Road to 500 Days - Part 68: Every Tale Has an End

[@Bearmauler]

When I saw End in title , I got scared for while xD

[@CaramelAshe]

Same, my first thought was fear that Zak had died

[@marygatdula2744]

Me too! I actually said, "Uh oh!, out loud. LOL I'm glad we were all wrong.

[@youcal]

For a sec I thought that too but then I was like "Maybe Zak is talkin' about Tales from the Far Territory actually" glad to see it's the latter hshshss

[@senilepanda6928]

Hey Zak I don’t know if you’ll see this but you have been the biggest help in mastering this game. I’ve gotten to well over 100 days in every mode but interloper and I’m finally sitting down to start it. The tips and tricks you give hopefully will help me get to 100 days in interloper. Much love brother keep doing great.

[@Zaknafein]

Thank you and good luck with your runs!

[@sixter4157]

Zak's videos are the main reason I have an interloper run of about 130 days and going.

[@BuckRational]

I think one of the subtle things you do in the videos that I really like is when you talk to Astrid in 3rd person as if you are guiding her through the adventure like a trusted guardian. You only do it occasionally so that's it's not overdone.......yet just enough to feel right.

[@scraglit1064]

My theory is that misery mode is just you actually being effected by Rudiger's machine

[@Charles-gi4zp]

Zak, don’t forget that sled deterioration is greatly increased on roads and RR, so even though you are traveling faster, the sled needs repairs more often. Not such a big deal on short trips, but on one like this out of the Airfield, it can make a big difference when you try to stick to the snow. I definitely always avoid being over a RR bc you get NO bonus to speed and just more deterioration on the travois. More exploring and less maintenance are always a plus!🎉

[@Zaknafein]

Good point

[@Carrie_.]

Hi Zak, I've been thinking, since you've had a few close calls the past few episodes maybe you should put up a poll asking what should happen if you do in fact die! Something like ... End run Yes/No. Cheat death with safe spawn Yes/No , cheat death with risky spawn Yes/No I'm sure you'll be conflicted on what to do if the moment does come so this may help in your decision making! Hopefully you do see this! Happy surviving in the meantime! :)

[@Zaknafein]

Not a bad idea, might do it :)

[@Carrie_.]

@@Zaknafein personally I'll go with cheat death risky spawn but we shall see what the people decide haha 🙈

[@jeremygonzal8603]

Unless the death is because of a bug, I vote against cheating death. But that's just me.

[@JohnMackenzie-y8c]

Another wicked episode, my eloquent brother! Never ceases to amaze me! I bet that title had people sketching! Love it

[@edditto1540]

Interesting idea to move main bases. I've set Trapper's up as a trophy room--relics, weaponry, gold nuggets, one of each species of fish, all the thermoses, etc. Now I'm gradually converting Camp Office into a big supply dump. Loads of food and raw materials. When base customization drops, I might clean it up and try to come up with a use for it.

[@AndyJMacLeod]

In my current run I'm using Settled Mind, and its nice to be able to spend as many nights as I want in each indoor location, without the risk of Cabin Fever. I imagine it will be particularly helpful when it comes to visiting the Far Territories again... If you take cold damage, you can just spend a couple of days recovering before venturing-out again.

[@antonhystrix]

I think the messages say that foreman was the agent from the company that was financing the project. That's why he talks about the "board". And he was trying to make Rudiger accountable. So Rudiger promised some profit but failed.

[@Sunseahl]

My Speculation: Rudiger's plans were made and laid in the 70s/80s, Computer tech in the bunkers fit that time period. His machine activates some time before the "clean slate" protocol decades later... Weeks, maybe months ahead of the first Aurora. This is a thing that it was probably supposed to do back then, track any oncoming natural cataclysmic events... Like the sudden onset of earthquakes before the first aurora. Meanwhile, in Perseverance Mills, The Observatory sees some kind of interference from Rudiger's device activating, infecting the town with Rudiger's malady. This gave enough time for the friend of Astrid IN Perseverance Mills to call for help and transmit samples for Astrid to... Develop a cure, like the Foreman sought. The only thing I can't square away is... How does Rudiger's device only transmit its sickness into Perseverance Mills and not all of great bear?

