What video games have you been playing? ΚΔ (24)? More like ΚΔ,Ζ,ΤΞΕ!
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Back on my Borderlands 2 playthrough (in advance of BL3 into BL4 later this year).
I normally play these games with whatever builds and characters I find fun; I don't meta-chase. This makes some of the bosses and difficulties a bit of a pain, and I normally give up if something gets too tedious to be enjoyable.
This time around I'm going as meta as I can with my favourite character each time. Which means a solid sniper build with Zer0. There's a high-end melee build that's as good / better, but it takes a lot of investment and I don't have the skill points or gear for it. Aiming to get to L72 and complete UVHM content. Probably won't bother with OP levels. Might do one for kicks.
After that, it's BL3 redux with my boy Zane.
(mixing it up with Civ VII and Hades 2 occasionally)
I normally play these games with whatever builds and characters I find fun; I don't meta-chase. This makes some of the bosses and difficulties a bit of a pain, and I normally give up if something gets too tedious to be enjoyable.
This time around I'm going as meta as I can with my favourite character each time. Which means a solid sniper build with Zer0. There's a high-end melee build that's as good / better, but it takes a lot of investment and I don't have the skill points or gear for it. Aiming to get to L72 and complete UVHM content. Probably won't bother with OP levels. Might do one for kicks.
After that, it's BL3 redux with my boy Zane.
(mixing it up with Civ VII and Hades 2 occasionally)
One Thousand Uncles is the most addictive community game mode I can remember in the 9 years I've played TF2.
Mr. Shadows
Nomad of the time streams
I've been playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and I've been having a blast with it. This is the best video adaptation of Dungeons and Dragons (best video game RPG) I've ever played. It isn't quite perfect but then again it doesn't have the bland smoothness of so many AAA titles. If I do a second playthrough I'm probably going to check out the Gold Dragon path that they just finished polishing 
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
After seeing some footage of Empire at War Remake. I’m sort of tempted to buy the gold edition on Steam, eventhough I have physical copies of both the original and the DLC.
Zardnaar
Deity
I'm still playing Empire at War. Coming up 20 years
PC has been and remains down, so I've been getting into another round of RDR2 on the PS4. Last night the Lemoyne raiders ambushed me at the same time that a group of six bounty hunters were catching up to me. Enter dynamite and my trusty Lancaster repeater!
Voidwalkin
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I loved using the trains in LeMoyne as essentially Hussite war wagons.
There is a particular spot, a bridge about 30, 40nover a swamp, that is comically unfair for this purpose. You wait until reaching this point, initiate a train robbery, and the posse that arrives to exact justice is hopelessly outpositioned, on low ground, mostly in the open, unable to board, unable to exploit mobility.
It is possible to rob trains effortlessly at this location. Defeat 3 waves, walk off with the loot unperturbed by pursuit.
The Long Dark - Stalker day 15
I started over in Milton and I've been having a grand old time with the new cooking mechanics. Being in Milton where I know my way around has allowed me to take my time, fully loot every nook and cranny and spend alot of time playing around with the cooking features. I have 6 pots going at Gray Mothers and 3 skillets to rapid fire out pancakes and bannock (flatbreads). Although I learned the hard way that its best not to cook a bunch of food, because then it spoils fast. I gave myself food poisoning from eating some old bannocks I'd made.
Once I have some mushroom teas made I usually play it pretty fast and loose with food poisoning. I'd rather take the risk and use a tea if I get sick than waste any food, so I am eating things I forage no matter how low their condition is. I've found that you can usually get away with it. I've seen YouTubers who literally won't eat anything under 50% condition because they are scared of food poisoning. I just eat everything and take the food poisoning penalty out with the mushroom tea. I've made them, so I might as well use them.
Right now I'm trying to get my cooking skill up to level 4 so I can make the special recipe, "Lilly's Pancakes" (IIRC Lilly is Gray Mother's deceased daughter who's grave you have to find in the story mode). First I couldn't make them because I didn't have canned peaches left, so I stopped eating them and started saving them. Then I didn't have Maple Syrup left, so I had to find more. Then I ran out of cooking oil, which as a side effect, made me figure out that you can kill large animals to harvest their fat as a biproduct when you harvest the carcass. So I've been hunting wolves to harvest their fat for cooking... which is like shooting fish in a barrel, since the wolves hunt you back instead of running away.
