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UTC-10, let me know your experience traveling from CH to Ravine. I am not encountering problems moving between regions where a mine is the intermediary step, CH to PV, PV to ML and ML to MT.

On my post update run the bear is spawning at the end of Mystery Lake. I never recall anything other than a shallow recess for the ML bear.

Starting a new run post updated reminded me how accustomed I was to benefiting from Level 5 skills on my pre update Voyageur run. Of the various skills: (1) Carcass Harvesting, (2) Cooking, (3) Fire Starting, (4) Ice Fishing, (5) Rifle Fireman, (6) Archery, (7) Mending, (8) Revolver Fireman and (9) Gunsmithing - which do you consider most important/valuable? I view Archery 5 as most important. I miss crouching for easy shots at deer and wolves. It has taken to time to re-learn aiming at deer at a distance or lining up behind a deer for an easy shot. Point blank head shots on deer are preferable to tracking wounded deer. I look forward to getting Archery 5 again as I like to lure in wolves while crouched. If I played on Stalker or Interloper I might have a different point of view - Cooking 5 might then be my #1 skill.

Thank you hozz1235, uninstall and re-install appears to be my last available option...either that or just play via time capsule.

Thanks. I did verify my game files and everything checked out OK. So far I have not uninstalled and reinstalled the game. Would doing that mean that I lose my post-update saved game?

Alone, I think it is just bad luck you have not found a rifle so far. In CH, PV, Winding River and ML I have found 2 (standard and Barb's) and sometime like 4 revolvers. So far I have found enough arrows to equip myself with 12 without having visited a forge. Revolver ammunition is seemingly abundant with rifle ammunition less so. My estimate is a ratio of 3 to 1 in favor of revolver ammunition. On my pre-update run I commonly left the rifle at a base and carried only the revolver and bow. The revolver and bow at skill level 5 are formidable weapons as crouching makes animals into easy targets. A revolver need not hit a wolf to scare them away...buying you time to skedaddle. The rifle would be preferable if you stumble into a bear but a flare gun would work just as well. I prefer the bow for bear hunting, always shooting from safety and never engaging a bear in a fair fight.

Hi. I have filed a ticket on this issue. So far I have received a robo response but nothing else. My computer is the HP PC I purchased in July 2022. It worked fine pre-update and will still work fine post update via Time Capsule with my old game save. Entering into buildings and transition caves works fine. Exiting a transition cave to a connecting region works fine. Moving directly from region to region such as ML to Ravine or CH to Ravine is what crashes the computer.

My post update Voyageur run started in CH. I found it was impossible to enter Ravine at the railroad tracks entrance. As usual you are given the option of "Leaving Coastal Highway". A transition screen appears without the usual rabbit-deer-wolf-bear or moose animation in the bottom right. Cursor never re-appears. Game crashes and only by restarting PC can I get TLD to close. I have waited as long as 10 minutes for the next region to open. It is possible to travel between regions if the connection is through a mine. This means travel from CH to PV is possible. Similarly travel from PV to Winding River is possible. Traveling from ML (Carter Dam area) to Ravine crashes the game. Travel to TWM from PV also crashes the game. Has anyone else experienced this sort of game crash? At this point I have concluded my Voyageur run can access only CH, PV, ML, MT and HRV as they are all connected by mines. Trying to travel to Ravine, BI, DP, FM, BRR, KP, BR, AC and FA will crash the game as there is no are mine connections from CH, PV, ML, MT or HRV. At this point I am ready to give up on the update and return to my old post update run via the Time Capsule.

I am finding transition load times to be impossibly long to the point that the game cannot transition (crashing) between regions. So far I have been unable to move from CH to Ravine or from PV to TWM. The only transitions that do work are region transitions that involve mines such as Cinder Hills mine from CH to PV.

On Voyageur I have been surprised by the amount of whetstones (8) , sewing kits (18), Go Juices (6) and revolver rounds (140) in just two regions - CH and PV. Similarly I have been surprised by the lack of rifle ammunition vs revolver ammunition. So far just 50 rifle rounds - mostly as scattered single rounds in odd corners. So far two rifles - one per region. No variation in wildlife.

My Voyageur run is afflicted by loading screens between regions never loading. Trying to pass between Coastal Highway and Ravine is impossible as the loading screen never completes loading. No walking animal in right bottom corner and mouse cursor never re-appears. Game crashes and I end up restarting the computer to close TLD. Same issue trying to travel between Pleasant Valley and TWM. What does continue to work is moving between regions where your first travel through a mine.

My first run on the updated game started in Coastal Highway. After 54 days I tried to exit the region for the first time - trying to enter Ravine. The game freezes - the walking deer, wolf or bear never appears in the bottom right corner. Even after 10 minutes nothing happens. I end up having to restart my PC to get out of TLD. After 2 attempts I have concluded I cannot enter Ravine. Has anyone else experienced anything similar trying to move between regions?

