yea that been my top issue with the game. game is fairly realistic. yet we cant move items? that said. be hard to move storage locker in wilderness..... now they got that sled thing so it does make it more realistic. doable.
I wouldn't mind of the trader is someone you can eventually meet and interact with in person. Particularly, if you have to first repair the radio towers in order to even make that initial contact. And / or if you have to get all the way to Perseverance Mills, or some other map that is quite removed from the game-start. If those restrictions are in place, then your first several hundred days of a run will still be alone in the wilderness. I like the idea that the trader might be a reward for a long run -- and not someone you would be able to contact early game.
i'm excited for base customizing becuase if it allows you to clean up messes, then you can clear the counters/bookselfs/shelffs off so you have more space to put items with out getting the annoying thing of unable to put an item in a spot
I really like the safehouse customization. maybe its because I'm sentimental, but the best feeling in the game for me is coming to my main home after a long journey, and being able to customize it gives me more of that feeling.
MY idea for the trader: Inb each transmission he gives you several trades each with diffrent costs, the cost are deposited in a small boat connected to a long cable stretching into the distance, you call the trader on the radio to confirm the order and the the boat is rilled into the ocean and comes back with stuff after 3-5 days.
I'm hoping Hinterland sees a benefit in continuing to bring out one or more DLCs with new regions, new items/gear and maybe even more tales or more stuff to do with the Handheld radio. I love this game a lot and would happily give them 30 more bucks for another DLC like this. Doesn't matter if it takes 2 years again.
I’ve been looking forward to safe house customization for a while. Moving furniture will be great of course, but I hope they simply make it easier to organize things on shelves. It’s so annoying how you aren’t able to place certain items right next to each other
We have some epic DLC coming our way and I can't wait! Really looking forward to base customization and their take on photo mode! I've been making my own personal instamatics for my journals so this is basically what I've been doing but now it's ACTUALLY in game. Love it. As far as a TLD movIe goes, I'd honestly rather see a completely different story in the world of TLD. Or...a TV series where each season is a different survivor and the end of each season is their death. I think it would be kind of cool actually. You could get really creative with all kinds of different stories to tell. Survivor stories of Max, Katie, Dave, Alan, the many survivors found in the scattered notes, etc. The possibilities are endless.
Hi Zak, Yes, I ABSOLUTELY would like another DLC someday. As well as hot springs( in VERY limited quantity) that one can bathe in to recover condition while in survival mode. Take care, your gameplay is an inspiration to me.
Hi Zaknafein. I have been playing this game for 10 years and the developers of this awesome game are the best. So many updates have been made, so many improvements. They never stopped. Whatever they create new for this game, I follow them. My dream for many years is to build a base, but I also adhere to the decoration. I love everything and I can't wait to play this DLC
Honestly, I hope they add more tales in the future. I have been loving them so far (just finished signal void for the first time), and I feel like it adds more goals to do within the game. Like imagine a tale taking place by Timberwolf, ash canyon and blackrock.
I can't wait for the safehouse customization. The trader seems interesting as well. Depending on how the cougar is that will be fun to get some new items.
Only 40k subs dude I've been watching you since day 1 in your 500 days, I love your content you deserve so much more, keep it up and dont stop pumping up content!!!!!!
Stoked about the update, seems like a massive improvement to the long-term enjoyabilty of the game. I'm curious to see how the trader turns out. On one hand, i agree that physically meeting them would detract from that tld feel, but I also think it would be pretty neat to find their base somewhere out there. The concept art depicted them in one of those red train cars, so maybe the drop-off points will be along the tracks even if you don't directly meet
Actually, Raph was anti-mod for a long time. I heard about stories that people talking about modding were banned from the official forum. Like any negativity is banned there. It was my impression that for Raph the game was his "child" and he didn't want people to mess with it. I think he just changed his mind recently because mods became part of the game industry.
That could definitely be true, but there's also other reasons to encourage modding too. Raph could easily understand that the life cycle of the game is finally coming to an end and that by encouraging people to breathe new life into his game, it will continue to bring in new players and a bit of extra revenue. Or he could have simply changed his stance - people do tend to change their views over time and Raph has had an entire decade since the first release of the game to consider modding. Personally as long as the outcome is positive, I don't have any issues with the why. The longetivity of the game is what's important to me.
There’s actually, still up, steam and reddit discussions where people were discussing mods, and hinterland support clearly states that mods are banned and that you need to read their terms of service. When I saw that, I was a little shocked. Gotta say, being overly negative to mods when this is a single player experience… it’s weird
I think it would be awesome if base customization also allowed you to build a little bit. For example, I would like to be able to repair the roof and door on the maintenance yard as well as repair the fences all the way around to keep out predators. I would also like to repair the front gate into the maintenance yard and add a much smaller back gate. I also like the idea of being able to move things and clean up as well.
I like the idea of "drop points" for the trader. For example, the trader may tell you they'll leave a rifle at the cannery if you leave two kilos of birch bark at Misanthrope 's.
