Entering a cave or building with 5% energy, opening the radial only to find the bedroll is missing. First time it happened I swear I felt my soul leave my body
It's these small errors that make me double check every time I leave, and now I use the notes to list important items and deficiencies at each main camp site.
Oh god, that has happened to me at least twice, both times when I noticed I had to backtrack a far distance to get my bedroll back, and was fatigued all the way through due to a lack of shelter with adequate bedding
Been playing for years off and on. Recently I’ve been actively working to break my home base region mentality. Creating several “outposts” stashing supplies where they are more relevant. The more I’ve explored the world I’ve learned just how much freaking content there has been put in this game. It’s freaking mind blowing how much these devs have put into their indie game. I cannot over state how good of a game the Long Dark is. No triple A game on the market right now has put this amount of effort into their games with massive companies backing them. 10/10
I do this too, it really makes life less stressful when you have "checkpoints" of sorts scattered around. If the weather turns bad and you can't make it back the way you came, or you simply need to improve your condition, you can take refuge in one of the places scattered around. That way you don't have to carry 10lbs of food just in case you get stuck somewhere. It's also useful for navigating between some regions. Figuring that out finally gave me the confidence to move up from pilgrim difficulty, now that I knew how to get around and not be stuck in one place.
It took me a quite a while before I left my first area, mystery lake. Once I did I started finding strengths and weaknesses in each region and yeah, started allocating resources and clothing in places en route to where they're relevant to an area. Along with Items I'd need at a forge or to get to the ammunition work bench. That area is a pita.
I like to have a time limit on regions in the late game... say a week or two... I usually camp in caves near exits or bear/moose/deer spawns... I leave an extra can, a torch, match, several bottles of water and cooked meat(raw if early game, non lvl5 cooking) and wood/coal... that way when I come back I know I don't need to be carrying more food or water than the trek will take... Specialty tools like saws hammers and prybars get mission specific days (i.e. prying all the trunks in town/summiting twm/forging) and then left in a noted location unless I know I'm trekking to an area they'll be needed. Early game I loot as much as possible, leave all food on the floor in one or two locations, upgrade clothes and leave the rest in a cabinet... once you enter a region the spoil timer starts ticking.
@@flip66five Oh man, I'm glad I just read your comment. I accidentally found a route to Blackrock the other day when I was trying to find the right cave systems to make it to the summit. As soon as I got into Blackrock, I set up a camp and cooked the downed deer that was found next to the exit of the cave. I put a lot of thought into "Well, do I want to just go ahead and explore the new region since I'm already here? No. I came here to summit the mountain, and I'm running low on lamp oil. I need to summit the mountain before I go to a different region." So I did that and wound up going back to the Mountaineer's Hut and setting it up as an outpost. I wound up getting a ton of pelts from the summit (WAY more than I've gotten previously) and decided to craft as many things as I could. Then last night I decided to make a day hike back to my main base in the Trapper's Cabin to deliver some of the things I didn't need back in TWM. So now I'm in Mystery Lake, and after reading your comment about item decay, I'm going to go see what Blackrock has to offer before everything there is destroyed. Thanks man!
Dude I walked from Desolation > Coastal > Mystery Lake with my weight at like 140lbs because I decided this playthrough (voyager) I wouldn't leave a single calorie behind. Needless to say, it was a long and slow journey. But currently on day 17 ;)
My worst mistake was probably putting all my food up in an area that required climbing a rope. A moose broke my ribs so I couldn't climb... long story short, I died.
90% of the time I get cocky and die from a wolf or a bear. I've been trying to spend less time in interloper trying to get tools to build my weapons, and more time moving from map to map exploring and upgrading my clothing. I tend to not be quite so cocky when I don't have a bow I can hunt with, and you really don't need it right off the bat. Plenty of cat tails available.
@@saltybits9954 sorry for the late reply, if I remember correctly I was binge crafting ammo at the cannery and figured I didn’t want to have to climb around every time, plus I’d be safe from wolves. I know better than to put all my eggs in one basket now lol.
Long dark expert here, I think a big tip is to always keep busy, when waiting for things to be cooked repair your clothing, during a blizzard breakdown the whole house for resources, never just wait unless you have no choice, and remember to eat often and never starve for the extra 5kg. Also stalker difficulty is by far the best and most balanced imo
I plan to eventually make a big gaggle of tips video that isn't focused on any particular topic and has a rapid-fire list of the best and most often used tips.
Eating often? To thrive in Interloper, key is to live on a starving belly. If you eat often good luck surviving more than a few days 👍 always and only eat before sleeping. And when possible always sleep in 10h straight instead of shorter periods of sleep, to gain more condition.
I died of hypothermia on the other side of the Carter Hydro Dam after 28 days 11 hours and 48 minutes and I had a shit ton of hides at the trappers homestead
Playing Interloper and Day 5 I was doing so good. Had the hammer and hacksaw. Water, clothes, food, scrap metal ... headed to Desolation point. i got stuck on the Raven Falls Trestle and couldn't' move. I ended up falling to my death. Playing for years and never had that happen. It's like my guy just slipped off the track and got stuck on one of the beams. Haven't been that made at a game in a long time. But i keep playing because I just absolutely love TLD.
That's an incredibly infuriating bug to encounter... And one that's probably not really repeatable thankfully. Hopefully you'll have more luck in the future!
I only play voyager atm but omg that happened to me too, i was so pissed. Had my longest sandbox of 85 days and fell off the bloody track because he got stuck.
I've got a very sedentary playstyle. I'll explore very very slowly, and very carefully. Which... trying for the achievement of "one day on stalker" I'm realizing has seriously sold me short, barring any of my other habituals. And my general dislike of any of the more remote maps. Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to abandon this hunt...
The way to fix that issue from hoarding is to make a couple of bases around the map and in other areas of the game so you are always close to stuff you need but your never gonna have to much stuff on you
I also trim as much weight as possible when traveling. Each zone is bound to have a prybar so that's the first tool to go. Tools end up taking so much damn space in my bag, next to food
If your base is pitch black at night, use your bedroll for orientation. The placement-icon glows and shows the shadow of the furniture you placed it on. Yes it is a bit meta, but if you wanna save on resources like oil...
I got too comfortable in milton while playing wintermute. I completely forgot about saving my friend and now my axe and knife are at 20%. I've got everything I need to proceed down the mountain. I guess it's time to make that leap and go find my friend.
Worst mistake that ended my interloper run: went out for a hunt with 2 arrows, hit a deer and chased it north of the trappers cabin to the pond, harvested the carcass and a freak blizzard happened turning me around and caused me to walk right into a bear. died of hypothermia due to the massive condition loss from the bear attack.
oh rest in peace, i remember trying to follow a wounded deer once and ran into a bear. luckily i shot it and brought home two pelts that day. couldve ended bad seeing that i was really off course for the deer in the first place, coming back to track it after a few hours of harvesting bear and putting it on the floor to cure. ^^ all of this in voyager
Yeah, at the point where you get all the crafting gear, you basically have no choice but to find a place to set up base and store a lot of it. Early on in the game you can get away with being constantly on the move coz you can just dispose of junk you don't need but at this point, you have nothing to chuck out without losing a necessity.
Been playing obsessively for a week on Survival/Voyageur and just managed 30 days before being eaten by a giant bear. My main thoughts so far (based on experience and guides) It sucked setting up a base, only to find a farm down the road with a workbench. Next time I will hold out until I find one. You have to balance your hoarding and your exploring. Sometimes you really need to push yourself to stride out and find new places. Any time I find a random, isolated place with a bed, I leave a couple of matches, some fire stuff, some water and a little bit of food. Probe and map constantly, dont just head up the proverbial highway with no clue where you are going. I generally did my best once I was bouncing between a few locations, had snares set up in each, and could bimble around exploring the environs and gradually mapping the place. I generally did my worst when I just randomly decided to head down a road and keep going until I found something. There came a point where I knew I should turn back.... but II kept going. Ended up getting cornered in a car, at night, with a damn bear outside. Superb game.
I always play on custom difficulty with the three mentioned risk factors. Comfort zone is far away from this playstyle but at least not as horrible as Interloper can be.
@@flip66five Yeah, and that really doesn't make any sense. You can play on easiest mode and still get the feats. I slept in a car for weeks on easiest mode with lots of clothes to get the sleeping outdoors one.
What I’ve learned: Always carry a bedroll, a weapon to defend yourself, a kit for fires, canned food is best, 1.00 liters of water is enough for about a day and a half. Don’t go out in blizzards. Make a spot on each map where you always go back. My first death in Wintermute was because I forgot a bedroll
Same. I've lost count of how many times I had to restart wintermute at first because I kept forgetting my bedroll and thought gray mother would shoot me if I slept in her house.
Just got the game a few days ago. Played to the middle of chapter 2 in story mode. Decided to try survival. Biggest mistake: starting on interloper with no feats and not knowing the map. I've died about 10 times now. Still can't find matches. Oh well. I'll keep trying.
@@Lonelywolfofficial too bad Hinterfield will not add self made sleds so you could actually survive a few days while havin somewhere to keep gear dry an mobile.
most of my deaths are from accidentally eating raw meat and getting food poisoning or bleeding from a small wound ... why do they put the cooked meat next to the raw meat in your inventory??? lol ...
Hey lonely thanks for all the guides and gameplays from tld, I've learned a lot and finally went to timberwolf mountain on my stalker run yesterday, arrived at day 86 so not everyring was spoiled yet lol
It may not be a good tip but I've learned having one big base is good say somewhere like the trappers cabin where it's sort of in the middle of most places and keep things you know you wont need until later like say things to make ammo when you dont plan on going and getting the code for the ammo bench anytime soon or if you dont even have a weapon yet it helps you remember where you leave things and keep you from packing on to much weight
Depends on your playstyle and difficulty. A lot of players play nomadically and just roam from region to region leaving central stockpiles behind. But yeah, having a central base that you can operate out of helps a lot!
