Hinterland: Lets add cheat death to save long runs where players died due to bugs TLD community: Lets kill ourself 3x times at the start of the game to get the debuff
Very interesting idea, I appreciate your sharing the failures prior to the success. Enjoyed this, would love to see you play it out to the afflictions clear.
Haha i know the feeling, don't worry about it. The great thing about the game is that you can take your time and learn. No need to feel competitive or "bad" as long as you enjoy your time.
It does say wood matches for just a few milliseconds right at 37:51. There and gone so quick. even in slow mow but there were definitely matches right there.
1:40 Accidently used the birch bark as tinder. I really wish they'd code it to use the other tinder first by default. Makes for a lot of clicking and mistakes when you're distracted, like with selecting the right fuel source.
Love to see a continuation :) I've just started trying Interloper and it has not been great lol watching you survive circumstances like this is so wild to me!! But it has taught me so much about the game and genuinely helped me be a more successful player!
Zak makes interloper look like a breeze lol. I thought stalker was kinda tough with all of the wolves, I can only imagine how tough interloper and especially misery is.
"We don't have water"/ "Let's cross the waterfall", the game is infuriating sometimes. Double thermal right from the start while other run, you have to search the entire world to find your second. Losing your clothing and your can is quite a challenge, especially with only 25% max condition.
Other than "game mechanics" I've never liked the fact that you require a bedroll to sleep. Like, Hinterland has severely underestimated my ability to pass out anywhere.
Even if passing out on the raw ground comes with, say, less control over how long you sleep, reduced health regen or no bonus regen, youd think uou could at least do it....
@@nahoj.2569Sure, but on the other hand, there are still benches, bedding, and rugs in many buildings.
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I’ve been on a major bushcraft and survival kick on RUclips, and people LITERALLY will just not sleep before they will do that. The heat loss is massive, and so dangerous. If it’s cold enough for the air to be a problem, the ground is actually an even bigger problem.
I love how everyone is commenting the same thing I will, which is: Hinterland: "Here's a way to cheat death up to 3 times, we've removed permadeath" TLD fans: 'Aw damn, permadeath is gone?' TLD hardcore fans: 'Aw damn, only 3 waves of debuffs?'
that one would be able to cook oats in a can would be really something that would be very useful (and realistic)! as well as the warmth buff from cooked water, like the teas, as I wrote probably 100 times - hallo Hinterland 👋😂
Imagine a somthing you could turn on and off like scurvy where your liquids go from hot off the fire to if your freezing outside your liquids freeze up
Regarding this challenge an interesting idea might be to do a pilgrimage of sort after fully recovering the 30 days and visiting every previous spawn point you...reshuffled, whilst leaving a small memento at each one.
I follow you since two years, maybe more. But in this run I could clearly see, that Mastering Misery, improved your playing skills. This run is insane.
Zak starting a new challenge... Also Zak within 1 min in the game: casually finding the one failure in the game hinterland doesn't even know existed: nah, that's not ash canyon 😳🫣😋
Great new game mode! It took me three goes until I managed to find a sustainable run. Currently on Day 3 in Coastal Highway with 10% health but with full meters. I wish I had your luck with matches, it would have made the run a lot easier!
I eventually got to this point on stalker recently. Game spawned me in Blackrock. Somehow I managed to literally run past the Timberwolves and leave the map, but the cold and lower hp eventually got to me on the long path to the next zone. That and the lack of a can is brutal.
that's why i tend to leave minimal supplies like a can, firewood, matches in many places (like Cook's & prison) and have a good regional base at substation. helps out in a pinch like this.
Totally enjoyed this one, Zak, even though it totally stessed me out and I even yelled at you a couple times. LOL. I'd definitely watch you finish the challenge.
I remember when i first saw TLD when my cousin played it and i then started to watch videos on the game, back then i used to not like your videos but now i do enjoy them A LOT, younger me was kinda dumb ngl.
19:40 I think it's implied that if you slept without insulation from the ground you would die of hypothermia, like how your survivor comments 'I'd eat snow if the hypothermia wouldn't kill me' (even if you can't actually eat snow in-game).
I guess you could have the survivor sleep anywhere, but sleeping on bare ground would give you a major penalty to warmth, like -10° or so. If you are wrapped in 2 bear coats and 2 sweaters, you should be able to crash on the floor of a cave.
