Voyager Discussion | How to Survive The Long Dark
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- In this survival guide for The Long Dark, we discuss Voyager mode and the considerations a player might want to take to ensure they get the most of their run. There are only a few key things to remember if you've seen the playstyle tuning video and those are discussed here as well!
Understanding Risk vs Reward and applying good decision making along the line in multiple areas will help you out a lot and take you from making many mistakes to only making a few mistakes.
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I didn't realize survival mode is permadeath. I survived 97 days and then jumped off a cliff.
Nice one XD
Ooof indeed!
Good job
Why would you jump off a cliff?
So close to the centurion trophy
This was my level of difficulty. I picked it because I was not familiar with the game BUT also did not want the baby mode either.
So far I survived 70 days. Wolfs. So many Wolfs all the time. I call this game now "THE LONG BARK" :D
Haha an accurate description.
Voyageur is a good difficulty to go for long survival (500+ days for example). Planning to start in Mountain Town. There are lots of wolves there though.
Yup... Most central locations with good shelter and crafting tables etc. also have some of the highest spawns of wolves. The few exceptions to this would be Camp office and Riken...
@@Lonelywolfofficial And even Camp office has a wolf-infested lake near it. I saw three. I shot one with a distress pistol and it tried to charge me a few minutes later. I thought i was screwed when I missed the second flare but it still died right there. I thought it had a heart attack xD but maybe it just bled out.
It's near it but not directly on top of it. Wolves rarely track close enough to be bothersome right out the gate, though it's not impossible.
@@Lonelywolfofficial Yeah
The animals are for sure the most challenging in voyager. You can prepare for a blizzard but really for a wolf or a bear
Varies person by person. I don't find the animals challenging at all, but then again here I am on Stalker and Interloper XD
@@Lonelywolfofficial true, i dont have the aim to quickly kill a wolf when it attacks so that makes wolfs a lot harder for me
I'm 26 days into my second run and don't have a weapon aside from rocks. Where the heck are the maple saplings?!
@@dragonbornhk ah, yeah, aim is important for deterring wolves. Thankfully, the noise of a revolver is usually enough to deter a charging wolf even if you miss.
What do I need to survive in a blizzard if I’m lost in woods? Make snow shelter ?
Having only played Wintermute, nomad challenge and Voyager (in that order), I don't have much to compare against for survival modes. I am about 170 days into Voyager and i can remember what my paranoia was about from beginning to now. First to last ....
1. How do i not freeze or get stuck in a blizzard with not enough food or water when adventuring away from "base". 2. How do i get all my gear out of the gas station now that a bear and a pack of wolves are waiting to pounce on me once i walk out.
2. Where is a hammer? I'm gonna need that to make tools because my tools are decaying fast and I don't want to leave this region yet, guess I'll set up a base in DP.
3 Looted all of DP, lets move it all back to CH
4. Where is a moose? I need more carry capability.
5. How do I move to ML, there just is no moose in CH (expended an entire bear worth of meat staking one out).
6. Used all my food moving to ML, where can i bag a bear to continue the moose hunt.
7 OMG OMG OMG a moose and its night time!
8. Soooo what do i do waiting for this moose hide to cure, I guess I'll go map Mountain Town to prepare for my excursion into Hushed River Valley.
9 Path to HRV via MT is mapped, lets go back to the cabin in un-named pond to check on the moose hide.
Sounds like you've had an interesting run so far! Good luck and stay warm!
For future reference, there's a moose hide satchel in HRV.
Voyager was the setting of my first game, on mystery lake and i stumbled upon the Dam as the first main spot to find and i looted it and got lucky, funny enough finding a hatchet and the hunting knife was hard as took me several in game days to found them. I found the rifle first in a train cart with two bullets before the other two objects. kept finding pistol ammo but no pistol for a long while. My game luck for goods was weird to stay the least. Good times though good times be it bad times and good ones. This is also the game where my Bad luck with wolves started as well and them coming round the bend at the least best time and surprising me.
Yeah loot is randomized a bit so you won't always find the same things in the same places but there are typical places to look for certain items.
@@Lonelywolfofficial yeah i found that out the hard way. I also remember when i first left Mystery lake in my first game i took the train tracks to Forlom Muskeg a bad move in the end as i was nearly killed by a bear while camping inside the train cart with the fire barrel inside. I was not ready for such a vast and shelter less wasteland well when compared to what mystery lake offered.
I ran back to the Camp office.
I started there on my first run, found the pistol and great clothing and ended up going out a one way door. Died from exhaustion making me stumble off a cliff. This game is brutal
@@Coffeeandacigarette Oh dear that is nasty. them cliffs and falls are nasty in this game, compared to most games where falls are shortcuts.
I've been bingeing this whole series and I love it! Hard to believe you're under 10k subs, you definitely should have a lot more. Keep the TLD stuff coming, you have a real knack for it :)
I've been playing Stalker, but I'm going to try the Voyager difficulty for the reduced calorie burn rate. I find that on Stalker, I'm constantly feeding my character. It's probably because I avoid starving my character even though you get a 1% damage bonus. Maybe Voyager difficulty will be more fun.
