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Huh, like running over the pits in Mario games.

That's the one! Never knew that channel existed, then suddenly PLBTH in my face. OK youtube, I'm bored, sure why not. I'm probably not gonna go there lol. I hate driving even to wal-mart.

It's not just sticks that disappear either, it's wildlife. Frequently I'll leave my main base only going far enough to find a couple sticks to mag lens a fire, and when I get back there's suddenly a flock of ptarmigans, or group of rabbits, couple wolves maybe. Sometimes all three at once. I don't think it's so much that they've "disappeared" as the game is choosing not to render them for some reason. Possibly a precaution against having a wolf just bam like right there in charging distance the moment you go outside, that spread to everything? Who knows. At least it's easy to work around.

On the topic of cooked fish, I did an analysis 3 years ago and found that all fish reduce by 1/3 when cooked. So a 1kg fish would become 0.66kg, and so on. If this is the current trend, then things are normal. If not, then they are not!

You're my spirit animal, maybe. I've been fighting this fight on my own front for ... crap 7 years now?! Holy monkey. I've gone through two CIO's , four CEO's, and 8 direct managers in the meantime, and nobody friggen gets it. Sorry, this has nothing to do with this game, I'm just venting because the HL forum is one of the few safe spaces I have left.

Rose Hip Pies are definitely my favorite. They're handy towards the end of the day if I want to get a few more things done with the daylight hours, and I don't want to listen to that huffing and puffing from exhaustion. And just a few goes a LONG way. A single bush with 8 hips is good for 3 pies, compared to a single cup of tea which requires 3 full bushes (24 individual hips.) Some of the larger food items like Breyerhouse Pies are neat to make if you already have a fire going, but you have to be really hungry to eat the whole thing in one sitting and get the full benefit.

Also Bleak Inlet.

Well in the terms of this game, they are saltwater only. You may find freshwater fish in coastal regions on the ground via beachcombing, but if you actually pulled a rainbow trout out of a freshwater region's ice hole, like Mystery Lake, then yeah that's totally a glitch.

Remember though, a travois was on the road map for this DLC. Granted, the releases have been...ehh... how to put it delicately... "devastatingly tragic", but the intent was there. OK realistically speaking "devastatingly tragic" is not how I would genuinely put it, because I fully understand the difficulties of managing a software sprint cycle, and so this ribbing of HL is intended with the best brotherly love, but at the same time, I'm not pullin my punches. Y'all gotta do better, you know it, we know it, so topic done. Short version: This may already be solved. Stand by.

Dude no judgement, but....can you explain that one? Why? Was it the view? The location frankly sucked, IMO. Edit: Maybe it's the same reason I live at Paradise Meadows. It's a pretty crap location objectively speaking, but it just does it for me. "Because I like it, shut your face," is a perfectly acceptable answer.

Forestry lookout at Mystery Lake too. At some point back in early release the lookout used to be where the destroyed one is today. And the lookout we know today just wasn't even there. There were also some random changes in ML, PV, CH, and the Ravine when TWM was first added. They changed some of the landscape features here and there across the world when adding the rope climb spots.

Well that'll be solved when the next release allows us to repair the Riken and set sail to harpoon a whale. Hey that rhymes.

Jetpacks, of course. Duh.

A horse would fit the general aesthetic, but for a number of reasons I don't think it's the right fit here anyway. For one thing, its health: What kills it? What hurts it? Will it be attacked by wolves? If so, what are the effects? What's the mount/dismount time? Can YOU be attacked while mounted? On and on, there's just so many things that need to be considered, all for the sake of...moving a bit faster? Nah.

Nope, the last time there were any major physical changes to the game world was when Tales started earlier this year, and a little tiny piece of thing was added to the smashed up bridge in Broken Railroad to allow the player to cross. (and obviously the introduction of the airfield itself, plus the two transition zones to get there. but in terms of changes, only that one piece of bridge.) You got yourself a bona fide false memory there.

Ptarmigans at level 5 Archery are practically a trip to the grocery store, same as level 5 Fishing anywhere. Just...point and click. Boom, dinner is served. Granted it's not much of a dinner, unless you exploit the current state of the game and harvest it in 0.1kg increments, which you can then cook into full 1kg Cooked Ptarmigans. Still quite astonished that an exploit like that made it into the game, but hey, jackpot for us.