@@enderofbarts yeah or on warm places, just to have a nap on the floor. I remember that I was thinking about that some weeks ago because stupid me forgot my bedroll 🙄
There could be a pot in HRV, you can go up from the river canyon using a fallen tree and nearby there should be a snow shelter and a fire with a possible pot on it.
Another great video Zak. Thank you. I'd very much like to see you complete the 30 days. I always enjoy the first month of an interloper run so with the extra debuff it adds a little something extra to the challenge. Out of interest, have you or anyone in the community heard or seen anything about the 'Recycled Can Recipes'? I always thought they were a nice idea but we're yet to see any in game. I'm hoping they add them with the update in December but was wondering if anyone had heard anything.
The Long Dark is probably my favorite game ever, and even though this video gave me the worst and most extreme form of anxiety ever, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it in the end. Seriously though, thanks for all the stellar content, Zak. You’re a mad man lol.
during the first attempt you could've tried making it to the ice cave above moose overlook valley, there was a bedroll and i think? a cooking pot, but it was a pretty bad start.
10:15 on HRV you have guaranteed pot + hacksaw at the campsite that spawn between these three sites: at the hilltop near the bear den, at the hilltop near reclusive falls, or on the other side of the gorge just in front of the cave you found the first matches.
@@nannakurzhaar YES! Also possible to fall off a train trestle. That's a long way down. Also, it is somehow possible to fall off of a rope and bleed to death. Go figure! LOL I think they call it, "I died from over confidence." 🤣
So, I just tried this and it took me several attempts before I didn't die from lack of a can. Had some very bad spawns where I wasn't near anything with a toilet for water, etc. Finally, I managed on my sixth or seventh try to find a can in the footwell of a car (YAY). I'm currently on day 17 of that spawn, doing pretty well, except I have not yet managed to find any pants. So I'm wandering around without pants. I look pretty stupid and my crotch keeps threatening to get frostbite. Heading through the dam now, going to keep fingers crossed that maybe I can find pants in the signal shack in PV, or maybe at the plane crash. My buttcheeks are icy. Wish me well.
Hi Zak, in your 2nd attempt (Broken Railroad 27:30) - if you would choose to go to the Hunting Lodge again instead of the Railroad Yard, it would have been at least warm inside there - and you would have had a better chance to survive until the next morning light (with a warm bed and toilet water...) What do you re-think (now)
at cave with matches I would have went out the cave and turned left. The cave system would have the bedroll and a small chance of a can. Going right and into that cave system was certain death.
Zak there are cans and cooking pots in HRV you should have went into sketcheys cave to get the bed roll hacksaw and sometimes there is a summit soda there too.
@@Zaknafeinyes in that first cave there is a chance spawn of a little campsite with a cooking pot and rosehips. Maybe a piece of rabbit and guts as well?
This is kind of ridiculous... Why would anyone self-impose such absurd hard version of the game? And why did I watch it all, indirectly approving and supporting all this suffering?!?!
is there a point in forging an improvised knife? Its quite heavy and hatchet can do its job and even more. Except you cant get cloth from pillows and crafting is a bit slower
Hinterland: So we introduced this new feature to make the game less punishing.
Interloper players: Extra debuffs from day 1, you say?
Hinterland: Lets add cheat death to save long runs where players died due to bugs
TLD community: Lets kill ourself 3x times at the start of the game to get the debuff
"Let me know if you want to see ."
Yes please.
Truer words have never been spoken
Yes, please. 😂
Very interesting idea, I appreciate your sharing the failures prior to the success.
Enjoyed this, would love to see you play it out to the afflictions clear.
The irony of dying ftom dehydration as you run through a waterfall in a place called hushed river.
Zak: *drops torch, aims stone at wolf*
Me: "He can't keep getting away with it!"
Right!!! But I love it🎉🎉🎉
Sometimes I wonder how I can struggle on Voyageur!
same here
Same
Haha i know the feeling, don't worry about it. The great thing about the game is that you can take your time and learn. No need to feel competitive or "bad" as long as you enjoy your time.
@@bananaboat1704 I really hope I will be better one time, at least I made it already some days on voyager! Didn't imagine that a year ago :)
Same I die so fast in voyageur too I can't win lol
On attempt 3 at 37:51 "wood matches" popped up beside the corpse. I was really hoping you would be able to find them again.
yes, i watched at slow speed to find them
It does say wood matches for just a few milliseconds right at 37:51. There and gone so quick. even in slow mow but there were definitely matches right there.