That being said it also does not hurt to stay in the familiar zones to train up the critical skills a bit. Just running off with out some skill training will just get you dead by wolf, moose, bear, or the cold. Lower levels can let you get away with mistakes, but on the harder challenges they usually prove fatal.
the biggest difference in difficulty is just the availability of loot in the early game. and for that imo the best thing you can do when you struggle with voyager lets say, start a bunch of stalker games and see how you can manage. dont play to live 100 days. just play to survive the first 3-5. you can easily see what mistakes you make early, because they usually will kill you on a higher difficulty. and you learn faster from mistakes that have impact. if you didnt pick up that cat tail you saw earlier, and a day later you starve a bit and lose condition, but because its voyager you found that lucky candy bar, that kept you alive through the night, you wont really learn from your mistake. to be fair you probably find a candy bar on stalker too, but i think my point stands. theres a reason this game doesnt have manual saves. just die a bunch of times in different cicumstances. it'll help theres a reason i dont engage bears without 100% sure way to escape it. theres a reason i always account for a sudden blizzard showing up out of nowhere. torches are not 100% safe theres a reason i always have a flare/revolver in hand in case a wolf spawns in right on top of me. theres a reason i always have a good amount of cat tail stalks on me at all time. once i witnessed a region have no wildlife for 20 days straight(interloper)
@@Coffeeandacigarette on the side of ML? never had that happen. and i spent a lot of time there, because i usually make carter dam my main storage. i know they roam around the fence, when they sensed you. you started cooking with one around? maybe one clipped in, while passing time in front of the fire. passing time with wildlife around always seemed weird to me. time is passing fast, and they are moving fast(as you can hear), but they are not covering as much ground as they should.
Interloper is the ultimate mode to learn the game mechanics, as they will be killing you constantly. Took me a good while to survive 1 day. Then I worked at 1 week. Now I have lasted long enough to craft a set of improvised tools, but I died right after doing so, never got to use them. But if you're not that hardcore of a player, I highly recommend Stalker. It is a heck of a lot easier than Interloper, and you'll mostly die to human mistakes, so learn the game mechanics and survive long-term. There's lots of loot on Stalker.
It was easier for me to progress from Voyageur to Interloper rather than Stalker, it was easier for me to manage weather and hunger and low resources in Loper than dealing with the incredibly insane number of wolves in Stalker.
@@Lonelywolfofficial I agree, and as you mentioned in your video, I think it really important to be able to adapt your play style between modes and must be able to modify your play style to fit the diff level, rather than than trying to make the diff level fit your play style.
When I first started, yes I got into the habit of staying to familiar areas like milton or the hydro dam, but I broke out of that and walked from coastal highway to timber wolf mountain, from there I would venture to Ash canyon or another area and leave caches of food, fire, and ammo including bow and arrows along the way in case I was in a bind or being pursued by wildlife. Snow shelters can save your life so always keep enough materials to make one in your caches as well.
Not bringing a metric ton of food with me while exploring an aurora mine. Always bring enough food and water to ration for at least five days because if you loose track of time with how much nightlight is left your stuck and without food you’re shit out of luck surviving till the next aurora.
I suggest to play at custom mode for beginners. I'm still new with this game because i just had it from EGS for free awhile ago. Learn the basic surviving skills, weapons, storage management, maps, everything that's basic and crucial for your long - term survival. After you get the game's mechanics and all, try to challenge yourself STILL in custom mode. At first, i set my game so that there will be no wolves, bears and moose around. just me, deer, and rabbits. But then i try to set wolves spawn to 'low' instead of 'none' and then goes on and on. Hope this helps
Fair point, would recommend this to anyone getting frustrated with difficulty. I went the polar opposite way as I wanted every second to be a challenge so I just yoloed into ML voyageur. First save, made my way to FM eventually and killed a bear in one rifle shot that I had no business killing (hadn't even touched a wolf yet I don't think). Hoarded the meat in the train car and got dehydrated (didn't know you could cook snow) and cold. Died haha. Loaded up again and died a few more times but was making incremental progress, eventually decided to started in Milton instead, going well until around day 50 got 3 broken ribs from a surprise moose attack that I decided couldn't go unpunished. Still on like day 130 on that save now in the HRV death trap. It has been a lot of fun though and gonna start up stalker or loper this weekend. For me that challenge and exploring the unknown is more fun than anything else.
Man I have a very big comfort zone. When I play a new game I play on custom same settings and always go to mystery lake do that same and I mean like Same thing over and over And by the way if you do see this your a good youtuber. Your very entertaining and calm when doing videos I feel pretty bad because a lot of youtubers like you who are great have a low amount of subs. RUclipsrs need to be like you not clickbait and scream in my ear to smash that like button and sub
Haha thanks mate! Yeah, changing up your routine and leaving your comfort zone can really help freshen up the game and open your horizons to new things! Also thanks, I'm a pretty huge hater when it comes to click-bait. If I wanna see how somebody gets dopeslapped with that pie, I don't want to see the ~15 seconds leading up to it and then cutting riiiigggght before the conclusion and then sitting through a lazy, boring 22 minutes of setup. Not worth. I like to keep on point and get down to business. To defeat the Huns.
if you have not tried to summit timberwolf you have not lived. I climbed up to the summit and it was the most fun I have had in the game. just because it was new and challenging. never have I tryed to sleep in an open cave or spent 4 days outside with a fire going just so I can pick what gear I want to keep on my trip down. for new players who have not gone don't worry at the top there are no wolves to kill you edit: I just thought I would ask to see if anyone had any new places for me to go see. maybe less know areas that look really cool kinda like some areas of the muskeg
Been playing for years and I find I try to rush un-prepared I suppose I'm a bit impatient, Though with chapter 3 out Pleasant valley has become a bit more familiar. Old habits die hard
I can totaly agree on Point 3 here. This is probably the biggest mistake people make. They fear the perma-death. So do I! I was stuck in PV for 150 days and got bored. I wanted to go to TImberwolf Mountain but I never did because I thought it's too hard. But than I did it and the game opened up again and was super fun again. Not currently Iam on Day 391 on Stalker!
My biggest problem in the long dark is staying in one spot for a long period. As a new player I started in Milton and as I gained more experience with the mechanics of the game I moved to the trappers homestead in ML. I like the area only because the forge, fishing/hunting areas and bleak inlet isn't far from where I am. But I think too far ahead which causes me to get greedy or to much self discipline with supplies at certain times. So I don't know if that's good or bad or both.
i decided not to go to any areas with houses not loot anything and on top also not to pick any wild plants and harvest carcasses, also, I'm not putting on any clothing and I never sleep... no making fires also! wolves are your only true friend... never kill a wolf! Throw the guns away! No crafting! Also bears and moose - gotta go out and make love to those! *get out of the comfort zone already* :D
I 100g agree if you don't like leaving your Comfort zone. In this game then don't play it only thing I wish is that we should be able to build bases and stuff
After getting to the late game fairly often on Stalker i figured i would try out Interloper,and my god there isn't anything anywhere. I feel like its just RNG based early on whether or not you get a decent spawn and whether or not you manage to find matches,and when you do find matches and manage to get out of a horrible spawn then you have to deal with every thing you search having like a 95% chance to be empty. I ended up dying of starvation on the 3rd day just because i couldn't find any food, or tools to break ice to go fishing. not that it mattered though because i was still living off my 1 box of matches i found and i only had 2 matches left. I can only live off of mushrooms, cat tails and rosemary tea for so long before its just not enough. The one thing i didn't do was get to the rabbit spawn area fast enough,maybe that was my mistake,although its hard to get there when i spawn on the exact opposite of the map......fuckin brilliant game though btw.
Interloper is a far harder gamemode to adjust to compared to any of the others. Take some time to get used to it, try several runs. There's also loot tables if you're interested but depends on how you feel about that. Try watching some of my guides based on Interloper and they might help you out a little bit.
All I can say is that Interloper is a whole different beast. I played on Voyageur all the time until marking off all the unexplored places and then tried out interloper. I had to change a lot of how I played the game.
@@Lonelywolfofficial Map knowledge is very important. And then setting out to find clothing without dying. It's easy to deplete rabbits while sticking to one place.
I have service 65 day's , I am working on fire master is on 52 percent and blizzard walker is 32 percent and expert trapper is at 12 percent , I got a moose satchel , i am waiting on the second moose skin to dry to make another satchel , I have a rabbit hat , rabbit mitts, I have a deer pants , and deer boots , I have a prybar , hatchet , lantern , rifle with 19 rounds , 67 bullets for the revolver and I left to revolver in Milton , and also I made a bear bedroll , my bow is 18 percent and I need to find more maple sap , I only played around in Milton and mystery lake , I am at the dam and it's my base of operation for 65 days already, I need to make arrow heads because I have 36 birch and 33 crow feathers , wish me luck on my journey, also I have a flare gun with 3 shells and 3 flares ,
I usually die very fast, I usually get caught off guard and have multiple struggles back to back which kills me. Only time I really ever die in any other way is right at the start and I get a bad starting location of loot RNG.
Yes, I dropped one of my best runs because all my time was spent mulling about the house waiting for my bear pelts to cure, because I had finally gotten what I needed for bear gear for the first time and didn't want to risk it. I came back, decided to jump back to that old save, and here I am ~20 ish days later (still never even reached the 50-day mark, but I intend to) covered in fur clothing to the point most PV days are positive temperature, and planning to check out BR, which I've never actually seen much of before. You've persuaded me, too. My next run will be pure stalker as opposed to my weird voyageloper custom runs. Couldn't hurt to try! But, seriously, these are all great points. Adapt and change things up. Makes the game soooo much better. Good video.