Then I figure out that they are acorn pancakes
, so I can't use flour... I had to go harvest a bunch of acorns and grind them up after prepping and cooking them. Finally, after all that, I realize that I don't have sufficient cooking level to make the dish 
So now I'm cooking up all those essentially inedible (because of the parasites) wolf steaks from the wolves I hunted for their fat. I'm almost to level 4 now and I can almost taste those peach-acorn pancakes 
I still haven't found a hacksaw, so I can't get enough scrap metal to fix the radio tower and I haven't found a rifle yet either, so I'm scared to go to the Spruce Falls Bridge to face that bear up there and loot the cars... although I did find a memento note that is directing me to a cache up there, so maybe that's where I'm going to have to go to get my rifle. I'm running out of reasons to stall from going there... I've already looted all the buildings. All that is really left, besides cattail stalks, is Milton Basin, McKenzie's Plane Crash site and Spruce Falls Bridge. I guess I could sneak around under the bridge to try and see if the prepper cache is there...
EDIT: So my mission failed... or well... it was a partial success. I left Gray Mothers for the Falls Bridge while it was still dark, and heavy fog. I got chased back into the house by a Moose. The developers scrambled all the loot and wildlife locations and now there is a Moose spawn right on the hill in back of Gray Mothers, so sometimes the Moose is grazing right in the woods in Gray Mothers side yard and it alerts/charges you as soon as you walk onto the street. Once I went back outside, it was still thick fog and I got ambushed on the road after I passed the trailer location. Then I started freezing and losing health as a result. By the time I made it to the Bridge I was at about half health and in no condition to risk facing the bear, so I took a detour into the ravine/frozen riverbed around the bridge.
On the other side, I tried to take the path up to the cave, but there were fresh bear tracks going in that direction, so apparently, the bear patrols the cave to get to the prepper cache now instead of staying on the bridge. I wasn't going to walk straight into the bear's claws, so I looted the bridge instead in his absence then went back to the trailer to heal up, then back to Gray Mothers to fully heal and drop off my loot. I also found a ski jacket on the bridge and a ton of burdock root growing next to the bridge. I almost died from the cold trying to make it back to the trailer. I'm gonna have to heal up at Gray Mothers and try again in a couple (IG) days.
I started over in Milton and I've been having a grand old time with the new cooking mechanics. Being in Milton where I know my way around has allowed me to take my time, fully loot every nook and cranny and spend alot of time playing around with the cooking features. I have 6 pots going at Gray Mothers and 3 skillets to rapid fire out pancakes and bannock (flatbreads). Although I learned the hard way that its best not to cook a bunch of food, because then it spoils fast. I gave myself food poisoning from eating some old bannocks I'd made.
Once I have some mushroom teas made I usually play it pretty fast and loose with food poisoning. I'd rather take the risk and use a tea if I get sick than waste any food, so I am eating things I forage no matter how low their condition is. I've found that you can usually get away with it. I've seen YouTubers who literally won't eat anything under 50% condition because they are scared of food poisoning. I just eat everything and take the food poisoning penalty out with the mushroom tea. I've made them, so I might as well use them.
Right now I'm trying to get my cooking skill up to level 4 so I can make the special recipe, "Lilly's Pancakes" (IIRC Lilly is Gray Mother's deceased daughter who's grave you have to find in the story mode). First I couldn't make them because I didn't have canned peaches left, so I stopped eating them and started saving them. Then I didn't have Maple Syrup left, so I had to find more. Then I ran out of cooking oil, which as a side effect, made me figure out that you can kill large animals to harvest their fat as a biproduct when you harvest the carcass. So I've been hunting wolves to harvest their fat for cooking... which is like shooting fish in a barrel, since the wolves hunt you back instead of running away.
Then I figure out that they are acorn pancakes
, so I can't use flour... I had to go harvest a bunch of acorns and grind them up after prepping and cooking them. Finally, after all that, I realize that I don't have sufficient cooking level to make the dish So now I'm cooking up all those essentially inedible (because of the parasites) wolf steaks from the wolves I hunted for their fat. I'm almost to level 4 now and I can almost taste those peach-acorn pancakes I still haven't found a hacksaw, so I can't get enough scrap metal to fix the radio tower and I haven't found a rifle yet either, so I'm scared to go to the Spruce Falls Bridge to face that bear up there and loot the cars... although I did find a memento note that is directing me to a cache up there, so maybe that's where I'm going to have to go to get my rifle. I'm running out of reasons to stall from going there... I've already looted all the buildings. All that is really left, besides cattail stalks, is Milton Basin, McKenzie's Plane Crash site and Spruce Falls Bridge. I guess I could sneak around under the bridge to try and see if the prepper cache is there...
