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I'm not sure there's been a better invention for multiplayer games than proximity chat. Whether it be friends screaming vengeance down the side of a mountain after you abandon them in Peak, or the wails of one of your fellow workers fall suspiciously silent in Lethal Company. Proximity chat offers up fertile ground for hilariously wacky and memorable multiplayer moments, so you can imagine my excitement when I found out it's coming to Subnautica 2.

"This is going to let you have an in-game voice chat option that you can do with your friends," Anthony Gallegos, creative director, says in a dev diary. "You'll be able to talk locally with each other and then as you get further away you'll hear a switch to sort of a radio-sounding voice, and you'll progressively break up as you get further away, up until a certain point where you can almost not hear me at all."

Now, you can use your friends as a canary, sending them down into dark caves and listening to see if anything's amiss. At the very least, Gallegos believes it will "definitely add to the tension of" exploring the formidable alien ocean.

But that's not all being added to Subnautica 2 in its next update. The whole patch seems friend-focused. There's player emotes that will "let you roll through a bunch of different emotions, so you can cheer on your friends, clap at them to tell them that you're happy with them, or maybe that you're a little annoyed with them, and you can also show that you're frustrated.

"The thing that I think is the most exciting about these is actually the ways that people will use them out of context that I think will make for some really fun moments."

Players can also look forward to better inventory sharing, which means you won't have to go searching for discarded loot that your friends leave behind. Instead, all you have to do now is go up behind your pal and access their stash from their backpack—quick and efficient. Although, thieves-be-warned, "the person whose inventory is being accessed will get a little notification" so pickpocketing is out of the question, unless you have an especially unobservant friend.

The last major feature coming with 1.2 will be player revives. Now, if you're playing with a group and get lost, or get too hungry and pass out, your friends will have a short amount of time to swim over to you, share their oxygen, and revive you back to the world of the living. It's such a helpful feature that I'm honestly pretty surprised Subnautica 2 didn't have it before.

All in all, update 1.2 seems like a helpful pitstop on the way to more significant changes, which feels But it is a pitstop that was very necessary before the map gets any bigger and more challenging to navigate: "Alongside all of this we're continuing work on the Early Access 2 update that's going to add the new region with the new story, and the new progression, and the new vehicles, all those things."

Day by day, we're getting closer to GTA 6, and to the extended look that's coming to Netflix on August 27. In the meantime, there's been an apparent leak of some gameplay footage, though it's believed the clips are quite outdated by now.

A smattering of footage pertaining to be from Rockstar's new crime sandbox has started making its way around social media. The gameplay contains sequences of characters walking around a beach, driving, getting into fights, blowing up other vehicles, and more in a map that bears some resemblance to Leonida.

However, don't get too excited about seeking them out, because these videos have been hit with DMCA takedowns, and they've also been shot down for being old news. NatetheHate, a prominent leaker not responsible for this GTA 6 leak, but the The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake and Star Fox rumors that were later confirmed to be accurate, comments on a ResetEra thread alleging that the "footage is over a year old."

His claim has now been backed up by the alleged GTA 6 leakers, who say this gameplay is all from 2023 in screenshotted chat logs, and there are up to four more videos to emerge in the coming days. Either way, if the footage really is from builds that are that old, we shouldn't expect the final release to look exactly like what's just emerged online.

Again, these leaks are happening right in the run-up to the official GTA 6 Extended Look arriving next week, at which point, what emerges is likely to be pretty heavily curated, and not the hodge-podge of moments and sequences you're seeing in any unofficial clips. That official footage is bound to be up to date, too.

I know the wait for the sixth mainline Grand Theft Auto feels like it's dragging on and on, but you only have eight days to go before Rockstar reveals all on Netflix. Count your blessings, you could be an Elder Scrolls 6 fan.

"Don’t boycott GTA 6," fired Rockstar devs say: "Support our legal battle instead" and "win justice for the people who helped make it."