peteloud

You make it hard for yourself. Who needs 34kg of meat and 10 bits of gut. Be more realistic and butcher 10kg of meat and leave the gut. It saves a lot of time.

I have looked at this posting for the first time and I am amazed to find that I didn't have the side quests, Aurora hatch Mystery Lake Supply Cache Hanks Cache. I completed the game, fortunately I have a save just before entering the dam for the final part. Back to the grindstone .

I hadn't noticed that.

Once I saw where the spear was I found a small cave, open at both ends, just beyond the spear. I had to wait quite a while I worked out where the bear walked. After a while a saw that when he went off in a particular direction I had enough time to dash out, grab the spear and get back to my little shelter. I had to rush, but it wasn't a desperate rush. My big problem was that I didn't realise that I lost energy when holding out the spear. Once I realised that, killing the bear was straight forward.

". . . I found the easiest way to maintain a clip of two mends per day . . . " TLD is meant to be an experience in survival in harsh conditions, not a game about sewing.

". . . mashing the "pass time" function for days on end just to speed up . . ." Set yourself a personal objective that takes several days of activity. Try and fill in all of the black spaces on your maps.

Just play the game as its meant to be played. When you shortcut and manipulate getting an achievement you are cheating yourself.

After completing the Redux Wintermute I wondered whether it is necessary to have Wintermute as a separate game. Could this not be created as if were an Achievement using the standard survival map with a special subset of additional inclusions, i.e. spear, bear, people. Doing so would mean that we would be able to access all regions and all of the usual places.

If people are so keen to get these achievements then play at 'baby' level. Perhaps you could even make it easier by setting up a custom level with everything set to the easiest setting. Alternatively, just sit watching the TV, that's easier still.

Recently I have taken to walking straight down steep snow slopes instead of taking a less steep diagonal course. This seems to have reduced sprains. Has anyone else found this?

I have seen references to TLD v1.39, but not in this forum. What is TLD v1.39?

When I started playing TLD I hardly ever used the radial menu. I hadn't even bothered to check it out to see what it did. After several hundred games days I needed to check it out about making snow holes and became a little familiar with it. Only a few days ago, with well over 1,000 games days completed, I examined it in more detail again. I now find that dropping decoy food for an attacking wolf makes the game much easier. So if you are new to TLD make sure that you are familiar with, and use, the radial menu.

Realism, (by game standards). No zombies, dragons or giant armoured stormtroopers.

After having a few bedrolls destroyed in wolf/bear attacks I thought that I'd try using a bearskin bedroll, thinking it might be more resistant to damage in attacks. That was destroyed just as easily. I came to the conclusion, right or wrong, that there was little to be gained with a bear bedroll. Almost all of the time, once I was dressed in warm clothes, and I assume that by the time you have killed bears for a bear coat and then another couple for a bedroll, that you would have very good warm clothes. To offset that, I found that I was running out of normal bedrolls, as some had been destroyed, therefore bear bedrolls had an important part to play because you could make them as the game progressed, when normal bedrolls had run out.