CMT1984

9 hours ago, UTC-10 said:

Usually if you are in cooking mode and hit space bar with the meat on the cursor that should result in hasty cooking until done.   You might review what you did for the only way I could conceive of you actually eating raw meat under the stated conditions (short of some glitch) would be if the stove's fire had gone out (so cooking is paused) and you didn't realize it (but that probably didn't happen as you would have likely posted about making a mistake rather than 'what happened'?).

Ok yes, that's correct. If the fire burns out it says cooking paused and the X button (console) will still let you eat it. I don't remember at all if that fire burned out, I usually take torches or finish it out with boiling some water though. I should have hit the record what happened button so I could review it, I will if something like that happens again.

Also, I was experimenting with raw fish and gave myself food poisoning. On the Status screen it said "Raw Coho Salmon" was the cause. On my parasites screenshot it just says "infected meat," shouldn't that say raw too if I did eat raw meat? 

11 hours ago, GothSkunk said:

The only way to get parasites once you have level 5 cooking is to eat predator meat that's raw. Your chance of infection immediately jumps to 75% when doing so. Do so again, and it rises to 100%.

 

If you're 100% sure that you did not eat raw predator meat, then it's a bug and should not have happened. I find it odd that you're the only one reporting such a bug, though.

 

And even so, if you got it from eating cooked predator meat, you should still only have a small percentage chance initially, rather than jumping right to infection.

Yes eating raw meat is possible, and if I'm the only one with the problem then I'd say it's probable. But I did eat it directly off the stove, and I think you can only do that if it's cooked. I'll have to check that out next time I'm on.

9 hours ago, romerabr said:

Don't go without bedroll. No beds there, you'll need to go to the trailers and back trought the elevated pathway every time you need to sleep.

Yup, no bedroll wasn't the best idea. Luckily I found one on day 1 at BI, had to go back through 2 Twolf spawns to get it once I found no bed in the gun shop but it all worked out.

9 hours ago, peteloud said:

I have been puzzling why you have so many cartridge cases and I have so few.  In the end I guessed that it must be due to my having played most of this game, (it is a 975 day Stalker game, not customised or modded), before the revolver was available, then played more with the revolver before the gun-smithing facility was available. On top of that I can't be bothered to go over all of the territory again. On returning to ML, Milton, CH and now PV I have found very few revolver cartridges.   I have found plenty of batteries giving me far more lead than I could use.  I have wondered if this is a little joke by Hinterland, getting us to carry tons of lead all over the region, then find that we don't need it.

I agree with romerabr   about going without a bedroll, although it would make an interesting extra challenge to your game.  There is a very easy-to-kill bear there so making a bearskin bedroll is an easy but time-consuming task.

 

 

Yeah when the revolver update came out, I heard multiple people say that old saves will be disappointing when it comes to ammo.

No bedroll turned out to be a fun challenge for sure, and I was doing great until I got parasites, must have eaten raw wolf meat by mistake because I'm level 5 cooking or it was a bug. But I found a bedroll and got all my ammo crafted so just another TLD experience.

3 hours ago, stratvox said:

If you have parasites eat the predators, because there's no further harm that can be done to you. Once you clear it up, go back to your vegetarian ways (i.e. eating vegetarians  )

 

Excellent, thanks. If I couldn't eat predator meat then I'd probably be dead on this almost 200 day run with 200+ rounds of ammo ready to be crafted.

48 minutes ago, peteloud said:

If you eat raw wolf meat at Level 5 cooking, you get intestinal parasites. (I have just tested that).

Perhaps you accidentally clicked on a piece of raw predator meat instead of cooked meat and ate that.  I have done that a few times.

 

That is possible but I'm usually pretty careful about that.

Now, what happens if I eat cooked wolf meat while I have parasites? Food is scarce at BI and wolf has been my main diet.

I assume it's just a bug, but rather annoying none the less. I got in to the cannery workshop and cooked some wolf meat. Ate a piece and got the risk of parasites, slept for the night and woke up to having parasites. Luckily I found 12 antibiotics around here because I haven't carried them since I got level 5 cooking about 100 days ago.

9 hours ago, UTC-10 said:

How much do you want to know?  Excuse me if you know all this or didn't want to know. 

