Sharing my 100+ days Interloper run

[Glacia]

With few regions left to explore and most of the world already looted and visited, i would like to share my run progress before i explore the far territory.

DAY 1: This run started on TWM mountain, near the summit, but unlike most players i always prefer to visit Pleasant Valley and explore much latter the summit. I find the hacksaw and hammer on PV but not a lot of good clothing even exploring the entire map, making the region considerably dangerous to stay.

DAY 4: Then i moved as quickly as possible to Mystery Lake and Forlorn Muskeg, in order to craft my first Bow and Tools! . The 'Real' run starts when you have the bow and arrows, everything else can be doed earlier or later.

DAY 7: I left the materials curing at the camp office and i started my trip to forlorn muskeg, staying two days and crafting around 20 arrowheads, a knife and a hatchet. 

DAY 8 to DAY 40: Again in mystery lake, i make most of the end-game clothing like the bear coats, rabbit hat/mittens and a LOT of arrows. I also stockpiled a lot of food and water and left most of the resources and loot on the camp office, making it my base. I have never been a fan of the region, i always used to settle on coastal highway or broken railroad, sometimes TWM, but never ML!

¿Why? Because i feel Mystery Lake as a boring region, it's beautiful and easy to survive, but it doesn't offer much more. I always try to play new experiences on new runs so this time i give a try to the region.

DAY 41:  After several weeks and stray arrows, and other mistakes, i was needing more arrowheads and other resources. Also, i need various clothing pieces to complete my gear to get ready for the 50 days temperature drop; the perfect option is a trip to coastal highway/desolation point.

DAY 42 to DAY 50:  With around 50 arrowheads crafted and desolation point/coastal highway looted, i can return to my main base with almost all the best gear ready and enough resources for hundreds of days. 

DAY 62:  With everything i need to explore the world and surviving forever (If i don't make mistakes, of course..), i moved to pleasant valley one more time. The farmstead it's actually my secondary base, i have a lot of stockpiled food/water and some resources if i need to go back there.

DAY 64 to DAY 68:  I explored ash canyon in a quick trip, because the region it's incredible cold and i just want the backpack and the better crampons. The loot here is very good actually, but is not advisable to stay here on early game.

DAY 69 and DAY 70: I explored the summit, at this point i don't need anything, im just exploring for fun and maybe keep tools like whetstones and sewing kits. The crampons on the plane where a big surprise, and i also get a hammer/hacksaw here. It seems the summit is now even better to reach early in the game, it offers a lot of tools but you can no longer get the distress pistol.

DAY 75 to DAY 83: Again in the farmstead, i improved the secondary base a lot with more resources and food, also i re-stock arrows. I really love the farm as a main base, but it's very far from the new DLC regions and i think mystery lake it's way better.

DAY 84: On this day i make the most dumb and insane decision, explore blackrock. I didn't expect to find anything of value here but with the loot refresh i thought the region should be better. It was a big mistake, the region is even worse.

This was the only moment of my run where my condition get incredible low and i face a very high probability of death. Not just the weather is horrible, timberwolves are everywhere and it seems flares and noisemakers are bugged at the moment, you can't even drop 5% of the pack morale with a noisemaker when before just one was enough to fully scare a pack. With a lot of close death moments, i managed to explore the entire region and i used the prison itself as a temporary base.

In my stay on the region i used the ballistic vest always and i think im alive now thanks to the item. Is still the worst cloth piece of the game but at least you can use on the region against the several timberwolves packs roaming. I waited several days for an aurora to get to the room with the milling machine:  The aurora never arrived.

Also, i almost lost the 50% of my clothing (Some parts even go to 4%) due to timberwolves attacks. It was the first time of my 600 game hours that i had to forcefully leave a region! And i barely survived, i was attacked by a 5-wolf pack just when i exit the prison, and i get FIVE HEMORRAGES!

With few arrows left but the pack already defeated, i leave the region with 10% condition. I barely managed to regain condition on the transition zones, but i survived. If you are playing interloper:  Never go blackrock no matter what happens!

DAY 102: I stayed a few days on the farm in order to recover my condition and repair my clothes.

DAY 105:  Again on mystery lake, i left some resources looted from blackrock/TWM/AC on the base and i inmediatly travel to Milton/HRV. 

DAY 108 to DAY 112:  Ignoring milton i explored first HRV, traveling around the caves and reaching the signal. I have never fully explored the region because usually isn't worth the efforth, the best loot is on the caves/signal. I get some interesting resources and i quickly get back to Milton.

DAY 113 and DAY 114: I looted all the Milton houses and buildings, only lefting the ravine (Im likely gonna get back here later). Not much interesting here, the loot it's actually very good (On my run, milton was the best region in terms of loot). I keep 70 cloth pieces with me because Mystery Lake no longer has more.

DAY 115 (Current day of my run): Back on my base i stored all the cloth and resources and im again with 100% condition and my clothing fully repaired. Also i have everything i need in order to survive even for 500 days.

My next move it's gonna be Bleak Inklet, the only hard region (Besides the DLC) left to explore. I don't expect to get anything interesting here but it's always for the fun, i really like the region and the aurora puzzle.

Then my next move will be moving ALL my resources (Except for the food/water) to Broken Railroad. My idea is making the maintenace yard as my late game base and get ready here to travel to the DLC new regions.

 

A few things that i want to highlight for my experience as Interloper:

- The loot refresh is amazing, it's like playing a new game, you need to relearn everything.

- Bearskin coats are now much easier to craft, what i really dislike because it's an incredible OP item and should not be easy to craft. This change makes interloper a bit easier for everyone.

- I love memento caches, they fit on the game atmosphere and are very creative. Most of them are clues but sometimes you can get quality loot, encouraging players to fully explore a region. However, i think (Only for inteloper) some items should not spawn on memento caches (Deerskin pants for a example). Again for balance, letting the players loot an animal cloth piece really changes the progress of an interloper run.

- I think the lantern variant should spawn on interloper, is not a broken item and since we don't have a single variant item avaliable, this can be a great addition to the game experience.

The new content and DLC feels amazing right now, and im excited for everything that is coming the next year, thanks HTL!

Im gonna post an update when i reach 500 days