The Long Dark 'Tales From the Far Territory' Paid Expansion to Add New Regions, Gameplay, and Objectives

The Long Dark 'Tales From the Far Territory' Paid Expansion to Add New Regions, Gameplay, and Objectives

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Richard Walker

Developer Hinterland Studio has announced that The Long Dark will be receiving a new expansion titled ‘Tales From the Far Territory’, the game's first paid DLC for Survival Mode set to release in several parts during a 12-month campaign. The expansion will add new regions ot Great Bear Island, as well as new gameplay, and objective-based Tales.

Tales From the Far Territory will release as paid updates for owners of the Expansion Pass, alongside free updates for anyone who owns The Long Dark or its Survival Edition. Hinterland notes that these updates will be released “on an 8-10 week cadence, with the timing and composition dependent on development realities."

Among the new regions will be the Transfer Pass railway hub down Great Bear's Far Range Branch Line, an Industrial Mine scarred with toxic chemicals and run-off, a steep Mountain Pass, and one of The Long Dark's “harshest, coldest regions yet”, the remote Forsaken Airfield.

New gameplay coming with Tales From the Far Territory, meanwhile, will include a new ‘Insomnia Affliction’, a mysterious electrostatic ‘Glimmer Fog’ to contend with, a handheld Shortwave Radio, enhanced cooking, a craftable travois for dragging items long distances, the ptarmigan bird whose feathers can be used for crafting, cougars, a trader with useful items, a camera and dark room, new item variants, and saferoom customisation.

Three new objective-based, narrative-driven Tales will also connect back to the Long Dark's five-episode ‘Wintermute’ storyline (the fourth chapter of which released last year), while free updates will introduce new elements like fire arrows, acorns to grind into a powder for food and drink, a spawn point refresh, and other stuff, as well as visual enhancements for the Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC versions of The Long Dark.

The Tales From the Far Territory expansion will be coming to The Long Dark from 5th December 2022, and you can check it out in the trailer below.

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  • While I'm happy that the game is still getting support, I wish they would finish the story mode that has been in the works since 2014 BEFORE they would add in other paid DLC.
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