Stationeers: Brutal Mars ep1. I Started Mars on the hardest and brutal setting. Struggle to survive.

So I saw that the new settings applied to all the planets options and decided to go to mars on the hardest possible settings. You get very little to start with and power becomes an issue at the start. Food and water are okay for a short period, but is looks like oxygen will need to be a priority.

[@DeltaV3328]

Great start!

[@charlesheath7571]

Dang ur trying supper hard! Good luck!
Edit if you restart, don’t forget you can use the manual hatches they require iron sheets not plastic, then later upgrade em into regular doors

[@tutkarz]

I have played few games with Survival difficulty but I found out it is not much harder but way more annoying, when you are trying to build base and you need to go back every few minutes to eat. It's not realistic. It would be more challenging if you would eat more and not more often. Also for good players brutal start only means they need to do more manual digging, so again it's not that much harder just slower (I'm not good player yet hehe, so I don't even try anyway).

[@Major_Havoc]

No oxygen tank, no solid generator, and worst of all no tiny flags ...

[@NavyOldsaltGamer]

lol

[@SiXiam]

I tried this and died twice before surviving on the third run. And that was with ores set to give the max 50 when you mine.

[@ToadRoach]

I like the basic premise to this game, but the mining is the worst, so hope they give the mining aspect a bit of love.
Get rid of the random clumps for something intuitive, would be cool to actually have to make mines rather than just digging random holes everywhere.

[@SiXiam]

@@ToadRoach The sensor lenses makes it much easier, though you need inconel to make them. Later they want you to use the mining robots. By that point though I don't have as much a need for ores.

[@ToadRoach]

@@SiXiam Yes, the sensor lenses make it much easier, (almost too easy lol) but they do nothing to make it fun. Mining in Stationeers is just meh, I don't bother too much with the AMIE robot because the deep miner is just way easier (except ices).
Random is boring, need an algorithm to create ore veins etc. To make mining a fun challenge rather than just a random time sink.