This is less of a walking simulator and more of a shuffling in terror and dying in your sleep simulator. It’s surprisingly absorbing though. A Redditor once said it was 'pensive' which is a perfect description.
One of very few games I bought after playing pirate copy. And few developers deserve such community support. Great idea behind project, great execution and one of examples graphic is secondary at best. I can't say anything bad about it really.
Walking actually save up your energy to do other things before proceed to another location you are planning to go, so walking is overall better than running. Also the fact that you always walk and measure your time to get somewhere is also handy, so you don't necessarily have to face with blizzard. Nevertheless your stamina is always ready to run away from wolves and possible bear attack to safety. My mobility just saved my life not once, but bunch of times already so far.
@@nicolasv1608 auto walk??? What you talkin bout Nicolas? Seriously. I've been playing long dark for 4 years now. No idea what your talking about but I would love to find out.
@@melissaattaway7426 Hinterland added the autowalk option a couple of updates ago, you have to go to menu options and enable autowalk ''yes'' and then u go to the keyboard settings and u use your favourite key to use it, by default i think is ''Z''
Nick very impressive. I’ve had the game for a while now, back before the story mode I can only manage 35 days and in stalker mode. I do well but I keep dying from dumb moves. Definitely never get tired of the game tho
@@jacobreyes7633 Dumb decisions as getting greedy or hastily or to self confident are always the end. especially in Stalker Mode. But also kinda in real life. This game has some true important messages To Teach^^
Nice but I choose the easiest difficulty because there is the best chance to survive to the max. And when you have a track at aurora, the animals can attack u as well.
25:30 you mentioned inside this mine that you might get a little bit lost, and that reminded me of something I learned from an explorer who goes into abandoned mines and caves and stuff... He said he always follows the "rule of rights." It's something that's well known amongst explorers, though I can't find an exact explanation online. Basically, when you're exploring, any time you come to a fork in the road you always go right. Keep taking rights until there's no more rights to take. Even if you get to the end of a path, turn around and now all your rights are the unexplored paths that used to be your lefts. Then you start skipping rights and going straight, and then left only if it's your only option, and by then you'll be on your way out. Geometrically speaking, if you follow this rule, you should theoretically, eventually, cover the entirety of the place you're exploring without ever getting lost and always knowing your way back. It also has the added advantage of making you easier to find if you get lost in a mine or cave, since this it's a well known enough that a search party should know you followed the rule of rights if you're an experienced explorer. They'll end up searching for you in the same path that you decided to walk and also preventing themselves from getting lost at the same time. I don't go spelunking or mine-exploring in real life, but I always use this rule in video games since it works just as well in games as it does in real life.
@@nielsegense I"d recommend most new players do it the other way around. I tried survival mode first and died to a day 1 blizzard my first time around, then I did story mode and it really helped me to learn the mechanics of the game so my next survival mode run went long. I'm well into the 100s of days survived and just stopped playing it cause I was finding Voyageur was starting to get too easy for me, so abandoned it to move on to Stalker and now I do custom difficulty with stalker wildlife and loot and interloper weather.
@@nielsegense seriously_unserious is saying that story mode is the "tutorial", which it is. In other words, you are not the "skip tutorial kinda player" if you start with story mode. Dunno what made you think that survival is the easier mode, cause it is not.
It's so complex that I prefer to just watch other people play it. If I started playing it myself, it would probably consume every waking hour of my life!
The very beautiful thing about The Long Dark is, its not selling fantasy. Even though it's not %100 realistic survival experience but still way more realistic then other "survival" games and I love it for that.
@@ozgott1415 Yes it does. Wildlife gets more agressive and dangerouse on an aroura (they deal more damage). An Aurora enraged bear CAN one shot you. If you want to read more about this topic: thelongdark.fandom.com/wiki/Aurora
@Jimmy Rustling nope. meat decays at about 1-2% per day when outside (depending on difficulty settings. I should know, I actually DO that in TLD and that's the rate i've OBSERVED in the game. Other items, yes, they do decay faster when not in a container or the backpack, and even more when left laying around outside, but meat is the opposite. That's common knowledge in the TLD community.
@Jeffrey Simmons I think you and the other guy are being too literal here and misinterpreting my "largest freezer" statement as referring to a literal freezer container object in the game. I'm referring to keeping any meat just outside, where it's always below 0, unless you light a fire too close to your meat. Outside, the meat decays the slowest, the exact rate will vary depending on your decay rate settings, but it will always be slower relative to all other storage methods for MEAT. I know this because I have STORED MEAT BOTH indoors and OUTDOORS and OBSERVED the rates meat decays at and OBSERVED it decaying much slower when stored outdoors. Any veteran TLD player will tell you the same thing, that MEAT is best stored outside. If you still don't believe me, try it for yourself. Get 4 pieces of meat of the same kind, that start at the same condition, and store 1 outside, 1 inside on the floor, 1 inside in a storage container, and 1 in your pack. (recommend setting wildlife to non-aggressive for this experiment so wildlife struggles don't interrupt or corrupt the experiment).
meat is to be stored outside on the ground. anyone that claims otherwise is a noob, that doesnt know what he is saying. there might be a small risk of atracting predators, but otherwise you can store meat for realy long periods of ingame time that way, more than 3 months raw and even then you can cook it, which restores some of its quality, store it even longer.
@@seushimarejikaze1337 It doesn't even have to be in the snow, even on a porch that counts as outdoors will do. In PV, my go-to area to store meat is the enclosed porch at the farm house and that has the full outdoor benefit for preserving the meat, and the added benefit of being completely safe from predators (glitches notwithstanding).
One more thing, to support your statements on lamp oil, if you're really stuck, go to a fishing hut and catch fish, when you cook them, you'll get more lamp oil and get more food too while you're at it. BTW, you might want to take another look at those gauntlets you shoved into a desk and really compare them to your current gloves.
The issue with gauntlets is the reduction in sprint, there are better items for protection where you're getting more protection for the amount of sprint lost, an example is the rabbitskin hat, it has 4% protection (vs 6%) with no sprint reduction(vs - 3%), your best bet for gloves is probably going to be wool mittens, imo
@@JustMark87 "rabbitskin hat" The key word being HAT. A HAT is something you wear on your HEAD, the GAUNTLETS are a type of GLOVES. Gloves are something you wear on your HANDS. They're completely DIFFERENT things you wear on completely DIFFERNT body parts. Trying to compare which is better is completely pointless as they don't cover the same body part. Gauntlets do have a higher then normal reduction to sprint, but are roughly tied with the bunny mitts for the warmest gloves in the game, offer more protection, are more durable (take less damage) are lighter, AND hinder sprint less then the bunny mitts (MITTS are also worn on the HANDS, since hands and heads seem to be an area of confusion for you 😝). The next best gloves are the wool mitts, which are about a full degree of warmth bonus less then both the bunny gloves and the gauntlets, are less water resistant, less wind resistant (only slightly) and offer significantly less damage reduction. The plus is they also reduce spring less and weight only 0.1 kg. Still, experienced TLD players soon learn if you need the best of the best, you need the gauntlets. The benefits for warmth, wind resistance, water proofing, and protection are so much for the sprint and weight penalties that it's more then well worth it.
@@Seriously_Unserious I used the rabbitskin hat as an example because the item slots are not in a vacuum, wearing one item in one slot may make it unnecessary to need another item in a different slot, i typically go off weight-to-warmth ratios because there are plenty of other ways to deal with animal attacks. Sure if you're going out in an Aurora high defense is helpful but day to day wool mitts are going to be best because they're basically weightless but still provide decent warmth, giving you .9 kg more room in your inventory while you're scavenging(which is huge), it's just silly to lose so much weight for a small item. Though in your defense it is the second best item if you go off weight-to-defense ratio, i just struggle with a full bag way more often than i do with animal attacks or cold.
