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Yea, I know. Dont have enough experience to be comfortable with but have plenty of knowledge, and some experience as well. I know I complain a lot about not having the chance to hone my survival skills, but I am not completedly without experience for sure. For example, I did make fire through friction before. I have even made flint tools, which I believe is a thing many people never even tried. I dont neccesary want to go so stripped of all the things, that is my friends idea. I am actually trying to dissuade his outlook on things, because I realize how crazy that general idea is. I think he doesnt really realize the survival that much as he is romantized by the shows and youtube vids he saw on internet. I am fairly confident I would handle it, but I am more concerned about him. He even refuses to take a water canteen with him, claiming he can hollow out a piece of log and fill it with water, and boil the water by putting stones into it... me, on the other hand, have a bit of actual experience, I know how bad it is without a metal container. I have been holding "somewhat amateur survival courses" since I was 13 years old, starting on my highschool and going from there I would definitely want to bring more things. If anything, I would like to bring those items, have them as an option, and then chose not to use them. He even wants to refuse to take things like beacons, which I stand firmly behind - I am not going anywhere without having some sort of emergency line for a potentional disaster. Not leaving without having a well equipped first aid kit as well, or things like bear sprays. What I think we will eventually agree upon is that we will come by an equipped car, have access to those things if we need them, but instead choosing not to use them unless we have to. And I am definitely dragging his ass through a one or two day training where we test out if we are really ready to do it. And get used to each other and cooperation, doing some tasks we will be doing during the actual holiday. Also going to study local fauna and flora beforehand.

That is good to hear! And I fully agree, being close to death puts one into a great perspective when they can reflect back on life they almost lost, it can be a great motivation to not waste life and focus on doing things one wants to do, because we really dont know how much time we have.

Well said story, Mr. @snakevondoof , and truly motivating one. You have my deepest respect for handling that situation so well. Most people would never prepare for it in advance, and even less of them would be able to maintain their composure and make that right call in a seemingly hopeless situation. I went through a lifeguard training in the US last summer so I can pretty well picture it from the story you said. It is NOT easy, trying to swim with someone who is not cooperating, using only one hand, especially not against strong current... I would agree with what others say, you are a goddamned hero, sir Hope this experience didnt put an end to your outdoor adventures Will try to think of mine, but I have been thinking for a while and nothing comes to mind. It is either because its virtually impossible to get into a bad situation here in Europe, or because I am just too cautious. Might be combination of both. I have almost died a couple of times, but it was never anything outdoor related.

Yea, not yet. As a student, I am happy to be able to pay my things now (even though I work full-time, well, "worked" - got fired 5 days ago, currently on a job hunt), once I am satisfied with studies and am only working and make sufficient money, I will be happy to do some traveling. I do have a plan, something for next summer. Still in planning stages, but it looks realizable. Now, for the reason I came here... I may or may not have "obtained" piece of log which I tommorow plan to transform into a primitive bow. I have made plenty survival bows in my time, always using saplings... but this time, I will be making an actual bow out of a log, by carving and filing it down to the perfection, having it cured and by the end, hopefully done properly enough so it doesnt snap and fires accuratedly. Since this will by my first time, I am not putting up much hope... But if it goes on properly, I will have a ranged weapon of my own. Always prefered bowhunting in TLD to guns anyways... might as well get better at archery in real life, too (also found some quartz-like stones too, will see if I can flake them and create flint arrowheads, probably not but will try)

Heh, cant even cut down a tree without going through a byrocracy of having it confirmed around here. Its sad... I find myself wondering more and more every day whether it wouldnt be just better to save up a decent size of money, and follow the example of Dick Proenneke, build myself a cabin somewhere in Alaska, out of the reach of civilization and live a quite, content life homesteading. Not that anyone would let me since I am not a US citizen.