All in all it was good dev diary, as you said at the end it's honest and clear cut with lots of information. That being said I was hoping you'd have early access or some insider information about some of the things talked about in the dev diary, still I appriciate you coming out with this video so quickly considering I asked about it just a few days ago. Everything except the camera excites me but the part about the mod support is really interesting to me cause I use the Sky co-op mod to play the game with my friend. With the mod support perhaps the mod can get even better and make it easier for the developers to keep the mod up to date with the game. IF they make a movie i'd like it if they cast the voice actors for Astrid and William in the movie somehow. Not necessarily as their game characters but atleast something small. Talking about their upcoming games. I hope they stay with genre survival...or don't, i can't decide. I just hope the game is as immersive as TLD. Do you have any thoughts about that? Any wishes perhaps? :P
I really love Desolation Point, mostly because of the ligthhouse and it would be just amazing to customize it. But the region itself is soo far away from everything and going through crumbling highway every single time is a bit too daunting. I wish there was a direct route to coastal highway, it would make much more bearable to use DP as a main base... And at least one fishing hut.. Its almost feels like Hinterland never wanted for player to stay there for too long
I agree. Just because she arrived by boat doesn't automatically mean it was to another island. Using boats to get to places on an island just makes sense. Especially given the ruggedness and weather. It could cut days off of travel time. [Add-on edit] As far as The Trader goes, I always assumed that it was implied there were still people in the world because of the music you could hear out of the FM radios you could turn on during the aurora. But I guess a case could be made it might be a station that was put on auto at some point and only activates during the aurora.
Given there's a road leading to Perseverance Mills, that confirms its on the same landmass. We all know how bad the roads are know great bear, so using a boat to circumventing them is a sound strategy. Regarding the trader, story mode confirms other survivors, survival mode just doesn't use them, because what would the point be?
I read the dev diary soon after it came out and was waiting excitedly for this campfire chat! Thanks for this, I especially enjoyed your trader skit! xD
Since Astrid gets to the boat via Coastal Highway, I've always assumed Perseverance Mills was past the collapsed highway on the far side of Desolation Point.
Granted I play on Stalker, but scurvy has never been an issue for me late game with how much fish you can get with tip-ups. And the way it work (there's a hidden counter that starts at 500, goes down by 20 per day on stalker/interloper, and shows up as an affliction when you go below 100) you can just spend a couple days eating nothing but fish to load up on Vitamin C when you're doing stuff at your base, and then eat meat when you're travelling/exploring. You can even sprint around when gathering fuel and such to burn more calories to make room in your stomach for more fish. Cooked Whitefish has 28 points of Vit-C per 1000 calories, so you'd need to eat around 18,000 cal to top up the Vit-C meter, and you burn around 125 cal/h when standing and 75 cal/h when sleeping, for about 2000 cal/day when you're just cooking/crafting, while sprinting burns 400 cal/h. [Based on numbers form the wiki]
Personal i hope the Trader is more like someone on a superate island, and basically have like a boat system or transport system where you can't see each other but can send things to each other. So to trade with him it would force you to go to a single location to communicate most likely during an aurora, a separate location to load and unload, which would allow it to be avoidable if you choose to not engage. But I'll take what i can get. One thing I wanted to add to the game was being able to collect the toys you find like the bears, tractors, boats, and such so I hope you can do something like that now.
Based on the image, which has a teddy, it seems you can collect them now. And your idea about the trader sounds good - could also be a pulley system in e.g. Ash Canyon, where he is in an inaccessible area, but you can send stuff to each other via a rope.
I always like them adding more lore and stuff to the game. That's why I like the tales from the far Territory is it adds story to do while in survival.
The "Safehouse Customization" reminds me of the "Hideout Furniture" mod for Stalker Anomaly. Definitely a welcome addition, and much more appropriate than Rust-style basebuilding. Would be nice if we could also patch the hole in the roof of Mountaineer's Hut.
Yes!!!! Another great campfire chat. I echo Zak's sentiment that I hope the cougar is just as brutal as before. While I initially thought a lot of players jumped the gun overcritisizing the cougar rather than giving themselves the time (and the devs the grace) to get used to their creative vision for a bit longer, I have to admit I'm very happy with what we so far know about the Cougar 2.0. Especially the dialing back the HUD, so so much better for immersion. Also EXTREMELY excited to be able to modify bases. Not sure about this trader however hmmm.....
I would have liked to experience the cougar before they took it out, even if it was not how players imagined it to work initially; it was taken out a bit too quickly I think. But I'm looking forward to seeing it implemented in its updated form!
Cougar 2.0 is gonna be interesting. As long as its a real animal, its gonna be fun. Most likely same brutal damage but no longer 1 shot 1 kill. And most likely it wont fear fire so it wont be cheesed like wolves or bears (campfire for bears). The wildlife refresh might also mean that spawn points will be dynamic and we wont have the same spawn points for a moose fixed at the beginning.. but they will migrate around as we progress the save. Safehouse customisation is also great.. and the trader sounds like a purpose-giver. You have to barter with him and collect what he asks for. So basically a mission giver. While for some it messes with emersion, overall i think if you view him as a purpose-giver its simply great. People were worried about tales and emersion too.. but learned to appreciate them.
