i have spent so much time in the early access Subautica, it felt so mysterios and otherworldly. i never thought about liminal space back then, but man is that a good word to use to describe it. so creepy. i also remember finding a human model in the middle of the old lava zone that scared me. felt so creepy.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yeah it's just something about the endless walls with the same repeating texture which drop off into the abyss that really get to me :)

@zinc2zinc2

5 ай бұрын

@TheLastBacon that too! The finished subnautica feels more natural and earthlike. But the endless oceans, the strange terrain and drop offs to the void in the early access feels so alien like!

@earsaurus8215

5 ай бұрын

@@zinc2zinc2 I mean it is kinda alien like, it’s litterly an alien planet, but yeah I agree

I don't think the hellhole was removed so much as moved elsewhere. It's the precursor to the mountain pass that leads to the Lost River and the lava zones. Though I do think that even littered with reaper bones, the translucent life of the river and the destroyed precursor facility, the early access one retains a more eerie feeling - the same one the void has before the ghost leviathans were added - because you know you're not meant to be there.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yeah that is a good point :)

@Trainboi1983

Ай бұрын

HOW MANY LOST RIVER ENTERANCES ARE THERE?!?!

@ultmateragnarok8376

Ай бұрын

@@Trainboi1983 Six, technically. Two from the lava zone, one of which leads to the cove tree and the other to the pit in the pass to the mountains, and four to surface or near-surface cave biomes - two to the blood kelp zones, one to the deep grand reef, and one to the border between the moutains and bulb zone. The lost river spans most of the crater in size, hence its own distinct internal biomes.

Early access subnautica was the stuff of nightmares, I’ve been jumpscared by the player models too many times 😭

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Same haha :D

@Animator07.10

5 ай бұрын

Ну ваще не говори, is the nightmare

Man, I still remember watching people play these versions back in like 2014. It seemed so cool and mysterious. I remember having the same feeling when I bought BZ in early access, but unfortunately, same as with original Subnautica, it never lived up to it's full potential.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Right?! I really miss those days :)

@chadofchads7222

5 ай бұрын

What? You really think subnautica didn't live up to it's potential? The only reason I can think you'd say that is the missing multiplayer, wich granted, would make it way better, but it's still an incredible game

@TrillionDeTurtle

5 ай бұрын

same man, BZ's old story could have had a lot of potential and i just liked it bc it was during lockdown it was the newest game i'd bought

@Krajenda

5 ай бұрын

@@chadofchads7222 I agree, it's incredible, but there were many conceptualized mechanics, biomes and creatures that just never made it in.

@ASlickNamedPimpback

5 ай бұрын

​@@chadofchads7222 BZ he means i imagine

Growing up with this Subnautica was wild, makes me really nostalgic to see it again. You can spawn lava lizards and lava larva by the way

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely :) Good times!

@connorbninja4696

5 ай бұрын

Has the creepy pasta come back no not again

I'm actually really glad that we have the choice to roll back the versions of steam subnautica so we can go through the journey of the games development and all the spooky stuff included with each update all the way to its full release

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely :) It's so much fun to explore!

The hell hole and other easter eggs like the void spikes in the Prototypes or the far lands are all so interesting to me.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Same here! :)

Looking at the lava castle in this build is insane. Like there is a giant cave rn next to it and massive bodies of water afterwards. Definitely more true to the original concept arts of the lava zone! Both work well but i prefer the old against the new because of the massive space. (Probably better for the sea dragon AI and maybe an explanation on why there a seamoth attack animation in the first place.)

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yeah exactly :) It looks so imposing in this build!

Anyone else remember when jacksepticeye dug through the earth to follow a signal just to stumble upon the inactive lava zone, man good times.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Takes me back! :)

The open locker was a thing in a lot of early subnautica builds iirc. I figured it was just decorative. I think this was just before the devs actively made getting into "spoiler" areas impossible. Hence why the route I mentioned in the previous video didn't actually go anywhere.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Right that makes sense yeah :)

I remember watching youtubers play back when the “farlands” and “hell hole” were still in the game, the game continued getting updated and it really felt like people forgot about them, love the attention to detail in your videos, keep it up!

