Ruruwawa

2 minutes ago, Timber Wolf said:

My guess is that with more tests all of the numbers would even out.

My guess too.  I don't think there's enough evidence of a difference to make more testing worthwhile, though.

@Timber Wolf thanks, just doublechecking.  The SD for the exhausted and overburdened states seem to suggest this states are slightly protective, and that just can't be right lol.  You conclusion, that these states have little to no effect, seems to be right.  Good work, and surprising too.

Awesome!  I have a question about the data.  Are the numbers in the table remaining condition (n), or condition lost (100-n)?

8 hours ago, Raphael van Lierop said:

What writing is entirely original?

I won't claim to be a great writer. Never have. All I will say is that Elegy came from the heart. Just as with the game, I'm less concerned about whether people think I'm a good writer, and more concerned with if I feel the writing reflects my own creative values and inner voice. Just like the game's art style, gameplay, sound, music, etc. are all expressions of my creative values and inner voice. That's what it means to direct something.

Anyone is free to take their own shot and writing a short film, designing and writing a game, running a studio, etc. if they think they can do better. There's no shortage of experts on the internet! But it takes very little to write a comment online, and a lot more to actually create something...

I agree with you 100%.  I love both the short film and the game itself and I'm pretty sure I have your creative expression to credit for that.  Sorry it didn't come through in my comments. 

Sadly, it seems F10 now includes some UI elements.

23 hours ago, Fuarian said:

See it's funny. I was talking to someone on the subreddit they said that Raph is a bad writer. I showed them this and they still said it was bad. At least on the forums we have people that get it.

I understand a little of what they are saying, much of that quote is far from original.  But pretty powerful in this specific context, and great acting certainly sells it.

"A ghost in the machine" is a 60+ yo psychology concept, from long before the internet, about where the body ends and the mind begins.  This quote made me pause to think about the psychology of projecting ourselves as avatars into the internet.  As we're doing right now on this forum-- not movie-style virtual reality, but with a certain emotional reality nonetheless.  Ruruwawa is me, even though I'm just typing words at a keyboard in my home to be read by someone else on his phone in another country.  Then more thinking, in the context of TLD.  What happens to that emotional avatar when it's machine -- technology -- is no more?  What happens to me when my avatars are amputated?

I think it's good writing, particularly for the mainstream movie genre.

10 hours ago, cekivi said:

On the bright side, I'm Dr. cekivi now

Congratulations!

@Timber Wolf thanks, I'm having fun with my flaky new toy.

On 8/2/2017 at 4:30 PM, GhostHawk said:

Tip: A way to kill a dear with a gun is to spook it and make run into a wolf. Then you must simply just scare wolf away from your kill flares scare wolves.

Now that stones are in the game you can throw a rock to startle the deer, and save the bullet.  

9 minutes ago, Thrasador said:

Cool, thanks for the quick response! 

Normally I leave it to @Patrick Carlson  to reply, but he was posting 6 hours ago and it's 5:30am on the west coast atm.  Gonna assume (hope!) he's getting some sleep.

8 minutes ago, Thrasador said:

I just got to Grey Mother's house and wish to confirm when selecting dialogue choices after the cut scene, that those dialogue choices are not spoken aloud? Mine were not...is that a bug, or working as intended? 

Working as intended.  

Pushed play.  Hit pause to get the headphones, 'cause  whoever is narrating is the real deal.  Rewind.  Watched (and wept)... powerful stuff.  Got to the credits...

Fantastic!

a LOT going on in that video.   Now I'm getting excited.

1 minute ago, Thrasador said:

Tee hee....I'm on Voyager, slept in small chunks and prayed for no blizzard...had no fire up there both nights I chanced it.

My bedroll was in good condition and I was wearing my warmest set of clothes with like a +28°C warmth bonus...

Slept in the back wall away from the door....mostly wind shielded.

Drank a hot drink too...

So at it's peak 28°C (clothes) +6°C (bedroll have bear hides curing back home) +4°C warming up (2hours)=38°C warmth bonus. I took my chances. I know a blizzard would have been no bueno, but I kept checking my feels like temp and I stayed in the positive both nights....even during the middle of the night. Woke up to -1°C the next morning...

You should be good then.  Closest thing DP has to a fishing hut.

9 minutes ago, Thrasador said:

I just slept technically outdoors in the bridge on the Riken hoping to not get cabin fever while forging 30 arrowheads, and I don't even know if the bridge of the Riken counts as outdoors. It does have a door you can't close open to the elements....so I hope it is outdoors...

