22:11 can we take a moment to appreciate this one take one shot dome cruncher Zak threw out here at this wolf whilst explaining how the mechanic works against wolves. Not his farthest throw ever but damn was it clean in the moment
First distress pistol shot of the run. I'd also say the closest you've come to death. If you had fallen through the ice going for that backpack after the wolf attack, that could have been the end. Good job surviving Zak!
I generally get past the wolves in crumbling highway by getting off the road and sticking to the left-hand side of the map. If you stay near the cliff walls, you rarely encounter the wolves.
Kinda interesting that the take on surviving in the crumbling highway has changed completely in just a month since this video LOL Beach-combing made it viable, now the fishing hole update made it easy. The coal is interesting you can just move it a bit to the side and it will reset the timer. Next time when you come back it will be there and there will be another one. Useful if you're already very heavy and want to min-max the coal.
To goat up to the lighthouse, pause the video at 42:11 and look at the left side of the screen. Just below the bridge is a snowy slope, that's where to start and you can work your way up by going around to the left.
Coal has the best burn time/temperature increase to weight ratio in the game, so it's great for travelling when you want to be able to make a fire in an emergency, but don't want to carry too much unnecessary weight on you. However do keep in mind that you can't use it to start a fire, and can only add it to one that's already burning, so you always want to carry an emergency stick (or some other fuel) on you as well. A book is usually a good choice, since it only weighs half a kilo, gives you the highest fire starting chance bonus (+35%, followed by +15% for a stick and cedar firewood), and you can also read it if you're bored or something...
With them adding the tales that means car batteries. Does that mean gunloper is now a more viable long term option ? I hope that babynefain is doing well.
I finally got the blizzard walker badge so I'm going to start a gunloper run. I havent done a custom run in a long time because Im trying to get all the badges. I plan on doing interloper with slightly higher loot amounts and stalker level wolves.
That was once again a very interesting episode! I haven't really tried beach combing in my own runs, but I have found good loot in a few individual items that washed ashore, like combat pants in a suitcase. I guess surviving in Crumbling Highway should be even easier today now that one can place iceholes.
I don't know if it was a bug, but as I was going through the PV-Winding River cave for the 2nd time after a few weeks, I started picking up coal and sticks, and many of them were just "doubled". I had not picked them up, and another had spawn in the same place/orientation so you could double pick them. All that to say, in current version, you don't need to pick/move coal in cave for it to respawn apparently.
The main use of crampons is that they increase your climbing speed (by 60 percent according to wiki) by helping you keep you stamina high (since the higher your stamina meter, the faster you climb), so they are of great use in the mountainous areas when you have to go up and down a rope several times in a row, for example, when you're trying to carry all that sweet sweet loot down Timberwolf mountain, and have to carry it down a rope in several batches because of the weight limit. By letting you climb faster, you spend less time time climbing each individual rope, and by result, can climb more ropes before you run out of energy and have to camp in a cave for the night to restore it. Of course, that's assuming you actually use the ropes when going down the mountain :D
They may have changed it, but if you look at the side by side comparison in this video you see they dont increase climbing speed. They may have changed it, though. th-cam.com/video/tomIf9X5Qfw/w-d-xo.html
@@Zaknafein it's possible, I haven't played LD in a while... Edit: Looking at the comparison, your stamina was still more than half full without crampons, so your climbing speed didn't decrease as a result. It would have been different on a longer rope climb (from what I recall) if there's no ledge to rest on. You also didn't wear any cumbersome clothes that limit you max stamina, which might also change the outcome (not sure how that works in this scenario).
anyone else wish they added acorns on the ground just like how the added sticks and stones? i feel itd be more realistic and id enjoy searching for them more.. probably just hard to code or something
I wonder if there is a chance of breakage under a certain percentage of condition. I was shocked when my 28% hacksaw broke opening a summit crate. Is that a new mechanic or did I just never run into it. So annoying the crate became unaccessible after the hacksaw breaks while opening.
I wouldnt say so - one thing you have a lot of in this game is time. Even if it took 5 days to make 3 coffees, you would still get a small benefit and level cooking. They arent a priority, though, I agree with that.
