A small but important detail: bears smell meat and move towards it, just like wolves. So, be careful when passing through their habitat areas with meat.
That the first think mentioned wasn't that "bears are the nightmare fuel which keeps you awake at night, the mere sound of which sends your heart pounding", means this guide is inaccurate.
Thank you for explaining that the bears won’t always stand on their hind legs before charging. The bear on the Milton bridge did that to me and I thought it was a glitch.
A cool idea would be Bear variants like what the Wolves have, what I suggest is a "Winter Bear" variant (Which is a real thing IRL). These Bears didn't get enough food before winter so are starving & on edge to the point it makes them extremely aggressive, unpredictable & even cannibalistic to the point other predators like Wolves & even other Bears avoid the areas they're in. What makes them different if that agro from a farther distance, they have more health, do more damage & they will actively hunt down both the player & other animals in their territory relentlessly. Think of the Savage Deviljho from Monster Hunter, an animal driven to madness by hunger.
I wish they make the windigo in the custom map too like imagine if during Aurora's if a moose spawns on your map you instead you get a wendigo and that will hunt you until the Aurora is over oh my God I would love that
Have almost 700 hours in the game and didn't know most of that information. I always avoid the bears unless I need something from them. Great video, thanks!
This is VERY useful information, thank you. Something I noticed recently while trying out stone throwing distractions is that the bear will walk to the spot you threw a stone, then turn back to it's original target ( you if you smell or it's normal path otherwise). Throwing another stone while the bear is walking to the first has no effect. The bear will ignore it so it's a waste of a stone. You have to wait for it to finish it's first detour. EDIT:- I notice that in the spreadsheet, bleedout time for the bow on the torso looks way too high. Is this a typo?
Personally, bears are my favorite animals. They are extremely deadly and cute. They have funny butts and bellies and stuff. I really love bears, but they scare me in this game. I didn't know campfire tactics and always hunted with the shoot and hide method when I encountered them. Of course, I wasn't always lucky. Once I was playing in Archivist mode and I had 1 last note left. That note was on Timberwolf Mountain. I waited for the aurora for a few days and it didn't show up, so I decided to go to the top of the mountain while it was here. I wish I hadn't said that. While traveling towards the summit at night, an aurora appeared unexpectedly and the weather became extremely cold. I had 3-4 kilos of meat on me and the smell mark was visible on me. I lit a fire somewhere and started sleeping intermittently. Aurora bear attacked in my sleep and listen to this. I know Long Dark is not a horror game, but I SHIT my pants because of fear. Of course, he didn't attack once and then let go. He attacked me 3 or 4 times and finished me off. I used up the last bullets, emergency medicines etc. but it didn't work. I have never forgotten this bear attack, and although I love bears very much, when I come across one in the Long Dark, I most likely hunt it and reward myself with its meat.
Ive experienced bears a couple times that appear to track my scent when ive crossed their preset path. I had a tm bear make a beeline straight for the mountaineer hut on the same path i used as i was returning from ash canyon.
Nice, Great info. One thing I found out the hard way recently, You do NOT always get the bones as a warning that you are standing by a bear cave. In Broken railroad the bear cave close to the hunting blind is just so. Also, what sick Joker decided to put a memento cache in a frickin Bear cave!?! I had no idea and was about to bed down around the corner in the back when suddenly, HELLO? OMG, about gave me a heart attack.
Love this super informative and well-edited guide!! Gonna try using that campfire and charging combo next time 😮 Would there be a chance for a moose guide as well in the future?
The fire trick cam be further exploited. Shoot the bear and wait near fire. Since they wont get close but still aggro on you, just sit down and wait for the bleed out
Great video! TLD can be so dense and withholding of its information and game systems that unraveling it is almost like some form of mysticism. I do have an alternative version of the bear dance that I think is easier and safer to execute. Find a tree or similar object that is free of obstructions around its base. Position yourself very close to the tree with it in between you and the bear. Keep the tree squarely to one side of your characters body and make sure the bear has a straight angle towards you. Initiate the bear to charge you. Right before the bear reaches the tree move to the opposite side. If done correctly the bear will have to move past the tree before it is able to turn around. If done to soon the bear will correct its course and follow you to the opposite side. If done to late you'll be mauled. The window for when to side step is pretty generous since the bear has a wide turn radius. This gives you time to reposition for the next pass. Since the bear is charging directly at you you're able to get consistent headshots. Bonus points for having wind protection from the bear and the tree once it's all over. This can also be done with moose but is harder due to their tighter turn radius.