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly! Yeah this really takes me back to a different time :)

Great video my guy, keep up the good work :)

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly! :)

As always, I love your videos. They bring back a lot of nostalgia of playing the game with my little brother when he was in middleschool. And of course, with the nostalgia comes the absolute terror I felt/feel playing it hahaha.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Thank you very kindly! :) Every good piece of nostalgia comes with terror!

Thanks for revisiting old subnautica early access builds, this is such a nostalgia trip for me since these were my introduction to subnautica, I'm almost tempted to go back to them myself for funsies but you are clearly a braver man than I am Also, this makes me think about the concept of a game in which you have to go back to early access builds to unravel misteries, something like saved games are compatible but the deeper you go, the creepier it gets kinda? I dunno, maybe someday someone will read this comment and make something or maybe someone is already working on it or maybe it already exists, I dunno

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

I feel the same :) This really takes me back to my earliest days with the game - felt so spooky and mysterious back then!

I Sometimes enjoy early access more than the finished game. Something more terrifying and mysterious about it. Darker, more minimalistic and just all around a better game sometimes.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Same here! Also makes you appreciate the finished game that much more :)

I’m gonna have to check out some of this! Great Video :D

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

You really should! :) Thank u!

I remember this version, I played on it a lot along with the Aurora update. Man, this one was such a classic

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

You're one of the OGs! :)

look i know it would be a huge undertaking but the way you keep on making references to the creepy pasta and just the overall horror of these builds gave me the idea that you could work the creepy pasta story into your videos slowly breaking the fourth wall almost like an ARG i know it probably won't happen but it's a cool idea and it would be a shame if i didn't suggest it.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Now that's an excellent idea! :) Love it!

Great video! I always look forward to em!

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly! :)

Super glad you're doing more of this stuff. Watching your vids of the early access versions really feels like revisiting an old dream that I'd mostly forgotten. Love it! Quick edit: I remember building a base right at the edge of ~the hellhole~, and didn't explore it until after I'd finished the base. What a time that was...

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly :) Playing these versions really takes me back too!

Always posting some fire content Bacon!

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yay thank you! :)

the lava castle really gave me the creeps, especially in the early versions.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yeah it looks so imposing :)

Yay more more spoopy early access. This is my 2nd favorite series right after the lore videos. Hey bacon, I know this is asking a lot but if you could make an updated version below zero lore vids, I understand it's a lot of effort and if you don't have the time or want to do it, that's perfectly fine. The content you make is always fun to watch and inspires me to try out new things in subnautica.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Maybe once we finish the early access series! :)

I can’t wait to watch the late 2015 patch! That’s when Thinknoodles started playing _Subnautica,_ and his play through is what introduced me to this wonderful game!

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Ooh that's gonna be fun! :)

I honestly think they should have kept this sort of liminal/uncanny feeling (even tho it was very likely not on purpose on the early access). It would r e a l l y add to the horror and loneliness feeling of the game, no matter how many times you've finished the game, there would always be this weird feeling to it...

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yeah honestly it would be awesome to see an underwater game built around liminal spaces like this :)

I saw your video about subnautica and I never used to have subnautica but i am good because of you I started playing in 2021

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yay that’s awesome :)

I seem to remember Markiplier finding a version of the Hellhole early in his playthrough back in the day, and discovering a T-posing Riley model just standing directly in the middle of the cavern. I was hoping to see it in this video, but it might've been a different version of the game.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

I really want to find the player model!! :)

i love your videos, keep it up. And yea i know you hear it a lot, but you're awesome youtuber ❤❤

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

I still really appreciate it :) Thank you kindly!

for me it's a pity that there are no such tunnels to the lava biome, that it used to be through crashzone through deepgrand and dunes, because if it were, it could explain the story of reaper leviathan, how he got there, because it suited me, and because he passed through deepgran and lostriver, I don't think so like he really got it and with those tunnels they could explain the leviathan reaper skeleton

