Hardcore Mode/ One life run

[PrivateLeviathan]

anyone else tried it? I think it is a great a mode. The game opens up so much when its on hardcore mode. Tell me your thoughts?

[jonnin]

Its survival mode with 1 life.
Just like survival, if you get off the home starter planet, its trivial after that and your biggest concern is plutonium to launch & finding stuff to fend off pirates until your ship is buff. It quickly becomes easy and just a hassle with the resource issue.

[jaffers]

i have on my ps4, almost all the way through, it makes it much more interesting, because well......u cant die or its game over....start over......or maybe just give up lol, but i enjoy it, the tech seems to take alot longer to get too, i just got it on pc, havent started yet

[PrivateLeviathan]

Originally posted by jaffers:

i have on my ps4, almost all the way through, it makes it much more interesting, because well......u cant die or its game over....start over......or maybe just give up lol, but i enjoy it, the tech seems to take alot longer to get too, i just got it on pc, havent started yet

let me know your thoughts if you like on pc or not. Just got the game today. Enjoying it so far.

[Knottypine]

Originally posted by PrivateLev:

let me know your thoughts if you like on pc or not. Just got the game today. Enjoying it so far.

You just got the game and dived right into permadeath? Nice! I would usually recommend that people first play in normal to get the hang of everything and learn the game. But if you're enjoying it so far, that's great! I have only ever played in 'normal' mode so I cannot comment on survival/permadeath modes on PC.

[Paradox1126]

Originally posted by jonnin:

Its survival mode with 1 life.
Just like survival, if you get off the home starter planet, its trivial after that and your biggest concern is plutonium to launch & finding stuff to fend off pirates until your ship is buff. It quickly becomes easy and just a hassle with the resource issue.

I started a normal game at launch and put about 30 hrs into it. I just picked it up again and started a new survival save and have about 25ish hrs?

I just died 3 times relatively close to one another en route to planets searching for upgrades in my first system.

Now that I got the hang of survival I'm asking myself if it's even worth going through because the after death penalty is just annoying.

But I'm stubborn! Plus I can always go back to my normal save.

How much time in survival do you have? If i don't get my base up and running soon I may bail and go back to normal. What do you think

[Silky Rough]

If I played permadeath I'd still be on the original planet I started on. I failed miserably in normal mode. Spent more time looking my graves than I did looking for plutonium.

[Paradox1126]

Quick question long explanation :). I'm playing survival and I'm still in my first system. I've upgraded exosuit to 16 and other than that discovered a bunch of waypoints. So minor improvements.

I have a home base thats awesome and it's hard for me to travel without getting intercepted.

Question is: how much can I upgrade in the first system?

I'm trying to build a base with a rover and mine the hell out of it. I have a weapon on my home planet I want before I take off. Can I achieve this in my home system or do I need to jump Out?

I dont have any atlas pass blueprints, I dont have a voltaic cell for my construction and I can't find any antimatter either.

[Knottypine]

Originally posted by Paradox1126:

QQuestion is: how much can I upgrade in the first system?

As you're playing on survival, first thing you'll have to make sure to keep a good supply of resources to recharge life support, multi-tool, ship fuel, as it'll require a lot of exploring. Seeing that you've already upgraded your exosuit, probably from those pods, if you search around long enough you can probably max it out as long as you have enough money. You would also need to do a lot of exploring to find outposts/shelters/etc where you can learn blueprints.

But staying in the same system/planet will only get you so far.... For example: when you build a base and hire a few lifeforms, some of their requirements may require you to look in differnet systems to find what they need.

[Paradox1126]

Right now I feel like I'm stuck.. I'm exploring my home base and I keep finding shelters, beacons and such but they're not turning up blueprints.

I'm enjoying everything and I'm making progress in other areas. There's a multitool for 2.1m at a trade outpost and I'm not leaving the system(for good) before I buy it.

I have to say my starting system is great. I have 6 planets so I know I have a bunch to explore. I just don't want to spent time doing something and fall flat on results because I took the wrong path.

Thank you :)

[PrivateLeviathan]

Originally posted by Paradox1126:

Right now I feel like I'm stuck.. I'm exploring my home base and I keep finding shelters, beacons and such but they're not turning up blueprints.

I'm enjoying everything and I'm making progress in other areas. There's a multitool for 2.1m at a trade outpost and I'm not leaving the system(for good) before I buy it.

I have to say my starting system is great. I have 6 planets so I know I have a bunch to explore. I just don't want to spent time doing something and fall flat on results because I took the wrong path.

Thank you :)

have you died yet :P ?

[Paradox1126]

I died maybe 8-10 times. Is there a way I can see? Any trackers for that.. and anytime I die I feel flush in the face as my progress just got dumped.. usually sets me back 1hr of whatever task I was working on.

[PrivateLeviathan]

everytime I die ! I start over usually

[Paradox1126]

With a whole new save?

[PrivateLeviathan]

yes lol xD doing my 7th run now..... I haven't died so far got lucky....

[jonnin]

I don't know my hardcore hours, but I have a base all done, most of the techs, 4 ships, freighter, exocraft, money farm, and more all set up. I put it down as "success" and went back to my normal mode just because I have more hours in normal & like my ship better there.