Been playing for over seven years and I still learned things today!! Mostly about the 70% spawn rate (I think I unconsciously noticed some of this as I memorised spawn points but it's nice to know how it really works)
Thanks for all the great info, especially the numbers. Is it possible to find out the health of wolves and moose as well? The modifiers seems really interesting to experiment on.
I was actively tracking and shooting one on pilgrim to practice my bow shots I guess we got too far away from it's spawn because it disappeared in front of me. I think it just snapped back to its dedicated area. This was the mountaineers hut in Timber wolf mountain.
Love the video, looks like your guides always get decent views too. Would love to see more for moose and everything else. Maybe condense deer, rabbit and fish into one video since they're slightly more simple topics. Keep it up, love the channel
I absolutely love your videos. I have almost 1300 hours and i still learn lots of new cool things from all of them. Please keep making this great content :D
Just stumbled across this video after i nearly died by getting mauled twice from an aurora bear. Had to learn the hard way that distress pistols don't scare those away...
I fought a bear today that took 9 rifle shots, before it finally went down. That is not an exaggeration. Legit 9 bullets, 1 to the head. On stalker difficulty, no level 4 rifle. I was absolutely flabbergasted. Im glad i played it smart, that wouldve been a near impossible kill if i was in the middle of nowhere.
1:38 In my opinion, they are all active, it's a matter of getting close to the ,,bone,, at 500m. Because half a kilometer from the character is a circle in which the game generates animals, sticks, so being in the south of the airport, wolves do not kill deer in the north of the map. It's easy to see when using the fly command in mods that each bear is active as long as it doesn't regenerate after being killed.
You are right about animals only spawning when you are in close proximity, but there are certain bears in the world that have a 70% chance to spawn. I noticed this in particular in the past when doing the Great Bear Hunt challenge with some other streamers (all bears speedrun) There were certain bears that we began to think of as 'problem bears' be ause they occasionally wouldnt show - killing the whole speedrun. We assumed those bears were just bugged. However, with unity explorer, it can be seen that all of the 'problem bears' have a 70 in their chance to show variable unlike the others with have a 100 chance to show. All of the numbers/information i provide were found through datamining - it is not speculation. If i was speculating, i would make sure to be clear about that.
could you provide a full list of the guaranteed and random bear spawns for each region or point me to where i could find it? :) it'd be great if someone could add it to the wiki
Now we need a wolf and moose guide and if you do a wolf guide can you show them the power line or tree bug we're if you hug the side of one the wolf can not enter a struggle and if you just aim a weapon it will flee and thx for the very well edited video I had to watch it a few times to let it all sink in
Thank you very much for such an informative video!!! Can you elaborate more about the mechanic where the bleed out cancles when you go indoors? Does this work on wolfs also?
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How did you find the data for shot damage and locations? Is it possible to decompile source?
The bearskin bedroll isnt worth the weight unfortunately.. the improved bedroll is really good to use instead 😉 I think it weighs 1 kilo instead of 3 for the bearskin roll
I'm sure distracting the bear by throwing stones will go great. I'll be sure to never try that. That's nice the old oblivion stand out of reach and spam arrows works.
The bear will not come inside, but do be careful near the edge because they can clip through it and maul you from the outside (i should have mentioned this in the video)
One thing I can't seem to find info on is if wolves will eat dead bears. Like if I kill a bear and a wolf just so happens to come up on the bear before I can harvest it will it start eating the bear?
