The Long Dark: Coming Storm Walkthrough

The Long Dark: Episode 3 – Chapter 3: Coming Storm Walkthrough & Guide.

The Long Dark: Coming Storm Walkthrough

Okay. so there’s a lot we have to do this chapter.

Essentially, this is a scaled-down version of the “Whiteout” challenge. The good news is there’s no time limit like in the actual challenge. The bad news is that we also have to rescue three more survivors, which means more of carrying people and being attacked by scripted timberwolves.

To start, let’s look at the supply gathering portion of this chapter. As the above screenshot shows, you need to gather a lot of items. Everything will go into this cabinet in the kitchen.

The majority of the items can be found in the abandoned houses in town. And you hopefully picked up the flare gun/distress pistol at the crash site like I mentioned earlier. If not, then don’t worry. One has actually spawned in the Community Hall, but hold on to it for now.

So after cleaning out the town, the last items on the list should be firewood (maybe), food, and kerosene. For firewood, you should of course spend some time breaking down all the furniture in the houses. And if that’s still not enough, there are plenty of limbs around town that can turned into fuel.

For food, you could head back to the crash site and pick up any frozen airliner food that you had to leave behind the first time you visited. But I would recommend fulfilling the optional objective of finding Joplin’s Bunker since you’ll be able to find the kerosene at the same time. And if you’re really desperate, grab the hunting rifle and take down a couple of deer to fill the pantry.

Now kerosene is probably where most people are struggling. The easiest way to get the required amount is to visit any of Joplin’s bunkers. Each one will have a large jerry can of the stuff with over 2L in it. If you don’t want to do that, then you’ll have to go around the island looking for storm lanterns to break down and small bottles. Or you fish until you drop because cooking a fish gives a small amount of kerosene. But seriously, just go for the bunkers.

Okay, on to the rescue portion of the chapter. First piece of advice is to break up each rescue with a sidequest or two. This is probably the most boring part of the game since you can’t really do much while hauling a person around the island. Second is that two of the survivors will have scripted timberwolf attacks so be prepared for those with marine flares and revolver bullets.

Now for some reason, Astrid has a rough idea of where each of missing survivors wandered off to. If you check the map, you’ll see a person icon surrounded by a bubble which indicates the suspected area (please excuse the missing people icons in my picture; the game didn’t like my attempt to get all three people in the same shot).

As I mentioned in the supply portion of this chapter, a flare gun will spawn in the Community Hall.

It’s important to pick this up because you can actually use the gun to find each of the survivors. The first time you enter the general area of a survivor, Astrid will comment on being able to signal them with the flare gun. If you shoot a flare into the sky while inside the “bubble”, the survivor will shoot a response of their own. You can then follow the flare to pinpoint their location. From there, just look for the glow or smoke of a fire since each survivor has a magic fire that’s keeping them warm.

Anyways, starting from the top-right and moving counter-clockwise, these are the pictures of each survivor’s campsite.

On this last picture, the survivor is in-between the large rock and a fallen tree (where the red circle is). I was approaching from the wrong direction.

Similar to when we found Gwen, you have to treat each person and then carry them to the Community Hall. And as I mentioned, for the first two, you will have to fend off timberwolves. It’s a bit heartless, but you can use the survivor as bait. By leaving them on the ground and walking away, some of the timberwolves will stop and attack the survivor instead. This is a great time to line up a shot.

Each time you get to Community Hall, another cot will appear and you have to place the survivor on it. Make sure you can’t pick them back up again. If you can, then the game didn’t like how you put them on the cot and you have to try again (hopefully HInterland will patch soon so the survivors just “snap” onto the cots).

Once you finish stocking the pantry and have rescued all three survivors, you will get a new objective to talk to Father Thomas. Do so, and the chapter will end.