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I guess there are some lost river entrances that are kinda similar? Just more narrow :)

No way i watched ur creepypasta AND the first par and this came out 6 mins ago, what a conicidence

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Perfect timing :D

I love seeing these early builds of Subnautica. It gives us a glimpse of what the game used to be and what some things could have been if the idea stuck. The early builds do give that creepy vibe, as they seem empty and lifeless…

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Same! Super cool to explore these :)

ur one of the best youtubers keep up

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly! :)

2:55. That structue VERY MUCH looks like a demo course for testing out the walking on narrow sections/jumping test course.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Oh yeah maybe :)

Always shivering my timbers when i see the deep abyss and barren lands of subnautica

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Right there with you :)

Finally a new video!

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

At last :)

Nice new video 🎉

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yay :)

2:54 , my theory is that it’s a dug up patch of land from when the aurora crashed. And it could also be a little dev chest so they could access materials to bug test.

@TheLastBacon

4 ай бұрын

Love the idea :)

Nice! I love it!

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! :)

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@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

That is freaking awesome :)

another banger ty

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! :)

you're really someone amazing dont forget that

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

So are you guys! :) Thank you kindly!

Woohoo, another video!

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Wooo :)

Thank you for finally looking at the hell, hole. I feel like they should have kept in, also on the way down to the hell hole and the lava zone its self was horrifying in the early game because theire was no noise no red glow witch made it horrifying, and fun fact the hell hole was in the game updates way after this, I think about halfway to the release but I'll have to look

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yeah it is definitely a creepy way to get down there :)

these early access builds are surprisingly good compared to some other games

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yeah true I've seen way worse in early access :)

I remember i was 11 years old and i started playing subnautica at night because i was bored and i thought it was boreing and a few days later i join back and actualy play and now its my favorite game of all time.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Glad you eventually started to enjoy it! :)

I love the horror videos! Just really scary to think that coding in old versions of games could go wrong in many scary ways…

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Really glad you like these :) Totally agree!

YEAHHHH WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I LOVE THESE KINDS OF VIDEOS KEEP DOING THEM THEY ARE MY LIFE BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Haha glad you like them! :)

I remembered exploring the hellhole it had a very unique texture was really cool and scary at the same time

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s such a strange area :)

Holy (crap) dude i want to see a mod for a special leviathan in the early access that lurks and shocks but attacks when you are not ready i bet it will be scarier then every horror game or 2020-2023 combined

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Would be so cool :D

@AradhanaSingh-jn4oy

5 ай бұрын

@@TheLastBacon but I can't do that

Whats your favorite biome to build a base?

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Usually the lost river - around the ghost tree :)

@woofiwoofi6506

5 ай бұрын

​@@TheLastBaconi just today in my 2nd playtrough build a base there lmao

Spooky vid and I Remeber just looking down from the floating island and just seeing the dark fog under me it was scary I told my friend taht there is a ghost levithan right under there too lol

@colegamerkid4028

5 ай бұрын

There’s more then just 1 buddy

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yeah it's scary looking down from there :)

"We're not even that deep yet" 666 Meters:So you found me?

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Sus :D

Im very curious as to how you got this version, and if there is any hopes of me getting it as well, either way, love your videos.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

I got it from SteamDB :) You can use the Steam console to download the older builds from there.

@ozias_is_also_ness

5 ай бұрын

@@TheLastBacon oh ok, thanks.