For the TLD movie, the perfect actor to portray the inmate Will finds in Paradise Meadows farmhouse is Sean Bean, since that guy clearly dies one way or the other.
I get the impression Perseverance Mills is on or near the coast, so most likely it's part of the Coastal Highway network, probably past Desolation Point, so at some point if/when Hinterland adds it to Survival Mode, it would be extending the highway east, past the broken bridge, with some gimmick added to make the far side of that bridge now accessible, probably with one or more transition regions similar to a combination of Crumbling Highway and the series of regions needed to access The Far Territories. As for the Observatory region, it's clearly accessed through Blackrock region if added to survival, probably with the road leading up to the hydro dam extended to continue following the river as the main method of access, or at least indications that the road once did that with some rigoramal method being needed now to access it post Collapse/First Aurora.
One thing I hope for is the ability to make our own lamps or sconces, I love the idea of having lights around the paths we go or around our bases so we can see threats, also I think some sort of firewood storage or arrow holder would be nice. Pretty sure the mines in Buried Echoes has sconces you can light with a torch, though I haven't gone down there myself so I could be wrong in that regard.
Finally! After playing with the container movement mod, I haven't been able to play without it. It is immersion breaking that tupperware and backpacks are simply locked in place. Dropping everything on the floor is absurd.
*I* think Perseverance Mills is an island. Because The Long Dark is written with the novels of S.M Stirling as a major inspiration, and one of the core events of the events of those books involves an epic journey to an island (Nova Scotia) in the east where apparently a mysterious and powerful force is explored and explanations for events are sought. But also I hope it is on land because that seems better that seems more likely to be explorable.
Depending on how the camera (and cougar) actually works, I am already anticipating I am going to lose multiple runs attempting to get a cougar close-up picture and survive 😅 Also, Rand & Tomasina for Long Dark movie!
I've been waiting for all of the story to come out before I started playing it because I don't want to be left on a cliffhanger waiting for the next part to come out I want it to be a dedicated immersive story.
I am so excited for the base decoration stuff as someone who plays this as a cozy game :D Now if only Raph would give us a dog companion to follow us around
I think itd be cool if the trader worked kind of like that Methuselah guy from the Wintermute campaign where he doesnt have one fixed location but you can find him in different places around the entire world while you have active quests with him/her, and sometimes you cant find them anywhere for days at a time. I'd also like to see "maps" as a trade item. Having already completed Faithful Cartographer already I find it tedious to map each region over again on new playthroughs.
Would be cool, but may or may not work. Sometimes they have cameos, though. Like the main voice actors in The Last of Us also appeared in the TV series, but in smaller roles. Except for one, who played the same character in both versions, if I remember correctly.
I was a "pro" at this Game when it came out on PlayStation in 2016. I loved it for 4 years and was one of the first who got the platinum trophy and 1000 Days on Loper. In 2020 i left the game because there was nothing more to do for me. I'm very happy to see this game in a good state and the Introduction of Misery Mode even got me back into the game. Its beautiful how some games develop over time.
I’m really looking forward to the next release. I’ve been holding off playing till everything is finished and it looks like it’s almost time to start up again. I can’t wait to dig into all the new cooking, fishing and animal mechanics
Thank you for the explanation of the cougar. I agree that it would be much more immersive with its behavior as you described. I didn't get to interact with the original when it was first released. But simply watching others struggling with it was enough. I look forward to the new cougar. As for the Trader my knee jerk reaction is "nope, nope, and nope". I enjoy your update campfire chats I love this game!
For the new animal mechanics, what I'm hoping for is the animals will migrate from place to place. I'd love to see animals like deer and wolves will be migratory and move around from place to place, with the deer having preferred locations, mostly in meadows where they can find good grasses and bushes to graze from, and wolves following the deer and the deer avoiding the wolves. So it feels more like the predators aren't just camping certain routes waiting for the player to someday come through, but are actually hunting for prey animals to eat, and thus feel more like wolves, and less like game mechanics. Same for the deer, that they're not just randomly wandering around in the middle of the ice or barren rocks, but searching for food to graze on, and not hanging about a "spawn zone" that happens to be shared with a wolf, so they keep wandering back to the wolf until it inevitably kills them, or doing the same with the player character. Bears, moose, rabbits and Cougars seem like they could be more territorial and will designate a certain area as their territory and be aggressive to anyone known to them that's invading their territory, which makes sense for those animals. As for the migration itself, we already have this sort of mechanic in place with the ptarmigans, so there is precedent in the code for something like this, though with the ptarmigans, being birds, they just fly to migrate between spawn zones. For the wolves and deer, it should be that they walk from one habitat to another, with new animals spawning in at the edge of the map and wandering into their preferred area, so you can also run across migrating animals in odd locations, so no one spot is truly fully safe from wolves (except maybe for places physically inaccessible to them) and any spot can be a spot for an opportunistic deer hunt. So risk and reward is present anywhere on any map. Maybe the cougar could be a mixed territorial/migratory animal in that they have a lair with a surrounding territory they guard, but will leave to stalk prey and hunt, with their main prey being deer, moose, and rabbits, but they're not above hunting a lone human if they find a an opportunity, or the human's getting into their territory too much.
