Nah i dont see an issue with having to work for your food. Having to hunt for food and prepare it etc. Even canned food I find Always come in handy.
food should be tedious. But never wasted my time with super corn I rather steak and potato. Each to their own but canned food and having to hunt for food adds extra to the game in having to keep an eye on and make sure you have enough food to go on loot runs or to work on your base etc.
I don't disagree, I don't want them to remove food or anything, the current implementation just kind of eh. Food is a big deal for the first few days, then is basically a complete non factor after that. That's pretty common in survival games, but usually because you automate a farm.
Instead, in A18 farm plots cost way too freaking many resources early and even sometimes mid game, and farming and cooking requires heavy perk investment as well as cooking grills and other things. Instead of wasting a bunch of points on that, you can just go to a vending machine or trader and buy good food without worry.
And why would you use anything *but* Super Corn late game lol. Steak and Potatoes are fine mid game, but once you get super corn growing, it's 100% undeniably objectively the best food in the game. Well, some of the others give really minor stat boosts I guess? But the stat boosts are . . .really minor, and planting 4 or 5 super corn plots per person nullifies food completely forever. It also heals pretty well too, and it doesn't matter if you get food poisoning off it because you can just eat more for free essentially.
The other top tier foods are okay for role play, but are just way more work than they are worth once you find a super corn recipe book and a Carls Corn.
I think the biggest issue isn't that Super Corn is OP, it's that the other food just takes way too much investment. Even Super Corn would be near trash tier if you couldn't find a book to make seeds from it because it takes SO many points to get to. There's just a lot better things to invest points into than having to learn to make a bunch of seeds, and then make all the farm plots, and then kill animals to get meat, and then use a lot of points to learn to cook, and then get a cooking grill as well as screw around with jars of water, then cook your meat stew or w/e, then get food poisoning off it and cry because you just wasted half your ingredients and threw them up
All that, vs just buying food from vendors / machines, while you work on finding super corn and it's book, which aren't that rare, and getting enough rotting flesh to make farm plots. Once you've got Super Corn you have zero reason to bother with any other food type. But even until you get Super Corn, it's pretty simple to just buy your food and not have to sink 15 points into learning to cook it and then pray you actually find a deer or boar which are basically extinct. Food is super cheap and you can do 1 mission and have enough to buy a weeks worth of food, as well as loot like 3+ days worth of food from the PoI while you were doing the mission
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