Michael Subnautica tutorial video had undoubtedly gone viral.
[Successfully Rescuing the Woman in Cabin 2,]
[Subnautica Co-op Method,]
[Playing Subnautica with the World Champion]
[Katie Ledecky, Yusuf Dikeç] these terms all successively trended on X trendings.
It had to be said that Michael's video tutorial instantly resolved the two biggest doubts current players had about Subnautica.
The woman could be saved, and co-op was possible too!
But the problem was, although it was called a tutorial video, it was basically impossible to actually learn from it!!!
Nicolas Cage had obviously realized this point as well. After receiving Michael's @, he immediately posted a X to respond to Michael.
[Pretty well done, and you've also fulfilled one of my wishes. Send me your cashapp, I'll transfer $1,500 to you. I keep my word. But I still have to complain. This difficulty... where am I supposed to find two Olympic champions to carry me?]
Nicolas was indeed quite speechless. It seemed he could only fulfill this obsession in his heart during the second playthrough.
However, it was not a big problem. After all, the game quality was way too high. A second playthrough? He could play six or seven playthroughs and still not get tired at all.
Not only that, Katie Ledecky and Yusuf Dikeç had also posted their own thoughts on X:
Yusuf Dikeç: [Played Subnautica today and instantly fell in love with it. Only now did I realize that game technology has already developed to this level. When I played, it felt like I was truly adventuring on an alien planet. I can only say the game developers at this generation are all really impressive!]
Once this X was posted, the comment section instantly became lively.
On the other side, Katie Ledecky's X presented a completely different scene.
[Subnautica shocked me. I really want to find their game developers to chat about how they perfectly simulated the feeling of swimming in the ocean. It's exactly the same! I'm now considering whether I should recommend this game to the national swimming team!]
Katie Ledecky's words naturally received responses from the vast number of people.
[Recommend it, recommend it!]
[Of course we have to recommend it!]
[Yes, yes, yes!]
[If it really works out, wouldn't New World also be contributing to the olympic team?]
"Contributing to the olympic team is truly an unexpected path." Lucien, who was browsing X, also saw the peoples' comments.
At this time, he had already finished dinner with Jenny and was sitting together with her in a taxi heading home.
If Lucien thought about it carefully, using Subnautica to let the swimming athletes train was completely sufficient. He remembered that the Gaia AI system he had set up was extremely professional in guiding swimming. He wondered how it compared to the national team's coaches.
It was difficult to make a definitive judgment on this, after all, he had never seen the level of the national team coaches.
While he was thinking this, Jenny's chattering voice suddenly rang in his ear.
"Hey hey hey, Lucien, there are so many people under my Weibo, tens of thousands of comments. What are they all saying!"
Jenny had suddenly had a whim, used a VPN to log onto Weibo and take a look, and was then frightened by the tens of thousands of comments in the comment section.
She couldn't understand them, so she hurriedly sought help from Lucien.
Lucien took the phone and looked, scanned several comments, and immediately understood:. "It's nothing big. It's just the foreign players here madly spamming comments, hoping that Gaia AI will support Chinese languages."
At this time, the atmosphere on other countries was similar to the domestic one. Subnautica was the current hottest topic. What domestic players were discussing, foreign players were also discussing the same things.
But Saubnautica had an even bigger problem that had been troubling foreign players all along!
That was the Gaia!
As mentioned before, because Gaia AI could only speak English and only understand English, foreign players fundamentally could not communicate with Gaia!
Therefore, when this group of Chinese saw American players chatting with Gaia AI so freely...
It had to be said that the Chinese players were Jealous. Extremely Jealous!
It was truly all kinds of envy, jealousy, and hatred!
Why such double-standard treatment!
They refused to accept it!
Thus, the Chinese players could only go to the comment section of Subnautica on the Steam platform, as well as under Jenny's Weibo, to strongly voice their complaints about this issue.
Just like the previous time when they demanded multilingual versions of Silent Hill PT, except this time the Chinese had turned into kneeling and begging for Gaia AI to release multilingual voice versions.
