Mroz4k

Next morning it was windy, but not a single living thing. The music also stopped. Just dead quiet, my steps and wind blowing. I safely made it to the Office with my load of meat. I was pretty well rested still, so I used the rest of the day, looking for the runaway wolf. So I at least collected some sticks. Gonna try again tommorow. In the evening I finished my last cooking book, and read a bit of sewing primer by the moonlight, till the midnight came and I went to rest up. 

Next morning I spent looking for the wolf, unsuccesfully. The weather was not very cooperative. Still, I scouted most of the general area where Id expect the wolf to die, and no luck. It could have probably ran a lot further then Id think... 

During my travels, however, I have literally stumbed upon a Preppers hatch! A lot of very useful, valuable equipment was in there. Even though I dont expect to use it any time soon, I took one of the rifles found there with me, to carry it home to the Office. Took basically everything else. In the evening, I did more studying, and went to bed - determined that the arrow I left lodged in the wolf is now gone forever, till maybe I randomly stumble upon it ages later. I guess this means I will have to go forge some new ones.

Although the Muskeg in this game is very deadly, I think I will travel to the forge there next, but not anytime soon. Both of my bear skins are now cured, which means I may start working on a new piece of equipment.

I am deliberating whether to craft a bedroll, or a coat. Most likely I will go with the coat, though.

I made several birch bark teas, and I turned 4 rabbits into steaks. By the early afternoon next day, I am ready to leave the cave at around 75% condition, I should be able to survive with this amount all the way down to Mystery lake area.

Im in desperate need of a bow and some arrows, as a preferred weapon of mine.

Apologies, I was wrong. I woke up in the middle of the night. Well, I made my way through the cave, cooked up the meat from the deer I found mid-way up, and made it to the other side. There I decided to repair most of my clothing while hiding by a toasty fire, hidden behind a rock, sheltered from a wind. I was rather succesful, and my previously terribly torn-up clothes no longer looked so grim. I also found a decent thin wool sweater mid-way up. Most of my clothes are still crap, but at least I am not going to lose the temperature so fast now. Nevertheless, my condition would make travelling over greater distances an issue. I will spend a day here at Marsh ridge, and recover my strenght enough to make a decent push through the Muskeg all the way to my destination of Camp Office. Maintenance yard had a small rifle book for me. And the way sprains are right now, I will need to do my best to avoid getting overencumbered too much. which means regularly dropping gear and leaving it behind for later visits. 

It is Day 4 and I plan to make great use of this birch forest... to stock up on the kind of food that will allow me to quickly regain some of that lost condition.

Now I only hope I dont run into a moose in here... although for a late game, I would not mind having a moose in here.

The Cave

At merely 3% of condition, I fall down onto a bedroll. Im tempted to make screenshots but right now, every second counts...

I sleep 1 hour, wake up with 7% condition. I sleep another hour and at the very beggining of this hour, my biggest fear comes to realization... the infection, caused by the wolf bite, develops.

I wake up with 3% condition again.
I drink the reishi tea. I drink a full load of water.

3% condition remaining.
I eat a bunch of peanut butter.
2% condition remaining.

I go to sleep for 10 hours.

I wake up fully rested, it is early in the morning, and I have about 12% of condition.

I survived. I was clinging to life, but I have lived through it.

Forlorn Muskeg.

Im freezing. Im half dead. Its awful weather outside. I grab a few sticks that I come across, as I cut my way to the low blind. I know my only chance to live is to make it to the Hat creek cave, where I can hopefully reculpurate, especially if I actually catch the infection.

I make a fire to warm up, and I cook two cups of reishi tea from the mushrooms I grabbed earlier. These are my last chance in case the infection hits. No peroxide bottle in the blind... just more bullets for both firearms. Im getting desperate... what now...

I start walking when winds pick up and blizzard launches. This is it. No chance I will reach it on my 20% condition unless I do something... I rip open the Go! energy drink and chug it in one sweep. This boost of energy is great! And this fatigue boost and stamina boost will certainly give me a chance!

I run what I can towards the creek, as Im freezing to death.

I reach the bottom of the creek, and 10% of condition is shown by a blurry vision of my screen.

I reach the upper lake. 

5% condition.

I finally jump into the cave, at alarming 3% of condition left. I am safe, for this very moment... but who knows what happens if infection strikes? I will for sure die then...

The bottom of the ravine proved to be bountiful. Sewing primer book, three carcasses and a bunch of other items, including the stuff like Go! Energy drink. Stripped the animals of their hides and meat, then made a campfire as I shredded a jacket for cloth. Slept till high noon next day.

