Jigsawn

Same here. Crashes a lot on PS4 in some circumstances and I have found examples of other players suffering from this. For me and at least one other player, the crashes seem based around Pleasant Valley (entering and exiting buildings, i.e. probably memory leak). And certain region loading screens. There is some evidence to suggest that the PS4 crashes may be related to patches from late 2018 with updates to certain regions. For example on Coastal Highway I can play for days with no crashes, but play for an hour on Pleasant Valley and get a crash. I will post any more info I find about what might be causing this bug as I play. On my current survival run I just made it to Pleasant Valley after only having 1 crash on a region transition, and no crashes in 3 other regions. So if I start getting crashes in Pleasant Valley now, we'll know that's definitely one of the problems. Please see thread below for more info (I made it before I knew about the Technical Subforum)

Behind each of these doors is a basement with a terrified family in their survival shelter. Hoping, praying, that the scary foreigner with the bearskin clothes and the bow and arrow will just move on once this blizzard is over...

Update: I found a prepper cache in Pleasant Valley by the burnridge cave. But now I'm sad, it is a food cache which has ridiculous amounts of food. Enough to last me for weeks. So now I feel like I shouldn't use it because it will make the game way too easy! Now I'm umhing and ahhing about whether I should just pretend I never found it and let all that food rot away, I was enjoying the challenge up until now!

It's sneakily hidden behind a fallen tree, behind the little outhouse near the bottom of the rope. I found it whilst I was desperately searching for supplies around there, I only saw the top of the hatch and thought it was just a bit of wood. I went around to check just in case because of my desperation, and lo and behold a bunker awaited me, it was my saviour!

Case in point. After writing the post above I started a game on Stalker on a random map. Turns out it was Hushed River Valley and I spawned at the exit to the next region. But I dutifully went onwards into the valley not knowing the map, grabbed some cattails at a big waterfall and walked along next to the river on the left. I killed a rabbit on the way and further left found some branches to climb which led me to a dead guy next to a dead fire. He had some handy loot lying around including a dead rabbit and a snare. Good start, I thought! I started up the fire to cook my rabbits and warm up from freezing, although night was already approaching. Unfortunately a great wind blew up just as I'd fueled the fire enough to start warming me, and blew out my fire. Oh well. I climbed further up the little mountain when the wind turned into a full scale blizzard, and I was forced into a little sheltered nook atop the hill to light a fire again to try and warm up. I harvested my rabbits and had the meat sizzling away. Whilst I passed time using the fast wait for the meat to cook, I thought I heard something. I turned around and there were a series of big footprints leading right past my fire in the narrow corridor between the rocks. Uhoh. But why hadn't the beast attacked me? Because of the fire? Just as I was thinking that, a giant head poked around the edge of my nook. A bear! He raised up on his hind quarters and I did the only thing I could - sprinted for my life down the rocky hill! But I was rudely interrupted when the bear overtook me with ease - and mauled me as I screamed in pain. Somehow, it left me alone, still alive on a sliver of health. I ran away from the retreating bear back up to my precious fire and food, freezing and bleeding out. I futilely bandaged the wound, but the blizzard had changed direction and my fire was going out. I grabbed everything and went down the hill to find more shelter, it was getting dark too. I couldn't take any more condition loss so desperately I found another sheltered nook by the dead guy and started up my fire, but I didn't have enough wood to get it hot enough - I'd already used all the rest on the last two fires. My vision started to blur. I stumbled down the vines to try and find some sticks. Nothing. My health was nearly empty, I was freezing and exhausted. I lurched onwards towards a fallen tree over a ravine, my hopes fading. The last sound I heard was my own scream as I staggered off the fallen tree bridge, down into the ravine below. Maybe I should just stick to the intermediate areas for the maps I don't know

