It still acts very loosely as a tutorial, getting players to apply first aid and make a fire, but Mackenzie won’t be stuck there for days. The first 30 minutes of Do Not Go Gentle have been streamlined from what players might recall when the episode launched in 2017. A geomagnetic storm brings their plane down, and after a brief cinematic introduction players take control of Mackenzie, who is injured and stuck on the side of a cliff near a cave. Astrid isn't giving a lot of information on why she needs to take this trip, but Mackenzie agrees just the same. Astrid Greenwood, out to Great Bear Island in the middle of a bad storm. Surviving the nightĭo Not Go Gentle starts off with Will Mackenzie pulling a shard of metal from his hand after his plane goes down in the northern Canadian wilderness. With the release of Episode 3: Crossroads Elegy upon us, I wanted to go back and play through the story again, giving my impressions as I go. Hinterland went back to the drawing board to sort this out, and eventually released Redux versions of each episode.

Those two episodes were a bit on the buggy side, and players had several complaints ranging from voiced dialogue to how quests worked. Back when Hinterland released the first two episodes of story mode for The Long Dark in 2017, I played through both in the span of a couple days.

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