javijungle

I finally finished Tales, I liked very much the story, the contaminated area and the new difficulties although after having explored the map I will retire to live in other places less exigent.

I leave you a nice view of Enduring Waterfalls and a new toxic sunrise.

On 4/2/2024 at 7:07 PM, zuladez said:

if I am not mistaken I would say that it is a beautiful sunrise from the lower basin of the Hushed river valley?

18 hours ago, CobraGeneral said:

good perspective from the idle camp 📷

I support this idea, in fact now with the contaminated wolves I miss a staff that can be used as a spear or defense weapon.

I suggested some time ago an improvement similar to this one.

I think the workbench in the hangar basement is ideal for working during auroras and even better when there is glimmer fog as it avoid the affection, what I do not understand is that it is so deep.

Welcome @MolkoB, greetings from the south of Spain and congratulations for the decoration, I wish you a happy and fun retirement. I see you are really enjoying the game 😉

I have been exploring the area for several days and I think that a good solution is the combination of Mindfull Cabin with the drift island cottage, since you have the workbench, two fishing huts, a nearby moose and even a bear that you can attract to the doorstep of Mindfull cabin to cook it.

What I really miss in these cabins is a real kitchen like the one at Paradise Farm.

16 hours ago, piddy3825 said:

Another sad story and awful way to die in The Long Dark.

Imagine you're have a great day, your goal is in sight, just a few more hours and you will find the comforts of home but then this happens.  Suddenly without warning you break thru a crevasse in the snow and plunge to your death into a dimly lit cavern.  Obviously they were killed on impact, but either way another senseless way to die on GBI!

Exploring through the caves of the new territories I have seen that the developers have improved the experience and details like these are appreciated when going through the transitional caves becomes very boring.

Another sunset at my current retreat in mindful cabin at the forsaken airfield

My new and beautiful base, the little island cabin on the drift island of the forgotten airfield

Love really these sunrises🌄

Hi! Now that I'm exploring new maps and often get sprained ankles from going where I shouldn't, I saw this photo of Vancouver and clearly felt the need to climb these snowy slopes with my crampons.

An award winning photo from theatlantic.com contest at Mount Seymour, Vancouver, Canada

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/12/winners-of-the-2023-international-landscape-photographer-of-the-year/676908/

I've been using the travois for a few days and at first it seemed complicated to overcome some obstacles on the roads, in fact my first experience was to get to BR from FM, how would I overcome the landslide, the tree trunk that acts as a bridge is easy to pass.
The most complicated thing comes when you can not pass through other areas due to unevenness, I have started to use a reserve of stones to empty the travois and move it folded but it is very uncomfortable and you lose a lot of time, perhaps with two travois it is more practical. 
The situation gets complicated if you have to go through caves or tunnels in the dark, in that case either you make a torch path or you go blind, until Hinterland does not allow to hang the lantern on the travois.

My conclusion is that it is very practical to use on a mostly flat map, without many slopes or transition zones, especially for transporting huge amounts of smelly meat to your shelter undetected by predators.

Happy holidays and enjoy the rest!
A truly satisfying year, THX

Welcome to the forum @Smol Alien and enjoy the experience, this game promises hours of immersion.

Some time ago I had the same question and out of curiosity I found that a possible setting would be Vancouver Island, which is precisely Vancouver where @Raphael van Lierop is from or at least the headquarters of Hinterland Studios. Although perhaps it is more of an inspiration for the studio rather than a similar landscape.

I totally agree with you.
I don't see the need to install the famous Ambient Lights MOD for these cases, it should be checked well, I have found really dark interiors with windows without curtains.
With blizzard or storm it would be normal that the sunlight would be altered but with clear day to use the magnifier outdoors does not make sense so much darkness.
In fact there are ice caves with permanent lighting like the one in HRV

When it became available I started by making two lures and prepared two holes in the Milton basin. After noticing how easy it is to lose fishing lures and that it takes a long time to get a fish to catch a bite, I got lazy about making more lures.

Perhaps in an area where there are no fishing huts and gear available with a workbench it would be more practical to fish, such as at Brickslayer Retreat Lake, although I have not checked to see if it would allow holes to be drilled in the ice on this lake.

I think to make this feature more useful all rivers and lakes with some minimum depth and frozen surface should allow fishing in this way.

10 hours ago, Xenusion said:

The colors on the second were particularly striking to me.

I've always thought that blue and green color scheme would predict an aurora, but I was confused about this.

And if we place various large snowballs ❄❄❄ we can make a snowman with sticks and a hat ⛄and scare the wolves ... or attract them and let them destroy the snowman 😥

Now seriously, salting the meat or smoking it would be a great improvement to not having to hunt so much, I would strongly support it 👍 

Currently playing in voyager, if possible I attract the bear as lure to a nearby cave so I can easily get its meat after killing it. 
I look for a rock in the cave that the bear can't reach, climbing is sometimes possible, I also usually light a campfire inside the cave to shoot it when it stops, although sometimes I can't get on the rock and it catches me. If the cave does not have these rocks I also use a fallen tree trunk to protect myself when shooting.

I share your opinion, but perhaps I think that having the elk in the lake the food is quite affordable unless you want to respect his life, it seems logical to think that existing a boat you could make a fishing hole, I agree with you.

15 minutes ago, ShannonByrneArt said:

@javijungleThanks so much, really does mean a lot. I've uploaded all my Long Dark paintings in the art section if you want to have a looksy at the entire painting 😊

Thanks, I've already seen them, really impressive.

Welcome @ShannonByrneArt and greetings from southern Europe, really a nice story and if your avatar is the painting you are talking about you seem to be quite good at it.

1 hour ago, zuladez said:

 

Yeah! Milton Basin, what a great place to fish and hunt and few wolf spawn.

On 7/25/2023 at 12:38 PM, javijungle said:

Spending my last days of the 500 days achievement at Paradise Meadow with Rodolfo's company

Hi, I finally got my 500 day live achievement, on voyager, pretty easy once you reach level 5 in all skills, to the point of spending days sleeping and consuming meat and water non-stop.

My last 100 days at Paradise Meadow Farm were more fun thanks to Bruno and Rufus. Going down to the Milton Basin to hunt the moose and eat the meat in the cave ensures a few days of routine.

One curiosity I discovered is that if you leave the sleeping bag open on the ground, once it gets all messed up you can still sleep without benefit of heat but that's something. I recommend you to get the achievement, once you find the most affordable area of the map with lots of food (bear, moose, fishing...) it is very easy.

Bienvenid@ @JohnLovesCoffee

Summer greetings from southern Spain! and best of luck with that annoying bear 🐻☕