PC Healing Factor ( might NOT be the worst skill in the game? )

[canadianbluebeer]

Not the original commenter but the knuckles are insanely OP. Especially when you get a book that "melee power attacks greatly increase your knockdown chance" and the "every melee fist punch (leather, iron, steel knuckles) heal you one health per punch" stuff gets insanely op. Just charge into a horde and focus one enemy at a time. Pair it with sexual rex, heavy armor, and the perk book "your armor does not weigh you down while In combat" you essentially become a tank. Infinite stamina, infinite knockdown, infinite attacks. It's deadly, which it has to be for melee.

As for HF, it's insanely OP. I always grab it the moment i can, I do believe what you engineered is a bug because I've never had that issue before. So i do wish you luck, i play on survivalist and the above build has never let me down!

May the hordes be small and the loot be large!

I wouldn't call it OP, but yes,  with the books, heavy armor, HF, IS, you do become a tank and very very hard to kill.

HOWEVER, charging into a mob and punchy punching away, while fun, t'ain't so fun when "your exhausted" (need a vitamin) or,  sprained arm. etc.

(it happens, annoying too)

I do the STR/FORT build a lot.  Punch the individual/small groups, M60 for the big groups or the green ones.

One punch popping the head of a bear is soooooo satisfying though. 

(same for one-shotting those stupid leaping lizard zeds. I really really hate them.)

I never noticed any extra food drain. But using food faster to heal faster, well, does make sense.

(and if you have a buncha points in Fort, then you should have a farm and be making better foods)

(sham should be going to sham chowder of course, as you do get an HP buff, which if melee fighting, you are going to want)

 

[pregnable]

As long as it drains my food I will probably not use it... at least not until I have like 300+ corn farm plots. 

Rather just grow aloe and eat bandages instead. 

 

[JCrook1028]

As long as it drains my food I will probably not use it... at least not until I have like 300+ corn farm plots. 

Rather just grow aloe and eat bandages instead. 

Read Meganoth's post above with empirical data. It does not drain your food any more than base digestion and healing by eating food.

 

[theFlu]

For me it likely has a little side effect.. If I'm hurt and well fed, I'll fight carefully. If I'm fully healed but hungry, I'll fight more recklessly. "I'm fine, let's go get some food" .. once you start counting the hits you take landing 1:1 on your food bar, that's a different feel.

Plus, if I don't have Healing factor, I'll heal with meds when I can fit one in, so a lot less food used that way.

So, while it might not be a Real drain, it's a real drain ...

 

[canadianbluebeer]

I'll heal with meds too, it's much faster.

Of course, then need to drink to offset that, but water is much easier to get/make.

(and once you get to make purified water....)

Mind you, none of that helps with broken/sprained bones.  That takes time to heal, and being impatient, I like as much HF as I can get.

 

[Urban Blackbear]

I haven't experienced any additional food/water loss from HF. Excessive weapon/tool use and sprinting/jumping are the culprits every time I experience a drain on food and water.

 

[pregnable]

Read Meganoth's post above with empirical data. It does not drain your food any more than base digestion and healing by eating food.

Yeah, but speeding up the base healing rate is the problem. 

I would rather just farm aloe and eat medical bandages.  Or heal from eating. 

Once you get a huge farm though it is probably not terrible.  I usually stay away from it though. 

 

[Scyris]

There is a bug with healing factor which causes it to massivly increase food use, hopefully tfp fixes it, as the skill now is worthless with how fast it drains your food reserves.

 

[ARRANOX]

There is a bug with healing factor which causes it to massivly increase food use, hopefully tfp fixes it, as the skill now is worthless with how fast it drains your food reserves.

I have been testing and getting a high food use still, even bought a new SSD to install the game on, didn`t help on the food use, but waay faster load time than my 10 yr old hdd  

but thanks for the info, i will keep a lookout for anything about it in future patch notes.