RossBondReturns

This is really awesome!

I have been so busy with work...I need to check if I still have all my footage...to finish editing and upload.

Thanks for taking on my challenge.

Loving this!

We'll get some good background to those really intriguing notes you can find in FA in survival!

Very intriguing.

On 12/24/2022 at 10:21 AM, fearofspam said:

Wow. I don't like that at all. I like playing voyager bcz its not a challenge. I guess I'll have to create custom runs from now on. 

Thanks for the info. I appreciate it.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same on custom too.

All the tools are found in the world as a whole- rather than a strange supply of a ton of each tool in a shipping container on the summit.

It's not like we've found a hardware store...yet...on Great Bear.

Basically they are, I think, rightfully forcing us to find the tools within the world and be careful with the upkeep of them.

Not true at all.

I've taken older long term survivors into brand new regions that were added, like Blackrock....and there was plenty of stuff that was just fine.

that was Day 165 of a Stalker run BTW.

Hinterland did say that you can have very lucky runs, and very bad runs- and you can also have normal runs.

I'd say that for Forsake Airfield you had a very bad roll- because generally I have found one of everything.

The missing tool container is the same across all difficulty levels (except maybe Pilgrim)

It think it's very much intended.

Hinterland did say that tools would not be as plentiful and I think this is part of that.

I for one like the challenge.

Oh...I did forget Improvised Crampons have been added!

I knew there was at least one thing I forgot.

3 hours ago, fearofspam said:

What is actually included in this first installment of TFTFT?  I cannot find a roadmap on the roadmap page.  No where does it say which new features are included with this installment or how the new features are going to be spread over the other 5 installments.  Is the only new feature with this first installment the does and the new region?  I can't find acorns or cougars or ptarmigan.  I see no way to do any enhanced cooking...  Does anyone have an idea what we actually paid for?  

We paid for a Year's worth of Updates.

What we got in the first drop was:

New Travel Region
New Hub Region (Transfer Pass)
Forsaken Airfield Region
10 minutes of Survival Music
Glimmer Fog
Insomnia (Affliction)
Doe
5 Variants (3 Rifles, 1 Lantern, 1 Bow)
Complete Loot Refresh.
Player Spawn Refresh

It was all listed, though not in the clearest way, in the Release Video.

On 12/17/2022 at 2:14 PM, Semple Fi said:

I thought the glimmer fog was only an issue on the lake/waterways?

I stayed outside up in the hills in a snow shelter and didn’t have any issues.  

I tried placing a Snow Shelter out in the Glimmer Fog near Watchful Cabin...

It can certainly get up there.

And the Snow Shelter did jack all for my insomnia risk.

I would be surprised if they didn't.

Seeing as how by their addition in the Hangar Basement they appear to want to make it possible to have long term runs that can remain in the Far Territory for as long as a player wishes.

Industrial Mine would seem like a logical location for an Ammunition Bench.

If you do go to HRV and find the new bow...don't use it until you get to Level 4.

It is irreparable right now...so if you use it before you reach level 3 you'll get a total of 100 shots with it.

If you use it after Level 4 you'll double that to 200.

Could it be made repairable eventually, sure...maybe they'll add a master workbench.

Not many people know this...but you can get in a regular wolf struggle with a Timberwolf...and should you survive it (and I have) the pack morale drops by 2/3rds.

I honestly wish it happened more often.

Also cannot wait for the Cougar!

1 hour ago, Jotunheim said:

That sounds like a real find. I've not found yet, though I've lived the last 30 days in FA, and I suspect I've looted it all by now.

None of the Variants actually spawn in FA AFAIK.

They all spawn in the pre DLC regions.

4 hours ago, ajb1978 said:

Found the Curator's Rifle on a dead guy by the gold mine in Ash Canyon, but it's in such terrible shape I haven't used it yet. Once I ransack the TWM Summit I'm gonna head to Blackrock to mill it back to health and see if it's any better than a regular rifle.

