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i might be getting better with learning how to get the perfect angle on shots and getting better with the sway and such but i dont think i can ever be drop a gun bullet goes all around the world and kills a wolf thats about to pounce kind of good. But thanks for the vote of confindence ^.^

Ok Ya i noticed hitting rabbits became a tad bit more harder no matter the means but has the hti box changed for all of the animals in game? I was just walking around with the rifle on coastal highway and saw a wolf off in the distance. Just say screw it and fired and i hit and killed it far enough away that it was a spec? same with a deer at best i hit its antler yet it dropped dead and with a bear well hard to miss a bear but i somehow managed to hit it with an accidental revolver discharge. either i found heat seeking 1 shot ammo or animals are way to easy to kill and the hit boxes have gotten bigger. anyone else exeperince this as well? or am i just going more crazy?

@ThePancakeLady pretty much thats what my problem is. for me it just happens more with entering and exiting. But it pretty much randomly freezes up. Its not as bad as you as needing to force exit steam. I had a feeling it was either the last update for the long dark or with steam. I have had problems with steam lately so now im 100% sure its on steams end that this is happening. The long dark is not the only game ive had problems playing games with.

I have been having a very similar problem. either i freeze up after enter/exiting a building and have to hit my windows key to unfreeze or after i enter/exit a building i can take a few steps then it freezes and win key to fix. Even if i dont enter/exit a building pretty much any transistion it has a chance of doing this.

Did not know that. Thanks. I normally tend to store stuff and not just drop it on the ground (outside of stuff that needs to cure).

well so far i have gotten so good with killing wolves in 1 shot i actually have a stock pile of cured wolf pelts. Currently up to 40 wolf pelts and 2 wolf jackets. Only been mualed 2 times only cuz i ran into 2 wolves that did not growl or bark or anything i went over a hill and boom attacked by 1 and the other was right around the corner on Coastal highway. Close to getting 5 cooking just off of all the wolf meat.

Found out something weird. I keep a cup of coffee tea rose hip and mushroom on me to reheat if needed. Well i dropped them to cook some meat from a couple of wolves i killed and i noticed something. they boiled while on the ground next to the stove after i started a fire in the stove. Has anyone else experienced that? I though stuff had to be put on the stove to cook/boil not be placed right next to it.

I am having so much fun with episode 3. I was so excited for it that i did not sleep last night. I was sitting watching steam until that wonderful Update required poped up on the long dark. I have been playing all day and took my time. Took way more then 5 hours. I am playing episode 3 again now to ensure I see things i know for sure i missed. I do not see my self getting tired of playing epi 3. I hope that epi 4 and 5 are just as good if not better. I honestly see episode 3 alone as good as fallout new vegas and oblivion. Just a hair below skyrim godlyness. Hinterland have my babies! Edit: Curses forgot something....-clears throat- I am commander astrid and this is my favorite episode on the citadel...couldnt resist. Mixture of 2 of the best games. ^.^

Well i just started a new inter run yesterday and lets just say its one weird and lucky thing after another. I of course got spawned on timberwolf mountain. Out of about 20 plays 13-15 of them have been on twm. Well this playthrough i said screw it and made my way up to the plane which took forever and i pretty much became best friends with death only to scrape by just by dumb luck. Made it to the top to grab the flare gun and anything not in the containers since you need the hacksaw for it and holy freaking crap guess what was on a box next to a container....the freaking hacksaw. So a fresh new save and i already managed to luck out and get one of the best stashes in game. I pretty much filled up on food made some water camped a night up top then made my way down. Nothing really happened to much other then 2 things to go with that hacksaw and stash within the first 5 days of play. I made my way to mystery lake to camp out since i lucked out on several rabbits and had some metal and could find some here to make fishing line and well. Got attacked by a wolf. I keep the flare gun locked cocked and ready to rock incase. Since i know i was about to get ripped to shreds i got ready to say good bye to my best run ever and just fired a shot from the flare gun. to my freaking surprise that un mistakable grown. I did not know you could kill wolves with a lucky headshot. I killed it with a flare gun O.o. So now i have tons of meat i cant eat persay. will keep a couple pieces on me to keep off the hunger even though the parasite risk but its worth it if i can keep my well fed just long enough to get to the station near the lake. well when i got near that train car my luck kept freaking going. a freaking moose. Guess what. Yep i somehow managed to kill the sucker with 3 headshots from the flare gun and using the you can get me here but here your ai goes into run away mode. I brought down a moose and a wolf with 4 total shots of a flare gun sadly 2 shots left but now i got food for a while and so close to getting the moose hide items. How the hell does any of this happen? Did anyone else know you could kill with the flare gun or that you could bring down a moose with 3 flare shots? I guess this run is the games way of saying sorry for the 13+ times spawning and killing you on twm here have some great freaking luck. im still sitting here like wtf what the hell happened. am i dreaming? anyone else ever had a few bad runs of survival then all of the sudden the next run every thing goes right and no matter what you try it seems to keep comming in aces for ya in that run? i think this is by far my best ever run and dont think ill ever top it unless hinterland adds it way more areas for the next 2 chapters and adds in a few more items.

