Hadrian

I'd assume yes to the first, to be safe. And historically, unless they specifically say otherwise (and I believe they have, once or twice), they're fine with streaming as long as you make it abundantly clear you're streaming test branch. As a fellow content creator, I appreciate your asking about it.

Thanks, @Sherri! That really means a lot. At this juncture I'd suggest we all adjourn our back-and-forth, as it's not contributing meaningfully to the thread on which we're having it. This will be my last reply, and I encourage those connected to this little tangent to follow suit. Cheers. -H

Brother, listen... let me be real with you. You just wrote ... 1,000 words. Predicated on a misreading of my point. A misrepresentation/misunderstanding of me as a player, and my content as a YouTuber. And even a complete ignorance of the difficulty at which I play. I'm not sure what combination of personal circumstances and stressors could possess a person to write so much about something so trivial, let alone factually incorrect, but I sincerely hope it gets better for you. I've had a rough go of it these past 6-9 months, partly due to to what the world is going through, but what I'm reading smacks of someone boiling over with frustration and anger and I just want you to know that I feel you. And I hope you feel better. -H

LOL This just made my night. @Azdrawee and @Sherri, thanks for sticking up for the spirit of my content. @Killerboom204, I'm sorry you didn't find what you were looking for in it. None of my series, in any game, are ever intended to be expert-level. What I teach people in, say, Survival School is expressly intended to help beginners learn to find their way, period. If I offer advice as an expert in an area of the game, I will qualify it as such beforehand, and frankly, I rarely do. What I'll say in my defense is that if you think I survive purely on luck and more skilled players don't, you aren't being very honest with yourself or with me. -H

10/10 would fully support. -H

Yes. It's awful.

Just a toggle in the sound settings, please. I don't remember the last time I disliked a change to the game this much. I'm sure I'm not alone. In its current form, after spending some hours with the new version and watching streamers play for similar amounts of time, it feels repetitive (as there is only one iteration) and thus immersion-breaking. I preferred the atmosphere created simply by the subtle, tell-tale sounds of a nearby wolf and then the sounds of the growling and barking as it aggro'd. Thanks for considering, guys! Hope you are all happy, healthy, and safe. -H

That would be great, but to go that far without giving the Custom Players the changes mentioned would be not unlike robbing Peter to pay Paul. 🙂 I play on settings that mirror Interloper, and I definitively do not want the best items to spawn. To each their own, of course. I'm responding because I just want to be as clear as possible that this isn't something that can be resolved simply by tweaking the existing settings. It's the need for more degrees of freedom in the custom setting, with the clear justification that the Baseline setting currently controls two or three separate mechanics. I'd like to see those mechanics each have their own tweakable settings Oh, hell yeah. If the Devs were able to go as far (which I'm not asking them to do, mind you) as to implement scalable rarity for the clothing / tool spawns, the lowest settings could make it to where only one of each item spawns. That would address your suggestion and mine in one change / set of changes. It would mean a "High Quality Gear" setting with High to Low options, most likely. Then, of course, you'd have an "off" for folks like me who mostly want to avoid it, especially when playing for YouTube. -H

You're right; I'd forgotten that setting existed because I've had it glued to "Low" for literally ever. Ha. That said, what I would say based on experience playing with that setting on "Low" and Baseline Resource Availabillity on "Medium" (to keep Tools spawning) is that Baseline Resource Availability does still seem to control the lion's share of the variance in non-container world loot, despite the Loose Item setting. You have to think of the Baseline as the literal "start point" and the subsequent Loose Item Availability as a modifier. Lots of the Custom Settings work as modifiers. So, I think the original point still stands, although I think your caveat adds some clarity. Maybe the best solution is to put more weight in the Loose Item modifier than presently exists. Edit: And just to defer to a potential correction from Raphael, I might be wrong about the modifier function. All I know is that I have "Loose Item" on Low and changing Baseline to "Medium" sure seems to make lots more clothes spawn than spawn on Interloper. -H

