ajb1978

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Jetpacks, of course. Duh.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. "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.
  9. 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."
  10. 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?
  11. Rainbow trout can survive in both fresh and saltwater. They're actually pretty invasive.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Chiming in to add another voice to the "I cooked a chicken nugget and it became a whole roast turkey" glitch.
  17. We live among monsters. Better restock on real coffee and leave that acorn crap to the pretenders. Trust me, I've tried both...you want the real deal.
  18. TRAPS Acererak LICH 4-armed GARGOYLE False ENTRANCE. The hell kind of class was this supposed be anyway?
  19. I just had a sudden realization--even the "loose scraps of paper" decals that are used as interior decoration are also missing.
  20. I can confirm the calorie issue to the extent that I have Level 5 cooking, raw 1kg Ptarmigan is 500kcal, but after cooking mysteriously DROPS by 10% 50 450kcal for 1kg cooked ptarmigan. I'm very trigger happy on predators so I'm not at all worried about starvation, and honestly the "oops this chicken nugget turned into a roast turkey when I took it off the stove" bug makes up for it in the short term. But yeah, deffo buggo.
  21. I've had no decals whatsoever since the last major update and subsequent hotfixes. All decals means blood splatter from a weapon hit or wolf struggle doesn't exist, blood drops from a wounded but not dead animal don't appear, spraypaint markings are gone (both freshly painted and relics from prior saves), the crap on the snow after you search for acorns, etc. All of it. All gone.
  22. Fascinating side effect, I wonder what it is... And also I'm curious how this could potentially benefit regular gameplay. The "glow" doesn't appear to illuminate the environment, it's moreso a blur effect applied to the object on the screen.
  23. This word gave me second-hand cancer.
  24. Oh you're from whales, I've never met a whale myself but from what I understand they're quite peaceful creatures who are remarkably resistant to TNT-based funerals. Unless you're in favor of having your house, car, and the rest of everything you know bombarded to your ultimate dissatisfaction by airborne whale chunks, anyway. Welcome to the jungle. We've got guns and flames.