LostRealist

11 hours ago, Even Dark said:

and if i harvesting a meat bag or a rabbit i need a tool first. hands are just working if i use a tool first to get me as example 0.5 kg meat then after this i can use my hands.

This is intended, an incision must be made first, either by a tool or by a set of wolf teeth. It's explained in the latest release notes.

2 hours ago, artmunki said:

I think one of the things I've always liked most about TLD is the lack of hand-holding, and the fact that your most productive teacher, especially in early play, is always your own mistakes.

That is well put. The very first thing that drew me to this game was the "Well here you are, there you go, you'll figure it out" situation that you start out with.

I wouldn't mind looking at some less rendered stuff honestly. I want them as a gameplay tool, not really to gawk.

1 hour ago, Bloodskye said:

pulled out my distress pistol, and waited for him to charge. When he did, I shot the flare and he left me alone.. for about 3 seconds. I hear him again and he charges

This particular thing has happened to me plenty of times, once just recently. I'm such a garbage shot, I miss bears at near point-blank with the distress pistol consistently. And then every single time I turn around and walk away like it's a job well done, until "Wait, is he actually sti-- OH SHOOT"

Well at least it keeps the wolves at bay.

*BANG!*

*cursing*

"Ah, that guy is collecting sticks again.. woof woof"

59 minutes ago, UpUpAway95 said:

Wouldn't mind some soap in the game to wash these stinking clothes though.

That is true. I think some basic hygiene would be an interesting angle to the survival dynamics.

10 minutes ago, UpUpAway95 said:

... and do you realistically think that the old meat juices from before you got Cooking 5 aren't still on the cooking surface after you attain that level of expertise or that your hands and gloves are not just that much dirtier later on in the game than they are days after starting out?  Actually, I'm surprised we don't just get arbitrarily "smelly" over the course of a run such that it doesn't matter whether or not we're packing around raw meat in that moment for a wolf to smell us.  It's a game (lol) - Level 5 cooking is just a thing people want to attain because they like the perk - not having to worry about being poisoned by 100-day old cooked meat that has, perhaps, stayed frozen, but likely has sat out on the ground exposed to the sun and maybe been even pissed on by wolves, etc. Enjoy.  Personally, I don't kill so much in advance that I can't get it eaten before it goes bad.

I actually agree, I don't eat ruined stuff either for immersion's sake - just pointing out what I find to be the most reasonable answer to "Why does it matter how good you are at cooking" when relating to parasites specifically. Logically, cooked meat is cooked meat, no matter how experienced the chef was. But the path it takes to get there may look quite different and since it spends that path being not cooked, that's when it's dangerous. Most parasites would only stay mobile and alive for so long when exposed to the air directly and their eggs would dry out quite quickly, but if an inexperienced chef puts the cooked slab on the same surface he prepared the raw meat on and then eats it from there - that'll do. Also not unlikely this would be something that's pointed out emphatically in a book like "Wilderness Kitchen", methinks.

I don't know, for my headcanon it's the logical answer. Your mileage may obviously vary, that's up to you.

I would pay good money for a DLC that is literally just a pair of binocs, nothing else.

I'd even go to Blackrock again to get them if that's what it takes.

1 hour ago, UpUpAway95 said:

Could it be you're just noticing them more and HL hasn't made any change at all?  There have long been ample in the world overall to cover any bow and travois needs the player has over many, many hundreds of days - even without beachcombing.

I am kiiiiiinda trending towards this thinking as well. Granted, I don't punish myself with Interloper spawn settings, but hearing all this talk about the travois and associated maple saplings I keep thinking they didn't seem that scarce to me...

11 hours ago, Enigmaecho said:

It was brought up before too it would be wild but they said naw there will be plenty of notice before danger floof comes out to play, I’m with it though wish they’d maybe just add it’s sound effects to play randomly in distant echoes 

Considering it's all permadeath, I'm sure that's the only really reasonable call to make.

Still though, I find it very funny to imagine... very funny indeed.

12 hours ago, UpUpAway95 said:

How is it possible to even get better at hygiene - there's no soap in the game at all.

Which is what makes it tricky in the first place. Not placing cooked food where you had placed raw meat before would be a simple example. Not wiping your hands on your face or clothing when handling raw meat, using separate utensils for raw and cooked stuff, preparing your food in such a way that you don't splatter meat juices everywhere - kitchen hygiene goes further than the use of soap.

On 12/7/2023 at 6:42 PM, xanna said:

True, but if you're bad at cooking you might think it's cooked when it's not. That's how I rationalise it anyway, even if it doesn't really make sense that that would happen every time.

The way I figure it works is that at a high cooking skill, you get better at hygiene. Meaning you are less likely to inadvertently transfer parasites or their eggs to places where you might ingest them directly. Realistically, this would be the major concern as far as parasites go and it makes sense that you get better at avoiding that as you get better at handling raw meat.

