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What I find especially fun about the current save game status is that you can run around doing stuff and killing things all day in the cold and then crash as soon as you enter a dwelling or lay out your bed roll to sleep and save. Then all that stuff you did all day never happened! All thanks to Hinterland’s inability to remove game crashing bugs that have plagued TLD since launch!

That was my first move, actually. I went back and forth between that dam cave and the Office. It was tedious and not fun. The snow shelter idea occurred to me later and I felt like smacking my past self for being so dense. It was way better with the shelter! I added a good two hours to my crafting day.

Snow shelters can be very useful, actually! If you don’t have a bedroll, they can be a place to crash in a zone without shelters or beds. I also made one behind the Camp Office in mystery lake just for sleeping in between marathon crafting sessions. Ever seen 80 arrows? Turns out they are a great way to skill up archery. Also made bear coat, wolf coat, rabbit hat and gloves and deerskin pants and boots. Took a while and cabin fever would have been assured if I’d slept in the camp office instead of the snow shelter out back.

I’ve used that one a lot as well, usually to sleep while crafting gear so I don’t get cabin fever. Until I realized that I could make a snow shelter behind the Camp Office and wouldn’t have to make that trek so often. A few sticks a day and a few minutes to repair keeps it at 100%. If you let it go below 75% then it wants cloth to fix as well. I could live there in Mystery lake passing time in the snow shelter pretty much forever.

Oh and I did a quick Stalker start in AC. Took me a day and a half and I had 12°C in clothing and was looting the gold mine. Another half a day and I was outta there, on past deer clearing to the Summit to finish gearing up. Was a nice way to start a survivor actually.

C’mon guys. Everyone plays whichever way they choose in a sandbox. Whatever makes them happy. move played hundreds of days of interloper and it can be intense. Fewer wolves than Stalker but they’re more fierce. Hardly any gear in world. Still it’s possible to survive and even thrive. I’ve done that three times getting past 200 days with every zone explored. but I like Stalker better. I like to find gear when I loot a place. I like to shoot guns and crafting ammo is fun too. And I LIKE all the wolves running around! It makes it fun and gives me something to shoot at.

When I started playing a couple years ago, I tried the story mode first. Got through the first unskippable plane scene with lots of character silence. It was boring but I made it through. Then it went to loading after the crash, and the game freaking crashed! I was pissed. My take is the story mode is crap. Don’t play it. The later episodes are somewhat better, but still have serious not fun slogs (like hauling survivors around pleasant valley). I completed the story mode much later but never did it again. Yuck! What I fell in love with was the SANDBOX! Started my first character and stumbled about in the snow a while until I died. Frustrating but I learned a few things. The UI needs a tutorial or something. It’s not that intuitive. My second try went longer, up to 3 days before a wolf ate me. Next three games went much like that. Finally I got a game going where I was an actual survivor! (Playing Stalker). It went on and on. Then it was discovering the game for myself, starting new games with other difficulties, and then figuring out Interloper. Once I got into it, this game has been one of the best I’ve ever played. Worst part? The bugs that make it crash. Hinterland is slow as hell in fixing basic stuff.

Yes!

Instead of a pet dog, let’s have a pet cougar. And instead of a pet cougar, let’s just have wild ravening cougars hiding in random spots around the map ready to attack and eat you! that would make TLD much more enjoyable and you’ll forget all about loneliness while fighting off cougars!

I don’t think you understand the macro levels of greenhouse gas necessary to affect global temperature. If the Chinese, Indians, and USA (in order of magnitude)with all our combined emissions can’t warm things up, then the CO2 value of global warming just isn’t that significant. However, coal (especially dirty coal) can release sulfur dioxide which is a cooling agent if it is released into the stratosphere (as volcanos do) and it is technologically possible to build a stack tall enough to get SO2 up there to cool the planet. It’s just not politically viable at this time because the global warming myth hasn’t materialized.

California, but sometimes I miss my Alaska birthplace. TLD feels homey and familiar.

Without some absolutely incredible luck, you’ll never survive an IL start in AC if you don’t know the map. It really depends on where you start. If you get lucky and start near the destroyed fishing hut, the Homesteader’s Respite cabin is your best bet for emergency gear. You can goat up there and drop a rope for later access. After that go to Angler’s rest and gear up a little more for the trek to the gold mine which is worth doing. Lots and lots of free food laying about with the rushes. Sticks aplenty. Once you have matches and some minimal clothing you can chain tea your way up there without any climbing. The path from Anglers to Goldmine starts behind Broad Falls. After gold mine you can go to Miners Folly and get more gear then trek back to the Homesteaders and rope climb down there to rest up in preparation to leave that zone. That would be the most legit and doable start in AC.

