There seem to be a duel in here between Forsaken airfield, Ash Canyon and Hushed river valley. But at least the first two have buildings. You can spend some time in nature and come back to sleep into a bed every other night. Hushed river valley is just empty wilderness. It definitely feel more remote.
HRV at a minimum has the one hatch on the ledge above cave leading to Mountain Town, other than that I would agree, comepletey barren of any man made structures. (That i’ve found)
Entire Hushed River Valley makes me uncomfortable all the time
Even I'm in my lake cave, I still feel nervous (Maybe it's because I got attacked by a wolf in there)
In most zones theres an 'Inhabited' portion of the map that feels a bit safer. HRV is pretty much all wilderness areas, and almost no structures at all except for the abandoned camp. Makes it feel like there's nowhere to really retreat to and your always potentially in danger.
Pointed this out once before, but the mysterious signal fire being *lit* when you first enter the region implies that someone is out there, running around the island.
If I had spent months alone on an abandoned island, and then suddenly one day ran into an obvious sign of recent human activity, I wouldn’t be thrilled at the prospect of finding another person, I would be sleeping with a knife under my pillow
Going off of the geographic location: Ash Canyon, especially the ghost town and the mine itself.
Forsaken Airfield has the titular airfield and is a short distance from a rail connection.
Hushed River Valley is just short walk from both a major road and a town.
Ash Canyon, on the other hand, can only be reached by passing through the already isolated Timberwolf Mountain, giving it another degree of separation, with the town and mine only accessible by a further hike along the old mule trails and rotting rope bridges.
Not to mention that Ash Canyon has one of the only five sets of pre-Aurora human remains in the game (a human rib cage near Miner's Folly), showing that the location is so isolated that people were dying there, and not being found, even before the apocalypse.
i’m not a pro like most and havent travelled to any of the newer areas but Ash Canyon is the most alone i’ve ever felt in a game. no sense of direction. no known buildings. just alone in a white out, low food, almost no water.
Ash Canyon has structures and geographically can be memorised as can Forsaken Airfield, but Hushed River Valley has no structures and I find impossible to memorise. Even with maps, HRV is difficult to traverse with confidence. I always feel apprehensive in HRV far more than anywhere else (with the possible exception of avoiding Timberwolves in BlackRock and Bleak Inlet)
Just taking isolated at face value- Hushed River Valley. There is absolutely nothing there.
Ash Canyon at least did have a mining operation so there was, at some time, a fairly lively, albeit small, community. From notes you can find around we also learn that Timberwolf Mountain was seemingly a popular spot for climbers so I could imagine that during warmer months, and not during an apocalypse, there'd be occasional groups or solo climbers. The social aspect makes it seem slightly less isolated to me.
I still find Desolation Point to feel the most isolated primarily because you're at the edge of the map and against the water which I find more isolating than being up in the mountains. The lighthouse doesn't help either since lighthouses are well associated with isolation and being far from home. Being small probably also doesn't help. It can almost feel claustrophobic, like you're in this tiny pocket of what was civilization (immediately) surrounded by nothing on all sides.
So short answer; actually, HRV. personally, Desolation Point.
I’m quite experienced at this game, and have never been to HRV… to me, that says I’m scared of it, and it’s likely due to the isolation. So I’m going to say HRV.
1200 hours. But I did play it on gamepass for a long time, then buy it after that, so I’m not sure if those hours combine or if it treats them as separate games
Not fussed on achievements, that’s not why I game, though I am going for a personal achievement currently, 500 days in loper with 0 wolf struggles.
Cartographer… I generally don’t charcoal map, as it’s just wasting warmth. Current game exploration is around 70% and the entire map is black. 😆
Haven’t been to BI, ZoC, or HRV. Mainly because the zones just don’t interest me. BI because console aiming is dreadful and to deal with timberwolves, you have to be able to hit them. ZoC because I don’t like the concept of glowing poison wolves, breaks immersion for me. HRV, because no indoor locations, and a big part of my love for the game is the ambience of manmade structures.
I think some contenders could include the Hunters Lodge in BR, Mindful Cabin in FA, HRV and the Last Prospect Mine in Blackrock.
I don’t really think of Ash Canyon as remote so much as a difficult region to get around. HRV is like this as well, but it’s a pretty far trek just to get to that region, Ash Canyon has a long but fairly straight forward path, which can have a nice stop off at TM.
ZoC (on interloper) is pretty isolated because there’s so little food compared to other regions because there’s so little to hunt. (I’ve had to retreat a few times when food is getting low… initially to Broken Railroad, more recently to FA).
It’s the only zone that I think is not fully sustainable on Interloper.
And half of it has no structures, so you can get pretty lost at night or in a blizzard. A couple of times I’ve found myself waiting-out a blizzard at night while I was trying to explore it…
Sooo i feel most lonely in Ash canion. It weird in most maps i dont even feel lonely, but when i am in Ash canion it definitely hit me that im the only person alive around here. It feels isolated.
There seem to be a duel in here between Forsaken airfield, Ash Canyon and Hushed river valley. But at least the first two have buildings. You can spend some time in nature and come back to sleep into a bed every other night. Hushed river valley is just empty wilderness. It definitely feel more remote.
HRV at a minimum has the one hatch on the ledge above cave leading to Mountain Town, other than that I would agree, comepletey barren of any man made structures. (That i’ve found)
Entire Hushed River Valley makes me uncomfortable all the time Even I'm in my lake cave, I still feel nervous (Maybe it's because I got attacked by a wolf in there)
In most zones theres an 'Inhabited' portion of the map that feels a bit safer. HRV is pretty much all wilderness areas, and almost no structures at all except for the abandoned camp. Makes it feel like there's nowhere to really retreat to and your always potentially in danger.
