Sundered Pass: Blind Playthrough on Interloper 

The devs have tricked the players with this region. They put a road that leads upwards because they know that all players will follow the road because they think they will find shelter there. And instead they let 4 packs of timber wolves spawn at the end of the road. I have not seen any timber wolves anywhere else in the entire area, I even reached the weather station on a different way without encountering any.

That beginning was insane! It´s like taken from a Jack London novel. Lone survivor struggles her way up a desolate mountain, fights off several packs of timberwolves, and takes refuge in a hut, surrounded by the wolfpacks. When all hope seems lost, the wolves suddenly flee. Taking advantage of the opportunity, she leaves the hut only to stand face to face with the reason the wolves fled... the bear.

"I think it's enought of stones" 2 seconds later... *Pickup a stone

"PO. TA. TOES." - a brave Hobbit Thank you, Zack, this was wonderful.

You can actually enter the cabin that has been snowed in thru the window

The part with the bridge "jump" was wonderful lol. Reminded me of a friend of mine who regularly does things like that when they reach day 100 😂. I'm learning Interloper, but have only survived 37 days there so far. I reached 500 in Voyager and literally cried because it was so hard and I was so happy to hit that milestone. This game gives me so much joy. ❤

"release your inner stim" - I love your commentary! it brings great joy to the snowy survival treks

I spent 25 ish days in Sundered Pass and spent around 100 pistol bullets on timber wolfs. (stalker mode) Still I got to borrow a cat hat from a local cougar.... The new map is brilliant. And Hinterland are truelly masters at their craft!

Zak I can NOT wait for you to take on misery mode! So exciting. New map is gorgeous, though. Music is perfect

The first hour of this video had me hollering! From the 250 timberwolves to the bear. Whenever you said "thanks door" i laughed so hard. Great vid zak!

I'm IN LOVE with this region. This for sure got into my top 5 regions especially on interloper. Its hard but fair because there is shelter everywhere, i LOVE the soundtrack, i love the little cabins ugh.... its so good

I’m 46 min in so far and have been on the edge of my seat!!

When fighting the timberwolves at the cabin (40:00) you could have just passed time in the bed or just in front of the fireplace. After about 2 or 3 ingame hours they will often disengage. This is my tactic when I travel through blackrock and a wolfpack wants to eat me. I run to the nearest car or truck and pass time inside. Hobbit

I am 3-4 days in Sundered Pass 500+ days Stalker and I am glad I brought 70 rifle rounds, wolves have me down to 30 now. Keeping an eye out for the Cougar because I have NO idea what its capable of. This map makes Ash Canyon feel like Pleasant Valley.

"On my Wintertop run, I met a hobit named D.H.Dunn. His feet were hairy and he called me Barry." :D

That rope climb when you go past the fishing hut is ridiculous. I couldn't climb it with full stamina and rest. I had to make the improv crampons to make it

A warning to you all. If you do the last part in Last Horizon, do not sleep or leave the building. The door will be permanently locked.

glad I watched this before entering 😨 almost lost my current loper run(day 117)

After checking it out myself fully, I really appreciate this region. Your video definitely helped me make a plan for exploration and it sure is the most challenging map so far, I'd say. As a Stalker player I'm definitely not used to being 3 arrows cold outside if it's not a blizzard, but here it basically happens regularly. After getting rather comfortable with my gameplay, having some genuinely risky situations helps set things in perspective and reminds you that the world is actually against you. I also couldn't imagine dealing with these timberwolves without being able to pump them full of lead. The map also made me realize how different of a feel the Far Territory has compared to Lower Great Bear. With these huge and empty desolate regions, it does feel like a whole different experience when compared to the civilized areas in the base game or even to things like Timberwolf Mountain, which still feels smaller and more comfortable in comparison. It's great how they achieved making the DLC feel like a genuine extension rather than just another map.

And now that you have made all this effort to show us the new region, I can easily do it do, on my Voyager run. Such a gorgeous place. What a great video, Zak. Thanks a lot, man!

Glad you had an early view on the new content.. * * * * * P.s. Well deserved..

That beginning was a nail biter...omg 🙀 your ability to navigate those ledges is legendary 😅

If you are "Gandalf", why didn't you use your staff to see inside the mines? Ahahah. Very interesting and intense blind playthrough !!!

This is my favorite region, it’s beautiful

That broken bridge jump attempt cracked me up so hard! Fun stuff, Zak. 😊

I love the scenary of this region and everything about it the large amounts of timberwolves

I counted 9 timber wolves on screen at one time during the siege of that last cabin and I think from the movements there might have been more. That's an insane amount of wolves, and in real life if you get 2 packs of wolves they will fight each other until one of the packs leaves, here you don't have that distraction.

the go away, go away, at 31:40 reminded me of Lars Monsen across Canada with the black bear

Now we know why it took so long for this part of the update to come out, the developers had to convince every single freakin timberwolf in blackrock and bleak inlet to move in to this new region, i wonder what kind of deal they settled on lol.

