James Hickok

Nah i managed it just by a thread Still living currently day 590 ^^ in Blackrock region atm. I dont like to stay in one place so i give myself goals like travel there to gather all the coal bring it to bases, beachcomb Coastal, Crumbling and Desolation, hunt specific amount of hides...Currently want to accomplish at least 100 days in every one region in the game and have lots of fun doing it even that experienced and stacked with goods. Before i went to Blackrock i was in Ash cannon for a week or so to setr up a big base but BORIS the bear had other plans and i had to flee with clothes thorn to TWM for repairs. Happy times

No one should be antagonized by the way they play any game period. But by my exp playing TLD on Pilgrim or Voyager is not as fun as looper simply bcoz the game is so easy it gets boring because there is no challenge in it what so ever. My first run was Voyager only to learn the maps before i go into looper. I played for 250 days and at the end of the run i had so many guns, ammo, clothes and other items that there was no point playing longer, no actual challenge. I could literally cross the world without starting a single fire (unless blizzard hit). Looper tho is fun fun fun and scary sometimes so many things can happen and when u feel comfortable the game will want to kill you and by the time you know it ur in trouble (most recent close to death: day 481 i accidentally eat rancid uncoocked wolf meat and got food poisoning and parasites which is bad on looper and it demands 20 days of curing with reishi or antibiotics with ur health and stamina going lower each day to a point you cant climb or travel longer distances, didnt have any reishi on me or biotics and was in desolation point with reishi harvested in almost all of the regions stored in main base 3 zones apart + blizzard hit - managed it by a thread) and that is exciting. I encourage all players to try looper but if you like playing Pilgrim is ur choice and its fine. Personally im starting a N.O.G.O.A.(basically super hard looper mode with no health regeneration) run for even greater challenge.

Knowing the terrain is a matter of life and death in TLD especially on higher difficulty modes. When i started my survival mode in TLD (at first i played only story) i wanted to start a looper run and died on day one. Then i saw Zaknafeim's YT channel where he said something like dont go looper until you know the maps so i started a Voyager run and played it till day 250. I used map a few times to know where points of interest are but after 250 days i knew all regions more or less. After that i started a looper run and have been successful till now, day 559 and know the terain very very well. I guess looking at map if ur in a bad situation is ok. Never used loot tables tho and never will.

Well i play on xbox so i guess all saves are in cloud anyway. There should be nothing wrong with the saves after you validate u own a copy. I too play in game pass since i started and have my 550ish day looper character which i dont want to loose like that. Glad i have a boxed copy of TLD - bought it to support the game i so much like - i guess its time to unbox it