Yea, but when it comes to any recent major attacks in Europe (for example the attacks in France, which actually resulted in these stricter limitations), those were all carried out by weapons, which were obtained illegaly and even already banned in those countries to begin with (at least I believe so). Therefore I find it a bit strange that there would be policies to make it more difficult to obtain a registered, legal gun, instead of focusing on removing illegal weapons trade instead, or better checks on borders. Especially now since in the past few years, these attacks have significantly increased in number. I suppose I shouldnt stand so against it - Czech Republic is considered the third most peaceful country in the world and I believe that is mostly due to a part that it is so difficult to obtain firearms here - you have to take lessons at the range under instructor, then pass a test on the range, a test in a classroom of how to take the firearm apart, and also mental evaluation - and as a result you can buy most of handguns. Not to mention the actual tests and lectures cost around 8-10K crowns which is about half of an average pay in here. Also, while I seriously dont like it, I also get the reason why hunting is banned altogether in here - Europe is unlike Canada and States, where you can sometimes go for 1 hour on a car and not see another city... in here, you go half of an hour on foot by a road and you are quaranteed to run into a town or a village, or at least a house... there is no free wilderness anymore, and if hunting were allowed, not only we would quickly lose all wildlife, but accidents where hikers get shot instead of an animal would likely be common, since there are already a lot more hikers in the mountains then there is a game.

Dont have no firearms - european laws on guns are very strict and are getting much worse due to all the terrorist attacks in the past two years. I would like to obtain a handgun licence (cant do much more than that here) and get myself a glock 17 for personal protection, but both the licence and handgun are pretty expensive, I have very little in a way of income and a ton of other things I need to buy first before even thinking about this. Czech Republic law separates guns into 4 cathegories, going from automatic weapons in a cathegory A which are strictly banned all the way to D class which is dedicated for airsoft guns and air guns (and only of rather weak FPS), which can be purchased for 18+ without a licence. Handguns are cathegory B and can be purchased after obtaining licence. Shotguns, rifles and several other guns are class C and can only be purchased by professional hunter (which is not a hobby, but a profession, hunter club here means you are a forest custodian for your profession, and hunting is only allowed during organized events. Hobby hunting is strictly prohibited.) A lot more people are recently interested in obtaining guns in here because people are afraid of the immigration and the fact that a lot of radicals come by with the immigrants. But the increased gun laws make it more difficult - which is a joke, since all the guns used in terrorist attacks were obtained illegally. When I was in a States, I wanted to buy and bring a cool air gun home with me for target shooting - but couldnt. No rifles I was interested in had an FPS low enough to pass through a Czech airport control. So I just got myself a nice bowie knife. Its funny how a thing considered a "toy" in the US is considered a "firearm" in the Czech Republic. I suppose the only "firearms" (according to my country´s riddiculous laws) I own would be a cheap and weak SVD Dragunov airsoft rifle without a scope, unpainted, and an old air gun I inherited from my grandfather - sadly that one is damaged and bent for it so it is not exactly a precise gun to use. Its a damn shame because that air gun is vintage by now. Gun ranges in here dont have automatic weapons to shoot out of here, either. At least not to my knowledge. The only way to get a chance here to fire an automatic weapon is to join a czech SWAT team in police forces, or the army.

I have no wrists or ankles to sprain, dude... I dont know what you are talking about. Dont you see? I am obviously a wolf. wooof wooof, rrrrrrr...

This was fun to read. But I would prefer to smoke a powdered dried reishi over them any day...

That is very unhealthy and stress inducing way to live. Id suggest to try and relax a bit. I kind of wish I had a chance to live off the land like the TLD character does, because I believe this stressful "cant wait for nothing" mindset is whats slowly poisoning the human civilization. Boyfriend of my best highschool friend has a dream to run a 7 day experiment in wilderness, using minimum tools, and I will probably join him on this fools errand... but we both agree that this is going to be a great eye-opening experience. Because in survival, you have no time to worry about what tommorow will hold, but rather about taking care of the essentials you need today. Give them time to relax - a wise man once said "All changes for worse are quick to come, a change for better always takes time". Think about it, doesnt it really apply to just about anything in life?

