melcantspell

I am excited about the new update, thanks for the hard work you put into this lovely game. Just one small wish: would it be possible for you to share updates / new content in a short, high level text description as well? Nothing against the videos - I bet they are super well made, but I had to click away as soon as I noticed that it would be a big spoilerfest, and I really don't want to explore TLD thinking "ah, here is what they showed in the video, looks familiar." It would be awesome to have a rough idea what is in a new update while still being able to explore yourself. Edited to add: maybe that already exists - I would appreciate if somebody could point me to it. Thanks

I totally believe that this may be correct. I think this is a confirmation bias thing - you see crows a lot, and the weather changes a lot as well. Still, as a reminder about potential weather changes I find the crows useful. They do have this "reminder" function in general to me. Whenever I hear crows, I focus my attention on them - is it a bear? a corpse? Or just crows flying above my head? If it is the latter, it forces me to look at the sky more closely, thus making me aware of any weather changes, even if there is no direct correlation to the crows.

My top 3 tips for playing interloper: - DO NOT RUSH. Walking slowly makes less noise and allows you to plan your next steps. If you get surprised by anything - especially if it puts you in danger - hit the escape key, sit back and think about your options before making your next move. Playing slowly makes the game a lot easier. - BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS. You can avoid wildlife completely if you listen to your surroundings. You can hear wolves, bears, deer and rabbits. You can hear the crows that announce weather changes, the wind picking up etc. Listening to all these cues helps so much. It also helps to aim for higher elevation levels when planning your travel routes. This will allow you to see your surroundings better. Is there a hill in front of you, and you don't know what is behind it? Do not walk the straight line. Circle it and try to get on higher ground so you can see any possible predators early on. But listening is the most underrated skill in TLD, it helps so much if you really tune in to the sounds of your environment. - BE MINDFUL OF WHAT YOU REALLY NEED. Resources are scarce in interloper, so it is key not to waste them. Do you really need to cook today, when it is overcast and will cost you a match? Or could you wait until tomorrow and use the magnifying lens if the weather is clear? If you plan to cook tomorrow using the magnifying lens, maybe you should hunt today so you have enough meat to prepare etc. Avoiding wildlife attacks helps to save a lot of resources too. Oh, and it is easier to collect a lot of sticks and keep the fire going than to find new matches. Enjoy

I do think this is a frequent occurence in TLD - I found a lot of ropes in all the maps that I could not find a purpose for. I always made sure to haul them "somewhere safe", in case I need it later. I guess once or twice I have actually come back to that place later and hauled ropes across the maps when I was missing one. It makes for an interesting decision ... ropes are heavy, but immensely useful IF you need them ...and you never know when (or where) you will need them

Yes, that's what I did - made a fire in the shed and cooked some water to pass time quicker without actually saving the game (yes, this IS cheating. I only did it this time because the game cheated on me as well with resetting the bear when I had gone inside ... so I guess I considered this a fair exception). AND after 2 hours the journal told me that the bear had died. I am happy that my game will not end here (I haven't seen much of Ash Canyon yet ;)), but I am also happy that this has been so intense. That's exactly what I like about TLD.

@gotmilkanot That is SO cool and helpful! Thank you. This might save many virtual lives BTW just after writing my last post, I got one lucky shot in - the bear did not charge right away, but ran away instead. I carefully crawled to the shed once the distance was reasonable. Now I shot the bear for the third time and there are no blood stains on the ground, but I did see the arrow in his shoulder - will it bleed out anyway?

I am right here on what looked like a perfectly bear-safe edge (behind me on the right is the bear den, and in front of me a little to the left, Miner's Folly). Only it seems it isn't so bear-safe? I don't dare to really wait what happens, but once I shoot the bear he runs straight at me, always, so he might have a path up there? (I would really like to know, only I am pretty sure I would not survive the mauling). Has anybody tested this before, can the bear come up here? I have tried to shoot him many times now in hope of a rare, lucky one-shot kill, which of course won't happen. Thanks for the tip with the outdoor shed. Which difficulty do you play on? It's hard for me to believe the bear will not run straight into the shed if he runs straight to me while I stand on that cliff (although it is of course not unreasonable to expect that a bear could get up there in real life). Right now, I don't really know how to get there (bear will attack me on sight if I just wait on the cliff until it gets to its den, so I can't just wait and try to make it to the shed). On the other hand, it's nice to see how quickly I got myself in a very intense situation on that new map. I just don't want to lose my character after having landed 2 pretty good shots into him already (I am sure that going indoors reset the bear).

