Doc Feral

Now, I don't like complaining. And i truly hate from the bottom of my heart looking at online maps to find the correct path to places. But this time I HAD to do it. I'm trying to find the way to the summit of Timberwolf Mountain, and after weeks of trying I looked at the wikia for the map. If I'm not hopelessly dumb the rope should be somewhere along this cliff. Instead of the rope I found a big NOPE. Am I looking at the wrong place or what? I'm near Andre's peak, an engine, the tunnel going down into the chasm, right newt to the cargo container, and that should be the cliff. May the Black Goat with a Thousand Youngs crap on the rope thief's head from above.

I've killed plenty of bears after Redux and I didn't notice enhanced toughness. They do calm down after a while and go back to their threatening ways, but keep bleeding (last week one just slumped to the ground while grumbling and stalking me). Now that you pointed that out, I don't remember if they did it before, but it adds challenge. If they truly did stop bleeding after a while the challenge would rise to a totally different level.

There are many topics about that (be it sticks or other items which get a number in the inventory), every one of them with nice suggestions, and I approve them all.

I still don't know if it was an optical effect caused the window (strange but not impossible) or if it's a rare find. Even the harvested skin looked normal. Surely white rabbits would be harder to hunt...

By the way, did any of you ever catch an albino red eyed rabbit? I did once, likely a year ago, near the Hunting Lodge; it looked like the others while alive, but was different in the harvesting screen. Being the lazy arse I am, I didn't take a screenshot (to be honest I probably didn't even know how to, at the moment). Unless it was some weird effect caused by standing near a lit window while harvesting.

I personally didn't use the stim, hatred was enough.

To cut a long story short, I nailed the buck with a running powerslam and wolfie foolishly got in the way. After more than a thousand gaming hours (and around 170 days in the current run) I've finally managed to explore PV thoroughly enough to find Timberwolf Mountain. Been there three days, and I've already killed a moose, three rabbits, four wolves and a deer, without leaving the Crystal Lake zone. And a bear passed nearby once or twice. More like CAMP Crystal Lake. This place is violent. Truth be said, I personally killed only one of the rabbits, while I sent the other two and the deer to die by wolf. The second rabbit in a mostly spectacular way: I threw a stone from an impossible distance to scare it towards a wolf and the stone unbelievably hit it. The wolf approached to check the noise and the rabbit got up right under its nose. A bad way to wake up.

Quarters are basically a movable carcass, so they degrade as fast as the whole thing. They're not meant for storing. I'll take the storing tips a step further, never store food in containers, indoors or outdoors. 0% items disintegrate in containers, and this may take away the raccoonish pleasure of gobbling rotten trash when you evolve to level 5 cooking. And filling shelves with canned food and candy bars looks good anyway.

I'm definitely quarter-oriented when I kill a bear or moose. Two hours may seem a long time, but it allows to relocate everything to a safer location. Not to mention that just harvesting all the guts would take longer than that. Along with rabbits, big beasts are my usual source of guts.

Wolfish weirdness. Trapped under ice. Nice shot Something strange. Yesterday a wolf followed me into a cave and attacked me, causing a bleeding wound. I decided it was a good moment to quit the game and go outside. When I resumed the game it restarted inside the house where I was before going to the cave where the attack happened, for some reason the wound didn't trigger the autosave. One of the few times I was happy with a wolf attack...

It looks like my typical first hour after sunrise in FM, so much crabwalking...

Blizzard going on as I travel. My wife passes by: "It gives me the shivers just by looking at it!" so I proceed to explain that traveling in a blizzard is wolfproof especially when you carry meat. As I reach the farm's yard the blizzard starts to fade away. "Just in time, I made it." I say. And then "woof arf ruff" a wolf jumps me out of fraggin' nowhere. "What you were saying about wolves?" says my sweetie. As I furiously click to hack at the wolf I hear the impatient growl of another wolf waiting for its turn. In the end I managed to defeat both of them. Here are the traces of the fight. I'm sure Toothy and Stinky were hiding under the hay truck during the blizzard.

I'm the slow and steady type, and with the bad habit of being overencumbered 90% of the time until I get the well fed bonus, and too often anyway until I have the moose satchel too. I'm always ready to set up a base, with plenty of meds, a lamp, spare cloth and whatnot, so running isn't very successful for me.

I don't remember how much did it take, but lighting fires is one if my obsessive grinding activity when I start a new run, usually holing up in a cave with a load of firewood and tearing apart some animal to tiny bits. I'm sure I got it before books and running

I think there's a difference between a heavy snow with strong wind and a blizzard. I'm almost sure a true blizzard is louder and has bigger snowflakes. I'm currently in PV and recently used one of the many blizzards to make a wolfproof dash from the barn in the general direction of the Rural Crossroads (meaning I walked to the road, turned left and hoped to live long enough) carrying a dozen kgs of raw bear steaks, planning to establish a temporary base and keep mapping, since I don't know much of the region. Blizzards and fog are cunningly taking turns to thwart my geographical activity.

As I said elsewhere, how much gaming time will be wasted in "Oh, well, another blizzard. I'll just stay indoors today. Like yesterday. And the day before. And..." given the Elsa-with-PMS-and-an-hangover weather of PV?

I was making the last trip to collect the remaining chunks of the moose from the previous day, and from the distance... I was like "Are you kiddin' me?!" then I realized it was just a deer. By the way, crows circle over quarters (they are not in the image but they were just there), no mistake since the leftovers from the original carcass disappear after a few hours. Feathers aren't rare, but maybe quartering an animal and scattering the sacks may be a way to summon multiple flocks for mass production of arrows. I've just noticed this! Epic! Down but not out, ready for one last glorious flight. But it's the one which slew the moose, so maybe I should just treasure it as a talisman.

Looks like the meltin Witch of the West, since she came up recently somewhere else. Or more epically speaking, some demon bear being banished and sinking back to Hell.

He came with a knife at a... frostbite? It wasn't that. Oh well. What a steteotype, in all natural disaster movies there's some no-gooder who stubbornly sticks to his original plan even if it's totaly pointless, causes trouble and then bites it.

It's too cold now, but I'll get you. Just wait for the morning to get warmer! Now's more like it! I'm coming for you! I really wanted to demonstrate my "hidden fire" technique. "I'm a servant of the Secret Fire... YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" No, not that. The point is to hide the fire behind something so the moose will notice it when he's a few feet away, so it will stop and turn around granting me a huge and almost still target for the second arrow. Anyway, it didn't go as planned. Moose.mp4 And so I went full Legolas, I'm just sooo cool. Quartering a moose takes two hours, like a bear.

It just means they come near houses and this allows safe sniping from inaccessible porches and stairs, not to mention ducking indoors if they're too near for comfort.

Whaaat?! Since when? I got the "deep forest" achievement on the 27th of march and I've read "Advanced guns guns guns" by the fire. Unread books appear in the tools (the one with the hatchet) section of the inventory, or at least they did last time I checked. Unless it's in Wintermute (it wasn't stated), in that case it may work in a slightly different way but I don't remember the details. There was another similar topic a while ago. Wintermute is picky. You may need to find all clues, do things in the right region, fully harvest and all that.

Research is done from the inventory

The tractor near Pleasant Valley's barn. My favourite anti-bear tank, along with the cars at Spruce Falls' bridge (but the tractor looks cooler). Hopping in and out throwing some stones after a successful arrow you can keep the bear nearby till it dies. See the bear approaching? By the way, doesn't the barn look a bit less dark then before? Maybe to make it less bothersome for Wintermute's sake?

Oh, look, a blizzard. What a surprise. I wonder how could Pleasant Valley become inhabited in the first place.