@@JustMark87 Well, comparing gauntlets to wool mitts and rabbit skin mitts would make more sense then. You're comparing things that don't cover the same area. You don't wear a hat on your hands! LOL. Just admit that was a bad example and move on. As for the more important discussion, I do agree that it can be important to sacrifice one stat for another. In some situations, more sprint and less weight in exchange for less warmth can be an advantage. In other situations, you may need every degree of warmth you can get, regardless of weight or sprint reduction. For example, if you're in a wild region like TWM or HRV, you'll have limited options to warm up, so you may need to hold temperature as much as possible and be as protected from an unexpected blizzard as you can be. Or in the play modes I'm using, which are custom with a mix of interloper, stalker and harder then interloper settings, you may not be able to afford to tank any cnd loss. I'm doing loper weather, with some stalker elements like having the firearms and manmade tools available, but with cnd recovery set to double low (or in my newest run, low for at rest, none for while awake. So letting myself lose cnd by not using the warmest clothes I can get would mean resting for days after any exploration. The partially loper loot tables and faster then loper water and food consumption means I can't afford to be laid up for days recovering from cnd loss from the cold. Nor can I afford to be burning matches up at a breakneck pace to use fires to avoid getting too cold for too long. There is no one single right configuration in TLD. You have to be able to adapt to different situations. EG, in an aurora, if I had it, I'd exchange the wool ear wraps for the Kevlar vest even knowing I'll be barely able to run, especially if I'm in timberwolf territory. The last thing I'd need is to get into a battle with a 6 pack of aurora charged timberwolves under protected! I'd also put that vest on if I was doing something high risk like hunting a moose or bear, where there's an above normal chance of getting mauled or having the moose stomp a mudhole in you and then stomp it dry (thinking he's Stone Cold Steve Mooseton or something). (I wouldn't be surprised to hear the infamous car crash sound effect and guitar riff as a moose starts charging one of these days!)
I spend far too much time in this game. The artwork is amazing. I like to stay in one area until I die. It’s easy to move to other areas but I like the arc of scavenging everywhere until you’ think you can survive forever, and then one day you get the sinking feeling that you won’t find anymore tinned and packaged food and you have to hunt with limited ammo and fishing lines. That’s when it starts to get stressful and you have to really think about it.
Going on day 37 as a pilgrim, made my way to the fishing huts on Mystery Lake, found a rifle and I’ve just been fishing/hunting then stockpiling loads of meat in the hut with the door on it. I’m set for a long time, so there’s no real reason to leave because I would be abandoning my hard work. Now that I’ve watched this video, I’ll probably head north. Wish me luck
I love this game, the only thing I don't really like is the hunger system: it's too simplistic and a different approach would both make it more realistic and more engaging from a gameplay prospective. The player should have fat reserve, that increase as your calories intake is superior to the outtake. As you lose fat, you become thinner and weaker, thus more exposed to the element. Eventually you die from the weakness related to the starvation, instead of dropping dead directly from it the very same day you fast.
In the early game sure, it forces you to keep moving and to get exposed to more elements/risks/dangers but I do think that it takes away from the realism. Would be super interesting to have a more realistic system with a declining fat reserve eventually leading to starvation as suggested above. It could even including macronutrients including a certain amount of vitamins required otherwise you become significantly more prone to infections, or can get scurvy etc. So yeah it would probably make the early game a little easier but if well balanced it could make the late game significantly harder.
I actually started playing this after watching a show on national geographic about people who survive in remote areas of Alaska. It scratched that itch perfectly!! That was weeks ago lol im still playing it.
Around 11:00 dropping meat decoys reminded me of one minor complaint I have about the game, which is that "drop decoy" is totally arbitrary with meat/animal products you have in your inventory even if it's cooked or in good condition. I wish it went in reverse order, something like guts>partial carcasses>lower-condtion meat>cooked meat. Also, speaking of food safety in-game: at the lower difficulties it's impossible to get Parasites from eating predator meat, and when you've leveled up your Cooking skill to Level 5 (which doesn't take as long as you'd think) the game grants you total immunity to both Food Poisoning and Parasites.
Your video about the first few days in TLD was the reason I fell in love with this game, bought the game and then watched 5 years of gameplay from Accurize2 on RUclips. I would love to see you play more of this regularly. I would watch you 1 per week playthrough. Your commentary is great. Thank you from NZ 😊
One goal I like to make for myself is to get to the summit of Timberwolf mountain. It’s an extremely dangerous area, lots of wolves and bears and very cold weather. Little shelter and lots of climbing to do. It’s a good test of your survival skills
at 44:59 - That village is new since the Wintermute Ep 3 update in October. The place is called Thompson's Crossing and that's where the coal miners who used to work the coal mine you came in through lived, before the mine shut down due to all the Earthquakes making the mine unsafe. I'm loaded down with lore from Pleasant Valley atm, as I'm playing through Wintermute Ep 3 right now and far into the episode now.
the update makes Pleasant Valley a lot more forgiving now. Community Hall is a really good base camp since it's easier to find using landmarks (roads and river) in the sorts of poor visibility PV has so often, compared to the farmhouse and the big barn, no workbench but loads of loot and storage, a 6-burner stove, and it's closer to the exits to Coastal Highway and Mystery Lake transition zones.
@@alexroselle Definitely a LOT closer to the mine to Coastal Highway, but probably close to the same distance from the cave to Winding River as the farm house and red barn. I find the farm house the much safer route to winding river though, as there's fewer wolf zones to have to pass through. In fact, I've got the route between the farm house and the cave to winding river down to such a science I can avoid all risk of encounters with wolves. I know exactly what route to take so I totally avoid anywhere they're likely to be. The only potential hazard is the bear that can sometimes be up on Signal Hill.
Been a bit since I dipped in to the channel but I used to watch every fallout 4 build and the first 76 builds. I fucking love this game. Been around from the start. Doesn't hurt that I may have bias as a northern ontarian. I'll be back for good for more vids like this.
I was playing this game super late and “maybe had a drink and a smoke” but I fucking fell asleep irl and just died sitting in my cabin for Idk how long lol 😂
If you grind out on crafting arrows and bows, you can level up your archery skill to where you can crouch and shoot, which is about as OP as you can get in this game.
Honestly I love this game, and like everyone else I have an opinion that I personally think would make this game that much better....SEASONS...every maybe 50-100 in game days you get a new season, I think it would really add some depth to the game having to find all you can in the summer before winter hits....oh and one more thing, the load screens to enter or exit interiors drives me nuts....love this game though❤️❤️❤️
"OOO there's a stove?! OOOOOO!!!" lol I respond the same way to finding stuff in the game and I hear about it lol this game is so awesome to just play for hours and de-stress. Loved some of the tips I got from here, especially about the visors! A little thing I never knew about and, although I haven't found anything in them either, now at least I MIGHT, since I know to search :)
Been playing for 5 years. Never found anything in a visor. There truly is no point in looking. I used to religiously look even though I knew there was nothing to get. That is no longer the case. There literally never will he anything there barring an update that specifically utilizes them.
@@melissaattaway7426 thank you :) I almost feel like they are like slot machines now, asking me to check just one more and maybe I'll win lol hopefully one day they will update it to add stuff in the visors, like a tinder plug.
I think the only reason we look in car visors is that there's a plot point early in the Wintermute "story mode" where you find keys or something in a car visor, and we all do it out of habit "just in case"
Love your Long Dark Vids! Bought it in ‘15 and love playing it here and there. Haven’t quite reached the level you have, so I appreciate the tips and tricks! If you have time to make more, 10/10 would watch again and again! Cheers!
I think co-op would be cool if I could set up a shop or something, and trade goods. I’d own my own storage but they could be picked and loot would not respawn. Could be good lategame
I made the community hall my base, because it has a beautiful kitchen and it is never dark in the hall thanks to the roof windows. The deer head above the fireplace is always lit up, and there are beds right next to it, so you can come home in the dark of the night and don't need a light. I used the shelf in the bathroom to put all medicine and plants on display, and there are two storage cupboards under the stage too, for one you have to break the doors leaning in front of it down. Also much stuff to break down and clean the place up. Really nice! I love the atmosphere there! Love the trunk too! And there are two rabbit groves close by. I own this game since their early days, when the area to play in was small, and I'm still playing it! The church next to it is so beautiful with the stained glass windows when the sun is shining in! I prefer this area to the darkish and messy farmhouse.
