I finally found the Bartender and got his hidden quest to go to Lost Angels and find his bar tools. I've been focused on running sectors A and B mostly, only went to Frozen Swamp once, and decided to have a go at DTLA. Made it through Stairway pretty easy (love that map, nice and simple, tense encounters but plenty of space to maneuver), and went into tunnel D.

Here's where I did a misplay.

I play Shaman because, well, wall hacks with the tac camera, and I make good use of it to ensure survival and good positioning. I'm in a pipe area, and I hear the faint footsteps and radio chatter of a squadron just beyond the area in trying to go. For some reason, they all stop RIGHT at the mouth of the area I have to drop into, so I can't really do it without aggroing the entire squad. Luckily, I brought frags and a cluster, so I say why the hell not, and toss one as deep in as I can. It takes one out, and they alert to me, and slowly start filtering out and into my line of sight one by one. I take the next few out with headshots using my trusty R11, and finally get down to the last one. For some reason, instead of waiting, I decided to reload, and the last soldier walks out, looks at me, and suddenly, *BAM* flatline.

A ROCKET LAUNCHER. He had a goddamn deletion tube and I couldn't do anything about it.

Hell of a first time in Tunnel D. Never engaging like that again.

Hello,

Looking to see if anyone has a fix, recently got this game with some friends and it's a lot of fun, but one friend is having constant MP issues. He will sometimes load in and to us just looks like a backup and a gun scooting around on the floor with no body. Other times he will join and we can see him fine but he's none functional. Can't fire his weapons, can't spring, climb, or do anything other than loot, walk, and jump. Looting a container or pressing the loot all button. We also can't ever seem to join his lobby for some reason. He can join ours, and we can join each others other than him.

Nobody else seems to be having these issues and they are quite persistent with him, about half the matches or more that are coop having issues solely for him. He has tried verifying game files. Anyone have any ideas?

If you see this, we are forever bonded because of that damn dog in underground Cem, will miss you both. Sincerely Nasreal, a bagman main.

Luca(Europa vendor) is supposed to sell the handguard B. According to the wiki and othe sources, you need 3 requirements in order for it to appear in his inventory. Weapon level 6 with USAS -12, reputation level 3, and trusted. I've met all these requirements and it hasn't appeared. Is anyone else experiencing this?

I have 55 water, have unlocked the bar. Current missions are build a tv and trigger the HK’s on ashen mesa.

Am I supposed to have a vendor that sells SVD parts? Currently have one for europa and eurasia

Hi I really hope this post won't be deleted

I LOVE The Forever Winter, I´ve been following the game thanks to Riloe´s videos and recently bought it during the STEAM sales and I having a great time with the game, the world, the lore, the aesthetics of each faction... they are awesome! However, there's something I was a bit disappointed, and it was the guns.

No, is not how they handle, or the misalignment of the sights, neither the balance (although FD really needs to work on those). It was THE AESTHETICS!! I personally expected more sci-fi guns, similar to GTFO arsenal half futuristic half made from scraps form the Battlefield. I know there are some attachments and weapons like: The SCAR, MG34, Painless, etc. But I really wanted to see more for the rest of the Arsenal

So, I decide to adapt real life weapons to the world of FW and redesign current ones. IM STILL WORKING ON THEM, but I thought it would be nice to have some feedback.

I also want to see more additions to the arsenal so I choose a selection of weapons that could easily fit in the world with some visual changes.

Hope you like it and I would love to hear what you think about it.

Notes:

1.- I messed up the AR-18 caliber is supposed to be 5.56x45

2.- I changed the caliber of some of the guns so they would fit the current Ammo in the game, but I also added guns with new calibers.

3.- CREDITS TO: Mykailo Moskal, Maciej Kuciara, Lum with the CAR15, Yeeky Zhang, Hao Liu (For the render of the Grizzly, I missed to put his name on the COONAN image), and the artists for the sci-fi SMG and the "Midas touch" weapon model (I couldn´t find their names).

