All Activity

@KingFuzz You can also pull off this trick with a lantern if you're really desperate. According to the wiki it gives a +3C warmth bonus.

I don't think this is a good idea specifically because we have the snow shelter. I know you mentioned it, but think about it Snow shelters are already very good, stopping all wind and raising the temperature by 15c. They are pretty much everything you'd want out of a tent already As for a portable stove, yeah that could be cool. But i think it would be OP, since you can set up a windproof fire anywhere, which means you can survive blizzards easily, without needing shelter or cover. Maybe if it had a maximum temperature bonus and acted as a smaller fire it could be balanced. 2 coal pieces is all you need to tank any blizzard temperature wise

Toxic people are everywhere, specific in steam, discord, social media.... because of this I'm no longer active in so toxic community's and I'm glad for this forum! Life is hard enough....

Really nice strategy, but I prefer a arrow in the wolfs face 😉

Something to add to the snow shelter, (this is a last resort option) if you’re just shy of being able to warm up but you have torches or flares on you, pop one and sleep for an hour. You can keep doing this until you run out of a heat source. It’s still risky but it can be just enough to stave off hypothermia in a life or death situation. This is not exclusive to snow shelters but thought I’d mention it nonetheless.

A PhD in not giving up

The alternative, which might be a little more realistic, whilst not reducing the game's challenge, could simply be to make whetstones much less common but significantly more durable (I like to cook a lot and I'm still using my grandfather's - I don't have children, but if I did, there's no reason why their children wouldn't be able to use it).

@BugReportEnthusiast And there is no problem whatever with genuine critique... or criticism... or incongruent points of view. It's when it gets disrespectful, insulting, hostile, etc... that's when it becomes an issue. Since you mentioned it... we have had folks who come here angry and make an account just to be toxic. It happens far more than you think.

I think people often miss something about complaints or criticism: When people come here to voice those it's because they care enough about the game to do it. Nobody is going to go sign up to a game's forum if they've mentally clocked out from it and no longer have any passion left for it In my mind there's 3 stages of community/player engagement in games The first Is excitement, where people are happy, excited and positive towards the game because things are going well The second is concern/disappointment/whatever, where people aren't happy, but still care enough about the game to voice that The third stage is apathy, which is the actually dangerous one, in which people don't care enough about the game to be negative about it, and they move on to other things Behind every complaint there's usually a very big fan of the game who's concerned or frustrated. If they weren't a big fan, they wouldn't bother. You're not going to get worked up about something you don't care for And when you're feeling negative you most likely won't go out of your way to praise other things, you're probably gonna hyper focus on what bothers you Yeah, there are overly negative people that only complain about things and always brush aside anything good Yeah, there are overly positive people that only ever praise things and brush aside any issues or problems that exist But most people are reasonable. Anyway uhhh, yeah this game is pretty good.

@odizzido Yeah i really wanted to spare it but it didn't work out

stones should do a little damage so that if wolves continue to want to get hit in the face with rocks they will eventually die. What an insanely bloodthirsty wolf.

There is also the old follow the edges ,there's usually little hooks and crannies to hide behind.or of course caves..

Considering I found the game around the time it was first coming to Steam Early Access... I can emphatically state that I have been given far more value from The Long Dark than any game I've played (especially since I've playing more-or-less consistently for nearly 9 1/2 years now).

And as schist is such a flaky stone type, it would actually make sense that those would wear out at least as quickly as the game's whetstones, since schist is so prone to breaking. I mean, really, has Bear Island only ever been supplied with cheap whetstones made of clay from Wish.com or something? Those things wear out so damn fast! 😜

@BugReportEnthusiast That's a slick move (referring to the deer)... well done.

I have Green Hell in my backlog.....hoping to get to it soon...

Couldn't agree more.. worth every penny and then some.. I'd keep paying for extra content ,even when I'm collecting my pension😊

I think we should all stop and praise Hinterland for their amazing job so far. Four episodes of wintermute, lots of new regions, dlc, new updates... Just an amazing and big game for so little money.

Check out Green Hell. It's frustratingly difficult, though.

Well in the meantime, I'm taking a small break from TLD and watching "the great moose migration" on Swedish TV.

That's what I'm hoping for to.. it'd be cool to hang our own pictures up in our bases.

My guess with the photomode, me can hang pictures on the wall maybe with picture frame, it's come also with the base customization, but we will see....

Are you guys considering some Patreon, or similar support? I would like to support you. Would this help in any way? Speed up the process.. And also, i am ready to pay for the new maps/regions. Otherwise i sould feel ashamed to get it for free :)

I really like the concept of a photo mode for this game. Yeah, you can always just disable the HUD and take a screenshot, but having the process be in-game would be awesome. It gives you a reason to stop for a bit once a while and.. look around. Remember how beautiful everything is. And of course, you'd have a growing physical collection of beautiful/interesting/terrifying places or moments that accumulate as you survive longer and longer. Which is just an incredibly awesome and immersive way to document your journey through survival mode. I really want to get my hands on it. I also hope the camera is not too hard to find, so we can use it early, and often. . . . This reminds me heavily of Firewatch. It's also a game about a guy in the woods, and you get a camera you can use to snap pictures of the world around you as you progress through the game. But it always bothered me that you only get 18 uses throughout the 4 hour game. The Long Dark is immense in size, so i really hope we get lots of supplies for the camera scattered throughout the island. Or at least the trader is willing to give us some. Let's say that each region has 5 interesting spots. There are currently 15 regions, 16 with Mountain Pass That's at least 75-80 photos, and that's a super conservative estimate just for the maps. There's also transition zones, mines, cool events (auroras, sunsets, hunts, climbs, tales...)