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Stlll crashing like crash test dummies into a brick wall.

I got one on Stalker the other day. Found a fancy leather coat, I think at the cave past the airplane crash sight on that same run, It's kinda heavy but it would be nice to know if its a consistent loot table.

New Stalker wolves seem to be less abundant but the range is pretty long, I've had them chase me without scent or vision as if the can see through mountains. I think I like it though. No ambush spawns yet.  Loot's still excessive but I can turn that down next time.

Can I get a disclaimer for Long Dark Addiction and emotional traumas may persist long after the glimmer of the screen had faded,  "into the long dark"

I seem to have lost a bunch of baked potatoes I put in a container, Overnight!. May be a bug but I'm looking for more potatoes to test

I have a general opinion about the new sound, that it is over-compressed and that the release is too long. It may also be a slope issue. Mismatches between attack and release often create this kind of artifact. This is a major way that affects the ambiance, feel and depth of a game as well as the transition between different sounds. Punchy yes, Natural dying world sounds, not so much. The long dark is not an in-your-face shooter. Things a half mile away should not sound like they are 5 yards away unless you are in a valley. The high compression does instill fear, properly done that could be good. Its not what the game is all about though. High compression is also fatiguing taking away from the replayability that we so love.

14 hours ago, conanjaguar said:

Bearskin Balaclava: I think that crafting this would actually be fairly simple, just chop the head off a bear and..

Ahh, very nice.

And to my  global warming naysayers, Until we get off the Island there's no way to know that the Arctic doesn't have palm trees and land crawling Octopuses and that Pleasant Valley isn't the North Poll. Dang I almost died last night 44 below, -37 Windchill maybe lower,  49 degrees of protection, bearskin bedroll fire and tea and still almost dead.

2 years later and this is still a thing.

On 6/26/2022 at 9:22 PM, stratvox said:

I know a lot of people have talked about polar bear coats, but I'm going to tell you, the setting of this game is a thousand kilometers away from where you can find polar bears. If they add polar bears I will not be happy because seeing a polar bear in the BC boreal rainforest is just going to completely destroy the suspension of disbelief. They are just not there. Ask for grizzly and kermode bears; they are found in the part of the world that the game is set in, and kermode bears (which are a subspecies of black bears and are only found in the BC rainforest) will absolutely fulfil your fashion desires; they have a creamy pale fur which is quite beautiful.

Polar bears are absolutely not. You find them up on the Arctic Ocean. Basically, you don't really find polar bears anywhere you can find trees.

I like your recommendation for the Kermode bears but they look small and getting 2 would be difficult for a paid option. I do think thy would be more fashionable though. 
But as for tree lines, global warming is getting worse, the Auroras seem suspect, perhaps the world has been knocked off its axis, the artic cap has turned into a thousand chunks of floating ice with polar bear families. Which brings me I guess to seals washing up on  Coastal Highways shores.

I found myself with a plethora of Bear Skins So I crafted my first bearskin coat. I'd looked at stats and always eschewed it mostly for the weight. I did take a hard toll on my hunting knife as well. But on first wearing, a hiding wolf bolted in an opposite direction. The first time seems to work with the Wolf coat too, but he promptly came back and tore my new coat and rabbit fur hat up. At least I know.

Its damn cold here in Stalker and getting colder with even colder places left to explore but I looked in the mirror and I just don't like the style. I think I want a Polar Bear coat. At these temperatures I'm sure they could float to the Island via miniature icebergs.. Since they are bigger, would I need two to craft a coat. I really don't want to have to use the spear btw but I think I'd pay 5 or 10 dollars for Polar bears in game, especially the colder regions.

With regard to paid upgrades. Every time I look AT THE HOURS i SPEND ON THIS GAME IT AMAZES ME. Many sites would give their eyeteeth to have a customers attention for this long. I have an idea that may monetize this in a fashion that will not kill the game like so many ad based monetization schemes. 

I propose that you have to search the long dark for the CHANCE to get a paid upgrade.  Something that is actually hard to find like our caches but in addition to a couple bullets etc., you get a link. Now that link leads to an item, or mod or even a real life Long dark memorabilia like a coffee cup or an axe, or game wise, I like our achievement badger mechanic to deliver upgrades also. I think I would put a constraint on the store that this link goes to one item only and NOT the whole store. Without the constraint it turns into a pay to play money grab.

In Minecraft a Server I went to allowed you to buy rank or special tools. For a hundred bucks I could fly! All the stuff I bought was persistent. Ranks also got me improved odds on randomized happenings.

