Dear players,

It’s been a busy few months since we wrapped up the final part of TALES FROM THE FAR TERRITORY in December, and shipped the final parts on Switch in March. We’ve been working on a variety of things in the studio, so I wanted to update you on some of those things and address a few outstanding topics that I know are on your mind.


Episode work is ongoing. I know you are all wanting more specific updates, but we’re really trying to avoid spoilers so we won’t be sharing much in detail about the episode until the first teaser. I will say that the episode is the most ambitious we’ve built so far, and it has quite a few systems we haven’t used in other episodes, so it’s proving to be quite challenging for the team. We also feel the weight of anticipation and need to ensure we ship something of the highest quality. We know many of you -- like us -- have been waiting for years for this story to be completed. And once it’s done, we can never go back. So that’s really on our minds. The episode can’t just be good; it has to be great.

To clarify the episode’s scope for you: Episode Five has between two to three times as much cinematic and story content as Episode Four, which is our largest episode to date. The game world you’ll be playing in is about three to four times as big as Episode Four. There are a lot of story threads to tie up across all the episodes, to wrap up the Wintermute storyline, but also to set the stage for the future of THE LONG DARK, so we have to take you to several different places and hear from a lot of new people. Because of what the story needs, we’ve focused on narrative more than we have traditionally, and the mission flow for Episode Five is probably more linear than previous episodes as a result. The episode will take you through many new locations -- everything in the episode is new to the game and the world, so these will all be places you’ve never seen before -- and this final episode of the story has you playing as both Mackenzie and Astrid, and you’ll also be seeing some of the key characters from previous episodes, so...there’s a lot! We’re also using new motion-capture tech for our team, to attempt to deliver an ever higher bar for story delivery than we have achieved so far. These are all things that exist outside the context of Survival Mode, although some of the work in TALES helped set the foundation of some of the things we’re attempting in Episode Five. I can confidently say that Episode Five will be the most ambitious thing we’ve done on THE LONG DARK at Hinterland to date. I know that won’t mean much to you until you have it in your hands, but hopefully that gives you some sense of the ambition behind the episode.

The majority of the development team at Hinterland is working on Episode Five, with a smaller team working on BLACKFROST, so you can be sure that this is our primary focus, and will be until we ship it. In order to ensure the team has enough time and focus to finish the episode to our highest standard, I’ve asked them to work on it through the remainder of the year, with a plan to launch towards the end of the year. We’re also pushing out other planned Survival Mode updates (see below) to ensure the team can focus all their efforts on Episode Five at this point, as we know how critical it is that we wrap this up and deliver a strong finale for the story. That’s what we’re focused on, so if we are heads-down and you hear less from us than usual, this is partly why. We are just very, very busy.


For any of you who missed the news or have been holding off for the Expansion Pass to be complete, here’s a reminder that all parts of the DLC are now complete and available on all platforms.

While TALES ended up taking much longer than expected to complete, we’re happy with how much we were able to add to the game. We also believe this is tremendous value for money. To showcase all the additional content and mechanics, we made a recap video:

If you want to support our studio and our work, we hope you’ll consider buying TALES. And if you aren’t in a position to buy it now, keep an eye on the various sales on Steam and the consoles and grab it when discounted! We also added quite a few free updates to the base game along with TALES, so you already have many of those even if you didn’t buy TALES, including Safehouse Customization, which players are really enjoying!


We’re excited to announce that these are finished! The Visual Enhancements builds are with the Test team so they can validate everything is working well. Our plan is to release them in a staggered pattern, starting with PC first, then the consoles.

The team created a video to help showcase the enhancements. Check it out!

Here’s a list of all the Enhancements and which platforms you can find them on.

Keep in mind that, by nature, most of the enhancements are targeted at high-end systems, so they will mainly apply to high-end PCs or the top-end consoles (PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S or X).

Our plan is to get the Visual Enhancements out to Steam and Epic Game Store by the end of May, with the console versions following in June.


