What is the best soup?

[Crochwhisle purple]

for me it is the gleyeb chowder. The huge damage reduction is awesome, with the drawbacks being that the annoying leyak chases you, and it not giving a lot of hunger replenishment.

[Kairi ♡]

Simple supertomato soup or soup with radfish. First slows down hunger and thirst, second also gives rad protection.

[MechWarden]

For me it is hard to say. I typically go for soups that can give a good balance of hunger and thirst, since most of the buffs aren't really required.

The 'best soup' is typically something I can balance well with other things and have the most ingredients for.

That said, I do try to go for soups with the high combined 'nutrition'. Like Meaty Stew has 26 hunger and 16 thirst with a combined stat of 42 and being really easy to get ingredients for. But A&L Mega-Stew has 37 and 16 (respectfully) making it 53. It's good for when you are in areas where you have those shooty Exors that drop arms. While Greyeb Chowder is a 54, it requires milk to make and it could be annoying to be stalked more than normal, especially in singleplayer. Radfish Chowder is good, with a combined and well balanced 55, but only if it is easy to fish up the needed fish for it. And if going to a very sustainable soup, Veggie Stew is 17/24, making it a 41 that leans a bit on the thirst side, making it idea in most case to be a stand alone meal.

The best soup is basically what you need the most in a given situation.

[Crochwhisle purple]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

For me it is hard to say. I typically go for soups that can give a good balance of hunger and thirst, since most of the buffs aren't really required.

The 'best soup' is typically something I can balance well with other things and have the most ingredients for.

That said, I do try to go for soups with the high combined 'nutrition'. Like Meaty Stew has 26 hunger and 16 thirst with a combined stat of 42 and being really easy to get ingredients for. But A&L Mega-Stew has 37 and 16 (respectfully) making it 53. It's good for when you are in areas where you have those shooty Exors that drop arms. While Greyeb Chowder is a 54, it requires milk to make and it could be annoying to be stalked more than normal, especially in singleplayer. Radfish Chowder is good, with a combined and well balanced 55, but only if it is easy to fish up the needed fish for it. And if going to a very sustainable soup, Veggie Stew is 17/24, making it a 41 that leans a bit on the thirst side, making it idea in most case to be a stand alone meal.

The best soup is basically what you need the most in a given situation.

But most of the time you will need to fight something, so the chowder actually comes out on top. Some other things that make a soup good are the exp gain bonuses and just how easy they are to make. Split pea soup is really good for everything with an easy craft and aiming exp bonus. Also basing them on just how much food/drink they have in them is kind of flawed, since you get 2 sips from 1 porting (just multiply all the things you said by 2), meaning that even some worse soups can still keep up even with the most expensive food items.

[Jartym]

My personal favorites are most easily accessible recipes. So nothing that requires milk, mushrooms, fishing... even carbuncles aren't that reliable to farm up many of. What that leaves:

• Meaty Stew. 26/16 Heightened Senses. Drumstick, chop, pest rump. ***
  
• Peccary Goulash. 23/16 Souper Satisfied. Drumstick, chop, salt. ***
  
• Sustenance Soup. 19/16 Quick Reflexes. Just a military ration. ***
  
• Split Pea Soup. 14/21 Souper Satisfied. Pest, salt, peas. **
  
• Veggie Stew. 17/24 Living off the Land. Stomato, wheat, potato. **
  
• Simple/Super Tomato Soup. 12/22 or 15/22, Souper Satisfied. (S)Tomato, salt. **
  
• Pest Goulash. 14/16 Souper Satisfied. Pest, pest rump, salt. *
  
• Bland Pea Soup. 12/21 Lightfooted. Peas, salt. *

IMO, Souper Satisfied is pretty good for such a common soup buff, it inflates the hunger/thirst stats in a way because it takes you 20% longer to need more soup. Grabbing one of the hunger-heavy soups and then either Super Tomato Soup, Veggie Stew or Split Pea Soup is also a good balance of hunger and thirst options. Or you could just make the hunger-heavy soups and drink soda/water. Bots drop so much soda.

Someday I hope we can make a peccary sow pen that lets us collect milk at base.

