UpUpAway95

According to BladesCJ's video, I'm a classic sniper. Long single shot, run and hide someplace without going through a loading screen, light a fire and wait until my journal says he's bled out. Use crows to find the carcasses (and having a general knowledge of his patrol area helps as well).

I'm on a Xbox X, but I haven't had an issues with this yet. Theory, it might be related to leaving the zone. I've been playing one-zone challenge runs, so that might explain why all my stuff is curing as normal.

Grew up a stone's thrown from the downtown core of a major city. Moved to the country when I first got married. Love it despite its drawbacks (abysmal internet, power failures, etc.); and, hopefully, I'll never get so frail in my old age that I'll have to move back into the city.

Enjoy your jo!

A small container, yes - and HL will probably do something like that. An entire container ship, no. 😀

Lol - You do know that I wasn't being serious, right? I actually don't think the pre-processed foods, including flour and cooking oil, should be restocked at any point during a run. I would be OK with acorns respawning (adding a few more "acorn flour" recipes or making it a suitable substitution in the current recipes) and with the new fish varieties producing some cooking oil when cooked instead of lantern fuel. I would also be OK with there being a flour mill found in "Perseverence Mills" that could be operational during an aurora and with a suitable supply of wheat grain or other grains (e.g. rye) in storage on the site. ETA: I don't like any idea that involves locking the player out of things until after X days.

Or a container ship washing up on the beach after a blizzard. 😀

I see making acorns respawn as the most feasible option since they've already allowed its use in pancakes and bannock. Add a few more "acorn" recipes and I'd certainly call it good. OP: Tapping maple trees has been requested before. Realistically, the sap would not be running during such cold weather, but I'd be willing to suspend my disbelief on that, for sure.

Unfortunately, baled straw (which is what I think is in the fields in PV) already has gone through the threshing machine and the heads of wheat have been removed in the process. Hay can be from a variety of grasses and, if high quality, may contain seed heads. It is generally green in color rather than the straw's yellow color. It is generally not made from wheat, barley, oats, rye, etc. (i.e. the more valuable cereal grasses we use to make flours and other foods for human consumption. Straw is generally used as bedding for livestock rather than for feed. In short, I would be very surprised if we could make any flour from PV's bales.

Not only that story mode and survival mode are now two separate games. It is possible to have bought story mode only without having bought the survival mode at all and vice verse. The only way I see this sort of thing happening is if they create a separate DLC for the story mode and give people who bought it for the survival mode a credit for having purchased it there.

Honestly, I don't think it matter what IRL items contain vitamin C and which ones don't. HL is very likely going to designate which items in the game contain Vitamin C and are, therefore, going to have to be eaten at a designated frequency to avoid getting the scurvy affliction.

Oh, I'm quite certain I'm going to hate the toxic wolves (in the best possible way). It should be quite a challenge getting through that zone. I'm starting to wonder whether their might be some sort of time limit on solving or containing the source of the contamination to prevent it from spreading to other zones across the map (as a DLC quest).

Agreed. I'd love to be able to select a start in Upper Bleak Inlet from the custom menu, which would enable me to open up the entire zone within the confines of a one-zone challenge run. As it is, I have to fudge the start in Mystery Lake and make a rule to only collect the rope (if needed) to climb down into Upper Bleak Inlet, which just seems to spoil the spirit of a one-zone challenge.

Apology accepted. I understand your concern, but it's still not a question that HL can logically be expected to answer on a public forum IF things are going bad in any way. It's simply bad business for a company to suggest they're overwhelmed and can't keep up with whatever number of support tickets they happen to receive. All they can do is take whatever internal steps they can to try to keep up with the requests for support as they get them. No doubt, they're busy people. The fans can best help them out just by being patient. HL's history shows that they are one of the better gaming companies out there when it comes to responding to player concerns and actually addressing whatever bugs happen in their game.

How about as an accessory to the technical backpack - which would mean the player would have to first acquire the technical backpack in order to attach the camel pack accessory (in one of the accessory slots, forcing the player to choose between wearing it and the other available accessories already in the game). This would allow the technical backpack to be as it is - equipping automatically when found and not taking up any of the accessory slots.

I think 99% natural is a stretch considering Will's plane crashes within a short walking distance to the game's largest town where you're chasing a group of prison inmates who've kidnapped your ex-wife. Then, you encounter a mysterious stranger who seems to never fail to be wherever you're going, as the auroras mysteriously cause lights all over town to flicker and the "urban" wildlife (i.e. wolves in the streets of Milton) to become crazed. Even in survival mode, the settings for these events remain evident. Mystery Lake is also filled with ample signs of civilization including the camp office, the dam, fishing huts and several cabins, logging trailers, lookout towers, and rail cars. Even the reshi mushrooms are a product of the industrial activity since we only see them growing on the stumps of trees that have been cut down. We don't yet know the details about the "poisoned affliction." The wolves themselves have been poisoned by a perfectly logical and realistic cause (heavy metals found in the water from the tailings ponds), not some mysterious "zombie" virus brought to earth by aliens. It's actually far more realistic than the auroras.

Thanks for digging that up! Everything I found seemed to be indicating that 3 railroads had been proposed for Haida Gwaii during the 1910s, but that all the ventures had fallen through and I couldn't find anything else (i.e. more recent).

Haida Gwaii does at least have an airport on it, so I also favor it over Banks Island. I'm not sure if a railroad was ever built though and the railroad on GBI is central to the lore of the game.. Pure myth and almost an impossibility; but a popular one I've seen circulated around for some time is that Vancouver Island could "split in half" around the Alberni Inlet when the Cascadia subduction zone lets loose. https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/cascadia-megathrust-fault-map If the game lore taps into this myth, then GBI could also represent the north end of Vancouver Island after having been cut off from the city of Victoria.

I vote for Immutable Hesitation and the signage to the Langston Mine.

I merely postulated that a possible reason why the ptarmigans fly away after one shot and don't return to the area right away is that HL didn't want to make it too easy to catch them in large numbers. Rabbits also run when you toss a rock at them, but they return almost immediately, so the ptarmigan behavior is already different from the rabbits. I also realize the game is "not real"; but I also recognize that many people on this site have expressed a desire for the game to lean towards some realism. Also, I'm not "picking apart" your suggestion at all. IF HL wants to add a snare, that's fine by me. If they want to make the current snares work on ptarmigans, that's also fine by me. If they don't want to do either, then I'm also OK with that. If they want the snares to work but limit the catch to 1 ptarmigan per night, I'm also OK with that. In short, I don't have any objections however HL decides to handle it.

It would also be extremely cool to occasionally see an orca breach off the coast.

How about "Why is there a jump in the support ticket numbers around October 23?" It gets rid of the implication of it being something "menacing" and essentially asks the same question.

Right now, I'd say the hangar in Forsaken Airfield; but after the next update, I think that's going to be easily surpassed by whatever potential base might exist within the zone of contamaination.😀

I also think the insulated items are probably the best addition to come to the game in a long time for any difficulty level. On pilgrim or voyager, the additional warmth is not a concern, so it's not something that a person need bother with at all; but it doesn't hurt to at least try it out.

On point answer, repeated - There are several reasons that may have caused the jump in the numbering of tickets as shown in your image that do not involve HL being "overwhelmed" and that are not "menacing signs" of anything. BTW - "Spin" is slang for injecting a bias - which you have done in your question - leading the reader to think first about "menacing signs" and HL being overwhelmed. The phrasing of your question leads the reader towards your assumption (or interpretation) about what the numbers mean. That is all.