This is such a good video. Glad I stumbled over it. Will the cave trick work in the cave that the bear actually spawns at or does it have to be a different type of cave?
ok, so the damage and bleed out timers are clear. What happens with the bleed out timer if you hit the bear again? It gets a new bleed out timer from the newest hit or it's a "formula"? TY
The hunting is the one thing in this game that I have quite a bit of beef with. Especially because its supposed to be relatively close to real life. Body shot should be lethal and split up into chest and stomach areas with chest having high damage and fast bleed out and stomach having medium damage and slow bleed out. Limbs they shouldnt die from except for heads where they should die instantly. This would be the most realistic. Currently it feels super gamey, but that is by design because the realistic system would be too easy. But devs are smart and could peobably implement a way to integrate the two systems with eachother. The deer are also way too dumb and I dont understand the flare gun having the highest chance to kill but I also am not entirely sure on how a flare gun works. Ive played tld for a few years and its the only issue I have with it. It still is a super fun game. Just not as realistic as I had hoped I guess in the hunting aspect.
Somone has said amazing, so Ill go with thats a stupendous video! Really great tips and covered evwrything, how did you even work out all that stat info!?
Great video but please please please use less distracting background music- I could hardly focus on what you were saying because of the strong jazz lines
@@AGAZILLION The strategies are the same regardless of controller or keyboard and mouse. I actually played this game on console originally and always thought that dancing was easier on controller because of better movement control with the left stick compared to WASD
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Lesson 1: Bears reproduce through mitosis apparently...
Did you also know that the bears mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell?
Awesome guide Blades. Very thorough!
A small but important detail: bears smell meat and move towards it, just like wolves. So, be careful when passing through their habitat areas with meat.
That the first think mentioned wasn't that "bears are the nightmare fuel which keeps you awake at night, the mere sound of which sends your heart pounding", means this guide is inaccurate.
10:13 This is GOLD information right there
I never knew the bleeding resets on loading screens
Thank you for explaining that the bears won’t always stand on their hind legs before charging. The bear on the Milton bridge did that to me and I thought it was a glitch.
Wow! Amazing video! I'm doing all of my bear hunting from now on to cool piano jazz. 10/10
Thank you Shabby!
If every game tutorial/masterclass was this well done, along with a spreadsheet the world would be a better place
Unless your a bear of course
A cool idea would be Bear variants like what the Wolves have, what I suggest is a "Winter Bear" variant (Which is a real thing IRL). These Bears didn't get enough food before winter so are starving & on edge to the point it makes them extremely aggressive, unpredictable & even cannibalistic to the point other predators like Wolves & even other Bears avoid the areas they're in. What makes them different if that agro from a farther distance, they have more health, do more damage & they will actively hunt down both the player & other animals in their territory relentlessly.
Think of the Savage Deviljho from Monster Hunter, an animal driven to madness by hunger.
Maybe they have less health, since they didn't get enough food, but they have literally no chill
I wish they make the windigo in the custom map too like imagine if during Aurora's if a moose spawns on your map you instead you get a wendigo and that will hunt you until the Aurora is over oh my God I would love that
Have almost 700 hours in the game and didn't know most of that information. I always avoid the bears unless I need something from them. Great video, thanks!
Best long dark CZcamsr explains everything perfect. You’re so underrated!!!
Thank you!!
Okay, now we need a moose vid. Those things are hard!
This is VERY useful information, thank you.
Something I noticed recently while trying out stone throwing distractions is that the bear will walk to the spot you threw a stone, then turn back to it's original target ( you if you smell or it's normal path otherwise).
Throwing another stone while the bear is walking to the first has no effect. The bear will ignore it so it's a waste of a stone. You have to wait for it to finish it's first detour.
EDIT:-
I notice that in the spreadsheet, bleedout time for the bow on the torso looks way too high. Is this a typo?
