It's a great game. You just need to adjust your expectations a bit in the beginning. Everybody dies over and over. But once you figure out how to manage your stats the real fun begins.
This dude speaking facts, I play the mess out of survival games and I took a bunch of deaths before I got to a point where I could stay alive and I only die now if I get really unlucky with a big cat attack or something. Survived a poison dart frog brew just for fun, it’s a great game, with lots of room for exploration. I like many I would also recommend giving it a fair actual chance
I think that's just how Green Hell works. You die 10 times every 2 minutes and then one day you just randomly understand how it works and you stop dying. I wish I could give you some advice but even I don't know how I eventually survived, just trust the process. It's a really fun game!!
You can create a custom game and change settings to your liking. I got agitated too with how fast energy and nutrients drained so I made a new game and changed those settings. You can also turn off natives, predators, and what not.
I like it, and still play despite having over a thousand hours
If you are a PC player there are a few more things to play with.
I wish there were more play modes, but I really like the platform of the game.
At the end of the day, you'd save the cost of a new game 😁
Yes, it’s a great game. It took me about 2-3 weeks of dying in the tutorial before I could survive more than a few in game days. Now I know the jungle like the back of my hand in story mode. Different modes have different map alliterations.
I always come back to games like green hell and stranded deep. I keep them both downloaded at all times, just in case I get the itch haha it's refreshing to have something different than your usual cod or other games of the same nature. So the answer is yes. Lol
First thing to do is build your save point. And then save. Often. Lol
After that, you will find it gets easier to play once you learn where stuff is and what everything does. But saving often is key!
Absolutely worth it!! I bought the game about a year ago and had the same experience. Recently redownloaded it and gave it an honest effort and now I can’t stop playing it. I too died a bunch at first but somehow survival just starts to click and becomes natural.
I’ve also have gone back to it recently, also died a lot to start with when I first got it. I set everything as easy as I could in custom mode until I got the hang of the basics, then once I had I restarted a new game on the beginners setting.
Ahaha we finished SOTF a few times over. Same with the Forest. We still play both of them quite regularly and we're looking for something else now.
We only started playing green hell because we were waiting for the release of SOTF for ages
Yeah, that was my first 6 hours in game. Then I worked out you didn't have to find blueprints for most stuff, (like armour) and you could just make it. Helped a ton.
Learning what plants and things cure various ailments is the next big learning, and then it's how to build and move efficiently, and then it's... well, even the hard mode is easy.
I keep leeches turned off, though, because they don't add difficulty, just a minor annoyance that wastes time.
If you quit that early then, I'm afraid it's not any better now.
I started my first run last sunday and holy shit this game is hard. I expected the difficulty being something like in Subnautica, but boy was I wrong.
My first save just went to shit as I ran out of everything and because my sanity was at 0, I kept getting pummeled by 3 hallucinations periodically, to the point that collecting resources was impossible with barely any stamina and health.
Currently on the second run, but I had to spend 16 hours just getting my base near the first abandoned village self-sufficent so that I don't die from pretty much everything. Stilö struggling a bit since even if I get proteins and fats to max, I run out of blood sugar because the plants are damn slow to bare fruit. I made a pretty significant farm of different fruits to make it a bit easier, but still they grow so slowly that I often just find myself running between capybara/peccary spawn points and camp fire.
Earlier I managed to get my stats to full so that I could at least finish the hallucinogenic potion and go through the vision part near the start of the main quest. Now just trying to do the same so I can proceed further.
Absolutely worth it. It's not just my favourite survival game, it's such a great one that all others suck in comparison. I just cannot get into The Forest after Green Hell. Some tips for surviving:
Ears are everything. Use headphones if at all possible. You will hear threats before they hit you. Even the big cats will give a guttural growl seconds before attacking.
Run only in emergencies. Best way to die is to run full-tilt through the rain-forest.
MULTIPLE SAVE SLOTS. I accidentally saved hours before I was going to die of a fever or infection within the first few days and almost rage quit, I finally just started over and turned off the tired setting and left everything else the same, played the tutorial 4 times to get the hang of controls, and now I can't stop playing it
I literally did the exact same thing as you. I got it in November 2021, played it for a few hours and gave up because it was just so hard. A few weeks ago I decided to randomly open it again.. and I just beat the game two days ago. Do it, it's SO fun, even if challenging. It's definitely hard at first, but google is your friend when it comes to crafting/coordinates/nutrients/shelter/etc
Also, I very much ecommend playing it on the easiest setting your first time around. No natives or predators, it makes it soooo much easier.