I think the inclusion of the ammunition bench is what drew me out of my comfort zone. My current run I started in Mystery Lake and got myself deerskin boots and pants, rabbit mittens and hat, and a wolf coat and one cured bear hide. I'm just passing through Mountain Town and Forlorn Muskeg to get to Bleak Inlet to stock up on ammo before heading out to Pleasant Valley. I don't know what I'll do from there but the name of the game is survival mode so I guess I'll survive. Wish me luck.
Played this game on the demo years ago and wasn't sure how I felt about it. Got it on the psnow and I'm impressed how immersive it can be. Audio is awesome, def hyped to take the journey.
Do wolves get more aggressive the longer you survive on harder difficulties, or did I get unlucky to turn a corner and get instantly mauled by a wolf I neither saw nor heard?
I got in a bit of a cagey cycle myself not very long ago I had been living at mystery lake for 80+ days and I had fished and explored and hunted and trapped and made a full set of hide clothes and my mind was numb and then I decided to move my main base to the mountain town of Milton were I hadn't been yet and explore the hushed river valley in time and bring everything with me no matter the trips required its now day 116 and on days I need something to do with good weather I take a trip to mystery lake pick up some of the supplies and bring it to the mountain town base and not trying to sound arrogant but I dread the day I ever have to move again SO MUCH STUFF.
@@breezygta101 too late! i realize now that there really is nothing past Milton as the hushed river valley is not what i would call moving friendly but it was still a great experience as i enjoyed having a packed house with enough supplies and materials to survive the Apocalypse.
@@breezygta101 very much oof between mystery lake , Milton, coastal highway and forlorn Muskego and after making so many trips to the lake and a few trips to all of the rest i eventually had more than i could ever use in Milton and no heart to ever try to move it all.
I definitely find myself playing it a bit too safe sometimes. You talk yourself into choosing to feel more secure in the short term, but one area only has so much food lol. Great vid btw buddy, def leaving a sub!
Going out in a storm after being mauled twice by a wolf, on stalker, and then getting lost and nearly died, should have died. Because I wanted a piece of armor, and my wood was back at ML and I was in CH. I'm alive still at the hunter's lodge. I ruined two good moose, by leaving it inside, and I stored gear in a chest, and it rotted. Three mistakes I made; 88 days in and never survived to 100 days because I am impatient, and I should be interloper by now.
I like challenging games, so I played my first life on Stalker. Lasted 15 days, then died to my own stupidity. Then I moved up to Interloper, and have been there ever since. Interloper is an entirely different experience. The cold is so brutal on Interloper! Like nothing else in any game. You actually _feel_ the cold, and are desperate to get out of it. And you don't start with firestarter, and it usually spawns you far from matches. It's a brutal struggle to maintain condition while looking for fire.
Recently, I exited the cave above Hibernia processing to be attacked by a wolf, which I killed and harvested, after taking the meat from the wolf, apparently the bear was nearby and also attacked…… killing the bear with 3 headshots from a revolver I tried to flee to safety to heal up, only to be finally finished by a second wolf
The part about planning ahead and having reserves of food and water is not only good advice for TLD, but also for real life. In the current virus situation, there's so many people who didn't plan ahead, didn't bother to keep a reserve and are now panicking and buying all the toilet paper. Why toilet paper?! I have no idea, but that's what the panicking people are buying.
The panick buyers are actually part of the problem. If everyone would just buy like normal there would be no problem at all keeping the supermarkets filled up, but now you have a few people who are buying more than usual and sitting on a lot of food. Actually more than they need and that leaves less food for all the others and cause the fear that they might be left without while there is actually plenty of food to go around. These then also start buying more than usual and this causes the supermarkets automatic ordering systems to not function anymore either. Had that experience when i played the game banished a while back. I had no proper food distribution center and what would happen. The fisherman filled his house with food only and wouldn't share it with other people in the village who would then just die of starvation. Seems that was a pretty good simulation actually :D. Think there will be limitations implemented to how much one person can buy at once before it becomes too big of a problem though.
@@PandaGamerzNL I'd say hoarding supplies is a huge problem, as is having just enough for your immediate needs with no plan for disruptions. I went out a bit early and got an extra week's supply of groceries so my family would have about 2-3 weeks of food, and did that well before the panic set in. What that does is mean I don't need to panic buy now, I can just buy my normal supply of groceries as I need them and if things run out or we get quarentined and buying food becomes difficult for a while, I don't need to participate in any panic buying, and can even stop buying food and just use up the reserve and people that do that actually helps the supply chain by not needing to be a strain on the system all at once.
Some advice: You clearly write/use a script and have improved audio quality. However, you stumble words A LOT. Don't be afraid to do multiple takes, I think it would help a lot. Confidence is likewise key to good VO. Small complaint but I figure it might help out a bit. Keep it up, these guides are great.
Glad you're enjoying! When I'm doing my LP's and other gameplay, it tends to be stream-of-consciousness which leads to gaps or stalls, but everything flows well. When I read from a script for these videos, it's all pre-planned but I often trip up over words as you've noticed. I've got a long ways to go at speaking XD.
@@Lonelywolfofficial maybe an unpopular opinion but I like when you stutter or change things on the fly as you read off a script. It makes it feel a bit more personal and makes me feel like we're vibing instead of you just robot talking.
how do you get out of the training wheels of passive wildlife? I got used to it early on and now I play custom interloper, that's just interloper with passive wildlife. help
Start in voyager and force yourself into encounters, and learn how to escape or otherwise handle them. I've got a couple videos on the subject as well that may help. But you just need to get the practice in.
I think they can smell you so stay upwind and I like to carry a revolver on me because it's cool and helps out a lot if you get the shot on an attacking wolf. but if I don't have that I make sure I have flares on me. BTW I play voyager.
Tbh, I went days literally walking across the map and didn't encounter a single animal apart from in the distance - just waiting for my luck to run out aha.
i cant seem to find a way to get north on the map, ive been from broken railroad all the way to desolation point, and ive tried to find ways there but i always get blocked by mountains:// so confused
Honestly... my biggest hurdle is my outright refusal to memorize the map. When I spawn in locations I've accidentally memorized I do very well. This game needs procedurally generated maps really bad. It's a lot easier to survive when you know where all the shelter and loot points are, and in the lore you're not supposed to be familiar with the area you're crashed in.
The mistake I always make in this game is I always let wolfs corner me into a location like me gitting stuck in a house with no healing when I wolf just bit me and I can’t go back outside because if I do the wolfs attack me and I die
In my opinion I think stalker is the best mode bc it has challenging moments in the beginning but once you have a means of defense and stable food/water it’s ez I started on stalker and throughly enjoyed it but interloper is pain from the start
Edit: TL;DR first survival game ever, pilgrim, pretty clueless, overweight, Day 3... I think I'm going do die soon but I guess I'm learning some game mechanics at least 🤷🏾♂️😆 This is the first survival game I've ever played so I started my first playthrough on Pilgrim. I'm on Day 3 and I've already noticed the detriment of carrying all the loot possible 😆 I've been overweight for a lot of the playthrough so far, it's a bad habit from playing RPGs. I don't know what is important and what isn't yet, or how much to carry. It really slows me down and my character is always tired, so I haven't gotten far with exploring at all. I had a couple close calls with low temps already because I wouldn't have enough time to get back to shelter. I was hoping for the 10 days achievement but I don't expect to last much longer at this rate 😂 haha
Pilgrim offers you a ton of loot. Best thing to do! Loot a place and haul it to a central location, and stockpile it up. Don't overloot, carry what you can carry, and if you need to come back, do so!
@@Lonelywolfofficial hey, update: I managed to survive. I figured out the strat you mentioned too! Lol it isn't so difficult once you start to get the hang of things and I'm really enjoying the exploration aspect too 😁
Yea it should be possible with the use of beach combing. You can get items that respawn alongside the water that are otherwise finite. Like scrap metal and cloth for tools, repair and crafting. Saplings for bow hunting. Also coal in mines does respawn so you can use the forge forever to make arrow heads when you lose them and ofcourse new tools after man made ones do eventually break. Given it some thought during my current run long before i even need to incorporate all these gameplay techniques, but i think if i just plan ahead i can start doing it before running out of man made tools and like lonely wolf mentions in the video grow out of my comfort zone that depends on finding stuff in buildings only.
Rikkert077 Thanks, I appreciate the response. I much prefer to play games that are challenging but survivable, rather than a game which decides for you from the beginning whether you will survive, although that can still be fun (given the title of the game, I assumed it was just a matter of time). My other thought was, how do people generally achieve the long runs? Do they stay on one map until it's completely bare and then move to the next, or do they continually travel around without setting up anywhere too permanent?
Usually by first clearing every major region of valuable resources and creating a singular stockpile in all the regions, and then shifting between regions as weather and supplies demand.
@@Lonelywolfofficial Yes, that is actually what i'm currently doing. Just keeping a central location where all of the supplies from 1 region is held so i can easily find it when needed. :)
Lonelywolf Thanks! I started off playing survival on only CH and ML, but then realised that I had no idea how to even get to the other maps, let alone find my way around them! So I began Wintermute, and have been taking the time to study the maps in each region it takes me to and become acquainted with the lay of the land. I was annoyed at first that Ep.3 didn't start back with Mackenzie, though! Although Astrid's slowly growing on me. It seems like knowing the maps is perhaps one of, if not the, most essential skill to a long run on harder difficulties. Some good news to finish.. I ran into my first timberwolf pack last night, and managed to fire 1 revolver shot, killing one wolf instantly and sending the others fleeing haha, can I feel like a badass or is that fairly normal? I thought the revolver was mainly for scaring them off rather than putting them down.
