Best way to level up cooking quickly?

[Sir Mansel of Macsen]

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[Monokuma]

En-masse grilling after eating a brain. Your choice of having a farm for "Egg"s, or hunting pests/peccaries/exxors. Soups I find don't give as much xp as their components would, and take longer as well.

[CombatWombat]

Mass grilling pest stuff.

[G1itcher]

Eggs and a bunch of grills. Bonus that it levels up your agriculture too. If you don't have eggs then got hunting.

[MechWarden]

The so-called Eggs are so late in the game that it is unpractical.

Just grill up meats gained from Antiverse II critters.

[Monokuma]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

The so-called Eggs are so late in the game that it is unpractical.

Just grill up meats gained from Antiverse II critters.

You say that, but even in a long-term co-op save where I was the only cook, I had to hard grind to unlock the oven post-labs. Plus, the oven needs labs materials anyway, so it kind-of lines up.

[MechWarden]

Originally posted by Monokuma:

Originally posted by MechWarden:

The so-called Eggs are so late in the game that it is unpractical.

Just grill up meats gained from Antiverse II critters.

You say that, but even in a long-term co-op save where I was the only cook, I had to hard grind to unlock the oven post-labs. Plus, the oven needs labs materials anyway, so it kind-of lines up.

I didn't even find the eggs until stumbling into Rise, well after finishing the lab and messing with the incomplete and annoying Laser Lab 'puzzle'. Unless they show up sooner than Rise, suggesting 'just cook eggs', implying it will happen in a reasonable time in the play through, feels like really bad advice, and as well as possibly being rude.

Not saying it isn't worth doing after getting to the end (current end), but for an out of context "Best way to level up cooking quickly?" advice that's not something I'd remotely suggest; at least for now. Maybe after several more areas are opened up.

Otherwise, I can understand why people are having XP issues with cooking. On my first EA solo run, I picked up the Hobbyist Chef trait (gives like 2x XP or something), and goofed around for awhile, and just so happened to get lvl 10 cooking around when I was close to getting access to the (very annoying) parts needed to make an oven. I'd feel really sorry for anyone that didn't take that trait, because the level needed to get an oven feels rather ridiculous (even in the best of circumstances), along with the weird part hunt. Sometime the game logic feels a bit off.

[Monokuma]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

Originally posted by Monokuma:

You say that, but even in a long-term co-op save where I was the only cook, I had to hard grind to unlock the oven post-labs. Plus, the oven needs labs materials anyway, so it kind-of lines up.

I didn't even find the eggs until stumbling into Rise, well after finishing the lab and messing with the incomplete and annoying Laser Lab 'puzzle'. Unless they show up sooner than Rise, suggesting 'just cook eggs', implying it will happen in a reasonable time in the play through, feels like really bad advice, and as well as possibly being rude.

In my defense, I offered the alternative in the same post as well. I just found "Egg"s to be easier to mass up for grilling, since I only focused on grinding out cooking xp after having exhausted the current content.

[Insano-Man]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

Sometime the game logic feels a bit off.

I sometimes wonder if this is because there's still much more content on the roadmap, and so what we have instead represents the point where the player is expected to be halfway through the game - not all the way.

Though, the parts needed to make an oven are indeed silly - especially when food is only a problem for huge parties, and complete beginners.

[MechWarden]

Originally posted by Insano-Man:

Originally posted by MechWarden:

Sometime the game logic feels a bit off.

I sometimes wonder if this is because there's still much more content on the roadmap, and so what we have instead represents the point where the player is expected to be halfway through the game - not all the way.

Though, the parts needed to make an oven are indeed silly - especially when food is only a problem for huge parties, and complete beginners.

There is likely 2/3rd of the game left for us to explore, so things like the 'late game oven' will surely not be late game in the final version, but that said some stuff still feels weird.

First thing that comes to mind for weird game logic is the 2nd and 3rd battery types you get, which felt too much like a formulaic 'get next tier of items, shoehorn that into better stuff for basic incremental gains' that's seen in many games. The formula isn't bad in of itself, and has been used pretty well in other games, but how it is used here feels dissatisfying at times. I'm not the only one that felt like you should get more gains out of the (at the time rare) parts you make out of them. The game logic of using an advanced and dangerous Power Cell for a basic mid tier battery that can't power two devices all night feels like quite the letdown.

And there are a few other examples as well, but I shouldn't derail the topic any further.

[Monokuma]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

Originally posted by Insano-Man:

I sometimes wonder if this is because there's still much more content on the roadmap, and so what we have instead represents the point where the player is expected to be halfway through the game - not all the way.

Though, the parts needed to make an oven are indeed silly - especially when food is only a problem for huge parties, and complete beginners.

There is likely 2/3rd of the game left for us to explore, so things like the 'late game oven' will surely not be late game in the final version, but that said some stuff still feels weird.

I actually think there's even more game left that we dont have access to if we account for the mid-sized updates that aren't on the roadmap.