The Long Dark has been in early entry for 5 years now. To rejoice all that point within the snowy wastes, builders Hinterland have introduced the discharge date for chapter three of the game’s story mode, and tinkered with just a bit little bit of time journey.
I’ll admit, I haven’t fairly saved up with The Long Dark’s story. I used to be a bit daft, writing off a mode that pressured me to desert my badass lass for a rosy-nosed mountain man. But hey! Episode Three swaps out ol’ Will Mackenzie, protagonist of the primary two components, to place you into the frostbitten footwear of Dr. Astrid, so perhaps it’s time to choose issues again up. Here’s a quick teaser for the replace, which arrives October 22nd.
Episode three, Crossroads Elegy, picks up the place the final two episodes left off. There’s not way more to go on to this point, though Hinterland’s Raphael Van Lierop suggests some seismic shifts in his five-year recap blog post.
“In our own way, and in our own style, it moves the story forward. I don’t expect all of you to like it. But it’s a story that is true to the world of The Long Dark, true to Astrid, and I believe, also true to the world we live in today.”
The different a part of its five-year birthday is the Time Capsule, a newly playable archive of 15 of the game’s main updates. You can now soar into the game and expertise how the game was at that time in improvement, from the earliest entry launch by every new map, mechanic and replace. These variations of the game aren’t supported, for apparent causes, however there’s directions for tips on how to entry every of them by Steam at that hyperlink.
Picking up The Long Dark on Steam will internet you entry to Crossroads Elegy when it releases, on high of the primary two chapters in all their Redux glory. All future episodes of the story mode will arrive at no further price, too. And if story isn’t your suppose, The Long Dark remains to be a correct sensible survival sandbox, properly well worth the value of admission alone.
