ThePancakeLady

Actually 3 settings- Green (Easy) Capable (Medium) Hardened (Highest difficulty) And unlike Survival Mode Pilgrim-Voyageur-Stalker-Interloper vanilla modes, which are custom crafted settings for a different experience, rather than just a difficulty setting, the modes in Wintermute do seem to be more linear, direct difficulty steps. I have played all 3, and the experience is the same, just more challenge as you go up the modes. And yes, if you have bad reflexes like me, the bear is a bit of a PITA,m on PC or on XBone, I got mauled a ton, until I finally got the timing right, on XBone with a controller. Been a while, I need to go back and finish Ep 2 on Steam, or replay it if I forgot where I was at when I left off.

When I am lucky enough to have the corpse inside the Camp Office... I have named him Jim-Bob. He is my waterboy. He holds all of my extra bottles of water, in his body/container, and perched on his body, anywhere I can get them to stand. I don't tend to use the outdoor corpses for storage too much, unless they are inside an outdoor structure, like a guard shack, or behind a building like the Paradise Meadows Farmhouse. Unless I need feathers, or they are close to a base, i tend to not b go past corpses multiple times. Once to loot, and usually never again, way out in the wilds. But, I can also see why some people would like to be able to bury or burn the corpses. I would maybe prefer a funeral pyre, myself. Just to do it once. And again, if I get some creepy sense of macabre pleasure from it.

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Oooooooo. Definitely post the results with flashlights, when you get there. I wonder how many you can find in any game. max, and if the high beams setting will drain the batteries too quickly if the Aurora fades before you get back down. The shot from the summit though... love to see what that looks like. Curious... I wonder if you get between a bear and a moose, and both charge in to kill you, and you duck out to the side... will they collide with each other? And will you be smart enough to get the heck out of there? Or would you stand and take screenshots? Not saying you should try this... Okay. Yes, I am daring you to try this.

My eyes... lol! ajb1978, you know I love you, and you always amaze me, how far you will go to test things, and try the crazy ideas people throw at you. Absolutely LOVE it.

Fair enough. I am just happy to see the studio expanding, growing, and setting a great example for other Indies to follow. Here's to continued success for you and the entire team. Now... mostly 1 includes Pancakes, right? I am pretty sure you said Pancakes, at some point in time. I may be mis-remembering, but, no... I am pretty sure Pancakes are part of option 1.

That's how I see the story in my mind's eye. Fluffy and her mate found a way into the Dam, through that open window, perhaps. One of them died, probably during one of the first Aurorae, and the wires becoming electrified, and it was not Fluffy. Get hungry enough, and you will eat your dead mate, if it is the only food you can get to. I have had dogs, who were terrified of open-backed stairs, ones they could see through. The stairs going up to the catwalks would have t had them too fearful to try to go up there, util pure desperation set in. Perhaps Fluffy was terrified of those stairs as well, but finally found a way out of the Dam. Wandered around the frozen pond for a while, looking for and calling for her mate. She eventually gave up, and found a way out from behind the Dam, and found her way to her new home, where she was unfortunate enough to become trapped again, or chose to live in the cave, with it's protection from the weather. Perhaps she was a new mother, and this is her den, but no new mate has been found, yet... or perhaps one has. The story can be whatever you want it to be, there is no firm lore from Hinterland that says it cannot be so. They have wonderfully given us a framework to build our own stories on, in Survival, and even a bit in Story Mode as well, grey areas we can fill with our imagination. How many wolves on Great Bear Island are children or relatives of Fluffy and Scruffy, respectively?

Welcome to the forums, and many thanks for such wonderful presents! Beautiful shots, all of them.

I am always thrilled to see Indie studios advertising for new hires. It means they are doing well enough to be able to afford expansion of their team(s) or studio(s), usually. And I have seen Hinterland advertising for new positions recently. Congrats, that makes me smile. But it makes me wonder... are the new hires all for The Long Dark, or are you building up the team and studio for a new game, possibly already being worked on? No need for details, just a simple 1) 2) 3) answer, please? New hires for: 1) The Long Dark 2) A new game 3) Both. (No matter what, congrats on growing your dream, your team and your studio's successes. Onward.)

I dare you. Come on, I have never asked you to do anything crazy or foolish in the game before... besides those *few* things. Hehehe.

Fluffy 2.0 in the Ice Cave, Scruffy has been in the cave in DP for... almost ever (Since 2016, when I bought the game on Steam, if I remember correctly... no idea if Scruffy was there before that.). Both Special Wolves, both with a chance to spawn in or not, neither a 100%, just like Fluffy was in The Carter Hydro Dam, back in the day. Same rules still in effect, AFAIK. I never trust those 2 caves unless and until the Special Wolf living there is dead, by my hand. The new thing seems to be wolves that will follow you into caves without loading screens now, if your stink-o-meter is lit up, or if they are aggor'd on you already. It used to be that running into a cave would de-aggro them, if I remember correctly. And they did not notice you if you were sleeping in acave with meat in your pack. I actually like that they do notice me now, feels much more real, gives me more reason to make sure I have no raw meat, fish, guts or hides on me if I need to camp in a cave, near wolf territory. I would love it if someday we might walk in on a wolf or a pack sleeping in a cave, or under a rock overhang, like you can sometimes walk in on a sleeping bear. I would expect to find wildlife sheltering against the weather, similar to how my survivor does.