[@sep.s]

48:33 Love the idea of the main base being the Hunting Lodge - enough space and the interior could look so cool. I do wonder also if they are not going to allow us to move corpses, as you cannot bury them because of the frozen ground

[@sep.s]

(I really don’t like to use the camp office as a base because of the corpse)

[@save.theducks]

@@sep.smaybe we’ll be able to drag him out soon 😂

[@whitedeath47]

Zak, check the photo frame beside washroom in vacant depot. Now that you have completed the tale, you ll be surprised just like me when I came accross. Nothing big or game changing but such small Easter eggs like stuff makes me wonder and weave stories beyond the ones presented in the tale

[@Zaknafein]

Will do!

[@whitedeath47]

​@@Zaknafein yeah just turn behind when the next episode starts and you'll see it :) .. btw I know devs reuse lots of in-game resources but I haven't found this frame except on two incidents i.e. here and on tales.

[@erinblue5872]

Harvesting the cloth under Rudiger made me lol. Btw thanks for all your vids. Ive learned so much that Ive used in my runs watching your 500days series. And I also live in Norway so hello neighbor!

[@atomic_godz]

Finally caught up with the series again! Was waiting to do the tales myself before watching the tales videos. Overall while I liked the idea of the tales, they were just alright. By far I liked buried echoes the most, the security chiefs story there was good, I really felt for her and was glad we could give her a proper burial. But Rudigers whole motivation and story was very cliche and overall it didn't blow me away; feels like they could have done something really special with it but didn't, bit of a missed opportunity imo. Love the new regions though, ZoC and Sundered Pass are genuinely challenging and different from other regions which I appreciate. Part of me wonders if the Trader could be the Foreman considering the Foreman's fate is left unclear...

[@sevoftalpha]

Just throwing it out there, the thought striked me as I was listening to the diaries during the video. I haven't checked if someone else pointed it out, maybe it's just some banal thoughts.. The aurora is just the interaction between solar winds and the magnetic field around the planet. At irregular intervals over Earth's life the magnetic poles have switched positions and during those times the intensity of the field decreased substantially. Usually there is a lead-up period to it and the process takes a long time to fully complete. I'm guessing that maybe... maybe.. this could be used to explain how there is interference with the electrical grid and perhaps satellites. It also might be the reason of the effect on some animal behaviour, many animals depend on the geomagnetic poles to orientate themselves. Pure speculation, but if I had to find a plausible explanation, I'm guessing this one would fit decently.. and well, on top of that, who knows if Rudiger's machine might have increased the localized effects.. anyway! Thanks for the video!

[@xKR95]

Just watched your part 39. I never noticed the painting of trappers cabin, I thought that was quite cool! :)

[@Bacon_sandwich_420.69]

Dropping this comment here on your newest vid. I have not watched it yet. I am still watching tutorials you made and other play lists first. I just bought TLD and the DLC. I watch you in awr as I struggle on Pilgrim.😂 Thanks for all the info though. You got a new sub for all the hard work. ✌️

[@D00ml0rdKazzak]

The +20% faster reading bonus from Settled Mind does work now! It was patched about a month ago. Very strong and convenient perk!

[@theanthem0ftheangels]

Rudiger sounds like Jigsaw to me lol I always expect “would you like to play a game” to come out 😅

[@zach4968]

Zak - sees dead body Zak - "oh no, anyway" 😂

[@marygatdula2744]

LOL.

