The Long Dark

Immersion:

• hand-coverings. Cool, not game-making, but very nice! Also shows sleeves from coats.
• First-person carcass harvesting animations with tools shown. I like it.
• Wolf struggles show your equipped weapon.

Poisoned wolf carcasses don't give meat. O_O

YESSS THE FLASK LOOKS SO GOOD, and the HAND coverings 🙌

If only switch could get it 😔

Argh. Found the respirator and a filter, but the respirator was fully ruined and unusable. :/

edit: "ruined" can still be equipped via the radial under the medical tab.

edit: Filters get consumed fast

Tip: When exploring the mine, go to starvation rations (750cal/day), and just drop most of your clothes somewhere you'll remember. It's huge and there's a lot of coal. There's one part where you want a hatchet to break through some boards. I haven't figured out what's past that, probably just extra loot.

You can run through most poison clouds so save your mask for when you're down to like 10 seconds breath. Be warned the BREATH COUNTER DOES NOT RESET and when you take off your mask that is how much time you'll have left.

Insulated flask: 5 different types.

• Jackrabbit flask is "rare".
• Insulated flask is 0.3kg with 1 herbal tea, so I think they're all 0.20kg base plus their contents.
• It's a container that can contain cups of coffee, like a backpack.
• Doesn't consume a gear slot, there's a "transfer" button in the container from your inventory. So now we have containers that can hold items, that's nice, I could see that code being used elsewhere.
• Can't have different types of items in the flask - so you can have up to 0.8L of coffee, herbal tea, tomato soup.

They seem all functionally identical for weight/capacity.

Found an insulated flask by the Machine in the office by the belt.

I don't know when this was added, but there's a workbench in Forsaken Airfield on the northern island. Very nice. I have been settled in the cave on the southern edge of that island, and not having to travel all the way to the airfield to do crafting makes that house, or the cave, a more viable base. Not that the occasional day trip to craft and resupply arrows is that bad.

FA continues to be my favourite region for medium-term survival. The lack of beachcombing means you can't last forever (you'll run out of birch eventually, but you can lay in enough bear and moose meat by that point to buy you thousands of days, I'm sure) but the hunting is really easy and the wolves are straightforward to deal with, the forge is really convenient, and the new ZoC connector cave only improves the coal supply.

Travois: 75kg capacity, slows you down more as it gets loaded up, can be collapsed to bring up ropes, can't do steep slopes. Deerhides, saplings, and "other stuff". Can't run. So, no surprises there.

1 deerhide, 2 guts, 4 maple saplings.

• Respirator: 0kg. So it's like the radio etc, I guess you sorta permanently keep it around your neck or something. Needs disposable filter canisters. Found completely decayed at ~550 days, not repairable.
• Miner's coat, can be repaired, found in one of the outer sheds.
• Miner's pants, can be repaired, found in the garage attached to the concentrator.
• Chemical boots, can't be repaired, found in Idle Camp
• Hardhat: 0.4kg: no visible stats.

Scurvy: certain foods have vitamin C. THere’s a “C” icon on foods that indicates major/minor amounts of C. The Thomson Stew is shown with “Major”. Long-term effects are "tough to deal with", the flavour text says "you will continue to weaken and lose condition until you succumb and die". Raph says it'll mostly effect long-term players and is enabled in voyager/stalker/interloper. Not currently disablable in custom games.

• Thomson Family Stew: major
• ranger stew: moderate
• canned corn: moderate
• coho salmon: major
• rabbit: none
• rainbow trout: major
• rockfish: none
• wolfmeat: none

So it may be a motivation to actually fish or at least beachcomb. A fish once in a while may be enough to get by sustainably.