Mike in GA

Same. Awesome comment btw.

At the far eastern end of coastal highway map there's usually a bear that lurks around jackrabbit island and Misanthrope's and it comes back over there near the houses. I usually shoot the bear, and run my butt back into the house and let it bleed out. From now on I may just strip and off go wrestle it with a knife.

Agree ^^^^. So, being from the Southern United States people around here made/make homemade soap from rendered animal fat, (mostly pig fat) along with lye. Deer are fairly lean animals, but would still render out some fat that could be used. Now a bear, there's a fat storage farm, along with being an animal that's already in game and fairly rare and dangerous. Talk about risk/reward to the nth degree, that would make candles not too common, and raise the level of rarity exceptionally high. In the Long Dark literally I've been there in the dark waking up fully rested with sometimes several hours before daylight comes around. A candle would be a welcomed item.

The past couple of nights I've been out walking between places in Mystery Lake and have been pretty close to single wolves. No difference between detection range or aggressiveness that I noticed. Aurora nights are different, seems to be more aggro and shorter detection proximity.

Just a quick post to say that I've been back only recently and love the new changes I've come across. Previously I was playing on a potato PC, and now have a much better rig, the much better to see the details in the game and get pics with. Things I've noticed that have changed. 1. Thankful that the incline sprain mechanic has been tuned down, having 3 different sprains, limping and flashing screens were a bit much. 2. Deer are much smarter or have an increased survival instinct. Trying to run them into the wolves is much more of a challenge, but can still be done. 3. Spray paint cans. Crazy useful, especially for marking bear/moose territory. 4. Shell casings, and ammo crafting. Have yet to do it, but love the idea. 5. Have yet to run into a timber wolf pack and not really looking forward to this. Haven't read about it yet, want to experience it for myself. 6. Custom mode. Love to be able to tweak the games to my own wants/needs. What hasn't changed for me is the great game experience. This is the game i measure all other games by, this is the gold standard and I'm thankful to be back. Even though my PC can run much higher games, this is where I see myself spending the majority of my gaming time. Cheers to the development team and all you other survivors in the quiet apocalypse new and old. These shots were my first views of very familiar sites, Camp Office and Trappers and one of the towers lit at night during Aurora.

Drivers door, visors, floorboard, backseat, trunk, hood. I've been gone for a bit myself, like two years? So I'm not used to getting the batteries out, but i will follow Bean's method to break down the battery in the front seat. I'm not sure that i've ever gotten anything from the visors, but i try to check everything that can be checked. It's like that one time i don't check there will be something there.

After you've played a while, you can walk in just about any place in the dark and find where you are going, especially the bed. The overall lighting has been improved a ton. It used to be that the interiors were very dark unless it was midday. Now the darkness level adjusts really well and actually looks like sunlight coming through my windows at home. Not its really light and then pitch black. The nighttime window lighting also helps a lot. Use the windows as guides in whichever base you are using. It takes some practice, but it gets to be second nature actually. The torch idea always works also, but usually I'm cooking/boiling until that last minute and so run the fire out. I was just thinking the other day of being inside the Camp office in ML that I'm walking around in the dark more than in the light and can mostly get whatever I'm looking for. I always love getting over those hills towards trappers cabin and see those lights on, even though I know its dark inside. I always have a sigh of relief because if I've made it that far, then I'm home free!!!!! Honestly now I think it would be creepy to have the windows blacked out.

LOL, I fish. It serves a couple of good functional purposes. In ML, even in a Blizzard I can walk the lake so well, I know I'll hit the first fishing hut. My clothes are such, that I don't need a fire for a couple hours, because I've always gotten the wind break inside, even without the door on the hut. Before I was computerless for so long, play time wise at least, I started up with some others in the forums about who could catch the biggest fish. I want to say it was like 18.5 kg or in that area. So I'm working to level up fishing to head on to DP to land that record fish. PLUS I get some good eats with bass from ML and lamp oil. When I hear the shutters rattling from sleeping, first thought is.. "FISHING TIME!" As you were talking about having a fire going while having tea, I found myself searching for blizzard/snow nature sounds to write work narratives to lately since I've started playing again. LOL! I lived for a long time in Chicago and would often go up to WI or MN in the winter, but living in Georgia, that's the closest I can get to actual live winter storm action!