[MechWarden]

Originally posted by Crochwhisle purple:

Originally posted by MechWarden:

For me it is hard to say. I typically go for soups that can give a good balance of hunger and thirst, since most of the buffs aren't really required.

The 'best soup' is typically something I can balance well with other things and have the most ingredients for.

(cut for length)

The best soup is basically what you need the most in a given situation.

But most of the time you will need to fight something, so the chowder actually comes out on top. Some other things that make a soup good are the exp gain bonuses and just how easy they are to make. Split pea soup is really good for everything with an easy craft and aiming exp bonus. Also basing them on just how much food/drink they have in them is kind of flawed, since you get 2 sips from 1 porting (just multiply all the things you said by 2), meaning that even some worse soups can still keep up even with the most expensive food items.

Most of the time? I guess it's mostly me, but it doesn't feel like I fight a lot (I don't count many sneak attacks as fights ), nor has fighting never been so rough that I needed a +5% or +15% damage reduction, especially in late game with the armor you can get. And the Xp Boosts are +10% at most, which isn't all that much. Might help in the long run, and while stacking other things, but I've never had a compulsion to min-max the stat because of them, which isn't a bad thing. I'd rather the foods give a nice enough buff to kind of help, but not so much to make it feel like you need to do it because it's optimal.

[Crochwhisle purple]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

Originally posted by Crochwhisle purple:

But most of the time you will need to fight something, so the chowder actually comes out on top. Some other things that make a soup good are the exp gain bonuses and just how easy they are to make. Split pea soup is really good for everything with an easy craft and aiming exp bonus. Also basing them on just how much food/drink they have in them is kind of flawed, since you get 2 sips from 1 porting (just multiply all the things you said by 2), meaning that even some worse soups can still keep up even with the most expensive food items.

Most of the time? I guess it's mostly me, but it doesn't feel like I fight a lot (I don't count many sneak attacks as fights ), nor has fighting never been so rough that I needed a +5% or +15% damage reduction, especially in late game with the armor you can get. And the Xp Boosts are +10% at most, which isn't all that much. Might help in the long run, and while stacking other things, but I've never had a compulsion to min-max the stat because of them, which isn't a bad thing. I'd rather the foods give a nice enough buff to kind of help, but not so much to make it feel like you need to do it because it's optimal.

i`m currently covered in honey and naked fighting a bear trying level my fortitude. Level 14, and i really wish i got atleast some more exp bonuses than just the pet rock

[MechWarden]

Yeah, on some stuff like that, Fortitude, First Aid, and whatnot, I wind up 'being too good' and never really leveling those things up. I'm a completionist, but I'm not about to entertain trying to grind out those skills. Getting Crafting to level 15 would be great, but none of my solo plays ever got close. Sure, I'm like... what, at level 12 or 13, but I'd have to gain double the XP or more to get level 15. That is doubled the amount of stuff I did in my entire run, and I'm not about to grind for that, even if it does unlock Crafting Bench stuff.

And if I'm not willing to grind XP for Crafting, like heck I'm touching on anything else.

[Doctor Darling]

I'm really loving the new soup Glacial Gazpacho. Makes being in the mushroom lands so much more tolerable. Don't need to worry about rot, either.

[Mauman]

First meaty stew then Mega A/L.

This is based on availability of ingredients, the extra hunger given, and the buffs being pretty good.

Everything else is going to be only marginally better in some way and worse in the others.

Meanwhile I've gotten to the point where I'm basically living off an endless supply of rice and grape juice.

With the occasional pumpkin pie for the helluva it. :P

If I actually cared I'd probably make the rice/eye bowls now as I have an infinite supply of both (and the eggs, also a large supply of canned peas).

[Ccrack]

Originally posted by Crochwhisle purple:

trying level my fortitude. Level 14, and i really wish i got atleast some more exp bonuses than just the pet rock

eat a brain. you'll puke so get some soup too but you get a 15% xp bonus

[Crochwhisle purple]

Originally posted by Ccrack:

Originally posted by Crochwhisle purple:

trying level my fortitude. Level 14, and i really wish i got atleast some more exp bonuses than just the pet rock

eat a brain. you'll puke so get some soup too but you get a 15% xp bonus

that bonus is so short that i always forget to reactivate it