Sherri

Some people expressed that they had to drop the skillet on the ground in order to place it on the cooking surface since it's not yet in the quick wheel.

You can actually choose 'place' on a cooking spot and select the skillet from there, without dropping it. Definitely works on a stove. I assume on a fire or barrel too though I haven't confirmed.

I'm enjoying the new cooking addition so I thought I'd make a thread where we can share discoveries and tips. 

So far, I've visited a few places that I already fully looted and discovered a TON of cooking ingredients (Voyager playthrough) spawned outside of containers and in the new vegetable cupboards. Tip: look in places that would normally have food, as well a cellars. The condition of the items is not great, but cooking with them gives me a new item of at least 50% condition, so very edible.

I like how the recipes are different based on cooking container. Forces you to make some tough choices. The skillet weighs the same as the pot despite boiling only half the amount of water. But it makes really good recipes.

Looks like the new recipes like the bannock are very efficient for weight vs calories.

I haven't found any recipes for the recycled can yet. I'm cooking level 3 so far.

I haven't found any use or recipe for the carrots other than eating them raw. Potatoes can be cooked into a nice warm baked potato.

Really enjoying this!

5 hours ago, ben676 said:

Also, please no story elements in survival. 

The transmitter caches/bunkers have story info so that ship has sailed.

Just loaded up my save & immediately started finding lots of the new ingredients in various already-looted places (buildings with kitchens). It's really nice to find new variety in the items. Loving this so far.

Perhaps a future tweak will be to allow fishing oil & acorn flour to augment the packaged ingredients. Would help make cooking recipes a long-term possibility. 😁

8 hours ago, hozz1235 said:

This is a possibility, but I'm not too fond of it because you "never know what you're gonna get"  With my luck, I'd get tinder

That could be solved with a menu. 

- Bring me 5 empty cans = a pair of crampons

- Bring me 6 scrap metal and 6 coal = 10 arrow heads

etc.

While I love the idea of a rare NPC to encounter in survival mode... it could also be something achieved via a location where, with guidance from notes or signage... you drop off items and later come back for what has been traded to you. So there is someone out there like you, but you never actually encounter them. Which would maintain the loneliness and solo atmosphere of the game while also giving a glimmer of hope that someone else is 'out there'.

I'd be happy either way.

Good grief this is SO much cool new stuff! Wow. 

Really an outstanding update! 

This looks awesome!

Looking forward to these new additions. 😁

On 5/21/2023 at 12:26 PM, Raphael van Lierop said:

I also assume other TLD communities are growing, because the active player base is vibrant.

There is a good size TLD group on Facebook that is active & very positive from what I've seen. Little pocket communities everywhere! 😁

On 5/19/2023 at 6:32 AM, Nervous Pete said:

"A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."

 That is a perfect quote!

37 minutes ago, Acthalla said:

In any other industry...

There's a difference between buying a finished product, an ongoing service or an under-development project.

Ever had a house built, a pool installed? A room painted? A car engine rebuilt? Etc. I've yet to see a promised date met by construction contractors. So other industries are no better.

Hell, I pre-ordered the new Zelda a *month* in advance & Amazon, the world's biggest consumer shipping co, delayed my delivery 3 times till I cancelled & bought it elsewhere. 😭

If broken deadlines break your heart... life is gonna be rough. 😏

On 5/18/2023 at 11:02 PM, JaySovereign said:

You can say whatever you want to justify the decisions that have been made, but in no way will I ever agree to buying something like this again, or go along with such nonsensical things you all put into motion like separating the main game from story in order to get more money.

...I doubt I or anyone else will ever buy anything else from you again unless you can show us it will be released reliably.

 

... It wouldn't hurt to conduct a poll on here before you all apply things like buying the story+main game separation.

You are perfectly welcome to be upset and disappointed but man... the door is over there & there is a world of other games you can play.

If you bought the expansion without knowing there *could* be schedule delays then you haven't been paying attention. I see you've been on the forums since 2017...

Do Microsoft & Google make a poll before doing major architecture changes to their software? That's laughable. It got so big it had to be split, that was painfully obvious & a wise development decision. I can't fathom it being a money grab- if you owned it before then you now own both parts at no added cost.

I get you need to vent, but it helps nothing. Play some other games dude, hanging such hopes on one game isn't healthy for anyone.

Might I suggest giving Subnautica a spin? Or Winter Survival? Green Hell? Similar feel and genre to TLD. Might make the wait more palatable for you. 

I for one will definitely buy more games from Hinterland. In no small part because of honesty like this and the care for the team.

Speaking to those who might be upset, as a software developer myself... this is why crunch exists in the game & software dev industries. Software is like a living organism. A bug in one place can cascade to others. It's as much an art as a science.

Other studios might respond to the *inevitable* hiccups by driving the team harder. Working evenings and weekend. Burning out the humans who build the things we love all in the name of the hallowed schedule.

As a fan who has bought the game & expansion, I can say unequivocally that I don't want that. If it means fuzzy release dates, that's ok with me.

I am *loving* TFTFT. It is taking me months of real world time to even get to the transmitters. I'm in no rush. I'm enjoying a return to TLD and other great games. Life is good.