Its not really new, it has been in a game for quite some time. And also, the idea that they go up slopes you cant climb is wrong - the animals follow the same physics as the player, they will not go up something you cant walk as well. In fact, when tracking leads you to mountains, and you reach the slope where they cant climb anymore, you need to chose in which direction they went. It pays to remember that the wounded animals will run around obstacles they come across, so if the wolf came up a slope it cant run up, but hit it from a side, it will continue running forward along the obstacle untill he can cross over it. If you cant find the carcass and there are no crows present, another thing that can help you find it is mapping. If you map from a high vantage point, chances are the corpse will show up on your map even if you dont notice it with your eyes. Crows are useful, but they are only limited to good weather. Rely on them as last resort, because optionally you want to harvest the carcass as soon as possible to get the meat with great condition and the carcass will still be thawed, meaning processing it will take less time. There were changes in the settings, especially with Wintermute, which introduced some changes in graphics. So this is in your settings - the blood effects will be rendered in closely, either your machine is not that good or you just have worse graphics level set. My previous laptop was pretty garbage already so I had it turned down almost to the point where I had to stand over it to see the blood.

Well, I am for it, for once. On a condition that the existing shelters can also become less favorable by the actions of a wildlife, or a weather, damaging it. Imagine a storm hitting in, and a branch falls onto a roof. Suddenly there is a hole, decreased inner temperature, and an option to mend the hole, which would take lots of calories, time and most definitedly some material as well. I imagine reclaimed wood would be the way most shelters would be repaired, and there would have to be a way to create the reclaimed wood with a hacksaw on a workbench, I think. Like, imagine that the Mountaineers hut with its hole in the roof would have some sort of access to the roof where you could repair it, and during bad blizzards there would be a small chance of a random damage to it again. This would make "camping in huts" more difficult, and as the game would progress, less and less places would stay habitable. But as far as "building entire new structures", I am not a big fan of that, honestly. Shelters built in TLD are temporary because trying to build anything more durable is a waste of energy in a cold enviroment. The only really permanent structures I could imagine in TLD are igloos and some kinds of teepees, but neither can even compare to having a real, solid shelter.

I have to admit I have seen Elegy at least two - three times every day ever since I saw it the first time on this post. And I bet I am not the only one. I am going to the cinema for this movie once it comes out. Probably repeatedly, with all my friends. It is the first forum post I click once I get on the site, to watch or just listen to it.

A Little tip from a fellow hoarder: When you loot locations that are high-yield high-risk, clear out all the animals in it, and then just take everything worth anything and stuff it in a location that is close to this high-risk location but outside of the danger zone. For example, when looting Coastal town and the gas station, kill off all the wolves first, then loot the houses entirely and do a series of quick, short rounds up to the Lonely coastal house, assuming there are no wolves spawning up there. And I mean strip that whole thing bare - not leaving a single curtain behind. This will help out later on when you start carrying it all back to your home base since you won't have to deal with them wolves again. This can be used to move things as well - clearing the way to, let's say, the Coal mine from the lonely coastal cabin, you can then move all your equipment bit by bit to the mine, and continue on this way. It is better than trying to make long trips at once because that way, the animals in that sections are more likely to respawn. The easiest way to hunt with a bow, huh... for deer, it will be like I said - just spook the deer in direction of a hill or a thicket of trees, it will try running around it for a bit, but occasionally they will bounce back and start charging you head-on. Then you just draw your bow and aim a little bit ahead of the deer in the direction where the deer is heading. If it is coming straight at you, it is really easy, but most of the time they will be running a bit to the side, so you need to anticipate the fact that the deer is moving fast and the arrows travel somewhat slow. But once you master it, taking a shot in the head or neck is usually an instakill on a deer. As for predators, wolves are easy - you just pop down a bait with the button 3 shortcut, back down and let the wolf go for the bait. You are a bit away from it, and you can just draw the bow and let it walk right into your line of fire. Again, headshot is probably going to be an instakill. I don't recommend using that tactic on bears, though. I hunt bears by finding an elevated position some distance away, and I try to arc lob the arrows on him, hoping for a hit. If it does, I just evacuate that area and give it time to bleed out.

