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I find that the moose spawns are still sporadic enough to elicit surprise and pleasure. It wasn't long ago that I realized a moose could spawn on the unbroken Desolation Point bridge, it managed to elude me for years. 

Really enjoyed reading your opinions  My five cents:

HRV, CH and PV are some of my favorites too and I'm still quite fond of ML. Time hasn't changed that and my main base remains the Dam. Such a great hub at the center of the world, unbeatable storage and every now and then a wolf chase me through the fence and I get to scream like a child.

The Quonset wolves are a nuisance indeed. It's not my choice for a longterm base but access to meat is irresistibly great. I've found that my general pulse on mornings in the yard is much lower when I've cleansed the wolf inhabitants beforehand. I go out on the ice with full health and a few smell bars, lure the wolves out and put a couple of arrows in their furry skulls. 

I'm torn about the Hunting Lodge in BR. Used to think it was great and would still if there were more activities around and if it wasn't in the outer periphery of the world. Nothing new under the sun there. However, I'm a huge fan of the outdoors bedroom at the Maintenance shed and the fact that you can make a windsafe campfire there with an abundance of crates around. No cabin fever risk whatsoever. 

19 minutes ago, Lord of the Long Dark said:

If you want a camping simulator then maybe you are playing the wrong game  play a game where you make s’mores

Camping and smores, gotcha. Repeating the same sentences over and over makes poor conversation. You've made your point.

10 hours ago, Winterbois said:

That’s what I figured. I guess it makes sense, being able just getting rid of a enemy just by saving does take a bit of the survival aspect away 

Exactly, and as others stated above it is preferable to save by entering a building/cave or passing time/sleeping. It is of course riskier to provoke an injury but you can do it wherever there's a slope, which makes it accessible. On the higher difficulties the weather makes it a lot riskier to just pass time/sleep anywhere outside. The way I recall it you have to pass at least a full hour before the game will actually save.

17 minutes ago, Winterbois said:

So you can’t manually save in survival? 

The closest thing to a manual save you get is to deliberately provoke an injury. 

You're quite right, the weather in Pleasant Valley doesn't abide under the same laws of nature as the rest of Great Bear. You may have several blizzards during a single day. 

Pleasant Lifehack: Change your sleep routine, meaning when you sleep and for how long. As soon as you wake up during daytime and don't hear a blizzard, run outside. This has a tendency to dampen the occurence of blizzards in my experience.

7. Going to sleep with a bleeding wound.

@straffin Awesome, I will definitely keep an eye out for those locations next time I start in DP. I'm confident I've never had a matchbox in the box by the church but like I said before, it's been quite a while since my man Will crashed in DP. Now that I think of it, I usually explore the indoor locations of DP with too little light, that could also be the reason.

Losing your badges suck all right, it happened to me as well on PS4.

But. Your increased experience with the game will provide more benefit than any badge and you'll soon realize you don't need badges at all to thrive. I've stopped playing with badges and enjoy TLD just as much.

Keep playing the game you love, now you get to play like a pro. 

4 minutes ago, Dum_Gen said:

Finally some use for empty cans.

F i n a l l y.

It appears as banger to scare wolves with, not something to blow them to pieces.

On 9/21/2021 at 5:47 AM, straffin said:

Desolation Point (where I'd spawned), with TWO boxes of matches 😮 

Now that's a solid start, two matchboxes and flooding buckets of coal. Never have I had the luck (or suffcient attention?)! Where did you find the matchboxes? It's been a while since I started in DP but usually there's one in a crate in the house on Hibernia yard, facing the Riken. Usually find a red flare too but that's about all the fire starting tools I get to loot, even after breaking down the crates in Hibernia. Don't break down the crates in Hibernia, unless you're going to build a wooden bridge to mend the broken one. 

2 hours ago, acada said:

@manolitodeIt is truth I dont like this area. It scares me. I do not want to fade to long dark because I step into the ocean. But I have already gathered my stones. Carefull placing and now I have what I wanted. Rock cache in good place

Not to worry, I've yet to encounter any loot on the island worth killing a timberwolf pack for. Nice that you solved the problem anyway! I'll check out the link.

4 hours ago, acada said:

I have found total 4 stones in BI now. But if I want to build a cache, I had to go to FM. Rest of stones was easy.

I thought there were stones on the island behind the Cannery, but I could remember wrong.

10 hours ago, ajb1978 said:

Make it DLC. I'd pay 5 bucks to make sausage, sure. I mean long-term endgame scenarios, the more stuff we have tt do, the better. Who cares if it's unnecessary if it's fun?

Agreed. How about a pure endgame overhaul dlc including 5 major activities? Sausage making being one, thereby including drying/curing meat which has been requested from the community for such a long time. I suppose an issue with introducing sausage making behind a late-game hurdle is that lots of the factory-made food will be ruined by then so you won't be able to create all the fanciful stuff you can imagine, like the tomatomarinated moose sausage. But yeah, I'd buy a pure sausage dlc too, just for the heck of it. 