There was a can opener on the floor by the toilet in the ruined building.

Didn't finish the entire video here so not sure if you did this but you can go in the cabin that has been buried from an avalanche! You go on the roof and through the front window!

You can get to the new region directly from transfer pass. There is a new rope which leads you to a fairly long path from TP to SP, it practically doubles TP in size.

Timberwolves ....hah i use the Power of Custom Mode to make them disappear

Spoiler. In those small cabins at the start, if you turn toward the door and look up, you can find containers/backpacks.

Thanks a lot for this playthrough and congratulations for the chance and honour to have early access to this. Though, it was more reminiscent of the Hobbits crossing the Caradhras Pass rather than Weathertop. ;-) Now I'm looking forward to check it out on my Stalker run. It is an interesting region and it fits to the rather...wide and empty regions of the Far Territory. I'm not the biggest fan of the timberwolves, but it makes sense that the Far Territory has a timberwolf region, too and at least they seem to be confined to that avalanche plateau.

the path to get to Sundering from Transfer is really cool. From the depot, take the road toward Zone, but then immediately turn left and start uphill. You will discover a road that winds up into the mountains. Make sure you are within weight limits, because you will need to climb a rope.

Those matches you got in that cave is the game changer... Flares on the Weather Station is the X Factor.. Sticks on the forest on lower part are important before you go up..

Thanks for the tour and taking us along on the blind learning experience. That weathertop area would have made a hobbit proud, if they had any pride.

having explored the area and done the tale I find myself screaming at the screen every time you walk past something important and don't see it, but then upset with myself when I see the things you find that I missed haha. Good video! :)

zak this was so so so fun to watch, just wanna show some appreciation, love your content and your ability to keep me engaged for 4 hours, lots and lots of love

Oh, it is big map and cold. So many wolves. I died my third day there after a 400+ day game. Looking forward to replaying and getting back there!

Thx for the video i was rly waiting for that

20:41 That house is actually accessible through a window on the upper floor and there should always be matches inside and a marine flare outside the window.

This was an unexpected journey of a video! Good to see that the weather cleared up at the top of the trail!

Your videos are the only experience I have with ZoC and SP lol. I haven’t even finished the first tale! I’m still super blind to the contents of TFTFT.

All those timberwolves at the cabin cracked me up so much! 😂

I really want to see you map this region in lower difficult fully gear...

Yes, I've been waiting for this since monday!

„Say friend and enter“ a riddle for the hobbit

1:28:27 the wolves go toward noise, when you run, it’s the equivalent of throwing a stone, they go to investigate.

It’s so funny when you’re saying “cmon”.

TLDR "DON'T SLEEP IN RUDIGER'S BED" Hi Zak and fans. There is a nasty bug at the end of the quest. Don't sleep in the bed or it could be the end of your run. Mine is over now 396 days 😪 can't get out of the area because it closed behind me and you can't interact with the door from the other side. No spoiler nasty don't make my mistake. Don't sleep in his bed...

They added a crazy new feat to the update Its called "Big Cat Killer" And the buff... sounds crazy And another one that makes you IMMUNE to Cabin Fever

I can't believe you walked past the snow-covered house so many times (at least 6 times) and you didn't notice that you could enter the house through a window. The house is next to the ruin where you took water from the toilet ;)

I always felt like Timberwolf Mountain was also a recreation area.

I’ve definitely taken a bear for a walk to keep me safe from timberwolves before. I wonder how well that would work on this map

Great video love the new region!

don't know if this is only on lower difficulties (playing on voyager) but have found matches on 3 different runs in the snowed in cabin, it was either on a corpse or in a bag in the house, all 3 times, only guaranteed spawn i found. definitely one of the harder, if not the hardest region in the game imo, as mentioned i play on voyager, even on that difficulty, as soon as you reach the plateau at hut B, you are mostly cold outside even in afternoon / late day, sunny / windy or not. Timberwolf packs are at least 5 strong and as you showcased there are quite a few packs even on voyager. Have not checked the whole map yet but i would have liked a bit more wood/sticks once you are at the plateau at hut B. Friendly spoiler free advice for people wanting to do the tales: Bring the bearskin bedroll, coffee, tea, and even a thermos :) Thank you for the fun videos, will enjoy seeing you finish the tales on your 500 days run, don't cut it so close anymore as last episode, want to see you reach the 500 mark

I love it when you started and said something about "well fed" 😅

Thanks for a good vid as always! I just got sick and was so happy when i saw it’s 4 hours long. Say Hi to the hobbits at the weather top!

