A True Survival Mode

[YourLocustBuddy]

I'm kind of tired of the existing survival mode, since the outcome is dictated by whether RNG feels like being nice to you or if it feels like pissing in your Cheerios. Sometimes the runs are fun, you get lots of oxygen drops from the enemies and you don't have to worry, and then sometimes RNG just kicks your teeth in and teases you with one oxygen drop for every sixty enemies you kill. One could also say it's partially a problem with the spawns, since sometimes there'll be a severe drought of enemies in your area, but that's an entirely different problem. I'm also by no means saying to get rid of the existing survival mode, but to add another mode that does not rely on oxygen tanks and is purely survival. I mean, it is called 'survival', so it should be about surviving endless waves of enemies. If we were to name it accordingly to what it is, it'd be something more along the lines of "Super Oxygen RNG Party" and while you might be more inclined to play a mode called "Super Oxygen RNG Party" it wouldn't be any less annoying when it goes from being a "Super Oxygen RNG Party" to a "Severe Lack of Oxygen RNG Party". Anyway, the pure survival could even function like the Nightmare mode, seeing as how there's a option to choose regular or Nightmare, maybe there could be a function to choose a survival mode that doesn't require constantly scuttling around panicking over the lack of oxygen.

 

Now of course there's the issue of a different survival mode not offering as much challenge, but there's a few ways this could be changed. One could be the method of extracting: Instead of being able to just walk over to extract and leave, the new survival mode could require the player to call in their extract with a device and defend that device until the extract comes in, it could take a minute and a half or two minutes so players have to really plan out when they want to extract. Another way to make the different survival mode more difficult would be to maybe have a very tough enemy show up every so-often. Like maybe a boss shows up every ten minutes? 

 

Also: There's lasers guns, flying cubes armed with machineguns, super-powered suits, but yet we don't have personal oxygen tanks...? Seriously guys, there are senior citizens with oxygen tanks... Don't tell me that the Tenno can't compete with senior citizens?

[_TheNumberOne_]

i want to be left in the jungle using my loki, with limited ammo, an entire army of men to kill, a military base to blow up, civilians to rescue, and stealth kills full of blood and gore

 

THAT is survival

[OriVerda]

Well you forget that we somehow can lose oxygen whilst we are on a planet. We can also sabotage the "planet/ship" in other mission types.

[YourLocustBuddy]

i want to be left in the jungle using my loki, with limited ammo, an entire army of men to kill, a military base to blow up, civilians to rescue, and stealth kills full of blood and gore

 

THAT is survival

You're going to need a bow and a red bandana.

[_TheNumberOne_]

You're going to need a bow and a red bandana.

and the THUNDER mod on my bow

i also need a big *** knife

[Skynin]

and the THUNDER mod on my bow

i also need a big *** knife

And minigun in the end. Why not?

[_TheNumberOne_]

And minigun in the end. Why not?

and also stab captain vors stomach with a galatine, and then rip him in half letting all his inners out

 

a moment full of blood, gore and glory!

 

srsly though doing a "fatality" move on the boss should be how we finish the fight

[The_Hessian]

This sounds awesome. I'd love to do a boss based survival mode with no O2 restrictions and a calculated extraction! =D

[Skynin]

Oxygen Survival is "True Mobile Defense" for me now. Not really survival