On 12/8/2023 at 4:52 PM, Acthalla said:

I don't think it's a bad thing to have "one and done" regions mixed in with the more general play areas, but I was hoping we'd get a map or two in this expansion where we could feasibly chill long-term.

Couldn't agree more here. I like FA and ZoC for what they're worth, but they're too cumbersome and/or dangerous to stay there long term compared to many of the "older" places.

Wouldn't it just be the cheekiest stuff ever if they decided to sneak in the cougar in a random hotfix, without a big announcement? That idea came to me a few weeks ago. That's totally the kind of thing I would do if this was my game.

I happened upon a similar situation with a regular hunting rifle - I had installed the DLC after starting that run and had been to CH without it before, so the rifle that would have been Barb's was just a regular one. Picked it up and it just stayed right there leaning against the wall, so I clicked it again, and again, and then checked my inventory to see I was now the proud owner of three hunting rifles.

I literally could have just kept clicking it forever I think and I would have for sure been able to supply an army, and not just a small one.

Well, I'm gonna give it a shot as well, probably this weekend. Those recipies are interesting, wouldn't have expected ginger to show up in 16th century England, shows what I know I guess. I'm going to skip the wine and just boil them down with sugar and water because I can't imagine I'll enjoy old grape juice in my pastry. To maximize yield I think I'll cut and de-seed them rather than boiling the whole things and straining them. Also don't feel like having to buy a new strainer after making these...

10 hours ago, Dan_ said:

HL does know how to push you to feel empathy for the animals in a survival game.

Dude... every time I hear the yelp of a dying wolf, man. Emotional terror.

The worst one for me is scared bears - there's just something so heartbreaking about seeing this dangerous, massive, proud animal reduced to fleeing in terror because it's confronted with something it cannot possibly comprehend, like a flare shell. Hits me right in the feels every time. Guy could have mauled me a minute ago, I still feel so terrible and sorry.

My personal playing style avoids eating predator meat anyway even at L5 unless to literally save my life, and I only kill them in self-defence when there are no other options at all, that's how much they have me caring for them. They don't know any better, but I do.

So yes, absolutely. HL pulled that off incredibly.

I think what you should do is relax about it - not like you yoink'd the game from a Gamestop or whatever.

Grabbing some merch would have been my suggestion as well if you wanna show your appreciation in the monetary way, I think it's a great deal for both sides. Hope you find something that brings you joy!

10 hours ago, SuperStriker16 said:

Holy cow, I’ve been eating dinner and deleting screenshots for the last -45 minutes, and I came back to find that I’ve nearly died because the game didn’t pause for some reason. I’m very lucky to be alive as I came back to 4 bleeds.

(I patched them up so I wouldn’t die) I would have been furious if I died while I was off. Good thing I was wearing the bulletproof vest.

Jesus, did you walk away from the game standing dead center in  a pack of wolves? 😅

28 minutes ago, piddy3825 said:

lol, you should see how long and sharp my fingernails are now that I haven't clipped them in over 258 days...

 

From the makers of Scurvy comes the next affliction in the game: "These gosh darn nails, man"

1 minute ago, hozz1235 said:

Yayyyyy!!!!  

I always thought that we could get VERY close but didn't question it

 

Gotta say it doesn't really apply to me with the custom settings I play, but I am intrigued as to what the harvesting change will mean to some of the more "hardcore" interloper people. I reckon that's gotta be trouble in the early game.

2 hours ago, Admin said:

Adjusted the Shortwave Radio so it can no longer be stored in containers. This should help to keep it from being misplaced.

Yeah yeah yeah, I know, I know, all this cool new stuff and all the nice fixes and here's this fricker right here who picks an item way deep in the list to bitch about - but thank god I already did throw it into a container, because I don't intend to use it, it annoys me unreasonably in my inventory, and if I had known I can't decorate a base with the thing I wouldn't even have picked it up... I want to misplace it.

Either way, lots of good stuff on that list, I appreciate many of the fixes. Quite excited to get into the game and try some stuff out.

I have a ton of fresh rose hips in my garden and you may have just given me an idea...

I think they'll probably need a TON of sugar. I'd boil them down with it to a sort of jam, maybe with some nuts thrown in there - but that's not very true to the "original" recipe, is it. EDIT: Wait, forgot yours are dried... yeah, that would give me a headache also.

I'd love if one of the two cottages was closer to the airfield [and they both had functioning kitchen counters]. They'd be very sweet places to live but they feel so crammed up against the edge of the world to me, I also don't love Trapper's because of this. And then there's so much trekking up and down if you stay at one of them.... I spent some time there on my current run, trying to acquaint myself, because I agree it's quite neat when looking at the whole region, but the locations of those shelter options just kills me.

And then there's the fancy fog which I would rather not have in my game at all.

It took me a while to even understand what you mean. I, for one, don't think I was ever under that impression...