Damn, this sucks. So in this DLC you play as Moira and the old man from the sewers trying to survive in the island for as long as possible.
Now, that may sound like a great concept, and it is!
But how's the execution? Absolutely terrible. So you first start the game and you get to pick between easy and hard... that's great right? So you choose hard because you think that easy might be too easy. What could go wrong?

And the first section of the DLC is actually pretty fun. You go around the forest with the old man, you have some limited time to hunt down some animals to get food, which you later learn acts as basically a lives system. This doesn't sound bad at first, until you realize you can only have up to 5 lives, and it really takes a lot of animals to fill that up. Oh well, you probably won't need more, right?

So then you get to the second section, and suddenly the game decides it hates you. Enemy after enemy after enemy, all of them are bullet sponges and pretty much never get stunned when you shoot them. But it doesn't stop there, of course not, the game spawns one of the bosses like 3 times. And by the time you get close to the end, you run out of bullets. And where do you get more bullets? In the first section of the game, of course! But now you can't go back.
Eventually, you end up losing all your lives, and you don't get to replenish them because there are no rats or anything where you respawn.

So what happens when you run out of lives? You lose ALL your progress! Great! It's like an Nes game, very limited lives, only getting easy and hard difficulty levels, and if you run out of lives, you go back to the start. No continues.

And so, you go back to the start of the game, and this time, you make sure to grab every single item you can find, and not waste a single bullet on any enemy. Or at least, that's what I did. I used Moira's flashlight all the time and then hit the enemies with the crowbar. Which works... sometimes, other times they just refuse to get stunned and just hit you. I finished the first section being nearly dead, but thankfully the game replenishes all your health after each chapter.

Now you're back at the sewers. You manage to just barely survive, with no healing items left, barely any bullets and probably only like 2 lives. But at least you got through the worse, right? I mean, what could be worse than having to fight 3 of the fireball guys?

A stealth section. With the wiggly jelly guys from Barry's campaign. Great! So you try to go around silently, find some animals which always run away as soon as you get close to them, so no extra lives for you. And then you get spotted by one of the monsters through a fence while you couldn't see them. Nice! So what happens when you get spotted? You get 20 seconds to run to... some spot. Which spots? I have no clue. You'll never get there anyways, because these things run much faster than you can.
Well, to be fair, I did get to the spot once. It's that path that goes uphill. Problem is, I got there at the exact same time the timer ran out. Moira started to talk as if I had just barely managed to get there, but the game still told me I had run out of time and had to restart.

And of course, once you run out of lives, it's back to the very beginning. By then you'll think to just switch to easy mode. But I have a better idea, how about you switch to a better ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game? Or play raid mode.

So yeah, it ain't worth it, unless you hate yourself. If you thought you were gonna get some kind of survival-like dlc, you'll be completely disappointed. The whole survival mechanic is just an excuse to extend the playtime by making you have to start the dlc all over if you run out of lives.

Damn, this sucks. So in this DLC you play as Moira and the old man from the sewers trying to survive in the island for as long as possible. Now, that may sound like a great concept, and it is! But how's the execution? Absolutely terrible. So you first start the game and you get to pick between easy and hard... that's great right? So you choose hard because you think that easy might be too easy. What could go wrong? And the first section of the DLC is actually pretty fun. You go around the forest with the old man, you have some limited time to hunt down some animals to get food, which you later learn acts as basically a lives system. This doesn't sound bad at first, until you realize you can only have up to 5 lives, and it really takes a lot of animals to fill that up. Oh well, you probably won't need more, right? So then you get to the second section, and suddenly the game decides it hates you. Enemy after enemy after enemy, all of them are bullet sponges and pretty much never get stunned when you shoot them. But it doesn't stop there, of course not, the game spawns one of the bosses like 3 times. And by the time you get close to the end, you run out of bullets. And where do you get more bullets? In the first section of the game, of course! But now you can't go back. Eventually, you end up losing all your lives, and you don't get to replenish them because there are no rats or anything where you respawn. So what happens when you run out of lives? You lose ALL your progress! Great! It's like an Nes game, very limited lives, only getting easy and hard difficulty levels, and if you run out of lives, you go back to the start. No continues. And so, you go back to the start of the game, and this time, you make sure to grab every single item you can find, and not waste a single bullet on any enemy. Or at least, that's what I did. I used Moira's flashlight all the time and then hit the enemies with the crowbar. Which works... sometimes, other times they just refuse to get stunned and just hit you. I finished the first section being nearly dead, but thankfully the game replenishes all your health after each chapter. Now you're back at the sewers. You manage to just barely survive, with no healing items left, barely any bullets and probably only like 2 lives. But at least you got through the worse, right? I mean, what could be worse than having to fight 3 of the fireball guys? A stealth section. With the wiggly jelly guys from Barry's campaign. Great! So you try to go around silently, find some animals which always run away as soon as you get close to them, so no extra lives for you. And then you get spotted by one of the monsters through a fence while you couldn't see them. Nice! So what happens when you get spotted? You get 20 seconds to run to... some spot. Which spots? I have no clue. You'll never get there anyways, because these things run much faster than you can. Well, to be fair, I did get to the spot once. It's that path that goes uphill. Problem is, I got there at the exact same time the timer ran out. Moira started to talk as if I had just barely managed to get there, but the game still told me I had run out of time and had to restart. And of course, once you run out of lives, it's back to the very beginning. By then you'll think to just switch to easy mode. But I have a better idea, how about you switch to a better fucking game? Or play raid mode. So yeah, it ain't worth it, unless you hate yourself. If you thought you were gonna get some kind of survival-like dlc, you'll be completely disappointed. The whole survival mechanic is just an excuse to extend the playtime by making you have to start the dlc all over if you run out of lives.