Edit: Has anyone managed to hang one of the new rifle variants on a rifle rack yet? The Curator's Rifle wouldn't slot into the one at Angler's in Ash Canyon, but I didn't have another rifle to compare so I'm not sure if it's a bugged rack, or if it's the rifle. And I don't see myself being at another location with a rifle rack for a while.

The variant rifles will not align with any weapon racks.

3 hours ago, conanjaguar said:

As a (admittedly very small) YouTuber myself, I appreciate the fact that voicing and editing a video will take at least three times as long as it took you to record it in the first place.

I'm also concurrently editing mt first TFTFT LP as well.

And I have a job.

6 minutes ago, xanna said:

If anyone ever said: "A picture cannot show you how cold it is."

I would show them this picture- especially if the sun is rising...then no shadow of a doubt it is COLD!

This is still consistently amazing.

I'm still editing,

36 minutes ago, turtle777 said:

On Interloper, there is not much wildlife.

I have not seen any of the IL streamers (or myself) run into a bear or moose, and deer seem to be confined to two different areas (north and north-east of airfield).

On the plus side, there are plenty of bunnies around.

The blizzards on IL can be really nasty. This is a tough area to navigate in IL past day 25, and I'm not looking forward to day 50.

-t

'Loper...

There's your problem!

I play Loper too from time to time but I'm relaxing playing Voyageur aka Normal on my current run.

8 minutes ago, Morrick said:

These two screenshots may be nothing special, but here's some context.

I was exploring the south-east part of Forsaken Airfield, so I literally was in uncharted territory. I found a small crashed helicopter, and just as I finished searching inside of it, the weather turned and I got engulfed in glimmer fog. I didn't want to stay put in the helicopter, but that's what I probably should have done, because I started wandering aimlessly in the hope of reaching some place, any place. So you have no idea how relieved I was to see these sights after walking blind for 20 real-life minutes! I didn't have time to reach the hangar basement before insomnia hit, but oh well. 🙂

I like moody shots like these...and a great story.

My fireplace picture a few up came out of me trying to make Mindful Cabin in a Blizzard. (I missed the turn).

So I was running along the road...thinking I was close but being way off when I saw the fence surrounding the rubble...and then I remembered the rubble held a fireplace. Totally saved my life.

5 minutes ago, hozz1235 said:

You've found it?

On my current run I abandoned looking for it...but I do know that it spawns in Ash Canyon. I just didn't look around the upper levels near the Mine Rope and the plateau outside the Mine entrance to find it.

4 hours ago, hozz1235 said:

To summarize (and correct), sounds like we've found 4 of the 5 referred to in the video?  Sounds like there is a 3rd rifle variant - has anyone found it yet?

• Vaughn's Rifle
• Barb's Rifle
• ____________ 3rd Rifle???
• Spelunker's Lantern
• Woodwright's Bow

The 3rd Rifle is called Curator's and it is in the same Region at the Technical Backpack...somewhere.

9 minutes ago, Deseoso said:

I got the new DLC and must admit I had misunderstood what it was. I thought it was a new storyline game. Once I figured out that it was a new region I started a new survival game and was surprised to find that the new region doesn't appear on the world map as a region you can start in. So how do you find the new region?

You have to travel there first friend.

So it's off Broken Railroad but I would suggest playing your game as a regular sandbox and getting there eventually since all the loot has changed...all the playe spawn have changed and all the New Item variants are spread throughout the game world.

Also surviving in the Far Territory with just what you find in Broken  RR and well the Far Territory is difficult on the first attempt.

Good luck!

3 minutes ago, k0s0ff said:

Hello. I saw a moose. I can throw a screenshot here where I saw it.

I killed a moose in the Cove outside the Cottage just the other day...and a Black Bear the day before that.

There's a lot of wildlife...there is just a 3 times the size of PV amount of space for them to live in.

Forsaken Life saver.

32 minutes ago, Boneviolin said:

Took a moose down in two hits.

man, I should be going to timberwolf and ash canyon, but guess i'll just sit home eating this meat.

Nice...also the new meat textures for every kind of meat are also juicy, gross and disgusting.