Personally, bears are my favorite animals. They are extremely deadly and cute. They have funny butts and bellies and stuff. I really love bears, but they scare me in this game. I didn't know campfire tactics and always hunted with the shoot and hide method when I encountered them. Of course, I wasn't always lucky. Once I was playing in Archivist mode and I had 1 last note left. That note was on Timberwolf Mountain. I waited for the aurora for a few days and it didn't show up, so I decided to go to the top of the mountain while it was here. I wish I hadn't said that. While traveling towards the summit at night, an aurora appeared unexpectedly and the weather became extremely cold. I had 3-4 kilos of meat on me and the smell mark was visible on me. I lit a fire somewhere and started sleeping intermittently. Aurora bear attacked in my sleep and listen to this. I know Long Dark is not a horror game, but I SHIT my pants because of fear. Of course, he didn't attack once and then let go. He attacked me 3 or 4 times and finished me off. I used up the last bullets, emergency medicines etc. but it didn't work. I have never forgotten this bear attack, and although I love bears very much, when I come across one in the Long Dark, I most likely hunt it and reward myself with its meat.
Ive experienced bears a couple times that appear to track my scent when ive crossed their preset path. I had a tm bear make a beeline straight for the mountaineer hut on the same path i used as i was returning from ash canyon.
Nice, Great info. One thing I found out the hard way recently, You do NOT always get the bones as a warning that you are standing by a bear cave. In Broken railroad the bear cave close to the hunting blind is just so. Also, what sick Joker decided to put a memento cache in a frickin Bear cave!?! I had no idea and was about to bed down around the corner in the back when suddenly, HELLO? OMG, about gave me a heart attack.
I feel attacked
You’re delicious😈😋
I appreciate your admitted "overthinking" TLD, this is a fantastic video and gold mine of useful information. Thank you for the strats and stats.
Love this super informative and well-edited guide!! Gonna try using that campfire and charging combo next time 😮 Would there be a chance for a moose guide as well in the future?
Definitely!
The fire trick cam be further exploited. Shoot the bear and wait near fire. Since they wont get close but still aggro on you, just sit down and wait for the bleed out
I did that and one time while in the middle of waiting the bear turned into an aurora bear and ended my run
This was really helpful! I won't try the risky strategies in my current interloper run, but this looks like a lot of fun!
They should occasionally make a bear walk up, put your fire out, and then yell at you about forest fires.
BROOOOOOOOOOOO So glad you're posting stuff on youtube!
I always stay outside until they die. Sometimes they disappear when you go indoors. Great video.
Great video i'd love to see one going over all the spawning mechanics for each bear spawn in each different region.
Great video! TLD can be so dense and withholding of its information and game systems that unraveling it is almost like some form of mysticism. I do have an alternative version of the bear dance that I think is easier and safer to execute.
Find a tree or similar object that is free of obstructions around its base. Position yourself very close to the tree with it in between you and the bear. Keep the tree squarely to one side of your characters body and make sure the bear has a straight angle towards you. Initiate the bear to charge you. Right before the bear reaches the tree move to the opposite side. If done correctly the bear will have to move past the tree before it is able to turn around. If done to soon the bear will correct its course and follow you to the opposite side. If done to late you'll be mauled. The window for when to side step is pretty generous since the bear has a wide turn radius. This gives you time to reposition for the next pass. Since the bear is charging directly at you you're able to get consistent headshots. Bonus points for having wind protection from the bear and the tree once it's all over.
This can also be done with moose but is harder due to their tighter turn radius.
didn't know about some of these mechanics. still learning after 1000 hours!
Me too! Even after 3000.
Been playing for over seven years and I still learned things today!! Mostly about the 70% spawn rate (I think I unconsciously noticed some of this as I memorised spawn points but it's nice to know how it really works)
When you get mauled the sound effect the character makes is the same as the noises scp 096 make in the game I believe.
So, I guess that carrying a torch doesn't help me against a bear. *sigh*.....
Thanks for all the great info, especially the numbers. Is it possible to find out the health of wolves and moose as well? The modifiers seems really interesting to experiment on.
Great video with a lot info.
I would love to see a moose video with spawn times etc.
I was actively tracking and shooting one on pilgrim to practice my bow shots
I guess we got too far away from it's spawn because it disappeared in front of me. I think it just snapped back to its dedicated area.
This was the mountaineers hut in Timber wolf mountain.
You do a fantastic job Blades, please keep making guides and sharing that good meta info, thank you!