Thanks that was all very helpful.

2 minutes ago, peteloud said:

How did you manage to find 250 casings?  On two of my games I had only about 6 empty casing and less than 10 cartridges.

I always find an abundance of ammo in stalker. I looted DP, CH, ML, Milton, FM and BR. I think it's about 40 rifle casings and the rest are revolver casings. 263 total if I remember right.

21 minutes ago, peteloud said:

Do you have 250 empty cartridge cases?  If not a bedroll might be more useful than a kilo of all that lead.

I have just over 250 casings. I'm sure I'll be back eventually to craft more ammo as I haven't looted PV or TW so I'd like to take all the lead there now. But that will be the 1st thing to go if I need to save on weight. 

Just seems like more often than not, my bedroll gets ruined in a wolf struggle and it's annoying. Sticks are plentiful and cloth has multiple uses.

This just happened to me in Forlorn Muskeg on Stalker. A regular wolf was eating a deer but it was dead. I put 3 rounds in him before I realized. He was still moving and making sounds like he was alive. I had shot a few wolves that ran off, so he probably bled out while feasting on the deer.

Hard to say a favorite overall, but my favorite to set up a home base is Mystery Lake. 

Coastal Highway is growing on me as a place to survive for a while. I also enjoy my loot runs to Broken Railroad, although I never stay long. I dread going to Pleasant Valley, seems like it's always a blizzard the whole time. And don't even get me started on Forlorn Muskeg. I never like going to Timberwolf Mountain, but always find myself staying longer than intended because it is rather peaceful at the Mountaineers Hut. 

And I still haven't checked out Hushed River Valley or Bleak Inlet. Gearing up for Bleak in my current stalker run.

Stalker run, day 170ish. I'm down to my last 12 revolver rounds so I think it's a good time to checkout ammo crafting at Bleak Inlet. I haven't been to Bleak before.

I normally take a pry bar, knife, a couple cans, some matches, cat tails and basic meds. Cloth for a snow shelter, I don't like carrying a bedroll. I'll have my revolver with 12 rounds, a new bow with 10 new arrows and 6 flares. Also 38 pounds of gunsmith material, enough to make about 250 cartridges.

Anything else I should bring? I fought the Timberwolves in the story mode but haven't yet on a stalker survival run so I'm not sure what to expect. I'm thinking a hatchet may be better than a knife. Also I have quite a few more flares I could bring. I also have the moose cloak and/or bear skin coat I could add to my wolf coat for better shield? I just hate wearing those heavy coats.

27 minutes ago, peteloud said:

It seems like it was the same bear twice.

I have never seen two bear at the same time.

 

 

That's what I first thought but my stats said I killed 2, and I harvested 2 bears.

26 minutes ago, Makex said:

Hi there, if i'm not mistaken, only moose is "one at a time" animal.

Ok I thought it was bears too but maybe I'm mistaken.

So I've always been under the assumption that only one living bear could be on the map at a time. Mystery Lake stalker run, shot the bear at unnamed pond and he ran off. So I went straight to the cabin north of the unnamed pond to look for the moose and there was a bear walking around in Clearcut too. I checked my stats and the 1st bear was not dead yet. 

I've never seen 2 bears alive at the same time.

Nothing really bothers me that's in the game. Mainly just the fact that bears and moose tend to show up on moving day, or a 3 day blizzard rolls in, the game always knows somehow. 

But what really bothers me is something that isn't in the game, I REALLY wish we could craft storage containers. I'm so sick of having to lay stuff out all over my home base.

12 hours ago, MarrowStone said:

He was consistently shooting the lungs But in this game only headshots are special. 

11 hours ago, ManicManiac said:

@MarrowStone
Right... which is why I generalized and called them "body shots." 

Oh ok, thanks. I was thinking the lungs and heart would count as a critical hit. I will start aiming for the head.

I encountered a very hard to kill bear in Coastal Highway, stalker survival mode. I hit it 5 or 6 times with the rifle and 2 or 3 times with the revolver and it still managed to run away. It did die on the lake shortly after though.

Also on the same run, same region, I shot at a bear with the rifle, got no hit marker and it ran away. However, a few days later it showed on my stats that I had killed a bear and that was the only one I shot at in that run.