when you need more food than your hunger level requires, is it wasted? Thread - MISERY mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

ie if you eat some bloodsucker meat or something with 800+ calories but you only have a low hunger level (grey stomach, ie, something ~200 calories worth of food would remove), does this delay hunger for longer or does it get wasted ? thanks

You stumped me LOL. I'm guessing it's wasted, but am really guessing. Medicine is wasted if you apply more treatment than you need, I would guess food is too. I've never ever been short on food though. I almost never even get an indicator I'm hungry except after sleep or a stim.

ah okay, so when people talk about cooking all these "high quality" zone meats with lots of calories (blood sucker etc) there's no real point? the penalties on stamina are too high to wait until you get to a yellow or red stomach (unless you had a long sleep)

Edited by: ceran5

I would wait for a definitive answer. I never cook, want for food or money, or ever go around hungry.

I eat bloodsucker meat all the time. It's a good meal to start the day, then when I start to get hungry again I will munch something with fewer calories, usually a protein bar or sausage or some such thing.

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As mentioned before I am pretty sure it's wasted if you overeat.

Edited by: odizzido

i guess its useful to have these foods for all the drug induced hunger which can drop you to red very quickly

LOL, I've never been in the red except after sleep, the middle condition either. Everything serves a purpose, it is up to you to manage the items to your best advantage or just how you like if that's more fun for you.

I've dropped down to yellow/red a number of times out in the field. Yellow is not uncommon for me, red is pretty rare though. I am red hunger at least once a game though because of how I like to do things with the early stalker hit quest.

I am red hunger at least once a game though because of how I like to do things with the early stalker hit quest.

How do you do things with the early stalker hit quest exactly? I got very curious

Nothing special, on the first day I run around and collect stuff, in particular the 20 round automatic pistol, until I get kinda hungry/slow. Then I take the stalker hit quest from that gangster guy, load up with 9x18 AP rounds if I have them so I can use the flashlight to see then wait till night with the guy. By the time we're at the boat I am in red hunger but with misery 2.2 not killing you within a few mins of not eating I can just stay red since I don't need to move much on that quest and it's really close to sell the loot.

I don't know if that makes any sense to you.

Ah cool man, yeah that does make sense!