Climb out of the ravine turned out to be uneventful. At the top I grabbed my gear and went on my way. Decided to go check out the hunter´s blind. Mid way a bear crossed my path, and I quickly ran towards the Maintenance yard. Luckily, he did not pursue me. However, I ran into a wolf, a really brutal wolf who jumped me... and nearly killed me, with forcing me to bleed. I ran towards the door of the hut, popping second flare... bleeding heavily. Inside, I stopped the bleeding. Alas, I have no peroxide bottle, nor any Old man´s beard! I searched the entire place but no luck... meanwhile the infection risk stopped at 90%. No antibiotics either... I rest up through the night after drinking a cup of herbal tea that I discovered in a microwave. I am stuck somewhere in around 30% of condition, with infection risk high and no way to treat it, in a building surrounded by wolves... now THIS is survival...

I realize that if I stay, I will most likely die. I drop the rifle - it is slowing me down too much. Still, I decide to take the rounds with me in case I need them further down the road.

I cant seem to find peroxide anywhere. My clothes are torn to bits so Im getting cold, fast. Another wolf jumps me right as I manage to fire off a shot with a revolver (no point saving bullets now!) I go down into a struggle but one hit with a hatchet and it runs off, giving me nothing more then just a bruise. Still, my condition takes a hit and that is not something I can afford!

My condition is very, very poor. I manage to leave the Broken Railroad freezing and in deathly state... wondering if I will ever be able to return here again. What started off as very fortunate run has turned very grim very fast.

Forlorn Muskeg adventures next.

Due to the new update bringing in an entirely new skill, no doubt neccesary for the skills achievement, I will be starting out a new game of Voyager for achievement run. I wouldnt be able to get them in my previous game because I already looted all the game´s places with skill books, and basically looted entire "game" without the containers which would severely limit the amount of bullets and revolvers Id find in that game.

Also kinda wanna start all over again using the new game update features from the start.

First day I spawned in Broken Railroad, below the bridge leading up to Hunting lodge.

I climbed towards the Hunting lodge. I decide to look inside the cars... what do you know! A revolver! I stuff it in my pocket. No bullets yet, but a nice find!

I proceed to loot the Hunting cabin next. Found some better clothes, some food, a rope and cookbook. Also a rifle and bullets for both firearms - now I have fully loaded revolver and rifle! Too bad I dont plan on using them any time soon... 

Evening is coming and I decide to climb down into ravine next. I goat down the rocks behind the hunting lodge and make my way towards the climb. I sprain my ankle - so I pop the pills and bind my ankle with a bandage. Then, I drop some gear and climb down.

I was just about to say something on this thread when it was locked by the Admin, before I could. Im not going to make a new thread on it, at least not yet, but this is an issue I want to bring up after some time goes away and I give Hinterland time to settle the initial hard work on implimenting the new update.

Here is my post:

 

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Was this the best way to go about this topic? No. Getting upset and posting while upset is never a good way to handle any kind of confrontation. I read everything carefully, I don't think the real reason why Kristyok was upset was because of the game. It was the fact that after posting a few comments about it on steam, on her latest where she wrote something along the line of  "I wish I could play so I can test out the revolver" she was branded a spammer on the Steam forums and warned for it. I think that would make everyone upset. As far as I can tell, a comment like that is not dissing the update in any way... (then again I did not read it, perhaps it did in some way, but the way Kristyok described it, I can't see anything wrong with it, and I would be just as upset as she is if that happened to me)

If there is one area in which the Hinterland Staff severely lacks, it will be the management of Forums reports and the whole warning system. I understand locking threads that blame Hinterland for the new update not working. But it is not a fair treatment to punish someone for "spamming" just because they made a few upset posts about it at first, then posted a different kind of post instead and got punished for this particular different one. What about punishing people who reply to threads about faulty update with a tip to back-up the saves, then turn off the steam cloud and make a completely freshly reinstall the game? These people are often branded as trolls and warned for posting this tip. Yet, as you can see from others posting in this thread, doing this can fix this issue. (I had this issue in the past during one of the previous major updates, had the same kind of error and this was the only solution that actually worked. I dont believe this was ever an issue of the game or the update, but more likely an issue of corrupt update files, caused by some issue Steam had mid-updating. Not unreasonable if internet connection gets interrupted for a moment during the update).

If my experience tells me anything, I will probably be banned for this comment and it will likely be deleted because it criticizes one of the most sensitive subjects on these forums. But on the off chance it is not, there is a long-standing issue with transparency and unfairly judged, biased reports on these forums. Of the inability to distinguish when reports are filed legitimately, and when they are filed out of spite. It is most likely the reason why these forums are so tiny compared to the actual game community behind this game, and why long-standing community members eventually "run their life expectancy" due to various reports amassing over the years. It greatly favours bullies who abuse the reporting system to manipulate with other forum members, and harass them through the hands of Administrators.

I wish this could change one day but that is unlikely. It would require self-reflectment of a sort that only very few people are capable of.