For pure fun, snowballs, or the ability to make snowpeople would be great. But, it has little gameplay value right now. If a full-fledged mental health and wellness system was added to the game, it could be a way of reducing stress levels, and reducing cabin fever risk. But yeah, the possibility of people abusing the feature to build graphically *sensitive* or *obscene* objects... the Terraformer in Subnautica was misused for this purpose for some time. Not that I was one of the people misusing it for this purpose... *ahem cough cough ahem*... (I think I deleted all of those screenshots from Steam... I think...)

Ahahaha, all the signs you had a good party, even though you ate the raw bunny, instead of the cooked wolf steak, during you bunny-deer-wolf killing spree. Whoopsie. Yes, Sally is just fine, she just needed some sleep. And some more sleep. And some water. and some safe food. My first game after getting back, attempting 500 days in Milton/MT only, no leaving the map. Going swimmingly well, lol. Day 12 was a bit interesting. The rest are just shots I liked from the night before, and Day 12, before I got goofy. I love the lilac-pink skies, just love them.

Ahahaha! LOVE it! ❤️

If you do an image search for "The Long Dark Wallpapers" or even just an image search for "The Long Dark", you'll find thousands of images you can save and turn into wallpapers, and a number of unofficial websites that have 2k and 4k HD TLD Wallpapers. They aren't official, or licensed by Hinterland to distribute the artwork, so i will not link to them. Me, I just take tons of screenshots while I play, and take a good number of HD shots, saved to my desktop. I import the ones I like most into Windows Display> wallpapers and screensavers, or Wallpaper Engine, or other third party photo and image editing software, and create my own Desktop wallpapers and screensavers from my own shots. I like that each image hold a memory for me from a save that I have played in the game. Much more personal and enjoyable for me to have my own screenshots, but that is just me.

Lol! I just use tinder plugs to mark paths across ice, or open stretches of snow, where there are few landmarks, so i can more easily navigate home in fog or a blizzard. And sometimes I just have fun arranging them into "drawings" in the snow. Lots of good screenshots of people making huge word signs on the snow and ice. Don't make so many tinder plugs, maybe? Only make 5 or 6 at a time, rather than having a stockpile of 300 or more? And don't pick up every last piece of newsprint or stack of paper laying around, You can leave them sit there.

Not sure why, but Winding River, from the start behind the Hydro Dam, through to PV is the one place I never feel comfortable. And i was a caver IRL for decades. But that transition, no idea why it unnerves me like it does, when none of the other caves or mines does the same. Currently in Milton, and the glasses outside of the burned down schoolhouse just creeped me out the other day. I either forgot they were there, or never noticed them before. And after meeting Hobbs in Wintermute... yeah. Creep factor x10 when I saw them in Survival Mode. The one place that has always disturbed me a bit is the tiny cabin, off to the side of UnNamed Pond. When the fellow who appears to have taken his own life with pills... that hits home a bit, for personal reasons, not really creep factor or horror elements in the game.

I am always amazed at the "everyday" locations and things, and the attention to detail they were given in the game. The things that you, as a survivor, if this truly happened, would look and and see everyday, just like looking out your bedroom or office window IRL every day. Sometimes, these "everyday" shots amaze me more than the dramatic shots of wolf and bear struggles, or even the stunning Aurora. The little things, that make the game so immersive.

(They were in the doghouse, silly...)

Been away for a bit, but I am back. And a new game, easing back into the game, in Voyageur, random spawn into Milton. And the game welcomed me back beautifully.

Hi. Yeah. I was gone. And now I am back. And no Pancakes. What gives Boss? My return deserves at least one little plate of Pancakes somewhere in the game. Doesn't it? That will be all. Good to be home again.

Are you sure? Because that looks like the old HUD/UI from before the December update, not the current one (the thermometer should be in a circular icon, on the left bottom screen, not dead center without the circular meter...)

Nice! I don't think I have ever seen a deer pass by a car or truck I was in, only bear, moose or wolves. Do you remember how long ago this was (which version of the game before the December Redux update...)? And what were you doing that made it give you "that look"? Were you cleaning a rifle, or stitching up boots made from his best buddy's hide? Nice capture!

I'm running on a 6 year old + toaster. Windows 7 SP1 64 bit NVIDIA 740 GT (2 GB, MSI v3) AMD FX 4130 @3.8 GHz 12 GB dual channel DDR3 RAM Custom settings, mixed Med>High, SSAO off , VSYNC off in game, but on in NVIDIA Control Panel custom game profile No crashes. None. Some more noticeable fan noise, GPU and CPU running slightly warmer, but not over 60°C (max temp for both is 70°C). Hubby's Window 10 Beefy PCMR rig having more issues than mine. Did all of the usual troubleshooting on both. Both of us saw multiple threads about the latest NVIDIA GPU drivers causing issues on multiple games, so we both rolled back from v417.35 to v416.94. His rig is running the game, and others normally again. So is my little toaster, still slightly more fan noise and a tinny bu it more hitching in Wintermute only. But far, far, far less. Can't say it will help anyone else, or if it is purely coincidental that we both have happier gaming rigs on the older driver version. And, of course, it only applies if you are running an NVIDIA GPU. But if you know how to manually roll back your driver, it may be worth a try to see if it does help.