Along the lines of ranks, their may be a few grades of tools, knives guns etc. and any rank could improve your odds of rolling a link to a higher quality tool or mod.

I'd like to re-toss out the achievement badge mechanic because you already have it, Ranks could allow you to select more than three and I suppose an extension of that mechanic could allow you to equip yourself with at the beginning of each game.

I think this could breath fresh life into the play by giving us an excuse to rework mastered regions and search for new things. Pricing wise, very cheap entry level broadens the player engagement but I found that 3, 5, or 10 bucks was a lot of fun, once I became convinced that it wasn't an unfair scalping scheme like some pay to play games, eventually I worked up to big tickets. Establishing trust was an important part of higher ticket items. You guys have earned mine but not everyone else's.

Perhaps mark the map when links discovered so people can go back when they can afford to? Not so sure about this except for high ticket items.

Thanks for your hard work. I spent about a month trying to replicate but missed the part about spending some time in bag before going out and reiterating everything I could remember time and time again.  A few weeks ago I just gave up with that save file and decided it was time to move on but it kind took the steam out of that game too many times. To many saves started feeling like a cheat and with this bug caught myself doing it all the time which took some excitement out of the game for sure.

Ahhh, this is the clue that tells us what really happened. The Earth was" knocked of it's axis" and the issue between the Muskeg and Mystery Lake is that the muskeg is now a pole. Probably still what we would call the Northern pole but so far of Solar orbit North that it is not the coldest. I guess the pole is actually inside the tunnel.

66 percent damage today. In a fishing hut, on the floor unrolled not carrying. Wolf comes inside does about 30 percent damage to me and another 66 percent to a new bedroll, Damn that took a long time to repair the last one that was totaled, a week or so of casual play. No reply from support either, not a peep. Time for a break again. smh.

Don't pitch your tent in a ditch. I have an excellent Expedition tent. Set it up late without regard to the site itself other than not sleeping on rocks. Overnight it stormed and I awoke in about 5 inches of water. Tent didn't leak but getting out of it was more disastrous than sleeping in it  What a mess for days. As mentioned, get up off the ground as far as you can. If your dad gets a big tent you can actually uses cots though I never have. An air mattress minimum. I've slept on all the pine bows and homemade beds, Often its fine, often you wake up so sore it ruins the trip especially if you get cold wet AND sore. A nights rest should restore you not deplete you. Well rested and the rest of the challenges can be fun and exciting. A bad nights rest and its miserable drudgery. Do look as obstacles as challenges. Overcome they become the best memories, surrendered to they become the worst. Attitude can be as disastrous as a hurricane.

Fires are fun, coffee is almost a spiritual ritual for me, I'm not into marshmallows but a lot of families/ swear by smores over the fire and helps any girls have some fun. Cooking on a fire is difficult to master but smores are instant success. I like stuff where I just boil water and stir. Bugs spray Benadryl, aspirin and a poison ivy remedy of your choice just incase. I got it on my private parts while camping which brings me to toilet tissue and some wetwipes, luxury I know but toilet paper in outhouses' is notoriously smooth and shiny and better for spreading grease than cleaning up.

No, Only the bearskin bedroll gets one-shoted/critical hit. In fact I hardly remember any stuff that I am not wearing getting damaged. I do remember some early game stuff when I was nearly naked, usually cotton mittens and that is very rare compared to what I'm experiencing with bedroll this month. I had taken a few months off so when I say last month I'm not saying last update, I'm saying 3 or 4 losses in my last 30 days of gameplay. Oddly this year I skipped my usual winter play and returned now in the summer.

I always make a bearskin roll ASAP, It's usually the first think I make. I like that wolfskin coat and moose satchel but those are all wearing normally. In fact my Moose satchel has topped at 76 percent for weeks. On wolf attacks the majority of my damage goes to boots, gloves and hats. I use the hatchet. I run unmodified stalker. Unlike others I get blizzard of 40f below with -30 wind chills  after about 160-70 days. The last couple weeks I've had blizzard hit 3 days out of 4. Shooting a moose or bear or even a deer often triggers one so if I need food, I have to plan on a blizzard by the time my meat harvest is done. Today I went out to die or get a bearskin for repair. I left at the end of a blizzard with temps -27.& -17f, I found a bear, I got four arrows in him, been mauled twice, he's still walking and another blizzard is blowing in. Looking bleak but  I'll check for clothing damage when I log in again to fade away. I suspect no hats shoes and gloves after two bear mauling's. I bet what is in my pack is fine but its not clothes.