It doesnt help that I dont know how to post and explain myself briefly in English. That is why my posts are always so long. This gives people the idea of me, trying to "hide" something in there, which is not true, it is just a biased notion people get. English is my third language, Ive learned to use it by using its rich vocabulary, this makes it very difficult for me to get my point across briefly. I dont use it to converse daily in speech, I only use it on the internet daily, through reading and watching TV shows. Daily use of speech is neccesary to get into the routine of getting your point across briefly.

I am straight up terrified to post a single comment anywhere on the forums.

It takes 3 warning points that never expire to obtain a permanent ban on the forums. I have gotten two of those points in the last temporary ban for something I have not done. Instead, for many days I was berated and harassed by a different forum member, first directly through messages, then later via endless reporting of my posts (at least I suspect so, there is no way to prove that). Or, it may have been a biased admin, monitoring me so closely & pushing me with endless public warnings just to unnerve me until I did something that could be considered against rules. I don't even want to consider that possibility, cause if that's true, I have earned myself a permanent ban...

There is nothing I can do to report such harassment. But instead, my personal advice to help others improve their forum content is being reviewed as moderating & telling people how to post (HOW??! Never did I say "you have to do this!", I made a suggestion to do it differently, and explained why!), and the fact that I get more influence on the forums is considered as "establishing authority" on the forums. (I have no authority here!!! And I cant stop that I get more influence because I post more, that is how it works. Experienced community member is a form of influencer). What is even more sad is that I used this influence for good things, to help breathe in life to the very stagnant forums by encouraging more discusssions and for people to spend more time in here. (Unlike the same person I suspect of mass-reporting me, who has been going around, claiming things Hinterland said without pointing into where they said it, which is an actual moderating, and showing their influence around as a badge of authority to boost their ego.)

I have integrity, I made promises not to escalate things with this said user to prevent escalation, and for that, I earned myself harassment and eventually ban. Meanwhile this person continues to defile this community and noone can say anything about it. 

For months I was a part of this community and it was never a problem. This person comes back and suddenly, everything I do is a problem. Id say the cause of all the problems would be the "recent" change, the person coming back, the cause and effect would point towards that. 

If I do get banned, the rest of you be careful. It is just a matter of time till this person picks a different target, perhaps because you upset them, and this whole situation will repeat again with a different victim. Free speech posting is no longer as safe on the forums as it used to be.

I would ask for more transparency with reporting, how it is done, how it is considered, what are the chief decision factors. And abuse of reporting to harass and berate others for revenge or other personal bias should be strictly prohibited by the Forum rules, othervise this cannot be a friendly community, because it takes one angry, self-righteous prick to mass-report all you do to put the admins on your back and strangle you with warnings and endless observations. How can a normal person not feel depressed, stressed and desperate when everything they do is being put under the microscope?

I thought taking more time off from getting unbanned before posting would help, I slept twice since then and I dont feel any closer to knowing what to do. 

I admit that I am scared, desperate, stressed and I feel abused and violated, and hopeless because there is nothing I can do about it.

I am back. I am too tired, too upset and too pissed off to say more about it at this time.

By the same evening, I was already home with every last bit of meat and quarter. Ive chosen to forgo the nights sleep and harvest the quarters with my bare hands. By the morning, every last bit of meat was out on the porch, waiting to be used. I do believe I am set on food for a decent amount of time.

Next morning I made my way to the Trappers. A wolf crossed my path, he was quickly pacified with an arrow headshot, and in turn processed into scraps. 

This gave me an idea to kill the Trappers bear as well. It was not easy, it took the entire day and part of the night, but after three shots that made him bleed (yet miraculously survive) I finally killed the beast. I did not forget my task either - so as I was cooking old bear steaks (leftovers from previous bear), I made some torches and went to loot the cave for respawned coal. Measly 10 lumps. Dissapointing. 

Made a short fire in the Trappers to make a drink, then rest through the night to go search for the bear.

Found it fairly soon, it was gentleman enough (after all the trouble it put me through to kill it) to die on top of the peak of a hill above its lair. 

Recently I have been getting into arguments with a couple of people. To the point some might actually feel a personal grudge against me. If you are one of those people, I am sorry for upseting you, in any way. I tend to be vocal sometimes, I can be obnoxious, even stubborn. I like to argue points too, but dont like it once the argument turns into a personal vendetta or just argument for the sake of arguing. 

I believe that arguing about a particular topic can be sometimes beneficial in a way that it encourages people to learn more about the subject in order to "outsmart" the other one... but maybe that is just me.

If you read the "about me" section of my profile, you will know that I value constructive criticism. And recently, I feel like I ventured away from that. Getting back on track with that is something I would like to do in the future.

