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Honestly, I'd missed that claim, and I echo TPL's question. What games? I'm also curious.

Agree to disagree. The point of Interloper is to be a brutal, punishing experience. It sounds to me like you aren't looking for that. I wouldn't call this "poor game design", and not trying to be rude or anything but if you don't like it...don't play it. I don't enjoy Interloper either....so I usually play Custom. That's what it's there for. But if I do elect to choose "interloper" then I go into it eyes open, fully expecting that every blind corner could lead to a wolfy death. Know how I deal with that? I crouch and toss a rock. It'll bring wolves out of hiding. This is HL refers to them as "Experience modes" and not "difficulty levels". Yes, Interloper is more difficult than say Stalker, but it's a completely different experience at a fundamental level. And that experience is supposed to be that you're always inches away from death. I mean there's a reason why surviving even a single day on Interloper is an Achievement unto itself. It is, in fact, an impressive achievement when you consider how stacked against you the deck is.

Alright buckle up because we're going for a ride. I'm such a huge resource miser in this game, I have opinions on just about everything! Lanterns: I carry the highest quality one around with me as I'm looting, but if I have other lanterns sitting around, I will use them until the fuel is gone. Then just leave them alone--I can break them down for scrap later if I need to. Simple/Quality Tools: I leave these at work benches, and if I have more than one at a base I will use them to the point of breaking. I only repair my tools if it's my last set. Hacksaw: I use them until they hit 20%. If it's my only hacksaw, I will repair it, otherwise similar to the lanterns I will leave them behind and only break them down if I need the metal. Never saw open a container with a hacksaw under 20%, or there is a chance you can ruin the container and lose the contents forever. Hammer: I use these extensively to break down pallets and some furniture, to save wear on my hatchets. These can be repaired with regular fir firewood, which is renewable. It does take longer than a hatchet, but if you're aiming to destroy everything in the world, you can avoid burning through your hatchets this way. If I have multiple, I will use one to the point of breakage, otherwise I keep it in good shape. Hatchet: Generally doesn't get used, except for crafting hide clothing, to spare wear on my knives. As with everything else, if I have multiples, I use them to the point of breakage, only sharpening if it's my last one. Knife: Ditto. Use to breakage if I have multiples, only sharpen if it's the last one. Prybar: After all containers are looted, I leave these in fishing huts to chip away the ice. After all containers are opened, these no longer serve any purpose, so may as well be used to chop ice. Like the hacksaw, do not use a prybar below 20% to open a container, or it may ruin the container itself. Fishing Tackle: I use this to craft/repair until it reaches 20%, then I use it for fishing. This way if the line snaps, I've gotten the best possible use out of it that I can. Only use sewing kits if you have no fishing tackle above 20%. Lamp Oil: Use up all the oil in the little bottles first. It weighs 1kg per liter of oil in this form. Jerry Can: NEVER drain them completely, or they will despawn. Refill these with fish oil, and a full 4 liter Jerry Can only weighs 3.3kg, making this a more efficient way to transport fuel. Skill Books: Avoid practicing a skill until you are confident you have found and read every book in the world, to get the maximum benefit out of them. Never finish reading Advanced Guns Guns Guns until you are confident you have read all of the Frontier Shooting Guides in the game, or until you reach level 3. Once you hit Level 3, you can no longer read any Frontier Shooting Guides that you find. Crafted Clothing: Craft a full emergency set of clothing, but stop a half hour before completion on each item. If you end up in a catastrophic bear attack that ruins some clothing items outright, you can invest that final half hour to get a new clothing item at 100% condition. Rifle: Use to breakage if I have multiple in an area, otherwise keep it cleaned, never letting it go below 95%. Revolver: Always keep it at or above 95%. This is one weapon you cannot afford to have misfire, since the only time you use it is when you are being attacked. Arrows: Always fire to breakage. Getting one extra crow feather is not worth harvesting them early. Maglens: Always try to start a fire with a maglens instead of matches. I mean it's a free fire, why not? On sunny days if I'm going through a cave, I will also grab a small handful of sticks. Light a maglens fire outside the cave, toss in a few sticks, harvest a few torches, then use those to navigate the cave to save on lamp oil. If one torch burns low, drop it, pull out another, and light it with the dropped torch. .....I think that about covers it...