I'd completely forgotten a number of details from the Wintermute story. I guess I'll have to replay all the episodes before the final episode is released.
Hey so I've made this comment before in your survival series but... In Sundered Pass when you witness the aurora, it's only visible in one direction. The mainland. This indicates to me at least that the aurora is confined to the mainland region of The Long Dark which makes it seems like it's a man-made phenomena, possibly something to do with the Suzuki radio telescope (and the experiments conducted within) and Atwood. Personally I'm extremely invested in whatever is going on with Atwood and his thesis student Jace whom we meet in episode IV, and of course Will himself with how he is tied into this big conspiracy...
There's a lot of things coming our way -First one would be the cougar, I hope it's a nice addition to the game this time -Second is the wild life refresh. Being a TLD veteran is a CURSE: you know where everything is, at all times. It ruins the immersion when you know which areas are 100% safe and others are wolves spawns. The moment game mechanics take over the immersion and remind you it's just a video game, a map and an AI you can manipulate, it really kills it for me. -I'm not that excited for the trader, we'll see how it goes -Base customization is great. I mean we already have mods for that, but it's always better to have it properly integrated into the game. I'm pretty sure mods only work for the outside too? This time we can decorate the inside and, let's be honest, most of us have their base inside, unless cabin fever is ruining your life (I always disable it, it's annoying and makes no sense if you try to be immersed and realistic) I haven't played TLD for almost a year, I was waiting for content. I was going to play in July but since the star of the show, the cougar, was removed swiftly, I wasn't going to start a new game just because there's a new region. Hopefully it's early december but knowing HT slow pace, they're going to push it further
How exciting!! I can't wait for all the updates and the return of the cougar - I never got to play with it the first time around. Obv base customization sounds most exciting to me lol A movie would be AWESOME! It could be so incredibly beautiful and atmospheric if done properly.
Whoops, I cannot type "Perseverance Mills" :)
Ha😂 I get called if I don't spell something right by accident
After a few beers, I can't even say it.
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You mean like Perveserance hill?
Zak, you *need* to be the official voice of the trader!
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lol yes
I am unreasonably excited for safehouse customization!
Yeah, I`m very much in need for enclosed storage spaces. A ton for the beginning, I guess )
yea that been my top issue with the game. game is fairly realistic. yet we cant move items? that said. be hard to move storage locker in wilderness..... now they got that sled thing so it does make it more realistic. doable.
Yes! I do get a ridiculous amount of pleasure from just organizing my stash. Now we can decorate. My play hours are going to go through the ceiling.
If nothing else, it will be nice to take the corpse out of my lake side cabin.
yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes
The trader impression was peak 😂
I wouldn't mind of the trader is someone you can eventually meet and interact with in person. Particularly, if you have to first repair the radio towers in order to even make that initial contact. And / or if you have to get all the way to Perseverance Mills, or some other map that is quite removed from the game-start. If those restrictions are in place, then your first several hundred days of a run will still be alone in the wilderness. I like the idea that the trader might be a reward for a long run -- and not someone you would be able to contact early game.
@@blackcatredriver5878 THIS is exactly how they should do it, i remember setting up the trader mod on my dayz server and it changed the whole dynamic.
“Trader Zak” is fantastic 😂
Gotta have him sell Zaks Snaks
In the hardcase, there will be one cattail and a stick
"Hope nobody needs this anymore"
Nope, it will be can of peaches.
Safehouses have me super excited. Cant wait to go around cleaning up all the cabins. 😂
kinda the only thing tbh.
a reason to re-visit all bases 😅
As a father, whom have the best jokes, I will now be referring to Cougar 2.0 as “Twougar”.
28:20 bookshelves! With books standing up, not lying flat.
yes, that will be so cool 😎
Finally, order in my frozen world!
My first thought about camera... A photo of charging bear or moose on the wall. I think broken ribs can justify this😅
Maybe the trader will ask for pictures???
i'm excited for base customizing becuase if it allows you to clean up messes, then you can clear the counters/bookselfs/shelffs off so you have more space to put items with out getting the annoying thing of unable to put an item in a spot
I’m using a mod to clean places up, but of course I’d rather have it as an official feature!
I really like the safehouse customization. maybe its because I'm sentimental, but the best feeling in the game for me is coming to my main home after a long journey, and being able to customize it gives me more of that feeling.
I already read the entire dev diary, but I'm still excited to sip some coffee and listen to what Zak has to say!
I knew it! Zak was the trader all along!
MY idea for the trader: Inb each transmission he gives you several trades each with diffrent costs, the cost are deposited in a small boat connected to a long cable stretching into the distance,
you call the trader on the radio to confirm the order and the the boat is rilled into the ocean and comes back with stuff after 3-5 days.
