but the beef jerky is moldy and you eat it anyway because you want to know how it can become moldy when it has an oxogen absorber and 300% your daily sodium intake
Bruh I felt that and your optimism you sound like a bud id love to meet with my pack full of literally everything that was or wasn’t nailed down and share a coffee
In stalker the only stuff I had was 2 boxes of coffee and 10 cups of coffee to keep me going, good thing that there isn’t any caffeine poisoning int he game
I doubt you will use a rifle on bunny's anyways, lol. At the end of day, I find snares to be better alternative. Set up at start of the day, pick up at end of the day.
@@cougar2k720 I have about 10 snares set up around the trappers homestead because of the rabbit grove and the usual spawns or rabbits behind the homestead
@@koolaideguyskillcount525 that's probably a good spot for long term base since you have work bench inside with deer, moose, and bear spawn nearby and lots of rabbits to snare. Also cave not too far away for coal spawn.
@@cougar2k720 Indeed I've put in about 80 days and have 130 coal pieces (I decided to be cheap and put high spawn chance for natural items like coal, stones, sticks etc) and have used up about 20 coal pieces
i know the first time i stunned a bunny and killed it, oh man i felt that moral hand over me. like what did i just do, then after playing the game for like 3 months straight, it's like one of them cartoons, they come down the conveyor and you bonk em over the head. hinterlands really did an amazing job on this game, the atmosphere, and the moral dilemma.
I know thr first time I had to kill a bunny I didn't realize it was gonna make me snap its neck and I'm like "really game, you're gonna make me do this?"
@@Lonelywolfofficial You're right....buuuut it would still be hella cool to try to survive with your friends,idk maybe someday my wish can come true.This game is so badass i would love to share the experience with some homies.although it would have to be an entire different version of the game because i think it would break with the current state its in since it is 100% based on single player.
i thought about this, and 2 players would be great, not that bad for balance... think about strategy, one could be the hunter while the otherone is out forging,could be fun
It wouldn’t really break the game, with extra people comes more security, but also forces you to stretch supples and equipment, you could also spawn separated which forces it to be harder early game
I always wanted a shotgun to be in the long dark. As its a weapon used for hunting. A double barrel shotgun adapted for bears and maybe moose at the hunting shelter or something like that would be a great addition but hinterland is pretty pascifist i guess lol
You're better off spraying a bear with bear spray than shooting it with a shotgun in a bear attack. Bears will more often than not charge right through a shotgun blast and maul you to death well before it succumbs to injuries.
Man I found this game back in 2014-2015 on PC, was my favorite. Ain't had a PC in years and I just found out last night the game made it's way to console im stoked. Glad I found your videos man.
Ive been playing this game for 3 years now, and so far manage to survive for 100+days... My tips is: Early 20 days: Always start at mystery lake or pleasant valley first and then build your "well fed" upgrades before you go out of the location. Hunts only rabbits or fish, dont spend your weapon on deers and moose yet. Oh yeah, and increase you firemaking skills and harvesting skills to level 2 at least to make the exploration much easier. 20-40 days: Start to go explore the world. Brings only coal and sticks with you. Sharpen and clean everything needed (Hatchet and revolver) and bring at least 5 cloth for temporary shelter. Dont bring rifle, it's heavy so just leave it at your base location. Hides and guts that you get from rabbits or carcases, leave it in a cave or cabin and mark the location using spray can. Start collecting all the craft tools and bring it to your base camp. And the most important thing, avoid ash canyon and hush river valley during your exploration. 40 days++: This is when you start crafting everything using the hides that you have collected at your base camp (or secondary camp, i prefer making 2 camps since the world is big). For me, my base camp is camp office at mystery lake that covers the area of forlorn murkerg, broken railroad, mountain town and bleak inlet, and my secondary camp is the house at pleasant valley that covers the rest of the territories. After i have crafted my pants, mittens, hat, and boots, and this is where I started to hunt wildlife (moose to make satchel, wolves and bears for my coat and bed roll). 50 days after: This is where i sarted to craft bullets and noisemaker. And then i will start my adventure to hush river valley for another moose satchel, and ash canyon to get tactical backpacks and crampons. And yeah.. The days after is just me chilling at the fireplace making birch bark tea. I only fill up my stomach half full and only eats manufactured food when in emergency, or else i would just hunts rabbits or finding carcases to eat. Oh yeah, and i play this on stalker mode just to make things more challenging. Voyageur is too boring for me. And I only fight the wolves using fire because marine flares and regular flares is not a respawn item.
Pleasant valley is too cold for a start. Warm regions allow you to do more at first days. The best start I had on a stalker was at broken railroad. Its a small location, so on a day two I was in a hunting lodge, there was rifle and mouse, so I killed mouse at day 3. I killed some wolves as self defense and hunted some rabbits. There were also revolver, knife, hacksaw and saplings at this map, 7 deer carcasses there and in nearby areas of forlorn muskeg. So at day 25-30 I had deerskin boots, couple wolf coats, rabbit hat and mitts, bow and mouse satchel. Thus setup carried me for a long time as I travelled through other regions to collect all valuable loot.
