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Yep, you've just outwitted the wolf's pathing AI.  Besides evading wolves, this kind of trick also comes in particularly handy when hunting big game. A bear or moose that might not drop in one shot and come charging at you, for example.  If you perch yourself someplace they can't reach before you take your shot, they will flee instead of counterattack if they don't drop in one.  Then just follow the blood trail until they eventually collapse.

Actually something just occurred to me, and I'm kind of kicking myself for not noticing this sooner, but Timberwolf Mountain has a problem now.  Echo Peak West and Echo Peak East are misnamed, because Echo Peak West is in the east, and Echo Peak East is in the west, if you orient the map the way the current world map suggests.  If you look at the old color map where TWM is turned 90 degrees clockwise, then yes the peaks are named correctly, but current state they are not.

Starting from the locked gate, turn around so that the gate is immediately behind you.  Take the path to the right.  You will cross some boards over the electrified water, then down a small tunnel.  The tunnel leads you to a small chamber, where one of the fuses can be found. In this chamber you will see another electrified pond with two steel drums floating in it.  A short path to the right of these steel drums leads you to the bolt cutters and a corpse.

If you're using Windows 10, you can use the built-in Game Bar to record.  Press Win-Alt-R to start or stop recording.  You can also use the GUI in the Game Overlay, by hitting Win-G.

If this doesn't work, check to confirm that you have the Game Bar enabled.  Hit Start, click the Settings cogwheel, then choose the Gaming group.  The Game Bar settings are in there.

If you're not using Windows 10...As was stated OBS Studio is a free download.

43 minutes ago, Serenity said:

And for the future: never ever save the game when you get stuck

Also don't spend TOO much time trying to get unstuck if you see the dangerous slope warning.  The last thing you want to do is suffer a sprain and lose your ability to reload your last save.

6 hours ago, stay puft said:

Agreed

I don't think there's any connection to story mode at all in Survival mode your a nameless story-less faceless survivor...   

Yup, remember that Survivor mode used to be called Sandbox, and the original intent was that Sandbox was just a temporary testing environment, and Story mode would be "The Game".  Sandbox was originally going to be retired at launch.  But the devs recognized that Sandbox had taken on a life of its own, and believed (correctly) that the majority of their player base preferred Sandbox.  So Sandbox became Survivor, and is an entirely alternate mode to Story.  A separate universe, if you will.

I'll just leave this right here

https://hinterlandforums.com/forums/topic/34982-use-the-force/

16 hours ago, jeffpeng said:

Although I feel obligated to suggest you update to an actually not ancient operating system that has a metric crapton of security patches Windows 7 will never get, meaning Windows 10. 

This is the biggest reason you should upgrade to Windows 10, right here.  Windows 7 is dead, and Microsoft no longer supports it. That means any security exploits that are discovered for Windows 7 PC's now until forever, will never be fixed.  And while it's unlikely some malicious coder will program a virus or worm to exploit a newly-discovered vulnerability on a fully deprecated OS, that risk is non-zero.

Well I stand thoroughly corrected.  Bugs suck!

15 minutes ago, Hilayla said:

Well, I am just 7 days into a new Pilgrim game to try for Faithful Cartographer and to get myself in the habit of "journaling" before going to sleep at night. Might as well try for all the buffer memories while I'm at it along whatever other stuff I might be missing. Should really see what achievements and such there are instead of being surprised every time I earn something.

Be prepared for a lot of frustrating days ahead if you want to collect all the buffer memories.  If a specific location has 5 memories, every time there's an aurora you have a 20% chance of getting any one specific memory. They don't cycle through in order.  And by default, an aurora occurs about once a week on average, so best case scenario you can expect to be at a single location for 5 weeks before you finally collect them all.   Or maybe you'll get 4 of the 5, and then get nothing but repeats for three straight months in a row before #5 finally pops up. Just keep at it, keep slugging away, and you can eventually pull it off. But your quest to obtain all buffer memories will take hundreds of days, easily.  It's a good way to keep busy while working towards the 500 day survival achievement.  And doing a little cartography/cairn hunting during the day is a nice alternative to simply passing time.

