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My theory is ethier: 'snow blindness', injury, or its from extreme cold So: with snow blindness its the most unlikely out of the 3 options listed above, as you would probably notice mathis being in discomfort from the condition, which we don't see. Plus, wouldn't other characters had gotten it too? Characters like mackenzie have probably been outside for longer then mathis, and other convicts in the bus crash would've probably gotten it too if mathis got it. Someone in the TLD subreddit discord said they think mathis may have a cauliflower ear on the same side as his red eye, which may indicate it was a result of injury. But that would also probably cause some type of discomfort I'd assume, which again we don't see mathis having any medical trouble from his eye. But who knows, maybe he's just suffering in the background while mackenzie is out doing missions and just tries to seem tough in front of mackenzie lol And with cold google says: Blisteringly cold temperatures can cause the blood vessels in our eyes to constrict or freeze our cornea. This process, as we are sure you have guessed, is very painful and can compromise visual clarity. When this process occurs, double vision, blurred vision, and/or loss of vision are likely. Eyes can heal pretty fast from injury and cold [usually about a week if i remember correctly, correct me if I'm wrong! With the cold it depends on how severe it was I'd assume] so that could make the fact that his eye is still pretty red near the end of ep4 lead a bit more towards snow blindness, although i wouldn't say its actually that likely, at the very least its been about a week passed during ep4, and maybe about 1-2 more weeks if he got his red eye at the bus crash or shortly after, and a bit less if he got it during the travel from mountain town to blackrock. Personally i think its because of an injury. But it could also be a side effect of being a villain lol, do you guys have any theories about why his eyes sclera is red? [NOTE: please don't take what i say about these medical conditions as absolute fact, i am not a medical professional. I'm just some rando on the internet talking about characters in the quiet apocalypse.]

If its not the sardines that kill you, its fishing and trying to lug back a million KG worth of fish back to your base

Lol I like what you can get from mooses hide like the moose hide satchel and coat, i actually hunted my first moose [survival mode, i had encountered one of my first ones in wintermute ep4 but i don't think that really counts] in coastal highway near the town I'm on around day 165 and i haven't encountered another one yet but i remember just sitting up on rocks and shooting the moose from afar with a hunting rifle in the head and then chasing it while staying undetected until it finally died after about 4 shots.

I like mother natures wraith, but for in-game entities that physically attack the player, i like timberwolves. I know a lot of people don't like them, but i find timberwolves fun to fight because they have a different dynamic with the player when they attack, all other enemies just maul the player and walk off unless killed. With timberwolves you gotta lower their morale, which depending on difficulty can require quite a lot to do. I just find it fun to have a different enemy that doesn't just maul you and run off and that's it. Once you know how to deal with a regular wolf and what they do, you'll probably know what all the other enemies do as well like bears, timberwolves seem like a breath of fresh air i guess, with them having a unique strategy and attack method that differs wildly from the average enemies you face in survival.

For me it was a bandage i had forgotten at the dam. I had no bandages ang got attacked by a wolf and got the "blood loss" affliction. I always usually have a supply of bandages on me, so not having it made me go into panic mode because i thought i at least had one What small thing that you never thought you'd need or use has saved your survival run?

Whats your favorite in game enemy and why? [Timberwolves,regular wolves,mooses,bears, ect.]

I know it would be unlikely, but might as well ask at least haha I only suggest different voicelines because it would be off to hear Mackenzies voice if you were to play a character like mathis who has a rougher and more stern voice that sounds a lot different from mackenzie

Rin-go A You can just say ringo for short, the A is from my old username "Ringo Animates" I kinda kept the A at the end as a reference to it

Do you mean my username? Also thank you! ^^

I feel like that would actually be pretty interesting! I'll start looking into more forest talker lore

This was just a little warm up sketch i made for fun, i hope you like it! ^^

I had agreed to make a lore video on heller before after asking the sub reddit discord which character they'd want to see a lore video on [that is if i were to make a video, no promises! I don't have a microphone other then my phone's microphone. Which makes me sound really high pitched like a chipmunk and doesn't have good quality audio] I'm just wondering what character,event[like the first flare or the collapse], the history of a region,ect. That people would be interested in! ^^

Heller and vachon are convicts in ep4. Heller is the one that first started calling you a dog and vachon is..well, vachon. Theres not much to say about vachon really. He's just the nicer one out of mathis's main gang.

My favorite characters are mathis,mackenzie,heller, and vachon [not in that order]

Sorry for the text changing color in the middle of the post, not sure why its doing that.

