Ape88

Hello! I just have a couple questions about Episode 3. Those who don't want any spoilers need not read any further.

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!

1: Are the main objectives at all affected by how long it takes me to complete the tasks? If so, should I focus on the side quests first? I know in Episodes 1 and 2, it didn't matter but I would rather be safe than sorry if I just assumed. I do like to take my time in these episodes. In Episode 1, by the time I decided to leave Milton I could have had Will completely dressed in furs.

2: Do you have any tips on dealing with those Timberwolves? Are there any areas I should be extra cautious in due to them?  I chased them off the first time but either I flubbed up and accidentally quit the game or the game crashed. The second time I waited until morning to venture out and in the daylight I couldn't manage to keep them from taking swipe after swipe and by the time I did, it was too late.

Any other advice, perhaps without too many specifics regarding plot is welcome!

2 hours ago, TigercatX said:

So... I'd like a multiplayer but not an online multiplayer... noo it'll be useless a game with 5000 players.

I'd like kind of multiplayer where you (the host) can invite 3 friends trough steam to have a limit of 4 like in Payday 2's one. So you can play together with your friends. 

I would like it if we could co-op with maybe 2-8 people. However the way I understand it a game has to be built from the ground up with Multiplayer in mind and TLD was never built with multiplayer in mind. 

3 minutes ago, Tohono O'odham Man said:

Why isn't there binoculars? Their could be 2 types of binoculars. First a whole one that weights 50 and a half that weighs 25. Now that i think of it binoculars should have been in the game, one other a scope also.

Devs have said in the past that the system can't really handle spawning stuff from that far off.

On 5/19/2019 at 12:00 PM, russoft said:

Hushed River Valley would likely be suicide for me. I don't think I've ever visited the region. I'm willing to bet I'd get lost and freeze to death.

Once I get the firestarter feat, I'll be exploring the area for the first time. Whether I utilize certain fan-made maps or not will depend on the weather. 

On 6/18/2019 at 4:00 AM, cranny said:

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I'm playing on voyager  mode and have decided to call paradise meadows farm (in milton)  home. It's been quite a journey since i first spawned! I started  in broken railroad, found a revolver, looted the map, went through forlorn muskeg to Mystery lake, looted that map, and decided i wanted to settle down somewhere. So, i went back through forlorn muskeg and made it to the farm in milton. all in 7 in game days!

anywho, i have begun to hunt deer and rabbits, and want to stockpile huge amounts of venison and bunny meat. Currently i just have the meat sitting in the snow, but it has only been a few hours since i harvested the meat and they are already 'Gamey'. Is there a better way?

You can still cook ruined meat and eat it. However huge stockpiles seem like a good idea for a short time.

Exactly!

On 6/30/2019 at 12:35 PM, ManicManiac said:

@Annajam,
I see a lot of people have already been conversing with you, but I will also add my two cents:

1.  You can beachcomb, this is how you have a chance to find non-renewable resources after you've looted the world.
2.  Death is just the nature of the game, and the inevitability.  All runs eventually end in death (if you give up early and delete your save - that is effectively the same as just ending your life, from a game point of view).

The whole point of the survival sandbox is to live as long as we can, because we will eventually die.  Now there have been some creative players that have managed to survive for 10 in game years, so that would suggest that the game has plenty of resources to survive a good long time.  What will most likely kill us is our own bad decisions.

Also, you won't get attacked every few minutes once you learn how to spot & avoid that hostile wildlife.  

It's possible, I recently managed to live on Timberwolf Mountain for more than 90 days (before leaving for Desolation Point), and the only attack I suffered was one bear attack... and that was only because I was actively seeking it out and hunting it.  As for not having the tools you need, honestly for me that's half the fun... the struggle.  Knowing you don't necessarily have what you feel you need, but you have to find a way to make it as long as you can anyway.  The longer you play and the harder the difficulty... the better we get at the finer points.

My point is the survival sandbox is finite, but not as finite as it might have seemed to you. 

I definitely try to play with my headset, audio and video settings set up for maximum potential to hear and spot aggressive animals before they detect me. However even with every step I take, there are still plenty of instances where I get caught unaware until the aggressive animal is stalking or attacking.