7 minutes ago, Ice Hole said:

Do you have a name for it?

For the cave?  Hmm.....

It doesn't matter if your meat is next to a fire or not, it only matters if it's indoors or outdoors.  Or, in the case of a cave, whether it's towards the front or back of the cave.

Clothing doesn't degrade faster next to a fire either.  The rate at which clothing decays depends on whether it's stored in a container (slowest), worn indoors (medium wear), or worn outdoors (high wear).  Bedrolls degrade MUCH faster if you leave them rolled out, vs. rolling them up after use.  I don't remember the exact statistics but it's something like 0.5% per day regardless, and an additional 0.1% per hour it's unrolled.  So if you leave it unrolled on the floor, It's going to drop 3% condition per day.  The times you're reporting sound a little extreme, but my guess would be you underestimated how much time had passed that the thing was unrolled.  Or it was in worse condition than you thought when you laid it down.

32 minutes ago, musrass said:

I think gaiters would be an excellent addition to the (rather disappointingly small) selection of accessories in the game. I imagine them giving a small boost to mobility, maybe even warmth – but mainly mobility since no other clothing item does that. And it would be great if there was a craftable variant...

That's not really what gaiters do.  They're to protect your legs from underbrush or from damage by your own cleats.  Gaiters would be primarily a defensive item, to provide some additional damage resistance.  If you wanted something that adds a mobility boost, snowshoes would make more sense.  According to some experiments I did last year, you move 16% faster when walking on paved roads vs. any other terrain.   Having snowshoes equipped could impart this movement bonus on any terrain.

Ah yep, found it.  My hunch was incorrect.

Just now, LkP said:

Yeah you're right. What makes you sure it's not in PV (could have been added with the re-do for Wintermute) ?

Because I've played Ep 3 four separate times now, and while I was more mission-focused than exploration-focused, I'd like to think I would have noticed that cave by now.

53 minutes ago, LkP said:

Isn't that Ravine ?

No, the Ravine cave has reeds and cattails, as well as a fallen tree and a deer carcass by the entrance.  This looks more like a possible coastal highway, crumbling highway, or desolation point thing.  Guess it's time to fire up a throwaway Custom and find out.

12 minutes ago, stay puft said:

On my current interloper run I have discovered 227 locations and I have not been to the updated PV which I'm assuming will unlock 1 or 2 new locations 1 by the plane and 1 at Thompson's Crossing.

Yeah interior locations are different than named locations.  Named locations are entirely outdoors, and consist of map icons like the Camp Office, as well as location triggers like Derailment.  Something like transitioning from the Upper Dam to Lower Dam would count as a Location in your journal, but not as a named location for advancing the Faithful Cartographer feat.

20 minutes ago, MarrowStone said:

It should be a Feat, "Map X amount of locations cumulatively"

Oo I like that.  I would make a point to earn that just for the sake of earning it.  Like map 500 named locations across multiple survivor games, or something like that.  I believe there's 176 named locations in the game so hypothetically you could achieve this in just three survivor games, if you're thorough.

There's nothing to indicate that the field is stable when the aurora isn't in the sky.  We could just as easily be dealing with "unstable" and "ridiculously unstable".

At any rate, the devs have already made two huge concessions for Story mode as it is.  Originally the stance was "No maps will be in the game. Feel free to draw your own."  But that got negative pushback from the player base, and finally it's like ok fine, they introduced charcoal mapping with Faithful Cartographer.  And then people started asking for a GPS, and the stance was that no, you need to learn to navigate by landmarks.  But the pushback was still present, so for Story mode they made another concession and started showing the player's position and orientation (like a GPS).  But Survivor mode stayed true to the original vision.  It's intended to be a different experience for the player.  A GPS does make sense in Story mode.  Story mode is about completing specific tasks and advancing the plot, so if you get lost and don't know where you are that directly detracts from the storytelling experience.  But Survivor mode, getting lost and not knowing where you are ADDS to the experience.  Exploration is the whole point.  So I wouldn't expect a GPS added to Survivor mode now or ever.