Well continues my Voyager journey. I have stuff to do today so I wont be playing for much longer, I think, but still wanted to play for a while, got really into it lately.

Made my way from Grey mothers to Park office where I dropped most of the good items from my Hushed river valley run. I can recover it later when I interrupt my travels to rest up for a while at Mystery lake. Then, I make my way through the blizzard to the farm below Milton.

Its locked. Dammit. Cant find the key. Ok, decision time - made a fire next to the truck and spent uncomfortable night, sleeping in said truck. Found the dead farmer in the morning - dead behind the farm, with the key in his pocket. Never even occurred to me to look for him there.

Found new small gun book. Roped down to the basin. Moose there - good to know. Spend most of the day looting up the basin area, then climbed down to marshes.

After a night spent in the cave there, Im moving over straight for the Broken Railroad. Lots of meat in my pockets - bear steaks from the bridge troll, and some deer meat I found on a carcass in Marsh ridge (never seen 2.4 kg of meat on a ravaged deer before).

Currently I am in Broken Railroad, its evening, and Im about to rest up by the rope so I can rope down and spend the night in the ravine. Hopefully something bad wont spoil my plans.
 

Yes! On my Voyager run for achievements, Ive visited the Hushed River valley, about 50% done with the major locations and I have already found both of the biggest treasures of this region  

Now I just wanna see if I can maybe find that special carcass Ive heard about before... now THAT would be an awesome win.

Also found 3 caches so far, one had a skill book in it, then another skill book (sewing primer, yey!) in a backpack in a cave.

Now just a couple of nice good locations left, I might spend two, three more days before moving on back to the Mountain Town to finish some major locations there, might even try to kill the Bridge troll (errr, I mean bear) for its hide.

Damn, had to go buy a new mouse, my old one´s stopped registering all the clicks, got jumped by a wolf because my bow wouldn't draw. Sad to see this old one go - had it for literally 4 years of daily use. Doubt I will ever have a reliable mouse like that again.

Doing fairly well on my Voyager Achievement run. Day 24 just started, already got most of the game essentials down. Got two bows and 8 arrows, Cooking, fire starting and archery already on lvl 3, plus several books-left-to-read on how to process carcasses and on shooting, of course. No point in reading those till Ive looted whole world, anyway. So far been on TWM, part of PV, most of Mystery Lake locations and now Im deliberating whether to go Mountain Town & Hushed river valley or Forlorn Muskeg and Broken Railroad. I like HRV better plus wanna get that satchel up there, so probably going there first.

Trying to put together some of my past ideas and see if some were still relevant today, maybe re-posting them once again to get the feedback of people, currently around these forums

So far most of what I remembered and found seems to still be relevant.

I am hungry. I should go and make some pancakes... but the kitchen is over there, and this bed feels so damn comfy...

I am sick. : /

I need a hobby. All I do is sit on the forums, even though there is nothing to do for most of the day, since most people are from Canada and US. 

Probably will go make a bow soon.

Currently working on a comprehensive Forum functions guide.

On my "to do" list:
-Formulate suggestion on "customizable mode and what settings it should have".
-Formulate suggestion on improving First Aid system in the game, according to the feedback I got in the Bandage thread.
-Formulate my long-term project - a suggestion that would be generally a major update idea for Sandbox mode, called "determined homesteader" - which would be mostly an update that would add some more craftables, and just generally more options for the end-game fun. 

Random fact people probably didnt know about me. 
I love singing. Pretty decent at it too - not as good as most people you would see on talent shows, at least not yet, but probably better then an average person. I hope.

Would like to one day be succesful at it too, music is one thing that I know is going to be my passion forever, but too hard to make it so. Still, practising a few days every week, slowly getting to the point where I am confident enough to sing in front of other people.

Some thoughts on what I would like to improve in the future:

I will do my best to write less. I know long texts are generally obnoxious. Im not very good at this, I was taught English in a manner that claims "the more rich text, the better" - I will attempt to moderate this a bit.
Less arguments with people. I feel like it really just served to discourage topics when I got into it with other people. 
More constructive criticism, less arrogant prick responses. This is a nasty routine I am still trying to drop, that I brought with me from Town of Salem forums.
More posts for fun. Again a routine from ToS forums - the forums there required people to have some quality of posts for them to be legitimate. So there was not much room for jokes. I want to change that. Hopefully people will then realize I am not always such a serious person with a stick up my butt.
Post two posts in row rather then one huge one. Again a routine from ToS, where you could not post multiple posts in a row. Have to drop that routine.
Less mood swings. I might just leave the forums for a day if I have a grumpy mood. Many times I will pity what I wrote in angrier state, and quite often I have to edit out things like swears and other nasty behaviour. 

If there are any more things you would think I should improve, let me know. I would like to self-improve through this as a person, and it would help if I had an honest opinion of third parties that I could build on.