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I hope there will be Survival mode updates after Episode 4. Even more so I hope that region goes to survival mode as well. I'm bit concerned with the overall "after Episode 4, we go Episode 5" without mentioning survival mode updates before Episode 5. EDIT: Personally, I believe Survival mode is not "technically completed". Mountain Lions / Cougars are missing. The wildlife's variety is very minimal, the AI is pretty basic, there are no NPCs, the variety on food items is also low, the gameplay mechanics are okay-ish and so on. This is not meant to harshly criticize the devs, they did awesome job! But, I find it, in my opinion, bit concerning you call it complete when it probably isn't too complete. I filled the survey. I hope the survival mode will be expanded beyond (and before) Episode 5 release!

As mentioned before, this region is not worth it to stay. Just like hushed river valley, it's pretty much explore, loot, leave and forget its existence.

Much like the hushed river valley (and maybe bleak inlet), this region is mainly for exploration, grab whatever loot it has and leave. It's not meant to set up base or whatever. This is good and bad. Good because it's new region to visit, get loot, etc. Bad because it's one-time experience. As in, there's no reason to come back to this region, ever.

So I have noticed a few things. Do you see this "ferry" (idk the name of it) something where you can move from places to places? Look at it. It's connected to some long lines. Ok, go check the MAIN picture (the one Raphael posted) and watch top right corner between the mountains, you can see two dark lines. This most likely indicates that you can use this ferry to move between those HUGE mountains! Imagine that... I wonder how it will work and how breathtaking this could be. And finally, Compare the Raphael's picture versus this one. Watch the mountains. They are HUGE in both pictures. Therefore, this prison (fences, towers, surely it's a prison, maybe the Blackrock ones where the bus we find at Mountain Town?) is likely located in Ash Canyon. If not, then it's on the very next region, Preservance Mills something. Can't wait regardless.

Dude, it would be actually cool to have furry companions in-game. In fact, I kept asking for wolfdog/dogs as companions in-game, the community have been asking for it since ages. "For what it's worth, I think a wolf buddy would be an awesome addition to the game!" That's actually awesome but I doubt a developer said it, unfortunately. Most likely a Social Media member. Regardless, it would be pretty cool to have companions in-game, albeit they should be ultra rare to find (Perhaps 1-2 each game, regardless of region) to as to prevent ruining the whole loneliness, etc. This could also encourage the players to take care of their furry more. Fingers crossed if they actually make it a thing.

Deaf players: Are we a joke to you? (I'm deaf btw) Good update but maybe I wish you should have considered deaf players about this but it's fine. That is unless you put the cries, footsteps, etc in Closed Captions.

That's Fluffy.

I don't mind provided the videos will have either closed captions or Youtube subtitles atleast for deaf / hard hearing players.

I was surprised they added "Closed Captions" in The Long Dark so I decided to turn it on and see how it works. I only played Survival Mode. I was surprised how the devs decided to implement such totally useless system. The only thing I get is: "Moderate breathing, Moderate breathing, Moderate breathing, Moderate breathing, Moderate breathing, Moderate breathing, Moderate breathing, High breathing, High breathing, Pain Grunts, High breathing, Moderate breathing, Moderate breathing, Moderate breathing, Moderate breathing, Moderate breathing, Moderate breathing, Moderate breathing, Moderate breathing" and so on. That's it. No "Wolf howles", "Wolf barks", "Bear roars", "Gunshot", "Hurried footsteps", "Wolf yelp" and so on. If devs are reading this then let me say that I'm disappointed you implemented a useless feature. I mean, c'mon, only 3 texts? Moderate breathing, High breathing, Pain grunts? That's not closed captions. Besides, those texts serve no purpose lmao. It's not like your high breathing will attract nearby predators. Plus, I keep getting spammed with "Moderate breathing" every single three second.

The flashlights are very bright in darkness hah.

And... they just added wolf packs (part of wildlife interaction?).

We all know Raphael relocated Fluffy (again?) from Dam to undisclosed location (likely Ice Caves?) to the new region, IF she's there. The game is simple. Find for her and note it down here in spoilers. Pretty curious where she is now!

Yes. I suspect a gunsmith system.

Oh, come on! I thought we agreed that Fluffy resides in the River Valley caves! :c

Awesome update so far, Revolver does a great addition! 1. Since you was a developer for the Company of Heroes, could you tell us what is your opinion on Company of Heroes 2, if there is any? Many fans from CoH criticized CoH 2 for being quite different, uninteresting, etc. 2. At some point you said: "game's current performance is preventing us from doing a lot of things we'd like to do, including: graphics improvements, AI improvements, more animations, environment detail, post FX, Switch port, world streaming, etc." and "The Long Dark is pushing a lot of the engine's capabilities due to the size of our game, essentially." Does it mean that there might be a scenario where you will no longer be able to add more content on TLD due to the game reaching engine's limit? 3. The more you release content updates for Survival mode the more I am thinking about how awesome companions would be with you. Namely, dogs. Will they ever be a thing? I can imagine the huge technical difficulties but.. Hey, they would be awesome for short to medium term survivals. Maybe players will feel very emotional once after 300-days survival their one and only companion dies trying to protect the owner from the wildlife attacks or old age. 4. Finally, have you guys used any mocap for the wolves? They look so real. If not, are you considered to begin mocapping a dog into wolf for quicker animation work, etc? Thanks so much! If those are too many questions let me know and/or pick any of them instead of answering every of them.

Thanks Raph, your comment contradicted someone's statement the fact that HL is allegedly "hostile" to mods. I truly appreciate it.

It has been mentioned several times during the Story Mode where Astrid escaped to. It would be great to see it as next region. I foresee it to be connected between Mountain and Mystery.

Same. Just found the exact book inside a car by the Quonset Gas Station (existing save file).

Which house/region? Might relocate there.

Don't forget that I don't use mods but an admin member of the TLD wikia uses a program to extract high quality pictures from the game. Check the wikia, check pages and you will understand. This program doesnt seem to work now. I doubt HLG will give us a tool allowing us to resume the work nor give us the high quality pics cos that would be time consuming for them.

But don't you think that there is a program that is detrimental to TLD wikia? If you visit there, you will see ton of pics produced by a program which took a lot pics from there and put there (PNG pics, icons, etc). This "ban" to mods will eliminate any form of quality work being done to TLD wikia and that is a bad image. Besides, I do remember you guys appreciated our work on wikia but now restrict/limit our work even further by disablind mods/programs.. That's awful. If mods create more work for the team, sure. Just release a mod/program that allow us to get pictures from the game itself. Orthewise, let me know if I can contact you privately for pictures we want to extract from the game so that we can use them for TLD wikia for quality sake. Thanks.

Yeah, a wikia whose Raphael liked our work. Making screenshots are shit quality and has background. This is why we use PNG icons as they are ready made icons with no background.

"What we aren't going to allow is people linking to mods or sharing how to mod the game." - We are not linking mods or sharing how to mod the game so we are good. My main concern is, the update killed a helpful program that was used solely for the TLD wikia. I dont think thats considered as cheat tool if it is used for wikia, is it?

Idk why but this sounds too fascist move for a game dev company, let alone Canadian ones. I hope you will be proved wrong, idk why discussing a mod will now get you straight up banned in modern gaming industry world.