This comes from someone who enjoyed first Subnautica from the time of early access.

Storytelling is just SOOO bad. You aren't solving mystery here, but trying to cope with all the DRAMA caused by some WOKE culture.
ffs I don't care who sleeps with whom. I don't need to be constantly pointed that this strong independent woman fighting capitalist masculine super corporation on her own. I don't even care what gender is main character. First one was about mystery and survival. This one is about how to not get fed up and uninstall. Oh and a funny thing. Went on a planet to save her sister, not even mentioning her to the "alien", but constantly going into philosophical "oh i am huuuuuman"

The "cold temperature" mechanic had a lot of potential, yet it's hardly developed beyond "oh icebergs are boundaries of the map and you can die out of cold".
New vehicle train can easily stuck and I would love to have seamoth\cyclope as an option.

Honestly, if you haven't played first subnautica go check it out instead.

Don't! Unless you are looking for MMORPG kind of stuff. It's as early access as one can imagine.

First thing that threw me off is graphic settings. Can't find gamma and brightness settings. Without them the game looks like generic MMORPG from 2000s where all the environment is bland as hell and I can't even mask it with lowering gamma.
What else? Water looks like it was taken from premium shelf of your fav supermarket shell. Way too clean. Not even clean, transparent.

Second thing devs couldn't figure out which inventory system they should do "tetris" one or just numbers, so you would have to live with abomination of having both at the same time. Sometimes you see all those squares, next thing you have to input numbers and there is no easy way to just say "ok max it out" or "use the half". Type the number or do the hella lotta of clicks.

After like a 3 years of silence publisher decided to add a 100mb+ launcher instead of fixing actual issues with widescreens.

Updated (6.09.24):
So the game setting is that you should be safe during day in your base. First night ends, some "coilheads" still wanders on my property near the entrance >:( Moreover they seem to be capable to dismantle barricades during day. Cool.........

At least save\load was added.

Old one:
To be honest I expected a little bit more from Early Access. I can't even call it alpha stage, it's pre-alpha.

I like the overall idea which is kinda similar to Darkwood and I can tolerate bad UI choices (e.g. backpack\inventory management), but not releasing the game without even save\load feature.

Glory to Arstotzka, Comrade!
Oy wait! bl*d! Don't shoot, Comrade, I've meant Akarist....