Tbone555

Oh yes. I remember my old homestead in pv. I stayed in the farmhouse for a long time. Maybe 47 days or so. And it was nice. It was a made my own paradise. I absolutely love the farmhouse. But then I got caught in a blizzard and died. That happens a lot. It's really one region where you need to have a bearskin bedroll on you at all times.

I just don't prefer the custom setting because I've been playing this game since late 2013 on stalker and I'm just accustomed to that default experience. It feels classic in a way that custom doesn't. I have tried custom and it just isn't for me. In some ways it feels like cheating, in others it just takes too long to set up, in others it requires way too much trial runs and exploring settings to get that "perfect" sandbox. So I'd rather just play a default setting. Which is ironic since I believe I may have been one of the first people to mention custom sandbox back in alpha and was very for it way back when lol Back to the original topic, maybe I have just been getting very lucky, maybe it's an intentional addition for future updates, who knows? I'm still enjoying the game, it's not like it's a huge deal. Just a minor gripe which will be either explained or ironed out in time

That is an awesome mug! I'm a bit of a collector myself. I had the original hinterland mug in my collection until it was unfortunately broken while doing the dishes

As I previously stated, I don't like using custom settings and you're missing the entire point I'm making. I'm saying, as opposed to every other loot item drop rate, I find way way way more revolver rounds than I do other loot items. It feels unbalanced on the default stalker setting.

Well it's just like you said. Beginning the game, for experts at least, is basically just "eking out a measley existence with a countdown clock" and not actually "surviving" in a harsh environment because of the abundant supplies and resources for those who know where to obtain them. And supplies are more abundant on lower difficulties, which is why people play interloper and stalker. For the challenge. For mother nature to throw you out on your arse before you're ready for it instead of pilgrim style making you feel right at home with multiple containers full of everything you need. I prefer it when you wake up in the morning starving and have no idea if you're gonna live to see tomorrow. That's what the "survival" aspect is all about. If you DO want to use this game for a really pretty hunting and cabin decorating sim, by all means do so. In pilgrim and voyageur. But that shouldn't be what stalker and above is all about. As the description states, your demise is waiting behind every hilltop. Except, it's not when I have 130 revolver rounds.

Definitely great points!

*insert manly man meme here* xD

Oh and yes, one more early game tact I tend to use if I'm on a more populated map, ie coastal highway, etc, is RECLAIMED WOOD. break down lots of shelves and crates and chairs and etc. Reclaimed wood is a little heavier but it does have a decent burn rate. Couple it with all the loose sticks you find and you can build a very decent fire.

Animal skin clothing. Craft some clothes ASAP before the weather turns cold. I mean colder. You know what I mean. Find something to keep the chill off your bones and you can spend the whole day cutting wood! Good luck friend

Hello, my fellow survivors. I have a very important question I must bring to your attention. Perhaps the most important of them all. ... how do you take your coffee? Mine is pretty self explanatory from the picture. BLACKER THAN BLACK! That's two tablespoons of grinds for this tiny serving Looking forward to hearing some of your replies. This should be a fun little topic! Cheers!

I'm not fully sure, I can't remember. I did pass through mountain town on my last game, but that was months ago. I'm finding less rounds in mystery lake, but they're still more than enough. I've killed like 20 wolves in my run already. I have way too much ammo so I've been just shooting the wolves and harvesting them for fun and to up my skill. I found most of my supply in coastal highway and desolation point. They were EVERYWHERE in those 2. Also found 2 boxes in the hunting lounge.

I've always heard of people using cars and fishing huts to hunt bears but I've never used them. I prefer the challenge that bear I took down showed up and stalked me for 3 nights while I cooked my moose meat. I guess he liked the way it smelled. The 3rd night I had enough and put about 8 bullets in him between my revolver and rifle! Next morning I found him dead by the pond oddly enough, even with a level 2 rifle skill I dropped my moose instantly with one bullet. It was the first moose I ever hunted and I didn't anticipate it to be so easy.

Where do all my fellow survivors like to hunt in the long dark? My personal favorite spot, as long as you have a revolver to fend off the wolves easily, is the Unnamed Pond in mystery lake. This is a PRIME location in my opinion, especially when you get lucky and catch that moose spawn zone in your game. In my latest sandbox, I've never tried hunting there. But it happened to be my moose spawn, which is why I set up in the cabin to begin with. I quickly realized, I'm mere FEET away from a moose spawn, a bear spawn, a wolf spawn, AND a deer spawn all in the same area. I took down a moose, a bear, and about 5 wolves in my week spent at this location waiting for that moose hide to cure. It's also a great spawn for old man's beard and I think there's rose hips pretty close by too. It's just an amazing location to set up and hunt with shelter mere feet away. If only this location consisted of a stove and work bench, man I might just settle down here. So tell me, where do y'all love to take in the scenery and take down some animals in the quiet apocalypse?