EDIT: So my mission failed... or well... it was a partial success. I left Gray Mothers for the Falls Bridge while it was still dark, and heavy fog. I got chased back into the house by a Moose. The developers scrambled all the loot and wildlife locations and now there is a Moose spawn right on the hill in back of Gray Mothers, so sometimes the Moose is grazing right in the woods in Gray Mothers side yard and it alerts/charges you as soon as you walk onto the street. Once I went back outside, it was still thick fog and I got ambushed on the road after I passed the trailer location. Then I started freezing and losing health as a result. By the time I made it to the Bridge I was at about half health and in no condition to risk facing the bear, so I took a detour into the ravine/frozen riverbed around the bridge.
On the other side, I tried to take the path up to the cave, but there were fresh bear tracks going in that direction, so apparently, the bear patrols the cave to get to the prepper cache now instead of staying on the bridge. I wasn't going to walk straight into the bear's claws, so I looted the bridge instead in his absence then went back to the trailer to heal up, then back to Gray Mothers to fully heal and drop off my loot. I also found a ski jacket on the bridge and a ton of burdock root growing next to the bridge. I almost died from the cold trying to make it back to the trailer. I'm gonna have to heal up at Gray Mothers and try again in a couple (IG) days.
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Ajidica
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Playing more Marvel Midnight Suns; the Firaxis superhero meets XCOM game.
I'm getting into the home stretch and unfortunately over leveled enough challenge is starting to drop off. However, the game is still a blast and it sucks it was undone by its poor marketing. It is not a microtransaction/grinding game. My only issue is that some of the characters are just really bad in terms of their abilities, and I wish each character had more abilities.
EDIT: powered through the last mission to finish the game. The ending wasn't great. A lot of talky bits as you were encouraged to talk to each character before going on the final mission; and the final mission was like all superhero movie endings - a bit underwhelming. But, I can understand why the final mission is like that. It wants to be both a challenge putting all you learned to the test and a power fantasy. It is also clear they really wanted to avoid someone not being strong enough to finish it so they have to reload a save, grind a bunch, then go through the whole "this is the end of the world" cutscenes again.
Still, very solid game if you like tactical combat. It isn't a hard game but the diversity of abilities, combinations, enemies, and battlefields keeps it interesting and engaging.
Since it sold poorly, it is on pretty frequent sales. I would get the DLC too, its missions are pretty fun and well written.
On an out of ten scale where 5 is "fine", I would rate this a solid 8/10.
EDIT2: Speak of the devil, the base game is on sale for $9, base game plus DLC is on sale for $20.
I'm getting into the home stretch and unfortunately over leveled enough challenge is starting to drop off. However, the game is still a blast and it sucks it was undone by its poor marketing. It is not a microtransaction/grinding game. My only issue is that some of the characters are just really bad in terms of their abilities, and I wish each character had more abilities.
EDIT: powered through the last mission to finish the game. The ending wasn't great. A lot of talky bits as you were encouraged to talk to each character before going on the final mission; and the final mission was like all superhero movie endings - a bit underwhelming. But, I can understand why the final mission is like that. It wants to be both a challenge putting all you learned to the test and a power fantasy. It is also clear they really wanted to avoid someone not being strong enough to finish it so they have to reload a save, grind a bunch, then go through the whole "this is the end of the world" cutscenes again.
Still, very solid game if you like tactical combat. It isn't a hard game but the diversity of abilities, combinations, enemies, and battlefields keeps it interesting and engaging.
Since it sold poorly, it is on pretty frequent sales. I would get the DLC too, its missions are pretty fun and well written.
On an out of ten scale where 5 is "fine", I would rate this a solid 8/10.
EDIT2: Speak of the devil, the base game is on sale for $9, base game plus DLC is on sale for $20.
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Snowygerry
Deity
Do you guys play online?
I've piddled around with it on and off, but playing on console it requires a subscription. Eventually I'll pick it up for my PC and try it again.
Since my computer is still in the shop. I broke down and bought the PS4 version of Stardew Valley. It took some time to get used to the controls, but I'm liking them far more than the Android experience which I've tried on both my Pixel and my chromebook. (Yes, I've bought SDV three times. You could say I'm a fan.
