Survival vs normal for a new player?

[Sichimus]

Basically a new player because I haven't played in so long. What are the differences between them and what do you personally reccomend?

[Aoi Arashi]

Survival is great for new players! If you're a masochist that is. Otherwise, learn with normal.

[Ogami]

Survival is basically the same game as the normal mode just with ungodly amounts of grind.
If you love grinding for hours to do even the simplest things, that is your dream mode.
Otherwise, stay away.

[Seferoth]

I would recommend starting with normal. Play like 10 or 20 hours, if you think the game is too easy and you would like to have some more challenge start another save on survival.

[morph113]

I recommend normal if you are brand new to the game and survival if you played it before and want it a little more difficult (and tedious).

The main differences are that on survival sentinels are more aggressive on many planets, you lose your inventory when you die. When you die in space you will awake crash landed (like in the beginning) with your ship needing repair. Resources are supposed to be more scarce but to be honest, I find plenty of resources everywhere.

Last time I played was during original release and a few hours after the foundation update. A lot has changed but I had no issue jumping right into survival. I haven't died once in over 20 hours in my save. It's not really that difficult but some things might be more tedious like refueling your ship. On normal you get 4 starts with a fully fueled launcher, on survival only 2 starts so you need to refuel more often.

[Derus]

Definitely normal. For survival you need to know some basics first to not die over and over again at the start.

[Kaybe]

Both games are survival games. It's just that Survival mode is even more hardcore for those players who don't feel rewarded unless they have to deal with an inordinate amount of pain and frustration in games.

[_darkaura_]

Originally posted by Nevada Six:

Basically a new player because I haven't played in so long. What are the differences between them and what do you personally reccomend?

Survival is a *lot* more difficult if you don't know the basic mechanics of the game. Normal is hard enough.

Depending on how much time you want to invest (this is a time-hungry game anyway), you probably will want to spend around 8 hours on "Normal" before playing on Survival.

Work through the main quest lines as quickly as you can. You learn a lot about the game, and you gain a lot of necessary items through that process.