With the visual enhancements for high-end systems now complete, we’ve taken this opportunity to properly bring THE LONG DARK to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S and X systems. You should be getting these updates by mid to late June, platform certification timings allowing. These versions of the game will come upgraded with the visual enhancements, so this is the way to enjoy those enhancements if you play THE LONG DARK on PlayStation or Xbox. Keep in mind that you will need to own one of the Generation 9 consoles (PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series S or X) to play the enhanced version of THE LONG DARK. But don’t worry, you can continue to play the existing unenhanced version on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One if you don’t have the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series S or Series X.

There will be some additional information around how to migrate existing saves from the last-gen (Xbox One, PS4) to the current gen (Xbox Series, PS5), which we’ll share closer to release.

If you currently own THE LONG DARK and are playing it on PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series S/X, you will automatically be upgraded to the Enhanced version (on Xbox Series S or Series X) or optionally install the Enhanced version (PlayStation 5) when it goes live. No additional purchase is necessary.


We recently made a change to the game that prevents Ruined food items from being used as ingredients in Cooking. This was an intentional change, as using Ruined items went against the philosophy of the system in general (you can’t generally use Ruined clothing or gear items, so why food?), but we recognize that this introduced some issue for people who were locked out of certain recipes because in long-running Survival games, some ingredients might already have been ruined by the time you found them, with no really viable way to replace them.

We’ll be releasing a hotfix that addresses part of this issue, by rebalancing some of the Condition decay rates on specific food items -- in particular, canned goods, and fresh meat or fish. This will buy players more time to process harvested food (from hunting and fishing) to ensure it has longevity, but without rewarding hoarding tons of fish or meat that you can’t realistically process or store. You’ll need to plan your hunting and fishing activities accordingly. With things like Salt added to the game, you now have new options for preserving meat and fish long-term.

We’ve also added some rare food items required for some of the more complex recipes (ex. Canned Peaches) as Trade Items with Sutherland, so they will now be available through the Trading system. We also tuned some of the costs to make them a bit more accessible, and worthwhile for you. So even if you end up in a game where most of a certain type of ingredient no longer exists in your game, you should be able to trade with Sutherland to get it.

These fixes will be added to the same update that adds the Visual Enhancements to your game, so if you’re playing on PC (Steam, Epic Game Store, etc.), you should see these changes later in May, and they should come to console in June.


Some of our Switch players have encountered game crashes since we released Parts Five and Six of TALES back in February. The dev team was able to isolate the issue to a memory-related crash when playing in Docked mode. To fix it, we introduced some dynamic resolution scaling for certain regions, but only in Docked mode. This fix should not impact Handheld play, and even for Docked the impact should not be visible. It’s a solution we’ve used for other very large regions in the base Survival game, like Pleasant Valley, so if you’ve been playing docked Switch in the base game regions so far and been happy with how the game looks and performs, you should still be happy after this change. This Switch-specific fix has been approved by Nintendo and we’re expecting to launch it on Monday, April 28th.


We had planned to release a Quality of Life update with new content for the Trader and Safehouse customization, as well as some gameplay balance tuning, bug fixes, etc., before we shipped Episode Five, but the team felt stretched too thin between this work and completing Episode Five, so I’ve decided to push this update off until after Episode Five ships.


The team has done some work towards these features but, as with the QoL update, it was splitting focus and resources too much and with Episode Five needing to ship this year, I’ve pushed Mod Support and Enhanced Custom Settings off until after Episode Five ships.


That’s a great question! Shipping Episode Five will be a big inflection point for THE LONG DARK. It’s been years in the making, and in most ways, the completion of the WINTERMUTE Story Mode represents “the end” of THE LONG DARK.

I’m writing “the end” in quotes because we still intend to continue updating the game, but completing story mode has been a point of accountability for Hinterland all these years. With the story mode finished, we are looking forward to having some breathing room to figure out next steps and continue to do our work without the weight of a big promise hanging over us.

So, for a little while at least, we’re going to think about shipping Episode Five and finishing Wintermute as THE END. We’ll have delivered on our promises, lived up to our obligations, and hopefully you’ll be happy with the results and feel they were worth the wait.

Beyond that, we have to make some choices about what to do with the game, and we’ll be interested to hear your thoughts about what you’d like to see. I’ll probably share a community survey around this before the end of the year, along the lines of the one we did before we committed to building TALES. This survey will give you a chance to influence the future of THE LONG DARK.