My only complaints about this game are it's lackluster story mode and that you're ALWAYS wearing that green shirt and no gloves in first person mode. I'd rather be able to turn off the hands all together and just have floating weapons, it destroys my immersion seeing that same green shirt no matter what is actually equipped on my character doll.
protip for cave and mine exploring in this game: get a lot of flares and rocks/coal etc and mark areas you'v been at with a piece of Coal or a rock and use Flares to mark spots you wan to come back to and make a trail of them, they do run out, but you can still follow the traces of where they where laid down. other than that, just follow "the rule of right's" search it up if you'r wondering.
I think you should be rewarded by getting to spring and summer. Then you get progression through survival, relief, preparing for the next winter and possibly be able to contact the rest of the world and learn what happened and the consequences. Perhaps the possibility of doing a trek in the summer to and end goal you would never be able to survive in the winter.
Honestly I dunno if they considered that people would survive that long when they were making the game. Or they did and were like nahhhh, make em' suffer.
The early game is by far the most compelling part to me. especially on lower difficulties it can turn into a hoarding simulator, late game. Higher difficulties increase longevity and make sure you never get too comfortable in the world.
Community Hall you can cook at the fireplace and the stove. And finding the farm house by by the the orchard. There is a basement door in the house you don' have to go around to the storm cellar door.
Got may base set at mistery lake. Now I´m fully equiped in pleasent valley waiting for the second bear hide to cure. After I make a bear bedroll i´ll try to get to summit as light as possible. Got to think to take the saw with me :)).....going for 1000 days on stalker
My recommendation for late game activities is to get full furs for your clothing with lots of survival equipment and a small hunting base somewhere small. Rabbit skin hat Rabbit skin mitts Bear/wolf skin coat. Deerskin pants Deer skin boots Under clothing hidden under your furs Equipment Rifle Revolver Lots of ammunition Flares Distress pistol Food Water Fire supplies Etc.
There are so many long blizzards in pleasant valley it is good to use the rivers for travel. The steep sides provide wind protection and it is hard to get lost once your used to them.
The rivers and roads are your best friends in the normal (un)Pleasant Valley weather. Also, learning where all the shelters are so you can run over to one if a sudden blizzard whips up out of nowhere. Pleasant Valley's also notorious for those too. My normal experience for PV is when I'm preparing to leave and go back to either Coastal Highway or Mystery Lake, I'll get held up 2-4 days by nonstop blizzards, and when the blizzards finally let up just long enough for me to leave the farmhouse I'm usually holed up in, I'll start making my way to the exit, only to have to either face tank another blizzard or hide in a cave or the fishing hut on Pensive Pond fishing all day while waiting out the blizzard. For that reason, I've gotten in the habit of leaving a good supply of firewood at the hut just in case I get stuck there.
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it already but there is a cabinet in the kitchen of the community center in PV that holds i believe 600lbs of gear. Edit- my bad its 440lbs.
Pleasant Valley, IMO, is the most mis-named region in the game. The weather there is bad, and only recently eclipsed as the worst in the game by Bleak Inlet. BTW, norespawns, try crouching when you're hunting, you can get much closer before your pray can see you and run away, meaning you get a much better shot of hitting them. Bunnies, you can get them to point blank range before they'll see you and run away when you're crouching. Since Hinterland nerfed bait, wolves are best hunted using the crouch shot method too now, and using stones to lure them into a good shot. And with Timberwolves, forget about baiting them, they just don't care about the bait.
I've been hunting wolves by leading them to deer and killing them when they are eating the deer. Only takes one arrow, and even if you don't kill the wolf you get a deer. If you do kill the wolf you get both. All from one arrow.
I have spent most of my time in the game at about 15 kg it makes a huge difference when you leave tools where you will need them and pick up tools when you are going to use them.
Out of curiosity why the rifle instead of the bow / revvy for longer trips? Also why not pick up your rifle cartridge's? I almost had a wolf moment like you talked about last night too. Was walking back home with a lot of meat on me and ran into a wolf pack, 3/4 of the wolves ran away because of my jacket.
Na. You can do all those things.on harder difficulties when your good at the game. I haven't done those specifically but I've been playing for 4 or 5 years so I can tell you by intuition alone. Even if he were lying, its still possible and fun. Just don't be a rook and you'll be fine. For example, my favorite maps are Timberwolves mountain and hushed river valley. Objectively the hardest on the game. They are a walk in the park for me and I enjoy getting dropped there. Just get good.
Trigger! Pick up your spent brass. Even tho I too have just started playing this game for this year, and spent brass is new to me. And I have yet to make it to an ammo bench. Just luggin all the damn supplies to make bullets everywhere.
I went through Desolation point, Coastal Highway, Ravine, Mystery Lake, up to Winding River, short trip to Silent Valley, back to Mystery Lake via Winding River, then I went to Mountain Town and Hushed River Valley. Now I've collected a crowbar, rope, weapons and a blue flare. Think I'm ready for Forlorn Muskeg and Bleak inlet?
You know what's funny? I play on Steam and I got the archivar challenge done, even though I never played the game from the time that challenge was added to the time I picked up on it again.
norespawns endgame guide: TRY NOT TO DIE 😂😂 I was hurting so badly when you were right by the barnhouse, screaming at the screen! You surviving two packs of wolves and a bear encounter made it all worthwhile 😀 good knock
i have NO idea how, but i am on day 893 now on Interloper difficulty and i am, as i always am, still in mystery lake lol! i have survived there for 893 days!! i only enter other zones when i need to get specific items, like the Flair gun which most of the time spawns at the crashed air liner.
I’m on day 1,007 I’m literally lost on what to do... already explored the new hesitant prospect. I have done all the challenges, and I’ve done every skill there is.. help me 😂😂😂 Failed to mention I’m on stalker, not the interloper.
What quality loot you find in the last region you explored in you run? I hear it decays to completely 0 i.e. ruined loot everywhere after about a 1oo days in stalker, that true? Cus i havnt been able to test it myself yet..
@@Maya-di2lq it’s 100% true anything I find that’s a can or that’s a soda it’s 0% the food from kills are different they’ll last about maybe 30 days before losing 50%
If you're in the late game just build a camp with all the necessities in every cave and building you can encounter in the middle of nowhere and mark em with spray paint I'm sure you'll have plenty of time doing so...
I'm starting a new game and Im going to start a stalker run and I'm going to survive at least 600 days and map out every locations and I have to have all crafted gear expect for guns but clothing has to be crafted and I can't wait to go home and play.
I didn't watch the full video actually just came in but I have a question. What is late game in The Long Dark? It's a survival game and you always think about tomorrow, always think about next night. You'll never know how you end up. So I say, I cant see any difference between day 7 or day 138 or day 568. They are all same in my opinion
I'm still fairly new to the game and only played on pilgrim and voyageur difficulty, but I've eaten wolves in those and not gotten ill effects from that. Maybe it's your difficulty?
Hello from SW England :) I wasn't even interested in this game but after coming across your TLD videos today I decided to pick this up. I love your commentary style.
2 year old video, but still useful for new players. Beside new maps, not much has change in the game mechanics. For the tips, i would add this: Eating predator meat (wolfes & bears) gives you a risk for getting parasites. The more predator meat you eat in short time, the higher the risk to get parasites. Parasites needs one antibiotic treatment per day over 10 days. One antibiotic treatment is considered to be either swallow 2 antibiotic pills or drink a warm reishi tea. Every day you' still got the parasites affliction you will lose a tiny bit of your max fitness. This will reduce the time you normally got, until you're exhausted and you need to rest. You are also incapable of learning from books as long as you have this illness. Once i get any kind of weapon and i have also found antibiotics or reishi mushrooms, i actually like to get a lot of meat from wolfes. You cross many wolfes in the game and have to kill some anyway in self defense or because you want to get quickly from A to B. In these circumstances i just take the risk and eat predator meat. Once you get ill, eating more predator meat will do absolutely nothing to your health or the parasite status. You can eat as much of it as you wish, until you are cured from parasites. So, a minimum of 10 days. Get cooking skills to lvl 5 and you will never get ill by spoiled meat or predator meat at all. But raw meat can still give you food poisoning! Store raw meat somewhere outside on the ground, it will remain fresh longer that way. Cooking meat always gives 50% back to the meats condition even if its 0% (ruined). So, do not hesitate to accumulate some well stuffed stacks on each map you're currently exploring. You're cooking skill is increased with every single tea, coffee or piece of meat you're cooking. Therefore pick up everything that can be cooked until you get lvl 5 cooking. The amount of skill gained for cooking meat is not influenced by how much the meat weights. The game only counts how much pieces you cook. Increase the amount of pieces of meat by cutting multiple smal bits out of the dead animals. Start with the harvest minimum amount of meat to cut and abort the harvest process with ESCAPE half way through the harvest. You will still have harvested like half the meat you had set as a goal. That way, even a rabbit could give you 6-10 pieces of meat. I hope this will increase your chances to survive the long dark, enjoy!