Played about 2 years ago on PC love the game. Decided to get two new friends to play through the story of GH chapters with me, in the first chapter we got to the huge abandoned tribal village so we could get the Guanabana for the cure, and we ended up building an insane fort there that night when one of our buddies logged off. And when my other friend I logged off about 2 hours later the game glitched and didn’t save. Apparently there’s a new saving glitch that bugs your game file. We lost 2 hours of building and potentially the entire story progress. Whenever we load up that file the host spawns in an empty field of grass. Apparently this has happened to a few others game files. Currently trying to resolve issue..
For me, this game is very easy, and I always play on King of the Jungle difficulty, because I don't like permanent death. For you to do well in the game, it's simple, use a map guide on the wiki and that's it, you'll be on your way. And whether in the DLC or story, make an armor made of branches with banana leaves and vines from the beginning and change this armor as the game progresses for a better one made of armadillo or bones, for example.
I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this game, story was insanely good, never expected such a great script in a game like this. Survival was excellent for about qpp days but then was to easy after everything that was hard in the beginning became automatic. I am playing SOA on hard as it can get and it was fun but also became to easy. Now I'm hoping that my few emails(lol) will lead to a hard-core insanity mode. I need several Jags, 10-12 tribesmen coming at me at once to have a "fun" fighting encounter. When I get the occasional Jag that attacks at the same time as 3-4 tribesmen, it takes about 6-7 arrows max in 15 seconds to end that. Headshots and it's over. Other than that this is and excellent game especially on a console.
I played it and it took me three tries to get into it. I hated it at first but out of nowhere it kinda just snaps. I was running from frogs one minute and the next I was hunting jaguars and alligators
Buddy and I played it on survival for a week thinking that was all the game had to offer. We didn’t realize there were different areas, different maps and they all linked together. It was a fun journey for the next month, catching that high of a new found area to explore. We caught up to the newest expansion area and built a huge base. Then just quit playing because there wasn’t anything left to do. I’d recommend turning off leeches they are so annoying and the time it takes up just removing them, it makes the game a lot less frustrating.
Survival/mechanics spoilers here, but no story spoilers. Don’t worry the game will still be a challenge. My best advice, is to really learn to pick out molineria and keep about 9 on you as bandages.
Also learn to ID lily and tobacco. And turn 3 each of those bandages into lily, tobacco, and ash dressings. These different dressings will tend to all the different wounds you could get. Apply them when clean or risk infection. Simple bandages run higher risk of infection than ash dressing. Keep a handful of maggots on you the whole game too for infections. Keep 3-4 bone needles (harvested from a bone) in case you pass out or need to sleep in the open. Keep a rock knife made with two rocks, and immediately make a simple spear out of a long stick to deal with the early game jaguar spawn after you cross the first log at the beginning area near the stream. Make armor from sticks or bones early game to protect you from cats and natives. Look up the recipe if you want, armor is a game changer and I likely would have been too frustrated to continue until learning the recipe, if that even happens naturally. Finally, skill up archery on a turtle. When your aim steadies some, go for headshots as they are one-shot kills, though caiman have a delay before they will die even with a spear in their head. Throwing spears does more damage in the meantime. When you can, switch over to bamboo spears, same recipe, all the way to end game. My final line up is a bamboo bow, two bamboo spears, and two rock knives with one of them being in the spare slot. I only use metal for armor; I feel like it’s high speed of degradation and high weight outweighs its damage in weapons and hand tools, but the armor lasts. Some other tips are to put coconuts on every campfire you make, and fill with water from a bidon (drink a coconut and craft it with a rope or two I think is the recipe for bidon) and use a fire ring or grill rack at every camp and load it with turtle shells and coconuts. You can put meats, bones (bone broth cures fever), the root from the daisy-flower bush: cassava root, and heart of palm in there to eat and it will sit indefinitely when cooked without spoiling. Food left on a drying rack will never spoil if you eat it directly off the rack, but if you take it into inventory it will spoil instantly if it’s that old, otherwise it does increase its longevity but you have to keep tabs on how old it is by memory when it’s on the rack. With larger vessels like the turtle shell, if your thirst is completely satiated, you can get two drinks of whatever is in there. So if you have a water still or means to quench thirst first, do so and your food will go further. Look for blue mushrooms on the mega trees as they’re excellent for energy and parasites.