The fact that I can't grab the coal in the MT/HRV transition cave on the Milton side is unnecessarily aggravating...just saying... @Admin could this perhaps be forwarded on as a...sort of...I dunno half wish-list half bug, to the necessary parties? My sanity would appreciate it!

Just start a new game, click Custom, then at the top choose the Interloper template. Then scroll down and tweak the cold to your liking. Edit: This code is Interloper everything, with Stalker cold. 8sGM-bj8P-Kxsj-maGO-7gAA

Interloper is all about extreme resource management, and getting it into your head that everything is a resource. Even health. (Especially health, early on.) Another part about Interloper is that loot spawns are partially random, but also predictable. So over time you learn that if a bedroll spawns here, then a mag lens will spawn there, etc. That meta-knowledge is fairly critical to being able to turn any start into a winner. There are some general bits of advice though, that can help. Stay mobile, grab cattails every chance you get, don't be afraid to take some condition loss from freezing if it means you can get indoors and sleep in a bed. Also remember that rifles, revolvers, hatchets and knives do not appear in Interloper. You have to forge your own equipment at a forge, and bow/arrow is your only real weapon. So early on you want to stay mobile and find a hacksaw and hammer, in order to have a chance long-term. For me, Interloper is unenjoyable. I've played it, I can do it, I just don't like it. I play this game to relax, not add stress. I prefer dialing up my own experience in Custom mode, or playing the Challenge modes and setting side objectives. Like speedrunning, or in the case of Nomad, using that as an alternative to Survivor mode where I can play as long as I want, then end on a high note simply by completing the remaining objectives.

I like the emergency stims so much I never use them.... I'm one of those "better save my potions for emergencies" players, then finishes the game with an inventory full of potions. I use them rather liberally in Challenge modes, especially things like speedrun attempts, where a health boost and being able to run like a goober comes in handy. But survivor mode, where my brain is geared towards extreme long-term survivability, I have an unhealthy hoarding obsession. Putting a condition on the Go energy drinks was a smart call. I would hoard those too, but once they start dropping into the teens, I find a reason to use them. I think e-stims would benefit from this as well.

I had the chance to visit the crashed bus during an aurora in my own Survivor game, and yes...the lights on the bus are indeed defunct. This does appear to be an oversight.

Well except "Sarge" of course. "Sarge" being short for the sergeant in charge of this squad.

Honestly no, I see a moose I get excited and immediately drop whatever it is I'm doing and hunt the moose. I've derailed my own plans on numerous occasions because I see a moose and GNNAAAHHHH MUST HUNT!!

Glad I was able to entertain! And I don't know if you or anyone else has noticed, but the names of the characters in that little fic were all sourced from Bram Stoker's original Dracula.

Wait...did two people just civilly disagree...on the INTERNET? That's the power of TLD, ladies and gents.

Meh fair enough, just spitballing here. Could very well be an oversight as well!

It could also be very early or very late into the aurora cycle. There's a brief period of time before and after the aurora where the flashlight works, but everything else is off. This is because "Aurora" is a weather type, and the weather types don't turn on and off like switches, there's a ramp-down period for the current weather type that coincides with a ramp-up period for the next cycle. I've even had one aurora end, only for another to immediately start resulting in a more protracted period where all of the lights are off except for the flashlight, although that's pretty rare.

It does. I think the issue was that he may have been at level 5 when he ate the meat, but it was cooked prior to that level. My current run (nearly day 400) my diet consists primarily of bear, with the occasional moose, and never once got parasites.

Hah! Funny, I just had a thing of lye arrive today. This weekend I'm going to try making soap using some lard I rendered off of a few pounds of bacon, and then filtered/chilled. For molds, I took some thermoplastic and wrapped it around bricks of gulf wax I had laying around. They're a little awkwardly sized, but I can cut them in half for nice sized bars of hand soap. In retrospect I should have used an actual bar of soap to make the molds, but I'm usually about 3 drinks in when I come up with these crazy weekend schemes.

