Bolt cutters

[octavian]

I had a caffeine dream I can't talk about but long story short I ended up with an unnatural desire to search the forums for bolt cutters.

And lo and behold, "I just saw bolt cutters go into the game yesterday in fact." - Alan Lawrance, Technical Director, Tue Aug 19, 2014.

So by sheer power of deduction, bolt cutters are in the game since Aug 18 2014.

355 days and counting they're sleeping, sleeping having a dream of cutting.

Maybe August is the month they'll wake up and cut cut cut

Also, there's literally one mention about them, kind of pretty weird if you ask me. Tin foil hat, on the head, placed.

So nobody even thought of wanting one.

Surprise! Now you want one.

[Aduron]

I think on the higher difficulties some buildings should be locked. Imagine frantically searching in the thick of a blizzard, praying to find a place to shelter. Finally, on the edge of life, you find what you're looking for -- you run to your supposed safety, only to find a small piece of metal blocking your path, a padlock or a deadbolt. You try to bash your way in, but it takes too many calories without the right tools, and exhausted and frozen, you slowly set down and let yourself fade into the long dark.

Bolt cutters (or a big axe) would have helped you there! I think I read somewhere that there is a model in the game already for a fireaxe, so I think something like this might be happening.

[octavian]

I think I read somewhere that there is a model in the game already for a fireaxe, so I think something like this might be happening.

Magic! How can you possibly know what models are in the game if they are not used?

[Aduron]

Magic! How can you possibly know what models are in the game if they are not used?

It was an old post on the TLD subreddit. Not my find, someone else's.

Edit: there's bolt cutters there too, so there's hope!

[madrepityu]

Cool, I never heard about there's bolt cutter in the game. I cannot wait to use them for the same reason as Aduron mentioned.

[octavian]

Mmm, interesting :idea:

[Larzush]

Have anyone really used bolt cutters? They are really big and heavy and clumsy to use. (small ones are nice and tidy, but you can only cut some thin wire or nails, for example locks that are used in industrian/commerial places are hardened steel and like 1cm+ thick so you need almost like 1,5m long bolt cutter to have any effect) There is other methods to break certain locks. Afaik pry bar could work in this matter, than to make 100 different tools where you can choose only 3-6 to carry with you and ending up with havin wrong tools in wrong places. (IMO)

[Patrick Carlson]

I had a caffeine dream I can't talk about but long story short I ended up with an unnatural desire to search the forums for bolt cutters.

Nice to see The Long Dark having this effect on you. ;-)

Or was it the caffeine?

[octavian]

I had a caffeine dream I can't talk about but long story short I ended up with an unnatural desire to search the forums for bolt cutters.

Nice to see The Long Dark having this effect on you. ;-)

Or was it the caffeine?

Neither, it's the hours mostly, I average about 17, either playing TLD or looking at a wall of text about TLD. Somebody out there feels my pain :lol:

I feel you pain too, pain buddy, whoever you are.

[Rusty_Old_F250]

I like the idea of some buildings being locked, but I'm not so sure about bolt cutters, those things are heavy! Better just to smash out a window.

Sam

[JErosion]

I do like the idea of having special buildings or even strong boxes you cant enter/open unless you have the right tool. Like having a key in the gas station register that open a strong box that hidden somewhere on the Coastal Highway(different house or basement every game) or think of that one boarded up building on the coastal highway, I want to pop those boards off and see whats inside

[Pyro]

+1 on locked buildings / sheds.