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Does the Ballistic Vest protect your survivor from broken ribs during a Moose Stomping attack? I tested this theory, donning the vest on the outside layer of my accessory slot. My protection was super high as I was also wearing a bearskin coat, deer hide leggings, gauntlets, and all the best of everything else. I tagged a moose in the swamp right in front of Blackrock Penitentiary with an arrow and awaited the inevitable. Result: I took about 10% damage from the attack (Remarkable! Very low!) but still got completely busted ribs. In anger, I shot the moose once more (with deadly precision) and it dropped. But I still have the broken ribs. and lots of meat.

This. you need to know the maps already before being very successful with interloper. When you know them intimately, you can usually make it past the first few hurdles and survive long enough to get to an easier map than the spawning map. Last time I tried it, I started in HRV, but instead of rushing out of there to Milton, I stuck around and explored a bit looking for the sleeping roll. Found it in the ice cave and some other decent gear. Wound up entering Milton in decent shape and then dying from a wolf onslaught there. Loper is hard. Best game I’ve had so far was a bit over 200 days. I prefer Stalker. It’s more fun to wander the maps collecting stuff. And it’s fun to start in Ash Canyon, get the technical pack and crampons, and then summit TWM to open up all those boxes and get really geared up. Then rush across the world to HRV and get the moose hide bag to max out weight capacity. Best time so far for that run was just under 8 days.

I found mine on the top of a mountainous hill across the road from the foreman’s trailer. Had a lot of good stuff! Food is plentiful. Killed and cooked a bear at the prison, and did the same to a moose at the lake. Lots of deer and rabbits around. I think I’m close to full exploration of this zone.

I made it to the mine without much trouble, detour necessary at the broken bridge, go back a ways and there’s a canyon with a rope down and a rope back up on the other side. LONG climb, but there’s a handy cave down there for resting up. The passage after that led right to the mine. Couldn’t find the valve for the gas shut off, but sprinted to the elevator and took up up to level 2 before I suffocated. That’s where the note was, on a locker shelf. Guess I gotta find a way back up now, maybe the same elevator? Probably goes back to the surface. Might be more phat lewt in that gas tunnel but I’m hesitant to risk it with the no save option of survival mode (Stalker). There aren’t many things that can kill my survivor at this point, but electricity, falling from a height, and poison gas will take me out where wolves and bears and blizzards can not.

I play on the PS4 as well sometimes. But it’s been relentlessly buggy forever, and right now the PC is working well.

1)at least you have a wife to share the sorrow with! Mine wouldn’t care at all. 2)Wine is yummy and can lead to interesting activities post-consumption 3)You get to start over! I recommend a challenge to get started. Try to get your survivor 30+ C° clothing, the crampons and technical pack, all weapons, AND the moose hide bag in under ten days! It is possible (my best time is just under 8 days), but requires planning and a little bit of luck. Once that is done, though, you’ll be cruising.

The vest is in the Prison, no keys needed just have to navigate your way there. The real treasure I’ve found so far are all the gun powder and powder making supplies and of course the batteries. There’s enough of those items to fully reload every shell and casing in the game, probably twice. So far it seems like a fat land, full of promise. I took my 50 day survivor there (Stalker) and have been having a fine time! Killed me a bear right there in the prison yard. They do say when you go to prison you should beat up the biggest guy first! Lots and lots of meat, and with level five cooking it’s all good, bra! There were about seven wolves in the area but they weren’t tough, and I could get some sleep without all that howling. My next project is getting into the keypad door I’m told is to the reloading bench area and seems to be a fine place to base. So I’m headed to the mine. Almost there by what I remember from the story mode. I’m a little concerned about the gas-filled mine. It took me a couple of deaths to figure out the trick on story mode, but I don’t have saves on survival. Guess I’ll have to wing it! if you haven’t experienced at least five or six tragic deaths with 200+ day survivors, you just don’t have the right attitude to truly appreciate the game yet!

I agree with Dan. The wintermute story mode was actually enjoyable this time! Well done, Hinterland!