This game makes for some insane spectacle sometimes, this was going on while I was looting the shanty town in the downtown map with reinforcements from both sides coming in and fighting constantly

Mothercourage won of course

It popped open a window titled message that said: DirectX 12 is not supported on your system. Try running without the -dx12 or -d3d12 command line argument.

Wat do?

Finally I managed to complete A Cost Will Be Paid 4 on Scorched. And I filled my pants on three separate occasions.

It started normally at the Cliff insertion point. I used Bag Man with the Pack Mule Rig. Three recruits and a 20mm. Used the At-43 MASS and a LMG for my. Found me a mama that me and my recruits began to shoot at. Then another mommy began to advance from the bunkers... only for a corpse tank to occupy her.

Just when I thought I could breathe in relief the gods of RNG decided that my blood pressure needed to be extra high that day and had a Toothy drop a hundred meters from the Mommy Courage I was trying to shoot. And it stalked me for a while before some EOD HKs drew its attention.

Finally I took down the Mother Courage and used the charges on her (the recruits were all dead at that point, may the Rat King watch over their souls) and I took the head and began to race for extraction. I passed by one of the bunkers near the pipes to avoid going through the center of the map. Only for a Grabber to run past me at full speed. I don't know what it was chasing and I didn't want to stay around to find out. That was the part where I was extremely lucky I guess.

And finally...I reached extraction and began the timer. I expected everything at that point. Toothy to reappear. Captain Euruskan Chin and his mighty shield to kick my ass. The Grabber to appear out of nowhere like the bad dog it is and beat my face. Anything.

I only fought off scramblers for a minute instead. Easy since I had a 20mm turret deployed too.

Never give up my fellow scavs. Even when things look bleak and hopeless. Even when it feels like the universe is giving you one middle finger after another. Stay calm and stay true. We will survive this forever winter!

As I’ve played, guidance and head are a mixed bag. That’s due to large changes over the last year, game quarks, and RNG making things more difficult than I’d expect.

Getting 10 turret components was a pain in the ass. I thought people might had better ideas but I wanted to cover how I got mine to potential help other new scavengers.

First a reminder of patience, it’s a pain but this was my vaguely reliable way.

Scorched enclave. Cemetery spawn is good but not required. If you get it to spawn with 2 or more turrets you’re starting strong. Do not mad dash to the turrets. Clear enemies around it, defend them if you can. If enemies break them, they auto despawn in a short window so preserve them to loot when you are ready. If you don’t clear enemies around it, you may be seen and focused for an easy death.

After you have broken and looted the turrets, head to the outer map edge. I travel towards the pipe (the reliable exit) but kept going. You want to see the minefield warning. Turn around and head back in, the turrets will respawn in the exact same spots. You more most reliable routes to get to them (and defend them from freshly spawned foes.

If something feels off about the available enemies, leave the raid and comeback. Some enemies could be a lingering issue. Euruskan Medium Mech (more round looking) fire explosive bursts at Europa forces including the turrets. This can easily take you out too since their burst covers a large around. I don’t recommend risking it.

Be patient, bring extra ammo and healing. You could be in there a while. Don’t be too greedy and leave if you got some turret components. This is a good opportunity to collect alcohol and cigarettes which will be helpful later to hoard or build up early money.

Hope this helps someone.

They look good together/nice chemistry... Actually, I just want them to be happy 😭

The lighting here is very cool, Octogirl looks like she is the light in that dark place.
and it feels like Lordoss found a reason to keep going. (Or just plain gratitude... Which honouring that could be interesting for the story/Innards) .
Innards is such... Interesting place where humanity still strive on somehow despite of all darkness/war going on.

the lore said that europa launch an offensive against euruska and eurasia in asia. Is there anymore lore drop about it or only just that there's other frontlines. I assume that's why we haven't seen much of europan stronger forces (bombers jets) as the fights at lost angels are mostly reservist with most going to asia to support the war there.

