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The most vicious and bad-tempered rabbits we’ve ever seen?

The key to killing moose on interloper is to shoot them when they’re looking away from you, and rather far away. They’ll run off instead of coming to look for you. it’s either that or the old fashioned method of shooting from a position that the moose can’t path to, or hopping to a cliff face after the shot. I’ve done that plenty as well.

I’ve lost count of the number of moose I’ve one-shotted with the bow. It really is a powerful weapon. The arc of the arrows makes it harder to use long range where the rifle really shines, but short to medium range bow strikes are deadly especially at level five archery.

Stalker. Not the hardest but I like guns and I also enjoy the extra wolves. power leveling isn’t the right word exactly. More like when you rush to get all the best stuff and get geared up as fast as possible. That was as fast as I could do all that.

If you want a moose hide bag, it’s much easier to just to to HRV and find the Mysterious Signal Fire. Always a bag there as well as other great loot. I’ve power leveled two survivors now from first day in Ash Canyon with nothing to 9th day in Hushed River Valley with ALL the gear, lots of bullets, ten arrows and a bow, technical pack, crampons, and moose hide bag for 45KG capacity. it can be done. why don’t you try it!

I learned something about solar cycles recently. Apparently the sun has activity cycles where it becomes more or less active, and the solar radiation can change by a few percent either way. Scientists from NASA believe that this is the cause of historical climate change, ice ages, hot periods, etc. Sol is heading into a cooler period right now, with the nadir of solar energy expected around the 2030s. It’s part of a greater cycle that repeats every 600 years. The last time we experienced this was in the 1700s when cold temperatures made crops fail across Europe. On the other side of it, 300 years earlier we had a warm period where the Vikings moved to Greenland and began farming in its (at that time) arable soil. As the cycle progressed, the Greenlanders couldn’t succeed at farming anymore and were mostly driven away. This cycle was also visible in the American Southwest where the Hopi Indians built large cities in the rock faces of cliffs around modern day Nevada and Arizona. Many of those structures were obscured by Lake Mead which was formed by the Hoover Dam which powers Las Vegas. That civilization benefitted from wet weather to grow maize and gourd crops, but vanished when the weather grew warmer again and the southwest dried out. anyway, the point is that Earth isn’t as stable as we’d like to believe. We are entirely at the mercy of solar activity. If it increases as was the case in the last 30 year sub cycle, average temperatures rise and glaciers melt. If it decreases, as it’s supposed to do in the coming decades, temperatures fall and glaciers advance. And the truly long climate cycle could even bring another ice age.

Here’s a loot table for IL mode. It tells you where each critical tool will be in your game instance. The only trick is you have to figure out which one of four instances you’re in! I started a new IL game the other day and am in 4, so I knew to check the fishing hut near the fishing camp for a hammer. Now that I’ve got that, and the hacksaw, I have to decide whether to backtrack to DP for the forge or press on towards Muskeg for a chance at more loot and food along the way. Usually the best strategy is to keep moving to new places and finding new gear until you get everything you need and can forge some tools. Those are critical to long term success, and long term success requires crafted clothing, which you’ll need to stay in place for a while to craft. Keep in mind that as your days get longer, the world gets drastically colder. If you’re still at 10°C in clothing at day 40, it’s going to be VERY difficult to continue. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11n0wfRQadaWay4feLbunF9dxIbS2hZ3O_I57x5JfF6s/htmlview

I shot two moose in BI within a game day of each other. Fully processed the first, and just skinned the second. I have come up with a new way to take these moose down with no mess or fuss. Using the rifle, sneak close enough not to miss, and plug him. He will react, and your gun will cycle. Now plug him again. And again. And again! He reacts to each hit, and it took four hits to take him down for good. The moose didn’t move more than five yards during the fusillade. Did that for both moose I shot in BI.

