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Same thing here. Coming back after almost a year to The Long Dark, I was happy when I found out they finally fixed the missing key bug. So I went to MT to finally get my sweet loot, but it's just not there in my save. Nothing in the truck, nothing in the tractor and no corpses behind the house or in the barn. It really messes with my ocd, cuz this is the perfect Stalker run: a complete base in every single major region, Faithful Cartographer, all vistas, but can't get inside that damn house

I'm surprised I didn't find any post about this. It's been almost a year since I last played the game, and coming back now I just discovered a big change they've made in the Steam version. Steam Overlay now pauses the game!! I mean, that was a big saviour to me back then during my long walks in my late game Stalker. Being able to chat with friends or browse the internet while still hearing the game and seeing a big part of the screen was really good. Sure, the ideal situation would be to not pause the game while in windowed mode and doing other stuff on a second monitor like a lot of modern games do, but Steam Overlay was the next best thing. I know some of you fellow players might read this and think "Nah man, it ruins the immersion" or "The Long Dark is a punishing survival game where you have to be alert all the time" and I can understand that. I even got jumped by some wolves a couple of times while auto walking and using the Steam Overlay. But in a late late game like my save, an eventual struggle won't kill me. But you know what's going to kill me? Hours of watching my character walk. Well, not literally kill me, but it might eventually kill my drive to continue playing the game. I know some people love walking simulators and that's fine, but that's not me. That's not what got me into the Long Dark. Plus, why not give players the choice? If you don't like it, don't use it. I bet some people didn't even know this was a thing. But let people who like it, use it. Simple as that. So going back to my post title: Why Hinterland? Why would you change that? What's the gain I'm not seeing here? As far as my knowledge about this goes (which is just one google search ), it's just an option developers can toggle on or off in their steam games. So why fix what's not broken? TL,DR: Why make Steam Overlay pause the game now?

I should've also taken a picture with this one alive, but I only have the one after the arrow punched through its brain. It was trying to charge me running in place with almost half of its body showing outside the rock. The angle doesn't show it very clearly, but the wolf is actually "floating" above the snow. He didn't spawn inside the rock but rather ran inside it during the battle. This is Blackrock southeast of Foreman's Clearcut.

Yeah, even though I never ran Interloper I've seen the loot tables. I'm waiting for the bug fixes to start one. I was just hoping to get the wood bunker or at least 2 lens in "normal" spawns in Stalker save so that I could leave one magnifying lens in each of my bases (one per region). Yes, ocd is strong in me... 😅

That's what I thought. I've watched a youtube video where the player found another one in Pilgrim on the way to Blackrock. In Keeper Pass North after going down the rope at the end of the region there was a corpse with magnifying lens. Yeah, I don't know why I mentioned loper since the loot table in loper is insanely scarce. If it's not there in Stalker I don't think it will ever be in Interloper, but I could be wrong.

Fair point. As I'm yet to run on Interloper I didn't know that. I went Stalker for all the extra items (guns most importantly 😂) and I'm trying to get all the Feats in this run before trying loper.

so... no magnifying lens spawn at all for Stalker/Interloper Blackrock huh?

Unpopular opinion here but as I've spent most of my days in Carter Dam, BR is so close I don't bother going to other forges. You just got to make sure you have enough health to survive one or two possible struggles if you miss your shots on the way there, but most of the time you can just completely avoid wolfies. One full night of sleep makes it safe enough for any experienced stalker player. Plus, one delivery of coal should be enough for all the years to come if you already used all pieces that spawned in the region. I mean 4 pieces per forging session (min) is very little when talking mid to late game.

This! Almost died going to Last Prospect to get that vista and found the polaroid is not working. I just reported it as a bug.

You got a point there sir

Hey guys, where exactly have you guys found magnifying lens in Blackrock? I've seen those detailed maps that say there is a spawn inside Blackrock Prison but I couldn't find it in my save. Standard Stalker here.

I've completely explored Mountain Town, Hushed River Valley, Broken Railroad, Ravine and Bleak Inlet in this save after the update (finnaly got my Faithful Cartographer btw 😁) and only found this now in Blackrock.

Did you report it as a bug?

Has anyone else seen this before? Can't find any pixel to interact with the battery even though it is still visible, just lower than normal

Really? I thought it was an universal thing by this point. I'm really surprised.

Can we meme here? I'd like to meme here please

Since I'm still waiting for a reply in the Technical Discussions forums (funny fact: the forum has been spammed for the last 10 hours with more than 5 pages of topics from the same guy and no action has been taken yet), I wanted to ask you guys my fellow long darkers if you had experience with this issue before. I went into the cannery workshop (last save), looted the whole place, went out and looted most of the barns, then I had to exit the game for a reason irl. Went back thinking that all I lost was the time to loot it all again, but then the surprise: the containers that had good loot were now empty. The right drawer of the ammo bench had a Hacksaw, a locker inside the workshop had a Fisherman's Sweater and a locker in the first barn on the right had a Wool Longjohns. All gone. I reloaded several times (around 50 x.x) after that to see if it was chance based but every single time those 3 were now empty. Has anyone experienced this before?

I was exploring Bleak Inlet for the first time. Aurora hit then I went directly to the cannery workshop with the code, killed the wolf and looted the whole place. After going out and looting most of the cannery I had to exit TLD asap for reasons outside the game. When I got back I was angry enough about having to loot the whole place again, but then a surprise: 3 of the containers I looted that time were empty now: the right drawer of the ammo bench had a Hacksaw, one of the locked lockers in the room with the computer had a Fisherman's Sweater and a Locker outside in one of the barns had a Wool Longjohns. I am 99,9% certain that the rest of the loot is exactly the same as before. Then I tried loading several times to see if it was chance based but in more than 30 tries those 3 are always empty now.

I'm almost certain that this bug is making human corpses disappear. I moved on to Hushed River Vale and didn't find a single corpse yet. I've explored more than half of the map already, passing by 9 possible corpse spawn points as of now and not a single one was actually there. Can't be a coincidence right?

Damn I almost went insane looking for the damn thing before coming here and seeing that it is a bug indeed. Standard Stalker here and no corpses around the farm. From what I've seen most people that has this problem don't have any corpses spawned in the area. The OCD is gonna kill me now 😢

Didn't know about this. Thank you! Yup it's the damn third tower, guess I'll have to go back and try to get it right this time

I only have two. Can you share your map with the third tower pelase?

I'm currently 13/14 and going crazy that I can't find the last location. Can someone that has all 14/14 locations share the list with me please? It's on Journal>Collections>Surveyed Locations. The official stick thread shows 3 Shortwave Tower icons on the list but I only have 2, the third one on the left don't show an icon for me even mapping right under it.