I'm hoping Hinterland sees a benefit in continuing to bring out one or more DLCs with new regions, new items/gear and maybe even more tales or more stuff to do with the Handheld radio. I love this game a lot and would happily give them 30 more bucks for another DLC like this. Doesn't matter if it takes 2 years again.
The camera feature is AMAZING.
sounds nice - but I´m not so much into because I´m making already so much screen shots 🤭😎🤣
I’ve been looking forward to safe house customization for a while. Moving furniture will be great of course, but I hope they simply make it easier to organize things on shelves. It’s so annoying how you aren’t able to place certain items right next to each other
Boy I‘d be up for improvised socks 🤩 got me thinking of improvised underwear as well
ikr! Imagine the possibilities. :)
wooden underpants
We have some epic DLC coming our way and I can't wait! Really looking forward to base customization and their take on photo mode! I've been making my own personal instamatics for my journals so this is basically what I've been doing but now it's ACTUALLY in game. Love it.
As far as a TLD movIe goes, I'd honestly rather see a completely different story in the world of TLD. Or...a TV series where each season is a different survivor and the end of each season is their death. I think it would be kind of cool actually. You could get really creative with all kinds of different stories to tell. Survivor stories of Max, Katie, Dave, Alan, the many survivors found in the scattered notes, etc. The possibilities are endless.
I like your trader impression
Id be SO stoked for another DLC run. Id love another tale or "thing to do".
Hi Zak, Yes, I ABSOLUTELY would like another DLC someday. As well as hot springs( in VERY limited quantity) that one can bathe in to recover condition while in survival mode. Take care, your gameplay is an inspiration to me.
Hi Zaknafein. I have been playing this game for 10 years and the developers of this awesome game are the best. So many updates have been made, so many improvements. They never stopped. Whatever they create new for this game, I follow them. My dream for many years is to build a base, but I also adhere to the decoration. I love everything and I can't wait to play this DLC
I'm almost certain I'll preorder any new game from Hinterland. They've more than earnt my goodwill.
The background noise from the hurricane is the best atmosphere for these video. It’s so fitting.
Honestly, I hope they add more tales in the future. I have been loving them so far (just finished signal void for the first time), and I feel like it adds more goals to do within the game. Like imagine a tale taking place by Timberwolf, ash canyon and blackrock.
Amazing video Zak. Very well put together. Great work as always
I can't wait for the safehouse customization. The trader seems interesting as well. Depending on how the cougar is that will be fun to get some new items.
Only 40k subs dude I've been watching you since day 1 in your 500 days, I love your content you deserve so much more, keep it up and dont stop pumping up content!!!!!!
Stoked about the update, seems like a massive improvement to the long-term enjoyabilty of the game. I'm curious to see how the trader turns out. On one hand, i agree that physically meeting them would detract from that tld feel, but I also think it would be pretty neat to find their base somewhere out there. The concept art depicted them in one of those red train cars, so maybe the drop-off points will be along the tracks even if you don't directly meet
Actually, Raph was anti-mod for a long time. I heard about stories that people talking about modding were banned from the official forum. Like any negativity is banned there. It was my impression that for Raph the game was his "child" and he didn't want people to mess with it. I think he just changed his mind recently because mods became part of the game industry.
That could definitely be true, but there's also other reasons to encourage modding too. Raph could easily understand that the life cycle of the game is finally coming to an end and that by encouraging people to breathe new life into his game, it will continue to bring in new players and a bit of extra revenue. Or he could have simply changed his stance - people do tend to change their views over time and Raph has had an entire decade since the first release of the game to consider modding. Personally as long as the outcome is positive, I don't have any issues with the why. The longetivity of the game is what's important to me.
There’s actually, still up, steam and reddit discussions where people were discussing mods, and hinterland support clearly states that mods are banned and that you need to read their terms of service. When I saw that, I was a little shocked. Gotta say, being overly negative to mods when this is a single player experience… it’s weird
The only developers that listen to what EVERYONE has to say. I love this game and hinterland and I'm thankful for them.
I think it would be awesome if base customization also allowed you to build a little bit. For example, I would like to be able to repair the roof and door on the maintenance yard as well as repair the fences all the way around to keep out predators. I would also like to repair the front gate into the maintenance yard and add a much smaller back gate. I also like the idea of being able to move things and clean up as well.
As a player that has a hard time finding joy in the game long term, these changes and updates feels like they will change everything for me!
Lot of love for that "Trader sketch", made me smile!
I like the idea of "drop points" for the trader. For example, the trader may tell you they'll leave a rifle at the cannery if you leave two kilos of birch bark at Misanthrope 's.
I dont know about redecoration, but i'd love to be able to clean mess inside my base, corpses especially. Zak, pls, make them, i believe in you man.
Until then, there’s the Bury a Friend mod.
I'm looking most forward to Episode 5 Wintermute, it's my favourite part of the long dark.
