tulkawendark

Custom Interloper (no changes except region selection): Didn't heal during the night after sleeping for 9h at the broken airfield.

😕 I've been exploring on voyager and wandered what happened to all of the firearm cleaning kits. I looted BRR, far point and a lot of areas on the new map, and haven't encountered a single one. Got a pistol and a rifle though. Also, funnily enough I haven't found a single flare gun, although, everyone claims to be finding them right and left.

Day 17 The food hunt begins asap. The snow falls plentifully. It's the most risky business starting unprotected fire to harvest a deer in the middle of a wolf patrolled lake. One never knows when they might finish harvesting a gut in the middle of a blizzard with a fire blown out and on the way home stumble into some wolf mouth in the whiteout. I hope the moose doesn't sneak up on my back to scratch it either. He may have wandered away, but he was here a couple of days ago. The weather changes to benevolent mood and allows me to cook the meat and take everything off. My harvesting skill due to books and deer rises to level 3. I won't be able to bash through two wolves with two guts and a big chunk of meat. As soon as I finish cooking, I grab everything stinky and do max sprint in the cave direction where two more guts are already curing. There is another deer up the hill. I use the torch pulled out of the previous deer fire to start another one. I make a quick run to the cave to drop the curable stuff off. The chunk of raw meat is still there. I bring it back with me. The weather grows iffy again when I finish harvesting another deer. I hurry to make another drop off run to the cave and then risk taking one chunk of cooked meat with me to smuggle into the hunter's lodge for supper. The smuggling business turns out hairy. Since the wolves had been patrolling closer to the mountain, I first chose the main road instead of cutting terrain over the moose hill. Turned out that my smelly activities hadn't gone unnoticed and one of the wolves relocated to the main road. He sensed my meat smelling jacket and sprinted towards me. I bumped into too steep section of the hill, curbed around it, climbed it, saw another wolf to the right and sharply rolled down hill risking sprains, ending up on the road section again. Refusing firmly to drop the chunk of my hard earned meat I stomped hard determined towards the building with the wolves and wind whipping. Another blizzard began when I bashed through the door. Inside I had a nice surprise waiting. Three of my birch saplings were cured. I relocated to the basement workbench where I made six arrow shafts. Remembering an arrow head left in the yellow wagon, I've decided to advance the set and placed one of the arrow shafts onto a basement table as a small gift for another survivor. There was still daylight left. Up until night I kept crafting. The result was three band new arrows. If only the guts for the bow would finish curing before I run out of food. Dusk rolling, I toast another survivor. May the weather be as benevolent to them as it has been to me today.