I started with Voyager and haven't found much reason to leave, honestly. I picked it because I was fresh with the game but felt like a wuss picking the lowest difficulty. Recently gave Stalker and Interloper a whack to see how I would do, and I don't really care for them. Stalker turns the game into more of a stealth FPS rather than a survival game in my opinion, and I don't like how Interloper just chucks you into the unknown with basically nothing to fall back on and a very real possibility you'll just freeze to death no matter what. With the drops so pitifully low and none of the best gear even on the loot tables, I almost don't see the point of looting in 'Loper. That being said, I find myself actually annoyed with how much stuff is dropping in my most recent Voyager game. I feel like the spawns were never this insane. I have multiples of every tool (including a second revolver... you know... for reasons) and an absurd amount of bullets to go around just from clearing Broken Railroad and Mystery Lake (with a foray into the Old Spence Homestead to forge arrowheads I won't need for a good long while). I feel like the devs should tone down some of the drops for Voyager, and I hope the next update will fix that. I don't know. Maybe I'm just a wuss that should bump it up to Stalker. :P
The modes aren't just steps in difficulty, though. Try a custom mode; I like starting with Interloper settings but turning the rifle/revolver on.
Safehavenonice I respect your opinion, but there is never a chance that you freeze to death no matter what if you’re really good at the game. Just watch some streamers play this game, they always play interloper and they never die in the first 50 days
@@jensb3946 Admittedly I'm not MLG-Pro by any stretch, but the prospect of being spawned, say, halfway up Timberwolf Mountain without even a bedroll seems pretty hopeless. There's probably a way to do it, and I don't know how if that way is "legit," but for my skill level those tactics would just be dying more slowly. It personally drives me crazy when I feel like I have no agency in these things.
Hence the different experience modes. Everyone can find a bill that fits them. And if you can't, there's the custom modes where you can tune the mechanics to your fancy. Pick voyager in the settings and then tune the variables to your liking!
Stalker is totally about just merciless wolves EVERYWHERE. Interloper is like, yeah there's wolves but it's not a big deal because, you know, freezing.
I would love a difficulty between voyageur and stalker. Voyageur has too much loot and stalker too many wolves.
I got supa lucky and have supa good clothing and revolver yay. But I'm scared to go to the forges and start hunting deer. I've just been snaring rabbits, and right now I'm going for like 10 snares for funzies.
Im also trying to go fishing, but realizing I might have to beach combing to go long term/fish in coastal highway for good stuff
I love how you say if you have a weapon. What if you keep dying from wolf attacks and DON'T have a weapon?
I recommend prioritizing finding a weapon. I know it is easy to say lol
Maybe for the newest update, but I play on voyageur diff and after arriving to mistery lake, I had serious wolf problems. I had nothing that attracts wolf, yet every single time I've tried to venture out to the railway area (especially to the tunnel direction) a wolf from a very long distance is tried to kill me. Tried it both night and day, if it sees me 100% chance, he's come for me. Every single time. Not even a flare scare him off. Really annoying :/ (sorry if my english is bad)
I had that issue trying to get to the camp office past the railroad tracks and past the train carts, i risked it all but got caught by a wolf and was badly wounded managed to limp to the lake and to the camp office.
Just watched your Pilgrim video. Going to start a new game on Voyager. Fingers crossed! Thank you!
It's sad that no one plays the long dark.
What do you mean by that?
Wish it was more popular because I think it is a good game.
Ah, yeah! I agree it is pretty underrated.
This must be outdated cause wolves will detect you in voyager from very far away and if you are not out in the open they can ambush you pretty bad.
It's like this was uploaded three years ago.
@@wildicedemon9926its like thats what i said? If it was recently uploaded why would i say its outdated.
Appreciate this
Glad you found it useful!
most ive ever survived on voyager is 18 days im terrible
Wha's that chat to the left? Is it multiplayer!?
No, some of this footage was taken from a twitch stream and that's the twitch chat on the left.
Just picked this up today, starting out on voyager. Its a new feeling not having a map
@@carlossousa5696 can you save in survival
@@carlossousa5696 oh yea, i love the permadeath aspect. Makes you have to think about your next move was wonder cause i had to leave and go out and was wondering if id lose it
Every time you get injured, enter a building with a scene transition or sleep/pass time without cancelling, the game will save.
@@carlossousa5696 thanks for the tips!
@@Lonelywolfofficial thanks for the help, i was watching your loper gameplay and decided to buy it. Deffinatly a great purchase
Ok for example when meat gets to low condition like yellow or red is it safe to eat it in voyager or no cause I’m struggling with how people are walking around with steaks and that’s their main food source I’m scared of doing that cause I’m running low on canned food and everything else so someone help a guy out it would say a months worth of work 😂
Yellow is a bit risky but not too bad, just make sure you have Reishi or antibiotics handy. Red is a big no no.
Late response
If you have level 5 cooking skill, red and even ruined food is an option, at least in my experience and I believe the skill does state that you no longer get food poisoning at level 5.
If you are going to try and eat red food without level 5 cooking, then I recommend waiting until you are going to sleep for the night if you do, you can pop some antibiotics and sleep for 10 hours. I also recommend that you make sure your health is high if not full. This tactic can be risky, I most certainly don’t do it super often and would never recommend it for interloper, but it has helped me make use of the food I do have when I’m struggling with a shortage.
Best mode for beginners and best way to learn about regions the best starting region for this mode os mystery lake for sure
I think the same things too!
My first time was this setting on Mystery Lake it will was very fun but showed me the good parts and the bad times in this game and how you can be riding high in the morning and by evening your crawling to shelter due to a wolf surprising you and then kicking your rear in. The Dam creeped me out though i will say the sounds and the eerie feeling it has. I walked into it first time lucking for water at night time that did not help either, lucky for me Fluffy does not live their anymore or i missed her.
Playing the game the first time is an experience which can never be repeated sadly but the game still hits the right notes. I think we all wish we can play the game fresh once more in our minds and get surprised again.