Don't be chained to dates Hinterland. And feel free to stop giving specific dates in the future. Work in the way that suits your studio & the fans will understand.

Thank you for this honest update & for the game that I've played more than any others & that introduced me to the genre I didn't know I love. 🪓

I updated the fandom.com wiki to make a note that the transmitters in Desolation Point and Black rock are not needed for the Signal Void tale. 

Good thing I found a box of rifle bullets out here to make the trip worthwhile. 

2 hours ago, Smellyfries said:

The Transmitter in Desolation Point isn't required for the tale, and doesn't progress it. The transmitter in Desolation point is one of two that don't progress the tale, I don't know the location of the second.

All of the transmitters listed under the objectives for the tale in your log are required to progress, but can be done in any order. 

Though I believe the optional transmitters will still allow you to find points of interest with the secondary mode of the transceiver in their respective regions.

Hope this helps! 

OMG... 😭 

Well thank you for the info. I guess I just did a long trip for the love of sight-seeing. 😆🤦‍♀️

Hello all.

Something odd is happening as I repair the transmitters. I've done the ones in the Airfield, Mountain Town and Forlorn muskeg. 

I then decided to do the one in Desolation Point because it's so far off the beaten path I didn't want to end up there when I was all done. However I'm here and when I fix the transmitter and turn it on, nothing happens. No objective is added or checked off.

Are we not allowed to repair them in any order we want? Did I just waste a huge journey out here and instead should have gone to Pleasant Valley first?  I don't want to continue until I know what's up.

Thanks so much!

EDIT: Added photo. This is what my quest log looks like. It doesn't mention anything about Desolation Point but there is definitely a transmitter here. I'm confused. And I can't investigate any signals until all are fixed or so I read.

4 hours ago, hozz1235 said:

Somewhat related - I do recall reading/hearing something about "annual maintenance" needed on the transmitters.  I intend to go back to FA once I've passed 365 in-game days since the repair to see if that's really true.

Oh man.

Really gonna need that travois to haul those darn batteries!

40 minutes ago, AdamvR said:

transmitters reverting to the original (unrepaired) state is listed on the known issues as a bug.

Oh thank goodness. 😮‍💨

(Very mild spoilers)

Someone in another thread mentioned fixing one of the 6 transmitter towers, and then it reverting to an unfixed state and needing another battery (that had to be hauled from another region 😭) after a while.

Can anyone confirm this is how the TFTFT works?

It is taking me weeks & weeks of in-game time (and plenty of real-world) time to cross all of Great Bear & fix these transmitters, including a sidequest to get a moose. I've only gotten 3 so far & on my way to the 4th.

I will absolutely cry if these things don't stay fixed because I really don't have the time to cross all the regions over & over.

This seems odd because in my quest journal it checks them off as I repair them. Would it become un-checked? Omg.

Is this a bug or? 🤞

On 5/5/2023 at 8:56 AM, Semple Fi said:

Now that I’ve found both bunkers, I’m really excited to get more into the story!

I also found out the hard way that the transmitters burn out after one use.  So find the bunker ASAP or you’ll be hauling a battery from one map away! 😂😂

WHAT??

Tell me you're joking.

It's taking me weeks & weeks of in-game time just to repair all 6 towers ONCE. 😭

And I thought there were 3 bunkers. 

... EDIT...

Or maybe it's this from the wiki:  "...some users have noted that if you repair transmitters before getting the radio, once you have the radio you will need to repair them again..." This is a bug that was fixed.

On 4/21/2023 at 2:27 AM, PilgrimReaper said:

Very nice indeed!

However, isn't Transfer Pass supposed to connect to all 3 new FT regions, including Mountain Pass?

I don't know! Is there official word of this? 🤔

34 minutes ago, UpUpAway95 said:

Yes.  IIRC, it exits TWM through a cave on the very left edge of the TWM map and enters Blackrock in the hills near Bricklayer's Retreat.

Well well, I didn't know that! Thank you. Map updated! 

The Long Dark Connections Map version 2.1:

Greetings!

I love having a new harvestable in the game, it's a really nice addition.

I humbly however, suggest a change to the design of the harvested acorns location. It currently looks like an unsightly mud splatter in our otherwise pristine, beautiful snowy landscape.

My thoughts are... to take the design of the unharvested acorns (slightly grey spots with subtle yellow spots within) and just take out the yellow spots & maybe shade it a very little bit.

This accomplishes:

- Less obvious when the base of an oak tree is harvested, encourages more hunting around rather than it being obvious from 100+m away that a tree is surrounded by only harvested acorn spots.

- More pleasant design for the landscape instead of muddy splotches around the beautiful oak trees.

Other than that, it's really cool to keep an eye out for oak trees & have a new, yet trickey (hammer required) natural food source. I particularly love the model for the acorns in my inventory. We have spear oaks in our yard & the acorns are plentiful!  (Caution: don't eat raw acorns in real life, they are toxic!) 😁

11 hours ago, Sito said:

Both 1.3 and 2.0 are very good. You might need to move the Blackrock stuff a bit to make the connection to  TWM. I would not worry about matching exactly HL's map as it has had stuff shoved in to spaces that were probably never intended when story mode was first envisioned.

Wait, there is a connection from Blackrock to TWM??