Love the video, looks like your guides always get decent views too. Would love to see more for moose and everything else. Maybe condense deer, rabbit and fish into one video since they're slightly more simple topics. Keep it up, love the channel
Thank you! More guides are coming - ive been away from home for the holiday period but i'll be back soon and i'll be working on more guides! :)
I absolutely love your videos. I have almost 1300 hours and i still learn lots of new cool things from all of them. Please keep making this great content :D
I'm a veteran player and I just learned so much! Keep making videos!
Just stumbled across this video after i nearly died by getting mauled twice from an aurora bear. Had to learn the hard way that distress pistols don't scare those away...
Great vidéo Blades.
At 7:38 , imo the improvised bedrool is the best after the update => 8°c for 1.1 kg vs bear bedroll 12°c for 3 kg
Yep I agree, i havent made a single bear skin bedroll since they added the ptarmigans
Once again fabulous job Blades! TY!
Best guide on bears I’ve see. Amazing info. Really hope to see a moose guide from you, but I’ll probably just check out some of your other videos too.
I fought a bear today that took 9 rifle shots, before it finally went down. That is not an exaggeration. Legit 9 bullets, 1 to the head. On stalker difficulty, no level 4 rifle. I was absolutely flabbergasted. Im glad i played it smart, that wouldve been a near impossible kill if i was in the middle of nowhere.
Did you make your own cheats for testing? Love the more info driven content for this game. Subbed
1:38 In my opinion, they are all active, it's a matter of getting close to the ,,bone,, at 500m. Because half a kilometer from the character is a circle in which the game generates animals, sticks, so being in the south of the airport, wolves do not kill deer in the north of the map. It's easy to see when using the fly command in mods that each bear is active as long as it doesn't regenerate after being killed.
You are right about animals only spawning when you are in close proximity, but there are certain bears in the world that have a 70% chance to spawn. I noticed this in particular in the past when doing the Great Bear Hunt challenge with some other streamers (all bears speedrun)
There were certain bears that we began to think of as 'problem bears' be ause they occasionally wouldnt show - killing the whole speedrun. We assumed those bears were just bugged. However, with unity explorer, it can be seen that all of the 'problem bears' have a 70 in their chance to show variable unlike the others with have a 100 chance to show. All of the numbers/information i provide were found through datamining - it is not speculation. If i was speculating, i would make sure to be clear about that.
P.s. love your content!
could you provide a full list of the guaranteed and random bear spawns for each region or point me to where i could find it? :) it'd be great if someone could add it to the wiki
Thanks for the information.
Now we need a wolf and moose guide and if you do a wolf guide can you show them the power line or tree bug we're if you hug the side of one the wolf can not enter a struggle and if you just aim a weapon it will flee and thx for the very well edited video I had to watch it a few times to let it all sink in
ty for all these tips.
Thank you very much for such an informative video!!! Can you elaborate more about the mechanic where the bleed out cancles when you go indoors? Does this work on wolfs also?
How did you find the data for shot damage and locations? Is it possible to decompile source?
Even on maximum bear spawns I often only have one bear in Mystery Lake.
wish i could smack the like button multiple times . + awesome music choice
This was such a good video Blades. I learnt a few things! Hope you're considering one on how to kill the moose. I've never done that!
Your xhanel is really good. Makes me feel very positive etc. Keep it up if you want you make good stuff
The bearskin bedroll isnt worth the weight unfortunately.. the improved bedroll is really good to use instead 😉 I think it weighs 1 kilo instead of 3 for the bearskin roll
@@JackFrost008 100% true! But this videos is focused on bears
@@BladesTLD bearskin clothes are warm 😊🔥
I'm sure distracting the bear by throwing stones will go great. I'll be sure to never try that. That's nice the old oblivion stand out of reach and spam arrows works.
Could you do this but on moose please?
Thanks for the video man 🐻 🏹
Thanks for this video very helpful 😊
wait hunting blinds are a real barrier? I swear those steps look wide enough to fit a bear.
