DaveMcD

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  1. On 9/10/2019 at 3:15 PM, LoneWolf5841 said:

    There would be bodies nearly everywhere then so that wouldn't work.

    The idea was that its a very slim random chance once in a while in your game world to come across someone else's body. you'd probably be lucky to find one.

  2. What I've always wanted in this game is that when you die, your dead body and its loot gets uploaded and in someone elses random game your body (and a portion of your loot) appears where you died as a new frozen corpse. They can perhaps also investigate your journal and find out all the places you went and whatever notes you left. 

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  3. On 7/7/2019 at 8:20 AM, JAFO said:

    Normally it doesn't.. but he's somehow gotten his playlist in reverse order.. which makes it more than a little awkward to watch.

    Looks good, though.. I've watched the first 2 vids, and am about to watch the third.

    Heya

    Seems like the playlists defaults in youtube - well at least through the Youtube Studio beta makes them newest first. I might go back through and reset them to order by release date. Might much you up a bit if you;re halfway through a list is all. Thanks for picking this up btw :)

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  4. Well done for giving recording a go. I found it a bit difficult to begin with trying to talk and concentrate at the same go. Shame about the lag. what are you using to record at the moment? do you know the quality settings and are recording to your fastest hard drive if you have multiple? I found I had to drop the capture resolution to 720P and frame rate to only 30fps to not drop game performance when I started.

    Good luck with the adventures - I subscribed to your channel so hopefully you get the performance stuff sorted and record some more gameplay.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, Cattleman said:

    Why do you think to-go coffee cups say "Caution: Hot" on them??? Because some lady went through the McDonald's drive up and got a cup of coffee, which she then somehow spilled on herself while driving. She than sued the pants off of McDonald's and won! This was all in the 90s if I remember correctly... But I do remember how everyone thought it was ridiculous that she sued... And even more ridiculous that she won.

    Incidentally I think the realities of the case show that it probably isn't as frivolous as first appears, a lot of media of the time may have in fact helped create that idea. In reality a 79 year old lady (who wasn't driving at time, but was a passenger in a parked car at the McDonalds) got 3rd degree burns which required serious hospitialisation and surgery

    from the wikipedia article about it: "Liebeck was taken to the hospital, where it was determined that she had suffered third-degree burns on six percent of her skin and lesser burns over sixteen percent. She remained in the hospital for eight days while she underwent skin grafting. During this period, Liebeck lost 20 pounds (9.1 kg) (nearly 20% of her body weight), reducing her to 83 pounds (38 kg). After the hospital stay, Liebeck needed care for three weeks, which was provided by her daughter. Liebeck suffered permanent disfigurement after the incident and was partially disabled for two years."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants

    this link below is also good particularly at pointing out that McDonalds had knowingly known about the dangers of their coffee temperatures for more than 10 years

    https://www.caoc.org/?pg=facts

    having said that... don't drink the toilet water ppl, unless you're in the quiet apocalypse and bang out of matches ;)

     

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  6. I had a similar thing today on my deadmans challenge run in the Ravine. Almost got stuck but managed to wiggle my way up and past. Could've been devastating. Have you reported it as a bug or know if someone else has... otherwise I'll put one in.

  7. Well if its not exactly a forge but a ships boiler like you say that happens to make a really neat makeshift forge (i.e. it gets really really hot) then it makes sense to me. I did find an answer on the net that stated coal powered ships stopped being made (in the US at least) in 1953. You do see a bunch of really old ships still around today. Again according to a very quick google search Canada stopped whaling in the 1960's. Is Hybernia meant to have been closed since that time or is its backstory that there was some illegal whaling going on?

     

  8. I'm in Western Australia. Almost as far from Canada as you can actually get. The worlds worst long haul flight is from where I am to Montreal. 

    Earlier this year was the first time I ever experienced snow when I went skiing in the US. 

    Most of the new bird noises in the game sound like no bird I've heard in my life. 

    Snakes and spiders and sharks I'm fine with but I'd probably be terrified if I ever saw a bear.

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  9. it was happening to me a few times before the Steadfast Ranger update. 

    I go on about it a bit and you can see the bear do it in this video of mine where I'm trying to lure in the bear with 3 stink bars.

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    It seemed to happen mostly when I looked away from him, definintely looks like they jump further along their path when you look away, I haven't noticed it all the time though but I have seen it in other peoples videos too.