As mentioned, there will definitely be -- at least -- one more QoL update, improved custom settings, mod support, and we’ve also promised Hunted Part III. Beyond that, we have many ideas of how we could keep supporting and expanding THE LONG DARK into the future, but we don’t want to do that without consulting with you and figuring out what you’d like to see and how you would like to continue supporting the game. It costs a lot of money to run a studio like Hinterland, and we’ve invested a lot in THE LONG DARK and the sequel, BLACKFROST, over the years, so our focus will be on how to continue building games and supporting them for years to come, in a financially sustainable way that is safe and fair for our team. And all this against a backdrop of ongoing industry turmoil that have seen a lot of our friends and fellow independent studios shut down over the last couple of years, not to mention the dark economic clouds on the global horizon.

We wouldn’t want to move ahead without you being part of this journey, so we want to hear what you’d like to see more of, whether it’s more regions, more mechanics, more story (?). The survey will include all kinds of questions around this. What’s exciting is that there are many paths we can take, including really ambitious stuff and more modest but sustainable stuff, and we really want to find a healthy way to continue supporting THE LONG DARK and keep you playing in this world for years to come. Along with some of our other work, which brings me to my next topic...


I imagine many of you noticed the launch announcement for BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2 at The Game Awards in December. There was a lot of excitement about this from many of you, as well as some understandable questions about “but how can you announce a sequel before the current game is finished?”. I thought it might be helpful to talk about why we did this.

Larger companies with multiple revenue streams, or publisher-backed (or owned) studios who don’t have to pay their own bills, can afford to have extensive downtime -- often years -- between projects. Those years are spent working on new things, in anticipation of launching them in the future. During those periods, the studios are being paid out of development funds provided by the publisher, or investment, or payroll from a parent company, but most often the studios aren’t generating meaningful revenue during this time.

Hinterland is an independent studio, and our annual costs are covered out of revenue from THE LONG DARK and DLC like TALES FROM THE FAR TERRITORY. It wouldn’t be feasible for us to “go dark” for 2-3 years in between finishing up THE LONG DARK and launching the sequel, because we generate revenue from sales of the game to new players, and that’s what keeps our studio going. Also, since we only charge once for the things we make and don’t have extensive DLC or other ongoing revenue streams, we’d simply go out of business if we didn’t release something within a reasonable distance of wrapping up THE LONG DARK. So, we need to build up new projects at the same time as we continue shipping and supporting our existing game.

Another factor is that it’s a lot harder to bring an audience to a sequel if you’ve lost them along the way. Our hope by continuing to update THE LONG DARK at the same time as we’re building BLACKFROST, is to show that your time commitment to the first game has not been in vain -- you can still play it and enjoy it well into the future as we build up BLACKFROST. And after BLACKFROST ships in Early Access, in between updates there, you’ll be able to bounce back to THE LONG DARK to continue experiencing the Quiet Apocalypse. This way, you can keep playing in this larger world we’re building for you, and you can continue investing your time knowing the game will always be there for you. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. And then over time, gradually, we’ll put a larger proportion of our time and resources into building up BLACKFROST, as it will also need the same focus and dedication behind it that THE LONG DARK has had for over 10 years. But see both games supporting each other, and the player community behind both games being part of a blended community who loves the broader idea of “The Long Dark” as a setting, the quiet apocalypse that unites the games.

It’s also really important that independent studios have the opportunity to gradually build up excitement around new projects. We don’t have massive marketing budgets to promote our games with. We sell directly to you, and our relationship is directly with you. Powerful systems like Wishlists on Steam are a way for studios to generate anticipation for their projects and to gather goodwill and interest, with some hope and expectation of converting those wishlists to sales over time. The more Wishlists a game launches with, the more likelihood of the launch going well, hitting that critical mass to gain attention and help it break out of the 1000+ new games that launch every month on Steam (there were almost 19,000 new games on Steam last year!), and the wishlists also indicate some general sense of how well the game could sell over time, which also helps with our own long-term planning.

