


If you want to get access to the Survival Beta, access the options/preferences for the game from your Steam Library, select the Beta’s tab and select the survival beta option from the drop down. However, there is now Adrenaline which gives you bonuses for each successive kill which you really do need. You now need food, water and rest to survive, not getting one or more of these will seriously hamper your stats and efficiency, there’s no fast travel and saves are restricted plus everything (including ammo) has a weight. The survival mode brings in huge amounts of new challenges as well as the standard ‘enemies are harder’ approach, and many of them do take a fair bit to get used to. However, after becoming extremely battered and bruised from trying, I learned that I would have to change my standard approach.

The beta version of the new and extremely taxing Survival mode was released last week and I’ve done my best to wrestle the foul mutated beast into submission.