  10. 13 hours ago, Stone said:

    As you undoubtedly know, Outloper proves that if you've got fire and a bunch of sticks you can handle any temps. Clothing then is a mechanism that determines how long you can stay away from the fire. It also makes the game's lack of natural fire starting annoying as once matches are gone you need sunshine - if you're lucky enough to find a may glass outside.

    Anyway, I was wondering if you've ever played Outloper with zero indoor time - keeping the game's indoor time counter to zero? I think this procludes caves but still leaves the odd shelter viable..

     

    I've never done the zero indoor time... I guess that would mean being stuck in a few regions and depending on spawn location that could be a killer. Real winner in Outerloper is still the bedroll,without it you are seriously in trouble. I think it would be a very very short run indeed. Only viable outdoor maglens location would be the fishing hut on TWM(?) only other one I know of is in the secluded shelf cave.

     

  11. 6 hours ago, TheHunter280 said:

    Too long didn't watched, but could you tell us directly the results. Sorry to sound rude but I'm not interested to sit 56 minutes to find it out

    Interesting bits are only about 8 mins or less in. Feel free to skip about in the video timeline to the first bit with the wolves on the ice. First wolf charges until 4 bullets are shot at it.

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  12. I made a Steadfast Ranger series on my youtube channel and had some interesting fun especially experimenting with how the wolves respond to being fired at when I finally found the pistol. My first wolf interaction was particularly worrisome. This vid is episode 04 as it took my that long to find the pistol, but its from old stalker save from quite a while back. Be interested if other people had any similar things happen with the wolves.

     

  13. I've been recording some Outerloper runs lately but it becomes obvious pretty quick that the bedroll is the best thing in the game for that mode so I ran a little experimental start the other day to see if you could have a viable outerloper start in Desolation Point and get yourself the bedroll from Scruffy. Take a look, if anyone has studied Scruffy's behaviors and has more knowledge on it I'd love to know.

     

     

     

     

  14. 20 minutes ago, tulkawen said:

    And I most certainly don't want to have game conditions where I'm daily losing ten times more health without any major screw ups than I can regain.

    I don't think interloper is particularly hard...but I used to be very i intimidated by it. I couldn't tell you at which point that changed but at some point it all clicked into place. I used to be worried about condition loss but now I mostly look at it as a trade. I trade condition loss for items, or travel distance, or resources that in a hopeful future pay back that trade with interest. I try to make those trades on my terms trying to gamble on the returns. More often it lands in my favour, sometimes... not so much. As always don't gamble what you're not willing to lose.

    I just started trying to record my gameplay and put on Youtube for the first time in my playing the game. Current Interloper run my average condition is probably about 40% and in all honesty this run is going spectacularly well - 17 days in and I've forged all my tools, summited timberwolf and more than halfway to having bow and skins ready to craft and I've made a bunch of mistakes and wasted lots of time. 

    You have the skills and mindset to succeed at interloper,  but perhaps you need to rethink the question of what success looks like in this mode.

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  15. Hey everyone

    After thinking about doing it for a long time I finally got around to recording some Long Dark - Interloper sessions. Feel free to check out the first few episodes here (with a few more currently uploading and processing)

    Its definitely a bit of a trying experience talking and playing at the same time (at least for me) but after spending time writing down my adventures in the survival stories area I thought it was time to try some video. This play through is fairly low risk playstyle, Once I'm comfy with the recording I'll try to be a bit more adventurous.

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  16. 7 hours ago, Stone said:

    @DaveMcD not sure how I missed this till now but thanks for sharing that! A great adventure and a successful run with some memorable moments early on. You must have been buzzing after that first summit! The bedroll find on winding river though seems like the real make or break moment. Without a portable bed, early Outerloper is a game of desperate strategy. I've yet to make a go of living out of the mountaineer's but I'll have to give it a shot.

    I think if Outerloper needs anything it's for firewood to be a wee bit more available and, for personal interest, allowing a visit to one building every 50 days would give a nice goal / bonus to aim for. 

    Your point about the wind wanting to blow if you're face is something I've noticed just this week myself! If havesting a carcass by a fire with protection on one side, I always look towards the protection.. so far the wind always picked up in my face and the fire stayed. Still, the wind will switch but it's a great observation. 

