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How many runs did it take you to max every single skill in one run? I didn’t manage that until Bleak Inlet was released, giving us lots more ammo to get there with guns.

I always start in TWM these days, run naked to the top and gear up. Timberwolves seem to have been nerfed. They now run in fear quite often when you come on them. Even in packs of two or three they run.

Haha been there!

So I was watching Alone season 1 which takes place on Vancouver Island which is the area which I understand is the inspiration for Great Bear Island in the game. The narrator mentions that the island is home to over 1000 cougars weighing up to 200 lbs as well as wolves and bears. we need cougars in this game! it would add difficulty to be stalked by a cougar which doesn’t announce an attack like wolves do. And they’d do more damage by far than a wolf if you got into a struggle. basically the addition of cougars to The Long Dark would make the game harder and also more fun! And we could have some new craftable items with cougar fur and claws. could be totally sweet!

Aaaand it’s been fixed. Seems like the main bug they patched.

Oh and did you notice that there are extra loot crates stacked overlaid on the original loot crates in the tail section on the summit? Most of the crates are overlaid with other crates. It makes for a lot of sawing!

I did notice that. Two games the same thing. Hope it’s not permanent

Seems like Voyager (lots of loot, few wolves, plentiful game animals) with Interloper weather. The first challenge of IL is the lack of gear, so having all that gear available in this challenge makes the cold a trivial obstacle.

Do semi-accidental suicides count? 156 days into a Stalker, exploring the last zone (HRV) for the umpteenth time (on different games) and I just wondered if there was a goat way from the first peak cave above Monolith Lake to the other one. Took a few steps out and ... that cliff was straight down after all. it was quick at least!

I also tried reishi tea, but mostly because I was sorting through my wife’s tea collection from some nutrition fair and found a few samples. Same result as noted above: not bad or good, just mushroomy. i wasn’t suffering from food poisoning at the time, so I only got a warming up bonus.

I have the same one I think. The draw is adjustable. It’s pretty accurate as well if you can get the range right. I use instinctive sighting, and can group in a coffee can at 75 yards or so. A guy at the range on Saturday offered to let me try his new compound bow with laser and peep sighting. It was interesting, but I’m just better with the Bear.

Killing a charging wolf with a bow is easy enough. Just walk backwards while aiming at his face. This will straighten his charge out a bit and give you half a second more to aim and fire when he’s in range. Don’t be late loosing that arrow though! If you are late you’ll be in a struggle.

Found two in Mystery lake: 1) in the cut towards the western edge of the map past the clear cut, dead body had it 2)Destroyed lookout

Same here with the PV weapons cache, top of the rope climb and up hill to the left from bear cave towards signal hill.

I’ve driven through Canada five times from top to bottom (and bottom to top) since I used to live in Alaska (where we consider Canadians to be tenderfoot Cheechakos). It’s pretty and fairly rugged, and has a lot of animals and scenery. I’ve seen Rocky Mountain sheep and bears and wolves and deer and even a few bunnies. And I’ve camped out along the way every time. It’s a much different place than the UK, which is super tamed and mild in comparison. should be an adventure! have fun!

This is too easy unless you go Loper.

This food cache in PV on burned ridge is an always spawn since six months ago. I have started a ton of games and every time that is there.

Revolvers will kill a moose but it takes a ridiculous number of shots. I hit one with three arrows and finished with six revolver shots.

Walk back while aiming at the charging wolf, to straighten out his charge and give you a tiny bit more time to aim and fire. Get good with the bow, as this and the rifle are sure kills at close range and your ammo is unlimited. Honestly, I prefer the bow in most cases. The rifle is far too easy to use especially at level five. Level five archery is deadly and you can crouch while shooting so it opens up other safer tactics for wolf extermination

Killing bears used to be risky. Now it’s total cake. Let’s take this step by step: 1)find bear 2) build a campfire in front of bear a ways ahead. 3) When he gets in range, shoot bear. I usually aim for the head or just above it in the neck. 4)stand still behind fire while bear charges 5)when he stops, standing there, shoot him again. Make this one count: headshot if possible, try for an eye. 6) either he drops dead or he runs off after this. He won’t have much life left so track him! He won’t go far before he bleeds out.

Here’s what you need: knife, axe, maybe pry bar if you might run into some locked containers. rifle (or bow) and 5-10 arrows. Revolver and maybe 20 rounds. sewing kit or fishing tackle sleeping roll 20 matches, or fire striker 2 cedar wood or 10 sticks emergency food, 2000 calories (lightweight) 1-2 L water 2 coffees, 1 birch tea, 1 rosehip tea, 1 reishi tea, 1 herbal tea 4-5 bandages, 3 beard compresses 5 cloth (magic number for Snow shelter) You can sub in a hacksaw if you’re on the move to another zone or expect to find and recycle a few batteries.

If you drop a decoy and you have anything else on you that is smelly, meat or guts, then the decoy will not distract the wolf. For the decoy to work at all, it has to be the only decoy.

If a wolf is locked onto you, and you have a decoy, dropping it,moving back, and crouching while continuing to move back often will cause it to disengage. If you have any other decoy it won’t work. Best way to kill wolves with rifle? 1)Sneak up and snipe them. 2)Aggro them and aim while walking backwards to force them into a straight line approach, fire when close for an insta-kill almost always! This also works with the bow, but you have to fire slightly sooner to escape the Wolf struggle.

Interloper might be a challenge. I could still do it on Timberwolf mountain for a long time until I ran out of matches. Lots to do there. the door thing would be super difficult especially to get started on interloper.

Could be boring to “win” this challenge. optimum strategy would be to collect lots of resources in the outdoors and then enter an indoor location and just camp out there for days or weeks until food runs out. Then move on and repeat. Actually, theoretically i could survive forever in one zone never going indoors, starting in that zone. Timberwolf Mountain. Start there, make a quick summit for gear, then camp out at the climbers shack (not a separate zone) and haul resources there while slowly building gear to optimum. I guess if you wanted to start in pleasant valley first, you could collect some arrows to take with you up the mountain and then just stay up there forever. I’ve spent the first fifty days up there before just getting all possible gear and making fur clothing and moose bags.