I've really started liking ML from the office and run a deer down the tracks into a wolf that's just about always patrolling the area. Since my bow skills are still lacking, I usually harvest the deer and then truck it back to the office and hunt up the wolf the next day. Thank you Canadian crows! Between the wolves on the lake and railway, you can get a wolf jacket in a short time, with the added free deer carcass. For bear, CH, far east edge is a bear patrol area you can snipe the bear and run your ass in the house over there. I've not had many wolf issues over that way before. On the ice between jack rabbit and misanthropes islands, that bear patrol sometimes has too many Fluffy offspring for my comfort. Plus its a LONG way up that hill running with a mad bear behind you. Moose, have yet to find one sadly.

I really like the artificial clothing, but it seems if I get attacked, it suffers more % loss than skin clothing does. Currently have the wolf jacket, rabbit gloves, deer pants and boots. Two wool toques, cargo pants under the deer ones, 2 x thermals, 2 x hiking socks, and fisherman's sweater. My sprint has taken a huge hit at 68% now. I'm going much more for the tank-ish outrigging than the speedy one. It also bears out that from two wolf attacks, the clothing damage has been very negligible. Previously, I've lost jackets and pants from a single wolf attack, not an issue so far. Temp bonus is +34, wind is +14, but protection is 39%. IDK, but I'm liking it so far. I stay well fed, (which as aside I love THANK YOU HINTERLAND that +11 pounds extra is worth not starving for!!!) and leave with about 50 pounds total for the day. Bow, x 5 arrows, knife, hatchet, crowbar (to break ice with if I want to fish). Tbone, if you can avoid the wildlife struggles, then I think your setup totally works. I'm still trying to get much better with the bow, I was rifle reliant for a loooonnnnngggg time, so where I'm at I feel the extra protection helps, at least mentally.

I learned quickly to NOT harvest sticks with the pistol in hand. LOL I did the same too many times to count. Now Its the old H button before hand.

No matter how many play throughs I run, I almost always feel at some point like "I have arrived" only to get completely owned. Bears always seem to give the best ass chewing. But I haven't danced with a moose yet..... time will tell.

Because after playing for several hundred hours, I was computerless for months. I came back to the Moose, a handgun, and a custom mode. Got myself up and running, sitting in Mystery Lake. Piles of fish sitting on the front porch of the Camp Office, rifle and bow, some decent gear. Decided to take a stroll before it got dark, and decided to start hunting wolves to make my new jacket. Cocky and over-confident, I found a wolf on the tracks, had a small fish for bait.....dropped the fish and drew my bow before the wolf started eating. That one wolf wrecked me. Well played Hinterland, well played. This is what I've missed. Becoming over confident and getting wrecked for it. Awesome game! Cheers!!!!

I noticed this for the first time yesterday and I was tracking by the blood spots. I'm playing on medium level graphics. The spots would appear two or three at a time and I had to basically walk up to the last visible spot before the next batch would show up. This was not the case I was having pre-wintermute. Tracking is a much slower process than before with the magic blood spots appearing. If the animal changes direction I have to move about until they spots start appearing again.

Another super important tip, eat first, drink last. Some foods add to thrist and hunger icons. Soda, sardines, condensed milk, soup also now and some others. Some are neutral to thrist, cat tails and energy bars. Others subtract from thrist to different degrees. Biggest thrist hit is from crackers. You will lose small amounts of condition from your hunger icon being empty, you will lose lots from thrist being empty. Your energy drops from any activity, but also your carrying capacity drops as you get tired and the day moves on. You might start the day fine with weight but then be encumbered. I now always try to leave scouting as light as I can be. I set up bases in sandbox mode. When I'm just going to the lake area I leave my bedroll because I can always use a bed in one of the cabins. I carry minimum survival food, cat tails usually and bring one days worth of water. Hatchet, very few matches (store the rest) a sewing kit, rifle, leave extra bullets at the base. I only need a few, it's not that I'm that good a shot, I play on Voyager and avoid wolves if at all possible. BIG NEED TO KNOW, without a bed or bedroll you CAN NOT SLEEP!!! Not entirely sure if you can sleep in a car without bedroll, help with this info please. Expect to die, and die a lot!!!! I'm on sandbox #70 now. Been playing for 8 months? I long darked several, probably 50 of those on purpose. Longest survived days for me was 65. And I love this game, probably one of the best I've played!!! From Pong/Atari, that's a lot of games! Cheers and enjoy!!!