This has been my experience as well. Single player, I've got piles of meat, canned food, etc. by day 8. Our multiplayer game with 3 of us, the first two weeks we spent dying of starvation. Once we got bicycles though, hunting and looting has been much easier. I just wish I could tie a shopping cart to the back of my bike for some extra storage. :smile-new:
PC Is food too common?
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Sjustus548
Refugee
It currently feels like there is too much of everything in the game.
when you have the iron gut perk, it will feel like you have too much food.
Reducing the chance to get food poisoning by 25/50/75/100% (food poison % drops from 4 to 3 to 2 to 1 to 0 fir the vast majority of cooked food) basically multiplies all your food by that amount. You get sick FAR less, and recovering from sick is far safer. I've had plenty of times without the perk where I had a surplus of meat, cooked into grilled meat...I'd get sick, down to 30 hunger, then start eating the meat to recover. 1,2,3,4,5, sick....start all over. Dropping 25 grilled meat only to end up slightly hungrier than when you started.
Additionally, the perk makes hunger last longer. So now in addition to getting sick less often (and avoiding the wastage that comes with that), you also stay full longer.
It's no wonder you're swimming in food when perked into iron gut. In all of my endurance playthroughs, I was as well. I feel like you might run into a less overwhelming surplus of food without the perk...maybe not desperate need (planning ahead can solve most issues), but not "full chest of meat/veg" surplus
I'm currently playing a per/int build and my stockpiles are....dangerous. I HAVE meat, but no points in iron gut or master chef. I have the grilled meat recipe, but as I mentioned above, that's a risky proposition. one food poisoning means I need to eat around 10-12 meat to top off...that's 10-12 4% chances. That's a 34-39% chance I'll get sick again and start all over. I go through all the canned food I find as I find it, and even occasionally spluge on some canned food at the trader to top off.
Two changes I'd like to see are
1) make iron gut 5 do something. it's the capstone level of that perk and it does almost NOTHING. All worthwhile cooked food has 4% food poisoning chance, which iron gut 4 eliminates. Iron gut 5 should have some other big effect...maybe +100% food buff duration instead of +50%, or maybe reduce food poisoning chance to 0% on ANY food.
2) move living off the land. I'm honestly not sure where. It feels like it makes SENSE in endurance, which is the "self-sufficient" tree (I'd love to see the attributes renamed Scout, Brute, Survivalist, Ninja, and Engineer instead of Per, Str, End, Agi, and Int), but it conflicts with iron gut....living off the land gives you all the food you could ever need, and iron gut makes you not need excessive food. It feels like one of them should be moved to a new tree just so that the food/survival skills are spread around like many of the other playstyle options (maybe swap iron gut to STR and rename it "Mighty Metabolism" and move Master Chef to Endurance to complement the farming?)
Reducing the chance to get food poisoning by 25/50/75/100% (food poison % drops from 4 to 3 to 2 to 1 to 0 fir the vast majority of cooked food) basically multiplies all your food by that amount. You get sick FAR less, and recovering from sick is far safer. I've had plenty of times without the perk where I had a surplus of meat, cooked into grilled meat...I'd get sick, down to 30 hunger, then start eating the meat to recover. 1,2,3,4,5, sick....start all over. Dropping 25 grilled meat only to end up slightly hungrier than when you started.
Additionally, the perk makes hunger last longer. So now in addition to getting sick less often (and avoiding the wastage that comes with that), you also stay full longer.
It's no wonder you're swimming in food when perked into iron gut. In all of my endurance playthroughs, I was as well. I feel like you might run into a less overwhelming surplus of food without the perk...maybe not desperate need (planning ahead can solve most issues), but not "full chest of meat/veg" surplus
I'm currently playing a per/int build and my stockpiles are....dangerous. I HAVE meat, but no points in iron gut or master chef. I have the grilled meat recipe, but as I mentioned above, that's a risky proposition. one food poisoning means I need to eat around 10-12 meat to top off...that's 10-12 4% chances. That's a 34-39% chance I'll get sick again and start all over. I go through all the canned food I find as I find it, and even occasionally spluge on some canned food at the trader to top off.
Two changes I'd like to see are
1) make iron gut 5 do something. it's the capstone level of that perk and it does almost NOTHING. All worthwhile cooked food has 4% food poisoning chance, which iron gut 4 eliminates. Iron gut 5 should have some other big effect...maybe +100% food buff duration instead of +50%, or maybe reduce food poisoning chance to 0% on ANY food.
2) move living off the land. I'm honestly not sure where. It feels like it makes SENSE in endurance, which is the "self-sufficient" tree (I'd love to see the attributes renamed Scout, Brute, Survivalist, Ninja, and Engineer instead of Per, Str, End, Agi, and Int), but it conflicts with iron gut....living off the land gives you all the food you could ever need, and iron gut makes you not need excessive food. It feels like one of them should be moved to a new tree just so that the food/survival skills are spread around like many of the other playstyle options (maybe swap iron gut to STR and rename it "Mighty Metabolism" and move Master Chef to Endurance to complement the farming?)
SenpaiThatIngnoresYou
Refugee
So i perked into iron gut for drug use. Fortibites, pain killers, moonshine, lernin lixer, all those i want to last as long as possible, so if part 5 makes them last longer, that would be great.
The non food poisoning aspect was a pleasant surprise. Or maybe make level 5 double the healing of food? That would nullify the loss of not making bandages.
I am not sure what the best fix for this would be. I have a stock pile of money too, so maybe bandit raids are a necessary thing and should be added to the game? I mean i have a ton of food, money and ammo so they should be trying to kick down my double vault doors...
Sjustus548
Refugee
The amount of food you need will also depend almost completely on your play style. Using melee weapons, running around more, and using regular tools will cause you to use a ton more food than if you use guns, don't sprint as much, and use power tools. I am in the first category and use a ton of food, even with 5 points in Iron Gut, whereas my wife is in the second, with 0 points in Iron Gut, and uses much less food than I do.