The fatigue meter was completely empty when he drank the acorn coffee. If any of the meters is completely empty it will fill slower, you can check this by drinking two in a row when the meter is empty and comparing the effect of The same applies to hot drinks and the warmth meter. I am not sure if it actually fills slower or if the meter is just not linear.
@@kviktorian4208eah I think it is a alternative non-meat travel food like cattails. They’re not game changing fs but they add more layers and options to the food
Still learning this game. Playing on a lower difficulty. Trying to learn the areas, how to hunt, etc. Started a playthrough this month just for that purpose. Was doing fine. Spawned AC, goldmine got bear coat...then to summit and vacationed there awhile enjoying Aurora from the plane...headed to HRV for moose satchel. Stopped in Milton at Home stead. Couldn't find the key. First night slept fine in shed. Second night, all stats up. Clear night, no wind, had read a book, ripped down some cloth. Pushed to sleep. As soon as I slept watched the health bar run out and got the red screen. Ended my run...this game is fickle as heck. Still scratching my head over it. I walked in a blizzard from Dam to the lake cabin and my cold meter didn't budge in driving wind and snow then went to trappers in same blizzard. Just don't get it.
The temperature can change wildly in any given hour, even if the wind doesn't pick up. Plus, for some reason the sound effect of the blizzards is much much quieter than it used to be, so it's possible one started but you couldn't hear it. Sleeping outdoors is always a risk.
I wonder if blizzards affect all.of the maps or just the region you're currently in. For example, let's assume you spawn in CH. After a blizzard in the region, do all coastlines have benefit of the blizzard?
@@Zaknafein Speaking as someone who lives in a very blizzard prone region of the Canadian Prairies, a blizzard is a very large weather system. While elevation changes might provide some protection, the game's weather persistence is pretty accurate. Any blizzard will blow itself out before you could hope to leave the storm area on foot.
You will not believe this but in India they wear masks on the back of their head, something that looks like it has eyes like a monarch butterfly or luna moth. Tigers like most big cats hunt by ambush, if you think something is always watching you it leaves it no ambush options.... so it hunts something else... I have often wondered if this technic can be used on mountain lions.....
Do wires/fuses appear in containers/drawers or just in the open? My current stallker run is pretty advanced (looted most areas) and wondering if will be harder to find items needed to fix towers (also haven’t been able to play much in last month)
Also playing on stalker. I haven't found any in containers, but there are plenty out in the open. Looting 4 regions gave me more than enough fuses/wires to repair everything.
I think the scarier part is if you broke down all batteries in Mountain Town. In Voyager there was an added battery in all regions but Mountain Town you were supposed to loot it from a car. Hopefully they added a battery to a car somewhere on the map for you to loot.
Pants would be cool! Like if it ended up being like deerskin was like jeans andnlion pants was like work pants or somthing and offered better outer protection or somthing wacky
Having a base in that ship means you'd either have to get used to everything being on a tilt or add in your own floor so it's flat. But those things aren't in the game so it's wishful thinking
Thanks for the explanations you included about the fish. I often wondered why...do you not go fishing if fish is so...available? but understanding it's weight/calorie ratio is pretty sucky, though the lamp oil is pretty nifty side product. So this leads me to another question that i think has been touched on but if you could make a better explanation, Why is reclaimed wood so bad? by how much is it worse than an equal weight of sticks, for example? is it about it's "max temperature?" I know that coal can get a fire much hotter, in addition to it's burn time being solid...so maybe reclaimed wood is worse on both variables?
Reclaimed wood is actually not bad in terms of weight to burn ratio, but they have a low fire starting success rate. And it is easier to juggle sticks than reclaimed wood when weight managing :)
@@Zaknafein Oooohhh, that's their flaw. I knew it was something, since it's often used only when convenient, and almost never taken on trips, but I was never sure WHY. thanks for explaining!
I don't understand what you mean by the only way to get cured leather is by breaking down the satchel. Is that just on Interloper? Because I break down the work boots and those ugly shoes and get leather. 🤔
I drank an acorn coffee and did not get the + sign that usually indicates Fatigue Reduced. I concluded that acorn coffee didn’t give the effect. I wonder if that was a glitch?
Hey Zak. Love your videos as always. Do you think new beachcoming made the interloper "too easy" ? I feel like finding multiple saplings, books etc. is a little bit too generous for interloper. Do you think this reduces interloper's difficulty ?
do you know, I used to be interested in trying Interloper someday, but now with the DLC, and all the things interloper doesn’t include, it’s a real turn off. I think I’ll end up maxing out at Stalker.
