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My idea: April fools joke, all the wolves are replaced with imposters

well, it's called the long dark for a reason

1 minute ago, ManicManiac said:

You mean Great Bear Island's location?  Sure, that's certainly possible too.  We don't really have a canon source to know where it's geographically located... just that it's Canada.  🤔  That's a fair point also.

maybe just video game logic? darkwalker magic?

5 minutes ago, ManicManiac said:

...we also don't really know the full situation following the "First Flare..."

I don't think we even know for certain what it was in the first place (sure, most educated guesses look towards the Carrington Event - but orders of magnitude more severe and with lasting effects)... we don't really know for sure.

It's entirely possible that the event has affected/impacted climate as well as the power grid.  It's admittedly a bit of a stretch just to explain a foundational design choice... but who's to say that First Event didn't do more than just effectively EMP the planet... perhaps the boundaries of the polar regions have expanded to encompass so much more of each of their respective hemispheres.

This might very well explain the perpetual winter.

Again, yes... that seems a bit of a stretch, but that's MY headcanon anyway.

my guess is that it's up in the same latitude as Greenland, where it's just frozen year round

1 minute ago, xanna said:

How would that work with the 'world gets colder over time' setting? I suppose if the seasons work by a simple temperature difference from the 'master' temperature, then every season gets colder and colder, so after a few years, summer would be as cold as the first autumn etc.

that's what i was kinda thinking

11 minutes ago, Leeanda said:

Do you mean accidentally.... Or my kind of accidentally 😁

i mean, a wolf had previously attacked me and severely so it may or may not have been to end the run

1 minute ago, Leeanda said:

I  kind of understand that.. my cache at ash was a bit disappointing too.   It's a long trek to miners folly and back to anglers den for 3 fish.  

that sucks. were they at least good fish?

On 10/2/2022 at 1:04 PM, conanjaguar said:

@florpman

Have you had the chance to do any more work on this idea, or was that the finished draft?

no, not really. i'm thinking of making an entirely new region idea.

man, these are funny

2 hours ago, Leeanda said:

I know there's a bug with the notes and keys themselves but I don't think there's an issue with the actual loot .   

There are a lot of flare guns and shells around since the update though so I'm not surprised you found more at the lookout tower.

i know, it's just really disapointing that i wasted my time and a stim to get three flare shells

also the tower was before the cache

he was just sleeping why did you do that to him :(((((

gotta say, at least for me, falling. i keep deleting saves (because i forgor) but the few times i've died, i'll list here

dying in my sleep: 1

I slept in Carter Hydro and died

killed by live wires: 1

I slept in Carter Hydro, woke up to an aurora, stepped on some wires, and burned to death.

falling: 2

I accidentally jumped off the cliff next to the waterfall in Ash Canyon

I walked onto a slightly lower level of ground in The Ravine and got hit with the killbox

On 5/25/2023 at 8:55 PM, hozz1235 said:

However you define "stress" in the game, what is the area you feel the most relaxed (least amount of stress)?

For me, I believe it's the Ravine.  No predators, plenty of game, wood, birch bark and caves.

the giant cliff waiting to consume you and end your massive run:

also, my least stressful location is probably the poacher's camp in forlorn muskeg. i know it might sound crazy to hear someone say that they find any place in forlorn muskeg to not be stressful, it's just that, for me at least, the poacher's camp is the staple of any of my forlorn muskeg explorations or startings.

keep doing this! i like reading about it. i wonder how you'll inevitably end the run

i found a note in the ruined lookout in mystery lake about a cache with ammo, so i went to the place. before that, i went to the forestry lookout, and found a flare gun and seven flare shells. i didn't have enough stamina to climb all the ropes, so i used a stim. when i got to the top i found three flare shells! THREE FLARE SHELLS! remember how i said i got seven shells from the forestry lookout? btw, this was voyageur. 

it's me, the darkwalker guy! i know you didn't miss me, and you probably forgot i existed, but i'm back! anyways, i've got an awsome idea: seasons. now, before you go angrily reply "tHis iS a wInTer SurVivaL gaMe!!!1!!111" i already know that. my idea is actually really simple. there's a 365 game-day cycle. at the start of the cycle, the air is slightly warmer than normal, that would be summer. then, it goes to fall, which would be standard temperature levels. then, it becomes winter, where it's slightly colder than normal. it then goes to spring, which is just fall, and it goes back to summer. the map doesn't change, and it's still freezing outside, it's just that it's less freezing in the "summer" part of the cycle and colder in the "winter" part of the cycle

On 8/2/2022 at 5:35 PM, conanjaguar said:

Go easy on @MattD. At least he did admit that his map wasn’t that good. In fact, combined with his

It was sarcasm, because it is actually a very good map

On 7/11/2022 at 7:24 PM, MattD said:

Here's my very rough "map" for Great Bear Basin. It's hand-drawn and not exactly to scale. It's also missing a lot of things. Map making isn't my forte, but it should give you an idea of how I see it. 

Yes, very rough, low-quality map. Definitely not WAY better than anything I can draw and can’t POSSIBLY be INCREDIBLY cool. It is just not ANY of those things.

16 hours ago, conanjaguar said:

@florpman

You really like the Darkwalker, don’t you?

Yep

On 5/2/2022 at 2:56 AM, Typoclerk1 said:

Playable Zone/Food for Thought

the IDEA: Natural Disasters and Global Warming have decimated Pleasant Valley.

Here is the scenario ...

Pleasant Valley has transformed into an arid Desert due to the super-massive eruption of Volcanoes .. at was once known as "Yellowstone National Park" in the USA. The event has triggered other Volcanoes around the World to also erupt. As a result .. Earth has become an unhospitable environment. It is virtually unsurvivable.

The Sun is twice as large as it once was. Annoying crickets and locusts buzz at the dry and stagnant air. There are NO clouds and very little moisture. There aren't very many areas for shade ..

Tumbleweeds, cactii, sun-burnt silica and harsh dry winds .. fill the environment.

However .. due to a huge release of "Primordial Radiation" ..  engineered by Scientists seeking to save mankind .. Pleasant Valley has recovered quickly and is NOW teeming with dangerous insects, poisonous reptiles, and venomous snakes ..  Scorpions, Tarantulas and  Armadillos too. Psychotic Armadillos. Psychotic Rabid Armadillos from Texas .. that also happen to be tasty and nutritious .. IDK .. maybe? So anyway ...

An oasis fools Will MacKenzie into thinking he can survive ...

And so .. discoverable items allow Will to dig a well for water ...

Ok so maybe this isn't a NEW idea .. but I am NEW to the forum and really just wanted to post something to break the ice .. or maybe just melt it!

Matt Lawton

Typoclerk1/Typoclerk (Steam)

Avid Outdoorsman & Gamer of TLD

 

No, technology is gone. This is a winter survival game. Stars can’t get bigger because volcanoes explode, and it the sun doubled in size, everything on the surface of earth would be vapourized. Radiation can’t be “engineered” because that’s not how it works. Radiation is just unstable atoms releasing electrons, protons and neutrons to become more stable, and since when was Yellowstone National Park in Canada?!

On 6/27/2022 at 5:05 PM, Pencil said:

Nope, not your device's fault. Privacy settings on the Google apps default to private, so the OP probably just needs to make the slide public

Idk how to do that and when I try to make it so anyone can use it, it just doesn’t work so yeah : /

here’s the thingy

I’ll just copy and paste the information