Okay, did not mean to pick a fight. My point was, if you want to give out tips, you would do better using the IS system as 80% of the population will understand it better than the American measures. Ideally, you should use both. Prybar is definitely worth carrying around. The lockers are one of the richest containers you can find, with some high-end loot in them. That is worth the extra kg... not to mention pry bars have other uses, for example fishing (can be used to break the ice) or as an emergency weapon during a wolf struggle. When you are moving around looking for loot, you should carry it, and be careful about its durability, because breaking it while forcing something open will break the lock as well and make it impossible to open with anything else. My very first playthrough was waaay back when Mystery Lake was the only location in the game and there wasn't much to do in the game in general and the game only had a single difficulty setting. And I guess you could say I knew everything because I used basic logic and my survival experience when approaching the game. My first ever game lasted almost 12 days, which back then was quite a feat in itself, most people did not survive through the first night. 50 days was only reached by the best players during that time, and it was borderline impossible to reach more than a hundred which was only reached through a very careful rationing and boring camping indoors, since cloth, metal (for repairing) and medicine were all resources quickly depleted. Your hunting tip was ok. It is not that amazing to think about, everyone who ever tried to play the Hunted part 1 would have known about this. It was nothing amazing. And I guess I just prefer killing bears without them even knowing about me, for starters I don't really use rifle to hunt anything, in general (sometimes I use it on deer but I generally just go with a Bow, all the time). But other than that, you know very little about hunting if you think that shooting the game over and over make any sort of meaningful difference. The moment you hit the animal and get a skill point, that animal is dead. It WILL bleed out, eventually. The only difference is when you hit it from a very side with a bow or a bullet and simply "graze" it. That is a bug, the animal will react as if hit, you get a skill point, and there will be blood, but the animal will not be bleeding and will not die eventually. Before giving out tips, you really ought to consider making sure that the tips you give are correct, I would reccomend reading up the wiki about hunting first (even if it's a bit outdated at this point) You don't need to hunt wolves for hides. You don't need wolf hides. Wolf hides can only help you make wolfskin coat which is pointless to craft - better to go for bearskin coat right away. Wolfskin coat is very heavy and not that good, and its ability to make wolves go running is pretty weak to rely on. Not to mention you need a knife to make it which is quite pointless damage done to your knife. Hides are the one thing I never take from wolves. I spent over 80 days on Voyager just living in TMW, hunting with a bow. I got attacked by a couple of animals and I got mauled at least twice, once because I tried to take the bear down with a rifle. I had 6 bearskins tanning, two wolfskin coats and at least 4 pieces of every craftable clothing item one can get on top of a mountain of meat, I was at the point where I ruined a few knives and two hatchets. I mainly used the bow to hunt, and this was back when bow hunting had ridiculous sway and no croshairs. Since you so much insist on playing this pissing contest. If I can find hatchet on day 1, by day 3 I have all the "raw" materials curing for a bow and I can usually make one around day 8 - 10 which is pretty early on, and by that point, I tend to have 2-3 arrows and 2-3 broken arrows in my possesion. I often also find a mediocre bow around Day 3, but the soonest I can craft one is around day 10. They are not that rare to find on Voyager in hunting blinds. Using Interloper mode for reference, you need one cat tail stalk per two hours of sleep, so the bare minimum you can safely live with is 5,5 stalks a day on the hardest difficulty in-game. Because you will be starving the entire day, and will only eat before sleeping, where cattail stalks give you 150 cal and you use up 75 cal by sleeping an hour, and on Interloper, you want to try and sleep in 10 - 11 hour intervals. That is not taking into account Feat bonuses. Your estimate is wrong because it greatly depends on what you do for the whole day, if you starve at all or you chose to be well fed all the time. For example, pulling chair apart with your hands will take an hour but will cost you much more calories than if you did nothing but lollygaging in the farmhouse.

