Mastering Misery - Part 1: Every Decision Matters

Who would win: -an extreme difficulty meant to kill you, only meant to be survived maximum for 40 days -50 birch bark tea

I love the fact that Zak plays Misery with about the same urgency I play Interloper. For years, I've admired his ability to take Interloper easy and sometimes make suboptimal choices for educational purposes, but it seems there will be no place for that in Misery. At least not in the beginning.

I think Misery is the dev's taking out their passive aggression on the players :D :D

that's my fear response too; to drop my guts and hide.

Even Misery with Zak is a joy ❤

This new game mode is a good idea. I won't play it but when games are in early access for a long time veteran players want the difficulty to increase which can make the game inaccessible to new players. This keeps the game from being too difficult for new players and satisfies the people who have played for years. Plus it makes good content for YouTube.

1:02:08 I love the visual of a survivor reaching into their bag and just downing a coffee in reaction to a wolf in order to run away.

I tried misery mode, and actually got surprisingly far considering that I'm by no means an expert in the game. I got seven days in, and what's funny is that I was in a discord call with my friends, and I got the second affliction, and I said something like "I kind of want to die so I can look up what the new afflictions are." Because I wanted to see how far I'd get, and have the one misery run be a surprise. As I was saying that, a wolf came out of nowhere, I tried lighting a torch to scare it off but it was too windy, and then I died.

Me and my son love this game and love your videos! So thank you dude.

We played stalker and didn’t find ourselves challenged. We played Interloper and didn’t find ourselves challenged. And now we have Misery. Don’t say we didn’t ask for it

prey leaving when going "quickly inside to make a fire" happened to me so many times that i started just making a pit stop fire outside instead

1:10:20 minus 100 degrees Celsius!!!?!?! Thats insane! Cause the lowest natural tempture on earth had been minus 89.2 degrees Celsius and that was on south pole. The long dark is truly a apocalyps

Finally. The misery stream we've all been waiting for.

From your comments about the negligibility of clothing—from what I understand, misery starts at max temperature scaling, equivalent to day 50 of interloper, so if you end up getting fully geared up with bear coats and whatnot, the temperature late-game in misery will be very similar to interloper, aside from the frigid bones affliction. So it's definitely worth going for those as fast as possible, and definitely before broken body.

It's always funny how toilet water is perfectly safe to drink in this world, but melted snow you have to boil first just to be safe.

Hype!! Can't wait to see where this series goes!!!

Zak's only real challenge would be not being able to go over weight

So many decisions I wouldn't have taken! Going through the birch forest, skipping the farm on the way to Barn, skipping the plane crash after sleeping at preppers cache. That goes to show I'm probably playing this the wrong way 😅

1:41:24 I noticed on my interloper runs those ptarmigan always disappear as you enter and exit the hut. However if you go all the way to the rope and head back, they will be there again. Can't wait for the next episode, great stuff.

A full night's sleep will diminish your thirst completely, which would cause condition loss. That means you can't sleep more than like 9 hours at a time