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Just realized - Alone can't be Interloper - they start off with a crapload of things, compared to the game & Survivorman. More like using a cheat code, if anything. https://bushcraftinfo.com/alone-prohibited-items-gear-list/

I echo the above two posts, in regards to dealing with Timberwolves there. Makes it much easier. I pick them off from the parkour area above the Cannery, and after that I have free reign of that area. Plus a lot of meat/hides. Use the employee lunch area to avoid cabin fever. Tons of food & reclaimed wood to be had right there, and stick spawns are close. Some crates can be broken down to reveal multiple tins of sardines, too. (altho it's been a while since I've been there so I can't remember if that happens on Interloper) Again, all that is only worth it if you can greatly reduce the Timberwolf risk first & for long enough. It's arguably the hardest area for a 'loper, but if you go in with the right gear at the right time, you can set yourself up for an easier stay than one might expect. Might be worth doing BRM first, to grab the noisemakers. Depends on how adventurous one wants to be in the game, OFC. (I prefer not playing too safe, otherwise the game feels more like "The Long Grind" lol)

I'd call Survivorman early seasons legit survival, and Alone a staged game show based on starving.

It's Canada. Celsius or leave!

quick menu: I want to use the 85% torch, not the 100% torch every time. I'd also like to choose which weapon gets armed with the hotkey.

Alone is staged, but that doesn't mean it's fake. Personally I find it to be borderline garbage (essentially a "who can starve the longest" marathon, with forced limitations + free handouts baked in), but that goes for 99.9% of television anyway. Survivorman (outside of those bigfoot episodes) is basically the most "pure" survival "show" out there, to this day. Adn someone already mentioned the plane crash episode, it's so Long Dark: plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, in winter.

All I know is that any time I see anyone using BR I'm going to reply like they mean Broken Railroad, no matter what.

Mostly it boils down to 2 things: total lack of certain extremely common items we use out here, and how quickly items break. A can of beans lasts years, an axe lasts a lifetime (handle excluded) as can a whetstone (and you can sharpen an edge with a simple flat rock, I've done it), and some of the most common things found in rural BC are snowshoes, skis, sleds, candles, and propane. For examples. Oh, and not being able to step onto anything higher than 6cm, and too many sprains (I've never had a sprain, and I even do scrambling on the regular). I totally understand it's about game balance, but those things do still drive me nuts.

LOL classic! Nowadays we have much thinner Merino wool & synthetics; I have no problems riding my bike or a horse with all my layers on. Takes a while to unzip to take a leak tho...

I love seeing suggestions/ideas posted here, because I hope they will be considered for TLD2. 😄

As someone who lives in rural BC, I'll post my IRL experience here: in the winter, when I'm outside, I tend to wear up to 7 layers of shirts/jackets and 3 or 4 pants & socks. Many (smart) layers will always trump 1 or 2 thick ones.

SQUIRRELS! Also: pine trees are great for all kinds of survival items. The needles make a great tea rich in Vitamin A & C plus other nutrients, you can eat pine nuts, the sap/pitch has NUMEROUS different uses (from making a lamp to waterproofing a canoe to a healing sauve and more) and you can even eat the inner bark. (IIRC in Finland it's even traditional to grind it into a flour & make it into bread)

Probably custom, although I've played longest on Interloper. I just keep going back to my longest run. I mostly play to pass time, and binge whenever a new area is introduced. I'm a bit of a survivalist & live on an acreage in rural BC IRL, and so I want the most realism possible in a survival game. Because of that, I have quite a few nags about this game, however, it's the best survival game I've ever played so I can't complain much. I do wish I could change more settings in this one, to that effect.

You know, if they wanted to add a protective item, I'd have preferred something to protect from electric shocks. Rubber boots, say. Going thru the dam during an aurora (to get buffer memories) is pretty darned annoying. Ballistic vest is definitely useless.

Plenty of bodies around, I'd say. Just not right in the open so much. There's one outside the mine, for example, which you can't see from the path. Also outside the mine: there's a bucket hanging on a chain, which sways in the wind. I tried to place a rock in it, ended up placing it on top... and it doesn't move with the bucket. It just hangs motionless in the air. haha

That doesn't look like BR (Broken Railroad) it looks more like BP.

I'M GETTING SO CONFUSED NOW How about BRK? BRP? IDK but use anything other than using the exact same abbreviation as a previous older established region!

Mountain Lion, Cougar, Puma - are all used interchangeably. Most people here in BC say "cougar". I prefer "mountain lion" because cougar makes me think of my ex... Here's a pic of a mountain lion watching me near the end of my driveway a few weeks ago. It had a fresh deer kill there, as I learned when I checked the spot 2 days later. (these cats are able to kill a full grown moose, just FYI) Can you see it? Unfortunately its head is behind a tree, but you can see one ear. I didn't stick around or get any closer, one of our barn cats was walking with me haha

I did this recently. All you need to do is exit a load point (eg. a door) & re-enter. That's enough to "roll the dice" again, so to speak. You have a certain % chance of x buffer memory appearing upon each new load. I could sometimes get 5 in one area, run to the next area & get all those, too, in the same night. Certain places are a pain, though - the lower Dam ones mean getting shocked every try... Link to a list (including what the messages say) : https://thelongdark.fandom.com/wiki/Buffer_Memories Screenshot of my stats:

IDK, I just hate useless object in games. Gotta be a snesible way to make 'em useful. BBL, going outside to split some firewood IRL. haha

Now I wanna be able to build an igloo as well haha

I want tinder to have a use once your fire skill makes it all useless. Craft tinder plugs into firelogs, or you can burn them like sticks or something?

Definitely haha But I still "wish" it was a thing.

Rope climbing really annoys me so that's the main reason I don't like HRV. That, and very non-realistic route blockades. But that's a game mechanic thing, just how it is.

haha They call that "glacier"! Seriously though, if it's colder, it just stays powder. I do understand the way it is currently just simplifies things. Just posting something from my wishlist, as a rural BC resident who is used to dealing with winter snow depths up to my waist!