Make your way to Milton

[ezr3dux]

I just bought and started the game. But how comes that only around 40% of the players have the first achievement 'Make your way to Milton'? That seems to be the very start of the game?!

[Scavenger]

Because many only play survival mode. That's where the game truly shines.

[ezr3dux]

Originally posted by Scavenger:

Because many only play survival mode. That's where the game truly shines.

Thank you for the insight!

[Scavenger]

Originally posted by ezr3dux:

Thank you for the insight!

Np, my advice generally to new players is, play the first episode of the story (more of course if you enjoy it). By then you know the basics and can start survival mode.

[wilky]

I played this game for a year before I ever ventured into story mode for the first time, out of curiosity.

Story mode is also terrible. The way it throws you into the freezing cold at the beginning, and you're bleeding to death, with no tutorial features to even indicate to you how to collect cloth -> go into the crafting menu to make a bandage -> prevent yourself from dying instantly... I can understand how so many of the community never made it that far into story mode. It's as if you already need to know how to play the game, from either watching like Youtube videos or from trying survival mode first (and probably dying a few times until you figure out how gameplay works).

[Abbittibbi]

Survival mode player here, no achievement.

[FAButzke]

I've own the game since 2015 and never played campaign. Just Survival.

[ezr3dux]

20 hours playtime in 3 days. I'm hooked, this game is a masterpiece. Late to the party but nevermind. Thank you for all your valuable input.

[/* ToAsT */]

Originally posted by wilky:

I played this game for a year before I ever ventured into story mode for the first time, out of curiosity.

Story mode is also terrible. The way it throws you into the freezing cold at the beginning, and you're bleeding to death, with no tutorial features to even indicate to you how to collect cloth -> go into the crafting menu to make a bandage -> prevent yourself from dying instantly... I can understand how so many of the community never made it that far into story mode. It's as if you already need to know how to play the game, from either watching like Youtube videos or from trying survival mode first (and probably dying a few times until you figure out how gameplay works).

I haven't played the first part of Wintermute for a while, but I believe it does give you some hints as to how to do basic tasks. Certainly far more information than the sandbox survival mode, which gives you absolutely nothing to go on even after all these years. Judging the storymode as terrible based solely on that seems a little silly.

[/* ToAsT */]

Originally posted by ezr3dux:

I just bought and started the game. But how comes that only around 40% of the players have the first achievement 'Make your way to Milton'? That seems to be the very start of the game?!

This goes for most games on steam. In fact, for many games that have a simple "start the game" type achievement, you'll see similar numbers (or worse!). People often buy games on a whim and never play them or don't get past the main menu - I can say that I'm one of those people, unfortunately. Still, as many have mentioned, TLD started as a sandbox survival game with the storymode coming later. There was also a complete overhaul of the storymode (redux) at one point and then first two chapters were rewritten. Perhaps that also had something to do with the uptake of the story.