@@cr1m_menuB it was my first time pass Voyager, and obviously an aurora was out, I was in the damn, and I was working to fill up on a whole bunch of stuff, and I walked into something is said how that burns, and then I died.
sorry i did not lean nothing but i been playing for a long time did over a 1000 days on interloper found that i like custom the best i like the hardness of the interloper run but want the guns in the game just more to do and collect but with guns u have to have it on med loot to have gun cleaning kits so i end up with way to much stuff because i collect everything i can for a long run the way i set it up is low recovery on health and make it cold wolfs are my friends because i turn all animals to low with a low respond . i am the guy that got them to put gun powder in the game and how u can make it right out of a store 75%,15%,10% plus u can blame me on the timber wolfs i explain to them how a pack of wolf with attack something and just were it down then kill it one they most likely will run but a pack will pick u apart . shardul and the people that where watching the stream will back me up on it when i was talking to the dev. because they were watching shardul so i started explaining things to them to help the long game and the people in the stream wanted it too but i did want them to put in a few black powder guns in the game maybe someday like a 1858 remington and a 45 cal musket both take the same size ball with the remington u would want to find more for more cylinders so u can just switch out the cylinder so u can have more shots before u have to reload the cylinders plus u can put a rare iteam in the game like a converter to 45 long colt
Could you do a feat guide and emergency guide? Since you only have 2 feats for interloper and the other difficulties are surprisingly easy even without feats it be interesting to assess your playstyle depending on what feats you use especially in combination. Speaking of feats in emergency situations you will need bandages antiseptic and painkillers but with the straight to the heart feat you want to use coffee emergency stims and energy drinks which begs the question when and how to use them? Personally coffee you can drink in the morning or whenever your stamina is low, energy drinks work the same way but you have to be careful when sprinting. And I don't know what to do with emergency stims other than to knock me out when I want to sleep at night.
I've actually got one for the feats somewhat in the works, if you want I can push it to the front because I've got most the legwork on it done XD and have just been a lazy boy about it.
@@coletite4070 now for the emergency guide! I'd like to add that while emergency stems are only useful for knocking you out, it can also boost your condition so It's great for when you need to recover.
I'm so happy my new budget laptop for $450 can run these game :). So I definitely gonna invest slot of time into these game. I got a Logitech controller f310 and works perfectly on windows 10. I'm having trouble killing my first rabbit. I can stun them but I still have not catch one yet. I got to remember to hit cancel to stop holding stone. So I can grab rabbit.
It is possible to grab the rabbit while holding stones but especially if you're using a controller this can be hard as you have to be lined up nearly perfectly.
@@Lonelywolfofficial Yep. I got better at it. I just had to remembered to hit B on the controller to cancel then RB to Run then look straight down at the Rabbit and press A. The hardest part is hitting the rabbit with the rock though. I got a way I line up with thumb. I killed a good bit but I moved on from that because I am on the storyline. So I been in town now with lady in the chair. But I have explored the sandbox mode last night. It's really to.
@@mikejr8604 I beleive you just have to hover on the rabbit a little until the rabbit text appears, then you pick it up instead of just throwing stones :D
Depends on which one you're referring to but if it's the red and orange one, that's known as an Expedition Parka and it's the single best piece of gear in the game and incredibly rare. You won't find it on Interloper.
@@Nimno74 There's a few spots but Timberwolf Mountain and Pleasant Valley can have it as the most likely spots, though it can be found elsewhere as well!
@@Lonelywolfofficial about 30 days into my winter's embrace run, I wonder if it's worth it to risk going to look for one, or just wait till I go back to my regular game. . Ahh, the Long Dark decisions weigh heavy even outside the game. Ty for the reply. Great vids, btw.
Wtf? You can make water anywhere and to do so you only must have axe with you to split bough. Water weight to much to carry it. Better opinion is carrying fuel such as wood or coal.
When i play TLD i take some food and water but alot of bullets cuz why not. I have a full rifle and 10 bullets in reserve then i just explore one place and make a mini base in every area
Clothing you wear has a mobility penalty. Some items have a larger penalty than others. Going completely naked will allow you to sprint the full bar, but you'll freeze. Wearing clothing keeps you warm, but incurs a mobility penalty. Every item contributes a different amount.
I don't know what the game wants. I'm cold, have to stone a rabbit while my screen wobbles around. Fires every ten feet just to stay alive figuring out wether i boil water or break a crate? What? Make a spear no? Why is my knife not equipable? Rose Buds??? I need to fashion a shelter from the plane wreck, make tools and salvage. Not pick rose buds while a survivor may need rescue.... not stone rabbits. Not carry weird cargo. Cloth. Cloth? Why do i need to sleep/eat/drink every two seconds? I'm not eager to continue down this games bizzare rails and requirements. Sticks? In ww2 soldiers would upend a rotten ltree stump to use for a reliable fire. Not fiddle about considering how to process a crate into specific categories of firewood. Ffs. What am I missing here? Why is the game tiresome with everything?
The game isn't designed to be 'true to life' realistic. It's designed around game balance and mechanics which means that some things that would make sense IRL don't work in TLD. Sounds like you're playing story mode, which holds your hand a bit and tries to show you multiple different things you can worry about but don't necessarily NEED to. As to being cold all the time, you'll need to find better gear which means making it to a shelter. You don't need to eat or drink every two seconds, if you get your needs filled up you'll be able to go for multiple in game hours without refilling.
@@burtlangoustine1 You are playing the story mode, not the survival mode, which is the mode this video was intended for. And the problem you have with with the hunger/thirst/fatigue meter is because you don't understand the UI yet. The game is actually quite realistic when it comes to hunger, thirst, fatigue and whatnot. The mistake that a lot of new players make is that they think that they constantly have to keep their hunger/thirst bar full. You don't die outright if your bars get low, it just damages your overall condition. I wouldn't worry too much about the survival aspect when playing story mode, it's really more designed to tell a story. If you really want to get the survival experience, you should play the survival mode, which is the mode that this game is designed for.
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My biggest mistake: forgetting to pick up my bed roll before leaving camp
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ditto. not doing it anymore but I often left bedroll and cans behind by accident. off to figure the last saved game where I had them ...
Entering a cave or building with 5% energy, opening the radial only to find the bedroll is missing. First time it happened I swear I felt my soul leave my body
It's these small errors that make me double check every time I leave, and now I use the notes to list important items and deficiencies at each main camp site.
Oh god, that has happened to me at least twice, both times when I noticed I had to backtrack a far distance to get my bedroll back, and was fatigued all the way through due to a lack of shelter with adequate bedding
Been playing for years off and on. Recently I’ve been actively working to break my home base region mentality. Creating several “outposts” stashing supplies where they are more relevant. The more I’ve explored the world I’ve learned just how much freaking content there has been put in this game. It’s freaking mind blowing how much these devs have put into their indie game. I cannot over state how good of a game the Long Dark is. No triple A game on the market right now has put this amount of effort into their games with massive companies backing them. 10/10
Glad you're getting back into it and enjoying it!
I do this too, it really makes life less stressful when you have "checkpoints" of sorts scattered around. If the weather turns bad and you can't make it back the way you came, or you simply need to improve your condition, you can take refuge in one of the places scattered around. That way you don't have to carry 10lbs of food just in case you get stuck somewhere. It's also useful for navigating between some regions. Figuring that out finally gave me the confidence to move up from pilgrim difficulty, now that I knew how to get around and not be stuck in one place.
It took me a quite a while before I left my first area, mystery lake. Once I did I started finding strengths and weaknesses in each region and yeah, started allocating resources and clothing in places en route to where they're relevant to an area. Along with Items I'd need at a forge or to get to the ammunition work bench. That area is a pita.
I like to have a time limit on regions in the late game... say a week or two... I usually camp in caves near exits or bear/moose/deer spawns... I leave an extra can, a torch, match, several bottles of water and cooked meat(raw if early game, non lvl5 cooking) and wood/coal... that way when I come back I know I don't need to be carrying more food or water than the trek will take...
Specialty tools like saws hammers and prybars get mission specific days (i.e. prying all the trunks in town/summiting twm/forging) and then left in a noted location unless I know I'm trekking to an area they'll be needed.
Early game I loot as much as possible, leave all food on the floor in one or two locations, upgrade clothes and leave the rest in a cabinet... once you enter a region the spoil timer starts ticking.
@@flip66five Oh man, I'm glad I just read your comment. I accidentally found a route to Blackrock the other day when I was trying to find the right cave systems to make it to the summit. As soon as I got into Blackrock, I set up a camp and cooked the downed deer that was found next to the exit of the cave. I put a lot of thought into "Well, do I want to just go ahead and explore the new region since I'm already here? No. I came here to summit the mountain, and I'm running low on lamp oil. I need to summit the mountain before I go to a different region." So I did that and wound up going back to the Mountaineer's Hut and setting it up as an outpost. I wound up getting a ton of pelts from the summit (WAY more than I've gotten previously) and decided to craft as many things as I could. Then last night I decided to make a day hike back to my main base in the Trapper's Cabin to deliver some of the things I didn't need back in TWM. So now I'm in Mystery Lake, and after reading your comment about item decay, I'm going to go see what Blackrock has to offer before everything there is destroyed. Thanks man!
i play this game like a hoarder and it always kills me but i can’t bring myself to drop anything
*sees stick* I NEEEEEEEED IT!!!
Skyrim ruined my ability to leave loot behind lol. Seriously, my biggest struggle is prioritising essentials.
Dude I walked from Desolation > Coastal > Mystery Lake with my weight at like 140lbs because I decided this playthrough (voyager) I wouldn't leave a single calorie behind. Needless to say, it was a long and slow journey. But currently on day 17 ;)
I'm tha same i pick up almost every thing
I used to carry alot of water like around 15 kg of it
My worst mistake was probably putting all my food up in an area that required climbing a rope.
A moose broke my ribs so I couldn't climb... long story short, I died.
Youch...