I don't like how your survival will eventually end no matter what you do. After some time, you'll just run out of items and tools to use, and nothing respawns to allow you to survive, so every run is essentially doomed from the start. It's interesting, but i don't want to watch my potentially best runs slowly die from hunger no matter what i do.
Hushed river valley was rather disappointing. But the fact I made it their on my 100 day and left after the 50th day their... is an achievement on its own. Still a very dull map. With little interesting locations. Needs more awe then cold
Overall to complete the game you need time but for someone like me who is used to multiplayer unpausable games, this is something I can play for 5 minutes and just hit the ESC button to walk away for however long I need.
i have basically gone through my first area.built up all this stuff...but i find i hate to leave it all behind, what do you lot take with you on top of your guns and ammo??
Here's what I consider my EDC (every day carry) gear: - Bedroll - 2 Recycled Cans - 2 Fishing Tackle - Revolver, with extra 18 rounds - Survival Bow, with 8-12 arrows - 3 Stones - Hunting Knife - Hatchet - Prybar - 2 Flares - Min 2 Torches (40% or higher) - Cardboard Matches (~12) - Wood Matches (~12) - Magnifying Lens - Firestriker - 6 Antibiotics, or 2 Prepared Reishi (if cooking below Level 5) - 4 Bandages - 6 Painkillers (or 3-4 Prepared Rosehips) - 3 Old Man's Beard Dressings - 2 Prepared Birch Bark - 1 Emergency Stim - 10 - 20 Cattail Stalks - No less than .25 gallons of water (roughly 1L) And the best clothes on my back. Depending where I'm going or where I've been, I might ditch the prybar (if I've opened every container), and I might switch out for the bearskin bedroll. But I think that covers everything I carry on a typical day.
@@wildernessrick9278 wow thats a lot. I went to a new area left a tin of stuff in old are but since i can mive back and forwars only problem i have is remembering where that mine is. I wish they had better map making system
@@johnbanks4761 It does sound like a lot, but in my current Stalker run, that usually only brings me between 48 - 52 lbs (~22 - 23.5 kgs). I'm always Well Fed, so I can carry a minimum of 77 lbs (~35 kgs), and with the other two items that increase carry capacity, that brings me up to 99 lbs (~45 kgs). So I typically have plenty of extra space to loot a new area. And I'm always prepared for any situation that could arise. That load out also differs depending on my goals for any given day. If I'm gonna spend the day ice fishing, I ditch everything I don't need for the walk to the fishing huts and back (bedroll, hatchet, bow and arrows, etc.) More weight to carry more fish! I also tend to make "supply outposts" in each region, rather than bring every thing back to a single location. Keeps me from having to haul too much at any given time as well.
@@johnbanks4761 And as far as the mapping goes, I understand the frustration. Every game I've played up to this game has a convenient mini-map, a full in-game map, and an icon to show exactly where your character is at any given time! That said, I honestly enjoy the mapping system in The Long Dark. The only thing your character (and you, for that matter) would really have is a pencil (charcoal) and paper to "make a map", and your memory of a given area. It's tough, but rewarding. Just keep moving, keep looting, build stockpiles, increase your skills. If you keep exploring, you'll find that mine again! Heck, you might even have better stuff by the time you DO find it again!
Had a laugh when you left your bedroll but in a pinch you can sleep in the truck in the barn. In interloper I only sleep for short periods but you probably could have slept the night.
They've updated sleep, and it's usually safe to sleep the night, unless you're in an area where cold is a risk. Otherwise you can sleep 12 straight hours and will automatically wake up if you get too thirsty. IMO that's way more realistic. I don't know of too many people who would just keep on sleeping until they when dehydrated. The normal response is to get woken up by that so you can go get a drink.
can you maybe do a video about how to get up to the smoke rising that you can see from the bottom of the mountains? I believe it is in the Timberwolf area. I can not figure out how to get up there, but it supposedly has good loot.
I'm new to the game and i chose to start at milton town i spawned at the farm found a rifle went to milton found a revolver and i was trapped in milton because i was so heavy and wolfs keep coming to town so i was trapped :(
Usually it’s easy to billy goat down . Getting up the rope is the hard part But getting down is almost always easy just be prepared for some sprains possibly
This is less of a walking simulator and more of a shuffling in terror and dying in your sleep simulator. It’s surprisingly absorbing though. A Redditor once said it was 'pensive' which is a perfect description.
Yeah pensive is pretty perfect 👍🏼
Jimmy Rustling Yeah. And?
Gaudia Certaminis hes a fuckin idiot don’t bother.
One of very few games I bought after playing pirate copy. And few developers deserve such community support. Great idea behind project, great execution and one of examples graphic is secondary at best. I can't say anything bad about it really.
I realize Im pretty randomly asking but does anyone know of a good website to stream newly released series online?
People: this game looks boring its just walking.
Me, a professional walker: _N I C E_
Walking actually save up your energy to do other things before proceed to another location you are planning to go, so walking is overall better than running. Also the fact that you always walk and measure your time to get somewhere is also handy, so you don't necessarily have to face with blizzard. Nevertheless your stamina is always ready to run away from wolves and possible bear attack to safety. My mobility just saved my life not once, but bunch of times already so far.
They dont know how it was when there was no autowalk function. Your hand and fingers got really numb after a long exploration session.
@@nicolasv1608 auto walk??? What you talkin bout Nicolas? Seriously. I've been playing long dark for 4 years now. No idea what your talking about but I would love to find out.
@@melissaattaway7426 Hinterland added the autowalk option a couple of updates ago, you have to go to menu options and enable autowalk ''yes'' and then u go to the keyboard settings and u use your favourite key to use it, by default i think is ''Z''
@@melissaattaway7426 **Facepalm**
Im on day 405 now - Interloper. Sitting at Mystery Lake. I reay love the game and it always stays challenging, so it doesnt get boring.
Nick very impressive. I’ve had the game for a while now, back before the story mode I can only manage 35 days and in stalker mode. I do well but I keep dying from dumb moves. Definitely never get tired of the game tho
@@jacobreyes7633 Dumb decisions as getting greedy or hastily or to self confident are always the end. especially in Stalker Mode. But also kinda in real life. This game has some true important messages To Teach^^
@@unternimmdasnick Sooo true 👍
“Avoid the bears”
Nice but I choose the easiest difficulty because there is the best chance to survive to the max. And when you have a track at aurora, the animals can attack u as well.
25:30 you mentioned inside this mine that you might get a little bit lost, and that reminded me of something I learned from an explorer who goes into abandoned mines and caves and stuff... He said he always follows the "rule of rights." It's something that's well known amongst explorers, though I can't find an exact explanation online. Basically, when you're exploring, any time you come to a fork in the road you always go right. Keep taking rights until there's no more rights to take. Even if you get to the end of a path, turn around and now all your rights are the unexplored paths that used to be your lefts. Then you start skipping rights and going straight, and then left only if it's your only option, and by then you'll be on your way out.
Geometrically speaking, if you follow this rule, you should theoretically, eventually, cover the entirety of the place you're exploring without ever getting lost and always knowing your way back.
It also has the added advantage of making you easier to find if you get lost in a mine or cave, since this it's a well known enough that a search party should know you followed the rule of rights if you're an experienced explorer. They'll end up searching for you in the same path that you decided to walk and also preventing themselves from getting lost at the same time.
I don't go spelunking or mine-exploring in real life, but I always use this rule in video games since it works just as well in games as it does in real life.
this is cool and I'm gonna blame you if I get lost in the future lol
What if you have more to explore to the third right and the second right just leads you to the exit? then theoretically you covered the entire ass
I indepdently realised this when playing mincraft lol. Genuinely a useful thing to know tho.
Yes! Best way to loot 👍
this is how you beat a corn maze every time!
