DaveMcD

For those who were more timid with game than they'd like check out Turkeysteam's videos of it here 4 Days Of Night: Especially his interactions with wolves while he's still searching for a rifle. If you like this series check out his Parasites ones where he gives himself "room mates" He's got a really great dry Canadian Humour, gives all the dead bodies a present of a feather amid other wonderful random stuff. At time of posting I do t think hes uploaded Day 4

I woke up in the dam grabbed, read that indoors temps wouldn't save you grabbed all my wood and coal and headed out. First stop was a JOL just outside on the front lawn of the dam to see if they were warm. yep. warm enough to stand next to as the blizzard was kicking off but still getting wet and freezing clothes. Built a snow shelter and climbed in. Nice and warm but looked like my clothes weren't getting dry., hightailed it to the ravine and built a really warm fire and started settling in for the long haul. After about an hour of cooking and fire tending with some small sorties for sticks I got bored and decided to brave the weather, with my gear and out of the wind it was way warmer than I have been in my deadman run so I figured how hard could it be. Headed out and got the camp office, no pie but I could warm myself inside no problem so slept then hightailed it to trappers. Got there with some minor Hypothermia risk found my first pie. Warmed up, slept etc and grabbed the pie and decided to hit an unlooted Milton. Made it to Milton no worries. barely needed a fire apart from water. picked up my pie from grandmas (Grey Mothers house) just as I got my 4 day badge (single save, no deaths) ran to the farm and stole that pie too. Then decided I would head for where this all began and took myself off to the plane crash. Got there slightly hypothermic risk and found a nice lantern with a moose hide cloak which I immediately put on. Fashion! then down to the cave where I had a nice warming cup of coffee and finished off the last of my pie. With warm enough gear and good map knowledge the only real danger of heading outside seems to be trashing you clothes.

I started a 3rd attempt, spawned in broken railroad - big nope - hightailed it out of there through some very bear noised fog back to Spences in the Skeg. Escaped the next day freezing and exhausted with bears and wolves chasing me and was doing ok at 74% condition until I somehow stepped in my fire - the audio complaints (apart from when you do an useless treatment) seem be turned off so I didn't know for ages that i'd been burnt and had lost an extra 10% I'm pretty burnt up about it (pun intended). Currently in the camp office with only 3 matches left about 8L water and bunch of dodgy canned food. 62% 2 days survived (over real 4 days) - Drifter man I most definitely am not I swear he'd still be above 64% after a month and with a pocketful of stims.

Definitely touched the 2.5 carcass, then went and looted Hibernia and forged etc. Maybe 2-3 days later I came back. The TWM one I ran right by without touching and came back in less than 12 hours.

My Envy is palpable as you swan warmly through the area that spent two days in a row determined to (and eventually would) kill me. Not only that you got to harvest the deer that magically disappeared when I backtracked to get it. Maybe it teleported to your game.

Nice. I might give some of these a try.

The DP one was along the high path from the Mine to the church and was there on first entering the zone so wouldn't be convinced it was a wolf kill off screen before you get there. The second was was a fixed possible deer just after crossing the log bridge across echo ravine. I've had the deer carcass at the Dam magically pop in and out of existence at different points in an interloper run. i.e. harvest some meat go inside to stop freezing, come back out its gone, go do stuff, come back and its back again. At the time I thought this was just a bug with this particular deer and was no big deal cos it came back and I could continue harvesting... in Deadman mode though - ouch, its brutal missing out on those calories.

I had terrible weather in my Deadman run too. survived 23 days and had 10 blizzards "survived" Its effectively what killed me. 3 days of mostly blizzard in Timberwolf Mountain locked in a cave staving to death with no sticks within freezing distance. Pleasant Valley and Rabbit Grove (CH) tried their best as well. watching your condition drop while trying to outsleep a blizzard one hour at a time is brutal. I saw some other peoples runs with quite tolerable weather. I also spent most of my run with gear under 10C. Eventually got up to around 11C - 12C depending on repairs but probably only after day 19. No outer shell found at all and no second underwear. Keep up the posts, enjoying them immensely.

oh... and I had 2 deer carcasses disappear on me. I passed them and sought shelter thinking I'd leave them for later and when I came back they had gone. One was 2.5kg one in Desolation Point and the other was near cave on Timberwolf where I was blizzarded in starving. I was pretty devateated on both occasions. Do deer carcasses just disappear sometimes?