Yikes! What possessed you to do a thing like that?😂
90% of the time I get cocky and die from a wolf or a bear. I've been trying to spend less time in interloper trying to get tools to build my weapons, and more time moving from map to map exploring and upgrading my clothing. I tend to not be quite so cocky when I don't have a bow I can hunt with, and you really don't need it right off the bat. Plenty of cat tails available.
@@saltybits9954 sorry for the late reply, if I remember correctly I was binge crafting ammo at the cannery and figured I didn’t want to have to climb around every time, plus I’d be safe from wolves. I know better than to put all my eggs in one basket now lol.
Nooooo never! not my comfort zone! You'll never take it alive!
Hahahahah!
Long dark expert here, I think a big tip is to always keep busy, when waiting for things to be cooked repair your clothing, during a blizzard breakdown the whole house for resources, never just wait unless you have no choice, and remember to eat often and never starve for the extra 5kg. Also stalker difficulty is by far the best and most balanced imo
I plan to eventually make a big gaggle of tips video that isn't focused on any particular topic and has a rapid-fire list of the best and most often used tips.
Eating often? To thrive in Interloper, key is to live on a starving belly. If you eat often good luck surviving more than a few days 👍 always and only eat before sleeping. And when possible always sleep in 10h straight instead of shorter periods of sleep, to gain more condition.
@@SwedishLatino true, but having that extra 5kg is so nice...
@@scoutbite4334 nice, yes. But achievable in Interloper? Probably not. Unless you get to cooking 5 fast and live off wolves and bears
@@Anhtique Yes. This is the key. Cooking level 5 just breaks the game. Rush for it and you will never think of food ever again.
I get stuck in a zone because I could never find the exit points in a map lol
Keep searching! You'll find them as time goes on. If all else fails and you really want to leave you can Google the exit locations.
there is one in the back of mystery lake to the left side where the cabin with the rifle outside back is.
follow the railroad they usually lead to exits
Go through railroads and skim the edges of the area and you’ll find some :)
I died of hypothermia on the other side of the Carter Hydro Dam after 28 days 11 hours and 48 minutes and I had a shit ton of hides at the trappers homestead
Playing Interloper and Day 5 I was doing so good. Had the hammer and hacksaw. Water, clothes, food, scrap metal ... headed to Desolation point. i got stuck on the Raven Falls Trestle and couldn't' move. I ended up falling to my death. Playing for years and never had that happen. It's like my guy just slipped off the track and got stuck on one of the beams. Haven't been that made at a game in a long time. But i keep playing because I just absolutely love TLD.
That's an incredibly infuriating bug to encounter... And one that's probably not really repeatable thankfully. Hopefully you'll have more luck in the future!
I only play voyager atm but omg that happened to me too, i was so pissed. Had my longest sandbox of 85 days and fell off the bloody track because he got stuck.
One must learn how to exit the game before the save lol
If you ever get stuck, close application before you sprain something... you'll lose a day tops.
OMG! You found something in a fridge! In almost 500 hours I have never found any loot in a fridge or freezer.
I found moldy rabbit meat in a fridge once lol
I find food in freezers all the time.. mostly raw trout
Martial.Lore how, fridges always have the best stuff for me
@@unworthy.potato I rarely have found anything in fridges. I play on voyager.
Brainsore true, but when I find stuff it normally has three items like condensed milk
I've got a very sedentary playstyle. I'll explore very very slowly, and very carefully. Which... trying for the achievement of "one day on stalker" I'm realizing has seriously sold me short, barring any of my other habituals. And my general dislike of any of the more remote maps. Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to abandon this hunt...
The " how dare you question my all encompassing playstyle??!! " attitude is a negative thing after all?? Well...I be damn. 😂
My biggest problem is that I'm a BIG hoarder in this game and my character always has to much stuff on them
I suffer a similar issue lol
I know me too! I don’t know what it is but I just feel like everything is important
The way to fix that issue from hoarding is to make a couple of bases around the map and in other areas of the game so you are always close to stuff you need but your never gonna have to much stuff on you
@@matthewsisdecent957 take the most important things and store the other things somewhere on the map so you can go git them if you ever need them
I also trim as much weight as possible when traveling. Each zone is bound to have a prybar so that's the first tool to go. Tools end up taking so much damn space in my bag, next to food
If your base is pitch black at night, use your bedroll for orientation. The placement-icon glows and shows the shadow of the furniture you placed it on.
Yes it is a bit meta, but if you wanna save on resources like oil...
I got too comfortable in milton while playing wintermute. I completely forgot about saving my friend and now my axe and knife are at 20%. I've got everything I need to proceed down the mountain. I guess it's time to make that leap and go find my friend.
My problem is that I want to have everything in one place, but cannot ever decide where that is
I love this cupboard opening simulator! So many goodies and so little space!
Worst mistake that ended my interloper run: went out for a hunt with 2 arrows, hit a deer and chased it north of the trappers cabin to the pond, harvested the carcass and a freak blizzard happened turning me around and caused me to walk right into a bear. died of hypothermia due to the massive condition loss from the bear attack.
oh rest in peace, i remember trying to follow a wounded deer once and ran into a bear. luckily i shot it and brought home two pelts that day. couldve ended bad seeing that i was really off course for the deer in the first place, coming back to track it after a few hours of harvesting bear and putting it on the floor to cure.
^^ all of this in voyager
my problem is i decked myself out with all the crafting gear and that shit weighs you down sooo much.
Yeah, at the point where you get all the crafting gear, you basically have no choice but to find a place to set up base and store a lot of it. Early on in the game you can get away with being constantly on the move coz you can just dispose of junk you don't need but at this point, you have nothing to chuck out without losing a necessity.
Been playing obsessively for a week on Survival/Voyageur and just managed 30 days before being eaten by a giant bear.
My main thoughts so far (based on experience and guides)
It sucked setting up a base, only to find a farm down the road with a workbench. Next time I will hold out until I find one.
You have to balance your hoarding and your exploring. Sometimes you really need to push yourself to stride out and find new places.
Any time I find a random, isolated place with a bed, I leave a couple of matches, some fire stuff, some water and a little bit of food.
Probe and map constantly, dont just head up the proverbial highway with no clue where you are going.
I generally did my best once I was bouncing between a few locations, had snares set up in each, and could bimble around exploring the environs and gradually mapping the place.
I generally did my worst when I just randomly decided to head down a road and keep going until I found something. There came a point where I knew I should turn back.... but II kept going. Ended up getting cornered in a car, at night, with a damn bear outside.
Superb game.
I always play on custom difficulty with the three mentioned risk factors. Comfort zone is far away from this playstyle but at least not as horrible as Interloper can be.
And then you find out custom doesn't progress feats...
@@flip66five Yeah, and that really doesn't make any sense. You can play on easiest mode and still get the feats. I slept in a car for weeks on easiest mode with lots of clothes to get the sleeping outdoors one.
What I’ve learned:
Always carry a bedroll, a weapon to defend yourself, a kit for fires, canned food is best, 1.00 liters of water is enough for about a day and a half. Don’t go out in blizzards. Make a spot on each map where you always go back.
My first death in Wintermute was because I forgot a bedroll
Same. I've lost count of how many times I had to restart wintermute at first because I kept forgetting my bedroll and thought gray mother would shoot me if I slept in her house.
Haha XD
Just got the game a few days ago. Played to the middle of chapter 2 in story mode. Decided to try survival. Biggest mistake: starting on interloper with no feats and not knowing the map. I've died about 10 times now. Still can't find matches. Oh well. I'll keep trying.
Some mistakes are just stupid too. I stepped out to shoot a wolf but had forgot to load the gun.....
Tip #3 is a big one. My method of playing is to keep moving and not staying in one place very long. Exploration is fun.
Omg I’ve done that so many times lol
They never grab no toilet paper reason one.
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@@Lonelywolfofficial too bad Hinterfield will not add self made sleds so you could actually survive a few days while havin somewhere to keep gear dry an mobile.
@@blu8487 their sense of video game logic prevents you from jumping and aiming the revolver while moving.
most of my deaths are from accidentally eating raw meat and getting food poisoning or bleeding from a small wound ... why do they put the cooked meat next to the raw meat in your inventory??? lol ...
Haha! Just double check next time. If you select it from the radial menu it will ask you before you consume it if you are sure you want to.
Hey lonely thanks for all the guides and gameplays from tld, I've learned a lot and finally went to timberwolf mountain on my stalker run yesterday, arrived at day 86 so not everyring was spoiled yet lol
Nice! Glad you were able to get there!
It may not be a good tip but I've learned having one big base is good say somewhere like the trappers cabin where it's sort of in the middle of most places and keep things you know you wont need until later like say things to make ammo when you dont plan on going and getting the code for the ammo bench anytime soon or if you dont even have a weapon yet it helps you remember where you leave things and keep you from packing on to much weight
Depends on your playstyle and difficulty. A lot of players play nomadically and just roam from region to region leaving central stockpiles behind. But yeah, having a central base that you can operate out of helps a lot!
That being said it also does not hurt to stay in the familiar zones to train up the critical skills a bit. Just running off with out some skill training will just get you dead by wolf, moose, bear, or the cold. Lower levels can let you get away with mistakes, but on the harder challenges they usually prove fatal.
the biggest difference in difficulty is just the availability of loot in the early game.
and for that imo the best thing you can do when you struggle with voyager lets say, start a bunch of stalker games and see how you can manage. dont play to live 100 days.
just play to survive the first 3-5.
you can easily see what mistakes you make early, because they usually will kill you on a higher difficulty. and you learn faster from mistakes that have impact.
if you didnt pick up that cat tail you saw earlier, and a day later you starve a bit and lose condition, but because its voyager you found that lucky candy bar, that kept you alive through the night, you wont really learn from your mistake. to be fair you probably find a candy bar on stalker too, but i think my point stands.
theres a reason this game doesnt have manual saves. just die a bunch of times in different cicumstances. it'll help
theres a reason i dont engage bears without 100% sure way to escape it.
theres a reason i always account for a sudden blizzard showing up out of nowhere. torches are not 100% safe
theres a reason i always have a flare/revolver in hand in case a wolf spawns in right on top of me.
theres a reason i always have a good amount of cat tail stalks on me at all time. once i witnessed a region have no wildlife for 20 days straight(interloper)
That and the weather patterns. Higher difficulty = more variability and tendency towards bad weather.
