How important does extra carrying capacity become?

[Wanderlust]

I've learned that during character creation you can move the fitness slider up all the way and create a heavier character, resulting in more melee damage and higher weight capacity. The downside of course is that you'll always be looking at your fat ass when you're running around, as well as a slightly slower movement speed.

I'm getting ready to start a new playthrough on a new server and before I embark on character creation, I wanted to know how important that extra weight carrying capacity will be later on. Is it worth having the big ass, and the somewhat slower movement?

The extra melee seems like a nice early game bonus whose appeal will fall off eventually, but the weight capacity, I have no idea how useful that will become in late game. What do you high levels think?

[Ampun Sultan]

yeah, the weight capacity is pretty important. Like, I have 90 max capacity and at any given time, my overall standard loadout is about 30-35kgs (food, ammo, drinks, bombs, etc). Usually this is enough to clear out stronghold but can filled up pretty fast if I'm farming ores.

[Wanderlust]

Ah, so it sounds like it might be worth fattening up. What a strange mechanic.

[R2-D2]

get the back pack expansion and you can can an extra 80 load at its highest tier. mix that with a gravel and go and wood, ore and gravel are nothing

[Ampun Sultan]

Yeah, there are other mechanics that can help you reduce the weight you're carrying. For me personally, I usually go back to base after doing 1 raid run to stronghold anyway so it doesn't really become a problem.

[Puskai]

not so important

[Kinben]

This is just plain silly, you can get backpack expansion mods. Don't hinder your pve and pvp side for gathering when you can have multiple specializations that assist with that.

[allocesninja]

If your bag is constantly full you are playing wrong or you are mining ore one of the two. Just store your crap at your territory and you are golden

[◬ ☥ 𝕄𝕚𝕝𝕜 ☥ ◬]

I think the middle one is probably the best. Get backpack extension and put containers at your base ezpz

[Mr. Fibble]

Use gear to suit what you're doing, off killing stuff then combat set whilst if you're mining and might only have to pop a boar or two then use stuff that boosts the carry weight instead.

The carry weight can definitely fill up quickly if you're mining with a drill and the seafood dish that bumps the drop of ore while the later gear has less of a focus on being a roving packrat rather than targeted gathering expeditions

[IICEE]

Backpack +80kg is enough which can easily buy it from another player, using Off-Road car you get another 12 slot very useful when use mining food and go horde sulfur / titanium

I pop one mining food and mining like 33k sulfur in half an hour with just one trip weight is not a problem that much i just discard all the gravel and put 12k sulfur in car.

[allocesninja]

Originally posted by IICEE:

Backpack +80kg is enough which can easily buy it from another player, using Off-Road car you get another 12 slot very useful when use mining food and go horde sulfur / titanium

I pop one mining food and mining like 33k sulfur in half an hour with just one trip weight is not a problem that much i just discard all the gravel and put 12k sulfur in car.

For sure this but that amount of supplies isn't something you need to do. That's like hive lvl supply gathering

[IICEE]

Originally posted by allocesninja:

Originally posted by IICEE:

Backpack +80kg is enough which can easily buy it from another player, using Off-Road car you get another 12 slot very useful when use mining food and go horde sulfur / titanium

I pop one mining food and mining like 33k sulfur in half an hour with just one trip weight is not a problem that much i just discard all the gravel and put 12k sulfur in car.

For sure this but that amount of supplies isn't something you need to do. That's like hive lvl supply gathering

Not really lol, this 33k sulfur i can spend all that in 2 day from making acid only since i use 5 advance synthesis bench and that require 15000 sulfur to max out production to get 3000 acid per 24 hour

Energy link is not a problem since i use acid to make titanium ingot with double ingot perk and sold for 50 each plenty of profit just need to mine sulfur and titanium time to times with mining food.

[Surn]

Obesity is great because you also get a 20 stability bonus, it's huge, i'm playing LMG and have 100 stability 100 accuracy, i don't even need to aim anymore