Ice Hole

Complete the challenge and win cool merchandise...

..for 37 Canadian Dollars plus shipping.  

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Have this song running through my head while I try this challenge.

If you wanna hang out 
You need to take her out
Pro Pain

If you want to get down
Down to the ground
Pro Pain

Blood Loss & Bruising &
Lacerations & Sprained Ankle &
Sprained Wrist & Broken Ribs &
Starvation & Dysentery &
Food Poisoning & Dehydration &
Intestinal Parasites & Burns &
Infections & Cabin Fever &
Exhaustion & Electric Shock &
Frostbite & Hypothermia &
Win 

The challenge:

Pro Pain! 

I have been using Steam to back up the game files for each build.

The Long Dark is selected.

Use the Steam\Backups folder.

Add the build name.

A Custom file size 8000 MB.

The Steadfast Ranger folder size is 4.9 GB

The idea of placing all the files on a USB occurred to me. 

This could easily be a piece of merchandise to Steam players that have limited bandwidth.

Hatchet shaped USB Time Capsule.  

On 9/4/2018 at 4:59 AM, Stone said:

Go somewhere high then walk to somewhere that instantly transitions to somewhere very low. A cliff would work. You'll do a huge jump. Trust me. 

I would have to call it falling with style.

28 minutes ago, jhickie said:

I though it got erased with the update

After an update the route to It was obstructed.  Did some goating and then found this shallow cave.   The Steadfast Ranger update made it accessible once again. 

It seems you have the right location, but, I have not seen a bear in the cave or in this area.

Ranger Cave

This cave imprisoned a goat but an update set it free.

Technically correct; the best kind of correct.

LOL

How do we know she is Noita?

She turned me into a newt!

On 10/7/2019 at 2:55 PM, stratvox said:

That bad boy is in Mystery Lake, I believe. I think it's in the North Eastern section of the map IIRC, right near the map edge. If you follow the road from the dam towards train unloading, and follow the edge of the map north along the road that splits off and goes to the clearcut, you'll find it around there.

That is a great hidden cave and already in the catalog.  The Mystery Cave might be from a goating adventure but I am unsure.

The outdoor fires are dependent on the ambient temperature.  It really is not analogous in real world but it does bring ambiguity to the game.

12 hours ago, Jolan said:

I vote Coastal Highway on the ravine side of the "bridge/waterfall" area where you often find a corpse with a rifle.  Upstream of Rabbit Grove

I can say that is not the area as that is already in the Hidden Cave List.

The only thing I can remember is finding a Hidden Cave in the 'skeg and it was by a radio tower.  Returned to search and was unable to locate anything.  Was there an update to the 'skeg terrain?

Carry a firestiker only to have the pop up menu, seems to be the best choice as I too employ that tactic.  That firestriker is akin to Wilson, always with me but never used as intended.

19 hours ago, ManicManiac said:

as players we do need to be paying attention to what we are doing in this game.

Totally sense about making mistakes and costing resources.  But the torch lighting logic is so very flawed it is troubling.  Currently there are two fundamental methods to ignite a torch.  First is strike a match and the other option is to touch the torch to a fire.  So instead of touching the torch to a fire I am able to reach in to the backpack and strike a match.  Or am I just walking around with matches ready to strike?

Currently for a torch chain I don't even through the torch.  Instead drop it from inventory, lands at feet and no rolling, then inventory again to select a torch, crouch and light.  I have had less wasted matches using that procedure but I dislike the rigmarole.

Making mistakes is great fun in a game.  Making unreasonable mistakes to me is less fun.

At first I was not sure.

I just had to google and was reminded.

Great Scott it is about time travel too!

Here is a mystery cave. 

I forgot to take the debug screen shot and have only a slight idea where this is located. 

The version would be the current Steadfast Ranger. 

It is not in Hushed River Valley because I have not explored that region in months.  Probably in Pleasant Valley or Coastal Highway or Crumbling Highway or Desolation Point or Raven Falls Ravine or Mystery Lake or Forlorn Muskeg or Broken Railroad or Timberwolf Mountain or Mountain Town.  

The Silent Hunter build introduced Battery to The Long Dark.

Battery is restrained unable to move.

Time Capsule .236 Silent Hunter 

After using the Time Capsule portal it had occurred to me that we shared a long time together but never could meet. 

With the Time Capsule portal open I will not have to wait twenty one months.   

The Penitent Scholar .349 released Battery from bondage.  

The lightning bolt tattoo shows Battery's rebellious youthful nature 

Battery still requires a walk before jumping in to inventory. 

Battery loves the warm up.

Bent the very laws of nature to make this photo opportunity happen.

The Early Access Launch was a blast to play.  It illustrated well the HL team's direction for The Long Dark.  

The Old Forestry Look Out Tower

The Interior

The Prepper Hatch

Hoarding At the Camp Office

The Tiny Chair At Trapper's Homestead

Fluffy The Demon Eyed

Still alive after eight days, the end is inevitable without any means to hunt for food.  The rifle is the only weapon.

Playing Silent Hunter now has its advantages. 

That certain feeling of being a part of the world, is calming.

Something old

Something new

15 hours ago, PrincessAutumn said:

I'm having issues with the time capsule. I followed all the instructions and when I got to the game, I had no keyboard or mouse control and had to ALT-F4 to exit. Reverted back to the current version and even re-installed the game and I still have no control. How can I fix this?

Had a very similar issue (see fourth post this thread) and solved it.

From Options go to the Controls.

Click Key Bindings

Click the Restore Defaults.

Sorry no screen shots because currently in  .236 build.

Played in the Time Capsule and found features that should be resurrected.  Add yours to this thread

Torch Lighting

This GUI pops up when lighting a torch.  Even if matches are the only ignition source this GUI will appear and prevent wasting matches.  Improvement would be a distinction between cardboard and wooden match and include Magnify Glass.  

Flint 

Also the Flint option would be a decent addition if it could be crafted.

Jumped between the first four builds and returned to the Early Access build all played fine.  Switched to the Silent Hunter build and had no controls.  No mouse or esc key inputs worked.  Alt tabbed and closed the TLD window.  Looked into the controls in game and mouse and aim sensitivity was zero.  Set to 50 percent and the mouse worked but no esc key.  Back in controls the Restore Defaults was used and all is better.

Inventory screen is added and I run down to the Quonset Hut like I kid at Christmas.

Ran to the car and threw open the hood.  I am so excited.

Battery!

Battery has a different appearance.

Sadly I am unable to free Battery.

Fluffy managed to take me down twice. The first time I was at the front door and did not expect Fluffy to approach.  Well I tried to pet her but she bit my face of instead.  The next run I had a decent start.

Also found Fluffy a present.

Went over to CHD and waited for some hugs.

Got the shot off but aim was horrible.  With ears ringing I managed to stab twice but failed.

I will return but for now to try out the next build.  Positive current is expected in this one.

v.236

Released: 21.05.2015
Silent Hunter allowed players, for the first time, to travel between the three different regions (Mystery Lake, Coastal Highway, Pleasant Valley) in an entire loop. This update also introduced Experience Modes, Bow Crafting & Improved Hunting gameplay, a whole new soundscape, new transition zone, and a variety of other big improvements. Only available on Windows.

This image was released and announced episode three.

https://www.thelongdark.com/news/dev-diary-august-2018/

This could be an excellent way to introduce this beasty to The Long Dark.

Wonder how the intelligence will be showcased?

At 4:18 the video shows a group of orca using a water wave to knock prey off of ice.

One more thing to bring up is ...

Aurora Orca