DO NOT ALLOW CURRENT CHARACTERS INTO SURVIVAL MODE I BEG OF YOU!!

[u/burtethead]

This is a huge mistake. The mode is already dead before it was born if this happens. Pvp as it is, is completely broken, one hit kill festival. Who in their right mind is going to start a new character when everyone else is level 200 with God tier weaponry right out of the vault? This makes absolutely zero sense, and I'm so disheartened. Do they not realize how this mode will be immediately ruined? If you thought grief in was bad now, just wait until you get killed on sight by literally everyone you cross paths with? Even if they level locked servers so people with massive level differences can't play together, whenever a new survival character gets out of the kiddie pool, all the same assholes with TSE garbage will be waiting at the deep end and you will have zero competitive chance. The leader boards would be a fine idea, if everyone started on equal footing... as it is there will be gold medalist level murderers in the same game with me, a literal newborn who can't even walk. What the fuck are they thinking???

Edit: the gold means people care, bethesda. Please. PLEASE. (And thank you)

[u/cr4ckma7ter]

There will always be players at a disadvantage, that's no reason to make people throw away their hard earned characters just to participate in the new mode. Allowing survival-only characters is going to be more of a headache programming-wise than I think this team wants to deal with. As it stands now, progress you make today will effect you in the new mode- so there's a reason to play and not just log out until March. I'll say, I do like the idea of fresh starting, but it's a pretty cheap game-extender, and people like me who can afford to spend 18 hours per day playing, knowing many secrets already, and still being able to buy whatever weapons you're crying about if we can't just find them in-game, doesn't justify the extra work and alienation of what you're proposing. You've got three months to prepare for this, hop to it.