I disagree. Late game is the act of “scrounging”. Where you’ve blown through everything non respawnable on the island, and basically get all your supply from beach combing. Most people don’t really get there either through death or boredom.
It is really hard considering developers add new locations and new loot. My main stalker save definitely contains enough loot to survive more than couple thousands days and I didn't searched dlc regions yet.
They need the ability to save the game, and even if it's like Kingdom Come Deliverances hardcore mode. But when I lost 7 hours of playthrough I was pissed
@@noblej7897 That is part and fun of this game. I still get excited when I meet a bear or wolf. I don't think I'd regard bears the same way if there was no permadeath in this game.
Lonelywolf play some pilgrim and practice hunting bunnies that way you won’t have to worry about hostile wildlife but can still get the achievement ( this may be bad advice sorry )
Early game is highly engaging. Mid game transition is the 'goal' of course, but once you finish that transition, that's where the game looses its edge. I've been saying it for a long time, we need a compelling late game. And not just: Too cold to exist. I'm not sure EXACTLY what would create a compelling late game but some added challenges that force the player to reconsider their position is needed. Right now we don't have that kind of feature set. Once weather degredation finishes its downward slant and wildlife scarcity reaches max, it's still not 'difficult' per se to exist, depending on your experience mode and how good you are at the game.
Lonelywolf the ability to build new cabins would be cool. Granted it’d have to take like 1-2 weeks in game. But that’d be a great way to add lengthy challenges and have a cabin/fireplace in places otherwise uninhabitable
@@Lonelywolfofficial longer night cycles, more persistent aurora borealis/blizzards, degradation of cabins causing lower temperatures indoors, less wildlife appearing/more wolves appearing near available wildlife. Personally in higher difficulties I think snow blindness would be really cool if they added sun glasses to counteract it.
Nice video. This is really helpful to new players like me because you find yourself asking “what should I be doing?” All the time. I died in an hour my first play through and I’ve made it four days on my second now but I’ve exhausted all the manufactured food in the game. I haven’t crafted or found any hunting equipment so that’s what brought me to your video: for help! I think I’ll restart my game and focus on the hunting and crafting of better clothes next. Thanks again for taking the time uploading this. 👍
That underlying question really pins the problem down nicely. Trying to figure out in those first few days, even if you have maps and other aids open, how you get out of the rut of the scenario the game starts you in. Unprepared, and in low level constant danger. Really, all one is attempting to get yourself into a position you can more easily think about the future. If you're constantly on edge due to the food, fuel, water, you're going to be stuck in a bad loop. Rather behooves us to start that thinking in it's infancy, don't it?
For the long term I have a wolf skin coat, enough bear skin to make a bear skin coat, a military pea coat, well insulated boots or deer hide boots, rabbit skin gloves, rabbit skin hat with about 10 rabbit hide, about 60 cured gut, I think 4 deer worth of cooked meat outside the trappers homestead in an area wolves can't get to/ don't usually go near, 3 bears worth of bear meat, also two thermal underwear, deer skin pants, snow pants, two thick wool sweaters, two pairs of climbing socks, a moose hide satchel, about 40 rifle rounds and 2 rifles, about 70 revolver rounds plus revolver, 40 arrows and enough saplings for 3 bows, 4 hatchets, 6 hunting knives, 15 flares, 50 cloth, 47 cured leather, about 37 pieces of coal and about 50 pieces of reclaimed wood, 5 sewing kits, and to shorten this up 6 gallons pre boiled
Isn’t the late game defined by the final decomposition of your last can and pot? I mean, once your last can and pot are gone, it’s pretty much “goodbye water”...right?
Played the alpha or whatever when it was free back on xbox. Liked it but just never got around to buying it. It's on game pass now so I figure I'll jump in. Appreciate the tips.
I have the feeling that you need to keep moving to survive. What do you guys usually do? Do you keep one base with resources and then travel around to gather stuff? Do you keep only a minimum of tools and resources with you? Some resources can be exhausted, others just don’t respawn, so you keep searching for them until they are exhausted everywhere.
Yeah, I touch on that in some other vids as well but basically, it's best to loot everything you can and centralize it, even if you end up playing nomadically. I loot a whole region and typically dump it in one location in that region and do the same throughout them all. Some non-renewable items wash up via beachcombing and that can help, but there's still lots of items about.
I would say that's true for stalker and interloper mode. In Pilgrim, I pretty much can stay at one location indefinitely. I have so many deer, wolf, bear, moose, rabbit meat at the maintenance yard that it's not funny anymore. My character has been eating steaks for days without touching the 4kg of cat tail stalks I gathered. You probably won't be able to do that on Stalker and loper.
