Is this the quiet apocalypse?

[artmangm]

Been avolding ads and trailers, played at a friends place.

So im wondering if it is an apocalyptic setting or not as it seems to only effect canada and Alaska? Maybe this electrical storm thing

Dont mind spoilers so go wild

[IFIYGD]

Define "apocalypse" as you see it.

By a dictionary definition, it is. "Any universal or widespread destruction or disaster..."
It is that. It is not like a zombie apocalpse game, it is the world without power, everyone basically dead or gone, and you stuck alone in the artctic North, with wolves and bears whose brains got muddled up t by a massive geomagnetic disorder. It's freezing cold, you have basically no one to help you, no power, no gas, no running water, ragged clothes and limited first aid supplies, and you have to rely on what you can find left behind by all of the people who evacuated before you woke up and found yourself on the remote, outdated, and decaying island they used to be on. Oh, and you still have the Aurora showing up randomly, and not a "normal" one, but a smaller scale of the massive one that fried everything.. and the smaller one still can fry smaller stuff too.

Which may or may not describe your personal subjective definition of what an apocalypse is or should be. It fits the definition really well for me.

[Frau Blücher]

What makes The Long Dark different is the concept of the "quiet apocalypse". We're not in a ruined city like fallout, there aren't vast landscapes burned to a crisp by nuclear explosions or meteor strikes - it's far scarier, and scarier because it's quiet. No big boom, just a faint whisper as society ceases to exist.

We're in a rural setting in the wilderness of northern Canada, our structures remain, but the people are largely gone. Just some left over, abandoned houses and cabins, some little nice things to find, discarded by owners who are far away or dead.

You'll get little to no help, just you - used to the comforts of civilization, now up against the majesty - and cruelty of nature. Suddenly we are thrust out of all we built up for thousands of years and are again not safe or superior to the wildlife that is now hungrily hunting us - as we hunt them to survive.

[PBR]

Originally posted by artmangm:

Been avolding ads and trailers, played at a friends place.

So im wondering if it is an apocalyptic setting or not as it seems to only effect canada and Alaska? Maybe this electrical storm thing

Dont mind spoilers so go wild

Odds are it's a far reaching phenomena but it doesn't matter when you have to travel on foot and start in the desolate Canadian wilderness. We're so far from civilization and low on supplies that trying to reach areas with more people is impossible. And we're likely better off alone with food in short supply. Our world has ended, the future is however many moments you can stave off the long dark.

[Alcator]

Originally posted by artmangm:

Been avolding ads and trailers, played at a friends place.

So im wondering if it is an apocalyptic setting or not as it seems to only effect canada and Alaska? Maybe this electrical storm thing

Dont mind spoilers so go wild

The background story is that the 2008 financial crisis didn't end well and the civilization started collapsing, and now, ten years later, some strange phenomenon has caused electricity and magnetism to disappear.

[artmangm]

Originally posted by IFIYGD:

Define "apocalypse" as you see it.

By a dictionary definition, it is. "Any universal or widespread destruction or disaster..."
It is that. It is not like a zombie apocalpse game, it is the world without power, everyone basically dead or gone, and you stuck alone in the artctic North, with wolves and bears whose brains got muddled up t by a massive geomagnetic disorder. It's freezing cold, you have basically no one to help you, no power, no gas, no running water, ragged clothes and limited first aid supplies, and you have to rely on what you can find left behind by all of the people who evacuated before you woke up and found yourself on the remote, outdated, and decaying island they used to be on. Oh, and you still have the Aurora showing up randomly, and not a "normal" one, but a smaller scale of the massive one that fried everything.. and the smaller one still can fry smaller stuff too.

Which may or may not describe your personal subjective definition of what an apocalypse is or should be. It fits the definition really well for me.

Apocalyptic as the complete collapse of a civilization on a global scale

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by artmangm:

Originally posted by IFIYGD:

Define "apocalypse" as you see it.

By a dictionary definition, it is. "Any universal or widespread destruction or disaster..."
It is that. It is not like a zombie apocalpse game, it is the world without power, everyone basically dead or gone, and you stuck alone in the artctic North, with wolves and bears whose brains got muddled up t by a massive geomagnetic disorder. It's freezing cold, you have basically no one to help you, no power, no gas, no running water, ragged clothes and limited first aid supplies, and you have to rely on what you can find left behind by all of the people who evacuated before you woke up and found yourself on the remote, outdated, and decaying island they used to be on. Oh, and you still have the Aurora showing up randomly, and not a "normal" one, but a smaller scale of the massive one that fried everything.. and the smaller one still can fry smaller stuff too.