You can do the Nomad Challenge. It's basically survival mode but with goals, no time limit, and an end game.
I did a bit of survival, just to learn the mechanics, then on to the story. It's REALLY good!
@@nielsegense I"d recommend most new players do it the other way around. I tried survival mode first and died to a day 1 blizzard my first time around, then I did story mode and it really helped me to learn the mechanics of the game so my next survival mode run went long. I'm well into the 100s of days survived and just stopped playing it cause I was finding Voyageur was starting to get too easy for me, so abandoned it to move on to Stalker and now I do custom difficulty with stalker wildlife and loot and interloper weather.
@@Seriously_Unserious And that makes perfect sense too! Maybe I'm more of a "skip tutorial -> endless pain and frustration" kinda player? :)
@@nielsegense The story's a good story, so I'd definitely recommend experiencing what you can of it so far.
@@nielsegense seriously_unserious is saying that story mode is the "tutorial", which it is. In other words, you are not the "skip tutorial kinda player" if you start with story mode. Dunno what made you think that survival is the easier mode, cause it is not.
Such a great survival game, and so engaging.
One of the few games my fiancé will actually sit down and watch me play and try to help me out 😂
Jimmy Rustling bro, why are you copy pasting a paragraph 😂 get outta here
Jimmy Rustling no, you commented this exact comment to multiple people.
It's so complex that I prefer to just watch other people play it. If I started playing it myself, it would probably consume every waking hour of my life!
Will Snyder yeah it’s very tedious... maybe someday you’ll try it!
Haha yeah! My gf too liked watching it!
From playing the forest , ark and 7 days to die, its finally nice to just relax and take your time on a game like this. 👍👍
The very beautiful thing about The Long Dark is, its not selling fantasy. Even though it's not %100 realistic survival experience but still way more realistic then other "survival" games and I love it for that.
477 on interloper, died by a aurora enraged bear :(
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waitaminute.... the aurora enrages bears?
@@ozgott1415 Yes it does. Wildlife gets more agressive and dangerouse on an aroura (they deal more damage). An Aurora enraged bear CAN one shot you.
If you want to read more about this topic: thelongdark.fandom.com/wiki/Aurora
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I keep a pilgrim save handy because some days I just need the pensive exploration
I always find myself coming back to this channel when I'm looking for new and interesting games to check out!
For meat storage, you're best bet is to keep it in the world's largest freezer -- outside. Meat decays very fast indoors, but very slow outside.
@Jimmy Rustling nope. meat decays at about 1-2% per day when outside (depending on difficulty settings. I should know, I actually DO that in TLD and that's the rate i've OBSERVED in the game. Other items, yes, they do decay faster when not in a container or the backpack, and even more when left laying around outside, but meat is the opposite. That's common knowledge in the TLD community.
@Jeffrey Simmons I think you and the other guy are being too literal here and misinterpreting my "largest freezer" statement as referring to a literal freezer container object in the game.
I'm referring to keeping any meat just outside, where it's always below 0, unless you light a fire too close to your meat. Outside, the meat decays the slowest, the exact rate will vary depending on your decay rate settings, but it will always be slower relative to all other storage methods for MEAT.
I know this because I have STORED MEAT BOTH indoors and OUTDOORS and OBSERVED the rates meat decays at and OBSERVED it decaying much slower when stored outdoors.
Any veteran TLD player will tell you the same thing, that MEAT is best stored outside.
If you still don't believe me, try it for yourself. Get 4 pieces of meat of the same kind, that start at the same condition, and store 1 outside, 1 inside on the floor, 1 inside in a storage container, and 1 in your pack. (recommend setting wildlife to non-aggressive for this experiment so wildlife struggles don't interrupt or corrupt the experiment).
meat is to be stored outside on the ground. anyone that claims otherwise is a noob, that doesnt know what he is saying. there might be a small risk of atracting predators, but otherwise you can store meat for realy long periods of ingame time that way, more than 3 months raw and even then you can cook it, which restores some of its quality, store it even longer.
@@seushimarejikaze1337 It doesn't even have to be in the snow, even on a porch that counts as outdoors will do. In PV, my go-to area to store meat is the enclosed porch at the farm house and that has the full outdoor benefit for preserving the meat, and the added benefit of being completely safe from predators (glitches notwithstanding).
actually ive never been to pv, im having a blast at timberwolf mountain (my starting point). one of the most challenging starts.
One more thing, to support your statements on lamp oil, if you're really stuck, go to a fishing hut and catch fish, when you cook them, you'll get more lamp oil and get more food too while you're at it.
BTW, you might want to take another look at those gauntlets you shoved into a desk and really compare them to your current gloves.
The issue with gauntlets is the reduction in sprint, there are better items for protection where you're getting more protection for the amount of sprint lost, an example is the rabbitskin hat, it has 4% protection (vs 6%) with no sprint reduction(vs - 3%), your best bet for gloves is probably going to be wool mittens, imo
@@JustMark87 "rabbitskin hat" The key word being HAT. A HAT is something you wear on your HEAD, the GAUNTLETS are a type of GLOVES. Gloves are something you wear on your HANDS. They're completely DIFFERENT things you wear on completely DIFFERNT body parts. Trying to compare which is better is completely pointless as they don't cover the same body part.
Gauntlets do have a higher then normal reduction to sprint, but are roughly tied with the bunny mitts for the warmest gloves in the game, offer more protection, are more durable (take less damage) are lighter, AND hinder sprint less then the bunny mitts (MITTS are also worn on the HANDS, since hands and heads seem to be an area of confusion for you 😝).
The next best gloves are the wool mitts, which are about a full degree of warmth bonus less then both the bunny gloves and the gauntlets, are less water resistant, less wind resistant (only slightly) and offer significantly less damage reduction. The plus is they also reduce spring less and weight only 0.1 kg.
Still, experienced TLD players soon learn if you need the best of the best, you need the gauntlets. The benefits for warmth, wind resistance, water proofing, and protection are so much for the sprint and weight penalties that it's more then well worth it.
@@Seriously_Unserious I used the rabbitskin hat as an example because the item slots are not in a vacuum, wearing one item in one slot may make it unnecessary to need another item in a different slot, i typically go off weight-to-warmth ratios because there are plenty of other ways to deal with animal attacks.
Sure if you're going out in an Aurora high defense is helpful but day to day wool mitts are going to be best because they're basically weightless but still provide decent warmth, giving you .9 kg more room in your inventory while you're scavenging(which is huge), it's just silly to lose so much weight for a small item.
Though in your defense it is the second best item if you go off weight-to-defense ratio, i just struggle with a full bag way more often than i do with animal attacks or cold.
@@JustMark87 Well, comparing gauntlets to wool mitts and rabbit skin mitts would make more sense then. You're comparing things that don't cover the same area. You don't wear a hat on your hands! LOL. Just admit that was a bad example and move on.
As for the more important discussion, I do agree that it can be important to sacrifice one stat for another. In some situations, more sprint and less weight in exchange for less warmth can be an advantage. In other situations, you may need every degree of warmth you can get, regardless of weight or sprint reduction. For example, if you're in a wild region like TWM or HRV, you'll have limited options to warm up, so you may need to hold temperature as much as possible and be as protected from an unexpected blizzard as you can be.
Or in the play modes I'm using, which are custom with a mix of interloper, stalker and harder then interloper settings, you may not be able to afford to tank any cnd loss. I'm doing loper weather, with some stalker elements like having the firearms and manmade tools available, but with cnd recovery set to double low (or in my newest run, low for at rest, none for while awake. So letting myself lose cnd by not using the warmest clothes I can get would mean resting for days after any exploration. The partially loper loot tables and faster then loper water and food consumption means I can't afford to be laid up for days recovering from cnd loss from the cold. Nor can I afford to be burning matches up at a breakneck pace to use fires to avoid getting too cold for too long.
There is no one single right configuration in TLD. You have to be able to adapt to different situations. EG, in an aurora, if I had it, I'd exchange the wool ear wraps for the Kevlar vest even knowing I'll be barely able to run, especially if I'm in timberwolf territory. The last thing I'd need is to get into a battle with a 6 pack of aurora charged timberwolves under protected!
