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Hehehe.. agreed.. If you take another look at my wording, at no point did I suggest they might be..

You are... very tough, in fact. The standard response from experienced 'lopers when they first hear of it is "I've gotta try this.. it sounds like fun!" The standard comment from them after they've tried a couple of times is "Oh man.. this is absolutely brutal!"

For those wondering.. @Drifter Man's attempts can be found here:

Nah... admit it.. you lost your detachment and started taking it personally! j/k

That's ok.. and the rules don't forbid looking up the loot tables. Trust me, even with them, you're gonna struggle. Watching some of the streams I've linked to above may help. You're welcome, mate! Very happy to see you giving it a shot!

Here are some of the Twitch streamers.. the ones that have recordings I know of.. (WARNING! Language may not be suitable for work or children.. this challenge tends to stress players out more than usual.) https://www.twitch.tv/thedeadp00l https://www.twitch.tv/restlesscorpse https://www.twitch.tv/gameslif84

So you're taking on Deadman Mode? Cool! Interesting to see that by day 3, you've shifted from 3rd person to 1st person.. this mode will do that to you.. and worse.. it fries your brain over time.

That it is.. honestly, it makes for the most entertaining TLD streaming I've ever seen..

TheDEADP00L has just upped the record to 16 days, with a truly breathtaking, edge of your seat, last 5 days.

Official answer is to match Interloper, apparently. As is the random spawning...

In the last week or so, there's an interesting (and incredibly entertaining -to watch at least!-) challenge that's popped up in a few Twitch Streams. It was invented by @Kinnasmash, who started out making a custom mode to help xeroplanes get better at dealing with wolves, and kinda devolved into a prank/troll on him. Oddly enough, it then turned into a hit! Here are the basics: Everything good set to minimum - everything bad set to maximum NO condition recovery - the only way to gain condition is with stims Loot is worse than Interloper - Stalker level wolves There are only 2 rules: 1. Two Feats Maximum, Random Spawn Location 2. Survive Secondary challenge: Retain your sanity for 15 days First to prove to Kinnasmash they made it to 30 days wins. The custom code is: 8MHI-/z8M-Dw+/-wSWm-bAAA "Deadman mode - no happiness, only cold..." *WARNING* May Will cause excessive cursing and other bad language. To date, the record stands at 15 days (TheDEADP00L) Twitch Streamers playing the challenge: xeroplanes TheDEADP00L RestlessCorpse gameslif84 evilkmart obvs YouTube players doing the challenge: Vonwoah

Something might have gotten borked on your system.. I'm updating on Steam right now from 1.17 to 1.19 (Win7), and it's only a 420MB download

Sorry, but I'm not sure where it is, anymore.. they changed and moved a lot of stuff around when Wintermute released.

Except that, as others have noted, Hinterland have recently been seeking to employ somebody specifically with experience in coding multiplayer games.. so I suspect they're at least exploring possibilities.

And if you don't, at least keep an eye on the screen, so if the temperature starts dropping, you can cancel/hit the Esc key to abort harvesting. Welcome to the forums, btw!

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That makes sense.. but swan-diving off the mountaintop instead somehow doesn't strike me as a better alternative..

Very good point. There's also the consideration that once past mid-game, long-term play tends to become a matter of maintaining a regular routine, weather permitting. Often over a 4 - 5 day schedule, so as to best conserve remaining resources. Things like a "hunting day", a "cooking day", a "water-making day", a "wood-gathering day", and so on. And I'm not saying that this is a bad thing, either. Humans are creatures of habit, and often tend to perform best when their life has structure and routine. But such routines would clearly need to be taken into account in a re-vamped CF mechanic. And yes, I'm aware of those players who, like @Hadrian, prefer an unstructured nomadic play style. From what I've seen, it often seems to be a side-effect of the constant movement required to succeed at Interloper. I've noticed that many settled, base-building play-style players become nomadic types after getting to grips with Interloper. But then too, nomadic players generally don't try for for extended long-term games, either.

Yes, it did.. now that the leaderboard is long gone (and we know that it's not hard to survive for thousands of days if you can stand the monotony), then so is the real reason for having cabin fever. Which is not to say I think it should be done away with. Just made more reasonable in effects. I like @Hadrian's ideas, and also @J.P.'s.

They'll tell us when they're ready.

Hmmm... we know that wearing no pants results in "assbite".. so I'm thinking this is a bug, then.

Or, you may have discovered a bug. But yeah, more testing required first.

That might be down to luck, random numbers and if head & hands are prioritised for attention by the game. What happens if you try it while wearing a toque and gloves, with no footwear?

Hi, and welcome to the forums! It depends.. some things you need to start again, and some you don't. Regarding your situation about achieving faithful cartographer, this is currently being investigated by Hinterland. See this post by Mel:

Seconded!