I've finally taken my 230 d Stalker survivor to Ash Canyon. I was so looking foward to finally feeling like the first time I played TLD. No spoilers, no idea what I was going to get myself into .. just exploring a completely unknown map. It's been great fun so far. Then I got steamrolled by 3 blizzards in 2 days and had to shelter in place in the mountains, eating up all the food that I had brought and found on my way. Looking in the distance, I spot a deer carcass and head over there. Pretty disappointing: the deer was quite obviously eaten by a hungry bear, and the leftovers are pretty sparse. That's it, I am going to shoot the bear with my rifle, I think I saw him just behind that corner. And the next moment he is mauling my face (I must have overlooked the path he took, I had not seen him coming at all.) There goes my rabbit hat, my mittens, my deer boots ... I survive, but my clothes are trash. Oh and he wrecked the rifle. So now I had no food, shabby clothes, no rifle, snow was falling and wind was blowing. I bandaged my wounds and waited until the blizzard past. Or should I say blizzards, because there were 2 in days. I am now still at Miner's Folly, and I am starving. I know where the bear is, but I have not found a good spot to take him out. I am pretty sure I would not survive another mauling. I have shot the bear twice after the initial attempt (once with the revolver and once with the bow ... both were counted as hits in the journal ... but the bear did not bleed out. Probably because I hid inside the house which might have caused the bear to reset?), with no luck. Any tips are very welcome. I really do not want to starve to death right next to 30kg of bear meat, if it can be avoided

I get the confusion. Usually when you start a new game, you are excited to learn what it is about, to step by step learn how it goes etc. You know what your quest is about, and you start working on tasks. The Long Dark is different, because there is no quest, except the idea that you can survive the cold and wilderness - how you do it, and how you spend your time and resources, that is totally up to you. I remember how confusing that felt at first, but it is the best part of the game. The solitude may seem boring at first, but once you explore more, you will know that it is not.

Definitely Broken Railroad. The only real shelter there is the Hunting Lodge, and although it is quite convenient (rabbits just outside the door, stealth-kill the bear, moose in your front yard etc.) it gets incredibly boring very quickly. That happens with all shelters, of course, but other shelters have surroundings you can explore in day trips. BR is the end of the world. At least, for now it is. Right next to the Lodge, there are a few dark rocky cliffs that seem to beg for a cave system to be put there ... at least, that is what I hope

As of now, I think that is a pretty easy question: Bleak Inlet, because it has more predators than other regions (Timberwolves) and allows for less flexibility in your strategies (you need to prepare to fight and you have to access the locations in a certain order & wait for the aurora, so your shelters are harder to plan as well). That being said, I really hope that when Hinterland announced that Timberwolves might spread to other regions, it means that things will even out just a little bit. I totally do not know how to deal with Timberwolves and I find it hard to learn it, since it takes so long to prepare for the journey to Bleak Inlet, and then I always die in the first fight. So for now, I avoid BI for the first few hundred days and only go there when I am mentally prepared to die.

Obviously I can't speak for Hinterland, but in general it is a good idea to file a bug report even if you think that somebody else had already posted the same issue. it could be that during investigation it turns out not to be the exact same issue looking at several reports usually helps to identify the root cause more quickly (I know that TLD players seem to be a lot more loyal, so I don't think this is an issue here, but) in general it is a good idea to not assume that a report has already been filed.

What about that radio tower?

The very same thing happened to me in the exact same spot!

I am not a doctor but in my opinion getting the insulin makes sense from a survival perspective. There are several injured and sick people that Father whatshisnameagainsorryIforgot has to care for. Survival chances increase if there are people to help with the necessary tasks (get firewood, hunt for food, cook up water etc.) Assumed that the diabetic isn't heavily injured and "just" needs the insulin, getting the insulin for him and thus enabling him to support the cleric (even if it's just for a limited period of time) will increase survival chances for everyone. It might even allow him to "go and get help", and maybe even medical care ... Edited to add: I also think there should be a timer, or at least it should have consequences if you don't hurry to get that mission done.