Surviving The Aftermath: How To Beat 200% Difficulty | Tips & Tricks

Surviving the Aftermath has many difficulty options, with 200% Difficulty being the highest challenge you can tackle in Normal Mode.

This isn’t really the hardest challenge in the game, but it’s a tough nut to crack if you’re used to playing on lower difficulties.

In this guide, we’ll give you some tips and tricks to help make things easier for you!

Tips & Tricks for 200% Difficulty

Explore Early On

Your first goal at the start is to explore the map and to do it as quickly as possible. Selecting Sobek as one of your specialists would be extremely helpful here, as he has the highest Speed.

Focus on finding spots where you can scavenge rare metals and set up outposts around them.

Also try to reach the edges of the map and look for Computer Chips and Components, which you will need to build your colony’s power infrastructure later on.

Avoid conflict as much as possible in this early stage and just focus on learning the lay of the land and scavenging rare resources.

Make Sure To Have Energy

With the exploration of the map done, you should start focusing research on Wind Power and Electronics Factories.

These will allow you to build Wind Turbines to start producing electricity, as well as allow you to use produce Components and Electronics.

Build one Electronics Factory and a Transformer, then power them up with a few Wind Turbines. Once this is done, you can start researching and building other facilities that require Energy!

What you build now will depend on your needs, however, but do make sure to at least have some Heaters ready to provide warmth during winter.

Be Self-Sufficient

Trading in 200% difficulty is a bit of a crapshoot, to be honest. Randomization plays a huge factor, sure, but most players find that other colonies have nothing to trade.

As such, you will need to try to be as self-sufficient as possible. You want to scavenge, produce, and refine most of your own resources.

If you’ve been following along, our previous tip should already make you self-sufficient with electronics and Energy!

As for the rest, make sure to get Tailors, Toolshops, Gunsmiths, Recyclers, Scrappers, Sawmills, and Logging Camps. That’s a lot of building, but they should help you refine anything you need into key resources.

When it comes to food, you might want to refrain from using Ranches. You only get livestock through trades with other colonies, after all.

Focus instead on self-sufficient buildings like Aqua Farms, Farms, Fishing Huts, and Hunting Huts.

In short, you can’t rely on anyone but yourself in this harsh difficulty!

Use Med Hubs Early On

You should build a few Med Hubs early on, having about 4 would be a solid basis. However, you will want to keep only one of them staffed most of the time. This should be enough to keep a small colony healthy.

Nevertheless, be careful once the Pandemic disaster event happens! When it does, you will want to fully staff all of the Med Hubs at once.

This should help your colony survive through the disaster, as long as the colony is still rather small. Return to only have 1 fully staffed Med Hub once the pandemic event is over.

Of course, this is only for the early game to help you get your footing. You will need to invest in Field Hospitals once your colony starts getting larger than 50 colonists or so!

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