Professional navigation skills?
So I don't know if this is considered a stupid question but how is it possible to to know where your going in the middle of the forest? Christa was planning to go to Wellington without a compass or navigation or anything! How do they know where they are going?
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I'm not going to teach you survival skills in a game forum but read a book or google it or heck watch some survivorman and you will see there are many ways to navigate in nature.
Also just because they don't explicitly show it, doesn't mean Christa is not carrying a compass or has a map in her backpack. They certainly had time to pick up these supplies before heading out.
Northern star, sun rise vs sun set, moss (sort of). Christa was a boyscout obviously.
I learned from Spongebob moss sets on the east side of rocks. . . or was it the west.
boyscout?
It didnt look like they were carrying much. It was only Clem and her backpack and I saw none of that as she was looking through it
and riding rocks
Well I'm fairly sure girlscouts never did navigation training :P At least not when my sister was in it. The cookies are fantastic though!
Oh well I wouldn't know. I was never in girl scouts but the cookies I have tried from them are definitely delicious!
There are still streets and cities in the world. They may have been in the woods at the moment but its not that hard to just find North and head that way till a road or sign giving you a better idea on which way to Wellington. I'd imagine most people would follow the roads but not ON the road to attract attention, but near them, parallel to them, then camp in the woods off the road at night.
Sounds like The Road. Terrible book.
I dont think the videogame developers wanted you to dig this deep
There are obviously still road signs and stuff that would tell you which direction your traveling. This isn't the stone age people lol.
they used to ride those babies for days. but now today and fuel prices . . .forget about it
People just can't seem to fill in the blanks on their own. Soo much "If it wasn't shown to me in game, It didn't happen" Christa knows how to navigate and or has a map, just leave it at that. Its not that hard of a job to do really. Kinda like the people who think that Clem doesn't know what happened to Kenny (Christa and Omid told her off camera for sure, its common sense) and Clem doesn't know what happened to Christa's baby because THE PLAYER didn't see it (CLEM obviously knows, the player will later in the season)
Good writing doesn't spell everything out for you like a childrens story, it requires you to use your common sense to fill in the boring blanks.
Moss grows on the north side of trees and whatnot. It's nature's compass.
But in TWD universe you can't assume anything or come to a conclusion if it wasn't directly shown. Just like Tyreese from the comics, he was trapped in a room full of walkers so everyone assumed he died, but lo and behold he came back without a scratch on him. Expect the unexpected my friend (that goes double for TWD series)
I don't think the Tyreese situation applies to something like navigation. Some things you can be certain about without seeing them, such as the survivors eating and drinking to stay alive. Using compasses and maps to navigate, or following road signs to get to where they need to go. The situation like Tyreese is different because it's part of the plot. He was a major character, and everyone WAS justified in thinking that he'd died in there. However, you'd also be justified in thinking he survived before it was revealed because he was a major character, and he was never shown to be hurt or bitten. Eating, drinking, navigation, those things aren't nearly as important to the story, like the characters are. That's why when you say something like "Oh, maybe Kenny got out of that alley" (NOT starting the debate here, just using an example that's more current than Tyreese) because he's a major character, the circumstances were sketchy. Other stuff, like mundane things, aren't as important or mysterious. Thus, we can assume or come to our own conclusions about them with a relative amount of certainty.
I wasn't really talking about navigation though it was just kind of a general "don't come to a conclusion unless you see it yourself" thing for TWD. It was just an example of TWD universe's trickiness. But I do agree that there are some things we have to assume
They could be following a highway or something. You wouldn't camp directly on the highway (too visible, and Lori might run you over), so they probably just keep an eye on it to stay oriented.