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Strong Reaction
Prince
Bannerlord: New game new rules
I got inspired after watching, part of a playthrough on youtube. The author implements limitations on his playthrough then chronicles the result in a video. I thought Id do the same (just not post a video), but make my own rules they are as follows:
Cannot contract as a mercenary
Cannot become a vassal for any kingdom
No purchasing equipment. Equipment must be battle loot or won in tournament.
All units in party must be player characters culture
*caveat: bandits can be recruited i.e. to complete quests
Initial attribute/skills must be randomly selected, not chosen, using a six sided die
Beginning age is 20.
Difficulty settings: Bannerlord
Losing battles will earn you shame points.
For those interested here is the video I watched.
I got inspired after watching, part of a playthrough on youtube. The author implements limitations on his playthrough then chronicles the result in a video. I thought Id do the same (just not post a video), but make my own rules they are as follows:
Cannot contract as a mercenary
Cannot become a vassal for any kingdom
No purchasing equipment. Equipment must be battle loot or won in tournament.
All units in party must be player characters culture
*caveat: bandits can be recruited i.e. to complete quests
Initial attribute/skills must be randomly selected, not chosen, using a six sided die
Beginning age is 20.
Difficulty settings: Bannerlord
Losing battles will earn you shame points.
For those interested here is the video I watched.
Gori the Grey
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To mark the release of Civ VII, I fired up my old copy of Civ V.
I'm the Shoshone on the SE of a Pangaea. Sweden is to my W, to the SW of a south-reaching subcontinent on that Pangaea. Considerably north of both of us is a V shaped gulf. Because that Gulf has settlements of Venice (on the W side) and the Ottomans (on the E side), we'll call it the Gulf of America. Sweden marches a settler a good ways north and settles Sigtuna at the southernmost point of the Gulf of America.
I take one small city of Sweden's (E of his capital, W of me) but can't take his capital, so the only possible victim is Venice, even though it's a long march north. Venice hasn't built an army, so it's pretty easy to capture; however, since it's so far from my lands, it won't be easy to hold. China is to the W of Venice, and they've built the Great Wall. I'm not going to attack them until my compound bowmen/crossbowmen have the range promotion.
So my only real choice is the Ottomans, but to get to them, I have to swing well S of Sigtuna, so I don't trigger the "are you going to attack me?" dialogue, because I don't want to make the promise that I'm not going to, because I think I do want to go back to attacking Stockholm at some point. And all of that terrain is jungle, so it's a terribly slow slog to get over to the Ottomans, N of my main territory.
I capture one of his cities, but then China declares war on me, to go after Venice which I've left pretty much undefended. I decide to sell Venice to Sweden, because I'd rather anybody but China have it, because China has built the Great Wall, and any territory under the great wall is horrible to try to attack. Sweden pays me a sweet price for Venice. (I don't think I've ever sold a capital before.) But then liberates it! Well, whatever. That's your business. It's not owned by China; that's all I was trying to achieve.
I now swim my troops W across the Gulf of America, because I now have Optics and can embark troops. I get open borders with Venice. I'm ready for my showdown with China. But they've got infinite troops, so the war in the space b/w Venice and China isn't going anywhere. So, even though it's a long march south, I figure I'm better off attacking Stockholm.
As I'm pulling my troops out of Venice to head S to Stockholm, Sweden brings a huge army out of Sigtuna to attack Venice--a city they owned, paid a handsome price for, and in fact are still paying me for.
Shortly after all of that, I quit. I'd spent too much of my time marching my troops around from one battlefield to another and not enough actually capturing cities.
But, man, Sweden's behavior relative to Venice was nuts.
I'm the Shoshone on the SE of a Pangaea. Sweden is to my W, to the SW of a south-reaching subcontinent on that Pangaea. Considerably north of both of us is a V shaped gulf. Because that Gulf has settlements of Venice (on the W side) and the Ottomans (on the E side), we'll call it the Gulf of America. Sweden marches a settler a good ways north and settles Sigtuna at the southernmost point of the Gulf of America.
I take one small city of Sweden's (E of his capital, W of me) but can't take his capital, so the only possible victim is Venice, even though it's a long march north. Venice hasn't built an army, so it's pretty easy to capture; however, since it's so far from my lands, it won't be easy to hold. China is to the W of Venice, and they've built the Great Wall. I'm not going to attack them until my compound bowmen/crossbowmen have the range promotion.