It's too late to report this as an actual bug, because I've gone and contaminated the crime scene like a proper prat. But I share my tale of terror and near-demise as a warning--and daresay I a lesson--to others. It all started in Milton. I left my Paradise Meadows homestead intent on putting a bullet in the moose down in the basin that dared insult my mother. I climbed down to the terrace and intended to nap off my descent so that when I reached bottom I was in peak form. Upon awakening, I was greeted with a lovely message, something to the effect of "Yo dawg, couldn't save yo' game, fool. Make sure yo hard drive ain't full." My hard drive is not full, so I immediately made a backup copy of my save--an act which ultimately saved the day. A blizzard had erupted at that point, so I started passing time an hour at a crack from the back of the cave, and each time I got that same "Unable to save your game" message. Distressing... I called for a full retreat, scaled the rope, and went back inside the Paradise Meadows Farmstead. This is when the demons attacked. I appeared in the middle of the house, not right by the door. And to my shock and horror, the interior had been reset. Mostly. Random objects had been restored, containers previously filled had vanished, containers previously looted were now searchable. A strange random pile of stuff on the floor beneath me was all that remained of my previous stash. And as I had chosen Paradise Meadows as my primary base...this was a devastating blow. All of the secondary clothing I had collected, all of the ammunition, dozens of liters of water, hundreds of cloth, leather, gut, hide, medicine....all of it... gone. Gone.... I exited, hoping that upon returning the glitch would be restored but alas, upon leaving, the door was mysteriously locked. I still had the key from when I originally found it like I dunno 48 years ago, but whatevs. I unlocked the door again and was greeted by the same sorry state of affairs. I drank myself into oblivion, walked out into traffic, got eaten by a whale, it was horrible. OK so in actuality I just ALT-F4ed that mother, and copied my backup save game back into the appropriate folder, reloaded TLD, and loaded that save back up. Once again, I was back in the cave where I had napped after my initial descent. Scaling the rope again, I found that the house was exactly as I had remembered it. The glitch was gone, and that horrific nightmare was just that: A nightmare. So let that be a lesson to you. Especially in long-term survivor mode games...back up that file. You are always one crash away from disaster. And unlike a missed shot/bear mauling, I do not consider a game crash to be a fair death.

Ehh...I wouldn't want it, but I can see the point, so I'd say sure provided it's a Custom mode option the player can opt-in for, and not a core gameplay mechanic.

Yeah I'm on board with that. Maybe all those painkillers and emergency stims he'd been popping finally caught up, and the 'ol ticker called it quits.

Sure, just go ahead and light a fire next to an LP tank. There's no way that can end badly.

Oh I did leave the guts, and swapped the fresh hide out for a cured one I'd left behind the last time. And I left 4 steaks behind for when I return, to get re-situated, but I'm still hauling the rest back to Milton. That's "home" this time around. The other regions are vacation homes.

It doesn't matter how many times I make this trip, and it doesn't matter how smoothly I execute the tightrope walk...THIS IS NEVER NOT NERVE WRACKING!! The creaking..... Ravine.mp4

Bloody hell it happened again! I'm holed up at my main base in Milton, and I'm like...oh dear, I'm out of cured leather. I check my notes, I have 33 stashed on Timberwolf Mountain, guess it's time for a field trip. I arrived, slept, grabbed my leather, turned to leave...ANOTHER MOOSE. I was not planning on hauling a moose back to Milton but I mean I guess I can work out the logistics of that. Too much food is a good problem to have. Edit: Got 'im in one shot (I only had 9 rounds to begin with up there.)

Have you tried different experience modes or challenges? I'm on PC, but I've noticed that on my Custom game blizzards no longer have that howling wind sound. It's fine in the stock experience modes, and story mode, but for some reason this Custom game no longer plays blizzard sounds.

Trigger discipline! Keep ze finger off ze trigger until you are ready to fire.