There are a ton of possible spawn points for that cache which stopped being a permanent spawn at skeeters ridge a while back. Now it’s a challenge to find the cache and a question of what it will have in it. I think they always have gun powder now, so that’s worth it even if it’s the firewood cache. If you find the weapons cache (top of rope climb to radio station) you’ve hit the jackpot! theres a YouTube video where the guy runs around to all the spawn locations.

My advice is to play the As the Dead Sleep challenge. It will frustrate you at first, especially since it’s impossible to regain lost health during the challenge. Any damage your survivor takes is permanent. However it will teach you a lot about caring for your survivor properly, not letting him get in trouble, and using hot liquids to keep him warm in freezing conditions. If you complete that challenge, you’ll be ready for anything.

I like the Quonset hut in PCH even with all the wolves. It’s just so nice and perfect and roomy with access to anything you’d ever need. I usually pack most of the important gear there and stash it in the lockers and tool chests. However I do leave rifles and maybe a hatchet at every decent base and then just take some ammo along on any expedition. Every base has cooked meat and hides. idk It is easy to pass time once all that is done but it’s super boring and I never seem to have the initiative to go beyond 300 days. Everything is done by then. I just imagine my survivor taking over for me then and living out his days in peace and solitude.

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/02may_superstorm/ several near misses in modern times have occurred. Scientists put the odds of a Carrington class CME hitting Earth at 12% for the time period between 2012-2022. CMEs are directional, hitting a cone of space with massive amount of charged particles. If the Earth occupies that space at that time, we get nailed. we don’t even make the giant transformers in the USA anymore that would be needed to replace the hundreds of thousands that would be lost in a CME. They’re made in Korea, and we’d be on some sort of list, pretty far down that list. Estimated time for recovery of the electrical grid is 10 years. of chaos and death.

Yah I think I’m really starting to get it. The paths are twisty but the valleys are understandable. I’ve mapped the whole thing out on one survivor and then taken two more survivors through it.

Did you have meat or guts or a rabbit on you? Only times I’ve seen wolves behave like that is when I am carrying bait. Timberwolves will also do the same thing at the bottom of a rope climb if you’re carrying bait.

Trunk first, then glance in backseat, then check under the hood for battery, then hop in front and check what’s there, break down the battery in front seat. I do it in this order because prying open the trunk takes time so I want to do it first before some new predator lurches into range while my back is turned. Then, the battery weighs a ton so I don’t want to move much before getting in the car. Leaving the front seat for last leaves me a short step from the hood and a click of the handle before I can settle down to search the glovebox and the floor boards for phat lewt.

Been over that ravine trestle maybe a hundred times without dying, but going over it still makes my balls shrivel. I actually jumped off it to see what would happen with a new survivor. Tried to get a screenshot on the way down.

If you want to find Deer Clearing cave, the best way is to start at Angler’s Rest, then travel southwest up into the mountains until you hit the wall then go south along there always choosing the western turn. It’s not much further past Pillars Footrest. It maps as “Cave System.”

Ok so I guess I’ve been doing it wrong. I put them in the outer slot today for kicks and got a buff! Never had that before. Guess they have to be worn in the outer slot to get the benefit? If so I’m only wearing them when I have to climb or goat.

I mostly play on the PS4 so my saves go poof when I die and I’ve died a lot. I’ve lost track of the number of 100+ day sandboxes who have died to unexpected circumstances or just carelessness. I sympathize because it really does hollow you out when a character you’ve spent weeks developing dies and everything you did is now gone. I spent half an hour staring at the stats screen after one vicious death to a pack of timberwolves in BI when I foolishly ventured out at night in an Aurora. 180 days on that one. All the things about that sandbox I was keeping track of in my head were suddenly worthless, meaningless, and irrelevant. I think I sat there just trying to dump it all. But I don’t want it to change. TLD is unique and the danger of total deletion is what makes it worth playing. give yourself a couple of days or even a week off. Then see if you don’t get that old itch to start a new survivor in some new and interesting zone. start one on TWM! That’s my favorite starting spot in anything but Loper. Summit as fast as possible! Best I have done so far is one day and three hours from birth. Sure decked him out in some great gear after that! Twinked the hell out of him!

Crampons seem to help with these long rope climbs. There’s a really long one in AC I climbed twice: first with coffee and no crampons and second without coffee and crampons. The result was pretty much the same. So crampons give you about the same stamina boost as coffee? I guess.

Reminds me of this time in HRV I was goating around and slipped halfway down a cliff. Landed on this tiny ledge, less than 50% life, blizzard coming up, and a long drop in every direction. Of course I got multiple sprains and the game had saved so that was it! I couldn’t think of a way out of that mess. I couldn’t lay out a bedroll to sleep. I couldn’t make a fire. Not enough room for any of that. Nope, I had to just man up and walk the plank. Think my guy had about 150 days on him in Stalker when the valley floor rushed up to meet him.