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  1. I've recently returned to TLD after a long, long break. It had been a couple years, I think, since I last played. So I have started a new survival mode game. I'm in Mystery Lake and I'm staying at the Trapper's Homestead. The bear spawned and had been walking around down by the deteriorated building nearby. I took a shot with a rifle and he ran off, up and over the hill toward Max's Last Stand. I ran down to check the spot he ran from and sure enough, there was blood on the ground in a big splotch and I could see the trail heading off where he ran. So, I passed time for a couple hours outside the house but realized it was too cold to pass anymore and too windy to start a fire. So I went inside and passed time for a couple more hours to warm back up. When I got back outside, the blood and the trail were gone, I assume from the wind storm. But now it's been about 5 or 6 in game days and I have looked *ALL* *OVER* the map trying to find this bear corpse and I've been unable to find it. Seriously, I have looked EVERYWHERE outside of a few far reaching nooks and crannies. So did I lose the bear when I went in to warm up? Does the carcass just disappear on its own after a while? Am I wasting my time still looking? The bear cave near the bowl with all the bunnies in it still has the skeleton in it, which means that's the "active" bear cave on the map, I believe. So what do you think? Is the bear kill lost? Or have I just somehow not found it after doing a few circles around the region?
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    Timberwolves

    So... I'm on the verge of quitting The Long Dark story mode because of Timberwolves. I don't have enough ammo to scare them off (I'm a little in disbelief of how much ammo it actually takes to scare them off in the first place.) What other strategies are there to deal with them? If you don't have enough ammo, the game is just over for you, essentially? Very upsetting mechanic. They're scripted, so you can't avoid them. And there seems to be only one method to deal with them (shooting/scaring them), so if you don't have bullets, that seems to be the end of the road. This has ruined the game for me. What other methods have people found to deal with them?
  3. What am I missing, here? List of skill books: Field Dressing your Kill, Vol. I - Carcass Harvesting (10 skill points, 10 hours research) Wilderness Kitchen - Cooking (10 skill points, 5 hours research) Survive the Outdoors! - Fire Starting (10 skill points, 5 hours research) The Frozen Angler - Ice Fishing (10 skill points, 5 hours research) Advanced Guns Guns Guns! - Rifle Firearm (10 skill points, 25 hours research) Frontier Shooting Guide- Rifle Firearm (5 skill points, 4 hours research, up to Level 3 Rifle Firearm)
  4. That pic will be a collector's item sometime soon, as the dam entrance won't look anything like that too much longer. ;)
  5. Where is that second picture (the blizzard) taken? I don't think I recognize that fence.
  6. This is fantastic. I'm about 75 days into the only long-term, successful sandbox I've had and I'd like to try and hunt bear for the bedroll achievement and the food source, of course. Do you know if the flare and/or fire tricks still work, as of the current patch? I've read something elsewhere that suggests they might not. Also, you manage to one shot the bear using the flare trick. If you don't one shot him, does he maul you? Does he run? Lastly, I've heard that hunting blinds are the best places to hunt bear because you can bait them and then shoot them safely from the blind. Your video didn't cover hunting blinds. Can you confirm that info?