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Same here, I've been wandering around for several days and have found nothing. No polaroid at the burned ridge cave, front of the jet, or by the abandoned cache. Interestingly though the overhead storage compartments in the jet had reset, and were full of stuff again. And also there's an invisible house on Skeeter's Ridge. There's a little bit of visible debris where it used to be, but there's an invisible force field preventing you from getting too close.

Yeah, mostly wasteful. Dual-wielding is a Hollywood thing--it is simply not feasible in the real world. Maybe if your goal is suppressing fire, sure, but if your goal is to actually hit something you're better off using one and aiming down the sights. Edit: I've actually tried dual-wielding before. Normally my shot grouping at 50m is around 15mm, which is fairly decent. I tried it with two pistols once, and my shot grouping became "nothing but backstop". And I was even taking my time and attempting to hit the target.

Nope. Although I've discovered the tiny little support pillar in the Paradise Meadows barn nearest the workbench actually does. I used that tiny little pillar as cover while I crafted some fishing hooks and lines. Silly, but useful!

Found another for Mystery Lake.

If we have any more locked buildings in survivor mode (a la Paradise Meadows) a visor would be a good place to hide the key. Perfectly plausible that someone would leave a backup house key up there. After all, I carry a backup house key in the glove box, and a backup car key in my wallet.

I don't know if all the possible polaroid locations have been found yet, but man...if one isn't tucked behind a visor somewhere, that is a major missed opportunity IMO! Even if it's just glued to the ceiling and the visor covers it, that would avoid the problem of having to animate the photo moving with the visor. I'm making a point to check them all, just in case. So far nada though.

25%, as it will be an even 20% after its next use. Any time its condition drops below 20%, it has a chance of breaking on the next use, and yes this can result in a ruined container that can never be opened. Because that's exactly how saws work. Broken hacksaws are more effective at preventing entry than any deadbolt. That's just science.

I for one love the rock caches. I've used them to create five containers in a cave in HRV to store things in, so I don't have to manage piles of dozens, if not hundreds of identical items. When I re-entered HRV this last time, i found 80% of my crap had found its way into a lost and found, and it took 5 tedious trips back and forth to get it all in that cave again. But now that I have 5 rock caches to keep my stuff from falling through the terrain, that will never again happen. Likewise I used this to create additional storage containers at the Spence Homestead, as well as another stockpile of fuel at the Poacher's Camp. And I used a few in the Paradise Meadows barn to store my extra hides, since having 5 moose hides up and vanish is always disconcerting. (I eventually found them in a lost and found outside the post office.) The spray cans almost immediately came in handy for me as well. When searching for polaroids, I discovered a few locations that had furniture I had not yet demolished. I was able to tag them with spray paint so I don't forget again, and it shows up on the map as a very nice reminder for when I've got a day to kill. And I marked the paths through the ice caves in HRV so I don't have to keep checking my hand-drawn doodle on a post-it note. Having a release to address a lot of little things is never a bad idea. I really like the rock cairns, and the spray paint is a nice convenience item. I don't personally need or use the maps any more, but it took me a couple years to get to that point. There's still new players coming in every day that don't have the benefit of 5+ years of exploration under their belt. This update is more for them. Semi-related note, I'm completely amazed Polaroid is still around as a company. With cell phone cameras in everyone's pocket I thought they'd have up and died, but nope, they're still making Polaroid cameras to this day!

I have had this happen intermittently on very old games where I have made a ton of changes to the world. (Mapping, breaking things down, etc.) When I would make frequent area transitions, like if I were going into my coastal highway house to grab a couple cooked fish, start cooking raw fish, go back outside to put the cooked fish in the snow...over and over and over. At some point I would go indoors and see that it had failed to save, and invariably on my next attempt to re-enter the building, the game would crash and I would be set back about 2 saves. It hasn't happened for quite some time, although then again I haven't been living at the coastal highway in quite some time.

I just found this one actually, was going to post it here.

