Ideally perhaps your level of nutrition would be an entirely new stat separate from your hunger / calorie meter, as the former should be rising and declining over months and weeks while the latter is doing so every day between meals. Cap this at whatever amount works for gameplay balance and then also make you lose condition from starving more quickly at high calorie debt levels.Ī more nuanced system would be needed to represent the impact of long term malnourishment and may be outside of the scope of the game. Either way though, if you're condition is really low, you might. Once they have added a way of starting fires without any modern tools (it's on the roadmap) then it will be significantly more reasonable to require the level of hunting and cooking required to supply a normal calorie intake, particularly on Interloper.Īs a suggested easy fix, you should build up a 'calorie debt' which you need to remove in order to be able to gain condition while sleeping. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. makes interloper rediculously hard if you need to eat 2000+ calories per day but I like other aspects of the difficulty setting.

I am hoping that this gets changed eventually, I am currently abusing it because the lack of a fire drill etc.

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