What's y'alls preferred custom sandbox?

[Tbone555]

Just a fun thread for us to discuss here. How do y'all like to set up your sandbox?

Me, I preset it to stalker, but make minor changes. Basically: voyageur hunger, thirst, fire physics. Stalker weather and condition. And interloper wildlife. I keep condition recovery low and disable parasites and cabin fever. It makes for my own personal PERFECT experience

[Sito]

I do the same as you but with passive wildlife as I don't enjoy being hunted. With the new cooking I find that voyager hunger and thirst balances it out so I am not constantly having to go hunting or fishing. I set weather to really bad to make it challenging.

I also like to have a base in every region all stocked up so I can nomad between them as I feel the urge, and I like to live in the transition zones for as long as possible.

These custom settings make PV farmstead and TWM cabin truly enjoyable.

[Pillock]

I'm still tinkering with mine. But right now I have:

Animal detections, scent, etc. all at maximum distance; predator attacks at max strength; no grace period
Stalker Baseline loot, but other loot settings (inc. starting gear) to Interloper; rifles on
Weather settings, animal populations/respawn, natural resources/respawn all 'Medium' [EXCEPT: weather change frequency is 'Low']
All afflictions on; all health status decay rates 'Medium' (I would turn the freezing rate up if I wasn't exclusively starting on HRV at the mo); Hypothermia recovery & Frostbite rate 'Very High'
Never freeze near an active campfire=on
Condition Recovery while sleeping only, and the lowest rate available
Random starting weather/time of day/locations, but not indoors 

It's bloody difficult for me, and I don't normally last more than a few days - but I like it like that!

[Tbone555]

@Pillock I like it. We are all masochists here, after all

@Sito yeah, anything above voyageur hunger just feels waaaaay too unbalanced for me. I'm sorry but you can not eat an entire deer a day. That's not how it works lol!

[Pillock]

4 minutes ago, Tbone555 said:

@Pillock I like it. We are all masochists here, after all

@Sito yeah, anything above voyageur hunger just feels waaaaay too unbalanced for me. I'm sorry but you can not eat an entire deer a day. That's not how it works lol!

For me the Custom settings have been a revelation, and massively increased my interest in playing again much more since it was introduced. It's had a much larger effect on that than any new in-game content, much as that is also appreciated. In fact, I would like to be able to do more with the settings - for example disabling some of the Skill perks, such as 'no more tinder' and 'no more parasites' at the higher firestarting and cooking skill levels, which I find a bit naff. I hope they expand on them.

The one complaint I have with it is that you can't save your settings easily. The 'Share Code' button doesn't even allow you to copy/paste the text of the code - you've got to take a screenshot of it or manually copy it down outside the game. It's pretty infuriating, and I normally end up starting from scratch with the settings every time I start a new game, with is a bit of a faff. Why can't we just save the settings in the menu, so that we can select them in one click next time we play?

[Sito]

yeah it would be nice to save the settings. Also to be able to tweak some for the current run.  I find that the effect of some settings are not noticeable until later in the game, so I have had to quit some runs and start again with an adjustment to a setting or two.

For my current run I think I have it just right now.  Will see once I hit PV and the blizzard hits while im harvesting a deer in the middle of nowhere.

[Tbone555]

6 hours ago, Pillock said:

For me the Custom settings have been a revelation, and massively increased my interest in playing again much more since it was introduced. It's had a much larger effect on that than any new in-game content, much as that is also appreciated. In fact, I would like to be able to do more with the settings - for example disabling some of the Skill perks, such as 'no more tinder' and 'no more parasites' at the higher firestarting and cooking skill levels, which I find a bit naff. I hope they expand on them.

The one complaint I have with it is that you can't save your settings easily. The 'Share Code' button doesn't even allow you to copy/paste the text of the code - you've got to take a screenshot of it or manually copy it down outside the game. It's pretty infuriating, and I normally end up starting from scratch with the settings every time I start a new game, with is a bit of a faff. Why can't we just save the settings in the menu, so that we can select them in one click next time we play?

Agreed. +1 on this idea, you should really copy and paste that onto the wishlist, since this is only the discussion forum

[Jolan]

I start with Stalker settings, move the predator and resource settings to Voyager.

[bighara]

My current custom stalker has lower wildlife and closer detection ranges. I keep thinking that next time I may disable CFever, but I'm not sure. 

[JCM_TLD]

Pretty much interloper but changed the item decay, hunger, and thirst back to stalker. Also wolves to low, and there are still tons of them.

[Rumpo]

I too start with a Stalker base. I do this because I want to find hatchets and knives. I also include the rifle in the loot pool.

My favorite thing to do is be outside and explore, so I tone the weather down. I will often turn blizzards off entirely. It's still very cold, though. I turn loot down so it's rare to find things in containers. I crank up the amount of bears, moose, deer, rabbits, and fish. I turn down wolves.

Cabin fever is off, but the rest of the ailments stay on. I don't eat wolves or bears until level five cooking has been achieved.