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"Glad" to see there are more people out there with this problem, I already thought I forgot how to aim...

Everybody who played WoW back in the days knows: "never play on patch day" 😀 It wasn't that bad in TLD! Just a few sprains which could be slept off and couple of rounds wasted due to the strange aiming system (I do not mean the thing which were implemented, they are cool, it just seems that the aiming itself is different than it was before).

Hey, I've found the first revolver book 😀 (Derailment inside train wagon)

Read the idea of shooting at a sign to see where to aim and did it by myself. It's long ago that I have handled RL weapons, but aiming as in the first screenshot I'd expect to hit the crossbar of the "A", correct? This is where the shot went...

No need to fear a "ban hammer". Admin wrote last year that "we are fine with people discussing their desire for mods". What they don't like is links to sites with mods. And he made clear, at least to me, why. I'm fine with mods, don't get me wrong. But if it has been made clear several times before that its support is not #1 topic now, then you should not be worried that some possibilities have been closed down now. To me it's like my landlord would tell me all the time not to use his garden to grow chili. One day he will pave the garden and then my chili plants are gone...

Do not be afraid 😀, Admin wrote on Sep, 4th, 2018: "As stated we are fine with people discussing their desire for mods. We, however, do not want people directing others to existing mods, or recommending existing mods. For this reason, we've edited your post removing references to where you can find them. The main reason for this is that the use of unauthorized mods can have adverse effects on the game performance, even when not using a mod or after removing it. This creates additional work for our support team who are expected to find solutions for people whose games a result of using a mod. When they're focused on this they're not able to focus on helping to address other issues. Again we're fine with your discussing a desire for mods to come, but recommending or referencing any that might exist now will result in a suspension of posting privileges as it's against the forum guidelines. Thank you." For me it makes sense, doesn't it?

Is this a necessary discussion? How many times do you want to hear that mods are not the priority right now. In a post dd. Dec, 25th 2018 Admin wrote " Mod Support is something that we have planned for the future but is not currently in The Long Dark. Unapproved mods tend to adversely affect the game’s performance and cause additional work for our Support Team " This is one of the comments I have found in regards of mods. I've read more like these and all of them were pretty clear to understand. So why bring it up again and again?

Nice one. Thanks! So many interesting changes!

That's actually not new. Just put a cup of coffee next to a fire and warm it up...

Yes, they definitely count. It's also the last feat I need to get. I'm currently at 56% and this is where I go when I just want to push the % up a bit in my 628 days pilgrim run. My 10-camp-fire-cycle at the Forrest Cave in TWM.

Once I saw a program on tv or yt about Everest and they mentioned that the uncovered parts of corpses of the unfortunate climbers are being picked at by birds who are able to fly that high. There are some crows on Great Bear, so maybe they did the job over the cours of years...

Do not chop larger pieces of wood with wet clothes on! 😬

Hm, yeah it might be ridiculous. But I guess it's meant to be this way. It clears your thoughts a bit of a lot of different questions. Especially when you have just started. You can go on learn the maps, the game machanics and get used to the weather and what it does. Each person has a different approach, but for me pilgrim was the best mode to start with, for sure. In the mean time I've tried Interloper until I finally got the 24 hrs achivement and I have to tell you that it's highly possible that I would have quit this tremendous game if it had only this Interloper difficulty level... 🙂 Once you are an experienced veteran, pilgrim must be ridiculous to you, that's true. But that's why there are 3 other modes and the custom settings to play with.

I had a similar one shot from another spot in the morning. The coast seems to be on fire. By the way, one can see that Great Bear Island seems not to be that far away from the mainland, otherwise the horizon would look different...

Holy.... looks like a carpet 🙂

So, I came back from MT where I was rushing game into wolfs a bit nearby the farm there. Back in Camp Office I started to craft arrows. It took me 15 arrows to level archery from 1 to 2 and another 25 arrows to get from 2 to 3. Now I have made 50 arrows in total, I guess I need further 30 to get to level 4. However, i have no feathers anymore. It's day 85 of my survivor's mission. I think we both need a break. Once I'm ready to search the world for further feathers I will reactivate him. 😀

Coming back home to Mountaineer's Hut from TWM summit one day...

Good tip, haven't tried that before because I think I've read somewhere that the carcasses dissapears after 3 days or so. After a week of hardcore forging in FM, I went back to Camp Office and took a walk around the lake to visit the 4 corpses there. I was also able to run one of the deer into the wolf who was wandering there. Gave me 9 kg meat, which I really start to need now as my cover of manmade recources becomes thinner and thinner. I haven't used neither the bow nor the shotgun yet. I left hide and guts to see how long the carcass will stay. After harvesting I had additional 4 feathers. My new total is 102. I guess I will go back to MT now, where this survivor started to get the pacifist and silent hunter achievements. I know I ran 4 deer into a wolf near Orca Gas Station, I hope I gathered the feathers then. My plan is to go back from there climbing down the ropes to FM and back to ML again.

Yes, that's what I did. I wanted to on go to DP, but realised the point about the feathers. So after getting all saplings to Camp Office I decided to start crafting some bows. I've made two of the 13 possible at this point and can confirm now that this action is not counting to level your archery skill. So next step was to produce arrow shafts. I was able to produce 159 shafts - still no progress on the archery skill. After that I went on a harvesting mission to the Dam where it took me at least a week to harvest about 100 units scrap metal. Now I am about to leave Camp Office and visit the forge in FM. The problem is, that I have only found 81 feathers until now... That's only enough for 27 arrows. It's day 63 of my mission. After forging in FM I will have to go on and concentrate on collecting feathers

Each time I go thru this part of the Ravine chills run down my back. Every time I run over these rails I think I'm about to go down. Especially this part is nervewracking... any one fell down here?

Rav: 3/- CH: 19/5

I went through 3 regions now (Birch/Maple): ML: 13/6 FM: 12/6 BR:6/2 I'm quite optimistic, because I was so bad at the bow, just about 35 hits. Next destination CH.

Yes, I'm better now than the stats show. Didn't knew about the way to approach game, didn't know about crouching. These are the stats of my first survivor who made it past 50 days in Pilgrim (it's long ago). He's the first one who tried his hand at hunting. This topic inspired me to try to reach Archery to 5 without shooting an arrow or reading a book. So I called up the suvivor who did my Pacifist and Silent Hunter achivments from retirement and he already started to look for saplings, scrap metal and crow feathers. I really wonder if it's possible and how many arrows and bows will be necessary to achive this level I'll also try to collect as much ammo as possible and go on a hunting voyage from 1 to 5 once the archery achievement is done.

I have 53 rifle hits and I am sure I read some books to increase the skill, still I am far away from level 5. Could it be that the quality of the hit matters too? I mean I'm not a very good shooter, so maybe one shot kill hit gives more advantage than just a hit where the animal is able to run away? I needed far less bow hits to reach 5, because I fabricated a lot arrows and bows. Damn I am really bad at bow Can't wait to confirm that 322x mending to reach 5. Just need 12x more, but I'll wait until my clothes are a bit more "used".

I hope it's not Will on the first pic Looking forward to EP3 & any survival mode updates! Cheers!