I consider that ive “won” TLD when my character has looted all the zones and cached the loot at a few nice places to stay for a couple weeks. Oh and converted all available brass into rifle and pistol shells ready for use. And collected all arrow materials and cached them or made arrows. And that most of the gear is in the Quonset Hut. And all skills are maxed. Fishing seems to take the longest. My God the sushi! anyway once that’s done, so is my survivor! I run him off the trestle for The Long Drop.

He’s just playing dead, waiting on another wolf to investigate and then he’s gonna pop it for dinner.

There’s a way to get on top of the rail cars in forlorn muskeg, where you can snipe bears and wolves without danger.

Quonset is the best place. You can clear out the wolves pretty easily every week or so by luring them out onto the ice and sniping them with arrows. It has the best weather there and that is crucial.

The weirdest way I’ve died was while goating around in TWM, trying to find the fabled no-rope passage to the summit. I was traversing the left edge of the map, sky lining along the peaks and doing very well when suddenly I fell off the edge of the world! And once I fell down below the map, which was an odd sight, I got the message that I died of massive injuries sustained from falling. so you could try that!

Timberwolves don’t seem to despawn during blizzards.

It just takes practice. I recommend shooting wabbits because they’re tricky to hit. Or charging wolves because the trick is to walk backwards while aiming square between their eyes. Release half a second before you think you should, and it’s usually an instant kill. The bow is intuitive in nature. This tracks well to shooting recurve bows in real life, as I’m always a better shot when I don’t AIM, but just let my instincts guide the shot.

Maul/Stomp free hunting is easy. Like ridiculously easy. It doesn’t require terrain or goating. Bear: build a campfire in the bear’s path and shoot from behind it. Bear will stop charging once near the fire and you can shoot it again. Dead bear if you’re a good shot. Otherwise it runs off and you can track it. Moose: somewhat trickier, but only on Loper. For Stalker with guns it’s super easy. If using a rifle: easiest method, just keep shooting at the thing. Every time you hit it, it goes through a short animation of bellowing and thrashing about. That animation lasts just long enough to cycle your bolt so you can shoot him again. Repeat until he drops. If you have access to a pistol: Use the bow to hit him hard with your first shot, then switch to the pistol and fire one shot ... anywhere. Pistol shots break the charge. Now equip your bow and go track him down for another arrow shot. Repeat until he drops. on Loper you have to make some good arrow shots. You can either stand your ground and hit him with two or three well placed arrows and hope for the best, or use terrain to escape the charge.

I like the Quonset gas station best for a long term base. Although there are plenty of wolves to keep me guessing, once they’re dead I get bored. Fortunately it’s close to other zones with lots of wolves and stuff to kill. I mostly make a base in every zone, then move around stopping at each place. It’s the only way that I can stand the boredom of the long game.

The rules are simple: 1)Stalker mode 2)Get all tools and weapons including bow, rifle, revolver, and flare pistol. Get as much ammo as you can. 3)Start in Ash Canyon 4)Get close to the best non-made clothing, at least 29-30 C. Cowichan sweater excluded as that can take a while to find or may never be found. 5)Get the crampons, technical pack, AND the moosehide bag! Your carrying weight should be 45kg. 6)Do all that as fast as possible. So far my best is 6 days, 23 hours.

There’s a way to make this tactic easier. Use a piece of meat to lure him in while crouching. When he’s just beyond discovery distance, drop the meat. He will lose interest and walk away... which means he’s not facing you, which means you have a couple seconds to UN crouch, draw, and loose. Make them count!

Nothing. second is a container of pills.

Having experienced seasonal affective disorder for myself while living in Alaska, it’s kind of just depressive. Feeling low. What helped me was using a tanning bed at the local hair salon. Which made me want to go somewhere warm and sunny. So I did.

350 days on Stalker. The save is still active but I can’t generate any interest in the game. That’s my biggest problem. The late game gets uber boring.

When did you last play. Wolves haven’t picked up the decoys for over a year. Best you can get them to do now is lose interest and bugger off. And yes, that’s when you leave the area. my POINT was that leaving meat out on the ground is perfectly safe as nothing will disturb it with current game mechanics.

That never happens. In fact, since they nerfed the wolf baiting system, animals no longer pick up meat or guts at all off the ground.

I just looted some containers in TWM that I know usually contain cans of food. It was day 129 and the were empty once cut and searched.