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Tales from the Far Territory

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Experience three unique regions, each with their own narrative objectives, and find your way through deep, twisting valleys littered with landmarks, landmarks that offer clues to unlocking the secrets of the land. Explore new items and gameplay mechanics that will challenge you to adapt to survive, and encounter new wildlife that inhabits these harsh and unforgiving territories.

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Tales from the Far Territory is downloadable content for The Long Dark that is an expansion to the Survival Mode portion of the game. It was officially released on December 5, 2022 and concluded on December 2, 2024.

Overview

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Developer Diary, October 2022
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Tales from the Far Territory is a paid expansion pass for The Long Dark's Survival Mode. It introduces new regions, wildlife, plants and improved mechanics and system overhauls as well as Tales—objective-based narratives that differ from a Challenge in that it is played within a standard Survival game. There are three primary Tales following the story of Dr. Rüdiger and a fourth mini-Tale focusing on the Trader.

The expansion was delivered as a two-year campaign with major updates released on an average of every four months. These updates were cumulative and included free content for all players who owned The Long Dark or The Long Dark: Survival Mode Edition.

Any content exclusive to the paid expansion is labeled as such below, and a full list can be found in Category:DLC Content. Purchasing the DLC also enables players to install The Long Development, an unofficial, fan-made mod which adds several regions to the eastern part of Great Bear Island.

Part One: Forsaken Airfield

Released December 5, 2022

Free Update

  • Global resource overhaul for all Gear, Harvestables and Clothing
    • Loot and resource refresh
    • Starting spawn point refresh
  • Memento Notes: scraps of paper found under visors of vehicles and elsewhere, leading to hidden supply caches
  • Improvised Crampons
  • Doe - a female deer

Miscellaneous Update

  • Survival and WINTERMUTE split into separate gaming editions
  • Save system overhaul, resulting in a save wipe for survival mode
  • Temporarily removed prepper cache bunkers

Part Two: Signal Void

Released March 30th, 2023

Free Update

Miscellaneous Update

  • Returned Prepper Caches from previous update's removal
  • Weak Ice now displays cracks when walked over as part of the updated Beachcombing mechanic

Part Three: Frontier Comforts

Released June 21, 2023

Free Update

Part Four: Buried Echoes

Released December 5th, 2023

  • New First Aid items
  • New soundtracks

Free Update

  • 1 new Affliction: Scurvy
  • Insulated Flask (better known as a Thermos) for keeping soups, broth and drinks Warm
  • New first-person animations:
    • Equipped Clothing now properly appears on the hands and arms of Survivors (replacing the former default system where Survivor's hands were bare and the sleeves wore either Mackenzie's Shirt/Mackenzie's Sweater or Astrid's Sweater, no matter what Clothing was worn)
    • Carcass Harvesting Overhaul: harvesting carcasses and meat quarters now shows the survivor harvesting the body by hand and visually involves the tool selected.
    • Brand new Hunting Rifle, Revolver, and Distress Pistol animations

Miscellaneous Update

  • Carcasses now become weathered over time and possess 3 states of being (fresh, ravaged, frozen)

Part Five: Last Horizon

Released June 24th 2024

  • New Feats:
    • Settled Mind
    • Celestial Navigator
    • Big Cat Killer

Free Update

Miscellaneous Update

  • Tales from the Far Territory officially released for Nintendo Switch (Parts 1-5) (August 1st, 2024)
  • Added an option to make Cougars and Scurvy optional content when starting a Survival Mode Experience (except Misery)
  • Removed Cougar shortly after launch due to negative player feedback so that it could be reworked

Part Six: Broken Silence

Released December 2, 2024

Free Update

  • Safehouse Customization - customize almost any interior with the ability to move, rearrange, destroy, or craft furniture and containers to let survivors create their perfect safe house
    • Includes over 800 items that can be moved, broken down, and in some cases, built using this system. There are over 120 interior scenes that can be turned into Safehouses, along with several specific "exterior interiors" like the Mountaineer's Hut in Timberwolf Mountain, and the Lookout Towers.
    • Added a Decorations tab to the Survival Menu to categorize the new Safe House items
    • Woodworking Tools
    • Added over 30 new craftable Safehouse Decorations.
  • Global Wildlife Refresh: an overhaul of wildlife spawn points and patrol paths to remove some of the predictability from their behavior
    • Establish new patterns for hunting and travel through the world to avoid, or seek out, wildlife. Every wildlife spawn region in the game has been refreshed. Expect to encounter predators like Bears, Wolves, and now Cougars, in new and dangerous places. Find prey animals like Deer, Rabbits, and Ptarmigan have made homes in new locations. Wildlife populations have been rebalanced across the entire game world. Even Timberwolf spawns have been refreshed, so that they don’t always appear where they used to.

