Whats the best difficulty to play on?

[Doomguy]

I wanna know which of the difficulties is most fun,and in which i wont miss anything important
I dont want it too easy tbh

[Reanu Keeves]

Survival is the best to play on for the full experience. HArdcore is, well, hardcore. No oxygen warnings and one life. So if you mess up even once, you have to start over.

So I suggest survival.

[morph113]

Everyone prefers a different mode, it's hard to say. I play exclusively hardcore, always have. Survival I don't like because you basically have almost no death penalty. You might lose some inventory, but only if the inventory wasn't saved (by visiting your base). It would make me lose any fear from creatures and from dying, because I would know that I would basically just respawn at my base and that's it. I enjoy the thrill of harcore where every mistake could be your last. It keeps the game exciting even if you played a lot of hours. If a ghost leviathan attacks me i'm seriously panacking, since that thing could single handedly ruin my entire playthrough. On survival I wouldn't have that, I would probably just let him kill me to get a teleport to base, pretty much.

Oh by the way, harcore has oxygen warnings despite of what it says in the main menu. Not sure why it still says no O2 warnings in the main menu. The last time harcore didn't have O2 warnings was probably at least 1 or 2 years ago.

[Reanu Keeves]

Originally posted by morph113:

Everyone prefers a different mode, it's hard to say. I play exclusively hardcore, always have. Survival I don't like because you basically have almost no death penalty. You might lose some inventory, but only if the inventory wasn't saved (by visiting your base). It would make me lose any fear from creatures and from dying, because I would know that I would basically just respawn at my base and that's it. I enjoy the thrill of harcore where every mistake could be your last. It keeps the game exciting even if you played a lot of hours. If a ghost leviathan attacks me i'm seriously panacking, since that thing could single handedly ruin my entire playthrough. On survival I wouldn't have that, I would probably just let him kill me to get a teleport to base, pretty much.

This is good advice for a vet player, or someone who has beaten the game. For a new player, Hardcore might just dissuade them from playing more. They won't get to enjoy the 'flow' of the story if they constantly have to hide or flee due to fear of starting over, or messing up and having to start over.

I wouldn't recommend Hardcore to a new player.

[morph113]

Originally posted by Philosoraptor:

Originally posted by morph113:

Everyone prefers a different mode, it's hard to say. I play exclusively hardcore, always have. Survival I don't like because you basically have almost no death penalty. You might lose some inventory, but only if the inventory wasn't saved (by visiting your base). It would make me lose any fear from creatures and from dying, because I would know that I would basically just respawn at my base and that's it. I enjoy the thrill of harcore where every mistake could be your last. It keeps the game exciting even if you played a lot of hours. If a ghost leviathan attacks me i'm seriously panacking, since that thing could single handedly ruin my entire playthrough. On survival I wouldn't have that, I would probably just let him kill me to get a teleport to base, pretty much.

This is good advice for a vet player, or someone who has beaten the game. For a new player, Hardcore might just dissuade them from playing more. They won't get to enjoy the 'flow' of the story if they constantly have to hide or flee due to fear of starting over, or messing up and having to start over.

I wouldn't recommend Hardcore to a new player.

It strongly depends on the type of player, what he prefers. I have been playing hardcore from the very beginning. I never even tried survival. Whenever there is a hardcore or ironman or similar mode in a game, I'm gonna play it. That's why I said that everyone prefers a different mode, so it's hard to say what will be the most fun for him.

[Reanu Keeves]

Originally posted by morph113:

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This is actully a good point. I'm looking at it from the general player point of view. Ineed to remember there are players like you who get the best enjoyment fromhardcore/iron man runs.

But I think with both of our explanations he can make a solid choice. :D

[BigDog]

It kind of depends what you enjoy in regards to game play. I have only ever played hardcore and while I did die a few times being new to the game it isn't really that challenging. It doesn't really take away from the story or anything as you don't really have to hide or flee it isn't that hard. One problem with hardcore is that it is early access and still has a few bugs, the game actually crashed on me a couple of times and I lost several hours in total of game play. This is because the game only saves when you quit the game.

[Chibi Life]

The only difference between survival and hardcore is if you die it's game over and you gotta start over. Everything else about the game is exactly the same. However hardcore mode greatly increases your fear of everything around you cuz you know if you die that's it.

I played 2 full playthroughts of survival and started doing hardcore and I'll tell you... I've never said "OMG OMG" and "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ RUN RUN RUN" before I started doing hardcore lmao. It's been an absolute blast having that fear of permadeath making you deeply afraid of the environment and the predators.

[@ndy]

HardCore only, IRL i doubt if you would met bear in forest your thought would be: "ok let him kill me, ill respawn at home...."

[Nyello]

I wouldn’t really recommend hardcore to any player right now considering some of the bugs people have run into.

[nolgroth]

Originally posted by Lucki:

I wouldn’t really recommend hardcore to any player right now considering some of the bugs people have run into.

Funny you should mention that. Lost a perfectly good playthrough because the PRAWN suit clipped through the ground and fell about 8.5k before it crushed. I was trying desparately to save it and ended up going down with the ship. Unsolicited advice, don't build a Moonpool on one of the ledges near the Floating Islands and then eject a PRAWN from it.

Second Hardcore playthrough was going swimmingly (get IT!) until I wandered too close to an exploding space ship. Laughed out loud when the "You're Dead, Game Over" message popped up.

Third Hardcore, I drowned like two feet from my Seamoth. I was exploring a wreck and ran low on O2. I literally had the prompt to enter the Seamoth one my screen when the "Game Over" message popped.

Fourth Hardcore playthrough started out great. I dropped from the lifepod and immediately had access to the Seamoth, Mobile Vehicle thingie and the little handheld motor thingie. Problem is that it also spawned me on top of Gasopods, with Bonesharks one direction and Stalkers on two other sides. All of the sharks were really aggressive. Even with all that, I managed to vacate the area and build a basic base from which to strike out. Needed Lithium so I went to the North island. There I had four Warpers that immediately went aggro and tore me to pieces.

Switched to Survival for my final try at finishing the plot. Hardcore has its charms and you definitely think each foray into dangerous waters through. There are just too many things that can sink a good playthrough for me to trust hardcore for that. Now. If I could get the "No Story" mode that Creative has and tack it onto Hardcore gameplay, I would very much enjoy that.

[Ragnaman]

Originally posted by Dark Soul:

I wanna know which of the difficulties is most fun,and in which i wont miss anything important
I dont want it too easy tbh

Survival on first playthrough.
Then experiment with sandbox.
Then, once your body is ready, finish in hardcore.

[RedDrago]

My first playthrough was on Survival, and I played as if it was a hardcore save file. And I'am happy that I did play this way, because I would have made it through without dieing once, if I wouldn't have died twice to bugs.
The first time was a Seadragon that just happened to glitch out of a wall. Being close to that wall, I had no time to react and he swallowed me whole.
The other time I was unable to swim, dispite beeing in water. I was in a pit that had no exit if you can't swim.

I love this game and I would play it on Hardcore, if there wouldn't be so many bugs that can absolutely destroy you.

[margalus]

Survival is the only mode to play on. Creative is too easy and this game is far too buggy for hardcore.

[suppporterxNL]

hardcore. only penalty long loading time when saving ;P when you clip trough the world hard quit stop the game to windows so it isn't saved.

[Dutria]

whatever you prefer really
for me survival was boring after 2 playthroughs
my save file is now hardcore finnished that aswell but still messing about on that savefile trying to scan all creatures and making loads of bases