Hinterland pronounces Tales from the Far Territory content material enlargement for The Lengthy Darkish

What you want to know:

• The Lengthy Darkish is a first-person survival recreation developed by Hinterland and set within the freezing Canadian wilderness.
•  Hinterland has introduced a marketing campaign so as to add paid DLC content material to The Lengthy Darkish by way of an Enlargement Cross titled Tales from the Far Territory.
• The “Forsaken Airfield” area will launch first, with two extra areas to be added later. Three narrative themed challenges may also be added to Survival, as nicely.
• Free updates will proceed for The Lengthy Darkish, together with high quality of life enhancements, new objects, and international loot and wildlife refreshes.
• Hinterland plans to launch new content material each 8-10 weeks.
• Tales from the Far Territory might be priced at $20 when it launches in December, with the worth growing by $5 twice as extra content material is made out there. The ultimate value might be $30.

Initially launched in 2014 in Early Entry on Steam and later in 2015 as a part of the reveal of Recreation Preview on Xbox, The Lengthy Darkish has come a good distance in its growth. The sport has since seen the discharge of its free story mode DLC, Wintermute, together with a number of free high quality of life updates. Hinterland has lately introduced through a dev diary that gamers can sit up for an extra 12-month lengthy marketing campaign that may add much more content material, this time as enlargement DLC for survival mode titled Tales from the Far Territory.

Tales from the Far Territory is the primary paid DLC to launch for The Lengthy Darkish and can span throughout a 12-month lengthy marketing campaign so as to add three new areas particularly to the sport’s survival mode. The primary of those new areas, “Forsaken Airfield” will launch at first of the enlargement cross’s lifecycle in Dec. 2022 and would be the first time The Lengthy Darkish’s setting on Nice Bear Island has been expanded. Gamers might want to survive a protracted and threatening journey alongside railways, tunnels and caverns to ultimately attain a hub area that may present entry to all three new areas that may ultimately be out there as a part of Tales from the Far Territory’s content material drops. Hinterland is presently planning an aggressive slate of content material with the purpose of releasing new drops each 8-10 weeks. 

Tales from the Far Territory will launch with a $20 price ticket; nonetheless, Hinterland has stated that the worth will improve in increments of $5 over the course of its 12-month lifespan as extra content material is launched with the ultimate value on the finish of the marketing campaign settling at $30. Whereas choosing up the DLC at launch might present probably the most worth, gamers who select to attend to see the end result of the content material drops and their long-standing impact on recreation play can be at liberty to take action as there aren’t any plans to vault content material over time. 

Along with the paid DLC content material, gamers also can sit up for a continuation of free content material drops and high quality of life options coming alongside to The Lengthy Darkish. Hinterland plans to provoke a full international loot and wildlife refresh with adjustments to the loot tables, pre-placed loot, and a rebalanced financial system throughout the whole recreation. A full useful resource refresh will go reside with the launch of Tales from the Far Territory whereas a wildlife refresh will come afterward within the marketing campaign cycle. New objects like a thermos and edible crops, in addition to visor notes pointing to the places of provide caches and different helpful assets may also be added. New first-person animations and different visible enhancements geared towards high-end techniques are additionally deliberate.

Sadly, gamers with present Survival saves will lose that progress as soon as the replace for Tales from the Far Territory is launched, even when they don’t buy the enlargement cross. This is because of a collection of adjustments to the save system and the sport’s base structure that ends in earlier saves being incompatible with the brand new format. These adjustments had been obligatory to enhance and future proof The Lengthy Darkish’s base construction. It isn’t all doom and gloom, nonetheless, as any unlocked Feats and progress towards Feats in addition to present achievements might be carried over. Likewise, saves for Wintermute content material may also be salvaged regardless of the adjustments. Solely Survival saves might be affected. Gamers on Steam can have the choice to make the most of The Lengthy Darkish’s Time Capsule function to persevering with enjoying present saved video games on older construct variations, although these builds won’t have the advantages afforded by the Enlargement Cross, nor any quality-of-life enhancements featured in these updates.