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December 8, 2018
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Subnautica free from Dec 14 - Dec 27 2018 on new Epic Games Store

If anyone still hasn't picked up Subnautica yet, you will be able to get it free at the new Epic Games store soon. Epic games is launching a new store in competition to Steam and others. They will be giving away a free game every 2 weeks from Dec 2018 through 2019. Hey, if it's free...why not!!!


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    Anonymous
    December 8, 2018
    Say whaaaat? They're giving games away? But... what's the catch?

    I don't understand, but thank you for this information! I always wanted to try Subnautica, especially since I heard it could be played in VR (I don't know how yet, though).
    JohnnyDioxin
    Inspiring
    December 8, 2018
    The catch is simply getting you to sign up with them. That's enough for them for obvious reasons.
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    PhoenixSpyderAuthor
    Up and Coming
    December 8, 2018
    Yes, since they are just starting up, they are giving stuff away to get people interested. Signing up is free...they are banking on people preferring Devs making more money from their store over others.

    Subnautica is a great experience in VR (but still flawed). I'm hoping the new free version will give a bit of performance gain over the Steam VR version...but I'm not holding my breath.
    Digikid1
    Honored Contributor
    December 9, 2018
    if playing in VR....be sure to have a bucket nearby.
    RuneSR2
    RuneSR2
    Honored Contributor
    December 9, 2018
    I've never had a problem with Subnautica and nausea in VR, actually if it wasn't for those menus the devs placed 1" from my nose in VR and the extremely cumbersome Touch implementation, Subnautica could easily be in my top 10 of best ever Rift games. The content in Subnautica is simply amazing and there's tons of it. My 10 year old son plays Subnautica in VR without any problems too 

    But back to Epic Games Store, I just noticed this, and it really pushed my craving for pancakes :blush:

    https://youtu.be/HTudybBy5WU

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    JohnnyDioxin
    Inspiring
    December 9, 2018
    Makes me sick - but not too much during gameplay. Just feel uncomfy after a few minutes, but I can keep playing without too much trouble. When I take the headset off, though, keep outside a 10 ft radius! :s

    I see Unreal Tournament is free, too, in EA. Another fave of mine from olde. I have the original UT installed on my PC and go to it for quick blasting fun regularly.
    Amazingly, the original Unreal also installs (from DVD) and works flawlessly on Win 10 as well.
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    DaftnDirect
    Honored Contributor
    December 9, 2018
    I reinstalled Unreal and the expansion a while back... along with the various Unreal Tournaments. The engine was so smooth compared with others of the time, really made the games that much more enjoyable. The exception seemed to be Unreal 2 which was quite demanding on the graphics card... but still a fun game though, there's a lot of old stuff worthy of a replay!
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    Digikid1
    Honored Contributor
    December 9, 2018

    Brixmis said:

    Makes me sick - but not too much during gameplay. Just feel uncomfy after a few minutes, but I can keep playing without too much trouble. When I take the headset off, though, keep outside a 10 ft radius! :s

    I see Unreal Tournament is free, too, in EA. Another fave of mine from olde. I have the original UT installed on my PC and go to it for quick blasting fun regularly.
    Amazingly, the original Unreal also installs (from DVD) and works flawlessly on Win 10 as well.


    I loved UT2003!!!!  Loved playing online with the CHAOS weapon packs and sneaking up  to the enemies base in VCTF and releasing the POWER OF THE VORTEX GUN *just* when the enemy is about to score.  So gratifying......
    Anonymous
    December 9, 2018
    The catch is simply getting you to sign up with them.

    Yeah, that's not really what I call a catch... Signing up is free, there isn't any type of engagement, nothing prevents us from just taking the games they offer for free, without giving them any money. It just doesn't sound like a very good market plan.
    DaftnDirect
    Honored Contributor
    December 9, 2018

    I signed up a couple years ago for the Unreal Engine to learn and hopefully get my pet project into VR (I'm still creating the assets in 3ds max).

    Anyway, the games portal is the same as the portal I've been using.... so as well as games, you have the incentive of downloading the Unreal Engine and develop your own games. Lets get developing.


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