Miscellaneous Update

  • Added 19 new Achievements related to the Tales from the Far Territory, being a mix of free and paid achievements.
  • The game no longer has 25 save slots. Saving is now measured in percentage of space on save files.
  • Train box cars and Car/Truck engines received new models. Camp Office now has paint on the walls upstairs.
  • The Big Cat Killer Feat was discontinued with the new Cougar version, and is now a legacy Feat.

Development

With the progress of Episode 4 and writing for episode 5 coming to a close, Raphael van Lierop posted the Dev Diary on March 18, 2021 talking about the future of The Long Dark and linking to a survey asking a series of questions, including if players would be willing to pay for DLC.<ref>March 2021 Dev Diary</ref> The results of the survey showed a favorable view towards paid content and development began with a dedicated team. <ref>Survey Results</ref> To streamline the process of adding updates, the game was planned to be split into two editions, Survival Edition and Wintermute.<ref>April 2022 Dev Diary</ref>

The name for the expansion pass was revealed as Tales from the Far Territory on October 20, 2022 in the Dev Diary, also announcing free and paid contents, save compatibility issues and the subsequent save wipes, with a general release date for December 2022 and Xbox, PlayStation and Switch planned for early 2023.<ref>October 2022 Dev Diary</ref>

Raphael von Lierop also announced stepping down as lead developer of The Long Dark, handing the reigns to Katie Sorrell as Project Lead, who would continue the work on Wintermute and Tales from the Far Territory, officially taking over as the voice for The Long Dark on Hinterland's official YouTube channel on March 30, 2023 in the "Tales from the Far Territory Part Two Update Video".<ref>YouTube - Tales Update One</ref><ref>YouTube - Tales Update Two</ref>

Tales was officially released on December 5, 2022 on Steam and Epic store for Windows. Technical issues arose for Mac and its release date was delayed from December 5, 2022 to February 15, 2023.

PlayStation and Xbox was announced for March 15, 2023<ref>February 2023 Dev Diary</ref> but was delayed and officially released on March 30, 2023 with Updates One and Two simultaneously. Update Two for PC was also released on March 30, 2023.

The Switch was initially announced for March 2023 but was delayed, with Parts One to Four later being released together on August 1, 2024<ref>Switch Launch Trailer</ref>. Parts Five to Six was later released on March 10, 2025<ref>Switch Updates Five to Six</ref>

Tales was initially disabled for Interloper in order to maintain gameplay balance and the belief it would be too difficult and offer little reward for players, but after receiving heavy criticism, Raphael announced its future inclusion in the Dev Diary on April 14, 2023<ref>April 2023 Dev Diary</ref> with it being officially enabled on April 20, 2023.<ref>Hotfix - Tales Enabled for Interloper</ref> Signal Void for Interloper mode was in turn modified to include less loot for bunkers and appropriate loot for the Trackable Hidden Caches.

The Cougar was met with heavy criticism at Part Four's launch, with many players expressing their disappointment with how it was implemented. This included how it did not act as a typical wildlife in the game and rather than roam and interact with the world and player, its appearance was limited to the moment it attacked the player after a timer countdown. The Cougar was promptly removed from the game to be reworked and then rereleased later for Part Six on December 2, 2024 to a more favourable reception.

Achievements

Trivia

  • The promotional image used for the Tales From the Far Territory is actually concept art for the Final Approach helicopter crash site.
  • The Zone of Contamination was formerly teased as the Industrial Mine, but was renamed during its debut.
  • Sundered Pass was formerly teased as Mountain Pass, but was renamed during its debut.
  • Base Customization was originally exclusive to this DLC before it was made available for all players as part of free update.

Official Art

  • Title Card
    Title Card
  • Teaser for the Handheld Shortwave Radio
    Teaser for the Handheld Shortwave Radio
  • Travois Concept
    Travois Concept
  • Ditto
    Ditto
  • Zone of Contamination Concept art (formerly named Industrial Mine)
    Zone of Contamination Concept art (formerly named Industrial Mine)
  • Concept art of a Poisoned Wolf
    Concept art of a Poisoned Wolf
  • Miner Clothing
    Miner Clothing
  • Cougar Concept Art
    Cougar Concept Art
  • Sundered Pass
    Sundered Pass
  • Sundered Pass Weather Station
    Sundered Pass Weather Station
  • Cougar Concept
    Cougar Concept
  • Safe House Customization Concept Art
    Safe House Customization Concept Art

References

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