This system is very core to how Steam works, as every launch or sale is an opportunity to ping the wishlisters with a reminder to buy the game. So we really need to be able to use this system as we build up towards the Early Access launch of BLACKFROST. But the Wishlist system only works if we can talk about our work, share it, and get new people excited about it!

We know that some of you were unhappy to see us announce BLACKFROST before we completed THE LONG DARK, as you have been waiting a long time for Episode Five, but if we have to wait until shipping Episode Five before we talk about our other work, our revenue could simply run dry before we get to the BLACKFROST launch, which would be a pretty serious problem for us! Our current plan is to launch BLACKFROST in Early Access about a year after we ship THE LONG DARK. We think that is a good amount of time to create space between the two games.

I understand the sentiment that we owe you Episode Five and that we have yet to deliver, and I get that you’ve waited a long time for it. We will be shipping it this year, and the game will be finished. I know it’s been frustrating. I’m not trying to minimize or ignore any of those feelings. I’m not making excuses and we take our responsibility to you very very seriously.

But I also know that we’ve been afraid to share any of our work outside of THE LONG DARK, for fear of alienating or angering players, who can sometimes be quite hostile, and this has held us back in many ways.

So, I’m asking you to try to be patient with us (as so many of you have been!), and give us the space to talk about BLACKFROST without pushing other fans out of our community or attacking the dev team or studio. There’s no BLACKFROST without THE LONG DARK, but the opposite will also become true. After Episode Five, there’s no TLD without BLACKFROST. The projects’ combined futures, and their roadmaps, are intertwined.

And someday, we might even talk about other non-TLD/BF projects! We hope we can be open with you and share our excitement about some of these things, knowing that even if you can’t feel excited about it with us, that you’ll leave some space for other fans to be happy and excited. We’re all here because we love the game, and we want for Hinterland to be more than “just” THE LONG DARK. We hope that you can come to care about our team and studio and all the things we hope to make in the future. Not just the game you’re playing right now. So please let’s together make sure we create a safe and positive space for that love of TLD and our future projects to be shared without attacking people for it.

I’d like to be able to start sharing more info about BLACKFROST in future dev diaries. If that’s going to be triggering for you while you wait for Episode Five, then I suggest you skip my dev diaries until Ep5 ships, and then come back and read them after.

We have to be able to share our work in order to make the games we want to make and run the studio the way we want to run it! I hope you understand, and will support us in this.

And if you want to support Hinterland and our future, please consider Wishlisting BLACKFROST on Steam.


If you’ve been playing THE LONG DARK on Tencent’s WeGame platform, we want to let you know that soon the game will be updated to have parity with Steam and Epic Game Store with the full update product structure (THE LONG DARK = Survival Mode + Wintermute) and also TALES FROM THE FAR TERRITORY. If you already own THE LONG DARK, you will continue to own it (including WINTERMUTE), with no new purchase necessary.

Some of you have also asked about bringing the game back to GoG. We’ve been working with the business development team at GoG and are close to finalizing an agreement to bring the game to the store. As with WeGame, anyone who previously owned THE LONG DARK will automatically be updated to the latest version, with the option to purchase TALES FROM THE FAR TERRITORY if you wish. I want to be clear that the agreement isn’t yet finished; we’re still working through some details, but I’m hopeful we will get there and find a good path forward.


As a final note, you may notice that starting April 24th, for four days, THE LONG DARK will be -- for a very limited time -- available on Steam with a deep 90% discount. This is an experiment we are trying with Steam, to test some theories around pricing elasticity. This won’t apply to most of you reading this as you already own the game, but if you think we’ve done good work and you want to support us, you could mention it to a friend that you think would also enjoy the game! I doubt we’ll have the game discounted to this degree again for a long time.

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That’s pretty much it for this Dev Diary. Thanks for reading, and I hope you found the information useful and interesting. If you want to discuss anything in this dev diary, we encourage you to do so in the Official Forums[hinterlandforums.com] (registration required, Hinterland & volunteer moderated), in Steam (Hinterland & volunteer moderated), or Reddit for THE LONG DARK or BLACKFROST (both self-moderated with minimal Hinterland presence).