1. Or you can just use Celsius degrees instead, which means 0°C to keep your temperature stagnant. 2. This is hardly a tip, more like a general way-to-play. It would be a tip if you told people how to quickly swap to it to check the percentage fast. Basically, press "space" on the keyboard for radial menu and click the middle, this brings up your "status" where you can see the percentage. Ideally, don't let it pass 60% mark. 3. You suggest not to bring your crowbar but in here, you need it. Also, you are technically wrong. There is a CHANCE of having few locked boxes and a SMALL CHANCE of it spawning a hacksaw. You have much better chance to find hacksaw in the Mountaineers hut further up the TWM. But there are likely to be from 1-3 locked lockers in the Abandoned prepper´s cache. 4. Most of this tip is wrong. First of all, you can kill a bear with a single shot, with ANY weapon. It is just unlikely to happen for a flare gun, and for the gun. First of all, you should not bring the rifle to TWM in the first place. It's very heavy, bring a bow instead. Additionally, if you wish to scale the mountain, you shouldn't kill "anything" - harvesting it just takes time and energy, you should try to avoid hunting altogether. And finally, the reason you shoot at bears so much is because you are clearly trying to shoot it from too far away. Rifle in the game has no bullet-drop, but very unrealistically limited "range" - TLD intends the rifle to be used for mid-range hunting. You probably take the first shot at bear without hitting it because it is too far away, and then it charges you. If you use your rifle the way it is meant, you can hardly pull off a second shot before the animal reaches you. It is more useful to use a Lure to lure the bear closer, then try to shoot it in the right eye for a solid chance at critical hit. EVERY SINGLE SHOT IS A KILL IF YOU LAND A HIT. The bear will just take time to bleed out, and if he can reach you and you used rifle, he will charge you. Better to try and take him out from a far with a silent bow shot, but arching of bow makes it pretty difficult. But if the bear doesn't know where you are and gets hit by the arrow, it will start running away as if shot by the flare gun. The comment it takes 4 shots to bring a bear down is a lie. All it takes is one, and a lot of time. Putting more and more bullets in him is pointless waste of ammo because it will not make bleeding faster (as far as I know at least) but you are only rolling a chance that the bear will get critically hit and instantly killed instead of bleeding out. Don't waste more than 1 shot when hunting. 5. This is an unnecessary risk altogether. If they spot you, throw down a piece of bait, back away, the wolf will make a bee line slowly approaching the bait, take a shot when it comes into your sights and is rather close to you. But ultimately, if you want to be a ranger, you should not waste bullets on wolves, using arrows is better since they can be reclaimed. Shoot for head to get an instakill. 6. It takes ages to thaw a carcass. This is only really useful if we are talking about the processing of a bear. Or if you don't have tools. But be ready to use lots of fuel for that campfire. Harvesting carcasses with more animals around are just a bad idea - clear the area first then harvest the spoils. Fire is mostly useful for keeping a fresh carcass unthawed. 7. Research performed by other forumers shows that the most efficient tool to use is axe. You probably thought the knife is the fastest in comparison of different attacks in your experience, but the most deciding factor here is how tired your character is. But axe is the best - it makes the wolf bleed the most and is powerful in deterring him from attacking you. Also, if you managed to wound to wolf during his charge (like with an arrow for example) he will let you go almost instantly regardless of the tool selected. Knife could be faster as a tool, I suppose, but it will not quarantee the wolf to die, when axe is a sureway solution. 8. Fluffy is just as tough as any other regular wolf. Again, your experience was probably influenced by how tired you were. Fluffy simply looks different, but it is a regular wolf. As for the "clothes" - this is an individual choice. Some clothes provide protection from animal attack, and maybe you will fend the wolf off before it damages your clothes - meaning might be better to leave clothes on. But if you are stripping to begin with, strip everything and don't put on more clothes just because of temperature, if you know you will be attacked. That is just illogical. 9. This is hardly a tip at all. Equal chance you will run over a pin when you go counter clockwise or clockwise. More important point is that "going through a zero" resets a failed attempt. If the pin pops out, go through zero then try again, that's what you should have focused on. The easiest way to open is to just circle around to find pins, remember number close to them, then try again till you know the combination. But this is also hardly a tip, it is just the way safes work in the game. 10. And in hundred other places along the route you described. There can be on below the Train bridge next to the dam. Next one can be inside Signal hill under the bed. Another one by the corpse in a shack on the road from signal hill to Timberwolf if you go down the mountain to the left and follow the road parallel with a river. Or one can be in Farmstead - either upstairs under the King sized bed, or in the office leaning next to a cabinet. Another one can be found next to a corpse close to the Cave from the Timberwolf mountain entrance. The cave even has a bow sometimes, so does the hunting blind close by as well. Another corpse with gun can be found in a Cave close to Skeeter´s ridge. Timberwolf mountain also has a number of rifle spawn points, not to mention that you are likely to get a box with rifle, ammo and cleaning kits when looting the containers. 11. This is wrong. The calorie intake you need hugely depends on what mode you play. Pilgrim, Voyager, Stalker and Interloper all have different speed in which the player uses calories, the foods offer less calories and sleeping & actions consume more calories. This is not a tip at all. A tip would be "you can starve, take some starvation damage, and eat before you sleep to regain your condition to save your calories." 12. No shit, Sherlock. How long did that take you to figure that out? This is just common sense - you can move faster if you don't carry a convenience store on your back. And you use up less energy. What you forgot to mention is that you get tired less if you carry fewer items. A tip would be: Bring a bedroll and minimum of items with you, take fewer clothes as well for a trip up the summit. You will move faster, climb faster and get tired less. Bring coffee to help with the climbs. Sleep in the caves on the bedroll. Collect a lot of sticks along the way, and coal in the caves. This is the easiest way up the mountain and allows you to carry the most of the equipment down. 13. On the contrary, take sufficient food and water reserves. You can always drop water if you like, but it is better for exploring if you don't have to stop by all the time to replenish your drink reserves. Food is a matter of individual preference - I prefer to play by not eating processed food if I can eat meats so I carry a lot of meat and plenty of baits on me when exploring. I tackle most of the wolves I come across and then I loot the dangerous locations, and I replenish my food and bait stores from the wolves I take down. This is really just an individual approach. Don't take food with you if you plan to feed on the cans and energy bars you find while exploring. But always take plenty of water with you. 14. That is mostly your preference as well. It's a decent tip, I guess - but if you hunt for deer, it is easier to just spook them towards cliffs, eventually they will start running back and towards you, the best time to take a shot is when it faces you forward. This is probably a better technique for a bow hunt, however. The easiest rifle deer hunting method is 1sneaking up close to them and taking a shot at their head. You can sneak up pretty close if you go against the wind and you dont smell at all. 15. Ugh. American flozes and pounds. I worked in US for a time so I am familiar with them but it is still such an archaic headache for me. Easier to use IS measures. 1 liter of water = 1 kg of burden. So, 0,40 floz is in TLD 1 liter of water. I object - better to bring up to 2,5 l to 3 l, because you can always drop water and at least you don't need to replenish it so much by making campfires and wasting matches. 16. OR just trudge along a little bit further into the Mountaineer hut, which is technicaly "indoors", and if you have solid clothes, you don't need a fire going even if a blizzard hits, unless you are playing on Interloper because once again, big difference what game mode you play. 17. Unless you have lot Old man´s beard, it may be worth carrying peroxide around. Also, if you play for long enough, you are likely to use up most of the beards you find, which means it may be worth to consider carrying a peroxide bottle. The difference is not that great - peroxide bottle has 5 uses, and weights 0,7 kg, which relates to 5 beard dressings, which is 0,5 kg together. That is a minimal difference.

