stratvox

If folks are looking for the unusual, here's a nice evening shot looking off the porch at Foreman's and a "photo illustration" I made by hacking on a couple of filters:

gimp job:

original pic:

Edited to add: 

Here are the imgur links to the full 4K versions of these pics. The downsampling the forum does is killing the really cool aspect of what is happening on the distant plateau with the trees.

https://i.imgur.com/vwgLeQ3.png

https://i.imgur.com/2bNVE1h.jpg

27 minutes ago, ajb1978 said:

Come to think of it that would be kind of cool. Using those caves through the mountain as a means to evade Timberwolf packs pack, etc. Hunkering down inside the fishing hut as like six Timberwolves are just losing their minds outside circling the place...do you make a break for the cabin or take your chances spending the night in the fishing hut...

This would be pretty awesome, actually. When I first took 'em on, I did it with bows and arrows. It took a while to figure out the right ways to hunt them, but once you figure it out they're not really a huge problem. Getting into the cannery, for example; once you're close (like across the road, which is generally easily accomplished without detection) strip down to climbing weight, take off enough clothing to up your sprint nice and high, and just run in and beeline for the rope. You'll win pretty much every time. You might take a few nips along the way, but that's not gonna kill ya. Don't try to shoot 'em, that'll just slow you down and make you an easier target for them. Just book it for the rope and dodge as you need to. I like them because their more complex behaviour makes figuring out each place where conflict will happen a bigger deal, and just generally makes them more dangerous. I think it'd be fantastic to put them on the other maps. 

1 hour ago, Stinky socks said:

@stratvox, going on a hunt:

They're in the rack because I finally got to the point of making a bow

At the end of a long day 20.

Oh, go get trampled at least once; you haven't lived until you've lived through that.

I've had my guys trampled by moose an easy dozen times by now.

You take a much lower hit to your condition, and it's really unlikely to kill you, as opposed to getting mauled by a bear, and getting bleeding affliction(s); if you don't have bandages, it can kill you in pretty short order.

Exsanguination baby.

Late evening in ML. Early in the run so it's still pretty decent weather.

Once it gets a hold of you you basically have to take it. You'll get broken ribs. That will require 120 hours of rest (sleep or passing time) to fix, and in the meantime your carrying capacity will be (IIRC) halved, no running, no rope climbing, none of that stuff.

Moose encounters are pretty serious.

It's not RTX on, but it is light from the waterfall. I know it's not RTX because I have a Radeon and I can see the light.

Yes. If an item hits zero condition and is not a harvestable item inside a container it will disappear. If it is a harvestable item it won't.

At least that's been my experience.

For those of us on the penguin and playing TLD via proton, the latest updates to proton from Steam caused TLD to break. If you back up your save files etc and delete compatdata/305620 (IIRC that's the right number) then steam will rebuild the wine prefix and it will start working again... and the new performance optimisations are On Point.

Personally I think that a serious apex predator like a mountain lion would be a good choice; native to that part of the world, and able to be extremely dangerous to the player, all the way on up to "if they get the jump on you you're highly likely to end up dead". 

That's because they generally aren't... until they see you as a threat. Then they can become very aggressive.

And they can move surprisingly fast when they decide to.

Clearly none of you are Canadian. You don't want to mess with the beavers; they can and will kill you if they decide they don't like you.

Study for Northern River, 1914

Moose at night, 1916

Logs at Water’s Edge, 1914

Innu survived by eating the organ meat, the offal. It contains many of the trace nutrients humans require to survive (and which mark us as an omnivorous species and as predators). Also, wrt scurvy; rosehips are a very strong source of vitamin c. When it comes to the overall nutrition question, I've assumed that the game elides over the fact that our survivors are eating things like heart, liver, kidneys, etc from the animals they hunt.

Wildflowers, 1915

BI has amazing moose spawn, and in and around the Frozen Delta is definitely the place of choice.

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.