I get so irritated that food preservation was never even thought about in a game like this..... If you got a balancing problem, make it to where bears and wolves try to raid your food storage, with some places safer then others.
It's kind of silly, fish is still by and far my favourite calorie source in TLD just because of my happy memories fishing with my dad.
22:11 can we take a moment to appreciate this one take one shot dome cruncher Zak threw out here at this wolf whilst explaining how the mechanic works against wolves. Not his farthest throw ever but damn was it clean in the moment
First distress pistol shot of the run. I'd also say the closest you've come to death. If you had fallen through the ice going for that backpack after the wolf attack, that could have been the end. Good job surviving Zak!
I generally get past the wolves in crumbling highway by getting off the road and sticking to the left-hand side of the map. If you stay near the cliff walls, you rarely encounter the wolves.
Kinda interesting that the take on surviving in the crumbling highway has changed completely in just a month since this video LOL Beach-combing made it viable, now the fishing hole update made it easy. The coal is interesting you can just move it a bit to the side and it will reset the timer. Next time when you come back it will be there and there will be another one. Useful if you're already very heavy and want to min-max the coal.
Take a drink every time Zak says: Riken!
Great video as always Zak!
To goat up to the lighthouse, pause the video at 42:11 and look at the left side of the screen. Just below the bridge is a snowy slope, that's where to start and you can work your way up by going around to the left.
I know I say this a lot, but the acorn coffee mug is so darn cute, I neeeeeeed it
Just watched the longterm survival video! I will never forget that torch throw lemh pulled off against those timberwolves
Coal has the best burn time/temperature increase to weight ratio in the game, so it's great for travelling when you want to be able to make a fire in an emergency, but don't want to carry too much unnecessary weight on you. However do keep in mind that you can't use it to start a fire, and can only add it to one that's already burning, so you always want to carry an emergency stick (or some other fuel) on you as well. A book is usually a good choice, since it only weighs half a kilo, gives you the highest fire starting chance bonus (+35%, followed by +15% for a stick and cedar firewood), and you can also read it if you're bored or something...
With them adding the tales that means car batteries. Does that mean gunloper is now a more viable long term option ? I hope that babynefain is doing well.
I finally got the blizzard walker badge so I'm going to start a gunloper run. I havent done a custom run in a long time because Im trying to get all the badges. I plan on doing interloper with slightly higher loot amounts and stalker level wolves.
That was once again a very interesting episode!
I haven't really tried beach combing in my own runs, but I have found good loot in a few individual items that washed ashore, like combat pants in a suitcase.
I guess surviving in Crumbling Highway should be even easier today now that one can place iceholes.
57:47 aww, congrats once again zak :)
Thanks for the video Zak. Enjoyable as always.
I don't know if it was a bug, but as I was going through the PV-Winding River cave for the 2nd time after a few weeks, I started picking up coal and sticks, and many of them were just "doubled". I had not picked them up, and another had spawn in the same place/orientation so you could double pick them. All that to say, in current version, you don't need to pick/move coal in cave for it to respawn apparently.
It happened to me too in Milton - Hrv cave, but I managed pick up 6 coal from 1
Happened to me as well.
Yep it happened to me as well and several times when picking up sticks they where double too
The main use of crampons is that they increase your climbing speed (by 60 percent according to wiki) by helping you keep you stamina high (since the higher your stamina meter, the faster you climb), so they are of great use in the mountainous areas when you have to go up and down a rope several times in a row, for example, when you're trying to carry all that sweet sweet loot down Timberwolf mountain, and have to carry it down a rope in several batches because of the weight limit. By letting you climb faster, you spend less time time climbing each individual rope, and by result, can climb more ropes before you run out of energy and have to camp in a cave for the night to restore it. Of course, that's assuming you actually use the ropes when going down the mountain :D
They may have changed it, but if you look at the side by side comparison in this video you see they dont increase climbing speed. They may have changed it, though.
th-cam.com/video/tomIf9X5Qfw/w-d-xo.html
@@Zaknafein it's possible, I haven't played LD in a while...