I don't consider it cheesing. It is more dangerous descent, in fact, it is likely you will sprain a limb or two during those descents which in the first part of the route is a problem as you need to pull yourself up a rope. Part of the survival is ability to determine an easier way to do things, this would be one of them. The descents of the path are somewhat dangerous because if you make a mistake, you might find yourself standing on top of the cliff, unable to go up because it is too steep, and your only choice is to jump off. Also, descending too fast can make you fall, take damage, sprain something or tear your clothes. It offers plenty of rewards, but there are demerits to it as well. Believe it or not, the first red route is better than the one you suggested - going through the first cave is long, a bit risky due to a dead drop, and drains a lot of energy, not to mention you need to get up there which takes a lot of effort because your way goes high up the slope. Then you have to trek a long way out of the first cave to get to the rope. The first red route is more dangerous cause it goes close to a major wolf meeting place and a bear den, but you can usually sneak past them and get over the fallen tree all the way up to the rope that leads Deer clearing with much more of the day left and a lot more saved energy. It looks like it is a lot longer route, but it is not, since it's a lot easier terrain. You walk most of it on a plain, then a bit down towards the fallen tree, then for a while it goes up, and you are by the first rope. As for going back down, I would argue that easier way down is by taking a rope which you can find inside of the Cave AB close to the exit from A, and tie it to the rock there, and use that to descend into the middle of the second red line. Then you would make the way down the same way you came up - after going down the rope at Deer clearing, you could have either go the first red route or through the Cave CD. Cave CD is useful mostly because of its temperature, its a good rest stop on the way up but it takes too long and is an exhausting "climb" to get up to the first cave. Same goes for Cave AB Your route makes more sense if you wish to loot the additional boxes. If that is the case, I would argue you shouldn't go up to the Summit, but rather after you go through the cave AB, scale the rope down and tie the second one, loot the boxes and make a trip down to the Mountaineers. Because the Summit requires full energy to climb it, and there is so much loot up there you wouldn't have much to carry down for 30 kg limit if you looted it. You would visit the Summit on your second way up there. Additionally, you can take a "shorter more exhausting" route to summit afterwards, by simply climbing up the two ropes you just tied up. But from my experience, that route is not that easy. However, if you take Bedroll (and you always should take one when going up the summit), you can rest a bit in Cave CD, climb the two ropes, rest in AB, and climb to the top. In terms of sheer playing, it is way faster, but in terms of in-game progress, you will be spending 2-3 days climbing up the mountain this way. Depends on what you would prefer. Note reference: Not even necessary to go down the way you describe, if you crouch, you can get down that route a bit faster, by dropping down bit by bit. Again, don't think this is a glitch abuse. Just an alternative approach. Don't forget the map you used is made by players, not Hinterland. It is there to show "steep" cliffs but that does not mean it can't be used. If Hinterland wanted to prevent this sort of "cheesing", there would be an invisible wall by that route down, or just another cliff which would go down 90°s for a bit to make it impossible to scale it without dying. But that route is opened, in fact, there is a "rock" carving which makes it look almost as an intentional "natural" way. Hinterland put invisible walls to some cliffs around the maps already, can't see why they wouldn't use it to prevent the descent spots if they wished to do it. I feel like that it is mostly only people who consider it "cheesing" call it a glitch, I see no glitch at all.

