Tried multiple games.
Each time starting on a planet that eats up my heat/cold bar in a couple of minutes.
Unable to find anything to recharge temperature bar.

You can still make it to the ship if you use caves and make your own caves.

However then you run out of life support... for which there is also no resources.

Numerous threads on the steam forums complaining about the same thing.
*rolls eyes*

Cue HG saying: "It's what you asked for! (According to a Sony's community manager's interpreted wisdom of the entire internets)". Later turns out that community team was deliberately being facetious, or just comically stupid, and/or mentally unstable at the time.

Example: people wish certain resources were less ridiculously abundant, to kind of pop the illusion of being sent to valiantly survive the Sandwich and Coke-bottle mountain, Hamburger Valley, and so on. And that certain elements are only found on certain planets, that you should perhaps be able to guess from the locationin the system, type, weather, and star type, etc. Imagine things like traveling to a green star to get a specific range of rares. As opposed to randomly finding the full set of everything on every single planet in the system.

How Sony interprets it: needs hardcore mode without resources, no other changes, and a planet scan that tells you what elements are there - just to make sure the exploration aspect becomes even less interesting.

That's how Sony works. And, sadly, also how most other publishers in the industry work.

Try a different game mode.

I stopped playhing super easy mode 3 months ago because it was boring, so I'm sorry but your suggestion isn;t very useful.

I guess I'll just have to wait for the next patch and see if they have reduced the deifficulty level from impossible to hard.
So frustrating wandering around watching your life support tick away, and not finding anything to recharge it.
In fact in 5 attempts I have yet to find anything to recharge my life support.

*rolls eyes"

Survival mode is as intended to be. Survival. You crashed on an Alien Planet. Do you expect to find resources near you?
You really think you can survive as a Human on a distant planet with hazardous atmoshpere just like on Earth? It's perfect the way it is. And they were smart to let you choose your playstile. Having the extraterestrial feeling, having to fear every step andto realize that every action has concequences, that's Survival at it's best and it's absolutely perffect.

Even in Normal mode they changed the behaviour of the sentinels from beeing plain stupid to posing a challenge. Also, if you attack and kill one or two, the heat stays on and other sentinels may appear. The planets seems alone, desolated. They reduced the spawning factor of buildings. Having so many buildings on every planet was a bad call. Now the game gives you the opotunity to really explore. To really feel alone in a strange world. Kudos to Hello Games for improving the game.

The only problem is that theFoundation Pack broke SLI. The image flickers like a stroboscope making the game unplayable and forcing Single GPU lowers the framerate at an exagerated pace. I contacted them hoping they will resolve the issue.

Try a different game? It seems quite clear what they intended with this new mode.

But if it frustrating you then i expect once the modders have got things running again someone will no doubt make a more forgiving survival mode.

Still you often post very negatively about the game, so maybe my second suggestion above is the best one ultimately? ;)

I agree I've been on a dying loop myself because life support ran out so I died from it and when I respawned it still is completely out instead of being half full or something so I just keep dying there is no way to survive it.

I have not tried survival mode but I have played Normal all day and I can tell you it is a bit more challenging then and pre Foundation game, maybe try the new normal mode for a while. Those Sentinels are much more aggressive now.

And to HelloGames if you are listening, thank you very much for creative mode as it gave me a much better chance to understand how to build things and experiment without wasting resources.

I cannot confirm that. The resources for charging life support have been not far from my crash site, but they will be only marked by the scanner (once you repaired it) IF you are low on life support, and they are not much. In my case, it was enough to charge once completely, but I died nevertheless.

Keep in mind that different actions (running/using your jetpack/...) will consume your life support power faster, so think twice if it's worth using them while you don't have much resources to recharge.
You can charge temperature bar in the building at the crash site or in the caves (be aware of the animals).

IMHO: The survival mode is perfect. Really hard to survive. It should be a challenge which it definitely is.

Survival seems fine to me.

Took me one death to get to my ship because I pushed my luck and went to find it sooner than I should have. The second attempt I made sure to scout the area around the building at the spawn and got basics to make the shielding kits. Then the journey itself was a case of topping up as needed while also making good use of caves and similar holes that stopped the -75 night chills from doing too much damage.

Downside is I went for the ship and the scanner isnt showing any heridium thats not a 20 minute hike away so the engines are needing work.

Not done any restarting but are folk saying that there's a chance of not having that hut at the very beginning of the spawn?

I think they just need to make the life support able to recharge in shelters to fix my problem as it is right now I die so quick after coming back it is like being respawned mid fall off a mountain.I kept having to run back into the shelter nearby to recharge the thermal too because the same was happening to that by the time that is in a semi safe level I'm already dead I respawn both are empty again and it repeats.

I went back to normal mode seems to work better for me right now.

I just had some of my best (as in most fun) game time in NMS so far :)

So i got the Foundation Update once it had arrived through the slower non-galaxy channel and installed it separate to not over-write the original game (as i want to keep that). You just need to be careful that in a two install setup like this the save game location is shared, so backup and name your specific save games to not lose them.

I died on my first two tries, one was on an ice planet and the second was just a heat planet (and i think just from direct sunlight, so not that tough really!). I think it was just because i was used to resources being so plentiful in the original game, and it took we those two goes to work out a better approach.

My third go was another cold planet (extreme cold at night) and my ship was really far away, 15 mins! But i got there, making power-gel (is that right?) from carbon and the rare plutonium crystals to keep my life support going, and hoping from cave to cave to keep my thermal ice protection up.

It was a lot of fun, and i felt like i had actually achieved something :) All i have left to get is the Heridium, but that is only 6 mins away so i feel i now know how to approach the problem. Great job on the Survival mode HG, thank you very much.

I am a little nervous to try survival, I am not the fastest horse on the track and as a wise man said "You gotta know your limitations" but maybe sometime I will give it a try when the quest line in normal mode dries up.

Said quest line is fairly large and I cannot state how grateful I am for that creative mode to show me the importance of all the new items needed for crafting.

I do not think this is really a spoiler as the quest give states what you need to do fairly outright but eventually you need to feed critters and follow them around till they defecate (poo) and scoop it up in rather large quantities. Leave it to HelloGames to make said poo come out of the front end of the animal and drop to the ground. -grin-

There are different save games for survival, creative and normal mode. So you don't need to wait for trying it if losing your progress in normal is what you are afraid of.

Did someone figure out how to mine Thamium in space in survival? My asteroid lasers are consuming way more energy than I can get from mining asteroids.

Yes I am very well aware that there is a separate save for each of the 3 game modes, but as I stated I do not at this time have a interest in testing my gaming strength out in survival as there is enough challenge for me on normal mode.

As far as mining Thamium in space I use the photon blasters that do not use or consume resources, those green beams of the lasers look nice but I prefer a weapon with a faster fire rate that does not need to be fueled so often but to each their own.

Sounds rough out there in survival but I am sure that is what was intended, so good luck out there and have fun however you choose to enjoy the virtual galaxy.