Subnautica: Below Zero

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.

Confirmed Features

Features that have been confirmed through various means.

• Arctic Biome
• New protagonist
• Weather System
• New Fauna, Flora, and Biomes
• Penguin-like creature
• “Glow Whale”

Potential Features

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

• Rock Puncher
• Arctic Reefback Leviathan
• "Pinnicarid" (Anomalocaris-like creature)
• New, not yet known vehicle

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

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  "Arctic Reefback Leviathan" - by Alex Ries

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  Arctic squid-like creature (possibly Penguin Version A) - by Alex Ries

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  "Alien Penguin Version B" - by Alex Ries

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  Juvenile form of Alien Penguin Version B

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  "Pinnicarid" - by Alex Ries

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  The Rock Puncher, possibly to be added to the expansion pack.

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  The unamed female protangonist confirmed to be in the Expansion Pack

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  Concept Art for the Glow Whale