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I'm back for another Deadman run in The Long Dark! This Classic Deadman run is a custom game setting designed to have maximum harshness, no condition recovery, and no birch bark tea! My settings build off the original Deadman Challenge but I've tweaked it to maximize the harshness (as I see it) and make it 'the worst it can be'. We'll review the custom settings in Episode 1. The custom code I'm using is: 8sHM-/z8P-Ly+3-gZym-OAMC

Yea I think bears and wolves are no longer afraid of fire. Wait - were bears ever afraid of fire? I think maybe not..

It was a switcheroo! First time they’ve conspired on me like that. And yea I had the teacup at like 45 degrees when he came through me.

And the run concludes:

har yea i was reluctant to take the pants off!

Winter's Embrace is just way too easy so I'm doing it naked:

After a virtual eternity eating venison steaks on Grey Mother's porch, the Birchman felt the call of the Safari once again and sets out on a hunting trip to the Hushed River Valley:

I found Birchman to be very well balanced overall - with BBT and the abundant stims, it’s very doable. I’ve played a bit of pure deadman and find it a bit too micromanagey. I like it in Birchman that you have to work for your condition recovery and you don’t just get it for turtling. I think I’ll play Birchman from now on - I like it better than sleepwalker even because it forces you to eat and be careful, but you can stockpile bbt so you can get 50% back in a pinch if you have to. On sleepwalker 50% recovery takes weeks which is tedious.

I'm embarking on a Gucci Birchman Safari in The Long Dark v1.671.69 "Errant Pilgrim". This custom survival mode run has the Stalker loot table (Gucci), has condition recovery off but Birch Bark Tea is active (Birchman) and I'm on a vengeance hunt (Safari) to skin the Timberwolves that took me out in my first visit to Bleak Inlet. And, I'll start in Bleak Inlet for the novelty and excitement of it. Hopefully this provides a bit of a 'break' from my previous nail-bitters, and with a little luck I'll be beachcoming with a warm cup of herbal tea and and a Timberwolf coat in no time... The custom code is: 8tnM-bj8P-Lx+z-gaF2-+OIB

I've taken on Deadman in a new video series. The original post describing the Deadman challenge is: https://hinterlandforums.com/forums/topic/21200-think-youre-good-at-tld-try-the-deadman-challenge/ In this run I've changed a few options to maximize the harshness of it so that it is 'the worst it can be' (see Day 1 for details). I'm also still playing 1.47 for the 'classic' terminal deadman experience (i.e., no birch bark tea). The custom code I'm using is: 8MHI-/z8P-Dw+r-QQCm-bAAA I'm well into this run now and am still alive and adding videos. I forgot to post it when I started so sorry about that, but here it is in case you're interested:

I appreciate the injury/afflictions as side quest concept. The afflictions add to the unpredictability of the game and underline the go-with-the-flow philosophy that you need to succeed. In that vein, I’m a bit disappointed that some afflictions effectively never happen - hypothermia, dysentery for example. It would be ‘nice’ to get those once and a while. I would suggest making toilet water unsafe so there’s a dysentery possibility in early game. I also think hypothermia risk should kick in a lot faster. I’d like to see more cuts - when using knives in the dark/tired for example. Anyway..2 cents here.

Tiny nitpicky comment - in my understanding, the weapon class “small arms” includes pistols, rifles, sub machine guns, light machine guns, etc. It’s anything that one person can carry around and operate. If it needs assembly or is crew served in some way, I think it’s no longer a small arm. Accordingly, to me it was counterintuitive that the book about small arms trained revolver skill and not rifle skill. Obviously a low priority issue, but since the wording of the book was being looked at, I thought I’d mention it. More generally I think that rifle and pistol should share the same skill as I now have two skills that I can’t max out on interloper:D

Great story - not sure if I have the guts to take on Outerloper but now that I've seen that it is possible...