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Here I am at Forsaken Airfield. The first transmitter is pretty straightforward. So I planned forward: "Next transmitter closest to me is Forlong Muskeg". OK, it is a swamp. There is no car, so no battery. So I took one from Broken Railroad. Damn those things are heavy. Found the trainsmitter and THE BATTERY WAS THERE. Next the Pleasant Valley. Took no battery, because I expected it is Signal Hill and there must be load of equipment. NOPE. There was no battery there. Now I wait what I can expect in Milton. I suspect the battery can be in the map. But another problem arised. Wires. I have exact number of needed fuses. But the wires I dont have any.

Well played designers, well played (I dont mean it bad).

The game tried to trick me, but it seems backfired. Here I am , dashing from Coastal Highway to Forsaken Airfield. Went from Forlong Muskeg to Broken Railroad. Scanned the area for any furry toothy friend. Nothing. So I start walking from the entry area. I dont know if you recall it. It is narrow corridor with rails in it. Sudennly I hear whoaf whoaf. It is the sound of dying wolf. I was curious, so I turned back. I found fresh body of wolf.  It was laying right under some ledge (which was not accessible for me). It just seemed like the wolf fell from the ledge.

So the game tried to place sneaky wolf behind me to area where I was sure nothing can be. But instead of wolf biting my flesh I got 4kg of fresh wolf meat.

I do remember  from before, that I saw wolf fallen from hight in front of me and died. But it was few years ago. It seems like there are some flying wolfes on the Great Bear again. Not very skilled though. They need to practise landing.

I just wonder. It was not clearly stated (at least to me). Do I have to start new game for the tale? Or I can just pack my gear and head over to the BR? I have nice character in voyager and I like to keep playing one character till its demise.

@diggityDo not imagine it like cloud on the ground. Just when I looked towards the glimmer fog, I saw blue fog. When I looked opposite way, I did not. Something like IRL when you see wall of snow or heavy rain comming towards you.

I am out of the FA at the moment. But if I remember it correctly, you can see the glimmer fog in advance. I was walking from the airfield NW to the cabin abov the lake. I clearly saw blueish cloud on the ground. I could avoid it if I wanted.

For me the main effect of the glimmer fog is loss of orientation plus loss of hearing. Something like blizzard without wetting and tearing my clothes and freezing my butt off.

I think bears just spread the news. They are on me. Right now I came to the Coastal Highway, Quonset. Morning after my arrival I decided to cull wolf population. Went to frozen sea. Shot 3 of them and walked towards fourth. It ran away. I thought HA I am so scarry. Turned around and saw bear, which usually roams down from the hill to the gas station. Nowehere to hide I did no risk shot. Instead I vacated (leaving somewhat brown trail) to the Misanthrope. What a surprise, there was another bear walking towards me. Lucky bears doesnt know how to dismantle fishing shed.

I prefer kukri knife.

You mean tree limbs. right??? RIGHT???

I think all answers just strengthen my personal rule: "never leave house without a knife". Maybe I can add "and few little pieces of birch bark". Because I had bought a birch wood for my stove and the bark is Oh My... And birch bark is light.

My EDC knife is no chopper. But I think it can be used for making kindling from any log.

Seems like TLD people likes to do challenge more challenging. You have matches and logs. Like in TLD half kilo of cedar or one kilo of fir. Lets be generous and you have two cedar and one fir.

Would it be possible to scrub one log on another to get some splinters aka kindling?

You have around 4 grams of caffein in these. Lethal dosage is around 10. So you are safe. But I think one big headache is on the way. Plus all other symptoms of overdosage. Lucky you will not be able to sleep for long time, so diarhea will not hit when you are asleep.

Imagine situation, which can happen in TLD easily. You are in the cave, blizzard outside. All you have is few pieces of cedar or fir wood and matches. No tool, no tinder, no fire accelerant, no fish oil and no sticks. How would you start a fire? These 0,5 kg wood pieces are pretty big to be ignited by a match. All I could whink is I would search my clothes for those fiber fluffs which can be in clothes seams and use these as tinder.  Or maybe I would sacrificed little piece of inner shirt for tinder. Maybe hitting the stone floor with the log woulf loosen few splinters for making tinder. I have limited IRL skills with bushcraft. I can make a fire, but always I use some kind of tinder. I never started a fire with log only.

