is it not slightly ridiculous that on every attempt to play this game I end up either starving or dying of thirst... literally 5 minutes after eating an entire can of beans im hungry again... food and water is very difficult to find and that i can understand, but consuming food/water should definitely benefit your character much much more than relieving some hunger for about 30 seconds before you start starving to death again. food and water are important to the whole "survival" thing but this game is like a constant battle for sustenance, more so than any other element to the game, i have never been killed by a zombie or player and thought thats unreasonable but food and water is just ridiculously unbalanced. it is so unbelievably unrealistic its making me regret buying this game. please tell me if im the only one encountering this issue? or if its going to be fixed/reduced/balanced.
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- Legacy ID
- 2166838200
- Severity
- None
- Resolution
- Open
- Reproducibility
- Have Not Tried
- Category
- Balancing
is it not slightly ridiculous that on every attempt to play this game I end up either starving or dying of thirst... literally 5 minutes after eating an entire can of beans im hungry again... food and water is very difficult to find and that i can understand, but consuming food/water should definitely benefit your character much much more than relieving some hunger for about 30 seconds before you start starving to death again. food and water are important to the whole "survival" thing but this game is like a constant battle for sustenance, more so than any other element to the game, i have never been killed by a zombie or player and thought thats unreasonable but food and water is just ridiculously unbalanced. it is so unbelievably unrealistic its making me regret buying this game. please tell me if im the only one encountering this issue? or if its going to be fixed/reduced/balanced.
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I can understand your problem, but its rather a balancing problem, than a real bug. Loot and nutrition system will get tweaked down the road. Thats nothing for a report-system.
I get the thirst message, then I drink a whole can and i'm still thirsty... fix it please
Refer to this:
http://dayzdb.com/guide/11-standalone-status-effects
You start 1000 energy, messages start at 600 energy, tier 2 messages at 300.
You start at 1800 water, messages are supposed to start at 2000 for water.
A can of tuna contains 475 energy and 144 water.
A can of soda contains 175 energy and 330 water.
A water bottle contains 500 water.
Haven't a clue what the various usage rates are, but this should give you an idea of the numbers you're dealing with.
It appears that you once you reach the max nutrition it is much easier to maintain. You start off with very low nutrition level when you create a new character so it is imperative to survival that your first priority is to get plenty of food / drink / rest.
This vid may help you to understand how things work... I suggest to watch his other DayZ related videos too..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxKb8iVzLag
Edit: just noticed how old the original report was...