Well my second attempt at Deadman has ended at 23 days 4 hours and 24 mins. My guy died at the top of the rope climb just after the Timberwolf mountain cave near the three way cave. He originally spawned in the middle of the dark in mystery lake near the clearcut and pretty much got barked at within a minute and I nearly threw the run away then but decided to try to outrun the wolf . My first attempt I lasted about 4 hours so I'm pretty happy with how I went. I got to the mountaineers hut on just on 17% condition and pretty much had 4 blizzards over the next 3 days. I was stuck in the cave eating all my cattails, tinned food and drinking all my coffee and tea for more than 24 hours as the weather made it very clear that it was very annoyed that I was there. Pretty much back to back blizzards with only a small break in the freezing part of the morning. In my 23 days there were 10 blizzards survived apparently. I made a bunch of mistakes. I managed to forge all the tools and 8 arrow heads at the Riken but I never managed to make a bow. I left the maple curing in the dam thinking that I would duck into pleasant valley chasing calories and better pants. and come back in 5 days time to grab it. Pleasant valley had other ideas and tried to freeze and starve my to death too. With the bow I may have had much better access to calories. Every stop on the way from the farmhouse to where I died I would stumble in with no food and only get to eat what I found or kill and eat some rabbits. I decided to try Timberwolf as it was the only direction I could go with food left as ML and CH I'd already tapped out of the easy places. I haven't really played a lot of interloper - several current runs and my longest lived is an ongoing run which has lived for 79 days. I think its interesting that as I'm not a veteran interloper player I wasnt really yet in the habit of starving my guy and driving his temp into the ground. I tended to try to keep my characters nice and warm and well fed previously so when it came to deadman and didn't have so many things to unlearn. I did watch a couple of deadman videos and read this thread and Drifter Mans run so was pretty much following all the advice I could find. I think playing deadman has taught me to be able to take a lot more risks and move quickly. I'd like to try one with a tiny bit of health regen. stumbling around for a while under 10% and not being able to get it back was tough.

I've currently parked my character in Quonset on day 10 of my run. Snuck into town on 20% health crouching holding a torch surrounded by three wolves while I'm exhausted about to freeze and starve at the same time. As Im sneaking in and listening for the paw pads my wife turned on our really loud microwave right next to me and I couldn't hear anything. Had to turn it off till I got safely in the door. Never been so tense in this game before. Never been so slow and patient trying to get into Quonset. Not certain it was worth it but I did go to the Riken and forge arrowheads, knife and hatchet. Picked up 1 stim at the lighthouse. Decided to apply it now and get my guy up to 35%. About where he was at 5 days prior. If I could find some warm clothes I'd be thrilled. Currently only on about 8C warmth bonus.

I had a go at this today and man I gotta say it's quite the experience. I feel like I've been on edge all day. First run made it to about 40 hours old before dying in his bedroll in the lake overlook cave. I tried to let him go peacefully in his sleep because I stumbled in there on about 8% condition freezing and starving and dehydrated looking for my first match only to find a firestriker there. By the time I got a fire lit and water boiled as my guy threatened to step into the fire with the death wobbles I was sitting on 4% and even if I managed to peg a rabbit with a rock I figured Mr Stumbles wasn't going to get anywhere near a stim any time soon so I let him fade into the long dark peacefully. official COD - starvation My 2nd attempt is going a lot better but in the long run probably won't amount to much. I spawned in the dead of night with low visibility and within 30 seconds was being chased by a wolf, finally figured out I spawned in the clearcut at mystery lake then had to dodge a bear and another wolf before I found anywhere warm. My guy is currently parked in Rabbit Grove a few hours short of 6 days survived on 38%. Spent the first few days with only very basic clothes freezing to death looking for matches and a bedroll. Got them both now, the hatchet, hammer(which I stupidly left in the dam to save weight on a failed attempt at the ravine (no rope to be found) and a wool toque that resisted all attempts to repair it for 2 days straight before finally letting me fix it. Current temp bonus is around a paltry 5-6 degrees C I think. I'm enjoying trying this but you don't really get a seconds mental rest, I feel almost as exhausted as my poor character