I prefer to keep a network of outposts, depending on where I frequent. Centralizing goods into those locations, for ease of access. Materials end up in the Quoset, extra clothing and some emergency goods in the Waterfront Cottages. Overlook supplied with some food and equipment, but not nearly as much as other camps, it's a long walk or climb up there. Everything needed to survive in Hibernia and Lighthouse, though Lighthouse the preferred base due to cozy. Riken has equipment for forging, and the fuel to get her going, but that's it. I suspect, if I played long enough (voyager) I would exhaust the resources, to such an extent as to warrant abandoning a region, but that's right now not necessary or on the table. You can be incredible sedentary at the lower difficulties, so long as you don't wantonly waste material. If you want to go somewhere though, and accomplish something, you gotta move. I'm not conquering Timberwolf Mountain or Ash Canyon anytime soon. Same for Blackrock and Bleak Inlet. As it stands, I like my conservative play, of just attempting to survive and thrive, and build a little place for myself in the apocalypse. Though, the discovery of files that can be read during the Aurora's is something that's going to soon drag me forward I think.
i wish that you could have a goal in survival like in that challange with flare pistol, but you have unlimited time and pistol spawns in only one random location
That probably won't work very well since it's way too generic. You don't expect a math teacher to give you formula without any examples on how to use them, and expect you to use them in test right away. Plus, long term survival is totally different for each difficulty. I don't think I can apply the rules in Pilgrim to Interloper since almost all variables in game mechanic changed significantly.
That rabbit face was so cute with his little nose twitching; I was waiting for the brutal neck snap! Then you let him go. Nice guy, but you will never survive this game with that attitude.
I'm currently running over 40 days on my voyageur run and I don't know how I reached that, considering my previous record was 15 days. I have a ton of good clothes, a base in PV, my first bear kill, 80 and 15 bullets for my revolver and rifle, and the majority of my skills 2 or higher.
Good stuff! I remember my first “long run” on voyager still, a lot of people act like it is easy to survive on but it’s not. I switched to stalker at day 101 and am currently on stalker day 34. Still had trouble and died a few times switching difficulty
@@iamjustawife2619 yeah On the file I'm referring to in the comment I actually made a full 100 days legitimately. I only hit starvation once in the entire run on around day 60 during a blizzard. I decided I was bored and too comfortable with my resources and food, so I jumped off the massive cliff right by Milton at 100 days 33 minutes. and promptly switched to stalker. which was instantly way harder, with the bears and wolves roaming on day one and all.
I have a question for you my tired meter keeps going down really fast but I keep trying to recover it by fully sleeping it's gotten to the point where it's very hard for me to explore without getting tired am I doing something wrong
Sounds like you either have hypothermia or some other affliction that's causing it to drain, or you're busy sprinting everywhere. Try checking your afflictions tab, making sure you're fed, and that you aren't sprinting everywhere, and then see if it slows down. If not, you might have a bug.
@@Lonelywolfofficial okay thanks I will I just bought the game recently so I'm very new and I don't even know where all the locations are again thanks for your help
@@Lonelywolfofficial I just checked on my character and he doesn't have any affliction but my stamina meter is always red in my when did meter always drops really fast
@@TF2Scout10 you might be over weight from to much gear. if you got the running feat in one day like I did you are running to much too. (you get that after 50 kilometers of sprinting)
Best home to live is where you get the most comfort and happiness, as well as utility. It varies based on your playstyle but typically something that's centrally located to a workbench and good hunting/trapping with minimal adversarial wildlife.
Depend on your difficulty. Mystery lake camp office is probably the easiest for long term living. You can fish whole bunch and hunt for deers and snares rabbits. Basically, cook whole bunch of food and water in one day, and spend few more days on collecting sticks and fire wood. Only start fire on sunny day with magnifying glass.
I have played a fair bit on voyager now but never seen a heavy hammer needed to craft a hatchet or knife so it doesnt make me want to try interloper anytime soon
Watching you hunting rabbits is painful x3 I play it on Switch with a controller. You probably on PC and you should have the better aim because mouse and keyboards. No offense by any means. I just feel so much better now. Still great video! Thanks again!
Check out other regions or if you collect enough materials you can head to Bleak Inlet to craft more, though that's a very dangerous adventure in and of itself.
HI lonely! I just found your channel because I wanted to ask you for a video, For each region what is the best base for all, I have had the game for about a year but i use the costal townsite as a base but in stalker i almost died to the wolf that roams there, So if you could do that Plus i subbed and enabled notifications
Sarah Jackson once you get something like a hunting knife or the bar, wolf attacks are great. They do damage you a little, but if you puncture the wolf it will die and you can get the hide
HollyLolly okay! Thanks! I probably wouldn’t be afraid of wolves if I learned how to avoid them lol. I always die a little when people shoot a wolf and just leave it there. I guess I just imagine them being as bad as they are in stalker lol I think it’s cause I used to watch stacyplays play this game back in 2014/15 and back then wolves would pretty much kill you even if you did have a weapon. Thanks I’ll give voyager a chance!
I have no idea how many hours I've played, I installed a cracked the long dark, I can't afford the game :/ but I know for sure that I've been playing this game for a quite long time now, I would say about 50+ hours
@@henryashbee336 I dunno I do hope they get bigger than they are right now, be able to make updates faster, make it more complex and being able to add alot of things in less time. They're a small group now.
Lonelywolf I agree but my morals have yet to be broken by starvation. Just look at the face. Although I would like a pair of rabbit mittens as well as a matching hat 🤔
However, many other people have gotten good tips out of this video. Obviously you did not. What could I do to improve on to help out in the future? What would you like to see covered?
K S The video is 11 minutes. If you are in a rush, this isn’t the game for you anyway. You can also tell he put a lot of thought into the intro. That’s why he made fun of himself for messing up some words.