So my only real choice is the Ottomans, but to get to them, I have to swing well S of Sigtuna, so I don't trigger the "are you going to attack me?" dialogue, because I don't want to make the promise that I'm not going to, because I think I do want to go back to attacking Stockholm at some point. And all of that terrain is jungle, so it's a terribly slow slog to get over to the Ottomans, N of my main territory.
I capture one of his cities, but then China declares war on me, to go after Venice which I've left pretty much undefended. I decide to sell Venice to Sweden, because I'd rather anybody but China have it, because China has built the Great Wall, and any territory under the great wall is horrible to try to attack. Sweden pays me a sweet price for Venice. (I don't think I've ever sold a capital before.) But then liberates it! Well, whatever. That's your business. It's not owned by China; that's all I was trying to achieve.
I now swim my troops W across the Gulf of America, because I now have Optics and can embark troops. I get open borders with Venice. I'm ready for my showdown with China. But they've got infinite troops, so the war in the space b/w Venice and China isn't going anywhere. So, even though it's a long march south, I figure I'm better off attacking Stockholm.
As I'm pulling my troops out of Venice to head S to Stockholm, Sweden brings a huge army out of Sigtuna to attack Venice--a city they owned, paid a handsome price for, and in fact are still paying me for.
Shortly after all of that, I quit. I'd spent too much of my time marching my troops around from one battlefield to another and not enough actually capturing cities.
But, man, Sweden's behavior relative to Venice was nuts.
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dusters
Emperor
Slay the Spire. I was pretty good at it in 2019. Trying to relearn the hardest difficulty.
The Long Dark - Stalker Day 30 - Mystery Lake- Camp Office
So I went back to the cave behind Falls Bridge in Milton and I ended up having to shoot the Bear because he was blocking the path to the cave behind Falls Bridge. I waited in a car for him to bleed out and then tracked his blood trail up the path. He dropped about halfway to the cave, in the most inconvenient spot possible. So I went through the cave to the other side to check the prepper cache first, which was completely empty
. So then I went back to start harvesting the bear carcass before it disappears. I think the game gives you about 3 days to harvest a non-permanent animal carcass (some deer carcasses are permanent landmarks that will not disappear unless you actively harvest them). I started with the hide and guts, left the guts in the cave and went back to Gray mother's with the hide and my loot (mostly coal and firewood, from the caves). Then I stripped down as much as possible for min-weight and went back to harvest the bear meat (60 lbs). I was able to slowly haul it all back at a snails pace because of the weight, in one trip, but I had to chase off a couple wolves with the revolver. Cooking up all the bear meat got me to level 4 cooking so I was able to make some Lilly's pancakes with the acorn grounds I collected behind Orca gas station (there are lots of oak trees back there).
So now I have tons of both wolf and bear meat and nothing to do with it since they both carry parasite risks. I can get rid of the parasite risks if I get to level 5 cooking (I am unsure whether this also covers meat that I already cooked before reaching level 5, but I am hoping it does). So then a trip to Hushed River Valley (HRV), was in order, to get the S-tier item, Moose-Satchel (+10 lbs carry weight capacity), always found at one of the two possible Mysterious Signal Fire locations, and more importantly, the "Stalker's Pie" recipe, (typically found on one of the dead bodies in HRV), which will allow me to cook my bear and wolf meat into an insanely high-calorie, edible pie, with no parasite risk. I also still needed a rifle and a hacksaw, so I was also hoping to find those as well in HRV since I've gone through almost all of Milton at this point.
So HRV didn't disappoint... I found a rifle almost right away, on my way to the first signal fire site. Unfortunately it was foggy, so I had to go all the way there to look for the signal fire and it turned out to be a bust. So I had to go all the way to the much harder site all the way on the other side of the map. I did find the Stalker's Pie recipe card on the way, and I used the cave systems to get there, so it wasn't so bad, but I had to dump all my premium firewood, all the coal I'd collected, an extra bedroll and all my flares just to climb all the ropes to get to the Signal Fire location. I grabbed the Moose Satchel and started back for Milton but when I stopped to rest in a cave, I got the Cougar arrival sequence and I was treated to the shrieks and whines of the Cougar tracking me all the way back to the exit from the region... which I will admit was pretty unnerving. I wasn't keen to go back for my flares and coal, knowing that the Cougar was stalking me.