Thanks for the vid zack, looks extremely difficult in this region

Its so hard to watch him stand right next to the cabin and not go in lol, but you have to climb on top of the roof and go in through the window, lol. @1:30:00

@Zak thanks for this - I watched through it after my own playthrough of the region to see if you spotted anything I hadn't. Wow it is a tough one for sure. Hopefully those hobbits in weathertop make it out alive :D Re: matches - fairly certain they guaranteed in that mine. I also found some there but in a different location. Spawn -> Weather Station -> Mine does seem like a good route. I also found a hammer in the region.

Those appear to be werewolves. Climbing walls. 😂

Sigh... I wish I could watch this already. But I'm waiting for bug fixes and mod updates before I head in myself and want to go in blind. But I will watch it eventually! Just so you know. I'm sure there are other like me.

I'm dyin'! 😂 all those timbies, then a bear shows up 😂😂😂

This region will be known for its massive amount of timberwolves instead of its temperatures. Not sure if it's what Hinterland was aiming for, but yeah.

Hello Zak, just in case no one hasn't noticed it yet, at 1:17:23 you missed a can opener on the ground, on the wooden flooring, just where the snow starts

I really like this map. It feels isolated. It feels lonely. There are no deer and lots of ptarmigans which is awesome. Craziest thing as a stalker player is there is no loot in this region. I looted it entirely on stalker and i found a can opener and about 4000 calories. No clothes, no TOOLS, no guns except one in the weather station.

Zak, Enjoyed the run(s). I have not found a single match in Sundered Pass on Pilgrim. Not saying there are none but I entered the region thinking the 6 cardboard I had on me would be fine. And it will be because there are lots of flares. And besides it is pilgrim. Living on sodas and deer carcass. Others have already said what I thought of except that this is a great region!

I'd just like to share my experience. I came to Sundered Pass and climbed a rope inside the cave system to get there. Not sure if there is another way that leads to the lower level of the region but that's how it happened for me. After emerging from the cave, I kept left. I had full condition but it got cold really fast since the sun was setting and apparently I was already high up where it's supposed to be colder. Suddenly, an aurora hit. I was of course concerned since there were SIX aurora wolves in the distance. I tried to crouch walk past them but from miles away, I heard the dreaded howls. These were actually aurora timberwolves! I had no idea this region would have timberwolves! I still managed to fight them off with the cheap campfire torch trick. I kept going until a second pack started howling mere minutes from dispatching the first pack. I started making a fire, but suddenly, the aurora was gone. In its place was a blizzard. I was in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night with no idea where the nearest shelter was. Even if I knew where it was, timberwolves had surrounded me and I couldn't obviously do my campfire torch throwing strategy. So in the middle of a blizzard and putting the wall behind me, I started shooting at them. I managed to drop their morale enough, but I was still in a blizzard and I had zero idea how to even get back to the cave system. On top of that, I got bit twice and suffered two bleeds that I wasn't able to immediately patch up because the wolves were relentless. My condition was at about 20% Fortunately, I found a small nook safe from the wind near a broken bridge. There, I started another campfire, but I had only 1 coal left with very few sticks. Checking the temperature, it was a whopping minus 48 degrees. And I was in cover! No way I could fight against that severity of cold because the rope climb in the cave forced me to drop most of my firewood and coal thinking I'd be able to find more in the region. How wrong I was. I exhausted most of my birch bark tea as I drank them again and again as soon as the game allowed me to. I brought 27 birch bark preps and 12 birch bark tea. At the same time, I used the new bear bedroll I just made. Even combined with the fire I had which was only about 20+ degrees, it wasn't enough to warm me but I still used it each time I drank birch bark tea to slow down my warmth loss. After some time, I realized I was almost ompletely out of fuel. Only thing left were my torches, 2 of them 100%, about 5 of them about 70%. I had to scrap them to feed sticks to the fire, but the blizzard was still going. I had to resort to my final desperation move; pulling a torch, harvesting it, then putting it back in. Doing this can sustain campfires way longer than it's supposed to be. That was my last trick, my last stick, my last torch, my last hope. Finally, past afternoon, the blizzard let up. I was so frustrated when I saw a small shack that was very very near from where I fought for my life. A lot more happened while I was there. Right now though, I am at full retreat. I just found the cave system again. I am out of fuel, out of birch bark tea, out of almost everything. From 8 arrows, I had 4 left. I will be back. Now THIS is a friggin exciting map! Forsaken Airfield can eff off. Sundered Pass kept me so engaged and at the edge of my seat. I LOVE THIS REGION!!!

When you were surrounded by timberwolves it felt like you were at Weathertop with the Nazgûl all around…

So apparently the key to the house room is at the weather station, you need the short wave radio set to bunker mode to find it during an Arora. So I'm assuming you need to repair the forsaken airfield tower to get it.