Day 16 or 15 days before Christmas The Broken Railroad doesn't want to let me go. This grumpy gang of the flea collectors is barking crazy if they think they can keep me locked in. I sneak out the back door successfully and cut corners pushing uphill towards a yellow wagon. Conveniently, there is a red flare waiting for me. I cannot deny that this is a very nice spot for a little gift. I place an arrowhead on the shelf and move on. Although hypothermia is up my throat, I move stealthily. There was a wolf by the truck that had nearly taken my head off on the way in. Sadly, this lonely loser did not want to join the pack of his three buddies below. Instead, he bottlenecks the exit. The threat of a blizzard intensifies. My health is in a fairly good shape and I have a hatchet to heck my way through him, but it's a guaranteed thing that I will get covered by a blizzard too should I push on. I turn back. There was a deer left in a cave in the Hunting Lodge area. I will take his guts and begin curing them for a bow. My maple and birch bark saplings are nearly cured. Since I turn back there no longer is a need for a blizzard and the weather clears up to a moderate wind by the time I go through the metal gate and reach the cave. I only have two pieces of coal for emergencies, thus, I quickly grab enough sticks to counteract the freezing temperature by a small margin and place the fire by the deer next to the cave. Although I use a knife and remove both guts within half an hour, the wind blows out the fire leaving a big dent in my health. Ouch! At least I now have a wonderful bedroll. The back of the cave is fairly warm. I play cards for two hours inside the bedroll and warm up fully. I don't have anymore firewood to start a fire, but I don't want to leave deer meat and hide. It's -6C outside. I risk removing the deer hide, which costs 3/4 of my body temperature. Since I'm not freezing yet I take additional 4 minutes with a hacksaw to grab a 0.6kg chunk of meat. I don't feel like spending a match to cook so little, don't need water at present either. It's not the best idea to sneak by a wolf pack with two guts. I leave the guts in the cave to cure and drop raw meat into snow. The wind is picking up the speed again and it's snowing once more. I'm not going to be spending the night in a cave without much firewood. The wolves are hanging out on the other side of the lake when I approach the Hunter's Lodge. The bow will be crafted here. I'm going to need to scavenge for food actively while the guts are curing. I'm counting on grabbing all meat off the various deer in the area. For that I'm going to need a lot of firewood. I go to the main bedroom that has a trunk and a rocking chair. There are a couple of turned over shelves and loose boards on the floor that I decide to clean up. I can use this reclaimed wood tomorrow and this will make the bedroom look nice. Once it gets too dark to chop wood, I look at the diminishing food inventory. A good chocolate bar and cattails serve as supper while another blizzard roars outside. To another survivor somewhere out there - I hope you are not lost in this white curtain of snow. If you found your way blocked, may you have the chance to retreat and rethink your strategy safely.

😂 Not very long. I looted BR map and was lucky enough to score a bedroll - it seems undoable without. Then I crossed the bridge and travelled along a cool tunnel with the train tracks until I found another yellow wagon and a ravine. Good thing I brought a lot of fir wood because I thought I'd warmly stay the night in the tunnel and then climb to the ravine the next morning. That tunnel was butt freezing at night, -11C No can't do without fire. Dropped a rope down the next morning and as soon as my feet touched the ground some barking wolf went after my booty. I saw two rabbits nearby and sprinted towards them. Although I ran through their pack the wolf decided to ignore them and ate me. R.I.P. I thought better of my wolf dodging skills. 🤣

I'm having an issue with passing time when boiling water. Instead of it going from melting to boiling stage or boiling to fully boiled, it cuts down only a fraction of that time when I hit space once and when there are about 10 mins left it doesn't cut down the time at all. The time is takes to start a fire has became a lot longer than before. I sincerely hope this is a bug and not intentional because there is nothing fun in staring at a slooooooooowly turning circle on the screen. I'm also getting severest lag spikes near fires to the point of unplayable. Also random lag spikes, for example I clicked to pick up a stick - the game waited 10 seconds before accepting the command to take the stick.

I wanted to relive my newbie days and get lost in the new map right away, but since such option is unavailable, I'm going to start at the Broken Railroad on Interloper and beeline for the Airfield under geared and popsicle cold. 🥶

Hello, I have a problem with how the game imaging handles since the update. When my survivor walks the scenery in front doesn't change smoothly. There are nonstop miniature jumps as my survivor walks. This is making me dizzy constantly watching a jerking screen. I won't be able to play the game if it keeps doing that. I'm wandering if there is an easy way in the graphical options to fix this effect?

Hello, I have the same question. I bought the DLC. When I tried starting a survivor on the new map - I see the same image as the poster above. Where is the Airfield map? Is it intentionally not listed as the starting choice or a bug?