It's per region. I have 5 in HRV, 5 in Milton, currently 4 in Forlorn Muskeg but soon to be 5. It's going to be so sweet not having to lug 150kg worth of crap that fell through the ground back from the lost and found every time there's an update. The moment I saw craftable storage is finally here, that became a side mission, alongside "find all Polaroids".

Just found #2.

Yep. FOV differences almost threw me, but this is definitely the location. This really reminds me of the "Guess where I am" screenshot game we had a few months back. In fact I would not be at all surprised if that was the inspiration for the polaroids.

Portal has companion cubes. The Long Dark has Battery.

That was my thought as well when finding the suitcase, although while spray-painting navigation markers in the ice caves of HRV I did discover a previously undiscovered Hidden Cache. So you never know!

Finally found a Polaroid! This confirms they do show in pre-existing games. Mine was in Hushed River Valley, extreme southeast corner of the map. East by southeast of the ice cave entrance, roughly halfway (on foot, not as the crow flies, so it's a curved path) between Lonely Cave and the southeast Mysterous Signal Fire spawn, in an elevated area past a log bridge. It was inside a suitcase that had appeared next to a previously-searched corpse. Edit: I nearly died getting this thing. My hubris nearly was the end of me. I figured hey, let's go during an aurora, free flashlight passage through the caves. Except I forgot there's a bear on the way to my HRV base camp. He heard me long before I heard him, and came bounding over a hilltop so fast I barely had time to register, let alone draw a weapon. After regaining consciousness, I decided to abort mission and retreat to Milton to regroup. He nailed me a second time. Clothes in tatters, below 10%, I patched myself up again and went the other way, to my HRV base. Using the supplies I had left behind I got a roaring fire going, and just collapsed into my bedroll. Retreated to Milton the following day to repair and refit. I'm going to shoot that bear, mark my words. I will have my revenge.

About 5 days worth. I used my existing guy, that I created after Steadfast Ranger went live. Same guy, I've got every region mapped, every cairn discovered, every buffer memory acquired, every collectible...collected. The one thing I seem to be missing are polaroids, as I have not found any in the world with this guy so far.

If anyone is wondering, no you cannot spray-paint a sleeping bear. I just tried it, and could not get the spray-paint icon to appear on the bear. I escaped unharmed due to my ninja skills. I have still not found a single polaroid.

So I'm starting to suspect that Polaroids don't show up in pre-existing saves. As of right now, I've re-explored the mountaineer's hut, molly's house, barn, signal hill, carter dam, every interior location in Mystery Lake, the truck there plus behind both visors, and about half of the buildings and vehicles in Milton. I have found 11 cans of spray paint, and exactly ZERO polaroids. This strikes me as disproportionate considering that there are supposed to be 11 polaroids in the world. Statistically speaking I should have found at least one by now.

Haven't found any Polaroids yet but I do have 5 cans of spray paint. I already used one to mark a cabin I had neglected to bust up for materials. I am now a graffiti artist.

Well, I got 30 days into my goal of a year-long fire. Guess that fire will have to go out. I've got some polaroids to find!

Co-op will never be in this game, it's too far removed from what this game is all about, not to mention the technical challenges of rationalizing time-accelerated activities like carcass harvesting or sleep with the time of everyone else playing this hypothetical co-op game. I agree that it would be fun, but it's not in the cards for The Long Dark. Maybe in Hinterland's next project.

It kills them just fine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9tSdgzovYI

Yeah those are lost and found boxes. Any time Hinterland makes changes to a region that might cause you to lose items, they are dumped into a lost and found bin placed in a location virtually every player will visit at some point. Camp Office, Molly's farmhouse, the Quonset Garage, etc. These will also include things like every stone you've ever thrown in the region.

OK this is totally out there in the "absolutely not a problem but I just wanna mention it" zone. But I recently did a sweep of cairns to record the details, and I noticed that two cairns on Timberwolf Mountain share the same backer #. Specifically, Cairn 45 (Baltus Roll Hill) and Cairn 152 (Lost Cairn) credit backer 165. Not sure if the same backer really did make two contributions, or if one should be credited to someone else. That is all. Like I said, not game breaking, but I caught it so this is me doing my due diligence.