Indoor Temperatures Are Ridiculously High

[Anticitizen]

There's no reason for an above ground building to be warmer than the outdoors unless its had a fire in it relatively recently. I'm genuinely amazed this has never been addressed by the developers. At least offer it as a setting in custom games.

[H34VY_R41N]

There is +5C compared with outdoors in winter in my standalone garage which never had any heat source and not really doors closed tight, so...

[AquaPlush]

I think it would be good as an optional setting, how warm an interior is compared to the inside, and if it's automatically above freezing

["Hard Tack" Tom]

Sometimes in a video game you have to suspend realism for the sake of it being playable/convenient.

Yes a building wouldnt realistically be -3C inside while it is -44C outside (or -60C during a blizzard) but if it wasnt that warm inside it would literally be impossible to warm up early game when youve only got a couple degrees of temperature bonus from your clothing.

It would make every new beginning unplayable unless you got lucky with RNG, since you'd NEED to find a good set of warm clothes in the first day before the condition drain from indoor/outdoor cold kills you.

Also imagine how inconvienient it would be to have to gather enough wood to light a 12 hour long fire every single time you needed to go to sleep. Thats big 4 cedar branches a day. Yeah it wouldnt be needed every night, but if you didnt that that precaution and a blizzard pops up while youre sleeping, dropping the outside temp to -60, your character would freeze to death unless the temp modifier for indoors is like +50C.

["Hard Tack" Tom]

Originally posted by smmcresident:

A lot of the unrealistic things in the game more or less have to exist for there to be a game.

If the game's goal was realism, it would end up being a pretty short game.

100%

I mean not just bears, plane crashes or vanished people, Also rabbits that cant see you when youre 1 ft from them, and how they come back right to you 5 seconds after they see you. Or the fact that a baseball cap or a single pair of cotton socks can protect your toes from frostbite in -40C weather. I could go on for days, but there's definitely a reason for the disclaimer on launch "dont take anything you see in the long dark as actual survival training". You got to take liberties to have a fun (or even playable) game.