I had a wolf spawn INSIDE THE CLOSED FENCE at Carter Dam while cooking meat
@@Coffeeandacigarette on the side of ML? never had that happen. and i spent a lot of time there, because i usually make carter dam my main storage. i know they roam around the fence, when they sensed you. you started cooking with one around? maybe one clipped in, while passing time in front of the fire.
passing time with wildlife around always seemed weird to me. time is passing fast, and they are moving fast(as you can hear), but they are not covering as much ground as they should.
Interloper is the ultimate mode to learn the game mechanics, as they will be killing you constantly. Took me a good while to survive 1 day. Then I worked at 1 week. Now I have lasted long enough to craft a set of improvised tools, but I died right after doing so, never got to use them.
But if you're not that hardcore of a player, I highly recommend Stalker. It is a heck of a lot easier than Interloper, and you'll mostly die to human mistakes, so learn the game mechanics and survive long-term. There's lots of loot on Stalker.
It was easier for me to progress from Voyageur to Interloper rather than Stalker, it was easier for me to manage weather and hunger and low resources in Loper than dealing with the incredibly insane number of wolves in Stalker.
It can be for some people but many find Interloper impossible.
@@Lonelywolfofficial I agree, and as you mentioned in your video, I think it really important to be able to adapt your play style between modes and must be able to modify your play style to fit the diff level, rather than than trying to make the diff level fit your play style.
I went to the tappers cabin from mystery lake and got so turned around i ended up at the clear cut and got mauled by a wolf lmao
Bro literally same, that’s how I died like two saves ago or sumthin
That transition is weird. Like a giant hill and the path is back tracking past Camp Office
When I first started, yes I got into the habit of staying to familiar areas like milton or the hydro dam, but I broke out of that and walked from coastal highway to timber wolf mountain, from there I would venture to Ash canyon or another area and leave caches of food, fire, and ammo including bow and arrows along the way in case I was in a bind or being pursued by wildlife. Snow shelters can save your life so always keep enough materials to make one in your caches as well.
Not bringing a metric ton of food with me while exploring an aurora mine.
Always bring enough food and water to ration for at least five days because if you loose track of time with how much nightlight is left your stuck and without food you’re shit out of luck surviving till the next aurora.
Never, ever sleep in a tractor when a blizzard is approaching. Got my first permanent injury due frostbite. :-(
Yikes!
I suggest to play at custom mode for beginners. I'm still new with this game because i just had it from EGS for free awhile ago. Learn the basic surviving skills, weapons, storage management, maps, everything that's basic and crucial for your long - term survival. After you get the game's mechanics and all, try to challenge yourself STILL in custom mode. At first, i set my game so that there will be no wolves, bears and moose around. just me, deer, and rabbits. But then i try to set wolves spawn to 'low' instead of 'none' and then goes on and on. Hope this helps
Fair point, would recommend this to anyone getting frustrated with difficulty. I went the polar opposite way as I wanted every second to be a challenge so I just yoloed into ML voyageur. First save, made my way to FM eventually and killed a bear in one rifle shot that I had no business killing (hadn't even touched a wolf yet I don't think). Hoarded the meat in the train car and got dehydrated (didn't know you could cook snow) and cold. Died haha. Loaded up again and died a few more times but was making incremental progress, eventually decided to started in Milton instead, going well until around day 50 got 3 broken ribs from a surprise moose attack that I decided couldn't go unpunished. Still on like day 130 on that save now in the HRV death trap. It has been a lot of fun though and gonna start up stalker or loper this weekend. For me that challenge and exploring the unknown is more fun than anything else.
Man I have a very big comfort zone. When I play a new game I play on custom same settings and always go to mystery lake do that same and I mean like Same thing over and over
And by the way if you do see this your a good youtuber. Your very entertaining and calm when doing videos I feel pretty bad because a lot of youtubers like you who are great have a low amount of subs. RUclipsrs need to be like you not clickbait and scream in my ear to smash that like button and sub
Haha thanks mate! Yeah, changing up your routine and leaving your comfort zone can really help freshen up the game and open your horizons to new things!
Also thanks, I'm a pretty huge hater when it comes to click-bait. If I wanna see how somebody gets dopeslapped with that pie, I don't want to see the ~15 seconds leading up to it and then cutting riiiigggght before the conclusion and then sitting through a lazy, boring 22 minutes of setup. Not worth. I like to keep on point and get down to business.
To defeat the Huns.
if you have not tried to summit timberwolf you have not lived. I climbed up to the summit and it was the most fun I have had in the game. just because it was new and challenging. never have I tryed to sleep in an open cave or spent 4 days outside with a fire going just so I can pick what gear I want to keep on my trip down. for new players who have not gone don't worry at the top there are no wolves to kill you
edit: I just thought I would ask to see if anyone had any new places for me to go see. maybe less know areas that look really cool kinda like some areas of the muskeg
Been playing for years and I find I try to rush un-prepared I suppose I'm a bit impatient, Though with chapter 3 out Pleasant valley has become a bit more familiar. Old habits die hard
i really hate the smallest jump down will sprain your ankle that is unrealistic
It's more than just the smallest jump down, but yeah it is a bit rough sometimes.
It's realistic if you've got 40 to 80 pounds of gear on your back.
I can totaly agree on Point 3 here. This is probably the biggest mistake people make. They fear the perma-death. So do I!
I was stuck in PV for 150 days and got bored. I wanted to go to TImberwolf Mountain but I never did because I thought it's
too hard. But than I did it and the game opened up again and was super fun again. Not currently Iam on Day 391 on Stalker!
My biggest problem in the long dark is staying in one spot for a long period. As a new player I started in Milton and as I gained more experience with the mechanics of the game I moved to the trappers homestead in ML. I like the area only because the forge, fishing/hunting areas and bleak inlet isn't far from where I am. But I think too far ahead which causes me to get greedy or to much self discipline with supplies at certain times. So I don't know if that's good or bad or both.
Probably both.
i decided not to go to any areas with houses not loot anything and on top also not to pick any wild plants and harvest carcasses, also, I'm not putting on any clothing and I never sleep... no making fires also! wolves are your only true friend... never kill a wolf! Throw the guns away! No crafting!
Also bears and moose - gotta go out and make love to those! *get out of the comfort zone already* :D
I went straight from 2 pilgrim runs learning the map briefly straight into custom interloper only adding guns
My biggest mistake, draining an area of all of its resources and then not having enough meat etc to move to the next.
I 100g agree if you don't like leaving your Comfort zone. In this game then don't play it only thing I wish is that we should be able to build bases and stuff
After getting to the late game fairly often on Stalker i figured i would try out Interloper,and my god there isn't anything anywhere. I feel like its just RNG based early on whether or not you get a decent spawn and whether or not you manage to find matches,and when you do find matches and manage to get out of a horrible spawn then you have to deal with every thing you search having like a 95% chance to be empty. I ended up dying of starvation on the 3rd day just because i couldn't find any food, or tools to break ice to go fishing. not that it mattered though because i was still living off my 1 box of matches i found and i only had 2 matches left. I can only live off of mushrooms, cat tails and rosemary tea for so long before its just not enough. The one thing i didn't do was get to the rabbit spawn area fast enough,maybe that was my mistake,although its hard to get there when i spawn on the exact opposite of the map......fuckin brilliant game though btw.
Interloper is a far harder gamemode to adjust to compared to any of the others. Take some time to get used to it, try several runs. There's also loot tables if you're interested but depends on how you feel about that. Try watching some of my guides based on Interloper and they might help you out a little bit.
@@Lonelywolfofficial I def will check out more of your videos man,you make great content on this game.
All I can say is that Interloper is a whole different beast. I played on Voyageur all the time until marking off all the unexplored places and then tried out interloper. I had to change a lot of how I played the game.
Interloper requires a lot of play style changes that don't come easy!
@@Lonelywolfofficial Map knowledge is very important. And then setting out to find clothing without dying. It's easy to deplete rabbits while sticking to one place.
I have service 65 day's , I am working on fire master is on 52 percent and blizzard walker is 32 percent and expert trapper is at 12 percent , I got a moose satchel , i am waiting on the second moose skin to dry to make another satchel , I have a rabbit hat , rabbit mitts, I have a deer pants , and deer boots , I have a prybar , hatchet , lantern , rifle with 19 rounds , 67 bullets for the revolver and I left to revolver in Milton , and also I made a bear bedroll , my bow is 18 percent and I need to find more maple sap , I only played around in Milton and mystery lake , I am at the dam and it's my base of operation for 65 days already, I need to make arrow heads because I have 36 birch and 33 crow feathers , wish me luck on my journey, also I have a flare gun with 3 shells and 3 flares ,
I usually die very fast, I usually get caught off guard and have multiple struggles back to back which kills me. Only time I really ever die in any other way is right at the start and I get a bad starting location of loot RNG.
Yes, I dropped one of my best runs because all my time was spent mulling about the house waiting for my bear pelts to cure, because I had finally gotten what I needed for bear gear for the first time and didn't want to risk it. I came back, decided to jump back to that old save, and here I am ~20 ish days later (still never even reached the 50-day mark, but I intend to) covered in fur clothing to the point most PV days are positive temperature, and planning to check out BR, which I've never actually seen much of before.
You've persuaded me, too. My next run will be pure stalker as opposed to my weird voyageloper custom runs. Couldn't hurt to try!
