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r/thelongdark•
blitzAnswer

Suggestion for your interloper games

Gameplay

Try to play without a single fire. No matches, no firestarters, no lens.

I have seen many people complain about matches and the lack thereof in their interloper starts. What they don't realize is that it is possible to survive for 20-40 days and loot most of the game without any kind of fire. Water can be gotten from toilets in every second map. Heat can be gotten in most buildings. In that time, you should be able to loot 200+ matches, a couple firestarters and a lens.

Posted Jun 12, 2019, 8:01 PM UTC

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Erebus2263•

Most of the areas have easily accessible starting matches.

The exception is starting in Forlorn Muskeg where I think the only guarantee spawn on matches is the forge area. Mystery Lake doesn't have any guarantee match spawns IIRC so you will have to rely on the lens or the few flares.

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prplmnkeydshwsr•

Matches aren't a problem for Interloper, as long as you know where to look. There are some in every spawn region and then whatever you find in containers (that does seem to vary a bit depending on the update).

Interesting concept for a run, not sure how fun it would be having to wait in some of the indoor locations to warm before rushing to the next. Is the concept not to start a fire until you have 200 matches? Have you done it?

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blitzAnswerOP•

The concept is not to start a fire until you die. It's a bit silly, but it gives a time limit to the game. It's also a good timeframe to explore all of the maps.

I've done it, I'm now trying to extend my duration by not eating food that creates thirst, which makes it a bit more complicated. The waiting isn't that annoying, you can pass time anyway.

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kurjax•

For such challenges, I like the idea of staying in one region. On hinterland forums there are a few posters that have had great success with that, like this 100+ day run on twm https://hinterlandforums.com/forums/topic/13627-snowballs-in-hell/?do=findComment&comment=108267

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Qossuth•

A self-imposed Interloper challenge I very much enjoyed was seeing how long I could survive using just ONE box of matches (and no Firestrikers or Mag Lens but we could use Flares; in addition we couldn't use the Hacksaw).

Originally we were going to allow 2 boxes of Matches, but we soon realized this would lead to excessively long runs -- this was on a previous build of the game where you could eat 0 percent rotten food by selecting and hitting space bar.

Our runs preceded pretty normally, with a forge run and then settling down at a base. I chose PV Farmhouse, perhaps not the ideal base for this, but it worked for me. After about Day 30 or 40, each fire wound up lasting about twice as long as the previous one, leading to my ultimate fire (my 14th "original" fire; I wasted 1 match and used 3 flares) lasting 1440 hours, just shy of 2 months. During that fire I generated roughly 500 days of rations and water, leading to a potential lifespan of well over 1000 days.

On one box of matches :)

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