[Not sure if this should go into something like the wishlist section, if the admins ask me to move this post to a different section/topic, i will!] If you could add your very own challenge, what would it be? What would be the goal? I got an idea for a challenge : ) generally idea: - you play as Heller, the main goal is to find the dead bodies of other convicts [the last and most important one being a convict named leclarc that was mentioned in ep4.] And to find out what is hunting you, or more specifically the convicts. [*cough* *cough* molly *cough* *cough*] - you're being hunted by a person [molly] and if you stay in the open for too long you can easily get shot with an arrow and killed. I can imagine it would be similar to how the prison escape was when it comes to being shot, if you get lucky you can partially dodge one shot but take a lot of damage [and I'd assume a bloodloss affliction] but don't die, although you can quickly be killed by another shot. Not sure exactly how the challenge would end yet or the mechanics, this is a very rough idea. - you get to find out more about the convicts and find evidence to whos killing all the convicts through notes or other things. - you start with very minimum and not very good gear. The only big thing you'd probably start with is a flare or flare gun to get out of blackrock and deal with wild life. - the challenge canonically would happen most likely before mackenzie is captured by mathis. - cold is a very big issue if you don't find or make good gear, if we were to talk about how warm the clothes heller usually has would be, it would probably not be very good against cold lol. I did some math and estimated what the stats would be of the player/heller [clothes wise] at the start: Lets be generous and assume convict pants are close to or the equivalent of combat pants : ) +2.0 C +0.5 C Wind Resistance/Wind Proof +20% WaterProof Bonus +7% Protection T-Shirt [inner torso] +0.5 C Plaid shirt [outer torso] +0.5 C +0.5 C Wind Proof +20% WaterProof Bonus +1% Protection Shoes [couldn't find any shoes that matched the convicts, so lets just say his shoes have the same stats or similar stats as Mackenzies shoes.] +1.0 C +1.0 C Windproof/Resistance +30% WaterProof +5% Protection -3% mobility [In hellers design he doesn't seem to wear gloves, so i guess if you don't make improvised gloves or find gloves frostbite may be an issue. Also not sure if the character wears socks so i am not going to add the benefits of socks to the list or to the stats.] Total Stats: Warmth: 4.0 C Wind Resistance/Proof: 2.0 C WaterProof: 70% Protection: 13% Mobility: 97% He's very waterproof apparently And yes i literally spent like 10 minutes finding out the [close to] stats of a character you don't even get to play in canon :,] - the world gets colder and quickly, the difficulty would probably be set to stalker but with less loot. - end goal so far is to, (1.) Find out whos killing the other convicts [and trying to kill you], (2.) Collect all convict notes and other evidence, (3.) Survive. Another idea similar to this is being a convict [any convict, you could be an unnamed convict or be a canon character like vachon,heller,mathis, ect. I'd prefur a convict at least mentioned in the manuscript in ep1, for lore reasons. So we don't question "wait a minute...who ARE you??" Because if the character we play would of never been mentioned in the manuscript them making the rough journey to blackrock wouldn't make sense if they weren't at least mentioned in the manuscript.] And trying to survive until you get to blackrock. Maybe this idea could be a story DLC oneday hehe [halo reach spoilers, as i mention the main plot] Kinda like a 'halo reach' type of story or similar to it, you have your main friend group and then you see em all die in awful terrible ways, you know, tragedy! Because people love torturing theirs or seeing other characters being tortured! : ) [Note: sorry if it sounds like i want the story or anything to morph into other or be like games or stories when i mention halo reach, i was only using reach as an example. Not like a "i need it to be like [insert series here]!!! 😭". I really like wintermutes story as it is! ^^ I really wouldn't want to see TLD morph into trying to be like other games like when shooter games tried to copy COD or become a 'halo killer' when the games were really popular.] just some ideas! What do you think? [also, thank you if you read all of my ideas! : D]

I usually have to because I'll pick up like two sticks and then hear Mackenzie complain that he's encumbered lol

ello ello, i am ringo! I am a gamer and artist who wants to become a creator of my own series some day. I like to play on custom and i am in love with TLDs lore and story [AKA wintermute]! I may make a lore video someday. I've already asked the subreddit discord which character i would cover lore on first, and they all said heller. So i guess if i do go through with making lore videos my first video will be about heller! [You could probably ask me any question about wintermutes story and I'd probably know the answer] I draw mostly furries [sorry] because i suck at drawing...well, basically anything else. I'm trying to branch out into drawing other things. I'd like to say a thank you to hinterland for their amazing game and for inspiring me and others! You guys are awesome! ^^

Just imagine playing as mathis and getting the option to kick a wolf or timberwolf right before a struggle or during a struggle lol

This is moreso an idea, i don't actually expect hinterland to do this, although it would make me pretty happy haha So, what if we could choose different voices for our survivor instead of just astrid and mackenzies voice? [Example: have the survivor have the same voice as heller, vachon, or molly, ect. ect.] And maybe be able to change the model according to the voice selected as hearing Mackenzie or astrid with another characters voice would sound a bit off You could also have unique dialogue as well according to the character/voice chosen to fit the personality? Just a thought i had What do you guys think? [The changing models and specific dialogue to fit with the characters personality isn't required in this idea by the way! I just thought it would be nice]

This is really cool! I'd love to see more!

Episode 4

"What a fuckin boy scout" I don't know why, but that has and probably always will be one of my favorite lines.