😊 I'm glad you're enjoying the story. I played a longer stretch and saved screenshots before the update hit. I'm editing the following days and I'll be posting them. Day 15 The morning begins with a blizzard chipping away at the walls. It subsides after two hours of reading a field dressing book. This doesn't make my departure from the Maintenance Yard easy. The front of the office is firmly blocked by a three wolf patrol throwing itself at the office the moment I'd come out of the main shed. Since the office doesn't have gifts, I place a vest onto an office table for another survivor who can hop inside freezing and instantly find a warm item awaiting them. I crouch beside the bed, counting on the situation to change while I read for several more hours. Evening comes and the wolves still cannot find a better hobby. They howl away full ten hours of reading until I finish the book. They're still bustling about with the moon high in the sky when I finish repairing the bedroll and then my socks. The office temperature drops to zero. I'm not tired enough yet, thus, I sharpen the hatchet before regarding my dinner choices. The ketchup chips and a chocolate bar topped off by cattails are delicious, but I begin to regard the food situation with concern. I do not have any cured guts to make a bow and hunt or a rod to go finishing. Who knows how long the blizzards and wildlife might keep me at the maintenance yard. I pray another survivor, even if they are trapped, still has the ability to calmly consider their options. I fall asleep in deep thoughts.

Hi there, I'm a little bit confused. I'd like to make the purchase on STEAM. What I'm seeing is the DLC, plus two sound tracks and the base game itself. I already have the base game. All of these pieces are separate. I'm not seeing something called Season Pass. Is this DLC it - the current content and the right to updates for the next 12 month for $22?

Day 14 Brrr! That is one unfriendly morning. While the Moose played ping pong with the wolves I checked the cars. A locked trunk informed me that as a proud owner of the three prybars, somehow I've managed to leave all of them at the Maintenance Yard. I snuck towards the rope drop and by the time I tied it to the rock a blizzard dropped in full power. I stumble back to the lodge where I have a fine collection of the books to read. It was time to stop failing all of my repair attempts. I eat several cattails and read full five hours of the sewing primer. Awwwoooo!! I hope the next survivor really like sewing because I read both primers and leave them at the lodge. My mending level finally reaches level two. Turns out my cooking too had improved unnoticed. Armed with knowledge I finally repair the work boots and peek outside. Not bad. I take the rope down. The hunter's blind and the lake cave are empty. I drop a few branches there and keep going. It was tempting to take the back road towards the broken bridge and the yellow wagon, but the blizzard already had a tea break and threatened to resume its game. Since I drank my remaining water and was still close to being thirsty, I started a barrel fire in the maintenance shed. By its light, I finished reading the kitchen wilderness book and began repairing deep into the night. The big stack of the reclaimed wood kept me going until an aura began playing the flickering lights game. I tried to boil a cup of coffee with the remaining time but the embers extinguished before it finished. Careful not to get electrocuted by the multiple snaky wires, I make way to bed. I can sense the wolves howling outside as I eat a can of dog food. Maybe they wanted it and there I have it. Since the light show is so restless I hide my head under the pillow and close my eyes thinking of another survivor. I hope they too had a good pillow to rest on tonight.

Day 13 In the morning I search the rest of the shed. Some lantern fuel, old driving gloves and food. There are also three pieces of metal that I leave for another survivor even though they won't be able to use the shed forge without the heavy hammer. I sort through the lockers intending to return, then crouch out the backdoor where I leave a can of dog food. The visibility is good enough to get eaten and I feel like I'm crawling into a frying pan as I sneak out the hole in the fence into the foggy forest. The wolves are out patrolling the lake. I am unseen when I slip through the gate and track uphill first checking the cave. Inside there is a fallen lumberjack with three pieces of fir wood around him. I leave it as an emergency stash. Since it's +7C at the back of the cave, I attempt to repair the work boots to warm up. The repair fails and I move on to the magnificent Hunter's Lodge surrounded by wilderness and dangerous wild life. The presence of the moose shoves the wolves patrol closer to the Lodge. It takes more finesse sneaking to get past them. Although the day is still bright, I must turn on the lantern inside the house. There are matches and maple syrup in the kitchen. Hidden underneath a closet there is an emergency stim. The trunk upstairs has a vest. This place deserves something better. I remove my amazing green windbreaker and place it atop of the trunk for another survivor to find. It's tempting to check the cars outside. On the doorstep I leave a box of salty crackers and nearly become the crackers myself. That wolf must have been waiting inside the car to ambush me. He sprung out from the car and nearly took a chunk out of me. Had to clench my butt to crash inside the house away from him. The basement had absolutely nothing. To make it less disappointing, I stashed five matches in the workbench drawer and placed a 55% sewing kit on top. Victory! On the second floor in the bedroom I found my precious. In a very decent condition too, something I slept and dreamt of. The cherry on top of this chocolate Hunting Lodge cake is the Mackinaw jacket. Red and warm. I hugged it all night. My fellow survivor, I hope you have something equally warm to cuddle yet another night of the won wilderness struggle.

