What is the point of food and medical supplies?

[greatgodom]

Food heals almost nothing, and medical supplies cure ailments you can't get. I am guessing there will be survival, I don't get why it is absent when all the item descriptions imply it isn't.

[ingosupercute]

I'm having the same issue with the food. I eat five food items and the health bar looks just the same as it was before. But without exact numbers displayed I don't even know if they were working.

As for ailments I already got a caught from inhaling some natural gas by accident. And I burned my skin when fighting some animals. I also had a concussion I think after trying to jump into a lake but ending up on a rock ledge instead.

[Protoz]

Theres a cooking skill tree and cooking crafting stations, do those not yield better results?

[dlmyth]

Did you chooses the alien DNA trait since that nerf the healing of food and potions? But it does buffs your oxygen & HP.

[Selfish Lee Everett]

Food is there for Survival mode

['Strict]

I believe its a perk or skill that makes food heal more.

[Protoz]

I wonder how survival will handle fast travel. in FO4 it was a luxury, in this game its a core mechanic because the space between planets and stars doesn't exist, you just load to it.

[greatgodom]

Originally posted by dlmyth:

Did you chooses the alien DNA trait since that nerf the healing of food and potions? But it does buffs your oxygen & HP.

No, there's almost no upside. I suspect it is like fuel in that it will only matter in survival. I'm just wondering why survival has not been implemented but they put all the other stuff in for it.

[Daedrius]

Not very important. Mostly for staying alive.

[Panam]

Medpacks heal plenty.

['Strict]

Originally posted by Panam:

Medpacks heal plenty.

True, but the thread is about supplies like bandages and stuff that cure ailments that you never get and then food that heals almost nothing

[Thane_Ragnar]

I get Ailments all the time while exploring. Might be Lung Damage from Gases and/or Sandstorms or being burned by hot spots and Lava Pools and so on. So the cure items have their uses.

Food comes with various buffs on them, the Heal amount is nothing but there is Food with +%exp for 30 minutes, Damage Resistance for 30s, 5m and much more. There is all kind of variation and I can imagine that those buffs only get better when you dive deeper into the Cooking System.

[fr33kSh0w2012]

Originally posted by Protoz:

Theres a cooking skill tree and cooking crafting stations, do those not yield better results?

You need the skill sets and you don't get them until later because the games Forces you to.