I applaud you Zak for the exquisite death dive in Bleak Inlet!
A well thought out and a less than miserable challenge, this is. Take care and stay warm!
1:40 Accidently used the birch bark as tinder. I really wish they'd code it to use the other tinder first by default. Makes for a lot of clicking and mistakes when you're distracted, like with selecting the right fuel source.
Agree
birch bark should be default tinder.
@@winnsanity1243 Why? It has another purpose, unlike regular tinder
This and the default of grabbing a new torch or bow from your inventory instead of the ones with lowest condition.
The happy intro music with the "Death Is Always Waiting" got me 😂😂
I like that all the runs have different music but I missed the main song a bit (what is stupid because it is on my playlist) it is just very nice!
Love to see a continuation :) I've just started trying Interloper and it has not been great lol watching you survive circumstances like this is so wild to me!! But it has taught me so much about the game and genuinely helped me be a more successful player!
I swear even if I played Interloper I would end up with 100lbs of gear and struggling to figure out what to drop 😂
Great video, I also appreciate that you included the failures first!! Always learn a TON from you videos, thanks Zak!
A refreshing change from normal interloper. Nice to see the goat struggle a bit 😂
Lmao the Coastal Highway C tier comment 😂
I find it terrifying that Hinterland think SAFE is Blackrock 😱 Amazing game play!
Zak makes interloper look like a breeze lol. I thought stalker was kinda tough with all of the wolves, I can only imagine how tough interloper and especially misery is.
I just joined your channel and there is no one that gives the best videos for long dark. Keep up the good work. Love your channel.
"We don't have water"/ "Let's cross the waterfall", the game is infuriating sometimes.
Double thermal right from the start while other run, you have to search the entire world to find your second.
Losing your clothing and your can is quite a challenge, especially with only 25% max condition.
We have no bedroll... it's time to pass away xDDD
Other than "game mechanics" I've never liked the fact that you require a bedroll to sleep. Like, Hinterland has severely underestimated my ability to pass out anywhere.
Even if passing out on the raw ground comes with, say, less control over how long you sleep, reduced health regen or no bonus regen, youd think uou could at least do it....
It's almost as bad as wandering through a forest, hatchet in hand, but unable to find any firewood.
@@fractalgem Sleeping on the ground would kill you in a place like TLD.
You lose your heat through it.
@@nahoj.2569Sure, but on the other hand, there are still benches, bedding, and rugs in many buildings.
I’ve been on a major bushcraft and survival kick on RUclips, and people LITERALLY will just not sleep before they will do that. The heat loss is massive, and so dangerous. If it’s cold enough for the air to be a problem, the ground is actually an even bigger problem.
I love how everyone is commenting the same thing I will, which is:
Hinterland: "Here's a way to cheat death up to 3 times, we've removed permadeath"
TLD fans: 'Aw damn, permadeath is gone?'
TLD hardcore fans: 'Aw damn, only 3 waves of debuffs?'
I love to see you continue this till the affliction is gone.
that one would be able to cook oats in a can would be really something that would be very useful (and realistic)! as well as the warmth buff from cooked water, like the teas, as I wrote probably 100 times - hallo Hinterland 👋😂
Imagine a somthing you could turn on and off like scurvy where your liquids go from hot off the fire to if your freezing outside your liquids freeze up
Haven't played this game since April of 23'... but still watch all your videos. So relaxing.
Regarding this challenge an interesting idea might be to do a pilgrimage of sort after fully recovering the 30 days and visiting every previous spawn point you...reshuffled, whilst leaving a small memento at each one.
Ohh i like this idea
I'd like a mini series! Please and thank you ❤
Good job, was fun! Id watch if you continued and it would be a great holdover till 500 days continues.
Best new series lol. I mean the first try is brutal. It's too bad you couldn't drink from the waterfall. Valiant effort indeed.
Enjoyed that more than I expected. Thanks for doing it!
I follow you since two years, maybe more. But in this run I could clearly see, that Mastering Misery, improved your playing skills. This run is insane.
Zak starting a new challenge... Also Zak within 1 min in the game: casually finding the one failure in the game hinterland doesn't even know existed: nah, that's not ash canyon 😳🫣😋
Oh boy, my favorite! "The Kick Your Own Ass Death Wish Challenge".