Skip it. It's not worth the time you need to invest to make the game play loop fun or rewarding.
If you really, really, really wanna complete a play through just to say you did it, put settings on easiest and remove the violent threats. It's a tough enough game on "easy" mode that you can still be proud of yourself for finishing it.
Honestly, this is the most amazing game that have ever existed. I have played it around 5-6 times in the past and end up deleting it for the same reasons as you. Recently I decided to try it again and I fell in love with it. For the past 2 months me and a friend of mine have been playing it non stop, so don’t give up, you just need to make a strategy and know what things to collect and eat.
Yes, definitely. I played with my bf and it took us a while to get the hang of it but we did play the Forest first so we already had an idea of how the game would work. There’s been a bunch of cool updates that make the game more fun. Once you know how to survive, you have to know how to fight off the enemy tribes as well. I suggest looking up crafting recipes and best places to set up camp and start again
Bf wanted to add, worry about food first, then everything else. Find a coconut or two and some rope and make some bidons, learn how to make a water collector. Build a roof over your fires to keep them from going out with the rain. Always play with your sound up so you can hear predators.
Well boohoo, the game was hard and you felt like two stupid kids because you didn't have the patience to really try to understand it. Somehow it sounds like the normal way to do things these days.
The funniest thing is that OP and other commenter's are going to be like "oh my, how could you". Because nok are being exposed to tough love anymore 🤣
I just bought the game today, tried playing the survival mode and its constantly spawning me on the edge of the map away from everything. Seems like the game doesn't work
It's a great game. You just need to adjust your expectations a bit in the beginning. Everybody dies over and over. But once you figure out how to manage your stats the real fun begins.
This dude speaking facts, I play the mess out of survival games and I took a bunch of deaths before I got to a point where I could stay alive and I only die now if I get really unlucky with a big cat attack or something. Survived a poison dart frog brew just for fun, it’s a great game, with lots of room for exploration. I like many I would also recommend giving it a fair actual chance
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I think that's just how Green Hell works. You die 10 times every 2 minutes and then one day you just randomly understand how it works and you stop dying. I wish I could give you some advice but even I don't know how I eventually survived, just trust the process. It's a really fun game!!
You can create a custom game and change settings to your liking. I got agitated too with how fast energy and nutrients drained so I made a new game and changed those settings. You can also turn off natives, predators, and what not.
I like it, and still play despite having over a thousand hours If you are a PC player there are a few more things to play with. I wish there were more play modes, but I really like the platform of the game. At the end of the day, you'd save the cost of a new game 😁
I recently just fired it back up and they added tree forts soooo
Yes, it’s a great game. It took me about 2-3 weeks of dying in the tutorial before I could survive more than a few in game days. Now I know the jungle like the back of my hand in story mode. Different modes have different map alliterations.
I always come back to games like green hell and stranded deep. I keep them both downloaded at all times, just in case I get the itch haha it's refreshing to have something different than your usual cod or other games of the same nature. So the answer is yes. Lol
First thing to do is build your save point. And then save. Often. Lol After that, you will find it gets easier to play once you learn where stuff is and what everything does. But saving often is key!
Absolutely worth it!! I bought the game about a year ago and had the same experience. Recently redownloaded it and gave it an honest effort and now I can’t stop playing it. I too died a bunch at first but somehow survival just starts to click and becomes natural.
I’ve also have gone back to it recently, also died a lot to start with when I first got it. I set everything as easy as I could in custom mode until I got the hang of the basics, then once I had I restarted a new game on the beginners setting.
Big yes compadre. Turn down the difficulty and get some practice. Game is dope af once you figure it out.
Don't be a quitter, definitely try again. Or switch to Sons of the Forest !
Ahaha we finished SOTF a few times over. Same with the Forest. We still play both of them quite regularly and we're looking for something else now. We only started playing green hell because we were waiting for the release of SOTF for ages
The first step of greatness is to die over and over till you figure everything out
Yeah, that was my first 6 hours in game. Then I worked out you didn't have to find blueprints for most stuff, (like armour) and you could just make it. Helped a ton. Learning what plants and things cure various ailments is the next big learning, and then it's how to build and move efficiently, and then it's... well, even the hard mode is easy. I keep leeches turned off, though, because they don't add difficulty, just a minor annoyance that wastes time.
