The time of yr has arrived the place I regularly look out my window hoping for a everlasting blanket of snow the best way vacation motion pictures at all times promised me there could be. As common, it’s boring and bleak on the market and I look to games like The Long Dark to flee the drabness of my precise environment. Nothing says vacation cheer like constructing a fireplace of twigs in a survival game to keep away from dying of publicity so I’m glad I’ve been given a purpose in addition up The Long Dark once more this season with the upcoming replace known as Errant Pilgrim.
Hinterland introduced in a blog post final week that The Long Dark’s subsequent Survival Mode replace will include a superb chunk of adjustments in mid-December. Most would name the addition of a brand new area objectively most vital. The Long Dark’s Survival Mode was the entire game earlier than Hinterland started releasing story episodes, with solely a pair distinct explorable zones within the sandbox at first.
“This will be our first region to feature a two-part environmental puzzle of sorts,” Hinterland’ say. Opening up your complete space to discover will apparently contain coming into the map from numerous instructions, presumably related by the game’s different areas. I’ve performed my fair proportion of The Long Dark and may guarantee you this implies loads of trekking by means of the snow, typically at evening, consuming chilly pet food out of a can.
A brand new explorable zone does sound grand however let me inform you about an much more vital re-addition. Hinterland’s submit mentions that this replace will mark the return of Fluffy. If you don’t know the monster, rely your self fortunate. “Fluffy,” is the fan-given title of a wolf recognized to protect a dam connecting The Long Dark’s first explorable zone to the following. Fluffy is the rationale that, till the Story Mode was launched, I by no means managed to win my means by means of Carter Hydro Dam into the second space. According to Hinterland, Fluffy is coming again and is perhaps armed with some timberwolf associates. Will fluffy return to the dam to proceed guarding in opposition to silly gamers like me who have been by no means in a position to defeat her? Or, just like the timberwolves that Hinterland guarantees are (for now) solely within the new area, will she be guarding some new location?
There are another adjustments coming with the replace you can examine in Hinterland’s November dev diary like a brand new community-inspired Challenge Mode, new feats (achievements), and a few new however unmentioned survival instruments for late within the game. Trust me after I inform you that Fluffy is what that you must bear in mind in regards to the Errant Pilgrim replace. Never neglect Fluffy. That’s when she strikes.
If you’re making an attempt The Long Dark for the primary time, it’s on sale on Steam in the mean time.
