chrislacruz

3 hours ago, Leeanda said:

  On here it's different,it's like just walking up to a stranger in the street and swearing at them.  

I haven't done that for days 😉

18 hours ago, Leeanda said:

You haven't noticed the increase in swearing the last few months?  Pre update and post update?  I certainly have ,! There's even been several posts removed because of abuse to both staff and players.  Maybe you didn't see them before they got removed ,I don't know but it never used to be like this when I first joined.except a certain troll who I'm sure you remember.    I know I have some difficulty sometimes telling constructive criticism from arguing  but there still is an issue going on. 

I tend to take the same approach one would take with people you don't know so well and not swear at all, amongst friends, things get rather sweary, but as I have no idea of thr audience here (both age and sensibility) I wouldn't swear.

Thanks for the update, it is a shame it had a rocky release by the sound sof it (I'm on console so watching from a distance so to speak) but I have been suprised by some of the anger and frustration I've seen on the forums, it's a game, if it's broken for a day or so, play something else,.

Of course you shouldn't have released with errors, it looks a bit naff, but compared to the outrageous loot boxing and money grubbing that passes for gaming in 2022, I still find TLD the best value of any game I own and I genuinely don;t understand the frustration on the Season pass, some new regions, some new mechanics and flora / fauna, released as you do them over the next 12 months.

Any goodwill you might lose should be after the 12 months if you have failed to deliver, not at the beginning IMHO.

That said, if we are waiting in 3 years fior the rest of the Far Territory, as we still wait for Ep. 5, then your goodwill would rightly slip...

But anyway, can't wait for the console release, a loot refresh and some new regions to explore!

As a console user, I haven't tried the update here, but I think communication is an issue, but we as customers also have to honest about reading what we want into announcements due to our own demands and interests. 

I would have loved the Cougar to suddenly appear in the first update, but I do understand that they have a 12 month process and things will appear as part of these incremental add ons, and I do understand I am buying a season pass, and by definition you don't get 12 months on day 1.  That said, with all the hype about the features, it could and should have been clearer to people, who are not as obsessive as many of us are on here, people were not getting Forsaken Airfield AND every gameplay update.

Ultimately, for me, I want to see The Long Dark prosper and grow, my original purchase has been worth it in the hundreds of hours of play over the years (albeit without Wintermute ep 5 dammit!, that is poor) and I can see from Hinterland's point of view the season pass seems a great way to get an injection of money to a very mature game and fund new content.

What I would say, in a world of early access vaporware, where millions of pounds seem to appear on the example of one video and some screen shots which finally develop into a shonky alpha release, Hinterland do see like a real company trying their best to balance our expectations with their necessity of running a viable business.

Release day had some technical issues, but they seem to be trying to fix it, and at the end of this, if we have a better platform for them to build on, and we can keep on seeing incremental changes and add ons, regions and mechanics, then I am very happy.  Much rather that than a game that is left to wither.

So in short, they can take my extra £20 a year and keep on churning out content, it's still a bargain.





 

2 hours ago, UpUpAway95 said:

Still no information for console users - Is the free update (loot refresh, etc. that will force us to start new save files) imminent (i.e. as soon as it clears console certification) or can we expect no update at all until the DLC content is ready for release (late January or February).

I am presuming the console release is still Feb 2023 as we haven;t heard otherwise, had someone said the console was being released earlier?  I must have missed it!

Fabulous video, and I didn't realise Katie was English!  Hello from the  cold and damp Lincolnshire fens...

More strangely I then realised we have a friend in common, Jason Wilson!  It is a small world.

The expansion looks fantastic, can't wait to try it out when it hits the PS4.

 

Well, that is all wonderful news, the new regions sound great, some new challenges is always welcome and things like Travios and Safehouse Customisation are great.

So congrats to the Hinterland team, I am very excited and will buy it the second it arrives on PS4, and have to bite my lip whislt I watch the PC guys enjoy it over Xmas!

I would say, as others have mentioned, that I am disappointed not to see a quicker resolution to Wintermute, those of us that do enjoy it have been waiting a loooooong time, but that said, I love the survival and the challenges and have never felt short changed, just slightly frustrated!

So please pass on congratulations to the team, and I wish you every success with this release.

17 hours ago, turtle777 said:

Days ?

Ever the optimist 😁😉

-t

Ha!  That made me smile!

Thanks @Valuable Hunting Knife

Hopefully some exciting news coming our way!

I look at the value this game has given me over the years, and the play hours, it's probably the best value game I have ever purchased, so by all means add paid DLC for new challenges, maps and eventually new stories.

As people keep saying, you don't have to buy them, and the existing game is huge and eminently replayable.

It's a shame (as I enjoy the story mode) it's taken so long to get to Ep.4, but that's my only grumble really.

Compared to some companies, hinterland are angels and they rightly have to build a sustainable business!

It turns out I did have cloud saves, it’s in there but corrupt so have sent hinterland… so let’s see

On 12/14/2021 at 1:34 PM, Cr41g said:

as a fellow playstation player I cannot stress cloud saving enough... I cloud save after every session

Yes, It's something I need to get into a habit of...

Hi

You have replied about this issue and I will check for the save file via the instructions you have sent, the other request was back in April.

Cheers

BTW, frustration aside about the corrupt saves, this is a truly superb game and I cannot think of another game I have ever spent so much time on, I hope you and your team have a lovely Xmas break.

DAvid

On 12/10/2021 at 8:53 PM, Admin said:

Do you have more information to share? Sorry to hear about your experience. Any and all information would be helpful: https://hinterlandgames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us 

Hi - I have logged a support request, I logged one before when we lost all our badges on a previous update, but never got a reply to that. It’s a shame as it’s probably my fave game ever, but we’ve now lost all our badges and 300 days and I just can’t face starting from 0 again 

Yes, me and my wife have opened wine to help us recover!

Was exiting black rock  mine and game crashed… now our 300 day survivor is no more… so gutted… 

so imho anyone out there on PS4 I suggest leaving the game well alone at present (or maybe it just affects black rock) on any valuable survivors. 

Yeah, given up now on getting it fixed, the tech guys never even got back to me, recovered a few badges, but someof them were obviously event specific so I won't get those.

Hi

Just wondering if this has happened to anyone else, all our progress was wiped at the last update (or rather sometime between Jan and mid Feb), we lost our badges, feats, everything, when I loaded our oldest save game (circa 300 days in voyager) I got back a couple of badges, but that was all, which is a bugger as  had pretty much everything ticked off.

Our Darkwalker and Winters Embrace badges went too..

I contacted support a couple of weeks or so ago and just got a generic autoreply with no follow up or even a 'shit that's a shame'... so has anyone else had this happen, and better still fixed it as I am at my wits end!

CLC