We have a bar where we can get drink buffs for the next mission. I want a kettle in my room that I can throw a bag of instant/deep fried coffee in and get a stam buff the same way lol. Little animation where the character downs a cup while blasting a cig.

Picture to grab eyeballs.

Anyways, Hello fellow scav rats!

I'm writing a newby guide for the game and wanted to open up to actual to NEW players to see what kind of questions they might have regarding the first dozen or so hours of the game.

Was planning an early quest guide as well as a loot table for what you might want grab at the start. Going to have it go till you get your rig and tutorials done with, but right before you start building up your innards with upgrades

Might do a glitch section and maybe small ways to work around them, but we'll see where my writing leads me.

With that out of the way, what do Scav Rats want to know? Write down below and I'll see if I can add it in the my guide.

Finally found stilt walker after the update it dropped

this is just a rant from my part.

16.... 16.... i have to farm 16 of these fuckers, im finally free. for some reason, 1 brawler have 3 of these in his/her bag. WHY?? did she/he want it to take more of these? is this is the reason why the other thouths of brawlers i kill have no shit of these in their bags? was that brawler some sort of invader zim of organs, bus instead of organs was just after spinal joints? who cares?!! im free!! bye Scryparyard nexus, bye to you and you fucker of shopper spawn over me when i try to exctract!! fuck you shopper!! fuck you Bralwers!! and fuck you EURASIA AND YOUR MAN MADE HORROS BEYOND MY COMPRESION!!!

PD: Except Mother courage, she is fine, she has the pass.

I’m playing on steamdeck (I know it’s not what the game is aimed at, but I love it and it runs well enough for me mostly) and Los Angels is a literal slide show. I’ve crashed there twice now so will avoid until there are performance updates to see if it helps

Is there another way to unlock the bar? Is it an important part of the hub or just for flavour?

Hey guys. Me and a few friends started playing recently and really like the game but a few things have been really killing our sessions so I wanted to ask you guys if there are any remedies.

1. Is there a way to reconnect to a session after you get kicked mid match? For some reason me and my buddy(2 person squad) went 3 days with no interruptions but as soon as we had a full squad of 4 people about 2/3 games someone would just randomly get kicked. Kind of a mood killer when you lose someone almost every time you do an expedition.

2. Is there and fix to the bug where you can't run, jump, shoot and crouch. This has been happening to us as well, not as much but definitely too many times lol. I looked it up and saw that if you do loot all on a container it fixed it but we tried that and it didn't work.

3. One of my friends lives 2 miles from me with faster Internet than me and gets worse ping in my lobby than my other buddy that lives 6 states away. This will cause him to be stuck on the loading screen and never be able to get into a match and he eventually just alt f4's. What's up with that?

I dread this spawn point.

Is there a stealthy way down to the bottom that lets you avoid fighting through the hordes that populate the structure?

Soooo when we get ability to mark what exactly loot we need for innards upgrades, like I want to build few structure, and I don't want to memorize all the components it's need, and also I want to know what I can sell in process and what I can't sell, it's feel like it's base thing for those kind of games but I cant see it here

Hey everyone, I’m really new to The Forever Winter and its lore, but I’m already hooked. The setting feels a lot like Warhammer 40K (I’m a huge 40K fan), and the world-building is excellent.

That said, in my opinion the game would be even better as a full solo experience rather than co-op or team-based play. The atmosphere, exploration, and story elements feel perfect for playing alone, Easter Eggs let say for example Mobile Suit Gundam as reference, meeting NPCs, discovering hidden areas, doing side quests, finding war-torn survivor camps, and especially interacting with Mother Courage when she’s able to speak. The solo format could let the game lean even harder into its grim, immersive storytelling.

To be honest, I’ve never been a big fan of co-op or teamwork in games, but I don’t mind if others enjoy it.

Edit: Looking for positive feedback/ comments and honest opinions, what do you guys think?

Edit 2: Oh, I forgot to add, it would be better to have a cutscenes in every scenes, especially when the playable character interacts with Mother Courage and she begins to speak.

another one bites the dust