I’m glad Hinterland is doing well. I always want people who serve their customers so well to also do well financially! Thanks for a great game! I bought it on Steam and also for PS4 and have logged far too many hours. I would like a Hinterland hoodie and coffee mug like in game. And I’d like to support Hinterland in those purchases. I know Amazon accepts sourced products from chinese suppliers to their warehouses and then ships the goods directly to the customer from the warehouse. The vendor never has to handle the goods. Since you want to be hands off, a deal like that might work out well for your company? The Chinese suppliers can be contacted through alibaba and produce printed clothing or mugs or whatever, by the gross of course, and ship it to amazons warehouses. I doubt it would take more than a day to set it all up and you guys wouldn’t have to do much else! Anyway just a suggestion.

Bears are easy if you use the campfire trick. Basically make a fire and then shoot them, then hide behind the fire. The bear stops and waits giving you time to shoot it again. Most of the time my second shot (to the face) puts him down, but sometimes he runs off bawling. If he runs, chase after! He won’t go far and you can drop him with another shot.

Yah learn the maps before doing Interloper for the best success. If you really know your way around, even a HRV start won’t necessarily kill you.

Yep seen that happen!

Next time you hunt a bear, use a campfire to keep him at bay. Stand close behind the fire and shoot him, or maybe run behind the fire after you shoot him. He’ll charge up and ... STOP. Then you shoot him again. With a very good head shot he often just dies on the spot. Otherwise he will run off bleeding badly. If you follow immediately you can catch him when he slows down and turns back towards you.

True, but that coal can help you survive a blizzard if you’re lost and can’t find anything but a windbreak. A coal fire will keep you warm and dry while you’re lost in a blizzard that could otherwise kill you.

I discovered this method as well and have been using it to clear them for a year now. With rifle 4 or better, it’s pretty darn easy to take out a pack.

Lake cave in HRV to bear cave in DP.

Depends on the console. If I’m playing on the PS4, I can walk about with a revolver equipped without danger of it going off. The Use and Fire buttons aren’t the same on that console as they are on the computer.

I still think we need cougars in the game. There’s a serious lack of ambush predators in TLD which makes the game too easy!

Yep moose can be hard to find, but every map has a couple moose spawn points. A faster way to get your moose bag is to go to Hushed River Valley and find the mysterious signal fire. It’s always in one of two spots. And I’ve always found a moose bag there as well as other good loot. best of luck!

The fastest route to the summit I know of is a straight shot across the lake, right along the cliff face with the rope climb, and then goat down into the canyon chasm there by the engine. From there you go up the left hand canyon to the open air cave, go left again, and you can climb a rope to deer clearing level and continue up to secluded shelf, cave system and the final rope climb. You can do all that in a few hours provided you have a stim for the last rope climb to the summit.

I think the most I ever used the charcoal map was in the newest release of Ash Canyon. That place was freaking confusing to figure out! So I meticulously mapped it to help me know where everything is. Now it’s mapped to my cranium so I no longer need the map. Same with every other zone.

You can move across the entire world practically naked if you know a couple pieces of advice: 1)make hot drinks (also some food like beans). With the Warming Up perk, you can travel much further before hypothermia risk sets in. 2)make some torches and keep them handy. A lit torch will keep hungry wolves at bay, and you can outwalk them most of the time. Keep moving from shelter to shelter. You’re bound to find plenty of gear if you do so. My current stalker game I started in Ash Canyon, made it to the Gold Mine on day 1, got the technical pack and crampons and some light clothing and went from there to the summit of Timberwolf Mountain, where my gear experienced a radical upgrade. I ran across the world from there collecting stuff and wound up on day nine in Hushed River Valley where I found a moose hide bag at the mysterious signal fire. At that point I had every tool there is, 120 pistol rounds, 47 rifle rounds, a bow and four arrows, as well as 30 °C in clothing. Just keep moving!

Yah Loper just sucks for summit loot anyway though. But there’s still often a hacksaw up there. The summit loot is so miserly on Loper that it’s not worth the journey.

Did you know that you can repair advanced tools with simple tools? Costs like 5% on the simple tools to get advanced tools to 100%. So you could use up the advanced tools 20 times with one simple tools to repair it. If you had two simple tools, you could repair it 40 times! That’s 4000% condition on your advanced tools! I really wanna know what you’re going to do with that much tool use.

No the weather just gets colder and more erratic over time. Also animals don’t spawn as fast.