[@fractalgem]

10:00 Basically "The risk i took was calculated, but boy am I bad at math" XD

[@msamour]

Hi Zak, the foreman is just a private investigator hired by the company to protect the financial interest of the corporation. The foreman mentions something about a Board. I would surmise that Rudinger made some pretty tall promises in order to obtain financing to build his machine. The foreman is not some kinda of hero in my opinion. He's just the corporate guy doing a job for the corporation.

[@jeremygonzal8603]

I'm willing to bet that pile of bones is actually the foreman. Rudiger is being supernaturally affected by the machine, but I'll bet in a different way compared to others. I wouldn't be surprised if the machine has granted him some form of immortality.

[@undercoverj_man]

1:01:50 Yes, I have gotten glimmer fog in transfer pass. I discovered this by staying too long in the transfer region, but it does have at least some chance roll of getting glimmer fog.

[@jeremygonzal8603]

That's strange. Coming from ZoC, I exited to TP while glimmer fog was present, and when I popped up in TP, there was no glimmer fog.

[@undercoverj_man]

@@jeremygonzal8603 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXysi3Swa9GtnM0si=Ky0qC7FGo1O671dP&t=3420 This is when I encountered glimmer fog at the TP

[@antonhystrix]

Finally I watched all playlist and now continue this series "online"!

[@MsHarrisGray]

Now you can go back around the world and get the hidden caches! I can’t remember if you already fixed the DP & Blackrock towers. Methuselah could be the foreman?!?

[@anamelikemine]

the jacket is considered high tier loot. It will only show up on lower difficulties. Don't worry you didn't miss much, it's not very good. The only critique i really have is that there is no "coastal" map in the DLC. Missed opportunity in my opinion.

[@Zaknafein]

Yeah looked it up after and it wasnt a biggie

[@cliffball4478]

Settled Mind DOES help with research. A five hour book takes only four hours if you have it. Incidentally, the ID that you found belonged to Vertansky the Security Chief, why Rudiger kept it I can't imagine.

[@marygatdula2744]

Maybe Rutiger was the "love interest" that she was talking about in her note. ? I can't really remember much about that as it was quite a ways back. But I remember that she wanted to be buried in the place she and her love used to go to.

[@whitedeath47]

@@cliffball4478 they both wanted to uncover the secrets of rudiger and make him accountable for what had happened to all

[@atomic_godz]

​​@@marygatdula2744I don't think it's Rudiger. I'm fairly sure her love interest is the person she was addressing in the log you find at the crashed helicopter, who wasn't on the great bear at that time. She speaks to them in that log quite fondly so that's what I was thinking. She never speaks of Rudiger fondly, and I don't think she even ever mentions the Foreman in her logs, or if she does no big deal is made out of him. As for why the ID is there, I was thinking the Foreman kept it as he does mention how much she held on compared to the others, so we know he was at least impressed by her in that regard. And he just left it behind there for some reason. Because I don't know why Rudiger would have it.

[@jeffcarr5284]

About to do the tales for the first time on my loper file. A bit nervous!

[@kamodt]

In the top of the control tower, there's a post with some steps leading up. Can this be climbed? Has anyone explored this before?

[@Zaknafein]

When I have tried it was not interactable, and if you clip through with mods there is nothing there.

[@Cranberrie123]

Yeah the tactical gloves are apparently bugged

[@bombidil3]

Just like real tacticool gear, looks great but doesn't work!

[@martinbenoit5965]

I start to play survival mode in voyager difficulty 4 years ago. And if remenber well, cabin fever is on. But maybe the time inside to triger it is not the same as in stalker or loper. I have this impression because i play stalker for a very long time and and now i play a few loper as well.

[@The--Illusion]

Hunters Lodge is actually better than trappers cabin in terms of wildlife. Hunters has a bear, moose tons of wolves, rabbits & ptarmigans all at the same time. Trappers only allows either the bear OR the moose, not at the same time. Hunters can have both at the same time, since they are in slightly different locations (moose is in front of the lodge, bear is behind and down from the lodge).