Back in Milton, I spent a few days organizing my loot and eating mostly porridge and pancakes. I've got a lot of cooking oil saved up from all the melted wolf and bear fat, so I can cook all the pancakes I want. The main thing I've been trying to do is bag the Moose in back of Gray Mother's, but I can't because the rifle I found is in terrible shape (18% condition) and jams after every shot. This means I can't kill the Moose, because he charges after every shot and I have to run back in the house to escape being trampled to death. I also don't want to waste all my ammo, or over-use the rifle before I find a gun-cleaning kit to restore it before it is permanently ruined. So that means I have to move locations again. I'm not going back to HRV because there are no indoor shelters there. I also noticed that the Cougar is present in Milton now, and going back to HRV means moving close to the region the Cougar patrols (you get an indicator icon on your charcoal-map), so I'm reluctant to go back in that direction.
So instead, I scooped up the stuff needed to craft rabbit snares and a Travois-sled and headed for Mystery Lake (ML). I made a stop for a couple days at Trapper's cabin, crafted my snares and Travois, along with a few fishing tackles, ate a few rabbits, then headed for Camp Office, with no difficulties. Now its time to loot Camp office and spend some time fishing. I still don't have a hacksaw, so I can't make anymore hooks to fish, but I've collected enough to make a few fishing tackle sets, so I can fish until all those break at least. I just need to get my cooking skill up to lvl 5 so I can go back to Milton and get all my bear and wolf meat (in frozen storage on the porch at Gray Mothers, which extends the life of the meat) to make those sweet, sweet Stalker's pies.
EDIT: Shortly after setting up in Camp Office I got a call from the trader who introduced himself eventually as "Sutherland"... he's kinda loopy, but he offered me a new recipe card for Vagabond (rabbit) Stew. I accepted, since the recipe's are priceless, allowing you to craft high calorie dishes out of the basic items you can find. He wants a bunch of lamp fuel, which I should be able to find, between harvesting storm lanterns, finding fuel ("Jerry") cans around and the lamp oil you get as a byproduct from cooking fish. He also wants cloth, which is basically unlimited and readily available everywhere. The one painful item he wants is a car battery. Its not finding them that is the problem, as they are plentiful, being found randomly in the broken down cars scattered all over the world... the issue is they are super-heavy, prohibitively so, such that it is nigh impossible to carry them anymore than a very short distance, basically within a few steps from where you pick them up. They've recently lowered the gargantuan weight of batteries since the expansions/DLC to allow you to actually move them around (they used to only be good for salvaged lead for bullet crafting). Formerly, you essentially had to harvest them right on the spot where you found them. However, they are still damn heavy. I think I will try to find a battery in Coastal Highway, where the traders' drop-box is, rather than dragging one all the way there.
So I went back to the cave behind Falls Bridge in Milton and I ended up having to shoot the Bear because he was blocking the path to the cave behind Falls Bridge. I waited in a car for him to bleed out and then tracked his blood trail up the path. He dropped about halfway to the cave, in the most inconvenient spot possible. So I went through the cave to the other side to check the prepper cache first, which was completely empty
. So then I went back to start harvesting the bear carcass before it disappears. I think the game gives you about 3 days to harvest a non-permanent animal carcass (some deer carcasses are permanent landmarks that will not disappear unless you actively harvest them). I started with the hide and guts, left the guts in the cave and went back to Gray mother's with the hide and my loot (mostly coal and firewood, from the caves). Then I stripped down as much as possible for min-weight and went back to harvest the bear meat (60 lbs). I was able to slowly haul it all back at a snails pace because of the weight, in one trip, but I had to chase off a couple wolves with the revolver. Cooking up all the bear meat got me to level 4 cooking so I was able to make some Lilly's pancakes with the acorn grounds I collected behind Orca gas station (there are lots of oak trees back there).So now I have tons of both wolf and bear meat and nothing to do with it since they both carry parasite risks. I can get rid of the parasite risks if I get to level 5 cooking (I am unsure whether this also covers meat that I already cooked before reaching level 5, but I am hoping it does). So then a trip to Hushed River Valley (HRV), was in order, to get the S-tier item, Moose-Satchel (+10 lbs carry weight capacity), always found at one of the two possible Mysterious Signal Fire locations, and more importantly, the "Stalker's Pie" recipe, (typically found on one of the dead bodies in HRV), which will allow me to cook my bear and wolf meat into an insanely high-calorie, edible pie, with no parasite risk. I also still needed a rifle and a hacksaw, so I was also hoping to find those as well in HRV since I've gone through almost all of Milton at this point.