For me it was something simple. My biggest moment in survival mode so far is both a facepalm and omg wtf headbutt desk combo. Until my current playthrough i have yet to ever make it safely without save scumming or taking days (real days) To get to the summit of timberwolf mountain to the airplane for the supplies there. I have tried my hardest to learn the regions without using maps found online. Well my current playthrough i made it to the fishing hut and the house at i guess the base of the climb. I said screw it and looked at a timberwolf mountain map and saw my biggest mistake. I was pretty much going south and then all the way around the long way to the summit. I failed to see that the inlet to the pond the stream from a waterfall and such was pretty much the direct route. Looking out from the house i was going pretty much behind the house and all the way around when just up the stream (face the fish hut is one corner and the stream from the water fall is the other) I could have saved my self a lot of trouble and time and headaches if i went up that stream path. i am still kicking myself for that. Guess my ego of being a gamer and not needing to look online got the best of me. So i ask. What was the one thing you done in survival that pretty much kicked your ass and after finding out why made you face palm or made you kiss your keyboard really hard?

I know tech speaking no one is alive on great bear but you in survival mode but with how that body is the axe and everything. to me if i had to guess he was choping the tree and didnt follow rule one of tree chopping in winter....Look up before chopping and kick the tree before as well to cause anything in branches to fall. all the snow on the body. Im guessing high enough branch had a lot of snow on it and he hit the tree and died from snow ball impact to the head. Edit. Or it forgot to put the lotion on the skin and got the hose again..

I dont carry spares but i do store every piece of clothing i have in different areas. I try to keep it the same in all areas. Like the same protection even if not the same items. For just incase if i get attacked and clothing gets ruined or i need to warm up. I do the same with pretty much everything. Try to keep a can or 2 of soda or water a few cat tails enough wood for 2 hours of fire pretty much enough supplies at every location if possible if i need to tuck tail and run to re gain my footing.

Well in light of the new episode that is comming in 13 days well hoping its released then and something doesnt cause it to be postponed. How many people are going to do a new file and do all 3 chapters in 1 go? How many are going just to load their playthrough and just do chapter 3? For me. If the chapter 3 is released on the 22nd (i hope it is) I will most likely on the 21st start a new file and replay 1-2 to ensure i dont miss anything that could helpful in c3. (refreash my memory) what are you going to do? replay or just soldier on? Spoiler ahead. Do not read idea number 2 if you have not done the story mode yet or have no idea whats in the story. Also im making a prediction right now. for those that have done the story. You know who (just incase there are a few here that are waiting to play the story mode ill leave out his name) Is going to be part of chapter 4 and 5. Something tells me we are going to learn more about him in chapter 4 and in 5 everything about him along with the main storyline will all make sense. Since his name is a bible name I have a feeling the long dark could be 1 of 3 possible things. 1) He is the signal for the end times hence great bear island. 2) begining of chapter 1 either we didnt make it and its life flashing before eyes or in a coma and we are being taken care of by astrad. Or 3. He is testing the people for something that might be in the up comming chapters. what do you guys think? I could be far off on my predictions but im sure like all of you. you think there is something more to this guy that is going to make sense later on. as for his name i wont put what his name means or what he does (the bible version of the name) just to keep religion and such out of it. If you havent i say go google his name. It kinda fits in with the long dark if you havent done it yet.