Thank you! It's been quite a while since I've written, it's nice to have a little refresher. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

You misunderstand my point though. On stalker mode, everything is challenging to find. Food, medicine, rifle rounds, etc. There are WAY too many revolver rounds and it just feels very out of place to literally every other loot item in the game at that difficulty. Imagine finding pilgrim level food loot while playing on interloper. That's what it feels like. It just isn't right.

This is a short story I came up with based on my latest survival sandbox. I'm about 23 days in and desperately need a moose hide satchel since my carry weight has remained in the low 80s for the majority of my run, with all my supplies and firewood and excess amount of food I've hoarded in my travels. I've been camped out at the unnamed pond cabin for going on a week waiting for a moose to spawn and am on the verge of cabin fever, and so this idea popped into my head. Hope y'all enjoy. . You grip the frozen door knob, which takes a little jimmying before it will budge, and swing the door open. You walk into the creaky, long-abandoned cabin after a long days travel. You don't know where you are, if you're being honest, and this lone cabin in the middle of the great northern nowhere is a great strike of luck and a massive relief as it feels as if a weight has been lifted off your weary shoulders. You can finally rest your pained and callused feet. You didn't know if you'd have a roof over your head tonight. You didn't know if you would survive the night. There's still the issue of food as your empty stomach growls at you as if angry for missing your last three meals. You're so ravenous you're beginning to cramp, and those cattails you saw at the yet unnamed pond are starting to look pretty appetizing. You daydream about their bland deliciousness and your stomach grows angrier at you for it. Your eyes finally adjust to the dark cabin and you see a sight which would of taken you aback just a few days ago. But it's become all too familiar in this new world. A dead body, hunched up in the corner staring at you almost as if it were still life-like and calling out for help. Cold fingers just barely gripping onto a rifle. You kneel down to the frozen corpse and pry the fingers from around the rifle with that feeling of shame that you can never quite get used to. You know it's savage and disrespectful to steal from the dead. But in this new world you have to choose how far you would go to survive, and you've made your choice. The dim light shining through the blinds, dust floating peacefully in contrast of the darkness, falls upon a small journal beside the husk of the man, stained with mildew. You pick up the journal, cold to the touch. Then you open it and thumb curiously through the worn pages as you catch a whiff of the aged paper, it reminds you of your grandma's old scrap book she used to show you when you were a teenager, to which you always scoffed and told her you thought it was silly. You don't think it's silly anymore. She always told you one day you'd see the value in such things. "Now more than ever," you think to yourself. And you begin to read upon the scrawled musings of the survivor before you. "Moose hunt, day 1: I've been wandering for days. My pack is so heavy with all that extra food and firewood I've developed a pain in my lower back. I've stopped here for the night. Might go down and pick some of those cattail later for supper, I was lucky to find that abandoned supply cache on the other side of the pond but that food won't last forever. I think I deserve a rest. I did spot some torn up trees on my way in, looks like a moose has been scratching his antlers. Would be some damn good eating. Plus I may be able to use his hide to fashion a satchel and distribute that extra weight on my back. That would be nice. I'll sleep on it. Moose hunt, day 2: Okay. I'm dead set on that moose idea. Something about that seems like a really good plan, I just have a great feeling. My mouth is watering over that roasted moose meat already! I'll lay up for a few days, rest my back, hunt me a moose. I saw him on my way back from the pond today! Or rather his antlers. He's HUGE! He was kneeling down eating some grass. I snaked on past him, don't want him to know I'm out here just yet. Moose hunt, day 5: I can't find him. He was just here, I don't get it. Where can he be? Moose don't hunt, they're territorial and lay up in their own zone. Maybe looking for a mate? No. Not this time of year. Moose hunt, day 8: I laid out some cattail to try and bait my moose. I'll eat good tonight. God I hope I'll eat good tonight. That food is going faster than I anticipated. Moose hunt, day 9: Still haven't seen him. Moose hunt, day 13: I'm so hungry. I'm so lonely. Please God let that animal be out there. Moose hunt day 16: I heard him! I heard him scratching his antlers on the side of my cabin! I know I did! He's out there, I'm gonna eat tonight! Moose hunt 17: It was a tree limb. I heard a tree limb scratching my cabin wall. Day 24(?): Moose. Mooses? Meese. Day *illegible angry scribbles, slightly torn paper underneath*: He's gone. He's not here. The moose isn't here. He's toying with me. He hates me. I HATE him. I'm gonna eat him. I wish he wanted to be my friend. Did I go outside this week? I think I forgot... *the next page is completely torn out save the top of the paper. You can make out 'day 39 I thi'* Why do I count the days? I don't know what day it is anymore. I hate that moose. I saw him today looking through my window. He wants to talk to me, to be my friend. But he's not invited in. And I'm not coming out there. He's the reason I'm so sad. I ate my last mouldy cracker today. It hurt. I can hear him scratching at my door. Well scratch scratch scratch, Mr. Moose. Scratch away. You won't get me. I know you want to eat me. I won't let you. Scratch scratch scratch. I hate him. I hate him so much. He scratches to taunt me. He's a bully. I ate the stuffing out of my pillow, but it didn't taste very good. I'm feeling tired. I think I'll lay down for a bit. I let the moose in today. He's here to take me back home. He's my friend." And with that, the journal ends. You can still see the dried tear drops on the pages. And now knowing this man's grim story, you decide to pick your heavy bag up and continue on. You can't feel right about staying here now. You grip the cold blue steel of the rifle, and lay it across his lap, leaving him to his tomb. As you walk back through the door, you turn and look at it, and run your fingers along the smooth wood. There are no scratches on the door. You glance up, and see a huge moose standing there in the tree line, staring you down. Biggest you've ever seen. Your stare meets his, almost in a complete daze, before you simply nod at the moose. He turns and walks away. You sling your backpack over your shoulder, and continue down the long dark path.