You're horrible at hunting rabbits. I basically never miss unless i'm throwing from extremelly long distances. There's a technique you could look up by now that's rather easy and makes you hit everytime.
I let a friend play to see how well they'd do and just used the footage for this guide. Although I will say, I'm not terribly much better at it than them!
Oh you dont know bad rabbit hunting until you've met me. I once starved and because of that hypothermia got to me faster. Then, once I got warmI couldn't get my health up then died from starvation. I saw many rabbits while starving but I couldn't kill any and I ended up dying from hypothermia searching for food.
I'm sorry you feel that way about it. Many people have gotten help from it but obviously it didn't have what you were looking for. If I may ask, so I can improve or make a new video on the topic, what would you be looking for in a guide to cover? What do you struggle with the most?
My tip... Coal, tea, torches. Always keep a piece or two of coal in your inventory, always have a couple of teas brewed up and in your inventory, use torches to carry fire and scare off wolves.
“Have 2 to 3 days of food and some supplies”
Me on interlooper: well I got a bag of beef jerky some water and a sweatshirt let’s rock and roll
XD big mood buddy!
but the beef jerky is moldy and you eat it anyway because you want to know how it can become moldy when it has an oxogen absorber and 300% your daily sodium intake
And then on pilgrim it's like "i've got 400 pounds on me and i've slept for 5 days straight"
Bruh I felt that and your optimism you sound like a bud id love to meet with my pack full of literally everything that was or wasn’t nailed down and share a coffee
In stalker the only stuff I had was 2 boxes of coffee and 10 cups of coffee to keep me going, good thing that there isn’t any caffeine poisoning int he game
bro, watching you hunt that rabbit lowered my rifle skill
Hehehehehehhehehe!
I doubt you will use a rifle on bunny's anyways, lol.
At the end of day, I find snares to be better alternative. Set up at start of the day, pick up at end of the day.
@@cougar2k720 I have about 10 snares set up around the trappers homestead because of the rabbit grove and the usual spawns or rabbits behind the homestead
@@koolaideguyskillcount525 that's probably a good spot for long term base since you have work bench inside with deer, moose, and bear spawn nearby and lots of rabbits to snare. Also cave not too far away for coal spawn.
@@cougar2k720 Indeed I've put in about 80 days and have 130 coal pieces (I decided to be cheap and put high spawn chance for natural items like coal, stones, sticks etc) and have used up about 20 coal pieces
i know the first time i stunned a bunny and killed it, oh man i felt that moral hand over me. like what did i just do, then after playing the game for like 3 months straight, it's like one of them cartoons, they come down the conveyor and you bonk em over the head. hinterlands really did an amazing job on this game, the atmosphere, and the moral dilemma.
It is great. I'm excited to see the 'finished' project when story is complete, all additions and any DLC are made, and Mod support arrives.
They are just bytes to bite.
I know thr first time I had to kill a bunny I didn't realize it was gonna make me snap its neck and I'm like "really game, you're gonna make me do this?"
This game would be so freaking easy if they allowed you to have like five other people join
Except for food of course. But yeah, it would break the immersion and the game balance.
@@Lonelywolfofficial You're right....buuuut it would still be hella cool to try to survive with your friends,idk maybe someday my wish can come true.This game is so badass i would love to share the experience with some homies.although it would have to be an entire different version of the game because i think it would break with the current state its in since it is 100% based on single player.
i thought about this, and 2 players would be great, not that bad for balance... think about strategy, one could be the hunter while the otherone is out forging,could be fun
Mason Baldridge maybe 1 or 2 nothing that’s way too unbalanced and even like that it would be stupid to have like 3 people with rifles and stuff
It wouldn’t really break the game, with extra people comes more security, but also forces you to stretch supples and equipment, you could also spawn separated which forces it to be harder early game
survival top tip: run straight into the ocean
Swimming error 404: Mechanic not found.
Works with bears and wolves as they cannot swim
but what about if I'm on mystery lake? I can't do that
The Cool Guy find forlorn muskeg and then locate fragile ice
@@nopegaming2117 OK I'll do that. I forgot they were next to each other. I guess mystery lake is for the really good players.
Mate loved your sincere explanation and making fun of yourself when you couldn't talk. Subbed.
Awhhhh thanks! :3 Sometimes I think I shouldn't bother because I stumble over words pretty often, but it's always funny anyway!
I always wanted a shotgun to be in the long dark. As its a weapon used for hunting. A double barrel shotgun adapted for bears and maybe moose at the hunting shelter or something like that would be a great addition but hinterland is pretty pascifist i guess lol
You're better off spraying a bear with bear spray than shooting it with a shotgun in a bear attack. Bears will more often than not charge right through a shotgun blast and maul you to death well before it succumbs to injuries.
„I hope i never have to use this on anyone“
Yeah i guess they are
Have you discussed different types of shelters yet? Like snow shelters, caves, ruins, pros and cons?
If not, then consider it a suggestion.
I'll certainly look into it!
@@Lonelywolfofficial that would be great. Although I guess I know a lot about this game now it is really nice to have you explain stuff.
