I wasn’t aware of the hidden backpack in the walls, thank you for pointing it out! I’ll look for it whilst the hunt for stone circles continues. Hopefully I’ve not come full circle and missed it!
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Alright, is it Lindens Skeppssättning? The landscape lines up perfectly. The exact tree types, their placement, the contours of the land, even the shadows and little hillocks all match. And from where my camera’s facing to the east, the sun would rise right through that cluster of four trees, just like in your photo. Go on, please put me out of my misery!
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That’s it.
I’m looking towards east on dawn.
The sun is low, the shadows are long.
As you can see, in the distant there is the main building of Stora Dyrbo safehouse, on your screenshot better to be seen than on mine.
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I was thrown off by the safehouse, as it wasn’t visible in your photo and made me question whether I was in the correct spot! Still, it was a great challenge, very enjoyable, thank you for posting it!
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There it is.
Hard to see, but possible. Just take a close look. 
Btw… I wish I could have a clean compass which I may add on those photos… But isn’t possible.
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Ah, now I see the safehouse! Changes how the whole scene fits together.
Here a strange looking Toad rock that I photographed, but can’t find back anymore, because I forgot to take a map location screenshot like I always do.
So if you fancy a difficult hunt, this is it. Only thing I can think of is that it was on Archipelago, but I am not absolutely sure. 
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That’s a fine example of simulacrum, the shape really does look like a toad. Looks like a difficult challenge, and I’m up for trying it. I’ll start my search around the Archipelago and see where it leads. Hopefully I can stumble across it and get the coordinates.
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If it’s archipelago, it could just be west of örnsnabben lookout in my eyes.
There aren’t many sight seeing spots (camera Icon) on archepelago and the others don’t fit because of the landscape/Terrain.
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I found the big rock toad! It is in the Archipelago! (2735.436, 2793.468) perched on the cliffside near that spot some reckon has writing etched into the rock, not far from the dead tank still letting out its final drone breath. He’s a lot bigger than I expected from your screenshot and it really does look like a giant toad. It wasn’t hostile btw.
Also, I finally got my physical copy of Generation Zero today! I’m tempted to get a cheap Xbox One and play it offline, just to see if it’ll play the original version with the old school inventory, holy hand grenade, and all that jazz. Probably wishful thinking but still, it feels great to have a proper, physical copy in my hands. Viva la Résistance!!!
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Yes, that was fun! First time I saw it I was totally confused and had absolutely no idea what it was all about. So I choose to ignore it and felt a little bit hurt that the devs apparently didn’t take the game quite as serious as I did. Later I came to appreciate these funny twists and Easter eggs like the stairway to heaven, the Magritte floating rock , and - not to forget - the Volvo DeLorean.
The first (and only) time I used the holy hand grenade I almost got myself killed 
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By the way, I take pride in the thread Östertörn turistbyrå that I consider a predecessor to this “Guess where it is” thread 
By the way, isn’t this the longest thread here in the forum? Good job, @Madchaser 
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Thx.
Yeah, somehow it goes into the same direction.
But the trigger for this thread simply was an official Twitter-Event initiated by Carni. Just like I wrote in the first post.
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Yes, kind of I remember doing it in my “world exploration” phase, both because of the interesting places and the funny anormalies we came across. But your thread turned out to be much more catching and involving 
. Really good idea with this “pub quiz”.
Yes, sometimes threads turn into something different than initially intended
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Well done.
So the tourist attraction on the compass was Talluden. 
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Let’s give the explorers something new to look for. The 3 newspapers caught my eye as being unusual. Normally we see only one lying around. And here one of the newspapers has blood on it. Did someone sleep here?
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Interesting.
Could take a while to find it. Benches aren’t that rare.
So, what do we have here?
- It’s dark, no surrounding landscape or structures can be seen.
- You’re looking east, so the bench is facing west. There is a chance that it stands on an eastern side of a road or path.
- There is a relay beacon north east of you and a safehouse north of you.
- I guess you’re closer to the relay beacon than to the safehouse, as we cannot see which stations are there.
- No other poi nearby (referring to the compass)
These facts could help finding the location on the map.
My first guess due to that would be:
Next to St. Maria Church in mountain region.
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Okay, my first guess was Saint Maria’s Church as @Madchaser thought, but can’t find it there.
The tricky part is the distances. A safehouse can show up on the compass from as far as 250 metres away. A relay beacon, on the other hand, will appear at 100 metres but then drop off your radar entirely at about 325 metres. That means the possible radius we’re dealing with here is deceptively large.
So, the game is on and I’ve got my eyes peeled for this bench.
Yes, that’s what I thought too. At which distances appear the stations at a safehouse?
And if other locations work like the safehouses, then there mustn’t be anything else within the same radius.
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I found the bench with the blood-stained newspapers in Östervik (1142.907, -35.041). I worked out the location by triangulating it using the safe house and beacon markers, this was a great clue!
From what I can piece together, it looks like a couple of guys decided to hold out when the machines attacked. Not far from the bench, there are two bodies, a tray with bottles, and even a picnic table with beer cans on it. I imagine they were sitting on the bench, laid the newspapers down so they wouldn’t get wet from the snow, and cracked open a few beers in defiance of the machine insurrection. Then, runners must have attacked. They probably tried to save the beers on the tray and make it into the nearby confectionery shop, but didn’t make it, falling just outside the back door. They tried to save the beers before themselves. True heroes, gone but not sober!
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