Canadian bears are the polite ones. They bury themselves. Right now I shot one at Miners folly. Waited a little and it was dead. The problem was it was under the terrain. There was new flock of crows. And they were flying cca 2 meters above ground. So I supose, it was really deep under ground.

Ehm that is easy answer. I checked this run stats and from 50 shots I have 3 hits. True, I trained on rabbits, but I have to admit, I am crap. I will continue improving my bow shooting. For now I cannot rely on it.

Not sure why, but I really love the Coastal Highway. I thought it is the sea presence. But I like CH more than DP and BI. Now I found another spot which pleases me. The Vacant Depot. Not sure why, but I just love the little trainstation. It is probably not suitable for long term stay. But I like it visually. Something like "when is the train due?" The fact rails are broken on both sides somewhat ruins the perspective of departure, but still.

True TLD is not shooter game. But when I am searching for juicy meat, which happens to walk around and it is not yet in my pantry, I rather bring 1,5 kg revolver plus around 20 rounds. Anyway I wonder what caliber the revolver is when it is able to bring down bear. I am not hunter, but I think even .45CP would just piss the bear off. But it is in game and I take it as game mechanic.

I will continue revolver hunting. BTW bear spawning. Was it usual that there was more than one bear on the map? I think I do have all of them spawned. Previously when I walked in PV and spotted one, I did not encounter another bear on that map. This run I positivelly met 3 bears in PV. One at house, one at barn and one at aitplane. The one near signal hill was not present though. Or the Muskeg. I met one at entry near ML and dodged it. Continued towards BR and voila farewell commitee was present as well. This run the Bear Island is fully bear island.

Keep in mind it is voyager run. May differ in harder difficulties.

I play new voyager run since the update. I got the light gun and now I got the long range gun. But still: usually I leave them at base and stroll around with revolver. Not sure whether game changed or me, but it seems like effective weapon. It is not heavy, ammo is plentiful. But what makes me write down this is this. I currently killed 5 bears. 4 of them with single revolver bullet. One time I was mauled because I missed the shot, tried to use fire as shield and it failed. So I repeated this another way. Shot, hide in a car and waited few hours. Other 3 one shots were shots from ledges or similar. Just crouch near the bear path, wait till bear is close and shoot the head. Then wait till bear runs far away and hide somewhere comfy (NOT in the building or another loadable area). Then after few hours filled by melting water or something like that, check the bear. And my character is not even level 5 in revolver handling.

So did the game changed or I did? Because in my previous longest run I did not get such results.

With the wolves and bleeding. I had simillar. Did not notice character is bleeding and went to car and slept. Never woke up.

Right? And about the hangar. Is it just me? I think walking from wall to wall inside takes more time inside than outside. When we had just small buildings, it was negligible. But in hangar I use autowalk.

On 1/12/2023 at 1:55 AM, xanna said:

I tried it, and it doesn't work for me. If you're going by the fact that it says 'Saving' when you make a settings change, I'm pretty sure that just means it's saving your settings, not your game progress.

I tried it long time ago. Not sure about current status. 

Reported bear bug to techsupport already.

I agree with the @tulkawendarkwith one exception. I would not shrink the FA map. I think it is its treacherous trademark. One wake up and decide. Now I will go to the cabin which I can see over there. Starts the trek and suddenly all one can see is blueish milk. Plus I really enjoyed the autowalk here. Set the direction and walk. It is kinda like nice relaxing movie till the point you hear crows and cannot see any.

Yes it cleared. Funny thing: The common weather at the airfield is fog. We do not have much winter fog in my area usually. But since I started playing at the airfield, we have fog every other day. Can we ask developers to tune down the ingame fog so it will not propagate IRL?