You crazy man.. lol this gonna be good.
My stalker character is officially at 3150 days so close to getting a full decade survived
Nice! Not bad for a raccoon :)
@@Zaknafein hehe true, us Raccoons are surprisingly durable when exposed to cold weather, my thick bushy tail always keeps me nice and warm
Definitely would like to see this run through 30 days!
Great new game mode! It took me three goes until I managed to find a sustainable run. Currently on Day 3 in Coastal Highway with 10% health but with full meters. I wish I had your luck with matches, it would have made the run a lot easier!
@32:10 "Yeah I know we're working on it Will" made me lol
As many people said below, I would like to see this journey. Cheers!
I eventually got to this point on stalker recently. Game spawned me in Blackrock. Somehow I managed to literally run past the Timberwolves and leave the map, but the cold and lower hp eventually got to me on the long path to the next zone. That and the lack of a can is brutal.
that's why i tend to leave minimal supplies like a can, firewood, matches in many places (like Cook's & prison) and have a good regional base at substation. helps out in a pinch like this.
Switching to a new torch will always be a joy
Well, Star Wars is also about a repairman. In fact, he's one of the main characters.
Totally enjoyed this one, Zak, even though it totally stessed me out and I even yelled at you a couple times. LOL. I'd definitely watch you finish the challenge.
I remember when i first saw TLD when my cousin played it and i then started to watch videos on the game, back then i used to not like your videos but now i do enjoy them A LOT, younger me was kinda dumb ngl.
I remember watching siblings play and it took me a year to try myself (at least) but I learned a lot while that :)
Hello, good run, i liked to see the next 27 days of this run. thx
19:40 I think it's implied that if you slept without insulation from the ground you would die of hypothermia, like how your survivor comments 'I'd eat snow if the hypothermia wouldn't kill me' (even if you can't actually eat snow in-game).
I guess you could have the survivor sleep anywhere, but sleeping on bare ground would give you a major penalty to warmth, like -10° or so. If you are wrapped in 2 bear coats and 2 sweaters, you should be able to crash on the floor of a cave.
@@enderofbarts yeah or on warm places, just to have a nap on the floor. I remember that I was thinking about that some weeks ago because stupid me forgot my bedroll 🙄
There could be a pot in HRV, you can go up from the river canyon using a fallen tree and nearby there should be a snow shelter and a fire with a possible pot on it.
This kind of video should last one second with the word "Yes" on the screen)
Another great video Zak. Thank you. I'd very much like to see you complete the 30 days. I always enjoy the first month of an interloper run so with the extra debuff it adds a little something extra to the challenge. Out of interest, have you or anyone in the community heard or seen anything about the 'Recycled Can Recipes'? I always thought they were a nice idea but we're yet to see any in game. I'm hoping they add them with the update in December but was wondering if anyone had heard anything.
No news, except how they are used for noisemakers. But we have to see :)
If I were under these dire circumstances, I'd use the accelerant to start the fire.
I liked this video. Thanks for your jod Zak!
This is a really cool challenge!
Zak, you're a treasure
Snow shelter is about the only bed in HRV outside of the bunker... Could've torn up all yer clothes for a sleep. ;)
were there enough clothes? And I think w/o water, it wouldn't help much. But I'm not an interloper player so it's just a guess
I believe he was totally without clothing at the start after the 3rd death.
Almost thought you made a big mistake when you ate that 30 something percent sardines! But yes, please continue this one!
Zak’s ideal of tropical…-8 degrees. 😂
The Long Dark is probably my favorite game ever, and even though this video gave me the worst and most extreme form of anxiety ever, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it in the end. Seriously though, thanks for all the stellar content, Zak. You’re a mad man lol.
Yeahhhh continue with the series!!
Hammer can be half-buried in the snow in front of the door into jackrabbit island house
34:50 Wait, you can fit through there? Would have saved me so much time when going down...
Coastal Highway taking revenge for its C tier status!
Okay this is a really good challenge, me like.
looking forward to this continuing!
during the first attempt you could've tried making it to the ice cave above moose overlook valley, there was a bedroll and i think? a cooking pot, but it was a pretty bad start.