There are far, far easier and also relatively safer ways to get both to the top of the Timberwolf´s and to get down from there. Especially with the current 30kg limit on how much you can climb down with since Faithful (unless they changed it again, haven't had the time to play the newest update yet, will tomorrow since it's my first day off since it came out). But maybe you are one of those people who believe that scaling down cliffs is an "issue" or "abuseable bug" or whatever. The biggest "logical" issue with your guide I see already is that you would stop for the drops that are on the plateau over the lake as first. Those should be the last, because the loot you get there is very close to wolves so you don't want to risk a bite and a sprained limb (stops you from being able to climb until healed, so painkillers or sleep delay), and also because it would add onto your weight. Only Dropboxes you should loot on your way up are the ones that are too far away to be reasonably looted on a "leisure" day from the Mountaineers hut. I recommend looting engine boxes first because the easiest path to top leads right over them. The easiest way up and down the Tail section: Blue & purple line. Blue depicts ascending, purple depicts descending. Yes, it crosses "over the map edges" - those are the sections where you need to carefully scale the cliffs, it not that difficult but you should be careful nonetheless. Orange line: Alternative way down to help collect the "rest" of the boxes. Red line: alternative paths of "least resistance" in terms of terrain, but high animal dangers. Reccomended trips: Trip 1: Follow blue line, scale down the mountain towards Engine. Loot boxes, take items with you. Continue towards second set of crates along the blue line. Drop items from box 1 into Box 2, continue forth lighter. Climb to the Cave 2 (Cave B). Here you can rest up in the warmth of the cave and should do so, be fully rested before taking on the Summit. Alternatively, use emergency syringe to climb to Summit with ease. Plenty of firewood in the summit, keep fires burning long and hot while looting. Scale down the cliffs encumbered. Gather the last set of boxes on that line and get to Hut. Trip 2: 2 Choices, either take the same route all the way to Dropbox no. 2 (the one which now has the items from the Engine part as well, the one that is on deer clearing). Another riskier way is to go down the first red path. Saves a lot of energy and can choose to loot the boxes along the way, but I recommend to leave those boxes on an individual last trip. Continue past boxes 2 and loot them. Take the second red line, get to the drop boxes, then continue along the orange one. Pick up all the straggling boxes along the way. Trip 1 is easy to repeat, only really need the player to chill and regain his heat. Orange road - necessary to remember that only 30 kg below can make a trip up and down a rope. Too tired to think now.