I define a cache as "any stash of materials intended for future personal use." So that is super broad, and that's on purpose. A cache might be a can of peaches wedged into a tree trunk. I dunno, maybe some guy was like "I might want peaches later, and this looks like a good place to shove a can." and he just plowed it straight into the tree with brute force because he's an idiot, I dunno, but it's still a cache. A hatch is a doorway, nothing more. A bunker is all of the...well..bunkers, and all of the underground prepper caches too. Not the right use of the word "cache" but it does get a pass since the word is pretty ambiguous to begin with.

"Debuff for the sake of having a debuff" is now a permanent term in my lexicon. Thank you for that one, it'll come in handy I have no doubt.

Yeah, also think you're misremembering, which happens. I've logged over 5000 hours in the game so it does appear in my dreams occasionally, plus I like to play around with mods too which further complicates things. My best false memory was shortly after Pokemon GO came out, I had a dream where HL released The Long Dark Go. Let me just say, out of all the things in the world that could get me out of the house, that ranked #2, just behind "dude your house is on fire, you might wanna like leave or something."

Frankly they seem to decay so incredibly quickly regardless, I've taken to not cooking them unless I'm already boiling up a buttload of water and have no excuse to NOT cook and eat something immediately. Which honestly, is pretty realistic. I mean how often do you bake a pie and throw it in the snow outside for 3 weeks?

Rainbow trout can survive in both fresh and saltwater. They're actually pretty invasive.

Can't stop thinking about it, myself. I'm honestly half-tempted to just pack up and live there. It apparently gets Amazon deliveries, and say what you will about the company but that drastically improves the viability of the community. And again, say what you will about Elon but Starlink is a thing--slap in a dish rig a repeater, you're golden. I'm grossly oversimplifying things but this is how I try to sell myself on crazy ideas at 12:20am when I'm half in the bag on cheap whisky.

I'm not really in favor of adding more guns just for the sake of having more guns, they need to solve a problem. Bow: Best all-around solution. Distress Pistol: Stops a charging bear. Rifle: Long range, pinpoint accuracy. Revolver: Multiple rapid-fire shots for handling multiple targets (i.e. timberwolves.) And the variants are neat collectibles that do give the player some variety, but in and of themselves they do not introduce any new content. So a new weapon would need to address some problem, and I don't see any problems we have that more guns will fix. Now a melee weapon on the other hand, THAT could be useful. Something that requires no ammunition whatsoever, but that lets you be proactive in your defense. In the past I've suggested adding an "alt-fire" to the Bear Spear that adds a thrusting or slashing attack that completely drains your Stamina wheel all in one go, and does damage proportionate to how much Stamina you had in the tank. The more well-rested you are, the more devastating the strike. Say 50% or higher on the Fatigue meter is a guaranteed kill on a successful hit, anything lower rolls the dice. (Edit: Or deer too if you manage to hit them with it, but that'll be tricky unless you manage to get in the path of one that's running at you...in which case the game should probably incorporate some consequences to being run over by a deer if you miss.) Or use it as it is in Story Mode to defend against Bears and Moose. Similar deal to Story, win three struggles and it dies. If you try to brace the spear against a wolf charge, the wolf simply stops and growls, waiting until you run out of Stamina and lower the spear, then it strikes. Have it weigh 4kg making it a bit of a beast for daily carry, but since it functionally has infinite ammo, that's your trade-off. Maybe degrade at the same rate as a bow since the crafting recipe buried in the game calls for a maple sapling.

Yup, ingredients you will probably want to hoard are potatoes, carrots, burdock, acorns, reishi, rose hips, cans of peaches, cans of corn, oats, salt, cooking oil, flour, and maple syrup. Those are the "once they're gone they're gone" ingredients. Everything else is just meat or fish you can replenish indefinitely. Oh and leave them in their unprocessed state too. For example if you prepare the rose hips, you can no longer use them to make rose hip pies. They are only for tea at that point. So keep them unprocessed so you have more options later.

Good call, turned out to be the Gear Spawner mod, they snuck an update in and I never noticed. And would've never thought to check that for decal-related anything since I don't have any of the base customizing mods installed. (Having everything become a clickable object introduces frustrations of its own.) Oh and you have NO idea how hard it is to track animals when they don't leave blood trails! Heck, sometimes you can't even tell if you hit at all.