The bear will not come inside, but do be careful near the edge because they can clip through it and maul you from the outside (i should have mentioned this in the video)
Very good, Blades!
Thank you!
Can you do moose next?
Great guide and thx for the numbers!
One thing I can't seem to find info on is if wolves will eat dead bears. Like if I kill a bear and a wolf just so happens to come up on the bear before I can harvest it will it start eating the bear?
Nope - animals will only eat other animals if they make the kill - e.g. wolves with deer
Sorry for the delayed reply!
10:48 What a gyatt
Great video!
well made and very informative 👏
This is such a good video. Glad I stumbled over it. Will the cave trick work in the cave that the bear actually spawns at or does it have to be a different type of cave?
Do one of these about moose plz
Its coming :)
ok, so the damage and bleed out timers are clear. What happens with the bleed out timer if you hit the bear again? It gets a new bleed out timer from the newest hit or it's a "formula"? TY
Great video. Would love a Moose version.
Great video!
All right, you covered bears now can you cover the moose?
Its coming! :)
Ok can’t wait
Differences between bears and aurora bears?
Wish I watched this video before last night when the bear killed me for the first time... hahaha
Niceeee more videos like this, it's very helpful
Happy to subscribe very nice hunting game 👍👍👍
Armoured vest?? Didn't know there was such a thing. Where can I find the vest, please?
The armored vest is located at the prison in Blackrock
The hunting is the one thing in this game that I have quite a bit of beef with. Especially because its supposed to be relatively close to real life. Body shot should be lethal and split up into chest and stomach areas with chest having high damage and fast bleed out and stomach having medium damage and slow bleed out. Limbs they shouldnt die from except for heads where they should die instantly. This would be the most realistic. Currently it feels super gamey, but that is by design because the realistic system would be too easy. But devs are smart and could peobably implement a way to integrate the two systems with eachother. The deer are also way too dumb and I dont understand the flare gun having the highest chance to kill but I also am not entirely sure on how a flare gun works. Ive played tld for a few years and its the only issue I have with it. It still is a super fun game. Just not as realistic as I had hoped I guess in the hunting aspect.
Somone has said amazing, so Ill go with thats a stupendous video! Really great tips and covered evwrything, how did you even work out all that stat info!?
Thank you!! I used mods and a whooole lot of testing
GREAT information!
Is the amount of meat wich can be harvested from 1 Bear increasing with its age? Or is it random on every time they spawn?
There is a bear in the prison?!
Few times i found sleeping bears, easy kill :)
Does the respawn time on pilgrim increase? Or does it stay constant?
It's constant in Pilgrim
Do a meese guide
Nice🎉
Excellent video. Music is too loud; can't hear you clearly
Thanks for the input - im still new to edited content! I did try to balance it nicely but i'll make sure its lower in future videos!
joy
Could you pretty please nix the background music? I have to mute and read your captions. Annoying. I'm subscribed if that helps.
I cant edit it once its uploaded but i will be making some changes to the audio in future videos. Thanks for the input!
I liked this video
PLEASE DO MOOSE NEXT
Its coming :)
Is a critical hit an instant kill?
Yes :)
oh. in "the long dark".. i see.
too much effor for this video. i gave the like.
Your accent Mancunian?
Kind of! I'm originally from the north west but not quite manchester. Close though!
Make fire, go to bear, shoot bear in head, run to fire, shoot bear in head when it stops, harvest. It's as shrimple as that.
Great video but please please please use less distracting background music- I could hardly focus on what you were saying because of the strong jazz lines
Thanks for the input! I'm still new to editing etc so I appreciate it
Dont dance on console..
@@AGAZILLION The strategies are the same regardless of controller or keyboard and mouse. I actually played this game on console originally and always thought that dancing was easier on controller because of better movement control with the left stick compared to WASD
@BladesTLD im just really bad at first person shooters. Esp on controllers
@BladesTLD you should see me try to stone rabbits. Youd think I had cerebral damage
This music doesn't fit this game at all.
@@pantarei. Damn that must have ruined your life, sorry about that
@@BladesTLD well... I don't have to watch your channel. Bye, bye.