caught me off guard as well! :)
Man, it seems like all the youtubers I've been fallowing have gotten sick lately. Get well soon Bacon.
Ikr? Something seems to be going around :) Thank you!
It’s crazy how much the story changed
Yep totally! :)
That's super cool! Also, get well soon! :)
Thank you very much :)
Imagine they make an extension where you can play Sam before the events of Robin
Love the idea! :)
9:07
What?
I thought I could recall seeing sea emperors in Below Zero‘s full release
Yeah during early access :) They have since been cut…
Dident expect theeta to be the frozen leviathan
Me neither :)
1:40 the girl on the right shows up in a couple of lockers in subnautica (and maybe below zero)
True :)
Oh my, I remember this. I miss this start! :(
Good times :)
What’s funny is I remember playing this build or one close to it that was available on Xbox Game Preview.
Then I purchased the game and was a bit upset they changed the story, what’s worse is no one believed me when I said there was a different story than what we were given.
Yeah it’s kinda crazy how drastically the story changed :)
I bought it the week early access came out and I went as far as you could in early access in survival mode. I remember finding the baby sea emperor and thinking how it was cool that one swam all the way over there, and needing to put some sample in the rocket and then launching it. I also remember finding Marge's unfinished base and finding that orange tablet, I remember you just waking up and turning off the alarm and the story being about finding your roommate instead of investigating Sam's death. Sam was alive and would like yell your name through a call thing if you died. I remember finding that big leviathan skeleton in the ice. I think I remember Alan actually didn't want to be in head at all and him trying to trap you in the facility. I also remember that it was weird because it would usually work perfectly fine, but if I went to certain spots it would just crash for some reason. I remember I would keep track of the updates and looked at this things of their todo list. Then, I didn't keep up with it for a while and then when I came back, it was the current story and completely different.
Yeah you were one of the OGs then :) I remember playing this version as well when it first came out!
Early access Below Zero my beloved! Aw man, I really enjoyed the original plot, and Robin's whole personality and interactions with Al-An. "Alien in my brain? ...COOL!"
I guess they gave the whole rebelling against Alterra bit to Sam, and their interactions here are very different, but man that first plot was so cool.
Yup, the old skeleton was a placeholder for the Frozen Leviathan. Even more fun, the placeholders for Al-An's body parts? The alien building block thing from the PCF, and the rifle and the doomsday device from the QEP!
Oh damn, yeah, it really does have vibes of playing as Sam. Time travel! The rocket was originally used to send up stuff to the Vesper, ranging from biomarker samples to the Emperor enzymes to, uh, a fresh Kharaa sample, which of course they had TOTALLY innocent intentions for...
Hope you feel better soon!
Thank you! Yeah I really liked this opening as well! :)
I remember in Early Access being told to take a wiring kit and scrap metal to the tower to fix it. Of course this was before any of the ship parts were fully even in the game.
Yep! Good times :)
i miss the old dialogue between robin and al-an it had a lot of charm :( i wish they brought it over to final release
Yeah it was really nice! :)
i like listening to ur videos while drawing, painting, act ;D !
ect* lol
Yay amazing thank you :)
the low poly ice are was actually used for testing the snow fox,i remember teleporting in there wih a goto command and playing around with the snowfox and the jumping module lol
Oh that makes sense :)
I love the history of these games
Same! :)
Boy am i tired. Had a long work shift. We had 16 orders of big ass cakes, that was not very CRISPY! But the feeling you get when you get home and see CRISPY boy here has uploaded again, cant beat it. How CRISPY!
Yay thank you kindly! And well done at work - sounds like a tough day! :)
I hope you get better soon bacon nobody likes being sick and I don't think you do either
I definitely don't :) Thank you!
Interesting, she talks with sam in the beginning, looks like the story changed a lot^^
Now I need a video showing the old story ;P
Yeah absolutely! The story was waaaay different :)
Honestly I prefer the old story. Bz story wasn't horrendous but the fact that she goes there willingly and can leave at pretty much any time kinda kills the whole stranded vibe of subnautica. Was more intense and purposeful that she was a researcher there and got trapped. I guess it had to be changed to suit new development changes or something.
I just really liked the mysterious vibe this opening gave :)
I would love a DLC with this storyline
Same! :)
man i remember this like it was yesterday, the game felt so much creepier without all the stuff in the game!
Yeah it really feels like it JUST happened :)
I still remember when i screamed like a little girl when the rocks fell :)
Haha understandable :)
@@TheLastBacon definitely
I bought BZ on the day it published and this video brings back memories... Holy god
Ikr! Really takes me back too :)
I remember one of the early access storylines ending in that other guy we researched with activating a giant planetary ion shield to isolate us. I am still so curious where that would have gone
Right? I’m very curious about the ending of that one :)
Everything from this version just seens better, the VA, the story, the areas. No idea why they changed it
Probably when they changed the writer :)
@@TheLastBacon ah right, i forgot they did that