But, seriously, these are all great points. Adapt and change things up. Makes the game soooo much better. Good video.
Thanks mate!
Great vid, these tips are definitely going to come in handy.
I think the inclusion of the ammunition bench is what drew me out of my comfort zone. My current run I started in Mystery Lake and got myself deerskin boots and pants, rabbit mittens and hat, and a wolf coat and one cured bear hide. I'm just passing through Mountain Town and Forlorn Muskeg to get to Bleak Inlet to stock up on ammo before heading out to Pleasant Valley. I don't know what I'll do from there but the name of the game is survival mode so I guess I'll survive. Wish me luck.
You'll do great mate! Have fun with the Timberwolves.
My hint: don’t forget your bedroll. D’oh
Played this game on the demo years ago and wasn't sure how I felt about it. Got it on the psnow and I'm impressed how immersive it can be. Audio is awesome, def hyped to take the journey.
Do wolves get more aggressive the longer you survive on harder difficulties, or did I get unlucky to turn a corner and get instantly mauled by a wolf I neither saw nor heard?
I got in a bit of a cagey cycle myself not very long ago I had been living at mystery lake for 80+ days and I had fished and explored and hunted and trapped and made a full set of hide clothes and my mind was numb and then I decided to move my main base to the mountain town of Milton were I hadn't been yet and explore the hushed river valley in time and bring everything with me no matter the trips required its now day 116 and on days I need something to do with good weather I take a trip to mystery lake pick up some of the supplies and bring it to the mountain town base and not trying to sound arrogant but I dread the day I ever have to move again SO MUCH STUFF.
I suggest you leave some stuff in your old base and not take everything with you just Incase you go back so you don’t have to spend awhile moving
@@breezygta101 too late! i realize now that there really is nothing past Milton as the hushed river valley is not what i would call moving friendly but it was still a great experience as i enjoyed having a packed house with enough supplies and materials to survive the Apocalypse.
@@rangerminsc3152 oof lol
@@breezygta101 very much oof between mystery lake , Milton, coastal highway and forlorn Muskego and after making so many trips to the lake and a few trips to all of the rest i eventually had more than i could ever use in Milton and no heart to ever try to move it all.
@@rangerminsc3152 oh yeah are you still alive on that world or did you die?
My best playthrough so far has been Voyager and I got to day 20. The one time i decided to sleep outside a category 4 storm came outta nowhere
Haha yeah, sleeping outside can be kinda risky.
I definitely find myself playing it a bit too safe sometimes. You talk yourself into choosing to feel more secure in the short term, but one area only has so much food lol. Great vid btw buddy, def leaving a sub!
Thanks! Hope you enjoyed! More like it to come.
@@Lonelywolfofficial np man, lookin forward to it
Going out in a storm after being mauled twice by a wolf, on stalker, and then getting lost and nearly died, should have died. Because I wanted a piece of armor, and my wood was back at ML and I was in CH. I'm alive still at the hunter's lodge. I ruined two good moose, by leaving it inside, and I stored gear in a chest, and it rotted. Three mistakes I made; 88 days in and never survived to 100 days because I am impatient, and I should be interloper by now.
I like challenging games, so I played my first life on Stalker. Lasted 15 days, then died to my own stupidity. Then I moved up to Interloper, and have been there ever since.
Interloper is an entirely different experience. The cold is so brutal on Interloper! Like nothing else in any game. You actually _feel_ the cold, and are desperate to get out of it. And you don't start with firestarter, and it usually spawns you far from matches. It's a brutal struggle to maintain condition while looking for fire.
Recently, I exited the cave above Hibernia processing to be attacked by a wolf, which I killed and harvested, after taking the meat from the wolf, apparently the bear was nearby and also attacked…… killing the bear with 3 headshots from a revolver I tried to flee to safety to heal up, only to be finally finished by a second wolf
The thing I'm doing wrong is not playing 😒
Oof!
i wona say that i love your content and your channel keep up the good work you're the reason a wake up in the morning
Thanks so much!
The part about planning ahead and having reserves of food and water is not only good advice for TLD, but also for real life. In the current virus situation, there's so many people who didn't plan ahead, didn't bother to keep a reserve and are now panicking and buying all the toilet paper. Why toilet paper?! I have no idea, but that's what the panicking people are buying.
The panick buyers are actually part of the problem. If everyone would just buy like normal there would be no problem at all keeping the supermarkets filled up, but now you have a few people who are buying more than usual and sitting on a lot of food. Actually more than they need and that leaves less food for all the others and cause the fear that they might be left without while there is actually plenty of food to go around. These then also start buying more than usual and this causes the supermarkets automatic ordering systems to not function anymore either. Had that experience when i played the game banished a while back. I had no proper food distribution center and what would happen. The fisherman filled his house with food only and wouldn't share it with other people in the village who would then just die of starvation. Seems that was a pretty good simulation actually :D. Think there will be limitations implemented to how much one person can buy at once before it becomes too big of a problem though.
@@PandaGamerzNL I'd say hoarding supplies is a huge problem, as is having just enough for your immediate needs with no plan for disruptions. I went out a bit early and got an extra week's supply of groceries so my family would have about 2-3 weeks of food, and did that well before the panic set in.
What that does is mean I don't need to panic buy now, I can just buy my normal supply of groceries as I need them and if things run out or we get quarentined and buying food becomes difficult for a while, I don't need to participate in any panic buying, and can even stop buying food and just use up the reserve and people that do that actually helps the supply chain by not needing to be a strain on the system all at once.
Good tips and content mate. Keep em coming
Thanks, will do!
Some advice: You clearly write/use a script and have improved audio quality. However, you stumble words A LOT. Don't be afraid to do multiple takes, I think it would help a lot. Confidence is likewise key to good VO.
Small complaint but I figure it might help out a bit. Keep it up, these guides are great.
Glad you're enjoying! When I'm doing my LP's and other gameplay, it tends to be stream-of-consciousness which leads to gaps or stalls, but everything flows well. When I read from a script for these videos, it's all pre-planned but I often trip up over words as you've noticed. I've got a long ways to go at speaking XD.
@@Lonelywolfofficial maybe an unpopular opinion but I like when you stutter or change things on the fly as you read off a script. It makes it feel a bit more personal and makes me feel like we're vibing instead of you just robot talking.
how do you get out of the training wheels of passive wildlife? I got used to it early on and now I play custom interloper, that's just interloper with passive wildlife. help
Start in voyager and force yourself into encounters, and learn how to escape or otherwise handle them. I've got a couple videos on the subject as well that may help. But you just need to get the practice in.
I think they can smell you so stay upwind and I like to carry a revolver on me because it's cool and helps out a lot if you get the shot on an attacking wolf. but if I don't have that I make sure I have flares on me. BTW I play voyager.
I’m now on my most successful run, now at 31 days with plenty of reserves. That being said I have not left pleasant valley….
Tbh, I went days literally walking across the map and didn't encounter a single animal apart from in the distance - just waiting for my luck to run out aha.
i cant seem to find a way to get north on the map, ive been from broken railroad all the way to desolation point, and ive tried to find ways there but i always get blocked by mountains:// so confused
Honestly... my biggest hurdle is my outright refusal to memorize the map. When I spawn in locations I've accidentally memorized I do very well.
This game needs procedurally generated maps really bad. It's a lot easier to survive when you know where all the shelter and loot points are, and in the lore you're not supposed to be familiar with the area you're crashed in.
The mistake I always make in this game is I always let wolfs corner me into a location like me gitting stuck in a house with no healing when I wolf just bit me and I can’t go back outside because if I do the wolfs attack me and I die
In my opinion I think stalker is the best mode bc it has challenging moments in the beginning but once you have a means of defense and stable food/water it’s ez I started on stalker and throughly enjoyed it but interloper is pain from the start
Edit: TL;DR first survival game ever, pilgrim, pretty clueless, overweight, Day 3... I think I'm going do die soon but I guess I'm learning some game mechanics at least 🤷🏾♂️😆
This is the first survival game I've ever played so I started my first playthrough on Pilgrim. I'm on Day 3 and I've already noticed the detriment of carrying all the loot possible 😆
I've been overweight for a lot of the playthrough so far, it's a bad habit from playing RPGs. I don't know what is important and what isn't yet, or how much to carry. It really slows me down and my character is always tired, so I haven't gotten far with exploring at all. I had a couple close calls with low temps already because I wouldn't have enough time to get back to shelter.
I was hoping for the 10 days achievement but I don't expect to last much longer at this rate 😂 haha
Pilgrim offers you a ton of loot. Best thing to do! Loot a place and haul it to a central location, and stockpile it up. Don't overloot, carry what you can carry, and if you need to come back, do so!
@@Lonelywolfofficial hey, update: I managed to survive. I figured out the strat you mentioned too! Lol it isn't so difficult once you start to get the hang of things and I'm really enjoying the exploration aspect too 😁
@@Ctrl_Alt_Elite Glad you're succeeding!
You are a amazing person i dont play like that but you just earned a new sub and consistant viewr
Welcome aboard! Glad you enjoyed!
Is it actually possible to survive indefinitely?
Yea it should be possible with the use of beach combing. You can get items that respawn alongside the water that are otherwise finite. Like scrap metal and cloth for tools, repair and crafting. Saplings for bow hunting. Also coal in mines does respawn so you can use the forge forever to make arrow heads when you lose them and ofcourse new tools after man made ones do eventually break. Given it some thought during my current run long before i even need to incorporate all these gameplay techniques, but i think if i just plan ahead i can start doing it before running out of man made tools and like lonely wolf mentions in the video grow out of my comfort zone that depends on finding stuff in buildings only.
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Thanks, I appreciate the response. I much prefer to play games that are challenging but survivable, rather than a game which decides for you from the beginning whether you will survive, although that can still be fun (given the title of the game, I assumed it was just a matter of time).