If you throw a rock at a wolfs head
Theirs a good chance it’ll yelp and run
Man I found this game back in 2014-2015 on PC, was my favorite. Ain't had a PC in years and I just found out last night the game made it's way to console im stoked. Glad I found your videos man.
Yup, it's well suited for console. Great game!
I enjoy your content, even its 5 years old, most of the stuff is useful in 2023 !!!
Ive been playing this game for 3 years now, and so far manage to survive for 100+days... My tips is:
Early 20 days: Always start at mystery lake or pleasant valley first and then build your "well fed" upgrades before you go out of the location. Hunts only rabbits or fish, dont spend your weapon on deers and moose yet. Oh yeah, and increase you firemaking skills and harvesting skills to level 2 at least to make the exploration much easier.
20-40 days: Start to go explore the world. Brings only coal and sticks with you. Sharpen and clean everything needed (Hatchet and revolver) and bring at least 5 cloth for temporary shelter. Dont bring rifle, it's heavy so just leave it at your base location. Hides and guts that you get from rabbits or carcases, leave it in a cave or cabin and mark the location using spray can. Start collecting all the craft tools and bring it to your base camp. And the most important thing, avoid ash canyon and hush river valley during your exploration.
40 days++: This is when you start crafting everything using the hides that you have collected at your base camp (or secondary camp, i prefer making 2 camps since the world is big). For me, my base camp is camp office at mystery lake that covers the area of forlorn murkerg, broken railroad, mountain town and bleak inlet, and my secondary camp is the house at pleasant valley that covers the rest of the territories. After i have crafted my pants, mittens, hat, and boots, and this is where I started to hunt wildlife (moose to make satchel, wolves and bears for my coat and bed roll).
50 days after: This is where i sarted to craft bullets and noisemaker. And then i will start my adventure to hush river valley for another moose satchel, and ash canyon to get tactical backpacks and crampons. And yeah.. The days after is just me chilling at the fireplace making birch bark tea.
I only fill up my stomach half full and only eats manufactured food when in emergency, or else i would just hunts rabbits or finding carcases to eat. Oh yeah, and i play this on stalker mode just to make things more challenging. Voyageur is too boring for me. And I only fight the wolves using fire because marine flares and regular flares is not a respawn item.
Pleasant valley is too cold for a start. Warm regions allow you to do more at first days.
The best start I had on a stalker was at broken railroad. Its a small location, so on a day two I was in a hunting lodge, there was rifle and mouse, so I killed mouse at day 3. I killed some wolves as self defense and hunted some rabbits. There were also revolver, knife, hacksaw and saplings at this map, 7 deer carcasses there and in nearby areas of forlorn muskeg. So at day 25-30 I had deerskin boots, couple wolf coats, rabbit hat and mitts, bow and mouse satchel. Thus setup carried me for a long time as I travelled through other regions to collect all valuable loot.
I disagree. Late game is the act of “scrounging”.
Where you’ve blown through everything non respawnable on the island, and basically get all your supply from beach combing.
Most people don’t really get there either through death or boredom.
Yeah I can see that. I’m day 240 or so on stalker and I’m Stocked up pretty good wondering what to do next. Mountains of bear moose meat and fish
It is really hard considering developers add new locations and new loot. My main stalker save definitely contains enough loot to survive more than couple thousands days and I didn't searched dlc regions yet.
*but that's okay!*
That squeaky voice is so funny and cute tbh 😂😂😂
Haha lol.
My number one tip is "Don't get attached". Good work bud!
They need the ability to save the game, and even if it's like Kingdom Come Deliverances hardcore mode. But when I lost 7 hours of playthrough I was pissed
Wait, you can’t save? That’s stupid!
@@mandalorian1994 it's an autosave when you sleep or such but not save game option to load back to if you die. It's permadeath
@@noblej7897 That is part and fun of this game. I still get excited when I meet a bear or wolf. I don't think I'd regard bears the same way if there was no permadeath in this game.
@@snowscapephile4709 exactly. Makes you really consider If you want to approach
I watched this video and haven’t caught a rabbit since.
Your "Stone Age Sniper" award is still a ways off, huh?
Hehe, don't know when I'll work on that but it's going to be a while.
I got stone age sniper in the first hour of playing the game randomly
Lonelywolf play some pilgrim and practice hunting bunnies that way you won’t have to worry about hostile wildlife but can still get the achievement ( this may be bad advice sorry )
@@alex_7453
same but i got it in the tutorial
got that one I want to get 500 days really bad but don't have a long attention span
I love early game. I often play in a way that keeps me on the edge for long. Loops are predictible.
Early game is highly engaging. Mid game transition is the 'goal' of course, but once you finish that transition, that's where the game looses its edge. I've been saying it for a long time, we need a compelling late game. And not just: Too cold to exist. I'm not sure EXACTLY what would create a compelling late game but some added challenges that force the player to reconsider their position is needed. Right now we don't have that kind of feature set. Once weather degredation finishes its downward slant and wildlife scarcity reaches max, it's still not 'difficult' per se to exist, depending on your experience mode and how good you are at the game.