So HRV didn't disappoint... I found a rifle almost right away, on my way to the first signal fire site. Unfortunately it was foggy, so I had to go all the way there to look for the signal fire and it turned out to be a bust. So I had to go all the way to the much harder site all the way on the other side of the map. I did find the Stalker's Pie recipe card on the way, and I used the cave systems to get there, so it wasn't so bad, but I had to dump all my premium firewood, all the coal I'd collected, an extra bedroll and all my flares just to climb all the ropes to get to the Signal Fire location. I grabbed the Moose Satchel and started back for Milton but when I stopped to rest in a cave, I got the Cougar arrival sequence and I was treated to the shrieks and whines of the Cougar tracking me all the way back to the exit from the region... which I will admit was pretty unnerving. I wasn't keen to go back for my flares and coal, knowing that the Cougar was stalking me.
Back in Milton, I spent a few days organizing my loot and eating mostly porridge and pancakes. I've got a lot of cooking oil saved up from all the melted wolf and bear fat, so I can cook all the pancakes I want. The main thing I've been trying to do is bag the Moose in back of Gray Mother's, but I can't because the rifle I found is in terrible shape (18% condition) and jams after every shot. This means I can't kill the Moose, because he charges after every shot and I have to run back in the house to escape being trampled to death. I also don't want to waste all my ammo, or over-use the rifle before I find a gun-cleaning kit to restore it before it is permanently ruined. So that means I have to move locations again. I'm not going back to HRV because there are no indoor shelters there. I also noticed that the Cougar is present in Milton now, and going back to HRV means moving close to the region the Cougar patrols (you get an indicator icon on your charcoal-map), so I'm reluctant to go back in that direction.
So instead, I scooped up the stuff needed to craft rabbit snares and a Travois-sled and headed for Mystery Lake (ML). I made a stop for a couple days at Trapper's cabin, crafted my snares and Travois, along with a few fishing tackles, ate a few rabbits, then headed for Camp Office, with no difficulties. Now its time to loot Camp office and spend some time fishing. I still don't have a hacksaw, so I can't make anymore hooks to fish, but I've collected enough to make a few fishing tackle sets, so I can fish until all those break at least. I just need to get my cooking skill up to lvl 5 so I can go back to Milton and get all my bear and wolf meat (in frozen storage on the porch at Gray Mothers, which extends the life of the meat) to make those sweet, sweet Stalker's pies.
EDIT: Shortly after setting up in Camp Office I got a call from the trader who introduced himself eventually as "Sutherland"... he's kinda loopy, but he offered me a new recipe card for Vagabond (rabbit) Stew. I accepted, since the recipe's are priceless, allowing you to craft high calorie dishes out of the basic items you can find. He wants a bunch of lamp fuel, which I should be able to find, between harvesting storm lanterns, finding fuel ("Jerry") cans around and the lamp oil you get as a byproduct from cooking fish. He also wants cloth, which is basically unlimited and readily available everywhere. The one painful item he wants is a car battery. Its not finding them that is the problem, as they are plentiful, being found randomly in the broken down cars scattered all over the world... the issue is they are super-heavy, prohibitively so, such that it is nigh impossible to carry them anymore than a very short distance, basically within a few steps from where you pick them up. They've recently lowered the gargantuan weight of batteries since the expansions/DLC to allow you to actually move them around (they used to only be good for salvaged lead for bullet crafting). Formerly, you essentially had to harvest them right on the spot where you found them. However, they are still damn heavy. I think I will try to find a battery in Coastal Highway, where the traders' drop-box is, rather than dragging one all the way there.
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Grrrr, no GOG availability. Seems like a good game.The Long Dark - Stalker Day 30 - Mystery Lake- Camp Office
So I went back to the cave behind Falls Bridge in Milton and I ended up having to shoot the Bear because he was blocking the path to the cave behind Falls Bridge. I waited in a car for him to bleed out and then tracked his blood trail up the path. He dropped about halfway to the cave, in the most inconvenient spot possible. So I went through the cave to the other side to check the prepper cache first, which was completely empty
So now I have tons of both wolf and bear meat and nothing to do with it since they both carry parasite risks. I can get rid of the parasite risks if I get to level 5 cooking (I am unsure whether this also covers meat that I already cooked before reaching level 5, but I am hoping it does). So then a trip to Hushed River Valley (HRV), was in order, to get the S-tier item, Moose-Satchel (+10 lbs carry weight capacity), always found at one of the two possible Mysterious Signal Fire locations, and more importantly, the "Stalker's Pie" recipe, (typically found on one of the dead bodies in HRV), which will allow me to cook my bear and wolf meat into an insanely high-calorie, edible pie, with no parasite risk. I also still needed a rifle and a hacksaw, so I was also hoping to find those as well in HRV since I've gone through almost all of Milton at this point.
