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I played the pre-redux 1&2, and have played the new episode one and a bit of episode two, and then put it aside; I'm waiting until the whole thing is available and then I'm going to hammer my way through the whole thing over a week or so, I think. Sort of like when you wait for the writer to finish the entire trilogy before you take up the first book.

I've found that bears like to go home to die; I've often found them in or just outside their caves the day after putting an arrow into them.

I've found that happens when you are just at the upper or lower edge of the part of the rope where you can climb off onto a ledge, and generally either moving up or down slightly makes it steady. YMMV of course.

Sounds like Friday night.

Personally I think it was because they discovered that managing that style of UI on a console controller was very difficult, which is why they moved to the wheel and tabbed interface styles of UI.

You'll want more arrows. Seriously. The point made earlier about losing all your arrows is definitely a real thing that can happen; if you get all your arrows into it and it doesn't drop then those arrows are just gone and you'll need to get more. If you're in PV at Pensive Pond you should do the mine -> Winding River -> Mystery Lake -> Forlorn Muskeg trek to go to the forge at Old Spence's with a bunch of scrap metal and make twenty arrow heads; you don't have to make arrows out of all of them right away but you will suffer attrition of them over time. I have hunted many moose with the bow and have pumped over a dozen into one before it dropped. I've also one shot moose before. Point is that if you are unlucky then you could find yourself in a bad bad spot.

I think that's kinda the point... you've got to run the gauntlet to get to the sweet sweet loot at the Maintenance Yard and Hunter's.

Yep. Not commenting on its practical utility, just noting that going from HD to 4K made them much easier to follow.

Just as an aside, I found that playing at 4K made the blood trails MUCH easier to follow. Like, massive massive difference in their utility.

I am not experiencing this in my games. If you're on steam, maybe try to verify game files? The blood trails do fade over time, but overall I've done lots of tracking via blood trail, even in the last few days....

If they can make it to that tree and run up it they'll be good.

Got another one for you folks: "Rocky shore and sky" 1915

Beautiful sunny day at Mountaineer's.

Well, I remember back when goating started to become a thing a few years back, and Raph came in and said to us (paraphrasing), "just so you know, if you get stuck somewhere climbing around and starve to death, that's a you problem, not a Hinterland problem". My response to that is "of course, it's not like death traps don't exist in the real world anyway." I know where you are; you're way up high on that cliff at the end of Mystery Lake near the bear den. It's hard to call that a place you can 'just stumble into'. Getting up there is not trivially easy to do. I mean, it's good to report it so it can get fixed for sure; I love goating, so it's better if it's fixed, but if I punch it while goating along a rock face that was clearly only ever intended to look good, maybe just maybe it's a teensy bit my fault, at least enough so that I can't really call a terrain mistake that causes dying by falling up there "terrifying". Also, I'm willing to bet that particular bug has existed there since they made ML some eight years ago or so, and you're the first one to find it... not exactly somewhere that's commonly traversed by players Maybe I belabour the point. It's actually pretty cool that you got up there; I might have to go regoat that area it's been a long time since I last did any rock climbing there and I'm pretty sure I'm a lot better at it now than I was the last time I was doing that in ML. Finding out where you can get to (which is a LOT more places than you'd think) is actually a lot of fun by itself in this world. Raph, if you can work goating and maybe even some kind of reasonable rock climbing mechanic into TLD 2: The TLDening it'd be awesome. And by reasonable I mean not what's in Tomb Raider, even though it's not bad for what it is. I even have some ideas about how you could handle the UI for that sort of thing (without jumping! ) within the context of the trad TLD interface.

This looks like a bug to me, not a killwall nor an invisible wall. It's like the game thinks the edge of that cliff is in a different place than it shows on the screen. Either both of the folks who made the vids should do debug screenies and send 'em in.

The bearskin bedroll decays app. 8 times faster when left unrolled. The normal bedroll decays over twenty times faster when left unrolled. Pick 'em up and put 'em back down on the floor when you wake up if you don't want to carry them around with you. https://thelongdark.fandom.com/wiki/Decay#Bedrolls N.B. it says "per hour of sleep" for use decay but that rate applies when it's unrolled whether or not you're in it... plus the daily decay rate also gets piled on top. They decline very quickly when you leave them unrolled, so don't do it.

This isn’t an aurora painting but a nice one nonetheless: Painted in 1916.

Pentalobes are the freakin' worst.

Cattails heads and rabbit skins sound like an open invitation for gangrene. Just sayin'.

Yeah, I mean... there's a part of this where if you've made it to say a year in the real world you've got the survival thing down. I think that's actually an understated aspect of the deep game (hundreds of days in); the challenge isn't surviving on Great Bear, it's figuring out how to live on Great Bear, which is not quite the same thing.

Speaking for myself, I'm a big fan. However, I remember the very first time I took a survivor in there; they were very advanced in skills (fives and fours) and had awesome clothes and he was GTFO in under 36 hours, nearly dead. Spent nearly a week at the trailer in MT recovering and repairing his gear before going back in. However, once you get a handle on the place it's stunningly beautiful with some of the best vistas in the game... and just an unreal amount of natural resources. You can pull hides out of that region like crazy and if your bow skill is at all decent you'll never lack for noms. If you spend enough time there you'll be doing the run back to the trailer in MT every few weeks to schlep hides etc and replenish bows and arrows at the worktable there.

Found a new one!

I bit the bullet and am scoring on of the new Pis to assess it; the very top of the line one looks like it could be up to the job of being a decent dev platform for our stuff. I'm guessing your points about the IP and openness are why some of the things I'm seeing that are linux compatible are using such old implementations of the hardware. Be that as it may, I still get to check out whether we're interested in going this route or not in this company; if we can replace 30 2-3k$ machines with 30 400$ machines and one 25K$ machine it may well be worth it, even if some of the performance metrics aren't as good.

I've been casting about to try and find a reasonable ARM based PC that's not a mac and hopefully reasonably priced, mostly just to mess around. However they're not exactly growing on trees... which is remarkably shortsighted of the ARM folx.

You don't even want to know. I bought a (ready?) rx6900xt not too long ago because ... I needed a video card and it was available so I ponied up the truly ridiculous amount of money; coughed up ~2300CDN for it. Mind you, I could sell it now for nearly a thousand dollars more, but that would leave me without a computer so that's not gonna happen. It's just insane what's happening in the market right now. That said, it's an amazing video card, but the market for silicon (I also do purchasing for my company which is why I was able to actually buy a video card; lots of people are finding that can't get one at any price point) is simply bonkers right now; we're holding off on upgrading our hardware because the prices are simply absurd.