Lonelywolf the ability to build new cabins would be cool. Granted it’d have to take like 1-2 weeks in game. But that’d be a great way to add lengthy challenges and have a cabin/fireplace in places otherwise uninhabitable
@@Lonelywolfofficial longer night cycles, more persistent aurora borealis/blizzards, degradation of cabins causing lower temperatures indoors, less wildlife appearing/more wolves appearing near available wildlife. Personally in higher difficulties I think snow blindness would be really cool if they added sun glasses to counteract it.
Parts of this sounds like its some kinds of motivational speech haha. Very nice guide.
Glad you think so!
Nice video. This is really helpful to new players like me because you find yourself asking “what should I be doing?” All the time.
I died in an hour my first play through and I’ve made it four days on my second now but I’ve exhausted all the manufactured food in the game. I haven’t crafted or found any hunting equipment so that’s what brought me to your video: for help! I think I’ll restart my game and focus on the hunting and crafting of better clothes next. Thanks again for taking the time uploading this. 👍
Glad you're starting to stretch your legs in The Long Dark! I'd also recommend checking out my other guides as well to find some more tips for you!
Maximus.... what was helpful? I must have missed that part.
That underlying question really pins the problem down nicely. Trying to figure out in those first few days, even if you have maps and other aids open, how you get out of the rut of the scenario the game starts you in. Unprepared, and in low level constant danger. Really, all one is attempting to get yourself into a position you can more easily think about the future. If you're constantly on edge due to the food, fuel, water, you're going to be stuck in a bad loop. Rather behooves us to start that thinking in it's infancy, don't it?
The bunny hunting hurts me😖😖😖
Adam Jezewski no it hurts the bunnies more especially in the end.
It hurts because I had a friend do this for funzies and their aim is worse than mine, and it hurts because the snuffle wuffles...
I remember snapping my first rabbit's neck in this game. Totally unexpected, I was thinking it would happen off screen but nope,
All Bunnies go to heaven:-)
Rabbits are delicious though
For the long term I have a wolf skin coat, enough bear skin to make a bear skin coat, a military pea coat, well insulated boots or deer hide boots, rabbit skin gloves, rabbit skin hat with about 10 rabbit hide, about 60 cured gut, I think 4 deer worth of cooked meat outside the trappers homestead in an area wolves can't get to/ don't usually go near, 3 bears worth of bear meat, also two thermal underwear, deer skin pants, snow pants, two thick wool sweaters, two pairs of climbing socks, a moose hide satchel, about 40 rifle rounds and 2 rifles, about 70 revolver rounds plus revolver, 40 arrows and enough saplings for 3 bows, 4 hatchets, 6 hunting knives, 15 flares, 50 cloth, 47 cured leather, about 37 pieces of coal and about 50 pieces of reclaimed wood, 5 sewing kits, and to shorten this up 6 gallons pre boiled
How the fuck.
Isn’t the late game defined by the final decomposition of your last can and pot? I mean, once your last can and pot are gone, it’s pretty much “goodbye water”...right?
No, not the case. Even if it were to be defined by that, they don't degrade at all unless you burn or boil over the goodies contained inside them.
Good videos u have a new subscriber
Glad you enjoyed and thanks!
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Killed me 😂😂😂
was hoping you would chuck rocks at the bear
Played the alpha or whatever when it was free back on xbox. Liked it but just never got around to buying it. It's on game pass now so I figure I'll jump in. Appreciate the tips.
I dont use rifles when hunting rabbits, I go Rambo mode with rocks.
I have the feeling that you need to keep moving to survive. What do you guys usually do? Do you keep one base with resources and then travel around to gather stuff? Do you keep only a minimum of tools and resources with you?
Some resources can be exhausted, others just don’t respawn, so you keep searching for them until they are exhausted everywhere.
Yeah, I touch on that in some other vids as well but basically, it's best to loot everything you can and centralize it, even if you end up playing nomadically. I loot a whole region and typically dump it in one location in that region and do the same throughout them all. Some non-renewable items wash up via beachcombing and that can help, but there's still lots of items about.
Lonelywolf thank you for the tips!
I would say that's true for stalker and interloper mode.
In Pilgrim, I pretty much can stay at one location indefinitely. I have so many deer, wolf, bear, moose, rabbit meat at the maintenance yard that it's not funny anymore. My character has been eating steaks for days without touching the 4kg of cat tail stalks I gathered.
You probably won't be able to do that on Stalker and loper.
I prefer to keep a network of outposts, depending on where I frequent. Centralizing goods into those locations, for ease of access. Materials end up in the Quoset, extra clothing and some emergency goods in the Waterfront Cottages. Overlook supplied with some food and equipment, but not nearly as much as other camps, it's a long walk or climb up there. Everything needed to survive in Hibernia and Lighthouse, though Lighthouse the preferred base due to cozy. Riken has equipment for forging, and the fuel to get her going, but that's it.
I suspect, if I played long enough (voyager) I would exhaust the resources, to such an extent as to warrant abandoning a region, but that's right now not necessary or on the table. You can be incredible sedentary at the lower difficulties, so long as you don't wantonly waste material.
