{
  "id": 16921868,
  "title": "Subnautica 2 dev thinks early access teams should worry less about adding features that are \"very ugly, incomplete, or prototype\"",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/subnautica-2-dev-thinks-early-access-teams-should-worry-less-about",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-28T15:40:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/subnautica-2-dev-thinks-early-access-teams-should-worry-less-about-adding-features-that-are-very-ugly-incomplete-or-prototype"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Subnautica 2 creative director Anthony Gallegos has spoken about what Unknown Worlds have learned over their many years working in Steam early access, exhorting other devs to add new features \"as soon as possible\" and experiment with them right under the flared nostrils of players. Damn the torpedoes, etcetera. The original Subnautica is one of the oldest Steam early access success stories,…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}