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I just wonder about the story mode: Will the part 1-4 changed before release part 5? I think the part 2 was changed. Initially you had to shoot Old Bear 6 times and that was it. Now you have the spear. And I dont recall escape from den when I played it first. Anyway who plans to replay the whole story before the final episode is out?

I think Astrid will be better at lake office.

Everything what has beginning has an end Neo. True is that I started playing more frequently. I want to move my character to retirement place and say good bye leaving her there.

My Astrid asked me to lead her to the place where it all begun. The Mystery Lake. She will set her retirement home in the Trappers cabin or the Office. She is not sure yet.

Since there will be new save system and old saves will not work, what will you do?

On the other hand 10 pelts per 5 rounds. This would be big ingame inflation. The ratio would have to be different. One could get infinite bullets for decades.

I think, there could be some trading post or similar things. Something like post with ads on it. "I will trade 10 cured wolf pelts for 5 rifle rounds. Bring them to my farm. Molly"

I hear you. When it is too cold on the Great Bear, I go to SCUM island in Croatia. I run it as PVE. Rcently they added traders too. Man it changed the game dynamic. Now everbody rushes to them to exchange their items for buck and buy some better items. Before that it was "you got what you found or crafted". BUT even this game has an option to disable them. I hope it is similar to yell in the Death Stranding. When some other player is in the area, he can answer. No chitchat, just yell to void and then answer from it. As I stated before. I am for the solitude spiced up with some hints you are not alone. Figure in far distance, fires you did not lit up, some half eaten food...

NO Astrid must live. She earned that. Since you will be in Coastal Higway. I will let mine to retire at Trappers cabin in Mystery lake. When I see red dawn I will know...

Now I have to find my Astrid place for retirement. She lived in the Great Bear more than a year. I am still not decided between Coastal Highway and Mystery lake. I would like to know exact date of the world change called update. So I could make a fire, sit her beside it and vanish from her world by logging out. I wonder what will be the hanheld radio for? Listening for some local news? Or it will be something Sam from Death Stranding is using? You know, call out and if there is another player on the same place, at the same moment, Sam would receive call back. If we will get some cooking recipies... Will it include fermenting rosehips with maple syrup? About date of releasing EP5. I measure this differently. I wanted entertainment. So I got this game and played it for more than 500 hours. Did I get my entertainment? Hell yeah. I love both sandbox and story. The story is not finished yet? No big thing. I have my survivor and I can make my own story meantime. BTW when the story is finished. It is end of something. Nothing more will come to story. Isnt it little bit sad?

I think different. I really like the cartoonish look of the TLD. I think almost everyone can use photo realistic meshes. Create artwork which actually works like in TLD is not easy and not everyone can do it. I have seen many cartoonish games which were rubbish.

I think the separation would be "just" forking the maps data files. So it may result in bigger space occupied on drive. The game executables and artwork can be same for both forks. I wonder if the one could just rename a map package so he would be able to explore the story maps in sandbox.

Back to original topic. I dont agree with points system. But for example stamina could be variable. If your character is moving with full backpack a lot, he should gain max weight slowly. If he is sprinting a lot, gain stamina slowly. Both these would apply only if he is fed properly. The same would apply for opposite. Not moving much while full fed? Well your sprinting ability goes down.

By morningstar I meant one of those maces. You know, spiked ball on stick. Bailifs mace is one of them. I was using mainly Ceremonial. But lately I found Ravens beak. It suits me better. About the sound. I think it is only in one tavern. The one with wagon in front of it and hmmm women offering her services. I remember the sound was to be heard not in the tavern, but when you pay for bed, you get bed in separate room (not like other tavern). So when you go to your room and stay there for some time in evening. I did not realized, that we have warhammer in TLD as well.

I am pretty decent with bow. And for close combat I choose my hammer or morning star. It does not care whether oponent has armor. Anyway even in KCD I tend to not use fast travel. The journey is nice part of the game. BTW game designers nailed the Czech landscape. I really enjoy it. Landscape type, look and sounds are just like I am in midst of Czech. BTW when you stay in one inn, I think there is something one could call easter egg. When you listen, there is inn sound background. I think it is one of developers meeting. It is just shards of sentences, but overall feeling is like devs meeting.

If we continue with KCD idea, the encounter trigger could be like first bark from wolfe, warning roar from bear and such. Player would be immediatelly thrown back to game. Also there would be other triggers like if any of character stats would become red (maybe not hunger). I would not use any fast travel in TLD. It could result in unexpected deaths. Like in KCD, the ambush is not great to solve during fast travel. Because I did not get to choose place, I usually died during it. Final thought: For me TLD is about the journey. Although I build fully equipped places like bases. I do like travel from here to there. And on the foot. Anyway the electric snowmobile during aurora sounds nice. Of course it would have to come with proper risk like hitting a tree in 90km/h would be fatal.

There is one fast travel which could be used as example for TLD. The fast travel in Kingdom Come Deliverance. It computes time and meal consumption. Plus there is RNG for encounters. For me TLD is good without any fast travel possibility. And choosing between weight and speed is essential. The only change I would like is droppable backpack. In this case player could drop backpack and flee fast with only equipment in hands plus the clothing.

So basically you got some kind of Great Bear Eats service? Nice

Oh my... That was just a typo. I swear.

I second the javelin suggestion. With only tow changes. It would be craftable, but not with arrowheads. It should be craftable with javelin head. This head would have to be forged. And for the shaft I would use the whole birch sapling to craft javelin shaft.

I dont know. But if Fluffy is such bad dog, shouldnt you use roll of papers first? Using revolver to train your dog is somewhat excessive. 😁

@ManicManiac Sorry. I am reffering to non existing mechanics in the game. It was just my wish that frostbites would affect character more than loosing condition permanently. But enough of that. We all want to hear next experience of your deaf Astrid. 😀

I just wondered if it is like your character had two frostbites on head. But from what I learned removed auriculas would diminish hearing, not remove it. Please be careful. You will not hear the wolf which kill you.

Oh my. I cannot imagine to play TLD without hearing. I can play it without my glasses. But not without good headphones. The ominous shhhshhh is more dangerous than bark. But it seems like you can thrive even as deaf in the wilderness.

I live in Czech Republic @Ghost-0f-Kiev We have a speciality called Ransom of Czech Post. Any oversea package can be opened to "check package content and price". That would not be a problem if it was not payed. Usually price for this unwanted action is something about 100USD. Of course you dont have to pay. But it means the package is stopped in their storage and then supposedly returned to the sender. They told me it is only for pakcages they suspect the content is wrongly declared. In my case it was every package from USA. Even last one, which stated "Coins" and contained Zero F**k coins. I would love to see their faces when they opened the package and saw coins with middle finger. In this case it was cheaper to cut my losses and let them send it back. Seller claimed it was never delivered back.