As for the movie: off the top of my head I would love to see Tom Hardy as Will. And Francis McDormand is absolutely perfect for Molly hoooly moly.
All in all it was good dev diary, as you said at the end it's honest and clear cut with lots of information. That being said I was hoping you'd have early access or some insider information about some of the things talked about in the dev diary, still I appriciate you coming out with this video so quickly considering I asked about it just a few days ago.
Everything except the camera excites me but the part about the mod support is really interesting to me cause I use the Sky co-op mod to play the game with my friend. With the mod support perhaps the mod can get even better and make it easier for the developers to keep the mod up to date with the game.
IF they make a movie i'd like it if they cast the voice actors for Astrid and William in the movie somehow. Not necessarily as their game characters but atleast something small.
Talking about their upcoming games. I hope they stay with genre survival...or don't, i can't decide. I just hope the game is as immersive as TLD. Do you have any thoughts about that? Any wishes perhaps? :P
I really love Desolation Point, mostly because of the ligthhouse and it would be just amazing to customize it. But the region itself is soo far away from everything and going through crumbling highway every single time is a bit too daunting. I wish there was a direct route to coastal highway, it would make much more bearable to use DP as a main base... And at least one fishing hut.. Its almost feels like Hinterland never wanted for player to stay there for too long
*Trader* jigsaw!?!?
This update looks great, thanks for the summary video! Stay warm and stay persistent fellow travellers!
Movie trailer they made long ago was really great. My wife always shared it with friends who even didn't know about the game itself.
I agree. Just because she arrived by boat doesn't automatically mean it was to another island. Using boats to get to places on an island just makes sense. Especially given the ruggedness and weather. It could cut days off of travel time.
[Add-on edit] As far as The Trader goes, I always assumed that it was implied there were still people in the world because of the music you could hear out of the FM radios you could turn on during the aurora. But I guess a case could be made it might be a station that was put on auto at some point and only activates during the aurora.
Given there's a road leading to Perseverance Mills, that confirms its on the same landmass.
We all know how bad the roads are know great bear, so using a boat to circumventing them is a sound strategy.
Regarding the trader, story mode confirms other survivors, survival mode just doesn't use them, because what would the point be?
I read the dev diary soon after it came out and was waiting excitedly for this campfire chat! Thanks for this, I especially enjoyed your trader skit! xD
Since Astrid gets to the boat via Coastal Highway, I've always assumed Perseverance Mills was past the collapsed highway on the far side of Desolation Point.
Granted I play on Stalker, but scurvy has never been an issue for me late game with how much fish you can get with tip-ups. And the way it work (there's a hidden counter that starts at 500, goes down by 20 per day on stalker/interloper, and shows up as an affliction when you go below 100) you can just spend a couple days eating nothing but fish to load up on Vitamin C when you're doing stuff at your base, and then eat meat when you're travelling/exploring. You can even sprint around when gathering fuel and such to burn more calories to make room in your stomach for more fish. Cooked Whitefish has 28 points of Vit-C per 1000 calories, so you'd need to eat around 18,000 cal to top up the Vit-C meter, and you burn around 125 cal/h when standing and 75 cal/h when sleeping, for about 2000 cal/day when you're just cooking/crafting, while sprinting burns 400 cal/h. [Based on numbers form the wiki]
Personal i hope the Trader is more like someone on a superate island, and basically have like a boat system or transport system where you can't see each other but can send things to each other. So to trade with him it would force you to go to a single location to communicate most likely during an aurora, a separate location to load and unload, which would allow it to be avoidable if you choose to not engage. But I'll take what i can get. One thing I wanted to add to the game was being able to collect the toys you find like the bears, tractors, boats, and such so I hope you can do something like that now.
Based on the image, which has a teddy, it seems you can collect them now. And your idea about the trader sounds good - could also be a pulley system in e.g. Ash Canyon, where he is in an inaccessible area, but you can send stuff to each other via a rope.
This is my absolute favorite clip of your videos ever lol 23:56
I always like them adding more lore and stuff to the game. That's why I like the tales from the far Territory is it adds story to do while in survival.
The "Safehouse Customization" reminds me of the "Hideout Furniture" mod for Stalker Anomaly.
Definitely a welcome addition, and much more appropriate than Rust-style basebuilding.
Would be nice if we could also patch the hole in the roof of Mountaineer's Hut.
Yes!!!! Another great campfire chat. I echo Zak's sentiment that I hope the cougar is just as brutal as before. While I initially thought a lot of players jumped the gun overcritisizing the cougar rather than giving themselves the time (and the devs the grace) to get used to their creative vision for a bit longer, I have to admit I'm very happy with what we so far know about the Cougar 2.0. Especially the dialing back the HUD, so so much better for immersion. Also EXTREMELY excited to be able to modify bases. Not sure about this trader however hmmm.....
I would have liked to experience the cougar before they took it out, even if it was not how players imagined it to work initially; it was taken out a bit too quickly I think. But I'm looking forward to seeing it implemented in its updated form!