Well. I guess I am eating my words now, on my hypothesies This trailer has been incredibly well done, and I am absolutely sure that this movie will be worth the watch. I hardly ever share things and trailers in social media, this is GOING up immediately. I am clapping once again, Hinterland you have once more exceeded my expectations, and secondly clapping for people involved in this movie as it will, no doubt, be worth a watch but also a chore to film. Would not be surprised if most actors involved had to receive survival training just for the filming, even I expect the hardest parts will be played by stunts. BRAVO. The trailer was very powerful. An elderly narrator was an amazing choice!

I remember I took a very long time off from the game at one point, and when I came back to it, there were different modes. I was pretty good in TLD, with a 50 days survived in that early stages of the game (was playing offline so no achievement tho), so I figured "why not, I will try the Stalker". Lasted for two minutes IRL before I got torn to shreds. Lesson learned: Overconfidence is deadlier than the cold.

I went to pet a bear once. Obviously, it didn't end well for me This was back when the bears were fresh in the game. I was in a Coastal in the forest when I came across a bear. Now, I was playing both Pilgrim and Voyager runs at that point and in both instances, I was living in Coastal. I had been playing a lot of Pilgrim on that day and was very used that the wildlife just ran away from me. I completely forgot that I took a break and switched over to my Voyager game. I was somewhat low on condition because of weather before and I had very low energy, but who cares, right? The things will run away from me, so I will slowly make it to my base at Jackrabbits. It was strange to me that the bear started to approach me rather than running away - I figured the game glitched and he didn't see me, I was very looking forward to getting some awesome screenshots of the new bears. Welp. When I tried to pet it and take my camera out, he was so happy he decided to give me a good ol´ bear hug and I died very quickly from all the love. Didn't even take those screenshots. Lesson learned: Make double sure you are playing the proper game mode