Er... I prefer the game as it is now. Back when I first started playing, I died repeatedly because I expected to need a cooking container to boil water in. 

Now that we do need an empty can or a cooking pot to melt and boil water in, it actually makes sense.

The layering system is broken though... Because putting a toque on over a ski mask should add to the windchill protection, not reduce it.

On 6/29/2019 at 12:35 PM, ManicManiac said:

I'm not sure that the sarcasm was necessary   

Yep, this is far from a new idea and it's been on the wish lists for years.  Many have posted about wanting a "wolf-head hat/hood/cloak/cape" (whatever way you would like to describe it), and I've been one of those that have posted about it in the past as well.  Now that we have a new and "unique" animal, it would seem appropriate to have a craftable item made from it... much like every other unique animal in the game.

Is it original? Nope!
It's just been on a lot of wish lists in the past, and it seemed like a good time to ping the idea again.  

I would just like more craftable stuff to use animal skins for period. Not just clothing either.

Ever since the most recent updates I swear spawn locations have changed.

It would be cool to be able to build a shelter that is more useful and longer lasting than a snow shelter. Now, how warm would one of these be without a fire going. How warm would they be in a blizzard sans fire? It can be pretty tough to keep a large enough wood supply to manage a fire overnight for several days if you end up being unable to go out and collect firewood due to weather, dangerous animals, illness, injury, or not having a hatchet.

I ask that because in my voyager survival game I've gotten pretty much stranded inside the garage in Coastal Highway because there has been a blizzard going pretty much non stop (except for in the dead of night both with and without the aurora) and even when things are somewhat clear, I'm having trouble getting past the wolves and am running low on ammo.

Really though, I'm one of those here who are all for more long term survival play.

It took me countless times to manage it. But eventually I did it. I think I had to take a break from the game before I actually managed it.

Hello again, Raph!

The images of the new wolves give me the chills just thinking about dealing with them. Just knowing they are coming eventually makes me wonder about a couple of other things. Will any other animals and/or food sources be added? I feel like the threats are beginning to pile up a lot to the point of being unbalanced! Also, when they (the new wolves) are added to the game will they be present in all regions? Will they be a bit more like the moose where they spawn more rarely like the bears and other groups of wolves where their presence is pretty much an everyday thing when they do spawn?

Okay, sorry for what seems like a double post but I wanted to make sure ya'll saw this.

I just got back home and onto the game. I think there may indeed be a bug regarding feats. While I have started a total of 3 fires in the voyager run I started this morning, the game does not add them to the total fires started in voyager mode overall.

On 5/28/2019 at 4:46 PM, ManicManiac said:

(referring to OP) I could never bring myself to do anything like this because I know those campfires are permanent features afterward  

I really wouldn't mind seeing the ability to break down campfires added to the game.

I thought I would try to be helpful and decided to start a new Voyager game this morning since the only feat I have not completed is the one to do with fires and I had about an hour before I needed to get ready for work.

I only started one fire and it did register within the current game log for sure. I need to double check if it shows on the all time log as I did not check beforehand but I will do that when I get home today.

On 6/6/2019 at 6:36 PM, ajb1978 said:

Charcoal behaves differently on many of the maps, and I'm not sure if that's a bug or on purpose.  It's been like that forever though.

For example, pre-Desolation Point maps (ML, PV, CH, TWM) take elevation into account when you use charcoal.  Any terrain higher than your vantage point stays black when using charcoal, necessitating you doing some pretty creative goating to get high enough to fill in all the spots.  Post-DP maps always fill in the full circle, regardless of how high or low you are on the map.  And then there's the Ravine, which for some reason reveals ovals, instead of circles.  And the Winding River is just a clustercuss overall that doesn't seem to follow anyone's rules.

I mountain goated up to a spot to test if it was that. No dice. I think it's a bug.

16 hours ago, ChillPlayer said:

Thanks for the update and the work you're constantly putting into the game!