14 hours ago, Leeanda said:

😂😂😂 Please could I have  2 kilos of each? Actually could you make that 4kilos each?

Will do! Just hold on until the upcoming survival update Sausage and fury. 

3 hours ago, Lord of the Long Dark said:

Sausage maker is absolutely useless.

I wouldn't have guessed when I woke up this morning I'd be defending sausage machines. But I'll gladly take a stab at it. A sausage maker provides sausages. Sausages provides variety in the The Long Chunk of meat on a stone by the campfire-universe. They can also be dried to last nearly forever. But so can regular meat you say? Well, with some imagination a sausage machine could give us the option to mix the meat we harvest with other foods. As mentioned above, the dried bearplesyrup sausage, with enough calories to last you two days (and that includes a good long rope climb). Or perhaps you'd care for some birch wolfbark sausage? And for emergencies, the old man's rabbitweiner. 

3 hours ago, Lord of the Long Dark said:

  There is not knowledgeable survivalist in the world who would carry a sausage maker. 

I agree, we should place it stationary next to the milling machine. A decent handheld meatgrinder would do fine for Will's and Astrid's normal excursions. These selfproclaimed survivalists on the forum below have some other creative ideas on how to implement beautiful sausage making machines into the art of staying alive. 
Meat Grinders & Sausage Makers | Survivalist Forum (survivalistboards.com)

7 hours ago, Lord of the Long Dark said:

Some of the dumbest ideas have been actual wishlist posts. Someone actually once suggested a sausage maker be added to the game.  Also the idea of a companion dog 
  

People will differ. I would love a sausage maker. It's an original idea, it serves a purpose and it also doesn't make any sense. Throwing all the bear meat you got into the grinder and eat bearsausage with maple syrup. I just love it.

1 hour ago, Pencil said:

Ok but seriously; would anybody else like to see an actual crash in game? 

There used to be bluescreen crashes on PS every 4-5 hours or so playing survival, I'm just glad they don't happen anymore.

6 hours ago, Pencil said:

However, this game is still so great that I always come back after taking a short rage break. 

High recognition right there, been doing it for years.

6 hours ago, Pencil said:

This is fine." Then I blunder; I chose the knife.

Recognition factor goes off the charts.

Welcome to the forums and thanks for one of the most intriguing first posts of all time. I would surely enjoy playing the episode 4-5 narrative that you suggest, or guess, rather. AC for sidequests would be cool 😃 A few thoughts below:

You seem to be up to date with the news feed, do we know that we only play as Will in ep 4? If not I suppose it's possible that we play as both. 

While I don't see anything wrong with your map location prediction, would it in your opinion be equally possible that Blackrock region is located north of Pleasant Valley as others have suggested? Meaning Perseverance Mills would be further north from BP. It seems likely that BP neighbors either ML or Coastal Highway, as that's where we left off Will and Astrid. I'm thinking it's an obvious 50/50 but perhaps I've missed some clues. 

6 hours ago, Semple Fi said:

One

 two

 twelve

 “3 sire….    Three!!”

5 hours ago, Semple Fi said:

It seems like black rock would be accessed through the tunnel collapse in mountain town where the bus was found.  

Because of the debris you won't be able to go through that tunnel. Unless of course they introduce the holy handgrenade. Crafted from scrap metal, 2 sticks, gunpowder and a lock of hair beard from father Thomas. 

With Episode 4 coming up, I think this deserves a bump.

6 hours ago, Mistral said:

That's the first time I've seen anyone referring the CH fishing camps (or anything else in CH for that matter) as remote!

Remote in the sense that if you like to bring your endgame loot stash to CH you either have to drag it across a region with raving blizzards that some choose to avoid altogether. Or through a region where you're forced to trip across a kaput railroad bridge, an obstacle being uncalled-for at best, where you risk everything to reach a perfectly fine but not unusually rewarding region. 

I would hope for the so far inaccessible train tunnel in Coastal Highway to lead us to Blackrock. It would make Coastal Highway more interesting as an endgame region for sure. While ML is already the lead hub of Great Bear, neighboring 4 regions (but what about FM? Well, it's a marsh). If they add a 5th port to ML being the only connecting region to Blackrock that should increase the appeal to survival players using ML as their main base region. The classic CH fishing camps would become even more remote than they already are. 

I currently use moose cloak and bear coat because of warmth and protection. It's heavy but I like to remain well fed. With those and the rest of the clothing mother nature provides us it has turned out to be pretty safe to get mauled by a bear if you're at decent health to begin with. If I maintain my clothing above 70% condition they usually don't get destroyed by the bear, otherwise the rabbit mittens and hat might. I don't have crampons equipped at the moment even though I probably should as I play somewhat offensively. Guess I'm a little in love with my yellow ear wool wraps.