Hi guys, I am tulkawen. Unfortunately my hard drive went to meet the long dark. I haven't been able to recover my password for this forum or for the email attached to it. Had to make a new account. I will continue the Christmas story. I'm not too sure I'll be able to finish it before the update, however, my survivor has gotten out of trickier spots before. Day 12 I wake up very late in the morning and discover that the forge fire went out right before I dragged my butt out of bed. It's -7C and foggy as condensed milk. Good enough to walk right into the teeth of the Gandalf wolf since I am more inclined to head for the Broken Railroad. It sure would have been nice to repair some clothing until the fog lifts, boil two cups of hot tea and grab a torch before going, but I merely sort through the locker to balance my inventory. The heavy hammer shall stay at the Forge. This is my unchanging rule of keeping it there. The fog begins to dissipate as soon as I begin my journey. This allows me to spot Gandalf from afar. Sometimes I think he trolls knowing that I'm there because he keeps patrolling whichever side I turn to. He howls mournfully when I manage to get past. There is another wolf circling fairly close to the railway tracks at the entry to the Broken Railroad. I goat downhill to sneak past him too. This sneaking technique works fairly well when I get to the waterfall and crouch past another wolf. Scouting ahead and ducking is a good way to get by with one flare in the pocket. The situation at the Broken Railroad can get hairy in the blink of an eye. There is a lost campfire by the train tracks where I find a can of dog food. As a dog, I would have been most pleased with the recent abundance of this canned food, as a survivor I'm barking crazy pleased with it. I drop several sticks by the campfire and quickly keep moving. The weather takes a steep turn and begins developing into an instant blizzard that rolls within one hour. The crouch technique doesn't work to sneak up on the Maintenance Yard. There is a wolf by the blue truck atop of the hill that lunges towards me. Prompted by the slashing snow and teeth at my back I roll downhill, ignoring all sprain possibilities or wolves below, top sprint. The wolf snarls and breaks pursuit when I dive into the office area. I only have a few minutes to find a pack of matches and a bright pink jacket before full blizzard hits. The office temperature drops to -8C. There is also a baseball cap on the shelf. Since I still have one hat, I put it on and enter the inner area where it's +3C. The light might be withering, but it remains bright enough to search most of the building. I find a jerry can, matches, a piece of leather, food and excellent 90% work gloves. This must also be a prybar heaven. There are two brand new ones. I already have very nice mittens. I feel sympathy for a survivor who might venture in trying to save their freezing fingers with their breath. I leave the work gloves by one of the doors and place one of the newly found prybars on the workbench. Five gift matches go into one of the red storage chests before it gets too dark to search. I climb one of the boards to an elevated platform and bust a green crate by hand. There is a sewing kit and a whetstone hidden underneath. Encouraged by the find, I climb down and break another green crate, but when I turn on the lantern to check, there is nothing. I leave a big heap of the reclaimed wood by the burn barrel and head to sleep. Some old but tasty pork beans make a good supper. There is something soothing in the barn shaking and creaking to the blizzard beyond. I believe I had a lucky break today that no wolves were guarding the main building. Whoever is out there, I hope the luck also turned your way and didn't whisk away the promise of safety.