Do more people play on Normal or survival?

[R for Reload]

just curious

[Starcake]

I play survival. I used to play on normal but then when I tried survival I had more fun. It makes the game a bit more spicy and some upgrades that are completely useless on normal become actually useful.

[Khalunka]

I play permadeath since my first save. Never died (Game Is indeed too casual/easy). I was thinking about creating another save In either normal or survival, to be able to meet more players. (As far as I understood, you can only meet with players playing the same game mode, I could be wrong). I wish I could enter a group of somekind. Starting to get lonely :c

[MP]

Survival. Too many bugs and poor design decisions to screw you up in permadeath. Plasma grenades, anyone?

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

Normal. Since they changed the stacks size, normal is the way to go to make base building easy. Your cargo stacks are enough to build a complete base in one go.

Permadeath sounds a bad choice, unless it's only a punctual playtrough to unlock the achievement (and it's a bit ridiculous if you consider that you only need 1 glyph to reach the galaxy center, aka no real challenge), but to be bound to lose all your progress because of a single death (eventually caused by a glitch) sounds like something that will force to play cautious and will definitely make the game less enjoyable....
Also way less players on that mode...

Survival is the same as permadeath, without the save wipe risk. Tiny stacks makes everthing a bit slower and tedious, kinda challenging for the few first hours before you gear up a bit. So it's mostly a mod you'd run punctually to unlock the achievement, but again.... you only need one glyph to complete it...
And same as permadeath, less players on that mode...

For both, there's little point to keep playing the save once you unlocked the achievement.... bewteen being forced to play cautious at all time and the tiny inventores that make most thing, base nuilding first, tedious to obnoxious.... unless you're a streamer and wanna show off, there's no point.

Though I might consider playing "punctually" the 2 special modes, just for the sake of getting the achievements.... but that will mostly be with the MP disabled and it will be a rush to the center.... kinda like the speedrun mode in dragon dogma....

[Eye Aye]

Permadeath and I usually play until I reach some personal goal then restart because I enjoy the early game. I am not a cautious player and yes its foolish to take on walkers with a boltcaster but I have lots of time on my hands and If I go down. its not a tragedy its just a few hours of game time. and next time I will choose my combat area more carefully.
Its why I like the game, you can choose how you want to play and it doesn't impact anyone else.

[japp_02]

I play in Survival and restart game if I die. Not going to happen anytime soon, the game is too easy. A bug that stuck me would allow me to make use of a manual save - contrary to Permadeath.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

I would guess that more players go normal mode. It is how the game was originally intended to be played.

I have played a survival and a permadeath save but the reduced inventory sizes become really annoying. Once you get some protections for your suit and ship, it becomes the only "challenge" and it is more of a handicap then a legit challenge. Edit: I guess dying by glitch is the other challenge.

If you are really looking for a challenge it is probably better to set some personal rules on how you will play the game. A basic rule might be to only use C class everything. The game is designed to be played in C class and all the enemies are designed to be "handled" with C class items.

Other rules might be you can only accept gifted addons, have only a single tool and/or ship. These would be up to each person to decide what seems "fun".

Just finished getting 100% on all Steam achievements for the game. I was so happy when the PD challenge was done. I am going back to my normal save. 2800+ hours and still finding stuff I want to do in the game.

[Humble]

I like normal, Survival kind of seem slower and tedious, eat up your real life time. I am avoid permadeath, lot of work into only go into toilet.

[Dirak2012]

Normal, because the smaller stacks are painful.

[japp_02]

For those who want more difficulty there are good combat mods around on NexusMods.

[knighttemplar1960]

I play permadeath unless I'm specifically taming with someone. If the population of the anomaly is any indication most people play on normal.

[Grimmslayer73]

To me, perma/survival feels like saying " my commute to work is boring so I'm going to do it on a motorcycle and let some air out of the tires and put some sugar in the gas tank. That will make my commute more exciting!"

[Johnny in the Clouds]

Permadeath is certainly a fun challenge. All modes are fun. At least I think so. One thing you can do is always make a back up of your game save folder. It is wise to do that anyway to avoid death by glitch. It is awkward and annoying if you die in Permadeath but you could restore the entire game folder to at least try again from where you started.

Many of the little things that do not have much significance in other modes, like the cabin shelters, locked rooms with carbon plants, extensive caves to travel more safely about and so on, suddenly all make sense with Permadeath which is why I like the mode. Exocar racing is also a lot of fun in Permadeath and climbing tall buildings or diving too. You just have to plan things with a little more care and not rush.

Once you build a base or farm and later maybe one or two bases you delete on your journey you will always have enough resources to rebuild large bases using the Escrow Storage container you can build. That hides a lot of resources and travels with you.

I mostly play Normal because it is more populated which is nice and also you still have the choice to meet other players more frequently or not. It just depends what mood I am in when I want to play.

[R for Reload]

Normal is wayyyyyyyy too easy imo
But Im just curious if more of the player base is in normal or survival
I noticed that the galaxy is bigger in survival

[Kobs]

I'm still on normal close to 500 hours (that the counter says... but I doubt it lol)