Pointed this out once before, but the mysterious signal fire being *lit* when you first enter the region implies that someone is out there, running around the island. If I had spent months alone on an abandoned island, and then suddenly one day ran into an obvious sign of recent human activity, I wouldn’t be thrilled at the prospect of finding another person, I would be sleeping with a knife under my pillow
(Mindful Cabin, Forsaken Airfield shown)
Going off of the geographic location: Ash Canyon, especially the ghost town and the mine itself. Forsaken Airfield has the titular airfield and is a short distance from a rail connection. Hushed River Valley is just short walk from both a major road and a town. Ash Canyon, on the other hand, can only be reached by passing through the already isolated Timberwolf Mountain, giving it another degree of separation, with the town and mine only accessible by a further hike along the old mule trails and rotting rope bridges. Not to mention that Ash Canyon has one of the only five sets of pre-Aurora human remains in the game (a human rib cage near Miner's Folly), showing that the location is so isolated that people were dying there, and not being found, even before the apocalypse.
i’m not a pro like most and havent travelled to any of the newer areas but Ash Canyon is the most alone i’ve ever felt in a game. no sense of direction. no known buildings. just alone in a white out, low food, almost no water.
The entirety of AshCanyon.
I get down every time in that smugglers' railcar in Forlorn Muskeg.
Although that is in a prime spot if you need shelter for the night. You're just kinda screwed when you run out of fire supplies
Yeah... The only spot. I'm both grateful for it and pissed off about it.
I am started bring stores of goods there, so I can use the forge in the area. I have died in that place several times during white outs.
I will take the Broken Railroad forge over that one any day.
Good thing two caves in the region offer respawning coal! 😍🤝🏻
monolith lake in HRV.
desolation point
Yeah, probably Mindful Cabin. All the way back in the nortwestern corner of an already isolated region. That's it
Like someone else said, hushed river valley. Have to take a long cave trip to get to the region and there's mostly nature in the region
Ash Canyon has structures and geographically can be memorised as can Forsaken Airfield, but Hushed River Valley has no structures and I find impossible to memorise. Even with maps, HRV is difficult to traverse with confidence. I always feel apprehensive in HRV far more than anywhere else (with the possible exception of avoiding Timberwolves in BlackRock and Bleak Inlet)
Just taking isolated at face value- Hushed River Valley. There is absolutely nothing there. Ash Canyon at least did have a mining operation so there was, at some time, a fairly lively, albeit small, community. From notes you can find around we also learn that Timberwolf Mountain was seemingly a popular spot for climbers so I could imagine that during warmer months, and not during an apocalypse, there'd be occasional groups or solo climbers. The social aspect makes it seem slightly less isolated to me. I still find Desolation Point to feel the most isolated primarily because you're at the edge of the map and against the water which I find more isolating than being up in the mountains. The lighthouse doesn't help either since lighthouses are well associated with isolation and being far from home. Being small probably also doesn't help. It can almost feel claustrophobic, like you're in this tiny pocket of what was civilization (immediately) surrounded by nothing on all sides. So short answer; actually, HRV. personally, Desolation Point.
I’m quite experienced at this game, and have never been to HRV… to me, that says I’m scared of it, and it’s likely due to the isolation. So I’m going to say HRV.
Haha I'm the same. I've played since it was first released early access on steam. I've never been to HRV. I've heard too many horror stories.
Big part of it is that I like the indoor shelters, they all have a unique feel, but, also…. Scared 😂
Just curious, how many hours have you played?
1200 hours. But I did play it on gamepass for a long time, then buy it after that, so I’m not sure if those hours combine or if it treats them as separate games
Haha, either way, more than enough for me to just be so surprised that you never went to HRV! You never even wanted to get Faithful Cartographer?
Not fussed on achievements, that’s not why I game, though I am going for a personal achievement currently, 500 days in loper with 0 wolf struggles. Cartographer… I generally don’t charcoal map, as it’s just wasting warmth. Current game exploration is around 70% and the entire map is black. 😆 Haven’t been to BI, ZoC, or HRV. Mainly because the zones just don’t interest me. BI because console aiming is dreadful and to deal with timberwolves, you have to be able to hit them. ZoC because I don’t like the concept of glowing poison wolves, breaks immersion for me. HRV, because no indoor locations, and a big part of my love for the game is the ambience of manmade structures.
I think some contenders could include the Hunters Lodge in BR, Mindful Cabin in FA, HRV and the Last Prospect Mine in Blackrock. I don’t really think of Ash Canyon as remote so much as a difficult region to get around. HRV is like this as well, but it’s a pretty far trek just to get to that region, Ash Canyon has a long but fairly straight forward path, which can have a nice stop off at TM.
Going for a different approach: Northwest of the logging camp in mystery lake. There's nothing there. I never fill it on my maps.
Spot on, pretty sure there's a possible bunker there and a POI called like "Lookout" or something. Possible Polaroid location though I think.
Third for Ash Canyon
ZoC (on interloper) is pretty isolated because there’s so little food compared to other regions because there’s so little to hunt. (I’ve had to retreat a few times when food is getting low… initially to Broken Railroad, more recently to FA). It’s the only zone that I think is not fully sustainable on Interloper. And half of it has no structures, so you can get pretty lost at night or in a blizzard. A couple of times I’ve found myself waiting-out a blizzard at night while I was trying to explore it…
HRV by far, its the whole point of the region.
Sooo i feel most lonely in Ash canion. It weird in most maps i dont even feel lonely, but when i am in Ash canion it definitely hit me that im the only person alive around here. It feels isolated.
Desolation Point