If you want to go somewhere though, and accomplish something, you gotta move. I'm not conquering Timberwolf Mountain or Ash Canyon anytime soon. Same for Blackrock and Bleak Inlet. As it stands, I like my conservative play, of just attempting to survive and thrive, and build a little place for myself in the apocalypse. Though, the discovery of files that can be read during the Aurora's is something that's going to soon drag me forward I think.
i wish that you could have a goal in survival like in that challange with flare pistol, but you have unlimited time and pistol spawns in only one random location
Not a terrible idea!
@@Lonelywolfofficial yup, I'm one of those people who have to have a goal to achieve or they will get bored pretty quickly
Ik I'm super late to this game but thank you so much for this video!
I can't wait to play the dong lark!
You probably could have cut this video down to 3 seconds by simply saying, 'plan ahead.'
Ah yes, generic, feel-good advice sure helps people who have no clue how the mechanics work and how to think about later stages of the game...
That probably won't work very well since it's way too generic. You don't expect a math teacher to give you formula without any examples on how to use them, and expect you to use them in test right away.
Plus, long term survival is totally different for each difficulty. I don't think I can apply the rules in Pilgrim to Interloper since almost all variables in game mechanic changed significantly.
Thank you for the video!! Super helpful. And I can’t speak either, it’s okay 👍🏼😂
This was really well done.
I discovered this game 3 days ago why am I watching this?
The background video gave me PTSD.
This was helpful
so you cant hit a rabbit up close with a rock but you can snipe it from across the lake lol
In the first hour I died in my sleep due to hypothermia
Oof that's rough mate!
That rabbit face was so cute with his little nose twitching; I was waiting for the brutal neck snap! Then you let him go. Nice guy, but you will never survive this game with that attitude.
Idc if you mis spoke you are only human, just love your videos ty
Does climbing up that fallen tree help if I wish to hunt the bear and not get mauled?
Absolutely! If he can't reach you, he can't maul you!
@@Lonelywolfofficial crazy that you're still responding to comments on a video this old. You're the main reason I keep coming back to TLD
I'm currently running over 40 days on my voyageur run and I don't know how I reached that, considering my previous record was 15 days. I have a ton of good clothes, a base in PV, my first bear kill, 80 and 15 bullets for my revolver and rifle, and the majority of my skills 2 or higher.
COngratulations!
Good stuff! I remember my first “long run” on voyager still, a lot of people act like it is easy to survive on but it’s not. I switched to stalker at day 101 and am currently on stalker day 34. Still had trouble and died a few times switching difficulty
@@iamjustawife2619 yeah On the file I'm referring to in the comment I actually made a full 100 days legitimately. I only hit starvation once in the entire run on around day 60 during a blizzard. I decided I was bored and too comfortable with my resources and food, so I jumped off the massive cliff right by Milton at 100 days 33 minutes. and promptly switched to stalker. which was instantly way harder, with the bears and wolves roaming on day one and all.
well done on all 3 XD
It's okay dude im also bad at rabbit hunting........
Haha I've gotten way better at it but I'm still haunted by my past.
Holy shit man, can you miss any more with those rocks?
Allows yourself to fail.
I have a question for you my tired meter keeps going down really fast but I keep trying to recover it by fully sleeping it's gotten to the point where it's very hard for me to explore without getting tired am I doing something wrong
Sounds like you either have hypothermia or some other affliction that's causing it to drain, or you're busy sprinting everywhere. Try checking your afflictions tab, making sure you're fed, and that you aren't sprinting everywhere, and then see if it slows down. If not, you might have a bug.
@@Lonelywolfofficial okay thanks I will I just bought the game recently so I'm very new and I don't even know where all the locations are again thanks for your help
@@Lonelywolfofficial I just checked on my character and he doesn't have any affliction but my stamina meter is always red in my when did meter always drops really fast
@@TF2Scout10 you might be over weight from to much gear. if you got the running feat in one day like I did you are running to much too. (you get that after 50 kilometers of sprinting)
Why im I watching this. The longest I've survived is 20 days lol
"But that's okay"
Thanks for your video. From your understanding, is there a best home to live? Office? Farm?
Best home to live is where you get the most comfort and happiness, as well as utility. It varies based on your playstyle but typically something that's centrally located to a workbench and good hunting/trapping with minimal adversarial wildlife.
@@Lonelywolfofficial well yes. So which building is your favourite home？
Depend on your difficulty. Mystery lake camp office is probably the easiest for long term living. You can fish whole bunch and hunt for deers and snares rabbits.
Basically, cook whole bunch of food and water in one day, and spend few more days on collecting sticks and fire wood. Only start fire on sunny day with magnifying glass.
Cougar2k office is my favorite
Do you think it is a good idea to hoard in the game because whenever I play I can never let go of loot even if it's bad
*glances at my pile of 50 spray paint cans*
Carson Roye I think it’s becoming a problem I’m keeping like over 20 light shell Parker’s in a locker lmao
FBI just harvest those for the cloth lol
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Cool one
Thanks!
8:20 If you aim with your thumbnail it works really well
They've changed it a couple of times, but yeah it does help!
@@Lonelywolfofficial Yeh they changed it again :(
I have played a fair bit on voyager now but never seen a heavy hammer needed to craft a hatchet or knife so it doesnt make me want to try interloper anytime soon
You'll find them tucked away in different areas and hidden away. Best to check multiple regions for them!
