Do I suck or is it supposed to be this hard?

[VoiD]

Been trying the survivor mode as it's pretty much ironman but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I can't seem to survive the first or the second cold waves.

One time I almost did, but then I made a foolish promise to heat up all homes and I couldn't keep it up, game over, zero hope max disatisfaction.

[Amanoob105]

It is meant to be hard. But it is also a game that the more you make mistakes the more you start to see where you went wrong.

There's no shame in turning the difficulty down. You can always put it back up later.

[Buwaro Elexion]

best tip from me, abuse the pause button, it's what go me to day 100 in endless endurance extreme, use it to rotate workers around to where the are needed most, i.e. make sure everyone who works at the pub is in treatment since the building is passive.

[Aturchomicz]

Yeah your just bad

[Dalkavuk]

First days are the hardest ones, if you can survive those and be efficient about it you can do it.

[Bobywan]

Agreed the game is challenging and that's a good thing in my opinion.

Originally posted by Buwaro Elexion:

best tip from me, abuse the pause button

No pause in survivor mode ;). No save either.

Originally posted by VoiD:

One time I almost did, but then I made a foolish promise to heat up all homes and I couldn't keep it up, game over, zero hope max disatisfaction.

75% of the time, it's better not to promise heat and take the slight discontent.
Or you have to be sure the weather forecast is in your favor, you have enough fuel or you have a generator upgrade planned.
Be careful if you upgrade housing: if you make a bunker or house from a tent you may expel someone during construction...

[zidercol]

This is script game - if it want you to promise something you should know that after 2 days getting colder.

[Мир-12]

It is supposed to be this hard.
I'll suggest you try more or/and watch some playthrough videos. There are bunch of people who try stupid ideas such as no generator run or stuff like that on survival mode and still succeed. I can recommend you figuring out the law pathways and min-maxing. I can also recommend reading some guides, these might help.

Never ever promise to heat homes :)

Lastly, there is no pause button in ironman mode HOWEVER building mode pauses the game, so just press B and think for a bit if you need a little bit of time

[OKOK]

Ya. Never promise to heat home. Temperature drop so fast that my research cannot keep up

[Aturchomicz]

Originally posted by OKOK:

Ya. Never promise to heat home. Temperature drop so fast that my research cannot keep up

build more workshops?

[OKOK]

4 workshop. Heading for second storm. Guess i send too much time researching other stuff.
My tech only at level 2. Cannot even handle the two pre storm temperatures drop. Guess. It doom for now.

[Pangolin Legends: Arceus]

That's what she said!

[Shane]

its not hard in terms of knowing what to do, etc (the first time around on each new event is a ♥♥♥♥♥) but i dont describe it as hard, its more just flat out crazy in terms of not having any restBITE from crazy parameters...

to be honest i have gone from watching a playthrough to damn that looks interesting, during which i thought but i didnt like that ending. to buying the game, now im like its just too much to enjoy it half the time im getting fed up with the demands and just running max speed whilst saying fck you just get on with it

i think its taken it too far in the wrong direction and needs easing off a tad, more so on the very very easiest setting, but thats my view

[Bobywan]

If the game is too hard for you play it in serenity mode easy. You'll get bored because you' ll be maxed out by day 30-40.