Cougar 2.0 is gonna be interesting. As long as its a real animal, its gonna be fun. Most likely same brutal damage but no longer 1 shot 1 kill. And most likely it wont fear fire so it wont be cheesed like wolves or bears (campfire for bears).
The wildlife refresh might also mean that spawn points will be dynamic and we wont have the same spawn points for a moose fixed at the beginning.. but they will migrate around as we progress the save.
Safehouse customisation is also great.. and the trader sounds like a purpose-giver. You have to barter with him and collect what he asks for. So basically a mission giver. While for some it messes with emersion, overall i think if you view him as a purpose-giver its simply great.
People were worried about tales and emersion too.. but learned to appreciate them.
I am so so pumped about so much of this! And aw Zak I’m honoured. ❤ and your trader bit was hilarious 😂
For the TLD movie, the perfect actor to portray the inmate Will finds in Paradise Meadows farmhouse is Sean Bean, since that guy clearly dies one way or the other.
I had no idea this game still got updates that great
Awesome video my friend. I for one am so excited about all the changes. Lot's of love to you and the family Zak.
I get the impression Perseverance Mills is on or near the coast, so most likely it's part of the Coastal Highway network, probably past Desolation Point, so at some point if/when Hinterland adds it to Survival Mode, it would be extending the highway east, past the broken bridge, with some gimmick added to make the far side of that bridge now accessible, probably with one or more transition regions similar to a combination of Crumbling Highway and the series of regions needed to access The Far Territories.
As for the Observatory region, it's clearly accessed through Blackrock region if added to survival, probably with the road leading up to the hydro dam extended to continue following the river as the main method of access, or at least indications that the road once did that with some rigoramal method being needed now to access it post Collapse/First Aurora.
One thing I hope for is the ability to make our own lamps or sconces, I love the idea of having lights around the paths we go or around our bases so we can see threats, also I think some sort of firewood storage or arrow holder would be nice. Pretty sure the mines in Buried Echoes has sconces you can light with a torch, though I haven't gone down there myself so I could be wrong in that regard.
Yes, cool idea refillable with fish oil!
I'm also excited about the safehouse customization,wow,that should be interesting,thanks Zac for the info on these updates.😊😊
Finally! After playing with the container movement mod, I haven't been able to play without it. It is immersion breaking that tupperware and backpacks are simply locked in place. Dropping everything on the floor is absurd.
I always assumed the perseverance Mills was north of desolation point. And she took the boat up the coast.
A tall ship! This is literally the coolest thing ever.
The hurricane adds to the atmosphere Zak
*I* think Perseverance Mills is an island.
Because The Long Dark is written with the novels of S.M Stirling as a major inspiration, and one of the core events of the events of those books involves an epic journey to an island (Nova Scotia) in the east where apparently a mysterious and powerful force is explored and explanations for events are sought.
But also I hope it is on land because that seems better that seems more likely to be explorable.
If furniture can be moved between locations, there needs to be an experiment to see if it's Trapper's cabin or the bed itself that's magic.
Good thiking!
I wonder if The Hunted, Part 3 is still planned or not for Part 6.
Good question. It wasnt mentioned
That trader communications seriously got me. 😂
Depending on how the camera (and cougar) actually works, I am already anticipating I am going to lose multiple runs attempting to get a cougar close-up picture and survive 😅
Also, Rand & Tomasina for Long Dark movie!
I've been waiting for all of the story to come out before I started playing it because I don't want to be left on a cliffhanger waiting for the next part to come out I want it to be a dedicated immersive story.
I am so excited for the base decoration stuff as someone who plays this as a cozy game :D Now if only Raph would give us a dog companion to follow us around
I think itd be cool if the trader worked kind of like that Methuselah guy from the Wintermute campaign where he doesnt have one fixed location but you can find him in different places around the entire world while you have active quests with him/her, and sometimes you cant find them anywhere for days at a time.
I'd also like to see "maps" as a trade item. Having already completed Faithful Cartographer already I find it tedious to map each region over again on new playthroughs.
I would like the idea that the speakers of Astrid und Will also perform their roles in the movie 😄
Would be cool, but may or may not work. Sometimes they have cameos, though. Like the main voice actors in The Last of Us also appeared in the TV series, but in smaller roles. Except for one, who played the same character in both versions, if I remember correctly.
Great video except for one thing: Fluffy will always be the wolf that was at the dam a long time ago. No other wolf can be named Fluffy!
Fluffy moved to the Cannery. It's the same wolf. The developers have confirmed it.
I was a "pro" at this Game when it came out on PlayStation in 2016. I loved it for 4 years and was one of the first who got the platinum trophy and 1000 Days on Loper. In 2020 i left the game because there was nothing more to do for me. I'm very happy to see this game in a good state and the Introduction of Misery Mode even got me back into the game. Its beautiful how some games develop over time.