Which may or may not describe your personal subjective definition of what an apocalypse is or should be. It fits the definition really well for me.

Apocalyptic as the complete collapse of a civilization on a global scale

Yep. It is that, lol! It fits that description to a T. :)

[Liduska77]

Originally posted by IFIYGD:

Define "apocalypse" as you see it.

By a dictionary definition, it is. "Any universal or widespread destruction or disaster..."
It is that. It is not like a zombie apocalpse game, it is the world without power, everyone basically dead or gone, and you stuck alone in the artctic North, with wolves and bears whose brains got muddled up t by a massive geomagnetic disorder. It's freezing cold, you have basically no one to help you, no power, no gas, no running water, ragged clothes and limited first aid supplies, and you have to rely on what you can find left behind by all of the people who evacuated before you woke up and found yourself on the remote, outdated, and decaying island they used to be on. Oh, and you still have the Aurora showing up randomly, and not a "normal" one, but a smaller scale of the massive one that fried everything.. and the smaller one still can fry smaller stuff too.

Which may or may not describe your personal subjective definition of what an apocalypse is or should be. It fits the definition really well for me.

Im somewhat disappointed that you didnt add the usual Your mileage may vary. Widely. bit here.

:P

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by Liduska77:

Originally posted by IFIYGD:

Define "apocalypse" as you see it.

By a dictionary definition, it is. "Any universal or widespread destruction or disaster..."
It is that. It is not like a zombie apocalpse game, it is the world without power, everyone basically dead or gone, and you stuck alone in the artctic North, with wolves and bears whose brains got muddled up t by a massive geomagnetic disorder. It's freezing cold, you have basically no one to help you, no power, no gas, no running water, ragged clothes and limited first aid supplies, and you have to rely on what you can find left behind by all of the people who evacuated before you woke up and found yourself on the remote, outdated, and decaying island they used to be on. Oh, and you still have the Aurora showing up randomly, and not a "normal" one, but a smaller scale of the massive one that fried everything.. and the smaller one still can fry smaller stuff too.

Which may or may not describe your personal subjective definition of what an apocalypse is or should be. It fits the definition really well for me.

Im somewhat disappointed that you didnt add the usual Your mileage may vary. Widely. bit here.

:P

Lol! Estimated Milage May Vary- Highway and City Milage surely will. :D

[Liduska77]

Originally posted by IFIYGD:

Originally posted by Liduska77:

Im somewhat disappointed that you didnt add the usual Your mileage may vary. Widely. bit here.

:P

Lol! Estimated Milage May Vary- Highway and City Milage surely will. :D

Hahaha! :D

[Shelt]

If we're talking about a geo-magnetic disaster, there's only two things I know of which can significantly alter the Earth's geomagnetism, aside from a massive collision which we know didn't happen because there's not a huge cloud of debris in the atmosphere and burning lakes of lava everywhere.

1. The core of the Earth slows and therefore stops producing the magnetosphere which keeps us safe from all kinds of nasty space weather and debris

2. The sun farts out a huge flare which strips the Earth of its magnestosphere for a time, essentially acting as a giant electro magnetic pulse, killing all electronics

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The first is unlikely and would also affect the tides and many other things

The second is more likely, but the Earth would have to be in exactly the right spot during its orbit around the sun at exactly the right time to get hit with the flare

[{O|G} Erik the Red]

I was actually a bit dissapointed to learn that the "apocalypse" is just what seems to be a normal winter in Canada (ala no power). I kind of liked thinking in sandbox / survival mode that it was because the region just got perpetually colder along with the geomagnetic effects... (no seasons coded, so perpetual survival through winter.... could last years or more....).

And not only that, but the whole back-history of the island with "The Collapse" and all, was as if there already a "pre-apocalypse", that caused most people to leave the area already.

Its as if the people living in Canada on the island weren't suited to living in Canada. The power goes out for 5 days and "this is the end"? Mainland society has a lot of nice things, but its too dependant on power, and people are too dependant on society. Honestly, they are probably better off isolated out there on the rural island than what they would find if they lived in the cities when the geomagnetic disaster strikes (no power). The "dependants" try to leave the area to seek the shelter of the cities and society, when likely and eventually the remains of the city survivors will do the same to find refuge in the wilderness.