Hydration is the easiest stat to keep full and will quickly lower your condition if left empty. Water consumed is weight that isn't slowing you down. These tips are mainly targeted for the game's highest difficultly level, Interloper, but should also be useful on easier settings. Here is a list of essential survival tips to help you navigate The Long Dark. What other game uses wind direction, weight carried, fatigue, terrain, and attire to calculate movement speed? Or slowly reduces the condition of almost every item in the game, forcing you to constantly replace or repair every piece of your clothing and every single tool you use? With each thing you find, craft, or repair, and with every skill you level up, the game gets a tiny bit easier and your chances of surviving each day get a tiny bit better.Īll the little details combine to make an amazing survival experience. While most games get more difficult, or adapt in difficulty, The Long Dark is the opposite. The Long Dark actually gets easier the longer you survive. Should you repair a jacket you found to increase your warmth bonus? Or is that time better spent foraging for food? The more you play The Long Dark the better you'll get at identifying the game's subtle and brilliant mechanics and making those tricky decisions. One thing to always remember in The Long Dark is each tiny decision can be critical to life or death. How long can you stay alive? Until your last match? Until a wolf inevitably ambushes you? Or maybe you stumbled on a sleeping bear? It's likely you'll die of exposure to the elements or lack of food or water. It is meditative, brutal, beautiful, and addicting.

Especially after I decided Interloper mode was the perfect challenge for me. I love this game. Keep dying in The Long Dark? Don't feel bad.

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