Barb's Rifle in CH on my Voyageur run.

Day 60 on my Voyageur run and no wear on my improvised crampons.

Piddy, I agree that CH animal and human corpses are in different areas. Also, feathers are appearing in just 2's. So far I have killed two bears - circling crows appeared but no feathers resulted over the several days before the carcass despawned. This new run is my second run ever since 2020 and I do see some variation in which buildings are burned out and which are intact.

I purchased the game through Steam on Wednesday and got around playing for the first time on Thursday. Before that I made multiple saves of my old Hinterland folder in order to return to my 2400 Day Voyageur run at some future time. On Voyageur I started at CH and have played 40 days so far. Things I noticed are: - My character seems to burn through food and water more quickly - perhaps it is just my perception. Until I got my fishing skill to 4 I was burning through the food I found while looting; - Weapons are hard to find. At day 30 I found "Barb's Rifle" at a fishing hut - pale green .303 with an improved iron site. I have not found a revolver. Ammunition so far follows the 2 to 1 ratio of revolver to rifle I found on my last run with 39 revolver rounds and 19 rifle rounds found so far; - Improvised crampons are a great addition to the game; - Sapling locations have changed minimally; - Bear pathing along Bear Creek and Fishing Village has not changed; - Cowachan and Fishermans sweaters were early finds, the latter on day 1; - Wolf behavior seems unchanged; - Tools have been easy to find so far in CH. WIthin 30 days I had hacksaw, 2 hatchets, 3 knives and a heavy hammer.

After a few side missions on my current Voyageur run I anticipate an extended vacation at TWM's Crystal Lake. 103 pieces of cloth, 32 pieces of metal and 77 arrow shafts stashed at the Mountaineer's hut should set me up well for an extended visit. To conserve arrows I will feed myself snaring rabbits, fishing (level 5 skill) and scaring wolves away from their deer kills. It should be fun spending 200+ days without expending any bullets or breaking any arrows. With a bit of care I can employ a "live and let live" approach to the bear that visits the lake.

Yes to all four options. True hunger tends to expand one's culinary horizons. I might even eat red beats, which I loathe, if they appeared in dusty, rusty or banged up cans.

piddy, I agree that TWM Mountaineer's hut is a great place to retire. Relatively easy to kill bear, deer and rabbits. Pushing deer towards wolves is fairly simple task. A joy is the fact that unless you have smell bars wolves will leave you alone in the area directly behind the Mountaineers hut. Wood is abundant. On my current run I made it a point to import around 30 pieces of metal. Since I play on Voyageur the lack of a forge is not a problem. Almost all my cutting is accomplished with a hacksaw.

Stinky socks, I cannot rule out anything but the likelihood that I will miss HRV and choose to wander about are slim. I may revisit the cave below Stairsteps Lake just long enough to retrieve a few cattails, cloth and flares. Then I leave for good. I want nothing more to do with HRV.

After 1800+ days on Voyageur I occupied myself for about 300 days revisiting all regions explored so far to re-loot. A fair number of items turned up including overlooked saplings and valuable loot - a fire striker at Dam, packs of matches, overlooked cloth and scattered bullets being the best examples. Now at 2100+ days I am relocating all valuable resources out of HRV, Milton, Mystery Lake, Forlorn Muskeg, Broken Railroad and Desolation Point in order to concentrate them at three main bases (CH Fishing Village, PV Farmhouse and TWM Mountaineers Hut). This "loot and leave" plan is possible since I don't need to spend any more time in HRV, Milton, Mystery Lake, Forlorn Muskeg, Broken Railroad or Desolation Point. These three bases are fairly close to each other and share one big advantage, i.e. easy to kill bears. The PV and TWM bases will both serve as jump off points for my next region to explore - that being Blackrock.

Is there a reason while the TLD store at Hinterland is still closed?

FWIW, I recall that reading "Advanced Guns, Guns, Guns" put me over the top to Rifle Skill to 5. I specifically recall how the book saved me some rifle ammunition at a time I was trying to hoard ammunition. If you intend to push your run beyond 500 days you are likely to reach Mending 5 just by repairing your clothes in the normal course of play. In the final push to Mending 5 I may have been repairing items at 90% condition.

I have found that if I hit a bear with a bow shot while my character is on an inaccessible grade the bear will thrash around at the foot of the grade until it bleeds out. I have used this method innumerable times at the cliff across the road from the CH Fishing cabins.

I commonly hunt the bear from the inaccessible cliff overlooking the CH Fishing cabins. If the bear has detected me before I shoot it invariably attempts to attack me but ends up thrashing about at the base of the cliff until it bleeds out. If the bear had not recognized my presence before I shoot they run off seemingly in fear and confusion. More rarely a bear that has not detected me will not react at all when shot (I usually hunt with the bow) but will just continue walking its route. In those instances I use rocks to pull it back in my direction till it bleeds out.