I'd also put that vest on if I was doing something high risk like hunting a moose or bear, where there's an above normal chance of getting mauled or having the moose stomp a mudhole in you and then stomp it dry (thinking he's Stone Cold Steve Mooseton or something). (I wouldn't be surprised to hear the infamous car crash sound effect and guitar riff as a moose starts charging one of these days!)
I spend far too much time in this game. The artwork is amazing. I like to stay in one area until I die. It’s easy to move to other areas but I like the arc of scavenging everywhere until you’ think you can survive forever, and then one day you get the sinking feeling that you won’t find anymore tinned and packaged food and you have to hunt with limited ammo and fishing lines. That’s when it starts to get stressful and you have to really think about it.
Going on day 37 as a pilgrim, made my way to the fishing huts on Mystery Lake, found a rifle and I’ve just been fishing/hunting then stockpiling loads of meat in the hut with the door on it. I’m set for a long time, so there’s no real reason to leave because I would be abandoning my hard work. Now that I’ve watched this video, I’ll probably head north. Wish me luck
howd it go?
I'd say try Voyager mode. Pilgrim is just too easy.
Pilgrim? Are you serious?
I love this game, the only thing I don't really like is the hunger system: it's too simplistic and a different approach would both make it more realistic and more engaging from a gameplay prospective. The player should have fat reserve, that increase as your calories intake is superior to the outtake. As you lose fat, you become thinner and weaker, thus more exposed to the element. Eventually you die from the weakness related to the starvation, instead of dropping dead directly from it the very same day you fast.
Great idea
making that into a custom setting would be better
That could be pretty cool and interesting.
In the early game sure, it forces you to keep moving and to get exposed to more elements/risks/dangers but I do think that it takes away from the realism. Would be super interesting to have a more realistic system with a declining fat reserve eventually leading to starvation as suggested above. It could even including macronutrients including a certain amount of vitamins required otherwise you become significantly more prone to infections, or can get scurvy etc. So yeah it would probably make the early game a little easier but if well balanced it could make the late game significantly harder.
Hunger Revamped mod does exactly what you describe; I use it and it's very good. Though it's only available for the PC version.
I actually started playing this after watching a show on national geographic about people who survive in remote areas of Alaska. It scratched that itch perfectly!! That was weeks ago lol im still playing it.
Around 11:00 dropping meat decoys reminded me of one minor complaint I have about the game, which is that "drop decoy" is totally arbitrary with meat/animal products you have in your inventory even if it's cooked or in good condition. I wish it went in reverse order, something like guts>partial carcasses>lower-condtion meat>cooked meat.
Also, speaking of food safety in-game: at the lower difficulties it's impossible to get Parasites from eating predator meat, and when you've leveled up your Cooking skill to Level 5 (which doesn't take as long as you'd think) the game grants you total immunity to both Food Poisoning and Parasites.
Your video about the first few days in TLD was the reason I fell in love with this game, bought the game and then watched 5 years of gameplay from Accurize2 on RUclips. I would love to see you play more of this regularly. I would watch you 1 per week playthrough. Your commentary is great. Thank you from NZ 😊
One goal I like to make for myself is to get to the summit of Timberwolf mountain. It’s an extremely dangerous area, lots of wolves and bears and very cold weather. Little shelter and lots of climbing to do. It’s a good test of your survival skills
at 44:59 - That village is new since the Wintermute Ep 3 update in October. The place is called Thompson's Crossing and that's where the coal miners who used to work the coal mine you came in through lived, before the mine shut down due to all the Earthquakes making the mine unsafe.
I'm loaded down with lore from Pleasant Valley atm, as I'm playing through Wintermute Ep 3 right now and far into the episode now.
the update makes Pleasant Valley a lot more forgiving now. Community Hall is a really good base camp since it's easier to find using landmarks (roads and river) in the sorts of poor visibility PV has so often, compared to the farmhouse and the big barn, no workbench but loads of loot and storage, a 6-burner stove, and it's closer to the exits to Coastal Highway and Mystery Lake transition zones.
@@alexroselle Definitely a LOT closer to the mine to Coastal Highway, but probably close to the same distance from the cave to Winding River as the farm house and red barn. I find the farm house the much safer route to winding river though, as there's fewer wolf zones to have to pass through. In fact, I've got the route between the farm house and the cave to winding river down to such a science I can avoid all risk of encounters with wolves. I know exactly what route to take so I totally avoid anywhere they're likely to be. The only potential hazard is the bear that can sometimes be up on Signal Hill.
Been a bit since I dipped in to the channel but I used to watch every fallout 4 build and the first 76 builds.
I fucking love this game. Been around from the start. Doesn't hurt that I may have bias as a northern ontarian.
I'll be back for good for more vids like this.
I was playing this game super late and “maybe had a drink and a smoke” but I fucking fell asleep irl and just died sitting in my cabin for Idk how long lol 😂
If you grind out on crafting arrows and bows, you can level up your archery skill to where you can crouch and shoot, which is about as OP as you can get in this game.
Honestly I love this game, and like everyone else I have an opinion that I personally think would make this game that much better....SEASONS...every maybe 50-100 in game days you get a new season, I think it would really add some depth to the game having to find all you can in the summer before winter hits....oh and one more thing, the load screens to enter or exit interiors drives me nuts....love this game though❤️❤️❤️
if you haven't already, I'd highly recommend Don't Starve. It's literally the game you're describing.
norespawns I saw another game called subsistence? But I believe it’s for PC only🤷🏻♂️
The first 1:30 is spot on. I love my walking sim, I just keep coming back. Oh and ya shout out from early beta land.
"OOO there's a stove?! OOOOOO!!!" lol I respond the same way to finding stuff in the game and I hear about it lol this game is so awesome to just play for hours and de-stress. Loved some of the tips I got from here, especially about the visors! A little thing I never knew about and, although I haven't found anything in them either, now at least I MIGHT, since I know to search :)
Been playing for 5 years. Never found anything in a visor. There truly is no point in looking. I used to religiously look even though I knew there was nothing to get. That is no longer the case. There literally never will he anything there barring an update that specifically utilizes them.
@@melissaattaway7426 thank you :) I almost feel like they are like slot machines now, asking me to check just one more and maybe I'll win lol hopefully one day they will update it to add stuff in the visors, like a tinder plug.
I think the only reason we look in car visors is that there's a plot point early in the Wintermute "story mode" where you find keys or something in a car visor, and we all do it out of habit "just in case"
Need more long dark I love watching while playing games so relaxing
Love your Long Dark Vids! Bought it in ‘15 and love playing it here and there. Haven’t quite reached the level you have, so I appreciate the tips and tricks! If you have time to make more, 10/10 would watch again and again! Cheers!
I think co-op would be cool if I could set up a shop or something, and trade goods. I’d own my own storage but they could be picked and loot would not respawn. Could be good lategame
Great video ! Love when you play different types of games . Like this and Sunless Skies etc. Still love the fallout content too ofc lol 👍🏻
I made the community hall my base, because it has a beautiful kitchen and it is never dark in the hall thanks to the roof windows. The deer head above the fireplace is always lit up, and there are beds right next to it, so you can come home in the dark of the night and don't need a light. I used the shelf in the bathroom to put all medicine and plants on display, and there are two storage cupboards under the stage too, for one you have to break the doors leaning in front of it down. Also much stuff to break down and clean the place up. Really nice! I love the atmosphere there! Love the trunk too! And there are two rabbit groves close by. I own this game since their early days, when the area to play in was small, and I'm still playing it! The church next to it is so beautiful with the stained glass windows when the sun is shining in! I prefer this area to the darkish and messy farmhouse.
My only complaints about this game are it's lackluster story mode and that you're ALWAYS wearing that green shirt and no gloves in first person mode.
I'd rather be able to turn off the hands all together and just have floating weapons, it destroys my immersion seeing that same green shirt no matter what is actually equipped on my character doll.
I agree
protip for cave and mine exploring in this game: get a lot of flares and rocks/coal etc and mark areas you'v been at with a piece of Coal or a rock and use Flares to mark spots you wan to come back to and make a trail of them, they do run out, but you can still follow the traces of where they where laid down. other than that, just follow "the rule of right's" search it up if you'r wondering.