However, one fix is missing: *[ALL] lowered chance 10-fold for getting a sprain

 

Easy fix for that. *Pay attention* to the slope indicator. Don't make a habit of traveling whilst encumbered. If you must traverse travel whilst encumbered and/or up or down a slope slow the heck way down. Also, try not to travel while exhausted. If you do, again, slow down.

Do those simple things and you should rarely get a sprain. 

Hinterland gave the slope indicator and the sprain risk warnings to help us know when sprains were a real possibility.

On 12/28/2018 at 1:58 PM, kristaok said:

Yea out there in that situation it wouldn't be easy to find a can of beans everyday or fry up some tofu for protein.  Gotta do what ya gotta do... of course it does make me sad when I am given the choice to kill the Rabbit or release. 

Not vegan or even vegetarian IRL, however I do cringe at having to kill every animal in the game when it comes down to it. I also cringe at the sound of harvesting the meat, guts, and hide as well as harvesting the fish. 

I do wish we could find stuff like bags of dry rice and beans and be able to use them to make a more complete meal with a small bonus of some sort at the expense of more time spent to prepare them.

On 5/7/2019 at 10:08 AM, Sunwolf said:

I choose to focus on the fact that I paid less than $20 (black friday sale) for a game I've played in excess of 600 hours and will likely play hundreds more.  Because of this, I can only either hope you find something else that holds your interest, or write you off as a troll.

I don't think I have played nearly that many hours but less than 20 bucks for what gameplay I've managed is a steal! Oh and I actually bought it again when it came out on XBox One.

That's not even taking into consideration the fact that when I first bought the game on Steam, it was still in the stage when Survival Mode was really considered just a testing ground for story mode and only stayed as a feature because so many people enjoyed it.

Maybe it is just my 31 years of life and impoverished background showing but it gets under my skin when people don't realize the value they get for the price they pay for something and complain.

I really ought to buy some store merch seeing as the game was so cheap but the one thing I'd really  like isn't microwave safe and therefore less useful than it could be.

I just want to say I really don't get how others are complaining about getting too many sprains. I'm playing a new survival mode game and in 10+ in game days, my character has only gotten a sprain twice. One being a leg sprain while encumbered and traversing an obviously risky area and the second a wrist sprain from a wolf encounter that involved a knife and a neck injury as well.

I have always personally thought that areas in game that most everybody else seems to think should be 100 percent safe are potentially risky. In real life there could be rocks, holes, sticks, animal bones, or especially ice, underneath the snow on a flatish area that you cannot see that you could trip over or slip on. 

I love that we get a sprain warning on some parts of big ol' fallen trees that we traverse because you never know if you could potentially slip off or maybe the structural integrity of the tree in a spot might be bad.

I live in Washington, USA, in a city, and yet I get how certain seemingly innocent areas could be risky, especially when encumbered. IRL you could end up with a pack full of stuff that is not only heavy but might be packed in a way that would be unevenly distributed to the point that maybe in game the camera could be a little less steady to show it.

5 hours ago, Hotzn said:

Is that experience from a certain difficulty setting? Does it apply for, let's say, Interloper?

I normally play voyager or a custom game. However I believe the same applies to stalker. No idea about interloper. I can never survive more than 20 real time minutes.

1 hour ago, ManicManiac said:

 How does wearing less clothing minimize the chances of freezing to death?

Most beds or bedroll plus the single layer on hands feet head torso and legs should be enough to overcome nighttime temps as long as you use decent stuff in good condition. Even outdoor locations shielded from wind and weather as long as the layers are dry. If those single pieces are wet or you aren't wearing anything you run the risk of frostbite or freezing to death more than without a good dry layer.

I have a few rules.

1. Always dress down for sleeping. (1 Hat, 1 Sweater, Gloves,  1. Long Underwear, and 1 pair socks) This reduces how often I have to repair the clothing and also minimizes the chances of freezing to death.

2. Always check inventory and clothing selections before heading out.

3. Listen to your surroundings. ( This can be hard when I'm chatting with my friends on Xbox Party Chat. I usually don't play TLD while in party chat because of this issue.)

What a brilliant challenge! I might try this someday... I never survive long when I try interloper. The wolves always get me within the first 15 minutes.