[@vincentgross5417]

On my current loper run I bagged a bear the day after I bagged a moose, all at trapper's

[@The--Illusion]

@@vincentgross5417 yes, that is possible. But they must spawn separately and this chance to happen so close to each other is rather rare. The lodge they can be there at the exact same time

[@atomic_godz]

Lodge feels like a real pain to get to though. Every time you want to go back you have to walk past the maintenance shed wolves, the lake wolves, and the wolves beside the lodge. Also no fishing hut in BR iirc so scurvy is more annoying to deal with. Can't beat camp office really!

[@leafsfan2108]

@@atomic_godzI agree, hunting lodge is not ideal. FYI, you can now dig a fishing hole in the ice in BR

[@isaaco5679]

If it wasn't for the glimmer fog I would love the far territory.

[@dabass5487]

So the safehouse customization will allow us to take items from inside areas like paintings and signs etc, I wonder if we can take the lightable wall lamps from the zoc mines or maybe craft some kind of similar lighting decor

[@Zaknafein]

That would be interesting

[@AvatarOfBlues]

Don't you dare clickbait me again - iwas so scared when i saw the thumbnail that you encountered death after all those close encounters before ! But had me on my edge :D

[@marygatdula2744]

LOL. You aren't alone!

[@PiggySage]

Im currently playing on Voyager and i have cabin fever risk. It took me making a wolf coat and the moose satchel back to back to even get a low risk.

[@The--Illusion]

Ive seen blizzards with durations in excess of 14 hours in interloper (with aurora monitor showing the actual duration)

[@atomic_godz]

Seen multiple 24hr blizzards in sundered pass, that region gets crazy with them

[@r00tbeard]

EPISODE 5 *SPOILER* - You reach Perseverance Mills, meet up with Astrid and give her the mysterious hard case which simply contains Astrid’s skincare routine

[@johnnyburton5527]

So odd combo ideas for badges. You could go what I'm calling Full Nerd and do the bookworm and settled mind when working properly. Read every thing you come across and end up with lvl 3 skills extremely fast and soon after lvl 5. It's really a bigger benefit early game that way except you have the added bonus of no Cabin Fever. Which is the one thing I don't like about this game, lol.

[@AmplifyChris]

26:27 was there a proof the foreman is real? What if rudiger is schizophrenic?

[@Zaknafein]

Its possible. I did find it odd that the Foreman is always able to track him

[@marygatdula2744]

Well, unless Rudiger shot himself in the head and then hid the gun, I think that the foremen is real. But Lord knows, it wouldn't be the first time my logic went astray! LOL

[@kk76a]

It's not airtight evidence, but there is the tool belt and alleged polaroid photo of him, and he had an office at the mine

[@whitedeath47]

@@AmplifyChris during the tale you have to find the key of foreman's office. So I yeah he was in real.

[@AmplifyChris]

@@whitedeath47 what if the Forman was rudiger? And the missing gun, maybe it’s a plothole…

[@dominikszabo8757]

Hey Zak I finished the tale today literraly 5 min before the vid went up

[@canadianobserver5552]

the settled mind research perk does work.. most books that take 5 hrs only take 4 with the perk etc... cheers

[@jeremygonzal8603]

I was kind of alarmed thinking you died in this episode. =) The title, you see.

[@legokyky4547]

Yay new episode!!!

[@martinbenoit5965]

About the trader location i think he will be in FA. Because it will be to easy if it was in low great Bear island.

[@marygatdula2744]

I hope not! I just left FA. I accidentally ended up in ZOC, but I'm heading out of there ASAP! Saving that til later. I'm really homesick! LOL

[@Kaosad69]

I am interested to see how the trader will get implemented. If you make it too easy it essentially makes the game slightly broken, but too hard and I don't think it will actually get used a lot.

