Lord of the Long Dark

Agreed- you as well. I am not sure if there is rationale for the body locations or not and I certainly don’t expect a game to demonstrate medical relevance and accuracy but I also like trying to put together What the dead body was doing to get into their situation.

Batteries are not affected by EMPs. Electronics are because the magnetic field produces a high voltage circuit. So whatever the battery runs would be destroyed. If they do these types of things in the game I hope the don’t do it in interloper. It should be survival related, not camping related.

Ummm - nah. In a real survival situation you don’t develop photos in a dark room. I want scraps of meat and fat, not a scrapbook. Any solvents and photo materials would be used for fuel, not nostalgia. Survival game, not camping game.

Good point. There is no evidence they were sitting by a live fire though- only the remnants of a fire. Perhaps it was out long before they sat at it because their materials (often backpack, etc) were by the fire previously. The weak link is more that they are fully geared- when this phenomenon happens most people strip their clothing off as result of the illusion of being too warm. If you have ever had the chills when you are sick it’s similar- you might have a fever of 105 but you feel like you are freezing to death so you bundle up in all the blankets you can.

It’s not a matter of what you believe- it’s a matter that it happens. Yes people can endure extreme elements but once the hypothalamus starts malfunctioning, the body’s regulation capability is impaired and indeed people will feel extremely warm while actually freezing. It has nothing to do with mental capacity- it’s strictly an autonomous response. One may have mental capacity to recognize they shouldn’t be warm if the are medically educated however remember if the hypothalamic dysfunction is present, cognitive function is also likely imparted too.

On easy levels that shouldn’t happen. On interloper though the animals can sparse over time from over hunting. But they never stop respawning ever. I have 2000 plus days interloper and animals spawn still

no you have to have guaranteed matches for intelligent game design since the character requires water within the first day. Otherwise it just becomes luck at the start instead of skill. But good point on the bedroll- i think I forgot that. There should be no guaranteed anything other than matches and a tin can. All else can be found because the skilled player can last long enough to find them at random even if it takes several days.

Could be you are playing custom. Achievements don’t log in custom.

The loot table should be eliminated for interloper. There should ONLY be guaranteed match spawns, and start with a tin can. That’s all.

Deadman. If you aren’t playing at least at interloper level you are camping, not surviving.

And what else causes them to die in-tact while sitting comfortably?

No. Just the opposite I am saying the physio-biology of hypothermia causes abnormal behavior. They aren’t freezing to death as opposed to finding warmth. They freeze to death because they think they are warm when the hypothalamus dysfunction sets it. Often just before freezing to death people strip and cover themselves in snow or ice water trying to cool down. In fact in the game the characters even reference this. “I am so cold I am starting to warm up…”

Because when you become extremely hypothermic your hypothalamus malfunctions and makes you feel like you are extremely hot when you are actually near freezing to death. What’s strange is not that they are in the cold part, but that their clothes are on. people often strip clothing to “cool down” in that condition. It’s a strictly medical explanation.

You are assuming the corpses lit the fires. Don’t just think outside the box- there is no box.

The only time I ever use a snow shelter is on interloper runs when I start in TWM to just run to the summit right away. After that, it’s useless especially when I get my bedroll.

All the tim. Just walk a while and come back and they return.

Probably because the people who made them knew fires last longer in the cold areas.

I’d prefer a cave to a house so I can stave off cabin fever and it would be in pleasant Valley within a minute walk of the farmhouse.

I only play interloper and deadman and I never use it. Heavy and no benefit to justify the weight. Absolutely useless. I use double bear coat too instead of moose skin coat so it’s especially useless for me.

If you can get 50 days in interloper You shoud easily be able to live 500 days. By 50 days you should have a bow and double bear coat. With those you should easily survive indefinitely.

News flash- it’s safe to open the hinterland store. It always was, in fact.

Most likely arrow broke and you didn’t know it. Check where you shot deer, not where he died.

It’s always been this way. Either All carcasses from your kills rot and disappear after a few days- and existing ones rot if you take even one sliver from them. If you didn’t recover anything from an existing carcass then that would be a bug. But that surely didn’t happen.

While I cleanse the map of all birch and maple I have never run out of arrow shafts or bows even after 1500 days on one of my interloper runs. even if I did I replenish them beachcombing anyway. I still have a couple hundred arrows and hundreds of matches even after 1500 days. I can’t imagine you could run out.

By “reliable” I assume you mean guaranteed. You are guaranteed maple in WR and birch in ravine (between the cave and rail car near the entrance from ML (the one you can enter with the Guaranteed jerry can). I often set up my interloper routes to cross these locations within the first 5 or 6 days so if I don’t pick up any maple or birch on the way, I am guaranteed to get them at these locations and have them curing by my forge run usually on day 10.