u/RecycledShitpost

I got fairly far in my winter permadeath run, killed few punishers at the start, got good condition KP's with extra mags, made almost every task, scoured vostok over multiple trips made fully kitted out rifles, ifaks, afaks, hell a coffeemaker which honestly made me value the run more. Eventually, I got careless and unceremoniously I died entering the village white building with garage and camping bandit shot me from the bathroom. Stared blindly at the screen in disbelief for minutes but at the same time I felt pretty good about ability to do the quests again on fresh playthrough to give some reason to loot every container everywhere. So I hit winter permadeath again.

Now on day 3 I got extremely lucky and found gymnasium key from trashbags and managed to get the border zone hoodie and patient notes very early on. I was planning to go to get the oil samples, got careless in the mindfield running along the yellow tape and managed to trigger a mine which startled the shit out of me since I more or less thought it's clear way. I lost my composure and just backtracked to get more healing supplies from doctor and went all the way to cabin take break. It's funny how I am now more worried of my progress because of cosmetic than all the possible shelters etc that was open to me in my last game save. Though also fresh in my memory is how much the winter start sucks and how it felt like playing alien isolation dodging bandit walking somewhere inside the school while I am without weapon or clothes looking at my draining stats and just trying to find anything to prolong the run and stabilize the stats and defend myself.

Do you have similar experiences? What makes you value your save?

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