[@martinbenoit5965]

@@marygatdula2744 yes i understand. I think we all miss the sweet heat of stove of camp office, or 6 burn stove of the farm, or from quonset fire barril. It will be a amazing if the safe house customisation give us "home sweet home" sign. 😁

[@martinbenoit5965]

@@Kaosad69 my Assumption for the trader location is transfer pass or a New way/region from transfer pass. But I could be totally wrong.

[@TheSasudomi]

17:45 that is not entirely true though. I am currently 725 days in on my interloper run and I had the cabin fever risk twice. Once around day 80 and the second time on day 720.

[@Zaknafein]

What exactly wasnt quite true, sorry? I get cabin fever risk almost every time I craft, hehe.

[@TheSasudomi]

​@@Zaknafein First off - it wasn't meant to insult or anything, was just typing without thinking. I meant that you don't really get the CF that much on interloper particularly, since you should always be on move, not that much time to be spent inside.

[@Zaknafein]

@@TheSasudomi no worries, I wasnt offended :) I just wasnt clear. In principle I agree, but as the run progresses then you spend time indoors more. Depends on the player, though.

[@TheSasudomi]

@@Zaknafein That is true indeed, yes. I am moving between bases every day, staying in one place only for crafting once in a while.

[@ConatusGames]

I wonder if the travois decays more quickly on the road than on snow.

[@Zaknafein]

It does

[@ConatusGames]

@ awesome, thanks! Thought I’d have to hunt this down in a Bashrobe video. (Probably still will! His stuff is fun)

[@tomislavandros2081]

What happens if travois get to zero condition, with stuff in it. Do u lose stuff?

[@marygatdula2744]

I'd like to know also! I didn't realize it would wear down so quickly!

[@JonathanRossRogers]

Why did you take the long way back to Transfer Pass?

[@Zaknafein]

What do you mean? Compared to going through the cave again? Edit: Oh you mean the hiking route. It's too awkward with the travois.

[@JonathanRossRogers]

@@Zaknafein It's not obvious to me that the shortcut would be more awkward than the way you went. In each case, you'd have to pick up the travois a couple of times and travel a short distance encumbered. You'd take less cold damage on the shortcut.

[@alexchameleon8497]

I wish you start Subnautica (Death Run mod), the greatest and the hardest way to play this game, almost noone can finish it.

[@Zaknafein]

Maybe one day. Subnautica is great

[@mattcoccopuffs]

Maybe we can trade the watch to the trader for some good loot

[@dominant-dominic7123]

You do get cabin fever in voyager

[@Bobywan75]

Too bad you don't have the camera and dark room yet, there was some great shots there.

[@kamodt]

Why are the skeletons in the tale without clothing? Rudiger is lying on a still intact blanket, so it's not like his clothing would disintegrate. Also,, none of the bodies we run into, inside or out, are still clothed. Weird.

[@Zaknafein]

Hehe its best not to think about it

[@vincentgross5417]

Judging by the tech found in the bunkers, events from the tales happened in the late 60's/early 70's, so plenty of time for soft organic matter to waste away. Although realistically speaking, due to the cold and dryness the bodies would more likely be mummified

[@marygatdula2744]

You mean, the bodies ARE still clothed, right? I have never seen a corpse without clothing, so I assume that was a typo?

[@akeny1]

when i dragged the sled back from the airport to camp office it took me around an hour and half, mostly because the game crashed when it tried to load a new zone and two the sled was at max weight and so was I ( I don't have the backpack yet) ate so many rabbit pies, there was a few spots where I had to drop gear and unload the sled and move it I think next time I go to the airport I'm going to bring to sleds so I'm not dropping gear on the ground

[@chrisbolland5634]

I got the gloves thing too, it's just because the knuckles are so tall, they didn't think it was obnoxious enough to change it.

[@SeenIzax]

Don't think you can get glimmer fog in transfer pass.

[@freckles2437]

Click Bait or what 😂

[@NielsMulvad]

Isn't the foreman the Darkwalker? He chases you around... Or an allegory for the darkwalker.