6:50
Good luck, Zak
Like to see this as a series for sure
10:15 on HRV you have guaranteed pot + hacksaw at the campsite that spawn between these three sites: at the hilltop near the bear den, at the hilltop near reclusive falls, or on the other side of the gorge just in front of the cave you found the first matches.
do regional survival, we wanna know which region keeps you alive the longest on interloper.
After Part 6 DLC
This was great fun to watch!
Really enjoyed this, more please.😊
Solan Gundersen doing TLD, that would be like the Phantom Menace.
Black, white and colour indeed!
1:01:25 LOL you're a riot :D
was there a little crow meat in that cabinet he was nibbling on ? ? ? 🤫
So, this is how Interloper used to be: one life, struggling in the first 50 days.
Well now we know how how to survive in the long dark world!! Just don’t die
well, actually it is exactly that 😅 but I know what you mean - I did prove some months ago that it is possible to freeze to death on pilgrim 😂
@@nannakurzhaar YES! Also possible to fall off a train trestle. That's a long way down. Also, it is somehow possible to fall off of a rope and bleed to death. Go figure! LOL I think they call it, "I died from over confidence." 🤣
Nice video👍🏾
So, I just tried this and it took me several attempts before I didn't die from lack of a can. Had some very bad spawns where I wasn't near anything with a toilet for water, etc.
Finally, I managed on my sixth or seventh try to find a can in the footwell of a car (YAY). I'm currently on day 17 of that spawn, doing pretty well, except I have not yet managed to find any pants. So I'm wandering around without pants. I look pretty stupid and my crotch keeps threatening to get frostbite. Heading through the dam now, going to keep fingers crossed that maybe I can find pants in the signal shack in PV, or maybe at the plane crash. My buttcheeks are icy. Wish me well.
Hi Zak, in your 2nd attempt (Broken Railroad 27:30) - if you would choose to go to the Hunting Lodge again instead of the Railroad Yard, it would have been at least warm inside there - and you would have had a better chance to survive until the next morning light (with a warm bed and toilet water...)
What do you re-think (now)
This was fun! Thanks!
And yes, I would continue to day 30 just for completeness.
"Death is patient. He will wait."
Continue this video!
The 4th location of hammer in CH is in front of trailer below lookout tower
I found it there recently on Interlooper
Easy to miss
I will remember the " black, white and in colour" phrase, there NEED to be occasions I can us that 😅
Fantastic video you crazy person lol. Top comments here are gold.
Zak have you ever made a video on best way/method to use charcoal to do mapping in survival mode?
No, but its pretty much just use the high ground
Would love to see you finish this.
at cave with matches I would have went out the cave and turned left. The cave system would have the bedroll and a small chance of a can. Going right and into that cave system was certain death.
The other cave system has the bedroll
@@Zaknafein Yes that is the one I would have gone to instead of turning right and going to the waterfall ice cave. Great content. :)
37:52
Wood matches
Don't know if you would've survived with that, but it would help to see 😜
I would like to see next 25 days :)
Zak there are cans and cooking pots in HRV you should have went into sketcheys cave to get the bed roll hacksaw and sometimes there is a summit soda there too.
Yes but was too far. In hindsight I might have been able to get the matches and double back, but I didnt think I would survive as long as I dif
@@Zaknafeinyes in that first cave there is a chance spawn of a little campsite with a cooking pot and rosehips. Maybe a piece of rabbit and guts as well?
i love the music intro,,what is it called,, i watch you play while i play,,great vids
it is called "heart of gold", you will find it on Spotify (and I guess on YT as well?). I really like it too, it's a good mood song 👍
This is kind of ridiculous... Why would anyone self-impose such absurd hard version of the game? And why did I watch it all, indirectly approving and supporting all this suffering?!?!
@@atmyyoutube because life is suffering and it’s entertaining.
Is there a chance for a can at the mid-region snow shelter?
I guess CH ain't such a bad Loper spawn after all, huh!
Wait what ? RESPAWN ? Excuse me ? Clearly i mustve missed something.
Do you plan on playing Pacific Drive at some point ? I would really like to see some more of that
Yes, it wasnt popular but had 100% like, so those who watched it seemed to like it. Once I have time :)
Yeah, continue
is there a point in forging an improvised knife? Its quite heavy and hatchet can do its job and even more. Except you cant get cloth from pillows and crafting is a bit slower
A knife allows for faster harvesting and crafting. Its not essential, but helps
@@Zaknafein Thank you!
Nice shiny birrrrrrds...
*Splat*