Lost my Bearskin beadroll again today, meanwhile I haven't lost a sock or hat or glove in 150 wolf attacks but that Bearskin roll is probably going to end this run. Perhaps I will run naked into the bear cave in a blizzard and just end it. gota cross 2/12 regions to a bedroll and I'm not an interloper guy. Perhaps its time to see if tea can keep me alive across the Muskeg, at least I have more clothes than a starter character, maybe I shouldn't abandon all hope until I actually fade into the long dark.

Did you know that the smoke from stoves changes according to how much burn time is left? Nice for working outside and avoiding cabin fever. I believe I was on level 4 fire skill at Trappers lodge and was observing the white zig zag smoke rising from the chimney. I had thrown in a Fir log to boil a couple pots of water while I did some chores outside. After an hour the smoke turned to black, and then it turned into gray smoke  rings at just under 15 minutes. 

I still need to test for repeatability with cedar and reclaimed wood and coal to see if it is fuel specific but the smoke rings are close when a full pot is done and still time to add fuel and put on some more water.

You have a vivid imagination. I think you may be suffering from cabin fever and need to get out more.

But why only the bear bedroll? Nothing else in the pack takes damage. Clothing yes, How about a rifle a bear knocks out of your hands, ever get 95 damage to it after a mauling? your hatchet, a bow, a Sachel? Its an bug isolated to the bear bedroll.

I have had this happen to me twice this month. Once in HRV and the other in the transition zone between trappers and mountain town. Both times I was attacked by wolves, Both times I was carrying the bedroll and the rest of my kit suffered very light damage but the bedrolls both times had been recently repaired and up in the 90's. Once I had 6% and the other time in the transition zone went down to 0%. I had just slept, packed up and walked out of the cave when stormed by a hungry doggie. Wearing a wolf jacket pea coat rubber boots gauntlets, Moose satchel pretty well protected and strong good condition etc at 150 days.

I think the target radius is reduced. If you are a better shot than me, that wouldn't matter to you. You mentioned shooting them off the hip. Never have I gotten a shot off the hip except for timberowlves in the story and that was a previous version. I think you are just a great shot and i am not, but I'm pretty good with the rifle and stationary targets with the bow. Good revolver marksmanship is something to be proud of, not everyone has it.

I saw you took on faithful cartograpgher lol.  Not for me I guess,  maybe someday. I never have been one to go after game challenges though.

@ManicManiac At what skill level? I realize you are a regular Jerimiah Johnson and never complain about anything, unlike Will :). I'm just a small town guy who's plane went down. But whatever learning curve for those ninja skills of yours so far escapes  me 2 out of 3 times at level 3. I admit I am not fond of repairing and replacing all my clothes but that is always the end result with the revolver even on a good day. With the rifle I hit, they die, even at lower skill levels and I live on to level up. I'm still getting good with the bow and its working real nice now that I tossed the revolver and got to 5 on the bow.

And what level are you playing on? The new stalker was so crazy I gave up on it  and had to customize. Now that I've axed the revolver I may be able to go back and play the new stalker but I won't carry that revolver further than I can find a place to stash it. I may even quit picking them up altogether.

I have relegated all my revolvers to the dustbin, This game I have a few or more and a couple hundred rounds that I collect like tinder plugs. I find the revolver useless for killing, useless for scaring wolves with the sound. It is pretty much only useful against rabbits now and I'd rather grind bow skill. That has a payoff that I cannot seem to get to with the revolver anymore. I may have given up to soon. I could try to grind up to 5 on rabbits but relying on the revolver cost  me a ton of clothing damage this patch.

I've taken to carrying the rifle despite the weight, I need it for bear and the bows good for wolves now that I have 5 and can crouch, I need critical kills, chasing wounded game around gets me into trouble. dang thing might as well be a worn tshirt or tinder plug

This topic has stayed on my mind and I'm even more convinced I like the static maps.  I found a corner in Pleasant valley with less freequent blizzards and set up camp. I found myself enjoying looking at whiteberry's map to figure out what i wanted to do with my next day. Having small goals like finding some meat or gathering wood, I got a pretty interesting day just looking for a maple sapling. It doesn't seem to ambitions but throw in a wolf or two and some windchill and suddenly I'm a long way from base, its getting dark and its about and its about 80 below and such a small thing turned into a grateful accomplishment just as a suprise blizzard started and I rolled into base.

I find myself thanking the team for little things they hide here and there, a bullet, a well timed sharpening stone, an arrow, those are like gold to me.  I'd have less sense of appreciation for a random map, The RNG Gods are not so benevolent.

I don't even map because it is too challenging to beat the tedium.