So I've been dragging my feet on posting about this after talking about it endlessly elsewhere... oops. The following suggested change to the Custom Settings framework would increase my enjoyment of the already excellent Custom Mode by an order of magnitude. Here's the long and short of it: The very first Custom Setting, "Baseline Resource Availability," currently controls two to three settings in one. I, and I have it on good authority that many others feel similarly, would love to see those settings demarcated so we could manipulate them independently of one another. Why? Because I love the scarcity and challenge of Interloper, not only of items in general, but the absence of the best items ... but I do not at all care, and I never have, for the complete absence of the tools and feeling forced to go in specific directions (read: Forges) rather than exploring openly in any direction in the spirit of traditional, non-Interloper gameplay. Here are my thoughts. Baseline currently controls ... - The prevalence of non-container, in-world (indoor and outdoor) loot spawns - The availability of top-tier manufactured clothing (Expedition Parka, Mukluks, Gauntlets, etc.) - At its lowest setting, the availability of manufactured (non-improvised) tools such as the knife, hatchet, firestriker, etc. Here's why this is a major opportunity for the next sandbox update, in terms of a practical implementation that would address the core issue and an ideal implementation that asks far more, but fully realizes the potential of the change to the current mechanics. Primary / Most Practical Implementation: Create a separate setting, like the ones that already exist for Rifles & Revolvers, that allow Custom Players to play with manufactured tools enabled while playing with otherwise "Low" Interloper-level clothing and world loot spawns via the Baseline setting. Ideal / Most Ambitious Implementation: Split Baseline into three separate settings, one for baseline world / non-container loot, one for whether the top-of-the-line clothing items spawn, and then multiple toggles to control the availability (and perhaps rarity) of each tool so that the knife, hatchet, firestriker, etc could all be turned on/off just like the Rifle and Revolver. As an added thought, it would be great to see these individual settings have degrees of rarity (Rifle and Revolver, too), so we could set all these spawn frequencies to low, medium, high, etc. So as the primary implementation text implies, this is about allowing Custom Settings to recreate an authentic, traditional Long Dark survival experience at the highest level of difficulty and resource scarcity without the current contrivances, unique to Interloper and the lowest Baseline custom settings, that force players to play the game differently than they'd like to. Please. Please, Hinterland. Cherry on top. -H

I mean ... I'll still be playing. ;-) Sounds great, Raphael. Thank you and thanks to the team for all your hard work. Good luck with the fine-tuning and QA phase! -H

Energy shots don't weigh half a pound. js -H

Not to hop on this bandwagon too hastily, because I like most of the new system ... but as for chance to hit / HOW to hit ... my shooting is the worst it's ever been in TLD. The front sight seems uncharacteristically wide. I know I'm used to that fine point, but to have it replaced by something so broad and flat-topped is confusing. I've hit one target that I've intentionally shot at... of about 20 shots I've attempted. And that includes one of my classic "shoot at a wolf's face while it's charging" sure-shots. I missed. So far, "Your misses will make more sense than they used to" and "You'll sprain less than you used to" are not working out for me at all. "But the mechanics are deeper" isn't doing it as a justification for either at this point. Maybe I'll adjust, but as of right now, I'm so annoyed that I'm posting about it here. Which isn't normal. -H

Me too, but I thought it best to stop short of putting words in others' mouths. People nowadays love to take statements from 3 months, 3 years, even 3 decades ago and assume they're still gospel truth. Sentiments change. General consensus, though, so far seems to be that it's highly unlikely to happen. :-) -H

Raphael and team are not much for the word "never," but let's just say there have been multiple strong assertions aimed at steering players away from hoping for multiplayer. Maybe actually try the game sooner than later? Worst case, you wouldn't like it, but you'd stop yourself from waiting around for something that's not likely to ever come. And you might have a lot more fun than you were expecting. :-) -H