Over a year ago I sunk a lot of time into The Long Dark, playing through the old Wintermute and delving into Survival. I started out on Stalker and found Mystery Lake too easy to start on, so I tried out The Lost Coast. After a bunch of deaths I found it quite easy to survive and still have a 30+ day run save from that run where I moved onto Forlorn Musteg because I got bored. Returning to the game in 2019 I wanted to have a bigger challenge, with Stalker before I found that after you got over the initial hurdle the game was too easy, but that was in an Intermediate difficulty area. This time I've been trying to play Stalker on Pleasant Valley and Timberwolf Mountain, but now I'm finding it too hard/slow. The thing is that I don't want to learn the maps because for me exploring the unknown whilst surviving is half the fun, Pleasant Valley, Timberwolf, Desolation Point and Hushed River Valley are the only maps I don't know aside from the few attempts I've had at them so far. It seems like Pleasant Valley and Timberwolf require some map knowledge to survive as I keep dying roaming around the wilderness. That's fine but each attempt I learn the map a bit more and so lose that feeling of exploration for my next run. I don't want to knock the difficulty down so do you have any suggestions for regions I could start in for a good Stalker challenge? I was thinking River Valley might be good but it connects to the easy Mountain Town region. What would be a good challenge and route I could potentially take? Maybe start in a region next to Pleasant Valley and then once I'm established, move into Pleasant, explore that region and eventually climb up to Timberwolf once I'm geared up a bit? Then try to get down again? I like the idea of trying to explore the whole world in one run, but after you get to 100+ days on Stalker your gear and item hoard is so good its hard to die unless you have bad luck or make a big mistake. I'm not up for Interloper because I don't know the maps well enough or know the systems inside out, plus trying to explore these "new" regions would be an excercise in frustration. Easier difficulties than Stalker are just too easy for me too. I guess I could go Custom if anyone has any suggestions for settings I could tweak. Any suggestions for personal challenges I could try on Stalker would be cool too, like would collecting all the in-game backer notes be a good goal, or just annoying? Thanks for any advice! PS Any news on new Survival Maps?

I'm on PS4 EU and have been getting many crashes when exiting or entering areas in wintermute episode 1. However patch 1.09 is downloading now which hopefully fixes the big crashes. I popped on here to find more info about the patch, nothing I can see but assume it fixes some of the issues. Having worked in console game dev myself I entirely sympathise with you Raphael and the team. It's heart breaking to find last minute major issues and the backlash that you'll get. But, you've done the right thing, apologised, been open about the problems and the process and pushing out fixes asap. Given the circumstances don't feel too bad. You learn from your mistakes! To lessen the blow a bit, know that as a newcomer to the game I'd read good things about it so was eagerly waiting for the console release, and picked it up right away. My crap Pc won't run it. I got sucked in quickly by diving into wintermute as I'd heard although its not as good as sandbox it does a good job of teaching you the mechanics. And I've been loving it. Knowing little about the game aside from watching a streamer play wintermute for half an hour, I didn't know if I'd find it too boring. On the contrary its tense, relaxing and absorbing in equal measure. I love the art style and natural beauty, and it has fantastic atmosphere. I played it most of today, reloading whenever a crash occured, thankfully the auto saves aren't too far apart. They didn't deter me as I was hooked. I got to Milton and found the fetching for the lady a bit annoying (by the end her fridge was full whilst I was starving to death) but loved the challenge and planning of having to survive almost a week in and around the town. I did most of the side quests and my life was made very difficult by my hatchet breaking, destroying my chances of chopping wood and using frozen deer corpses. I would suggest explaining the whetstone and item degradation a bit earlier and more clearly to help people avoid my fate. However I somehow persevered. I had a eureka moment when I suddenly thought to build a fire next to the deer corpses to thaw them out... and it worked! It was still tough but I made it through the lady's questlines and I've just made the climb out, surviving a terrible blizzard day on the mountain before resting for a day to give me the strength to climb further on. I just made it with my food, wood and water almost out, and half an hour ago crawled through the cave to victory! Overall I loved it and I appreciate the direction, teaching and focus that wintermute provides. I am sure sandbox is the more compelling experience but I'm looking forward to diving into episode 2 now as I want to experience the mechanics as they are introduced by you in layers, and have more adventures as its never the same for each player. So there you go, crashes or no, bugs didn't stop me loving the game and I can't wait to play more. Keep up the good work guys. Alan Stock Uk