Mroz4k
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Voyager continues!
Not sure where I left off, but at day 52 Ive spend most of that, running through the PV, trying to reach the mystic campsite and the cavern, because I believed it might have a skill book for me. The morning I started at the Radio tower, and since I brought a rope with me from the Ravine´s train, I deployed it on the rock behind the tower and climbed down. Normally a futile task, but there is a corpse mid-way there usually, and sometimes has a backpack with a skill book in it. No luck this time. Ive traveled up the road to the long curve, but nothing of interest there. Ive heard a bear as the wind picked up, but could not see it - so I quickly removed myself from that area. After a brief stop by the lonely cabin, I made my way up the other part of the path towards TWM. I was nervous because of the bear that resides there, but luckily, a blizzard took off and i was able to pass with relative safety, altough a bit of a discomfort. Sadly, in the low visibility I lost my bearing and didnt find the point of dissagreement. Ive reached the mystic cave, though - another bow, an arrow, but no skill book, and a rifle outside. Havent seen many rifles this game but I know of a few in case I need to go grab one. Spend the night in a cave by the nice fire. Got jumped by a wolf outside in the morning. Damn, these bastards bite... took down about 20% of my condition, not bad for the fact I have pretty sturdy clothes on... (by not bad, I mean it hurt quite a bit). I stopped by the Preppers hatch to drop off some heavy items there, and continued on. Took a short nap, too, to regain some extra fatigue and condition in case I got into more struggles as I continue on.
Day 53 is now ongoing. To shorten it up - I found the rope by the Skeeter edge, but I laughed at the prospect of climbing it down. I instead expertly climbed down the ledge next to it - took me less time, no fatigue drain and I took no fall damage. For once, I didnt even sprain anything.
The weather got windy, but no worries. Heavy snowfall, gotta be carefull. This soon turned to Blizzard. Eventually I got into the Barn. I decided to take advantage of the blizzard´s savety and visited the "bear country" - the birch forest behind the barn. Then I cut through to the Derelict cabins as I started losing condition from the freezing. At Derelicts, Ive build a fire to warm up. I put on two hours worth of fuel, and I dropped a can of peaches NEXT to the fire (not actually on the top). Then I went for 2 hour long sleep. When I woke up, I have a toasty can O peaches waiting to fill my stomach.
The plan now is to get to the car at the End of the road, and then make it to the mine connector to Coastal Highway, where I plan to spend the night and recover a bit.
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It is interesting you brought up the bears on both routes because up until the last two interlopers I played I had not seen bears in either the path by the lonely cabin or in the birch forest. I always like the trek thru the birch forest and take the slightly longer way to TWM as I found the forest beautiful. (Always had a thing for birch trees). But now I am hesitant as in my first interloper game last week I almost walked into a bear I didn't see at night in that forest.
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My experience is I almost always encounter a bear in the den at that path, which is why I usually take the longer route around the Three strikes. And with the birch forest it is kind of a 50/50, with the bear, being there. Also, since my game started at TWM, I already passed through the PV before, taking the route to Three strikes and the bear that has a den there was not spawned in there. Nor have I encountered the one by the Radio tower area. With these two spawns out of the running, each area with bear potential is an increased risk that it will actually have a bear. I prefer to take as least risks as possible, especially after my two close calls at Forlorn Muskeg couple of ingame days back
although now I have gotten silent hunter achievement, so if I encounter a bear, now I can use my Bear killer gun, the distress pistol, and light them up if it comes down to a fight.
I get your feeling about the birch trees, I have the same kind of a fascination by them. Which is probably why I like to go to the Deer hunting ground in Ravine, or spend time at Marsh ridge at Forlorn Muskeg.
I havent seen a single bear at PV yet, but I certainly heard one, somewhere around the area of that ruined shack some distance from the Farm. Im guessing this means that the cave in the middle western corner of the map has a bear in it. Id expect two to three bears per PV, that is one, and I have cleared three other possible locations, so right now the danger of visiting another bear potential location increases.
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although now I have gotten silent hunter achievement, so if I encounter a bear, now I can use my Bear killer gun, the distress pistol, and light them up if it comes down to a fight.