Imagine you're in ravine having a nice predator free time and some timberwolves migrate on in
I would use the camera to take pictures of the items I have looted in the my different bases as memos
I'm pretty sure I was picturing Francis McDormand when I heard Molly's voice for the first time!!!!
i would pay good money to see Nick Offerman aka (Ron swanson) play someone in the movie. lol
I’m really looking forward to the next release. I’ve been holding off playing till everything is finished and it looks like it’s almost time to start up again. I can’t wait to dig into all the new cooking, fishing and animal mechanics
I'm happy that there was push back for the cougar because this sounds great. I do hope that there isn't just one though. Hopefully at least 2.
Thank you for the explanation of the cougar. I agree that it would be much more immersive with its behavior as you described. I didn't get to interact with the original when it was first released. But simply watching others struggling with it was enough. I look forward to the new cougar. As for the Trader my knee jerk reaction is "nope, nope, and nope". I enjoy your update campfire chats I love this game!
I'm here for Zak's Trader voice.
THERES A CAMERA???????? I had not heard about this, I'm so hyped! I'm gonna make a whole photography gallery in long dark >:D
improvised socks...Im on board with that!
For us Switch players, I really hope they fix the region bug soon so I can finish the DLC! Thanks for another great vid!
I for one, can't wait to learn how to darn socks.
Already training your voice for bedtime stories, eh papa Zak? XD Thanks for the digest as usual, I always look forward to these videos :)
Would absolutely love another dlc, tales is AMAZING, so much content and enjoyment since like wintermute released!
I was waiting for this video so badly omg.
I am so excited about the new update ❤
23:00 LOL, Monty Python moment xD
For the new animal mechanics, what I'm hoping for is the animals will migrate from place to place. I'd love to see animals like deer and wolves will be migratory and move around from place to place, with the deer having preferred locations, mostly in meadows where they can find good grasses and bushes to graze from, and wolves following the deer and the deer avoiding the wolves. So it feels more like the predators aren't just camping certain routes waiting for the player to someday come through, but are actually hunting for prey animals to eat, and thus feel more like wolves, and less like game mechanics. Same for the deer, that they're not just randomly wandering around in the middle of the ice or barren rocks, but searching for food to graze on, and not hanging about a "spawn zone" that happens to be shared with a wolf, so they keep wandering back to the wolf until it inevitably kills them, or doing the same with the player character. Bears, moose, rabbits and Cougars seem like they could be more territorial and will designate a certain area as their territory and be aggressive to anyone known to them that's invading their territory, which makes sense for those animals.
As for the migration itself, we already have this sort of mechanic in place with the ptarmigans, so there is precedent in the code for something like this, though with the ptarmigans, being birds, they just fly to migrate between spawn zones. For the wolves and deer, it should be that they walk from one habitat to another, with new animals spawning in at the edge of the map and wandering into their preferred area, so you can also run across migrating animals in odd locations, so no one spot is truly fully safe from wolves (except maybe for places physically inaccessible to them) and any spot can be a spot for an opportunistic deer hunt. So risk and reward is present anywhere on any map. Maybe the cougar could be a mixed territorial/migratory animal in that they have a lair with a surrounding territory they guard, but will leave to stalk prey and hunt, with their main prey being deer, moose, and rabbits, but they're not above hunting a lone human if they find a an opportunity, or the human's getting into their territory too much.
Your impression of the trader made me crack up pretty good 😂
I'd completely forgotten a number of details from the Wintermute story. I guess I'll have to replay all the episodes before the final episode is released.
Hey so I've made this comment before in your survival series but...
In Sundered Pass when you witness the aurora, it's only visible in one direction. The mainland. This indicates to me at least that the aurora is confined to the mainland region of The Long Dark which makes it seems like it's a man-made phenomena, possibly something to do with the Suzuki radio telescope (and the experiments conducted within) and Atwood. Personally I'm extremely invested in whatever is going on with Atwood and his thesis student Jace whom we meet in episode IV, and of course Will himself with how he is tied into this big conspiracy...
There's a lot of things coming our way
-First one would be the cougar, I hope it's a nice addition to the game this time
-Second is the wild life refresh. Being a TLD veteran is a CURSE: you know where everything is, at all times. It ruins the immersion when you know which areas are 100% safe and others are wolves spawns. The moment game mechanics take over the immersion and remind you it's just a video game, a map and an AI you can manipulate, it really kills it for me.
-I'm not that excited for the trader, we'll see how it goes
-Base customization is great. I mean we already have mods for that, but it's always better to have it properly integrated into the game. I'm pretty sure mods only work for the outside too? This time we can decorate the inside and, let's be honest, most of us have their base inside, unless cabin fever is ruining your life (I always disable it, it's annoying and makes no sense if you try to be immersed and realistic)
I haven't played TLD for almost a year, I was waiting for content. I was going to play in July but since the star of the show, the cougar, was removed swiftly, I wasn't going to start a new game just because there's a new region. Hopefully it's early december but knowing HT slow pace, they're going to push it further
How exciting!! I can't wait for all the updates and the return of the cougar - I never got to play with it the first time around. Obv base customization sounds most exciting to me lol A movie would be AWESOME! It could be so incredibly beautiful and atmospheric if done properly.
The game does need "improvised socks." A good call-out, there.