"So that's how it is!" Jenny imagined it. If she were playing the game and could not communicate with Gaia the whole way, it would really feel like something was missing. It would probably feel even more terrifying and lonely.
She could more or less understand the foreign players' complaints.
"Then Lucien, will you release the full voice pack for Gaia AI?" Jenny asked again.
"No, it's too troublesome." Lucien shook his head. "Let's just treat this as an exclusive benefit for English speaker players."
The AI voice segment took up quite a lot of game capacity. If he really made a full set of voices for Gaia AI, the file size would probably break through the heavens.
This was just fine!
However, he still needed to respond to this matter. Thinking of this, Lucien picked up Jenny's phone and posted an official update on Steam.
[New World Studio has received the players' feedback. However, due to technical reasons, Gaia's AI can currently only support English voice. Please understand, everyone.]
Once this was posted, the Chinese players had no other options. Since New World Studio lacked the technical power to do full voice support, they could not force them to do it anyway.
Although very unwilling, this matter seemed like it could only be dropped.
"OK, done!"
After replying to the content on Weibo and Steam, Lucien returned the phone to Jenny. Jenny seemed to suddenly remember something.
"Oh right!"
She hurriedly opened the Twitch platform.
"What's wrong?" Lucien asked in confusion.
"I need to check if any streamers have surpassed my game progress in Subnautica. If someone has, I'll pull an all-nighter tonight to catch up!"
"I must ensure that my current game progress is number one among all streamers! That way, more viewers will watch the live stream!"
Jenny answered while her current game plot had already progressed to searching for land. She first quickly browsed around the platform and had not yet discovered any streamer who had successfully reached land.
Only then did she let out a slight sigh of relief.
"Huh, wait a second, Caseoh, that guy Caseoh, HAHAHAHA!" At this moment, Jenny's gaze fell on Caseoh's live stream room, and then she burst out laughing.
"Stop laughing." Lucien frowned.
"Your laugh sounds exactly like an engine that won't start!"
"..."
"You can insult my personality, but you cannot insult my voice!" Hearing this, Jenny immediately flew into a rage. With a whoosh, she flipped over and sat on Lucien thighs in a sitting posture, then used her hands to pinch his neck.
"Stop messing around, stop it, enough enough. I apologize, I apologize, okay!" Lucien hurriedly shouted.
The taxi uncle in the front, who was already half bald, looked at the two of them fooling around in the rearview mirror, and a smile appeared at the corners of his mouth. Recalling his own youthful days.
The two finally had enough of their antics. Lucien touched his reddened neck. "So what exactly did CaseOh do to make you this happy?"
"He didn't do anything." Jenny replied with a smile: "It's just, it's just that he hasn't even left the beginner village yet and is still learning how to swim, HAHAHAHA!"
"..."
CaseOh was actually struggling this much?
But upon careful thought about his body, it was indeed quite normal.
These past two days, CaseOh had been streaming very diligently, basically starting his broadcasts early.
Because he had discovered a serious problem: Subnautica was simply as difficult as ascending to heaven for him.
Now, most streamers had already successfully learned to swim and begun exploring the surrounding environment.
But him? He was still under Gaia's guidance, working hard to learn swimming.
It was really quite embarrassing. But embarrassment was secondary. The main issue was that if this continued, the audience would probably all run away.
After all, who would want to watch a big fatty learning to swim the whole time?
This was also the reason why CaseOh had been starting streams so diligently these days.
"Your Majesty, keep going. You'll master the secret to swimming very soon."
Although CaseOh's learning progress was very slow, Gaia's tone remained gentle.
After training for another half an hour, CaseOh finally felt that he could swim freely in the water.
At the same time, Gaia's voice also came through. "Congratulations, Your Majesty. You have successfully learned how to swim!"
"Oh my god, I finally fucking learned it!" CaseOh let out a strange cry and heavily breathed out a sigh of relief.
He now truly believed that this game could really help him lose weight.
After resting for a while longer, CaseOh began to collect resources. This part was actually quite simple. The powered flippers and underwater propulsor were quickly crafted by him.
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