So HRV didn't disappoint... I found a rifle almost right away, on my way to the first signal fire site. Unfortunately it was foggy, so I had to go all the way there to look for the signal fire and it turned out to be a bust. So I had to go all the way to the much harder site all the way on the other side of the map. I did find the Stalker's Pie recipe card on the way, and I used the cave systems to get there, so it wasn't so bad, but I had to dump all my premium firewood, all the coal I'd collected, an extra bedroll and all my flares just to climb all the ropes to get to the Signal Fire location. I grabbed the Moose Satchel and started back for Milton but when I stopped to rest in a cave, I got the Cougar arrival sequence and I was treated to the shrieks and whines of the Cougar tracking me all the way back to the exit from the region... which I will admit was pretty unnerving. I wasn't keen to go back for my flares and coal, knowing that the Cougar was stalking me.
Back in Milton, I spent a few days organizing my loot and eating mostly porridge and pancakes. I've got a lot of cooking oil saved up from all the melted wolf and bear fat, so I can cook all the pancakes I want. The main thing I've been trying to do is bag the Moose in back of Gray Mother's, but I can't because the rifle I found is in terrible shape (18% condition) and jams after every shot. This means I can't kill the Moose, because he charges after every shot and I have to run back in the house to escape being trampled to death. I also don't want to waste all my ammo, or over-use the rifle before I find a gun-cleaning kit to restore it before it is permanently ruined. So that means I have to move locations again. I'm not going back to HRV because there are no indoor shelters there. I also noticed that the Cougar is present in Milton now, and going back to HRV means moving close to the region the Cougar patrols (you get an indicator icon on your charcoal-map), so I'm reluctant to go back in that direction.
So instead, I scooped up the stuff needed to craft rabbit snares and a Travois-sled and headed for Mystery Lake (ML). I made a stop for a couple days at Trapper's cabin, crafted my snares and Travois, along with a few fishing tackles, ate a few rabbits, then headed for Camp Office, with no difficulties. Now its time to loot Camp office and spend some time fishing. I still don't have a hacksaw, so I can't make anymore hooks to fish, but I've collected enough to make a few fishing tackle sets, so I can fish until all those break at least. I just need to get my cooking skill up to lvl 5 so I can go back to Milton and get all my bear and wolf meat (in frozen storage on the porch at Gray Mothers, which extends the life of the meat) to make those sweet, sweet Stalker's pies.
EDIT: Shortly after setting up in Camp Office I got a call from the trader who introduced himself eventually as "Sutherland"... he's kinda loopy, but he offered me a new recipe card for Vagabond (rabbit) Stew. I accepted, since the recipe's are priceless, allowing you to craft high calorie dishes out of the basic items you can find. He wants a bunch of lamp fuel, which I should be able to find, between harvesting storm lanterns, finding fuel ("Jerry") cans around and the lamp oil you get as a byproduct from cooking fish. He also wants cloth, which is basically unlimited and readily available everywhere. The one painful item he wants is a car battery. Its not finding them that is the problem, as they are plentiful, being found randomly in the broken down cars scattered all over the world... the issue is they are super-heavy, prohibitively so, such that it is nigh impossible to carry them anymore than a very short distance, basically within a few steps from where you pick them up. They've recently lowered the gargantuan weight of batteries since the expansions/DLC to allow you to actually move them around (they used to only be good for salvaged lead for bullet crafting). Formerly, you essentially had to harvest them right on the spot where you found them. However, they are still damn heavy. I think I will try to find a battery in Coastal Highway, where the traders' drop-box is, rather than dragging one all the way there.
Playing POE Settlers: Phrecia one month league. Free MTX for leveling at 20, 40, 60 and 80. Boots, Gloves, Chest and Hat. I'll get to at least 60 for the chest and if my guy is strong enough, push for 80. Skipping Kingsmarch altogether.
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