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16 hours ago, twyn1 said:

I'm unclear about what exactly the complaint is here? Can you not get into the Zone of Contamination at all unless you've finished Signal Void?  Or just the Mine areas?

I haven't touched any of the Tales. I could enter the ZoC and get into the Mine and explore nearly all of it. From watching others play with Signal Void completed, there was only one area I couldn't get to, and one other room I couldn't loot. In terms of the map, it's almost all available to anyone with the DLC whether they're done any Tales or not.

Obviously the pressies you get for completing Buried Echoes are also not avaiilable, but by all accounts they're not that spectacular (especially on Interloper?) and I would say not the point. By my understanding the main point of doing the Tales is engaging with the history and lore of Great Bear. So if you're not bothered about that (I'm not) then there's not much lost.

Given that the history and lore is the main focus of the Tales, it makes sense to gate Buried Echoes behind Signal Void: they're telling a story and the story occurs in that order.

Someone likes rugs

Hype hype!

Maybe they were all electric lighters and the Event killed them all 😁

Loved this review, it captures the experience beautifully:

 'I'm Stuck On Top Of This Mountain In The Long Dark' by Riley MacLeod
https://aftermath.site/long-dark-survival

(hat-tip to @rbos for sharing it on the fediverse)

2 hours ago, Zenteck said:

there are also a number of items classed as tools that should perhaps be in the crafting materials section (E.G. arrowheads, car batteries)

I thought the same thing, especially with the fuses and wires we now have. They feel more 'craft' than 'tool' to me and I always look in the wrong place first.
 

2 hours ago, Zenteck said:

4) The stamina gauge - Please keep it onscreen for as long as it's not at the current maximum. In situations where I want to move as fast as possible, like getting out of a blizzard, it doesn't make sense that as soon as I stop running I lose track of how exhausted my character is until I try to run again.

This is why you'll see me halfway up a rope on a ledge, running headfirst in to the cliff-face just to check my stamina bar, lol

Welcome @Zenteck, very nice to have you here 

Blackrock Prison feels a bit too far away from everywhere and fiddly to enter and exit. Work bench, storage and bed are all in different places.

Condolences on your run. You must be gutted. That was such an investment. ♥️

Agree. There's no need for insta kill when we have invisible walls in other places to prevent goating.

Oh, so glad you got it back!

Just because you didn't get a response doesn't mean it's not working, it will still have been logged. In my experience I only got an answer when they wanted more information for me or wanted me to try something. Other bugs they have just fixed in a patch without responding directly to me. That's how I expect bug reports to work, tbh.

5 hours ago, I_eat_only_wolf_meat said:

Here's an "advanced mode" one for you all.  Great Bear's tiniest (?) cave.  No "indoor" zone, but nearly 100% wind shelter.

 

Is it the one in Timberwolf Mountain on the way from Deer Clearing towards the Secluded Shelf rope?

Oh, that's a nasty one.

8 minutes ago, hozz1235 said:

Umm...I recall them giving 5 pts.

Oh, are they for base skills like the normal skill books? In the readme file it just said '6 Research books: Survival 101 series' and I wasn't sure what that meant.

34 minutes ago, hozz1235 said:

Camping Tools

What do the skill books in Camping Tools do?

10 minutes ago, James Hickok said:

Yes thank you. Im on a business trip and come back tomorrow evening. Dont have TLD with me to check. 

Thanks !

You're welcome my friend. Enjoy your lots of scurvy when you get back 😄

37 minutes ago, James Hickok said:

Okay..... but please tell me:   Im currently on my nogoa run day 44 (82 % hp and 2 stims in inv !) so the custom settings are interloper base but boosted. @Admin what is the drain rate for scurvy on an interloper game? Is it medium or more? is it maxed out? 

If not im affraid i will need to abandon my save again and make another run with the setting to max. I hope it is max on interloper. The thought that my run is not the hardest it can be annoys me and scurvy is really easy to keep at bay so if possible i would like it to be harder.

Easy enough to check:



Looks like scurvy is at the max ("high") for Interloper.
 

Condolences to players who were enjoying infinite rifles and no condition/torch loss during carcass harvesting 😛

A great list of updates, some clearly responding to concerns from players, too. Thank you for all your hard work!! 🫶

The fidelity of the location of sounds. I didn't used to be able to play on headphones, but once I started I was blown away by how accurate the stereo sounds are. I can hear the tiniest sound of crows and be able to find a carcass purley by following the noise. I know exactly where a wolf is once it barks at me. How much of my gameplay is now down to my hearing rather than sight is brilliant. I've never felt that in a game before.

The pictures on the walls in houses, often of recognisable places

All the diffrent object sounds when you pick things up or select them. And the sound of rifling through drawers.

Being able to tell the status of things you're cooking by listening, the tell-tale sounds thins make on the stove.

I levitated this arrow, or is it a spear I threw at the tree behind?