If any of the triple A companies offered to send someone to you guys or offered to have one of you come to their studios who would be your top picks? I ask this because i noticed a response to a question you guys mention the jury rig perk of fallout using a lesser version of an item to repair another as a concept you might do. would like to hear who you guys would pick.

I will add in my 2 cents as well. Since the start of the game is what we all know. 2 rules to follow that will give the greatest chance of survival and reascue. If there is a lot of stuff around Do the 5 C check. Container for water storage, Cordage for ropes and such, Carrying for well carrying, Cutting so anything that can cut and combustion for fire and warmth. 2nd rule of thumb. Do not just pick up and carry everything. Try to come up with at least 3 uses per item that isnt part of the 5 c items. See an orange piece of thick plastic well here is 3 uses atleast for it. Signal device, something to sit on to prevent convection of heat from sitting on ground, could be used as a floatation device. so 3 uses. This will prevent you from getting injuried carrying stuff you dont need.

Go on the easiest setup under custom but make sure wolf spawns are set to interloper. Learn how to move around twm while sleeping. If anything make multiple trips. Bring full supplies and find a place to drop them that way when you are comfy getting around you can have a spot with backup supplies either on your way up or back down as a pitstop. only carry the bare min when going up. That spot you have as backup there you can grab on the way down. But make sure stuff that you place there is stuff that you dont mind losing or is at the bottom of the list for being needed.

Did you restart your system? Like fully power off and unplug for a few mins to discharge any power left in your computer? How about a system restore to the day of or day before doing the alt f4? is every single process of the long dark stopped via task manager? When you did the uninstall did you do a scan to remove fragments after the uninstall to make sure everything was gone before re-installing the game?

Thanks admin. I always try to change passwords on sites on a regular basis (not all sites on the same time frame) Since i mention this the lock outs have stopped and ive ran scans so maybe i just got unlucky and the problem was my end. Thanks again.

Hello fellow survivors. My current wishlist i have only 1 thing on it. A way to combine all the little bottles of fuel into 1 can or into a jerry can. In a lot of my playthroughs i end up with enough bottles filled to half to burn down all of great bear. It would be nice not to have 100s of bottles from fishing or from finding them and/or finding multiple lanterns and breaking them down. It would be nice to have that to clean up the spam of bottles. Also if possible program a way to add a combine to anything and everything incase of future adds that might give you items that could have been combined.

Man dont remind me of wisconsin weather. Its so bad where i live right now that i wish i was the survivor in the long dark just to escape it here lol.

aww then that makes me think this is just a lingering after effect of that and Thanks admin. I been doing scans on my computer just to make sure it wasnt a trojan attempting to hack me from my side.

Anyone else having problems like that? Seems lately in the past couple of weeks it has happend 2 or 3 times. Makes me wonder. why would anyone hack a forums account? Really like oh you hacked my account omg. Like it doesnt take that long to make a new one but still makes me wonder why. Just seems like someone doesnt have anything to do.

Im not vegi or vegan irl but Ya I guess what they say is true if you are a meat eater and had to survive like in TLD I promise you that you will turn vegi or vegan. For me in game i try not to kill unless its my only choice. If i manage to spawn in somewhere and i get lots of cat tails or can food or candy bars i would avoid it. The noises the animals make in game do make me feel sorry for having to kill them. It had brought me to the point that i am questioning if i should go semi vegan or semi vegi (still eat/use meat or other animal parts) but as little to none at all.

If this comes out before the end of the summer i will glady have your babies. I can not wait. The thought of episode three has me shaking with joy. Also can not wait for the next survival update. Man im super gitty. By the sounds of it you are in the final stages of episode 3 or about to hit it. I really hope you get it out before august. ^.^ 3 cheers for hinterland hip hip hurray hip hip hurray hip hip hurray ^.^ Bonzi! Bonzi! Bonzi!

Hey guys. I am wondering, What has been your weirdest or luckiest kill so far in game? For me it was with a bear. I shot it from a spot it could not reach so it ran but ended up in a running away loop on some rocks so i was able to sit there on top of the rocks above it and snipe it with a bow while it sat there running in a 10ft circle. I think it was both my luckiest and weirdest kill ever. meat did last me a while though ^.^