


Seriously, I lost my best survivors due to underprepared climbing and sleeping off damage. And don’t climb and sleep long periods unless you’re sure it’s safe.

Just remember that this game will try to kill you - watch where and when you sleep, and always keep a flare and a stim handy. Also, not a lot of wolves and alternative routes that let you avoid them Basing in the dam or trapper's homestead should give you easy access to fuel, workbench, game and an interior location fireplace (down the stairs at the dam) and a good base to make exploring trips. I'd suggest starting in mystery lake - plenty of resources and a nice-to-navigate map make it the best starting point in my opinion. If you're going for it I'd suggest playing custom, explorer or voyager sandbox, since rifle skill requires bullets, and you might just not find enough on interloper, and stalker takes about 200 h of gameplay to do it. EDIT: The following is based on experience gathered since the preview, so it might get weird somewhere, the game took a couple of turns since then :)