    Well. Thanks for sharing! GG, WP

     

    Thanks @Stone you're pretty much bang on about the thrill level I experienced early on and without that bedroll I think I the run was probably doomed. It was a lot of fun in the first 5 -10 days

    As for firewood - I had 51 days on TWM - a fair bunch in the hut etc  - I think firewood is quite manageable but it really does need to be one of your highest priorities. A couple of tactics I had.

    Your job is now professional stick collector.

    Invest your warmth and a bunch of your health each day grabbing sticks - I'd go out in the cold and use my warmth build up to gather as many sticks as possible every free chance I had. I'd even sacrifice about 30-40% condition on longer stick runs if I knew I was running low. I would only chop limbs up under a few conditions - if it was warm enough to chop it and only take <20% of what condition I had, if I could use the fire by the limb to also do a bunch of other things - harvest meat etc. Other than that it was pretty much all sticks.

    Sticks don't respawn unless you pick them up AFAIK so clear them out ALL THE TIME to give them a chance to replenish.

    I always tried to have a stockpile of at least 30 sticks in the HUT to keep me safe in emergency.

    Don't burn long fires unless you have a buildup of food to cook or need a bunch of water - fires during a blizzard should only really happen during the coldest part when you're at risk of dying otherwise (you can often ride out a blizzard in the early morning passing time in the bed and only losing minimal warmth. If you can spare the matches enough then IMO you're better to save the fuel than the match - but make your fire still count for as much as possible - water, teas, cooking etc

    If you go for a walk either have enough sticks + a piece of coal maybe to get you warmer than the temp - usually I'd have 20 sticks or at least go out with a plan to get that many along the way - you don't want to be trying to grab sticks madly in a blizzard while your fire is a few degrees too cold.

     

     

     

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  17. Well I made it to day 105 while on timberwolf mountain as an Outerloper (51 days total in TWM), my character is still living but I've retired it as an Outerloper run and have now started exploring the world as a regular interloper - I debated about keeping it going but the grind was getting very dull so it was probably either shelve this run and occasionally visit or go out into the world and explore. Many of my other runs get shelved around day 100 so explore it it.

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    First impressions, I now feel rich, especially in so much cloth. With cooking level 5 even the low condition shop food seems to be fine in my digestion, at very least I risked some very dodgy tinned sardines, some very very dodgy granola bars and nothing bad has happened. Not sure if that's how its meant to work but so far ok.

    None of the clothes I find are worth much except cloth as most of my gear is already better. I did find 2 ski jackets at PV farmhouse so I guess that might've made a good start in an alternate universe where I went inside to begin with.

    The weather as would be predicted is awful - almost back to back blizzards punctuated with an few clearish bits which I've so far used to thin out the bitey fur friend population. The wolves do seem to run off and hide in awkward places to die and there isn't clear enough weather for the crows to clue me in. This guy did me the favour of actually dying with one hit right by the door. It pretty much immediately started to blizzard as I began harvesting him though so it was an all night cooking and harvesting in mini chunks affair - run inside cook some pieces - run outside grab 1 more kg before freezing.

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    I'll hang about PV for a few days and loot as much as I can then maybe we'll go on a trek to Broken Railroad which I didn't visit at all during Outerloper.

     

  18. eked out 5 more days. The rabbits were back on loading into the savegame and so was the moose - here he is right under the reticule.

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    Much sneaky arrow shooting from up on  log and with a fire below to warm me and help scare him off and finally he was down

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    Spent half the night harvesting in bits as the wind constantly threatened to blow out the fire. But managed to get the hide and all the meat but even over the next couple of days only managed to grab a few guts before the body disappeared (I have plenty of guts already cured so wasnt a big priority) Managed to find all my arrows over the next 2 days as well.

    Cooking a second batch of moose got me finally to cooking level 5 so once the moose runs out I'm guessing wolf is on the menu. 

    Managed to bag one more wolf and get his hide so now have 4 curing.

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    At 95 days I'm one day away from overtaking my other long standing, still alive but partly abandoned interloper run which I started over a year ago and is still going. I think that character is in a worse set-up even though she was allowed inside houses.

    Spent most of my time cooking in this alcove to help with keeping cabin fever at bay. The wind can knock the fire down to 9 mins if it swings just the right way but I think if you go run around in the wind it tries to blow in your face and you can distract it away from your fire. Doesn't quite make up for the loss of fuel you wasted on it if you're running low though.

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