I went to Sundering with my Tales run, plenty of good clothes, transponder, good run. Got an aurora the first night, probably as planned, even got a signal. It led me to a cache with lots of ammo, but no clues. Working my way uphill now, hoping to find something at the weather station.

Zak's finding a lot more potatoes than I have. I wonder if that's a loot bug from creating a custom game like the existence of firearm cleaning kits.

2:13:40 Zak is sо humble, dоesn't want tо brag that he's already survived 70 days оn this new misery mоde withоut even rest a single hоur))

Ngl I love hearing Zak get as frustrated as the rest of us. He's subtle but it's there haha

Love the new updates, they're doing such a great job with all this new content. Though I must say there are quite a few bugs in the game right now, so hopefully they'll get some of those patched soon. Edit: also great video Zak!!

I got lost in the lower part during some glimmer fog, started praying to StZak to show the way and eventually found the indoor cave. Went up and came out near like 20 Timberwolves which was pretty wicked finding them in heavy fog ended up staying in the fishing hut overnight and almost froze. This region is like totally awesome.

I like that there where curtains in the last home cabin. Need those for bandages or possibly a snow shelter if there is enough lol. Hat and gloves if you find a sewing kit on interloper.

Those timber wolves...i've never been so stressed watching TLD 😅

Good job dude

"My inventory is a stick" LMAO

Great content

Cabin fever can be a bit tricky in this region because the outdoor caves are spread pretty thin, but all the best base locations do still have a cave nearby

I'm only watching this now that I've explored the region some myself... Wow it's so hard. Granted I'm not a hardcore Interloper player, I'm usually on Stalker. But I started off trying out Sundered Pass on Voyager because I just wanted to explore without much stress. I ended up stuck at the Refuge C, freezing and out of firewood, surrounded by 2 aggro'd timberwolf packs. I'd already fought off multiple other packs and gone through my flares doing so to get up there, and then I realized that the road didn't even continue that way. With that run over, I spawned in on what I think was my first time ever playing Pilgrim, just so that I could figure out how to get to the top without worrying about the timberwolves. AND EVEN ON PILGRIM THOSE REFUGE CABINS WEREN'T WARM WITHOUT A FIRE!!!

On a spot on the fence at the weather station you can manage to go out of bounds

Just made this 10 hour day a little less long

20:45 the cabin you're looking at is the one my 643 day stalker runs character is stuck in because I was curious enough to climb the snow onto the roof then to the lil part sticking out in front of the door, I then thought hey can I make a campfire here and heat up some coffees? Yes you can then as I'm going to move coffees around I notice an option that says cabin so I click on it. For anyone who kept reading this far don't click on it I'm now stuck in that cabin, that was my best run I had basically every bit of special/unique loot, had multiple strong bases outside my main in ML, guess I'll never get that gold nugget back to base this was the first run I found it on and I've put 1500 hours in this game. My heart hurts it would've been better if I died because now there's a cheat death mechanic, if I die in the snowed in cabin I probably can't get my stuff back

Rough and tense good effort.

Interloper is tough.. To consistently stay warm youll have to keep drinking your meds (things you harvest) and it gives you some calories but man it can be a draining process.. youll definitely feel it but youll be alive

1:17:24 is that a can opener on the floor?

20:42 you climb on the edge of the roof and go through the window, but you probably discovered that after the video 😊

Found out that you can climb through the open window on the awning of that cabin covered in snow, surrounded by all the timberwolves

Zak, my friendly friend, you are an amazing TLD player when you know the variables/probability etc. However your decision making with off the cuff unknowns are terrible........so terrible I was thoroughly entertained with this video, if only you could make more content like this..... loved it, keep up the good work.

I also did a blind playthrough but found out you go up on top of the roof on the cabin he tried to get too, between the timber wolvers. That house is big and might make for a decent base but it comes with timbers.

9:05 - This spawn is basically the same of get into the new region coming from Transfer Pass - if choose high path, there's one lower, both still on Transfer Pass. Problem in spawn in this map is the the cold interior of cabins, huge distances between then and scarce firewood around, specially in the upper level.

In Transfer Pass there is a climbable wall, but there isnt any rope there.. I think thats one of the way's into the New Region.. Ps. Not sure thow.. :) P.s.2 - Starting in the new Region, is probably not a good Idea if you dont know what you're doing.. (Even if you do..!!, look's vr. hard..)

I visited sundered pass for the first time, got glimmer fog and damn it totally killed my FPS on steam! Didn't have an FPS counter up but it was down to like below 5FPS at times. I've dealt with glimmer fog in the other 2 regions and it's been totally fine, holding my FPS. I lowered from ultra to high and it was absolutely fine after that.

1:10:07 that timberwоlf was like: srew yоu, guys, I'm gоin' hоme))