You can also subscribe to our Newsletter[thelongdark.us7.list-manage.com] to be notified of news on new products in our Store[store.hinterland.com] or other general newsworthy topics, or follow us on Bluesky (Hinterland[bsky.app] | The Long Dark[bsky.app] | Blackfrost[bsky.app]).

All the best, and stay safe out there.

- Raphael
Founder & Creative Director
Hinterland

Hello players,

We have just updated THE LONG DARK to version 2.40, build 152417.

This is a Hotfix to THE LONG DARK and THE LONG DARK: SURVIVAL EDITION and contains fixes for issues introduced with our Part Six release.



The team is currently aware of the following issues in the game. If you encounter one of these issues, there is no need to report it to the Support Portal. We are aware and working to address them.

• There are edge-cases where the Travois may fall beneath terrain. The Travois and items stored inside should now appear in Lost and Found boxes if it becomes unreachable.
  
• There are edge-cases where Safehouse Decorations can disappear from an interior, container, or the player’s inventory. Items lost this way should now appear in Lost and Found boxes.

This Hotfix includes fixes for the following issues:

PERFORMANCE & OPTIMIZATION

• Adjusted asset groupings to improve memory performance in-game.
  
• Adjusted collider settings on hundreds of objects, resulting in performance improvement and more accurate object detection.

GAMEPLAY, UI, CONTROLS

[Safehouse Customization]

• Fixed an issue that resulted in Crafted Work Benches disappearing when exiting and re-entering an interior.
  
• Fixed an issue where some folding chairs could not be broken down for materials.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to place Decorations and Furniture on or intersecting interactable doors.
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in the "Clear Junk" prompt not appearing as expected when Safehouse Customization mode was invoked.
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in the "Clear Junk" prompt not appearing at all when using a controller and invoking Safehouse Customization mode.
  
• Fixed multiple issues with Decorations and objects in the Airfield Hangar that could not be Broken Down, Placed, or Destroyed.
  
• Fixed an issue with sign Decorations that prohibited them from being placed on walls.
  
• Fixed multiple issues with Safehouse Customization that resulted in objects and Decorations floating if an item they were placed upon was moved.
  
• Fixed an issue in Blackrock's Last Prospect Mine that caused the signs within to be interactable via Safehouse Customization
  
• Fixed an issue with multiple light emitting Decorations that resulted in them failing to light up during Aurora events when moved from their original interior to any other.
  
• Adjusted the placement behaviour of some items to deny some more preposterous item placements.
  
• Fixed an issue where Rüdiger's remains could be picked up and moved using Safehouse Customization. The remains can now only be removed.
  
• Fixed an issue in Bleak Inlet Cannery that resulted in the inability to move a Fire Barrel via Safehouse Customization.
  
• Fixed an issue with handheld light sources in Safehouse Customization mode, that could result in the light source being thrown while interacting with Decorations or Furniture.
  
• Fixed an issue where Shower Curtains and Shower Curtain Bars had no time cost to Destroy.
  
• Fixed multiple issues in Blackrock Penitentiary with Safehouse Customization item placement not working as expected.
  
• Fixed an issue that could result in Decorations and Furniture disappearing from interiors and the player's inventory.
  
• Fixed an issue in Desolation Point Lonely Lighthouse with wall-hung Decorations that resulted in incorrect placement rules on the spiral staircase.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented a player from ascending or descending Rope Climbs if they activated Safehouse Customization while climbing. Safehouse Customization can no longer be invoked on Rope Climbs.
  
• Fixed an issue in Forsaken Airfield Control Tower where the Folding Table could not be moved, only destroyed.
  
• Fixed multiple issues in Zone of Contamination Pumphouse that resulted in some objects being difficult to place.
  
• Fixed an issue in Zone of Contamination Pumphouse that prevented players from moving or destroying a specific wooden Crate.
  
• Fixed an issue with Dial Knob Decorations to make them easier to place on wall surfaces.
  
• Fixed an issue with Decorations and Furniture with interactable doors that made them difficult to select in Safehouse Customization while their associated door was open.
  
• Fixed an issue with a small Mount Decoration that prevented it from being placed on walls.
  
• Fixed an issue in Coastal Highway Quonset that resulted in the double Locker Furniture item being difficult to place.
  