I think you should be rewarded by getting to spring and summer. Then you get progression through survival, relief, preparing for the next winter and possibly be able to contact the rest of the world and learn what happened and the consequences. Perhaps the possibility of doing a trek in the summer to and end goal you would never be able to survive in the winter.
Honestly I dunno if they considered that people would survive that long when they were making the game. Or they did and were like nahhhh, make em' suffer.
More Long Dark man, they're in your top 5 more viewed videos ever. We want more!
I hope Hinterland understand what a mind-blowing game they've made
The early game is by far the most compelling part to me. especially on lower difficulties it can turn into a hoarding simulator, late game. Higher difficulties increase longevity and make sure you never get too comfortable in the world.
Community Hall you can cook at the fireplace and the stove. And finding the farm house by by the the orchard. There is a basement door in the house you don' have to go around to the storm cellar door.
Got may base set at mistery lake. Now I´m fully equiped in pleasent valley waiting for the second bear hide to cure. After I make a bear bedroll i´ll try to get to summit as light as possible. Got to think to take the saw with me :)).....going for 1000 days on stalker
My recommendation for late game activities is to get full furs for your clothing with lots of survival equipment and a small hunting base somewhere small.
Rabbit skin hat
Rabbit skin mitts
Bear/wolf skin coat.
Deerskin pants
Deer skin boots
Under clothing hidden under your furs
Equipment
Rifle
Revolver
Lots of ammunition
Flares
Distress pistol
Food
Water
Fire supplies
Etc.
Why not the moose skin coat? I kinda like the 90% water resistance
There are so many long blizzards in pleasant valley it is good to use the rivers for travel. The steep sides provide wind protection and it is hard to get lost once your used to them.
The rivers and roads are your best friends in the normal (un)Pleasant Valley weather. Also, learning where all the shelters are so you can run over to one if a sudden blizzard whips up out of nowhere. Pleasant Valley's also notorious for those too.
My normal experience for PV is when I'm preparing to leave and go back to either Coastal Highway or Mystery Lake, I'll get held up 2-4 days by nonstop blizzards, and when the blizzards finally let up just long enough for me to leave the farmhouse I'm usually holed up in, I'll start making my way to the exit, only to have to either face tank another blizzard or hide in a cave or the fishing hut on Pensive Pond fishing all day while waiting out the blizzard. For that reason, I've gotten in the habit of leaving a good supply of firewood at the hut just in case I get stuck there.
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it already but there is a cabinet in the kitchen of the community center in PV that holds i believe 600lbs of gear. Edit- my bad its 440lbs.
Pleasant Valley, IMO, is the most mis-named region in the game. The weather there is bad, and only recently eclipsed as the worst in the game by Bleak Inlet.
BTW, norespawns, try crouching when you're hunting, you can get much closer before your pray can see you and run away, meaning you get a much better shot of hitting them. Bunnies, you can get them to point blank range before they'll see you and run away when you're crouching. Since Hinterland nerfed bait, wolves are best hunted using the crouch shot method too now, and using stones to lure them into a good shot.
And with Timberwolves, forget about baiting them, they just don't care about the bait.
I've been hunting wolves by leading them to deer and killing them when they are eating the deer. Only takes one arrow, and even if you don't kill the wolf you get a deer. If you do kill the wolf you get both. All from one arrow.
@@tianamaycry Yup, great tactic when you have the chance to use it.
I found myself trying to get those odd rewards, map everything, keep a campfire going for 3 days, have all my clothes at 100%, that kind of thing.
I have spent most of my time in the game at about 15 kg it makes a huge difference when you leave tools where you will need them and pick up tools when you are going to use them.
Out of curiosity why the rifle instead of the bow / revvy for longer trips? Also why not pick up your rifle cartridge's?
I almost had a wolf moment like you talked about last night too. Was walking back home with a lot of meat on me and ran into a wolf pack, 3/4 of the wolves ran away because of my jacket.
I just start creating challenges like go hunting naked, blizzardwalking, marking roads with the pelts of all the wolves I killed. drugs help
Nathan you must be playing on pilgrim
@@jacobreyes7633 no
Na. You can do all those things.on harder difficulties when your good at the game. I haven't done those specifically but I've been playing for 4 or 5 years so I can tell you by intuition alone. Even if he were lying, its still possible and fun. Just don't be a rook and you'll be fine. For example, my favorite maps are Timberwolves mountain and hushed river valley. Objectively the hardest on the game. They are a walk in the park for me and I enjoy getting dropped there. Just get good.
Trigger! Pick up your spent brass. Even tho I too have just started playing this game for this year, and spent brass is new to me. And I have yet to make it to an ammo bench. Just luggin all the damn supplies to make bullets everywhere.
Church: is full of Bibles and hymnals
norespawns: it's free fire estate
love this game and love your vids of it, hope you’ll post more!
My wife and I play this game together.. it's like watching a series from a first person perspective
I went through Desolation point, Coastal Highway, Ravine, Mystery Lake, up to Winding River, short trip to Silent Valley, back to Mystery Lake via Winding River, then I went to Mountain Town and Hushed River Valley. Now I've collected a crowbar, rope, weapons and a blue flare. Think I'm ready for Forlorn Muskeg and Bleak inlet?
You know what's funny? I play on Steam and I got the archivar challenge done, even though I never played the game from the time that challenge was added to the time I picked up on it again.
norespawns endgame guide: TRY NOT TO DIE 😂😂 I was hurting so badly when you were right by the barnhouse, screaming at the screen! You surviving two packs of wolves and a bear encounter made it all worthwhile 😀 good knock
3:41 omg your boots are 8.8 lbs they weigh as much as a rifle. Just watched your 'first few days' video. Loved it. Ty man!
i have NO idea how, but i am on day 893 now on Interloper difficulty and i am, as i always am, still in mystery lake lol! i have survived there for 893 days!!
i only enter other zones when i need to get specific items, like the Flair gun which most of the time spawns at the crashed air liner.
I’m on day 1,007 I’m literally lost on what to do... already explored the new hesitant prospect. I have done all the challenges, and I’ve done every skill there is.. help me 😂😂😂
Failed to mention I’m on stalker, not the interloper.
What quality loot you find in the last region you explored in you run? I hear it decays to completely 0 i.e. ruined loot everywhere after about a 1oo days in stalker, that true? Cus i havnt been able to test it myself yet..
@@Maya-di2lq it’s 100% true anything I find that’s a can or that’s a soda it’s 0% the food from kills are different they’ll last about maybe 30 days before losing 50%
If you're in the late game just build a camp with all the necessities in every cave and building you can encounter in the middle of nowhere and mark em with spray paint I'm sure you'll have plenty of time doing so...
Toss some oil to Norespawns
O' Pleasant Valley o-o-o.
I don't really care what people say about this game, I love it.
I'm starting a new game and Im going to start a stalker run and I'm going to survive at least 600 days and map out every locations and I have to have all crafted gear expect for guns but clothing has to be crafted and I can't wait to go home and play.
After seeing all these comments this man should be paid to play the long dark
I didn't watch the full video actually just came in but I have a question. What is late game in The Long Dark? It's a survival game and you always think about tomorrow, always think about next night. You'll never know how you end up. So I say, I cant see any difference between day 7 or day 138 or day 568. They are all same in my opinion
In the late game you can't rely as much on manufactured supplies. You either have to start beachcombing or making improvised gear.
@@godlycookie901 picking all 15 regions clean takes 400 days tho.
The only trouble with this game is when your wearing gloves in the inventory ,your not wearing them in the game.
yeah i hope they add that detail in a future update
I’ve found this game very cathartic
The journey is the destination. With pots, of course.
The pot and cooking utensils were not part of the game in the beginning, that's why they are easy to forget.
I'm still fairly new to the game and only played on pilgrim and voyageur difficulty, but I've eaten wolves in those and not gotten ill effects from that. Maybe it's your difficulty?
Love this game, tough to play in winter though. Makes me feel cold.
Gonna pass till Summer, when feeling cold will be a blessing.
Oh do! I played a lot last summer and hearing the snow crunch under your feet is no nice when it's boiling hot outside
Hello from SW England :) I wasn't even interested in this game but after coming across your TLD videos today I decided to pick this up. I love your commentary style.
