The Long Dark Guide | Beginner's Guide Part 3: Goal Setting
This beginner's guide to The Long Dark discusses the idea of goal setting and links it to the previously discussed playstyle tuning. Goal setting is an important function for players to understand as it will help you go from surviving for just the next day to planning for long-term achievements. These long-term plans can range from summiting Timberwolf Mountain to forging a complete set of tools on Interloper or just stockpiling enough food and water to last a week.
Goal setting helps players adopt an acceptable upper risk tolerance for their playthrough, enabling them to make decisions weighted against both their daily survival and their long-term goals. This concept doesn't end here, however. Go to the next video in the playlist to understand risk management! Risk management ties directly into playstyle tuning and goal setting so that players can evaluate what they're doing from both a high-level view and an in-the-moment setting to ensure they're not making poor decisions.
The Long Dark doesn't have to be hard! These guides are designed to give you a quick framework for understanding the quiet apocalypse. They are also designed to be spoiler-light so that newcomers can explore the world around them without having things like region knowledge and loot locations heavily spoiled.
0:00 Intro
0:30 Playstyle Tuning Summary
1:29 Intro to Goal Setting
2:06 Setting Goals
3:25 Smaller Goals feed into Larger Goals
4:09 Goal Setting Contextualizes Risk Management
5:38 Summary
6:05 Outro
Updated Guides Playlist: • The Long Dark Guides
Old Guides Playlist (Out of date or incomplete info, still useful): • The Long Dark: Comprehensive Survival...
Gameplay of The Long Dark: • Interloper Season 7
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