We've just hotfixed The Long Dark Sandbox to v.326, to address a few bugs and to make some tuning changes to mechanics we added in "Tireless Menace".
Intestinal Parasites
We've rebalanced Intestinal Parasites.
Parasite Risk: Raw Wolf and Raw Bear meat behaves the same as before. For Cooked Wolf and Cooked Bear, you will gain Parasites Risk per piece you eat, per day. The risk will stack, and is expressed as a % in your First Aid screen. Every 24 hours, we will check against this Risk. If you don't contract Parasites within that 24-hour period, we reset this Risk to 0%.
Parasites: Full-blown Parasites can now be treated with 5 Doses of Antibiotics or Reishi (Voyageur) or 10 Doses (Stalker). There is still no chance of contracting Parasites in Pilgrim.
Reishi Tea: You can now brew a cup of Reishi Tea using 2 Reishi Mushrooms (reduced from 3).
Cabin Fever
We've also re-balanced Cabin Fever:
* To get Cabin Fever, you now have to spend the majority of 6 days indoors.
* If you develop Cabin Fever, you will now be prevented from Resting *indoors* for 24 hours.
* We've added a "grace period" of 50 Days in Voyageur (25 Days in Stalker), during which you will not develop Cabin Fever. This is to "simulate" the idea that Cabin Fever only becomes an issue if you have been isolated for a long time.
* There is no risk of Cabin Fever in Pilgrim.
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We may make further changes to these systems as we continue experimenting with them and reviewing community playtest feedback.
The full changelist for v.326 is below:
THE LONG DARK SANDBOX HOTFIX to v.326
* Intestinal Parasites tuning (see above for details)
* Cabin Fever tuning (see above for details)
* Removed affliction indicator when player only has at-risk afflictions; this indicator still appears for "full" afflictions.
* Reishi Tea requirement reduced from 3 Reishi Mushrooms to 2
* Fixed issue with multiple wolves spawning in Desolation Point cave
* Fixed issue that could allow rifles to spawn outside Trapper’s Cabin in the Hunted Challenge
* Fixed issue with shutters disappearing on some Lake Cabins
* Reduced Bedroll per-use Condition decay
* Changed R3 to Click RS in Controls options
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