Stoutlander

When I first started playing the game I thought about this as well, but after thinking more about it, found bows and crossbows wouldn't add to the game. From a realistic stand point, if you were lucky enough to find a compound bow, then you would also have to be lucky enough to find arrows that were cut to your draw length (the longer someones arms are, the longer their draw length). Crossbows have different length bolts as well. You would also have to hope to find hunting tips for those arrows. Arrow shafts are often wrecked after using them while hunting, and the hunting points can be as well. They actually wouldn't last longer than the arrows do in the game. To top it all off, it's much easier to pick up a rifle and hit your target than to pick up a bow and hit your target if you have never used either. The in game bow and arrows are just for the game to work. The idea is based from reality, but everything about them and their manufacture is pretty much nonesense. I know this but don't consider it as I play, and enjoy the game as it is. Adding compound bows and crossbows would be like adding different types of large caliber rifles. You might need .303 ammo, but find 30-06, .308, or 7mm Rem mag, instead. You now have 4 types of ammo you are lugging around because you think you might find a different caliber rifle down the road. It can just add more headaches than it is worth. Sometimes keeping it simple is better.

Why wouldn't they? Ever see one of the many "game of the year" editions on disc from Bethesda which have the games and all the dlc??? Is it the delivery method that makes the added content??? Even the gaming companies that release dlc on discs still refer to it as dlc on the packaging, the disc itself, and their advertising for it. I'm sure you can wrap your head around it. If not, take it up with the gaming companies if you have a problem with it. OP asked for opinions. I gave mine and explained why. Stop hijacking the thread.

Blah, blah, blah. I've played video games since I was a teenager when Pong came out. Spare me your revisionist history. DLC was not "born from the modding scene" as you like to think. I remember well when Bethesda's released their first DLC for Oblivion. It was FREE on a disc included in PC / Xbox 360 Gamer magazine. People passed around the disc with their friends, it was sought out, ( I still have mine). Then Bethesda began charging for content released (and re-released) others - including their first that was utterly pathetic, the infamous "horse armour". Fast forward to Fallout 76 and in between. Shameless cash grabs. They had very enjoyable games, - Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, N.V., & 4, but it doesn't require one to not acknowledge truth. So no, I haven't forgotten "its roots".

The truth about most dlc's and expansions is that they are shameless ways to extort money from game fans. A more accurate way to describe most dlc's is that they are part of the original game that has been held back for ransom. Bethesda is a master of this. They try to make the perception that the dlc's were planned and made after the game came out but it's all smoke and mirrors. Gaming extortion with a cute little name.

Is there a polite word for whining? Asking for a friend.

The ground is a heat sink. A cold floor is a heat sink. Frozen ground is a super heat sink. It is not a simple issue of warmth. You can be nice and toasty, go to sleep on a cold surface and not wake up.

I'm willing to bet that everyone drops "something" that always points to a certain direction when dropped, but doesn't want to talk about it so it doesn't get nerfed. So I'm thinking that if they have a map that is totally reversed with regard to the sun setting and rising, they hopefully won't mess with the "something" that is dropped.

Eat your darn carrots!!! 😄 Old WW2 poster

A GO! energy drink is a drink item in The Long Dark . Drinking a GO! energy drink will improve Hunger and Thirst, and it provide a bonus to Fatigue and Stamina through the benefits Energy boost for 30 min and Fatigue reduction for 45 min. When the duration of Energy boost is over, it causes a Headache Affliction .

I have to agree with this. I enjoy playing this game because of it's roots in realism. With that in mind, I ask "if it was me, what would I do"? Spend a lot of time making latern fuel, or figure out a way to make candles or a type of grease lamp, or colonial style rushlight. I'd conserve my lantern fuel for caves (or use torches) and make some kind of small lighting device for wherever you are camping/staying put. Candles, grease lamp, or rushlight can all be made from rendered fat a heck of a lot easier than trying to make lantern fuel, if it is even possible.

Recreational climbing vs trying to scale a large rock surface with a pack and bedroll (with possibly a rifle or bow) on are two very different things. Maybe they would have to also add a light weight rope so our guy can pull his gear up after he /she climbs?

The only time this would be done is while packing it back to camp or home, and then it is usually wrapped in something to keep the sun and birds off it.

I've shot different revovlers on and off since the late 1970's and the only problem I ever had was similar to yours; bad ammo. The one in the game looks to be modeled after what the RCMP carried and were made by Smith and Wesson. They were extremely reliable, especially in harsh conditions. It's a survival game. If your life depends on a firearm, you take care of it as IRL. In game revolvers won't jam as the RCMP's didn't, or do 99.99 % of all others. It is my opinion that the developers were proper with how the revolver functions. Reloaded ammo might be the only leg the OP has to stand on.

Sleeping on the floor or ground in below freezing temps. I'm sure the developers will get to that right after they allow us to stick our tongues on frozen metal.

I'm wondering if they no longer degrade? I don't use them often, but have used them many times for short periods and they have yet to degrade any amount.