Survival start is way too easy

Mark shared this feedback 2 hours ago
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Hey guys,

I've started new Survival save and uh, the game gives you way too much free stuff. Sure, receiving the Grasshopper is a nice upgrade on the rover from SE. But receiving, uh, several grasshoppers, a mining facility, a hydrogen ship, an asteroid base, every ore conveniently available, is just too much. There's no Survival in Survival. It's "loot free stuff" mode.

I think the player should simply start with the Grasshopper and a goal to reach space. This would already have more structure than SE. There could be a tutorial segment, as I feel like overall SE was a bit poor on this department, but this should involve.. not so much free stuff. Like, direct the player to finding iron ore, then building a refinery or whatever.


As an addendum, it's really mean to give the player free stuff and then the starting ship is too small to take it. I disassembled my escape pod, most of the hangar, etc before realising it was pointless. Obviously if you start the player next to a giant pile of materials they're going to want to take it with them. Grinding down the escape pod is especially tedious because there's so many small half-blocks that take ages.

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