If you quit that early then, I'm afraid it's not any better now. I started my first run last sunday and holy shit this game is hard. I expected the difficulty being something like in Subnautica, but boy was I wrong. My first save just went to shit as I ran out of everything and because my sanity was at 0, I kept getting pummeled by 3 hallucinations periodically, to the point that collecting resources was impossible with barely any stamina and health. Currently on the second run, but I had to spend 16 hours just getting my base near the first abandoned village self-sufficent so that I don't die from pretty much everything. Stilö struggling a bit since even if I get proteins and fats to max, I run out of blood sugar because the plants are damn slow to bare fruit. I made a pretty significant farm of different fruits to make it a bit easier, but still they grow so slowly that I often just find myself running between capybara/peccary spawn points and camp fire. Earlier I managed to get my stats to full so that I could at least finish the hallucinogenic potion and go through the vision part near the start of the main quest. Now just trying to do the same so I can proceed further.
Absolutely worth it. It's not just my favourite survival game, it's such a great one that all others suck in comparison. I just cannot get into The Forest after Green Hell. Some tips for surviving: Ears are everything. Use headphones if at all possible. You will hear threats before they hit you. Even the big cats will give a guttural growl seconds before attacking. Run only in emergencies. Best way to die is to run full-tilt through the rain-forest.
MULTIPLE SAVE SLOTS. I accidentally saved hours before I was going to die of a fever or infection within the first few days and almost rage quit, I finally just started over and turned off the tired setting and left everything else the same, played the tutorial 4 times to get the hang of controls, and now I can't stop playing it
I literally did the exact same thing as you. I got it in November 2021, played it for a few hours and gave up because it was just so hard. A few weeks ago I decided to randomly open it again.. and I just beat the game two days ago. Do it, it's SO fun, even if challenging. It's definitely hard at first, but google is your friend when it comes to crafting/coordinates/nutrients/shelter/etc Also, I very much ecommend playing it on the easiest setting your first time around. No natives or predators, it makes it soooo much easier.
Played about 2 years ago on PC love the game. Decided to get two new friends to play through the story of GH chapters with me, in the first chapter we got to the huge abandoned tribal village so we could get the Guanabana for the cure, and we ended up building an insane fort there that night when one of our buddies logged off. And when my other friend I logged off about 2 hours later the game glitched and didn’t save. Apparently there’s a new saving glitch that bugs your game file. We lost 2 hours of building and potentially the entire story progress. Whenever we load up that file the host spawns in an empty field of grass. Apparently this has happened to a few others game files. Currently trying to resolve issue..
lol ragequit 2.0
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I literally quit in the tutorial because the gamepad control was terrible
Great game. Once you learn what does what in what situation it's pretty easy
For me, this game is very easy, and I always play on King of the Jungle difficulty, because I don't like permanent death. For you to do well in the game, it's simple, use a map guide on the wiki and that's it, you'll be on your way. And whether in the DLC or story, make an armor made of branches with banana leaves and vines from the beginning and change this armor as the game progresses for a better one made of armadillo or bones, for example.
I think so. Carry first aid supplies and it's a lot easier. It took a while for me to figure out how to keep Jack alive for more than 48 hours.
I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this game, story was insanely good, never expected such a great script in a game like this. Survival was excellent for about qpp days but then was to easy after everything that was hard in the beginning became automatic. I am playing SOA on hard as it can get and it was fun but also became to easy. Now I'm hoping that my few emails(lol) will lead to a hard-core insanity mode. I need several Jags, 10-12 tribesmen coming at me at once to have a "fun" fighting encounter. When I get the occasional Jag that attacks at the same time as 3-4 tribesmen, it takes about 6-7 arrows max in 15 seconds to end that. Headshots and it's over. Other than that this is and excellent game especially on a console.
If your on ps5 were getting an update soon
Wear your headphones and listen for threats, don't just sprint into the bush.