• Fixed multiple issues in Zone of Contamination Miner Lodging that resulted in some objects not being interactable in Safehouse Customization.
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in Decorations transferred from Zone of Contamination to any other Region being invisible when placed.
  
• Fixed an issue in Zone of Contamination Concentrator where a metal sheet could not interactable via Safehouse Customization.
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in Plank Piles displaying debug text when selecting them in Safehouse Customization.

[General]

• Adjusted the Cooking Menu UI for consistency, to allow for keyboard input when choosing an item to place on a cooking surface.
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in Ravaged Wolf Carcasses disappearing from view when interacted with.
  
• Fixed a rare issue where player input would become unresponsive after harvesting a Carcass.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused frame rates to drop when near Timberwolves.
  
• Fixed an issue in Sundered Pass Lotte's Rest where placing a Storm Lantern anywhere inside the cabin would result in it slowly drifting towards the front door.
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in a temporary black screen when attacked by a wolf while Breaking Ice to create an Ice Fishing Hole.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to exploit Ice Fishing Holes to obstruct Wildlife pathing.
  
• Adjusted the Photo Album Journal tab for clarity to state that the player has no photos rather than leave it blank in that case.
  
• Fixed an issue where spawned Beachcombing items would appear 'ruined' even if the item Condition indicated otherwise.
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in both 'Infection Risk Healed' and 'Infection' notifications appearing when an Infection Risk progressed to a full-blown Infection.
  
• Adjusted Campfire and Rock Cache placement logic on sloped surfaces to be a bit more lenient and sensible.
  
• Fixed an issue that could result in a held item visually duplicated and attached to the Survivor's feet when attempting to place it from the Radial Menu while inside a Snow Shelter.
  
• Fixed an issue that could result in the Travois becoming stuck in the entryway to Blackrock Prison.
  
• Added an additional UI marker to make it clear which Heat Pack is actively providing a Warmth bonus to the Survivor.
  
• Added additional iconography to the HUD to make it clear which type of Arrow is currently selected for use with the Bow.
  
• Fixed an issue with Cheat Death Recovery Campsites that resulted in item duplication each time the player transitioned to and from the Region in which the Campsite was located.
  
• Fixed an issue that sometimes resulted in colour Photographs when using Sepia Film.
  
• Fixed an issue in Bleak Inlet Cannery that resulted in a corpse couple missing the option to 'Remove Respectfully'.
  
• Fixed an issue where Milk Crates were incorrectly labelled as 'sign'.
  
• Fixed an issue where a space was missing in the label "Furniture Work Bench".
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in the Large Shelf Furniture item being incorrectly labelled 'Lamp'.
  
• Fixed an issue where the 'Down Below' achievement could not be unlocked in certain older save files.
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in the 'Tasting Menu' achievement unlocking before the requirements were met.
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in a debug Inspect view after discarding a Photo and immediately examining another in the Journal.
  
• Fixed an issue where no icon was visible when notifying the player that Animal Fat in their inventory became ruined.
  
• Fixed an issue with certain Tool trades that could result in an incompletable trade.
  
• Fixed an issue with Forlorn Muskeg Poacher's Camp which made it impossible to Survey, preventing the Faithful Cartographer achievement from being completable.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Meat Curing Box that prevented players from removing its contents if the Box was full.
  
• Fixed an issue in Forsaken Airfield Main Hangar that resulted in Lockers becoming inaccessible if a Suitcase was stored within.
  
• Fixed an issue in Forsaken Airfield Main Hangar that resulted in a floating rope after moving Traffic Cone Decorations.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Wooden Spatula had no icon in the player's inventory.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Radio had no icon in the player's inventory.
  
• Fixed an issue where multiple Craftable Furniture items had no weight.
  
• Fixed an issue in Keeper's Pass North that prevented Rabbits and Wolves from spawning in certain locations.
  
• Fixed an issue in Desolation Point Hibernia Processing that resulted in a floating dish after removing the table beneath it. The dish can neither be moved nor destroyed.
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in overlapping UI elements when repairing the Mountaineer's Cabin roof.
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in the Camera's Viewfinder overlay remaining on screen if the player took damage from Wildlife while looking through it.
  