I've eaten like 17 bears in my interloper world and I haven't gotten worms or anything at all
i love this game
Why did no one tell me that moose were aggressive. This thing just stomped me into the ground and then smugly walked off like he was proud
The devs just made them extremely realistic. Moose are assholes irl too.
2 year old video, but still useful for new players. Beside new maps, not much has change in the game mechanics.
For the tips, i would add this:
Eating predator meat (wolfes & bears) gives you a risk for getting parasites. The more predator meat you eat in short time, the higher the risk to get parasites. Parasites needs one antibiotic treatment per day over 10 days. One antibiotic treatment is considered to be either swallow 2 antibiotic pills or drink a warm reishi tea.
Every day you' still got the parasites affliction you will lose a tiny bit of your max fitness. This will reduce the time you normally got, until you're exhausted and you need to rest.
You are also incapable of learning from books as long as you have this illness.
Once i get any kind of weapon and i have also found antibiotics or reishi mushrooms, i actually like to get a lot of meat from wolfes. You cross many wolfes in the game and have to kill some anyway in self defense or because you want to get quickly from A to B. In these circumstances i just take the risk and eat predator meat. Once you get ill, eating more predator meat will do absolutely nothing to your health or the parasite status. You can eat as much of it as you wish, until you are cured from parasites. So, a minimum of 10 days.
Get cooking skills to lvl 5 and you will never get ill by spoiled meat or predator meat at all. But raw meat can still give you food poisoning!
Store raw meat somewhere outside on the ground, it will remain fresh longer that way.
Cooking meat always gives 50% back to the meats condition even if its 0% (ruined).
So, do not hesitate to accumulate some well stuffed stacks on each map you're currently exploring.
You're cooking skill is increased with every single tea, coffee or piece of meat you're cooking. Therefore pick up everything that can be cooked until you get lvl 5 cooking. The amount of skill gained for cooking meat is not influenced by how much the meat weights. The game only counts how much pieces you cook. Increase the amount of pieces of meat by cutting multiple smal bits out of the dead animals. Start with the harvest minimum amount of meat to cut and abort the harvest process with ESCAPE half way through the harvest. You will still have harvested like half the meat you had set as a goal. That way, even a rabbit could give you 6-10 pieces of meat.
I hope this will increase your chances to survive the long dark, enjoy!
If you ever get bored try doing the actual challenges or playing on a higher difficulty there’s is plenty to do
Always thinking when playing😂..just discovered this game on gamepass and its Awesome.. dayz and this are best survival games on console.
I don't like how your survival will eventually end no matter what you do. After some time, you'll just run out of items and tools to use, and nothing respawns to allow you to survive, so every run is essentially doomed from the start. It's interesting, but i don't want to watch my potentially best runs slowly die from hunger no matter what i do.
Beachcombing provides renewable resources. Coal respawns in caves. One can literally live forever in Coastal Highway if they wanted to.
Great video! will you being doing more long dark? I really hope so
The blizzard odyssey at the barn made me laugh a lot
thanks for this I watched a few of your vids on this game
Hushed river valley was rather disappointing. But the fact I made it their on my 100 day and left after the 50th day their... is an achievement on its own.
Still a very dull map. With little interesting locations. Needs more awe then cold
Use your bow on 🐇 rabbits to train skill for use on wolves, or deer.
This game doesnt hold your hand...thats what makes it great! Goal is simple...survive...however you manage to do that
Overall to complete the game you need time but for someone like me who is used to multiplayer unpausable games, this is something I can play for 5 minutes and just hit the ESC button to walk away for however long I need.
i have basically gone through my first area.built up all this stuff...but i find i hate to leave it all behind, what do you lot take with you on top of your guns and ammo??
Here's what I consider my EDC (every day carry) gear:
- Bedroll
- 2 Recycled Cans
- 2 Fishing Tackle
- Revolver, with extra 18 rounds
- Survival Bow, with 8-12 arrows
- 3 Stones
- Hunting Knife
- Hatchet
- Prybar
- 2 Flares
- Min 2 Torches (40% or higher)
- Cardboard Matches (~12)
- Wood Matches (~12)
- Magnifying Lens
- Firestriker
- 6 Antibiotics, or 2 Prepared Reishi (if cooking below Level 5)
- 4 Bandages
- 6 Painkillers (or 3-4 Prepared Rosehips)
- 3 Old Man's Beard Dressings
- 2 Prepared Birch Bark
- 1 Emergency Stim
- 10 - 20 Cattail Stalks
- No less than .25 gallons of water (roughly 1L)
And the best clothes on my back. Depending where I'm going or where I've been, I might ditch the prybar (if I've opened every container), and I might switch out for the bearskin bedroll. But I think that covers everything I carry on a typical day.
@@wildernessrick9278 wow thats a lot. I went to a new area left a tin of stuff in old are but since i can mive back and forwars only problem i have is remembering where that mine is. I wish they had better map making system
@@johnbanks4761 It does sound like a lot, but in my current Stalker run, that usually only brings me between 48 - 52 lbs (~22 - 23.5 kgs). I'm always Well Fed, so I can carry a minimum of 77 lbs (~35 kgs), and with the other two items that increase carry capacity, that brings me up to 99 lbs (~45 kgs).
So I typically have plenty of extra space to loot a new area. And I'm always prepared for any situation that could arise.
That load out also differs depending on my goals for any given day. If I'm gonna spend the day ice fishing, I ditch everything I don't need for the walk to the fishing huts and back (bedroll, hatchet, bow and arrows, etc.) More weight to carry more fish!
I also tend to make "supply outposts" in each region, rather than bring every thing back to a single location. Keeps me from having to haul too much at any given time as well.
@@johnbanks4761 And as far as the mapping goes, I understand the frustration. Every game I've played up to this game has a convenient mini-map, a full in-game map, and an icon to show exactly where your character is at any given time!
That said, I honestly enjoy the mapping system in The Long Dark. The only thing your character (and you, for that matter) would really have is a pencil (charcoal) and paper to "make a map", and your memory of a given area. It's tough, but rewarding.
Just keep moving, keep looting, build stockpiles, increase your skills. If you keep exploring, you'll find that mine again! Heck, you might even have better stuff by the time you DO find it again!
@@wildernessrick9278 its been a little while since ive played so im durlento go back around to it..what 2 items?
Had a laugh when you left your bedroll but in a pinch you can sleep in the truck in the barn. In interloper I only sleep for short periods but you probably could have slept the night.
They've updated sleep, and it's usually safe to sleep the night, unless you're in an area where cold is a risk. Otherwise you can sleep 12 straight hours and will automatically wake up if you get too thirsty. IMO that's way more realistic. I don't know of too many people who would just keep on sleeping until they when dehydrated. The normal response is to get woken up by that so you can go get a drink.
You can go into the basement from inside the house now.
can you maybe do a video about how to get up to the smoke rising that you can see from the bottom of the mountains? I believe it is in the Timberwolf area. I can not figure out how to get up there, but it supposedly has good loot.
Is there actually a way to remain alive in this game, or is it simply a matter of time before the long dark?
People can survive 1000 days in this game so don't worry you can remain alive if you do very well
Have you tried any of the game modes/quests, like visiting all the graves or reading the terminals?
There are so many dangerous things that could happen in this game....for me....I sprained my wrist while sewing 🪡
I know it’s slow but the little breaks help me get back to it.
I skipped all the ads so I subbed
I'm new to the game and i chose to start at milton town i spawned at the farm found a rifle went to milton found a revolver and i was trapped in milton because i was so heavy and wolfs keep coming to town so i was trapped :(
Usually it’s easy to billy goat down . Getting up the rope is the hard part But getting down is almost always easy just be prepared for some sprains possibly
Ever think about some the long dark theme base builds for fallout 4 be interesting to see your take on it
Not sure if you're playing it again yet, but it went on sale again. I just got it. Make another video please!
The closed captions said you "know all the drug routes" 🤣🤣🤣 what did they do to the mushroom farming in the last update?!?
William Butcher Unfortunately they'd never grow in snow. Mushrooms grow best at about 17-20° (~65° F.)
@@ObeyCamp Nonsense, I eat reishis all the time in game 😁
dont know if you know this but if leave your meat outside it lasts a long time
What difficulty r u on?
Try making it to 1,000 days if you want to be bored to death. You collect sticks. And then collect more sticks.