@soypobre123

5 ай бұрын

​@@ozias_is_also_ness you need the Oficial Game Purchased For do it

another cool video

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Thank u! :)

When i played subnautica and didnt played it like 2 days i had dreams while sleeping about subnautica

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Good dreams or nightmares? :)

Yaaay more bacon. My absolute favourite. Btw I will from now on continue commenting on every video.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yay thank you, really appreciate that! :)

Early access subnautica was something different

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

It sure was :)

The fact that I immediately got that Hell Hole reference

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

You’re a veteran! :)

I actually pretty good to see what subnautica looked like before it was finished especially the ,,Hell-Hole'' since i've never heard about it before.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yeah it's super cool to look at :)

2:20 this is a sign the creepypasta is already in all of your early access and its trying to keep you from something under the map 😦

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Haha that's what I was thinking :)

I remember playing Subnautica way back in these days. I believe I got it when the Terraformer had just been added, and watching people discover it for the first time after the full 1.0 release was such a treat. I still remember a specific bug I reported twice during EA and it got patched a few days after the second report (I can't imagine I was the only one reporting it so I'm not taking any credit for that patch lol)

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Oh that's awesome! You're one of the true OGs then! :)

This is the version that made me discover the game and actually pay an early access for the very first time. I'm glad to see how big the franchise is now, but i'm waaaaaaay too scared to actually play lol. So much nostalgia in this vid !

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

These builds really take me back too! :)

I keep trying to beat Subnautica on Hardcore but every time I enter a cave, 10 crashfish think they’re funny

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Haha freaking hate those things :)

@soypobre123

5 ай бұрын

Bro Subnautica Hardcore Isnt That Hard ☠️

@helpkirbyhasagun_2047

5 ай бұрын

@@soypobre123 Its not hard, i am just dumb and blindly run into danger lmao

"A fatal error occured: it's too scary, man"

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Exactly :)

Man, I remember the day I found the hellhole, without ever watching any subnautica content or anything, I just knew what I discovered by myself and thats all, and finding that huge hole with occasional lava and absolutely empy besides a few of that green bioluminescent fish/insects (I dont remember their name, but they look like... neon shrimps?), it was SO terrifying, usually I just close the game when I feel too scared (yes i'm a crybaby judge me for it), but with subnautica.... I always was scared but also curious, I wanted to see where that leaded, what was waiting me down there, specially since I didnt even thought about the possibility of it being just an unfinished area, for me, that was truly a biome, an empty and eerie biome

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Must've been terrifying to find it without prior knowledge and not knowing what to expect :)

Maybe the hellhole is precursor to lost river biome entereance found in even newest builds of the game in bulb zone

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yeah kinda! :)

WHAT WAS BRO DOING🤨🤨🤨 This is probably my favorite moment in this video x'D

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Haha truly cursed :D

liminal spaces and the new fad with them has brought me back to a specific set of memories. when i was young playing fps games, i would sometimes make my own private lobby and just explore maps alone. wondering through a multiplayer map and exploring it completely alone, thats a liminal space core memory of mine.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Same actually! I would also spend a lot of time in tools like Far Cry 2 map maker just making large empty maps :)

The fact that Riley has the skill to do that underwater, is incredible 😂

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

It really is :D

"And we're not even that deep down yet.." *checks depth, it being the damned devil's number* "Uhhh"

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Unfortunate time to say that :D

Oh my ghost -leviathan- Also just a thing, which is ACTUALLY hell? The lava zone, crash zone, or the *v o i d* "Woah look it's one of the floating balls to." - Bacon 2023

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Haha all of the above :D Also that's a great quote.

I mean, it is still in the game, just obviously not as creepy as the early access one because it's actually finished and decorated. It's in the bulb zone right in front of the Aurora, and goes straight down past some Reaper skeletons, and into an entrance to Lava Zone patrolled by a Ghost Leviathan. I once had the Sea Dragon chase me out of the Lava Zone through that entrance and it was literally like the underwater chase in The Phantom Menace, with the Sea Dragon behind me and the Ghost Leviathan in my pathway out.

@TheLastBacon

Ай бұрын

Well there is an entrance not too far from there but I believe it’s past the mountains :)

And to think... the developers never intended for it to be a horror game.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Haha they clearly didn’t know what they were capable of :D

Favorite part of first play through was seeing my sea moth beacon disappear as I was swimming to it

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Haha good times :)

@horizonbravov2188

5 ай бұрын

100 meters Oxygen 50 No rebreather And as I passed 70 I see the beacon move and disappear Truly a subnautica moment

8:52 remember that creepy pasta you read? The thing in the abyss? Maybe lt could be that...