@@Lonelywolfofficial thanks i will get there eventually. im probably just not used to what they look like
Any idea where the thumbnail is from? Looks like a decent place to hole up
Quonset Garage in CH!
@@Lonelywolfofficial thanks bud!
@@sampollock1946 Yeah, I base in there quite a lot because it's a pretty accessible area!
It says there are no views and I'm first but knowing goobtube there are already 30 people saying FIRST.
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Goobtoob why u do dis to me?
no I put the comments in newest to oldest and you are first
Where you at?
Watching you hunting rabbits is painful x3 I play it on Switch with a controller.
You probably on PC and you should have the better aim because mouse and keyboards.
No offense by any means. I just feel so much better now. Still great video! Thanks again!
hey lonelywolf have you played this in 2021 nothing new about it was just wondering
Yup, videos coming out soon, and hopefully soon some Ash Canyon content!
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rip
I'm the greatest at stoning rabbits....
@@Lonelywolfofficial
doubt
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what's the name of the map played in this video?
Its timberwolf mountain
Where is the location he is in at 2:25?
Mountaineering hut Timberwolf mountain
Hey, its been a while but, how do I find more ammunition for the rifle?
Check out other regions or if you collect enough materials you can head to Bleak Inlet to craft more, though that's a very dangerous adventure in and of itself.
Check trunks and glove boxes of all the vehicles you see, Ive found a couple boxes in them
HI lonely! I just found your channel because I wanted to ask you for a video, For each region what is the best base for all, I have had the game for about a year but i use the costal townsite as a base but in stalker i almost died to the wolf that roams there, So if you could do that Plus i subbed and enabled notifications
Thanks! I'll definitely look into making a video about shelters and bases at some point here!
I play pilgrim because I’m too scared of wolves 🤣
Sarah Jackson once you get something like a hunting knife or the bar, wolf attacks are great. They do damage you a little, but if you puncture the wolf it will die and you can get the hide
HollyLolly okay! Thanks! I probably wouldn’t be afraid of wolves if I learned how to avoid them lol. I always die a little when people shoot a wolf and just leave it there. I guess I just imagine them being as bad as they are in stalker lol I think it’s cause I used to watch stacyplays play this game back in 2014/15 and back then wolves would pretty much kill you even if you did have a weapon. Thanks I’ll give voyager a chance!
HollyLolly spawned next to the dam, found a hunting knife. I’m all set now. Thanks! Now, time to hurt some wolfies lol
Good luck!
You can't hit shit with the rocks XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
It's great!
I have no idea how many hours I've played, I installed a cracked the long dark, I can't afford the game :/
but I know for sure that I've been playing this game for a quite long time now, I would say about 50+ hours
Scumbag. Buy it when it's on sale
@@henryashbee336 I actually bought it yesterday, it was on sale in microsoft store.
100+ hours now
@@devedee2393 nice one! The Devs deserve our money
@@henryashbee336 I dunno I do hope they get bigger than they are right now, be able to make updates faster, make it more complex and being able to add alot of things in less time. They're a small group now.
You don’t get into the video for three minutes and 30 seconds. fail.
Someone should create a horse mod
Hearing you fail to speak made me dyslexic
I had to look away when he killed the bunny
he didnt kill it
Soltero. But then he did. He caught it again
Cute bunnehs but yesh, sometimes food is a necessity.
Lonelywolf I agree
but my morals have yet to be broken by starvation. Just look at the face.
Although I would like a pair of rabbit mittens as well as a matching hat 🤔
i watched 4 minutes of the video and never got any information on long term planning in the long dark.
However, many other people have gotten good tips out of this video. Obviously you did not. What could I do to improve on to help out in the future? What would you like to see covered?
K S The video is 11 minutes. If you are in a rush, this isn’t the game for you anyway. You can also tell he put a lot of thought into the intro. That’s why he made fun of himself for messing up some words.
You're horrible at hunting rabbits. I basically never miss unless i'm throwing from extremelly long distances. There's a technique you could look up by now that's rather easy and makes you hit everytime.
I let a friend play to see how well they'd do and just used the footage for this guide. Although I will say, I'm not terribly much better at it than them!
@@Lonelywolfofficial ruclips.net/video/AJagextQu54/видео.html at 2:25 i explain it if you're curious
@@Lonelywolfofficial made this specially ruclips.net/video/GiX4_Ytp2L0/видео.html
Oh you dont know bad rabbit hunting until you've met me. I once starved and because of that hypothermia got to me faster. Then, once I got warmI couldn't get my health up then died from starvation. I saw many rabbits while starving but I couldn't kill any and I ended up dying from hypothermia searching for food.
Most redundant video ever
Complete waste of my time... this video has nothing of value.
I'm sorry you feel that way about it. Many people have gotten help from it but obviously it didn't have what you were looking for. If I may ask, so I can improve or make a new video on the topic, what would you be looking for in a guide to cover? What do you struggle with the most?
Give some constructive criticism instead of just whining that it wasted your precious time
My tip... Coal, tea, torches. Always keep a piece or two of coal in your inventory, always have a couple of teas brewed up and in your inventory, use torches to carry fire and scare off wolves.
Lol seeing all that loot in one place after having played on Interloper for so long is jarring lol.