this is driving me nuts. I keep gaining wt till im overwt or obese, just by eating my cooked food when it tells me too. I have tried not eating till the mooby is very red and it says im not healing etc and I still cant lose wt. I have tried to eat low calorie foods that sate hunger by a few pts, letting my cooked food go to waste and I still gain. I do not have the overwt or obese trait, I deliberately skipped those because how annoying they were on my last char and lo and behold my new char keeps gaining wt now.

My cooking is lvl 3, I do add trapped meat. I usually do sauce pan sautes of scrounged fresh or stale veggies as my farming is not started.

wtf. whats the point of having cooking if its going to gimp you and you have to play starved all the time? my sprint is below lvl 1 as I tend to sneak all the time, will improving that lessen the wt gain? I spent days crafting walls and barricades with hunger mooby and it didnt help.

really needs some balancing imo

lolol, but i have rat meat stew simmering ............................. want some?

i never cooked, just lived off of cans & fruit but someone I doubt that's it.

And I run everywhere but in this game I think everyone does.

well, my char is a mth old, killed 530 or so zees, has built a fortress with lots of walls. at first I was gaining wt like crazy eating canned meat and stale veggie stews, soups or stir fries. so I starved myself, ate low cal foods, ate only when the mooby was in deep red. started sprinting, its now at lvl 2. now my prob is Im LOSING wt. pretty fast. Im eating stir frys with fresh meat and fish, fresh veggies, at least 4 added. I eat when I get the mooby, sometimes before and I am still losing wt. my exercise lvl hasnt changed tho I am still sprinting. my cooking lvl is around 5 or 6, cant remember off the hat so i should be getting high nutrition from my recipes.

its starting to really annoy me this mechanic. as it stands now I see this as a game time limiter, if no matter what you eat you lose wt till you starve then its game over. i found some melted icecreams loaded with calories which i will keep if my wt dips down too low. but frankly this needs to be tweaked to be less responsive, slower wt gain and slower wt loss.

ffs, ( face palm) nvm. my char has 'hearty appetite' for a trait. im so stoopid. i can see that affecting wt gain... and in a way wt loss. note to self, skip this annoying trait in the future. looks like im going to spend most of time cooking and eating with this char.

*wanders off grumbling

BTW have you mastered the "quick kill"? While a hunting knife is preferred, if done right any kind of blade assure one strike kills. It's become kind of essential for me.

no, ive seen it done but its too hard core for me. give me an ax and im happy as a clam. I once for some reason spazzed on the keyboard and my ax got switched to a kitchen knife in the middle of battle... ugh.... lets just say that my cat didnt appreciate the level of screech comin from me then

well if you ever get bored, start a separate game and practice it. At my age my reflexes are for shit but I managed to pick it up pretty quick. The problem with an axe is, just the process of swinging it can exhaust your character and then when you need to run you find you can't.

with enough blade accuracy you end up doing alot of one hit kills, but what is great about the ax is the stagger/knock down combo, then I step on them till they pop ( i read doing that boosts strength but I have yet to see it in my stats, it does save on repair tho), if two zees are near to each other you can kill them both with one swing which can be fun. do you agree the baseball bat is complete shite? i know some swear by it

well, im sorta at end game now, cant find a sledge or shovel so that ruins any sky camp fort. and i cant find the recipes for gennies or building traps or bombs which takes care of that bit of fun. im down to house to house searching for those things and I will prob load up a gun and a hunting knife and go for that hoarde building on the east side of town.

should be fun while it lasts. :D

this made me smile, i think this is what im aiming for....... a grand last stand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLn9ho5D52Q