Edit: Looking at the comparison, your stamina was still more than half full without crampons, so your climbing speed didn't decrease as a result. It would have been different on a longer rope climb (from what I recall) if there's no ledge to rest on. You also didn't wear any cumbersome clothes that limit you max stamina, which might also change the outcome (not sure how that works in this scenario).
anyone else wish they added acorns on the ground just like how the added sticks and stones? i feel itd be more realistic and id enjoy searching for them more.. probably just hard to code or something
I wonder if there is a chance of breakage under a certain percentage of condition. I was shocked when my 28% hacksaw broke opening a summit crate. Is that a new mechanic or did I just never run into it. So annoying the crate became unaccessible after the hacksaw breaks while opening.
I have had it happen before, but only twice. I believe once it goes under 30% or so there is a chance it breaks upon use.
The effort you have to put in acorns and the minimal stamina you get back make them complete useless
I wouldnt say so - one thing you have a lot of in this game is time. Even if it took 5 days to make 3 coffees, you would still get a small benefit and level cooking. They arent a priority, though, I agree with that.
Acorns are much better as food, not coffee. With cooking 5 you have 400 calories for 0.12 weight. Worse than crackers, better than jerky.
The fatigue meter was completely empty when he drank the acorn coffee.
If any of the meters is completely empty it will fill slower, you can check this by drinking two in a row when the meter is empty and comparing the effect of
The same applies to hot drinks and the warmth meter.
I am not sure if it actually fills slower or if the meter is just not linear.
@@kviktorian4208eah I think it is a alternative non-meat travel food like cattails. They’re not game changing fs but they add more layers and options to the food
Still learning this game. Playing on a lower difficulty. Trying to learn the areas, how to hunt, etc. Started a playthrough this month just for that purpose. Was doing fine. Spawned AC, goldmine got bear coat...then to summit and vacationed there awhile enjoying Aurora from the plane...headed to HRV for moose satchel. Stopped in Milton at Home stead. Couldn't find the key. First night slept fine in shed. Second night, all stats up. Clear night, no wind, had read a book, ripped down some cloth. Pushed to sleep. As soon as I slept watched the health bar run out and got the red screen. Ended my run...this game is fickle as heck. Still scratching my head over it. I walked in a blizzard from Dam to the lake cabin and my cold meter didn't budge in driving wind and snow then went to trappers in same blizzard. Just don't get it.
The temperature can change wildly in any given hour, even if the wind doesn't pick up. Plus, for some reason the sound effect of the blizzards is much much quieter than it used to be, so it's possible one started but you couldn't hear it. Sleeping outdoors is always a risk.
aw the baby in the backround ♥
Looking forward to this
I wonder if blizzards affect all.of the maps or just the region you're currently in. For example, let's assume you spawn in CH. After a blizzard in the region, do all coastlines have benefit of the blizzard?
I havent checked but my guess is yes, since blizzards transcend regions
@@Zaknafein Speaking as someone who lives in a very blizzard prone region of the Canadian Prairies, a blizzard is a very large weather system. While elevation changes might provide some protection, the game's weather persistence is pretty accurate. Any blizzard will blow itself out before you could hope to leave the storm area on foot.
You will not believe this but in India they wear masks on the back of their head, something that looks like it has eyes like a monarch butterfly or luna moth. Tigers like most big cats hunt by ambush, if you think something is always watching you it leaves it no ambush options.... so it hunts something else...
I have often wondered if this technic can be used on mountain lions.....
Do wires/fuses appear in containers/drawers or just in the open? My current stallker run is pretty advanced (looted most areas) and wondering if will be harder to find items needed to fix towers (also haven’t been able to play much in last month)
I was wondering the same whether or not lockers and things wil become "unlooted"
Also playing on stalker. I haven't found any in containers, but there are plenty out in the open. Looting 4 regions gave me more than enough fuses/wires to repair everything.
It appears. Zak found in container 36:11 and most found in open. If already looted, maybe. Some containers resets after bigger update.
I think the scarier part is if you broke down all batteries in Mountain Town. In Voyager there was an added battery in all regions but Mountain Town you were supposed to loot it from a car. Hopefully they added a battery to a car somewhere on the map for you to loot.
What’s everyone guess on what we will be to craft with the mt. Lion hide?
Scarf!
