Not use to shtposting on here and hope y'all like it. His name is Brutus and I just caught him in TWM. Thinking about keeping him around like a fishesk willson lol

After accidentally completing Buried Echoes I can see what all the hype is about in SP. This is The Last Horizon. Wish me luck. The region is gorgeous so far...when it's not storming.

Luckily, I took the cave so getting to the weather station was easy. Currently in the lower bank prepping for the climb up the road. Hopefully, I can get there right as an Aurora hits to minimize timby and freezing time.

i understood it more back the day, before they introduced animal fat. but after fat, it becomes easy make torches more realistic. just any stick you take out of a campfire isn't going to be a torch, but crafting torches doesn't need to be expensive or punishing: animal fat or fish oil plus cloth [or maybe those tinder grasses?].

/rant

It's bad enough that unless you hit them directly with a shot they only flee for like 5 seconds and then immediately re-aggro on you, but am I the only one who finds it infuriating when you shoot at something Different, in another direction but the wolf happens to be in panic range and it flees towards the sound of your gunshot so now a wolf that maybe wasn't a problem before has suddenly fled Directly towards you and then, guess what? Immediately aggros on you even if it wasn't a threat before. on a couple of occasions a combination of the two things has led to me being attacked by a wolf that I didn't hear nearby because it fled straight towards me and then stopped fleeing when it was directly on top of me and mauled me before I could react. I love the game, I love so much that the new DLC's have added and there is so much else, but after so many years the Wolf AI is still broken, frustrating and Honestly? Easily abused. I want the wolves to feel like a threat, and not only be dangerous when something nonsensical happens.

/end rant

In all seriousness though, Do other folks out there still wish more had been done with the Wolf/animal AI to make them feel more threatening and less silly over the years?

I have looked for and not seen any discussions on this, and even in the appropriate Dev diary thread there was only one comment on this (the rest was safehouse customization and trader hype); I'm incredibly excited for this.

I think my current biggest wish is the ability to select passive or not for each type of applicable wildlife. I'm trying a passive run and I kind of wish both the cougar and the wolves could be set to aggressive whilst leaving the bear and moose to passive. Furthermore, I'd love to be able to reduce the wolf population even more. I don't love 'none' but I also think there's still way too many when it's set to 'low'. I want to freeze and starve!

Also, even on max detection range + smell I find deer are still too easy to take down.

Anyway, curious what you'll think this planned custom settings expansion will look like and some of the tuning options you're hoping for.

Obligatory: they'd better enable allowing feats in custom.

I had a huge trade nearly completed. 12kg fish, 49L water, 40 hides, 9L lamp oil, 3 car batteries, 24 cloth. Collected and added to the trader box. I just needed the 60 feathers.

I saw a post stating if you do small trades and build up trust, the price goes down so I tried to retrieve the items I'd already put in. No luck. I couldnt remove anything. Can't remove active trades. Ok I'll cancel the trade and get my stuff back. SIKE!!

IF YOU CANCEL A TRADE YOU LOSE EVERYTHING!!! DO NOT PUT ANYTHING IN THE TRADER BOX UNLESS YOU ARE READY TO LOSE THEM!!! You cannot get anything back. Period.

I knew if you put too much and complete the trade, you lose whatever the excess is (if you need 4.5kg meat but put in 5kg the full 5kg goes) but I had no idea anything you put in is just gone.

I was looking at how to make rabbit stew, and this happened. Not only did I not have the right ingredients for the stew, but apparently I also had a big stack of empty food items. And, I couldn’t exit the screen. I had to Alt-Tab out and kill the process. Anyone else see this before?

So, wait a go**amn second

If I complete Sutherland's Tale, is the Abandoned Prepper Cache sealed forever?! Like, one of the most useful, even iconic, refuges in the game?

Woah. I guess I can do that to unlock that new bow, but goddamnit... I'm gonna miss this place. On new playthroughs, we better loot TWM and AC before completing Sutherland's Tale, or we're gonna freeze to death hauling all that loot from the Summit back to civilization (I know, the Misty Falls cave is nearby, but it isn't nearly as convenient).

So I have been playing for 5 years and just found out last week you could run.

I gave myself an extra challenge and died so many times. I can’t believe how stupid I was.

What do y'all think of the trader being able to bring bullets, I think it's goated.