I laughed way too hard at this. Thank you.

Hunting lodge basement in broken railroad, in the back seat of one of the cars outside the hunting lodge, Dave's (rave) cave in mystery lake, and one of the signal fire caches in hushed river valley. All the possible spawns I've found. Good luck! It's a very fun weapon to play around with. Especially with the ample ammo laying around 😛 I understand that, but I don't like using the custom settings. I'm a huge fan of just the classic stalker setting, but it's not a difficulty issue. I feel the default spawn rate just hasn't been tuned. I keep 6 in the chamber and 20 in my pack at all times, and have left at least 60 - 100 rounds behind in my travels. And I've only been alive 22 days, and have only PARTIALLY explored 4 maps. By partially I mean little to no scavenging at all and just picking up what was on the way to the hunting lodge. They're laying around, quite literally, everywhere. On dead bodies, in containers, on the floor, in lockers, at almost every location. It's really crazy how many rounds I could have had stockpiled if I wasn't more concerned about my carry weight.

So I went to lay out my gear tonight and I noticed something... odd. How the HELL, have I been fitting THOSE flares, into THAT flare gun!?

I feel like there are just WAY too many rounds laying around for the revolver. This makes it way too overpowered as a tool, given that I have ample rounds just laying around. Too many to even carry with me, matter of fact. Hostile wildlife is a complete moot point. I'm finding as many revolver rounds as I would in a standard FPS, and this is a survival game! This seriously needs to be tuned

That sounds awesome!! What I've always wanted to see is an old abandoned airfield. Probably not a big airport, since great bear doesn't strike me as the kind of place to have a giant airport, but just a small airfield with a bunch of cessnas on the strip and airplane hangers and luggage in a small waiting area. A place like this would of been long abandoned, even before the event. So it would be an interesting place to poke around! Totally with you on blackrock fed pen! I'd bet all those blood-thirsty criminals would have busted out and taken control of the prison during the event. In wintermute it would be a dangerous area filled with hardened criminals, in survival mode it will have been long abandoned!

Just as the title reads. I like to set screenshots from this game as my xb1 wallpaper, however I have to go to the options and toggle the HUD off to do so, so my survival meters don't get in the pic. I know pc has a hotkey to turn this off, why not Xbox one? My suggestion is to double tap the B button. Then tap it once to toggle it back on

Best of luck to you, friend! I also have that issue - I wander around ML and CH more than anything. Just because ML is the first map I ever played and it just feels like home, I suppose. And CH for the supplies. I HAVE spent time in all the maps, but the more barren ones like FM or HRV, I rarely visit for the lack of supplies and man made shelters, which typically fuel my playthroughs, at least until late game. Which I haven't made it to yet. I always get bored and start over before I'm able to hit even day 100. Early game is the funnest part to me, admittedly. Which is also probably why I've never hung up my boots anywhere. Now, it wasn't always like this. Before I knew the game I was scared to go anywhere in fear of getting stranded. I remember spending 50 something days in the camp office once living off of cat tail and fish, and died before I got the courage to leave the map! Good times haha. Oh what I would give to experience this game like new again

That's the great thing about being a nomad - there aren't many survival tasks! I tend to be more of a nomadic researcher. I'll move somewhere and gather up all the food and skill books in the local area, do a bunch of research, forage for food if need be, I can always find plenty of rabbits if nothing else. And I just read, relax, sip my tea, then pack up and move on when supplies run out. Knowing all the maps like the back of my hand really help with that too, since I'm one of those late 2013 game preview players lol! And when I get to the end of the line, well I turn around and do it again. Except now I have a rifle for my food and plenty of cured pelts left behind to come back and collect for some crafting as the weather turns colder. I've never really stayed in one spot. I get antsy and crave adventure 😁

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