• Fixed an issue where a Weapon was incorrectly referenced in the error message displayed when trying to hold a Camera with two sprained wrist Afflictions.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Radio that made it difficult to find a location to place it.
  
• Fixed multiple issues in Forsaken Airfield Terminal where objects would remain floating when the item they were placed upon was destroyed or moved.
  
• Adjusted Pemmican Bars so they deteriorate at a much slower rate.
  
• Adjusted Recipes in the Recipe Book to better communicate the number of items produced when Cooking.
  
• Fixed an issue in Zone of Contamination Pumphouse where items would remain floating in place when moving or destroying one of the Metal Shelves they were placed on.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to destroy a cooking surface while it was lit, or actively Cooking items.
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in the Survivor's hands shaking while they had the 'Severe Lacerations' Affliction.
  
• Fixed an issue in the Carter Hydro Dam Lower Level that resulted in incorrect shadows being cast on a damaged door.
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in incorrect camera behaviour if a Survivor entered into a Struggle with Wildlife while Harvesting a Carcass.
  
• Fixed an issue in the Empty Prepper Cache that caused the metal shelf within, to fall through the ground layer if an object on the bottom shelf was moved.
  
• Fixed an issue in Blackrock Steam Tunnels that impeded player passage with invisible collision.
  
• Adjusted Carcass Harvesting to disallow players from attempting to Harvest Carcasses on Weak Ice.

ART & ENVIRONMENTS

• Fixed an issue where Rifles were left floating in mid-air if the Gun Rack they were placed on was disassembled.
  
• Fixed an issue in a Coastal Highway Cabin Crate where a Candy Bar would spawn, but remain invisible to the player.
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in the Camera's viewfinder overlay to appear misaligned or disjointed when using certain display resolutions.
  
• Fixed an issue in Bleak Inlet Caves that resulted in Tools and Weapons dropped within to appear notably too bright.
  
• Fixed multiple issues which could result in Junk decals still appearing on objects when placing them in specific interiors.
  
• Fixed an issue in Bleak Inlet that resulted in a large visible gap between boulders in an outcropping near Frozen Delta.
  
• Fixed an issue in Blackrock Steam Tunnels that caused a set of frayed wires to become invisible when viewed at certain angles.
  
• Fixed an issue in Blackrock Penitentiary that resulted in a gate sign remaining mid-air while the door it should be attached to opened and closed.
  
• Fixed an issue in the Ash Canyon Cave system North of Long Falls that resulted in god rays missing from the Cave ceiling.
  
• Updated the underside of Train Cars to remove unsightly details.
  
• Updated Stag Skulls to visually reflect whether they are mounted or unmounted in the player inventory.
  
• Improved the look of Pemmican Bars with a new icon and model.
  
• Fixed multiple issues in Sundered Pass where the back side of snow piles could be incorrectly seen through.
  
• Adjusted the lighting in multiple caves for consistency and quality.
  
• Fixed an issue in Sundered Pass where a player could get stuck among a shallow rock outcropping.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused projectiles to collide with invisible geometry between the gaps in rope bridges. Projectiles now pass through correctly, and items cannot be placed on bridge surfaces.
  
• Fixed an issue in the Broken Railroad Cave where the snow layer was shifted beneath the terrain.
  
• Fixed an issue in Zone of Contamination Idle Camp that resulted in an invisible Table within one of the buildings.

AUDIO

• Fixed an issue where no error sound effect could be heard when attempting to harvest a Salt Deposit without a Hatchet in the player's inventory.
  
• Fixed an issue that resulted in Cougar music being triggered in games where the Cougar is turned off.

PLATFORM-SPECIFIC

• Fixed an issue where Xbox button prompts were displayed when using a PS5 controller on PC.
  
• Fixed an issue for Xbox and PlayStation players that resulted in Safehouse Customization Decoration capacity incorrectly tabulating the number of items in a scene, severely limiting the number of items a player could place.

Please visit our Support Portal[hinterlandgames.zendesk.com] (or consult our Known Issues[hinterlandgames.zendesk.com] page) if you encounter any issues while playing the game. 


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