Great question! In my opinion I think it’a going to be just some sort off coat but ide like them to make it so it’s a garment set but we’ll see
Pants would be cool! Like if it ended up being like deerskin was like jeans andnlion pants was like work pants or somthing and offered better outer protection or somthing wacky
If books wash up on shore, is it possible to max out all firearm skills on interloper now?
As far as I know, only fishing books wash ashore
Will the shoreline accumulate items over time?
For one blizzard, it would not be worth it but after 15 to 20 blizzards.... that could be alot of times
No it resets with each blizzard, so its gone if you dont loot it
@@Zaknafein then I view it as pointless, it seems too great a risk for an uncertain reward
Having a base in that ship means you'd either have to get used to everything being on a tilt or add in your own floor so it's flat. But those things aren't in the game so it's wishful thinking
Do the crampons make try climb faster? If so, the tiredness meter would go down less overall
Unless it was recently patched, no. See my 10 Tips video for details.
@@Zaknafein thank you
One question; how do you let it get so far that food is ruined? Why not eat it? Especially on interloper like how?? :-)😊
Btw i could have post this in any of your vids
You mean stored food? Just eat it later at level 5 cooking
If you have a lot of fish to cook and don't have a gas canister in inventory would so oil actually go to waste?
No, you get the little lantern oil things instead
@@Zaknafein I mean, you'll get everything you're supposed to get? Aren't these containers limited?
@@KristianBlack they go up to 0.50 liters, but when full you just get another one
@@Zaknafein Got it, thanks!
Thanks for the explanations you included about the fish. I often wondered why...do you not go fishing if fish is so...available? but understanding it's weight/calorie ratio is pretty sucky, though the lamp oil is pretty nifty side product.
So this leads me to another question that i think has been touched on but if you could make a better explanation, Why is reclaimed wood so bad? by how much is it worse than an equal weight of sticks, for example? is it about it's "max temperature?" I know that coal can get a fire much hotter, in addition to it's burn time being solid...so maybe reclaimed wood is worse on both variables?
Reclaimed wood is actually not bad in terms of weight to burn ratio, but they have a low fire starting success rate. And it is easier to juggle sticks than reclaimed wood when weight managing :)
@@Zaknafein Oooohhh, that's their flaw. I knew it was something, since it's often used only when convenient, and almost never taken on trips, but I was never sure WHY. thanks for explaining!
I don't understand what you mean by the only way to get cured leather is by breaking down the satchel. Is that just on Interloper? Because I break down the work boots and those ugly shoes and get leather. 🤔
I meant the only renewable way. Work boots are finite but you can craft satchels.
Not finite anymore since boots and shoes wash ashore
@@Draconicacidic Thats true, if unreliable - but yes it should be more available now :) They washed ashore before too but rarely
I drank an acorn coffee and did not get the + sign that usually indicates Fatigue Reduced. I concluded that acorn coffee didn’t give the effect. I wonder if that was a glitch?
I believe you dont get it with acorn coffee and the indicator is a glitch
And yet the wiki says you get Fatigue Reduced for a half hour. Note I must try again to confirm one way or the other
@@j.s.c.4355 wiki is wrong about a lot of stuff, though in this case I havent tested it
Go get em cold tiger
Oh, I've spent days watching Sharduls tld streams
I play on console a stalker run still trying to get the 100% and there is a bug that won't let you write down notes i hope they fix that soon
zak video huge w
I couldn't use that as a base I'm afraid, it's so uneven (?), I get even dizzy from watching it 😒 late comment for the algorithm ... 🙃
Hey Zak. Love your videos as always. Do you think new beachcoming made the interloper "too easy" ? I feel like finding multiple saplings, books etc. is a little bit too generous for interloper. Do you think this reduces interloper's difficulty ?
Yes, for sure :)
do you know, I used to be interested in trying Interloper someday, but now with the DLC, and all the things interloper doesn’t include, it’s a real turn off. I think I’ll end up maxing out at Stalker.
I get so irritated that food preservation was never even thought about in a game like this.....
If you got a balancing problem, make it to where bears and wolves try to raid your food storage, with some places safer then others.
I know that I have scared off wolves by aiming a stone at them.
There is a small chance of that happening, but generally they will charge. The chance also decreases with difficulty.