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I found ammunition for a pistol, a pistol, some miscellaneous clothing items, wood, coal, matches. Nothing awe inspiring. Some spoiled food. I think RNG was not doing me any favours. The gated room that would connect to the route from PV in Wintermute had no loot in it at all. Which I thought was odd. I had hoped for great loot. I sure prepped the heck out of going down there. But it was not any kind of windfall.

I am not sure how long I left the game running, maybe only a couple of hours, with my guy sitting in complete darkness, doing nothing. I watched some videos. I did a bit of housework. Screen still black, nothing happening. Went and put the garbage out. Came back and there was the longed-for aurora. Boy did I get me and all my stuff out of there. But to be clear, I got lucky. I waited in-game four days to get down the mine. Without pass-time that is 8-hours of game play. It was just a fluke that there was an aurora on a subsequent night so I could resume play. And fine, had I died in the mine because I could not escape, that would have made narrative sense. That stuff happens. And I do not mind going and sitting in a car for a night to ward off mental illness. The character you are playing in TLD is under terrible emotional stress and that he might take off all his clothes and walk out onto the ice to die is a thing that really happens to people. But there is no way Cabin Fever should disable pass time "inside." That irl hours of blank screen is a game feature, the possibility that I could have had to leave the game running for several hours with nothing to do before I died of exhaustion… that is a mistake in game design. There are several settings in my custom game I would like to change. And I know there is a game editor on PC (I am on a Mac). How about just adding a settings panel in the next update?

What is TLD if not Tales of Mere Existence?

At the cannery, I have left one wolf alive. I do not think the pack respawns until you have killed all. The one left alive is terrified of me and runs off whenever I approach her. I was away from Bleak inlet for more than two weeks at some point and the one scaredy wolf was still at the cannery when i returned.

I am in the lower mine by the log sort in Coastal Highway, the one with the elevator. I am at the bottom of the elevator. It could be days before the next aurora. However I now have cabin fever, so I cannot pass time. I am not sure what you thought pass time was for, but game-mechanic wise, I think it is for skipping hours and hours of nothing to do in the game. Now here I am potentially waiting, staring at a black screen for real-time hours(?) until the power comes on in game, or I die. And since there is no save in TLD I cannot even reasonably walk away in disgust to just try again later. This is a pretty ridiculous oversight. For now I am just going to leave the game running with a black screen and go do something else, for, it would appear, a very very long time. The number of hours I have played TLD tends to indicate that it is my favorite game ever. But this is easily the most ridiculous game mechanic situation I have ever seen in any game.

Leave one alive. That (I think) keeps the pack from respawning. She will be terrified of you, and while coming around a corner face to face with her every day is a jump scare, this makes the Cannery itself relatively safer. There are plenty of other timberwolves in that region however.

Cross the road and go left along the edge of the bay to the trailers. A delicious moose spawns either there or sometimes a bit North West of there. If it is more timberwolves you are after there are three out on the ice along the coast due west. If you can get them to come after you and climb onto at fallen tree not too far from the Cannery, then you can clear that pack in relative safety. Although I sprained my ankle. Better than torn clothing.

Morty faces the timberwolves.

I think you may have missed the point of TLD. You are going to die. It is inevitable. Not in many years as an elderly person in bed surrounded by loved ones, but in weeks or months. That is always how the game ends. You will run out of matches first I would guess, then fire-starters, then magnifying glasses, then cooked food and safe water, and then you will die. This is assuming that some psychotic zombie timberwolf does not just tear you up. What is the point of getting and administering insulin until the insulin runs out? What is the point of collecting any of the finite resources in the game? Just as the diabetic will die after the insulin runs out, you will die shortly after some other resource runs out. The point is to keep living while you may, not to just give up.

Or how about the game maps are more useful so that what you have ‘drawn’ in some way records the area in a meaningful way. TLD mapping, I mostly just do not do it because the maps are so ambiguous.

It would. Having a member of the diplomatic service following you around would change the game a lot.

A consul command would be some sort of edict, like, “the game may have NO mod support.”

If the timberwolves that ran off with arrows in them actually bled out as the mechanic is supposed to work that would be fine and you could retrieve your arrows. However despite a patch that was supposed to fix this, wolves that flee are still disappearing and taking the arrows with them. Previously they had been glitching below the map. I do not know what is happening to them now. But I have killed twice as many timberwolves as I have found bodies.

Timberwolves ad interesting play variety to the game, but the mechanic is broken, or at least incomplete. There is another thread on this HERE.

I can stand inside a shelter and map an area around me like I am using short-range sonar or something, but I cannot draw this valley on my map when I have climbed up here to a vantage point where I can see it all. I wish I could map what I can see.

Hmm, I think random trees are looking like a bridge that is not there. This is looking east just south of Heartbreak Bridge between Lower Falls and the bridge. Just standing up from the east side of the river looking across.

I was tired and it was foggy, so I took a moment…

I have quite a bit of leather in Pleasant Valley I have discovered. But probably less than 20. RNG I guess. I was in Broken Railroad when a wolf attack damaged gauntlets and moose-hide satchel. It suddenly occurred to me that I could repair one or the other. I traveled through to Mystery Lake and had like three leather there. So I put aside the gauntlets and made rabbit gloves. I am also now a rabid moose hunter so can make more satchels and neglect repair of them. I have also been trying to keep my gear over 90%. But perhaps I need to lower expectations to 80%.

The camera rotation stop values are arbitrarily restrictive and unrealistic. They really are frustrating, to no gaming purpose. “I can’t turn my head,” is a design mistake, not a feature.

@Gracia_WolfSlayer Sorry. Never was good with names and the initializations do not help.

@EjectedCasings Balance is a tricky thing and I think Hinterland do pretty well with it. I doubt my custom settings, which I do not remember, and I have no idea how to check, but I doubt they would satisfy an hard-core max-difficulty player. I would probably like to build an igloo in HRV to use as a base. But perhaps they are unnecessary because players are just going from building to building, or cave or whatever.

I think it would make a great skill tree. And yes, especially for novices it should take a long time to make a so-so pile of snow with a hole in it. At level 5 it should take, as it does in reality 3–6 hours to make an igloo. And while the quinzhee should be for just a night or two, an igloo should last for weeks, unless there is a chance a marauding bear or moose stomps it, or a wolf moves in. Moreover I am not sure why anyone should care if another player wants to spend all their time building igloos all over the map. How would that affect your gaming experience?

Or, err, lol, Pleasant Valley.

EDIT: lol, I was thinking of Pleasant Valley lol. Cant think of a reason to go through Hushed River Valleys again. lol I am currently back in Hushed River Valley searching the new buildings for books of matches and stump remover. It is nice. Lots of tasty easy-to-kill bears. Gonna go see if the plane crash changed the map any at the north end. Nice place, but stormy.