I wouldn't mind a Custom mode toggle "show player position on map" being added to enable this feature in Survivor mode, but really once you've played the game enough you don't need it.  Maybe if you get a raw deal and start a Survivor run in dense fog, it might take you a bit longer to get oriented, but there's enough unique landmarks in the game that veteran players really don't need maps.

And for people that DO need maps...enjoy that experience of getting lost and sense of uncertainty as to what lies over that next hill!  Apart from the rare occasion where they release new regions, that's something you only get to experience for the first couple hundred hours or so.  So soak it up while it lasts.

Snowshoes!  Oh man at any cost, figure out some sort of way to make snowshoes!  Even if it's just strapping some plywood scraps to your shoes.  If you've ever spent an hour trudging through deep snow, especially if you're not used to it, your thighs will be absolutely KILLING you the next day.  Snowshoes take the edge off of that, by preventing you from sinking so deeply into the snow, you do less of the high-legged marching motion, and more of a natural gait.

A sledge of some kind, but something that breaks down easily and can be carried.  The idea isn't to haul more stuff, it's to make hauling what you already have easier when the circumstances allow.  Why carry when you can drag?  But you still need to travel light enough to be able to pick it up and carry it when you run out of even terrain.

If I knew I was going to be attacked by so many wolves, I'd try to craft a bite sleeve (like what they use for K9 training) out of whatever I could.  Multiple players of cloth, soles of old shoes, sticks for rigidity to protect against bone damage, etc.  Then when a wolf charges, block with my armored left forearm and counter with whatever I have available in my right.  Knife, hatchet, prybar, a rock from the ground, sharp stick.

A tarp + paracord could have soooooooo many uses, from rigging up a simple lean-to, securing gear to a pack frame, throw it over yourself like a poncho while you walk under one of those waterfalls, etc.  Also, a bow drill.  Both cedar and fir are suitable for bow drills, and for the string itself you could either harvest some sort of cordage in the bush, use your shoelace, fashion one out of some braided scrap cloth, etc.

Those giant hay bales in Pleasant Valley, man all you'd have to do is kick one of those apart and burrow your way in.  You'd be blizzard proof, unless you were horribly underdressed to begin with.  In fact, the snow would make the shelter even warmer, by providing a layer of natural insulation on the outside.

And for that matter, being able to harvest more than just firewood from trees.  I mean get some fatwood out of some pine trees, that's good stuff for firestarting.  Or even if you find one that's got some sap oozing out of it, save up some chunks.  Besides being very flammable in its own right, you can melt it near a fire then mix in ground up charcoal for a very strong natural adhesive, which would aid in the construction of a more rugged wilderness shelter.

Meh I'm gonna stop here, I could probably go on like this for an hour.  I keep getting hit by "Oh and another thing!" and there's always gonna be "another thing" when comparing a video game to real life!

1 hour ago, Hilayla said:

I completely missed this topic, not that I knew any of the answers. Are these things learned by reading gravestones? Computers during auroras? The apple over the cliff question really intrigued me. Now I am curious about searching out the answers to these.

Play both Story and Survivor modes, and be very thorough.  Read every bit of lore, complete every quest, capture every buffer memory, read every tombstone... There's a lot of backstory present, to those willing to invest the time to find it.

For the buffer memories, I recommend a Custom mode game tuned to be as easy as you can make it, with auroras at maximum frequency.  Otherwise...yeah...you're gonna be at it for a very very long time.

Well this thread never really took off so I guess I'll just post the answers!

It's a mistake on the map most likely, although behind the blue trailer there's a sort of divot in the ground by the dark rocks, which seems to be low enough that it counts as protected from wind from every angle, so that makes for a good makeshift firepit.  I've never had a fire blow out in there.

53 minutes ago, MarrowStone said:

Do you by chance remember if it fell or stuck to the visor? I feel like they'd have to rig that area for it to either swing with the visor rotating or animating it falling so it wouldn't look weird stuck to the ceiling. That sounds like a lot of work for something so rare.

However, I still check when I feel lucky XD.

Yeah I remember it being stuck to the actual visor.  It seems more likely that it was something in a dream that I'm misremembering as reality.

I could swear I found a candy bar up in a visor back in an early version, like before Timberwolf Mountain existed.  But nothing in years since.