Spending time in the Riken wheelhouse definitely reduces cabin fever risk.  And the wind can still blow your fire out there... be careful.

39 minutes ago, Thrasador said:

you need to climb a rope or traverse the waterfall cave to get down

I always just climb up the rocks near the waterfall to get up there, super fast that way.   I would be very surprised if wolves can't climb where we can.

On 7/8/2017 at 8:09 PM, JAFO said:

That's because of wind?   I always thought it was a random chance..

In my experience, it breaks when the rabbit spawn moves to a new spot but you persist in putting traps out in the old spot.

4 hours ago, Carbon said:

@Quarbani 79 claims that you should do the blood loss first

I'd simplify this to "Always treat blood loss first, and ASAP.  Be sure to carry a bandage for this purpose!"

Blood loss causes 30 condition loss per game hour.  That's 1 condition every 10 real life seconds.  

There's an additional reason with Faithful Cartographer.  The scent from blood loss attracts wolves... including that wolf you just beat off with your fists, once he's done fleeing.  Now I can't think of any circumstance where I wouldn't treat blood loss before all other ailments.

5 hours ago, continuity said:

kinda tough if you don't find the holy magnifying glass of eternal fire +1.

I typically come across two magnifying lens in an Interloper sandbox.  There's often one in the zone you start in, plus another in ML. And maybe another in one of the other interloper starting zones.

2 hours ago, Carbon said:

 If you find the mag lens, then this is a possibility but typically matches in loper are a premium item and cannot be spent every time you get to the point of freezing; they just won't last more than a day or two. Even the mag lens is a roll of the dice, what with blizzards and overcast days also being prevalent.

 Having a bedroll and trying to find wind-sheltered areas to sleep for an hour along your route in the daytime is a useful strat.

Or simply pass time in the bedroll (or a bed) to warm up - sleep optional.  And spending the entire hour warming is definitely optional.

Mag lens is quite reliable if you are willing to stockpile a few days of cooked food and water.  Just plan ahead a little bit and save the matches for emergencies.  And travel... although torches make even travel less reliant on matches.

2 hours ago, chuckie said:

As for me, never make a fire in loper just to warm up. When it's -20, a huge amount of fuel is needed to overcome that temp, and matches should be saved too. Make fire + warm a drink takes nearly the same time as making it to a shelter.

Same for me, when I'm in a region with lots of shelters. Hot drinks give the greatest benefit when you are fully warmed up and headed out into the cold.  But I do stop to build a fire, warm up and make hot drinks outdoors when I'm traveling in areas without a convenient fixed-temp shelter.

I don't bother with max warmth clothing in interloper, too heavy!  And I never get cabin fever risk either.  My solution is to hang in places with enough warm buildings that I can nip inside and pass time for a few minutes to warm up (Esc is my best friend!), then back outside to resume outdoor chores.

8 minutes ago, ChillPlayer said:

On earlier runs I had Hypothermia and Cabin Fever simultaniously which truly showed how arbitrary this mechanic is. No matter how much I hate seeing the same room every day I would always prefere warming up and healing there instead of going to camp outside when I'm already near death.

I wonder how much the new first aid alerts have done to help people avoid this situation.   It was easy to miss the "hey, you have cabin fever risk" alert before.  Now you get an entire game day of yellow symbol nagging before developing actual cabin fever to figure out how to spend some time outdoors.  And it seems like the forum chatter about cabin fever (including reddit and steam) is way down, despite a lot of posts from new players.

IMO the biggest flaw with Cabin Fever is the penalty: can't sleep indoors.   It works to get people outside but it causes many players to guess wrong about when they must be outside.  They think must sleep outside.  And that's rarely the case if you deal with the risk instead of waiting for the full blown cabin fever to develop. 

But even if you fix that cabin fever still an all-downside system.  I'd prefer one that's more carrot and less stick.   

2 hours ago, Timber Wolf said:

I always attempt to remove as many variables as I can in the tests I run. 

Looks close enough in my book, even with the hour of pass time -- thanks.   Anecdotally (since I didn't actually measure), I didn't notice a big difference until "in the red" for food or rest. 

@Timber Wolf  Nice tests -- thanks for sharing.  A couple questions: 

1. Edit: Never mind, figured it out  

2.  What level of rest did your character have?

3.  What level of hunger did your character have?

These last two might be quite important.  Based on hints from support in your similar thread on test_branch, I did a little indirect testing being well fed and rested while looking for steps to reproduce struggle bugs.  My effectiveness during the struggle seemed noticeably better, for what it's worth.