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If this is the case, then I would be really happy if it was addressed. I feel like I keep running into it, but maybe it's just because the amount of times I drop into the red and stumble into a bed is high. That being said, sleep is the only way to begin recovery, so it is such a key component of the game it needs to function in a clear manner. I would like to say thank you for joining the topic, I see that you are looking to help and I am grateful that you said something when you could have just skipped on by. My only condition at the time was a sprained wrist, and no I didn't have much in the way of warm clothing, I was relying on the screen that told me going to sleep would keep me at a +3 C bonus. It is good to know that sleeping for very short intervals is a potential solution to this, but is that good for the overall atmosphere of the game? Is it more enjoyable to go through three different black screens just to get through a night? This just sounds so needlessly tedious to me. Do you enjoy that aspect of the game or do you just deal with it? It doesn't feel like I made a mistake, it feels like the game lied to me and punished me for trusting it. I don't play on Custom settings because you get 0% feat progression, and I do want to get those feats. At this point, I would even be happy for a feat that you could swap on like "Light Sleeper" gained for peacefully sleeping 500 hours, you now wake up if a bar runs empty during sleep. Outdoors anything can happen and you are taking your life into your own hands. I can get that. But INDOORS there should not be such massive fluctuations of temperature. And I appreciate the advice but this still sounds like coping to me when we could be petitioning for something better - is it fun for you having to go through 4 different black screens settling in for 2 hours at a time? Do you feel that adds more to the experience and immersion? Do you not lose the bonus of your herbal tea having to go through wonky mechanics like that also? I understand that not everything in this game can be completely realistic, but having to go through 5 different power nap sessions, perfectly waking up in 2 hour intervals instead of just being able to sleep like a normal human being without an internal alarm clock feels... like I'm gaming a mechanic and it pulls me out of my immersion. No other game captures my complete immersion like the Long Dark, I actually shiver when I hear that wind whipping in the blizzard. But this solution just feels so silly to me when it doesn't have to be that way.

This is such a bad mechanic. I have over 220 hours in this game, and have recently started in on Interloper. However, I think I've just about had it with dying in my sleep for no discernible reason. It ruins my immersion to suddenly die with no warning. It rips me right out and reminds me that I'm just playing a game and that sometimes it wants to artificially punished me. This has already happened a few times, but most recently I staggered into the Lighthouse on DP with 5%, struggled up the stairs to the bed, ate 1200 calories worth of cooked rabbit, drank an herbal tea, filled the rest of the bar with water, and then climbed into my +3 C warm bed for some much needed shut eye and heal up my sprained wrist. Watched the bars slowly start to fill up and leaned back with a smile. GAME OVER. RUN FINISHED. Suddenly dying when you do everything right is not "part of the challenge" it is just punishing RNG that doesn't need to be there. In other game modes you at least wake up if something is going wrong, but what am I supposed to do with dying randomly in the middle of the night? Did a window break in the lighthouse for it to suddenly drop -5 C without reason? Did my character suffer a cardiac arrest of the stress of being hunted by wolves all day? Did my character roll around too much in their sleep and choke themselves to death with their bedsheets? WHO KNOWS? This is such a bad mechanic and it is such a turnoff for this otherwise really fun mode that I WANT to enjoy. If there are some masochists who really enjoy rolling dice to see if they randomly die anytime they shut their eyes, throw that on as optional setting when setting up the game.