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The expansion pack is an upcoming paid DLC for Subnautica. The full release date is currently planned for early 2019. Currently all that is known is that the Arctic Biome will be a large part of the game, possibly the entire map. It is also known that a weather system will be featured.

The Arctic expansion will be a separate game mode with a different protagonist rather than Ryley Robinson, and takes place in a separate map. It will also be set in a time period after Ryley Robinson has escaped Planet 4546B.^[1]

Currently known story details include the protagonist being a member of a research team sent to investigate Planet 4546B, using an orbiting research outpost called The Vesper. The Vesper's reasons for being sent are as follows; recovery of Aurora wreckage, biomedical research, ecological preservation, resource exploration and one classified reason.

Confirmed Features

Features that have been confirmed through various means.

Arctic Biome^[2]^[3]
New protagonist^[4]
Weather System^[5]
New Fauna, Flora, and Biomes ^[6]
Penguin-like creature^[7]
Research installation^[8]

Potential Features

Features that the developers are still experimenting with that may not be in the final build.

Rock Puncher
Hovercraft vehicle ^[9]
Arctic Reefback Leviathan
"Pinnicarid" (Anomalocaris-like creature)
Glowing whale-like creature^[10]

Gallery

Rock puncher

Developer Andreas Urwalek testing the Rock Puncher
Glow whale

Glow whale testing with a placeholder model
Pingu

Experimenting with a placeholder penguin-like creature model
Pingu 2

More experimentation with a placeholder penguin-like creature model
"Arctic Reefback Leviathan" - by Alex Ries
Arctic squid-like creature (possibly Penguin Version A) - by Alex Ries
"Alien Penguin Version B" - by Alex Ries
Juvenile form of Alien Penguin Version B
"Pinnicarid" - by Alex Ries
The Rock Puncher, possibly to be added to the expansion pack.
The unamed female protangonist confirmed to be in the Expansion Pack
Concept Art for the Glow Whale

References

[1] ttps://twitter.com/Flayra/status/991434841387237377

[2] ttps://imgur.com/a/48J7j

[3] ttps://imgur.com/a/JxCEm

[4] ttps://twitter.com/Flayra/status/959888747402850309

[5] ttps://twitter.com/Sy1K1/status/957062423512600577

[6] ttps://imgur.com/a/SKgGx

[7] ttps://imgur.com/a/i2n3p3e

[8] ttps://twitter.com/Flayra/status/991434841387237377

[9] ttps://imgur.com/a/XPIhl5L

[10] ttps://imgur.com/a/oQrTr

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 Pingu|Experimenting with a placeholder penguin-like creature model
 Pingu 2|More experimentation with a placeholder penguin-like creature model
-Reefback Leviathan Concept Art.png|"Arctic [[Reefback Leviathan]]" - by Alex Ries
+Reefback Concept Art.png|"Arctic [[Reefback Leviathan]]" - by Alex Ries
 ParrotSquidThing-Alex Ries.jpg|Arctic squid-like creature (possibly Penguin Version A) - by Alex Ries
 Alien Penguin B.jpg|"Alien Penguin Version B" - by Alex Ries