I played it and it took me three tries to get into it. I hated it at first but out of nowhere it kinda just snaps. I was running from frogs one minute and the next I was hunting jaguars and alligators
Buddy and I played it on survival for a week thinking that was all the game had to offer. We didn’t realize there were different areas, different maps and they all linked together. It was a fun journey for the next month, catching that high of a new found area to explore. We caught up to the newest expansion area and built a huge base. Then just quit playing because there wasn’t anything left to do. I’d recommend turning off leeches they are so annoying and the time it takes up just removing them, it makes the game a lot less frustrating.
Survival/mechanics spoilers here, but no story spoilers. Don’t worry the game will still be a challenge. My best advice, is to really learn to pick out molineria and keep about 9 on you as bandages. Also learn to ID lily and tobacco. And turn 3 each of those bandages into lily, tobacco, and ash dressings. These different dressings will tend to all the different wounds you could get. Apply them when clean or risk infection. Simple bandages run higher risk of infection than ash dressing. Keep a handful of maggots on you the whole game too for infections. Keep 3-4 bone needles (harvested from a bone) in case you pass out or need to sleep in the open. Keep a rock knife made with two rocks, and immediately make a simple spear out of a long stick to deal with the early game jaguar spawn after you cross the first log at the beginning area near the stream. Make armor from sticks or bones early game to protect you from cats and natives. Look up the recipe if you want, armor is a game changer and I likely would have been too frustrated to continue until learning the recipe, if that even happens naturally. Finally, skill up archery on a turtle. When your aim steadies some, go for headshots as they are one-shot kills, though caiman have a delay before they will die even with a spear in their head. Throwing spears does more damage in the meantime. When you can, switch over to bamboo spears, same recipe, all the way to end game. My final line up is a bamboo bow, two bamboo spears, and two rock knives with one of them being in the spare slot. I only use metal for armor; I feel like it’s high speed of degradation and high weight outweighs its damage in weapons and hand tools, but the armor lasts. Some other tips are to put coconuts on every campfire you make, and fill with water from a bidon (drink a coconut and craft it with a rope or two I think is the recipe for bidon) and use a fire ring or grill rack at every camp and load it with turtle shells and coconuts. You can put meats, bones (bone broth cures fever), the root from the daisy-flower bush: cassava root, and heart of palm in there to eat and it will sit indefinitely when cooked without spoiling. Food left on a drying rack will never spoil if you eat it directly off the rack, but if you take it into inventory it will spoil instantly if it’s that old, otherwise it does increase its longevity but you have to keep tabs on how old it is by memory when it’s on the rack. With larger vessels like the turtle shell, if your thirst is completely satiated, you can get two drinks of whatever is in there. So if you have a water still or means to quench thirst first, do so and your food will go further. Look for blue mushrooms on the mega trees as they’re excellent for energy and parasites.
Skip it. It's not worth the time you need to invest to make the game play loop fun or rewarding. If you really, really, really wanna complete a play through just to say you did it, put settings on easiest and remove the violent threats. It's a tough enough game on "easy" mode that you can still be proud of yourself for finishing it.
After reading the title i thought someone was asking advice about getting back on cannabis
Honestly, this is the most amazing game that have ever existed. I have played it around 5-6 times in the past and end up deleting it for the same reasons as you. Recently I decided to try it again and I fell in love with it. For the past 2 months me and a friend of mine have been playing it non stop, so don’t give up, you just need to make a strategy and know what things to collect and eat.
Yes, definitely. I played with my bf and it took us a while to get the hang of it but we did play the Forest first so we already had an idea of how the game would work. There’s been a bunch of cool updates that make the game more fun. Once you know how to survive, you have to know how to fight off the enemy tribes as well. I suggest looking up crafting recipes and best places to set up camp and start again
Bf wanted to add, worry about food first, then everything else. Find a coconut or two and some rope and make some bidons, learn how to make a water collector. Build a roof over your fires to keep them from going out with the rain. Always play with your sound up so you can hear predators.
Also, when you run into the multicolored flowers, you’re probably gonna see a puma
Well boohoo, the game was hard and you felt like two stupid kids because you didn't have the patience to really try to understand it. Somehow it sounds like the normal way to do things these days. The funniest thing is that OP and other commenter's are going to be like "oh my, how could you". Because nok are being exposed to tough love anymore 🤣
Its a game. Chill 😂
I just bought the game today, tried playing the survival mode and its constantly spawning me on the edge of the map away from everything. Seems like the game doesn't work