My other thought was, how do people generally achieve the long runs? Do they stay on one map until it's completely bare and then move to the next, or do they continually travel around without setting up anywhere too permanent?
Usually by first clearing every major region of valuable resources and creating a singular stockpile in all the regions, and then shifting between regions as weather and supplies demand.
@@Lonelywolfofficial Yes, that is actually what i'm currently doing. Just keeping a central location where all of the supplies from 1 region is held so i can easily find it when needed. :)
Lonelywolf
Thanks! I started off playing survival on only CH and ML, but then realised that I had no idea how to even get to the other maps, let alone find my way around them! So I began Wintermute, and have been taking the time to study the maps in each region it takes me to and become acquainted with the lay of the land. I was annoyed at first that Ep.3 didn't start back with Mackenzie, though! Although Astrid's slowly growing on me.
It seems like knowing the maps is perhaps one of, if not the, most essential skill to a long run on harder difficulties.
Some good news to finish.. I ran into my first timberwolf pack last night, and managed to fire 1 revolver shot, killing one wolf instantly and sending the others fleeing haha, can I feel like a badass or is that fairly normal? I thought the revolver was mainly for scaring them off rather than putting them down.
Made me realize I travel no matter the weather or time of day
Question lonely wolf. Have you ever died electrocution before?
@@cr1m_menuB it was my first time pass Voyager, and obviously an aurora was out, I was in the damn, and I was working to fill up on a whole bunch of stuff, and I walked into something is said how that burns, and then I died.
@@cr1m_menuB thank you n I'll keep my eyes out
I can't recall if I have ever died, I might have in story mode once but I don't think I ever have in survival.
@@Lonelywolfofficial i never played story mode yet.
@@Lonelywolfofficial mine was at one of those hugely out of control auroras.
sorry i did not lean nothing but i been playing for a long time did over a 1000 days on interloper found that i like custom the best i like the hardness of the interloper run but want the guns in the game just more to do and collect but with guns u have to have it on med loot to have gun cleaning kits so i end up with way to much stuff because i collect everything i can for a long run the way i set it up is low recovery on health and make it cold wolfs are my friends because i turn all animals to low with a low respond . i am the guy that got them to put gun powder in the game and how u can make it right out of a store 75%,15%,10% plus u can blame me on the timber wolfs i explain to them how a pack of wolf with attack something and just were it down then kill it one they most likely will run but a pack will pick u apart . shardul and the people that where watching the stream will back me up on it when i was talking to the dev. because they were watching shardul so i started explaining things to them to help the long game and the people in the stream wanted it too but i did want them to put in a few black powder guns in the game maybe someday like a 1858 remington and a 45 cal musket both take the same size ball with the remington u would want to find more for more cylinders so u can just switch out the cylinder so u can have more shots before u have to reload the cylinders plus u can put a rare iteam in the game like a converter to 45 long colt
I love these videos fr
Thanks a lot!
Could you do a feat guide and emergency guide? Since you only have 2 feats for interloper and the other difficulties are surprisingly easy even without feats it be interesting to assess your playstyle depending on what feats you use especially in combination.
Speaking of feats in emergency situations you will need bandages antiseptic and painkillers but with the straight to the heart feat you want to use coffee emergency stims and energy drinks which begs the question when and how to use them? Personally coffee you can drink in the morning or whenever your stamina is low, energy drinks work the same way but you have to be careful when sprinting. And I don't know what to do with emergency stims other than to knock me out when I want to sleep at night.
I've actually got one for the feats somewhat in the works, if you want I can push it to the front because I've got most the legwork on it done XD and have just been a lazy boy about it.
@@Lonelywolfofficial that would be awesome lol.
Actually yea that would be good
@@coletite4070 now for the emergency guide! I'd like to add that while emergency stems are only useful for knocking you out, it can also boost your condition so It's great for when you need to recover.
I'm so happy my new budget laptop for $450 can run these game :). So I definitely gonna invest slot of time into these game. I got a Logitech controller f310 and works perfectly on windows 10. I'm having trouble killing my first rabbit. I can stun them but I still have not catch one yet. I got to remember to hit cancel to stop holding stone. So I can grab rabbit.
It is possible to grab the rabbit while holding stones but especially if you're using a controller this can be hard as you have to be lined up nearly perfectly.
@@Lonelywolfofficial Yep. I got better at it. I just had to remembered to hit B on the controller to cancel then RB to Run then look straight down at the Rabbit and press A. The hardest part is hitting the rabbit with the rock though. I got a way I line up with thumb. I killed a good bit but I moved on from that because I am on the storyline. So I been in town now with lady in the chair. But I have explored the sandbox mode last night. It's really to.
@@mikejr8604 I beleive you just have to hover on the rabbit a little until the rabbit text appears, then you pick it up instead of just throwing stones :D
@@band1tt nice . I have to try that. Ty.
I chose the hardest one of the first playthrough 😅
What is the poncho I see you wearing in most videos? I have never seen them in-game.
Depends on which one you're referring to but if it's the red and orange one, that's known as an Expedition Parka and it's the single best piece of gear in the game and incredibly rare. You won't find it on Interloper.
@@Lonelywolfofficial That's the one I am referring to. Where does one find it (what difficulty)?
@@Nimno74 There's a few spots but Timberwolf Mountain and Pleasant Valley can have it as the most likely spots, though it can be found elsewhere as well!
@@Lonelywolfofficial about 30 days into my winter's embrace run, I wonder if it's worth it to risk going to look for one, or just wait till I go back to my regular game.
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Ahh, the Long Dark decisions weigh heavy even outside the game. Ty for the reply. Great vids, btw.
Shit dood, I can apply this video to my life xp
Wtf? You can make water anywhere and to do so you only must have axe with you to split bough. Water weight to much to carry it. Better opinion is carrying fuel such as wood or coal.
When i play TLD i take some food and water but alot of bullets cuz why not.
I have a full rifle and 10 bullets in reserve then i just explore one place and make a mini base in every area
Good strategy as long as you're not encumbered it's great
Still relevant today!
At the bottom right theres the sprint icon and its half red half white how can i make it all white again?
Clothing you wear has a mobility penalty. Some items have a larger penalty than others. Going completely naked will allow you to sprint the full bar, but you'll freeze. Wearing clothing keeps you warm, but incurs a mobility penalty. Every item contributes a different amount.
I was like number 1
why you no check the visors in the cars?!
Never anything in them XD
Day 3 in the hardest difficult and it was easy af 🤣
just used 7 rifle bullets to kill a bear, might not me so smart, but hey, it worked
That's all that counts!
i just did one shot at one, then as it ran towards me thank god i got another in. now it’s curing in my base along with some deer pelts. living good.
such a good video
Glad you enjoyed!
You missed one that I have experienced,
Bulletproof bears
so why can't 6 revolver shots and 4 rifle rounds kill the bear?
side note what caliber is the revolver do you know what model it is?
@@thecoolguy7403 I think it's a .38
@@nolanpostal7540 I with it was a .50
wait do you know what model
The revolver, from the looks, is kinda similar to a Smith and Wesson model 10
the rifle is definitely a Lee Enfield no doubt
Dude, change to metric system, it's XXI century! You do it wrong.
why have the tshirt on top of the hoodie
Just as part of the video, because I wasn't super concerned with clothing maxing at the moment.
@@Lonelywolfofficial ok I thought maybe it was to keep the hoodie from breaking down from the elements
I don't know what the game wants.
I'm cold, have to stone a rabbit while my screen wobbles around. Fires every ten feet just to stay alive figuring out wether i boil water or break a crate? What?
Make a spear no? Why is my knife not equipable? Rose Buds??? I need to fashion a shelter from the plane wreck, make tools and salvage. Not pick rose buds while a survivor may need rescue....
not stone rabbits. Not carry weird cargo. Cloth. Cloth? Why do i need to sleep/eat/drink every two seconds?
I'm not eager to continue down this games bizzare rails and requirements. Sticks? In ww2 soldiers would upend a rotten ltree stump to use for a reliable fire. Not fiddle about considering how to process a crate into specific categories of firewood. Ffs.
What am I missing here? Why is the game tiresome with everything?
The game isn't designed to be 'true to life' realistic. It's designed around game balance and mechanics which means that some things that would make sense IRL don't work in TLD. Sounds like you're playing story mode, which holds your hand a bit and tries to show you multiple different things you can worry about but don't necessarily NEED to. As to being cold all the time, you'll need to find better gear which means making it to a shelter. You don't need to eat or drink every two seconds, if you get your needs filled up you'll be able to go for multiple in game hours without refilling.
@@Lonelywolfofficial I'll give it another go. Its been hell from the plane crash
@@burtlangoustine1 You are playing the story mode, not the survival mode, which is the mode this video was intended for.
And the problem you have with with the hunger/thirst/fatigue meter is because you don't understand the UI yet. The game is actually quite realistic when it comes to hunger, thirst, fatigue and whatnot. The mistake that a lot of new players make is that they think that they constantly have to keep their hunger/thirst bar full. You don't die outright if your bars get low, it just damages your overall condition.
I wouldn't worry too much about the survival aspect when playing story mode, it's really more designed to tell a story. If you really want to get the survival experience, you should play the survival mode, which is the mode that this game is designed for.
@@jensb3946 Ok I'll see about doing survival mode. 👍
I can tell by the title that salty wolf is salty. 😂
Totally not salty XD
Uh what if none of these appli y to me
I'm sure some might apply if only barely. But barring that, it sounds like you're doing a great job!
Lonelywolf considering I can’t see 80% of the time from the glare of the sun on my screen it’s a miracle how I can survive on interloper
also, I don't think interesting exploration should be a selling point for this game.
Why is that?
@@Lonelywolfofficial well there aren't really any cool things to find haha. more snow and dead trees!