The Long Dark Guide | Beginner's Guide Part 4: Risk Management 

Glad to see you back Lonely! It's been a minute! 😊

good video style, personally never got to grips with guns as a defense mechanism in the long dark and probably never will given that I'm a solid interloper player who sees any amount of loot as too much loot. Planning is definitely important and the necessary skills of being aware of how to evade danger is definitely something everyone needs to learn playing this game regardless of difficulty. I feel like new players get in these traps of single objectives and also not seeing the game as the diverse sandbox that is it.

Great vídeo man

Great tips, been getting back into the Long Dark after beta phase. Keep it up :)

Hehehehehe, I am terrible at risk management. Well, not terrible, just insane lol, I like the dopamine hits. For example (using your stalker run wolf encounter at the end there) I will often just pop a flare and then carry on with my goal while ignoring the wolves completely. It is trading a single resource (the flare) to make the wolf problem not a problem anymore, kinda like firing the warning shot early is trading the bullet to make the wolf go away, but it's a bit more exciting to me to have them circling and barking at my heels the whole way instead of walking in the quiet. At least I always know where they are... 🤣 In all seriousness tho, risk management is very much a needed skill to survive for a long run, and you explained it really well here! I ended up losing my completely naked stalker run on day 80-something because I was too dumb to drop half my crap at the PV farmhouse and make two trips to Signal Hill instead of one stupidly overweight one. Minimizing risk definitely minimizes poor decision making!

I usually tend to play super risky until i get to ~100 days in a run and dont wanna lose everything 😂

I get the feeling you integrated our conversation about that early wolf encounter in DP we had both in the comments of that video and on you Discord server into this episode. In general, I would strongly agree that any risk management decisions that result in a wolf struggle, bear mauling or moose stomping was from a series of poor decisions. For those of you new to TLD watching this video and reading the comments, another tactic Lonely could have used to manage risk when he knows he's being funneled close to a wolf is getting low and crouching, which means he makes less noise, and is harder for the wolf to see (though smell is unaffected), and thus less likely he'll get into an encounter with that wolf. Of course, he has to balance that against his temperature, condition, and speed, as crouching means you're caution is at the cost of speed. This can cost you health cnd to cold and other in world conditions, or leave you a sitting duck if the wolf is headed right for you anyways. You have to take this things into account and decide what's the better choice. Also, get familiar with the different gear and how it works, in TLD there's no such thing as one weapon that's categorically better in every way. The revolver Lonely used in his first example has low range and relatively low stopping power, but if he'd chosen to take his first shot as soon as the wolf charged, he can aim and shoot it fast enough to get at least 2, maybe even 3 shots off, and each shot exponentially increases his odds of not having to deal with a wolf struggle as loud gunshots will normally scare a charging wolf, unless it's about to begin the struggle lunge, in which case, consider that his momentum's carrying him into you and he's already past the point of no return, he has to struggle with you like it or not. If Lonely had the rifle instead, he'd only have one shot at the distance that wolf initiated his charge. The rifle is much slower to aim, and is bolt action, meaning he has to cock it to chamber the next round, which takes time, time he wouldn't have had, so you may need to make your one shot count - or shoot wildly hoping the sound will scare the wolf off wither you hit or not. What if he had the bow ready? Well that's also one shot at the wolf, but it's highly unlikely a missed shot will scare the wolf now, so he needs to make it a hit. Only a hit or maybe a near miss will trigger fear in the wolf, so he'd need to consider that in choosing when to shoot, and how much time to spend aiming his shot. Same goes for your other gear. Clothing can keep you warm and dry, but also slow you down, yet it can also shield you from damage. For example, in one situation, I was mauled by a bear I couldn't really avoid, we came over a ridge nose to nose. But I knew there was a small chance a bear COULD be over that ridge, so I'd put on the bullet proof vest and because of this, it limited the damage the bear did to me to about a fifth what it normally would be. Had I not swapped clothing items to one that gave me maximum armour protection, I'd have been in rough shape in that unlucky event. These are just a few more examples of what lonely talks about in this episode to further drive his point home.

Well you got decent content and a non annoying voice so I'll toss ya a like