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Maybe! :O

at 0:47 is that your character model falling down above the island?

@TheLastBacon

4 ай бұрын

Lmao yes it is :D How did you catch that?

Anytime I watch earlier Subnautica videos and see things like the entrances to the lava zone being the hell hole as well as an opening in the Dunes, it makes me wonder what made the developers work on entrances there, and then scrap the ideas entirely and go with a different placement. Like, I'm glad we at least got the mountain corridor, but it still makes the Sea Dragons dragging Reapers into the lava zone make a lot less sense without the openings in front of the Aurora as well as the dunes. Like, yea, if you had gone those routes, you would have missed the Lost River. But also those would have also been a lot more of a dangerous route to get down there anyway

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

I'd imagine through testing, they realized it makes the endgame areas a bit too easy to reach :) But hard to say.

I would love to see the old entrance to the lava zone that was found in the dunes

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Ooh I'll look for it! :)

@isaac_aren

5 ай бұрын

@@TheLastBacon It's listed on a few old maps. I believe it was removed before the hellhole was

that there is still stuff to discoved in early access is pretty crazy ngl.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely :)

December 2014? Nearly 10 years ago? Wow time really flies :(

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Crazy! :)

when I downloaded some versions from 2016 from steamdb, where then Aurora had only a driveroom where we repair these leaks with a repair tool, do you remember or do you know that Aurora used to be like this, when I installed these versions I called up the Entity Gallery command by typing entgal, the Entity Gallery appeared, everything appeared and the game crashed and she shouts out these messages

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Huh I don't know much about it but I'll have to look into it :)

When i played subnautica and firstly saw reaper i got nightmares literally

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Oh :(

I think Riley was testing his size reference when you went to freecam.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Haha probably :D

I already am in that liminal hell hole when ever I go anywhere beyond the grassy plateaus

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Haha fair :)

3:11 he thinked he alone on this planet and no one see him ))

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Haha probably :D

Cool, more childhood memories

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yis! :)

HI, i like ur content.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Hi thank u! :)

best thing to wach before sleep💀

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Haha yesss :)

I'm glad I installed Subnautica on PS4 for free from that one time when PS gave out free games for COVID lockdown

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Good move! :)

@babftplayer4378

5 ай бұрын

I did that too :D

I can barely find any documentation of lifepod 8 and the message recieved online as I was recently watching Mark’s play through and lifepod 8 was not with its beacon but lifepod 4 was. I got curious and did some research and there is not documentation of the message from lifepod 8 anywhere. Any info?

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Ooh good question :) I'll look into it!

I was waiting for a jumpscare.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Not this time :)

Hell-Hole looks kinda like fantasy location, like some kind of underwater Mordor)

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Very accurate :D

What is the creepiest thing you have found in an early build?

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Probably the size reference standing on the island tbh :)

Do you know how I could get the early access builds? I have the two on steam but I'm not sure about the others

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

You have to go to SteamDB and use the steam console :) I recommend looking up a tutorial on KZread!

I always hated swimming over the hell hole… one second there’s land and fauna, the next just a giant bottomless hole.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yeah made me super uncomfortable :)

I am NOT watching this at 1 am... I will however watch it in the morning tho.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Who needs sleep :D

@emilelariviere2712

5 ай бұрын

@@TheLastBacon I meant that because I didn't want to be scared but now I can lol

You also found the lava trenches. Haven't seen them since riot played this game.

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Good times! :)

I swear ive seen a trailer or something where someone was swimming into the aurora thru some hole on the side of ti

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

That used to be a thing I believe :)

Funny bacon cat makes my brain go bbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrr

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Haha yesss :)

Yay new bacon cat video

@TheLastBacon

5 ай бұрын

Yay :D

@FelidaeEnjoyer

5 ай бұрын

@@TheLastBacon Would it be racist to say 'While eating pepperoni too'?