Do you think having a food/survival system would improve the game?

[sheepstar85]

Personally I think this game is awesome, but in my opinion I would love to see an option to harvest the animal and cook the food to fill up your food bar. It would also be cool if the lodges had a working tap so you have to take a few water bottles with you so you don't dehydrate. In the store you could buy snacks or water bottles if you have a tent and don't want to fast travel back to the lodge.

It would also be cool to harvest an animal and use it as bait. I think the dog dlc's should also have a food system, after a while they get hungrier and the more hungry they get the more tired, less responsive/slower they will get.

It doesn't have to be overboard but things like these in my opinion would make the game more interesting/fun, i'd also spend sooo much more time playing as it would have more of a survival/hunt feel, then just the regular hunt for a trophy score.

Oh also, a leaderboard/rank system that resets every season would be cool, the highest trophy for a certain animal that season would get a reward, maybe rewards for top 3, top 10 and top 50. You could just get normal in game currency or like a medal to show off in your trophy lodge that you could put beside the winning animal.

idk just wasting time, curious to see other people's thoughts.

[SneakyGremlin]

No thank you. I do like survival games, but this is a hunting game and I just want to shoot animals and not have to keep survival in mind.

[Mr L]

lol

[yogisgoat]

No. This a hunting game. I play this because I can hunt without worrying about food and drink, just like irl. Or, to approach it from another angle, if your character is able to drop many thousands of dollars on weapons would they really be scrambling for food? I don't think so. Besides, survival games are like zombie games, already squeezed for every drop of entertainment they contain. It's one off the biggest problems with the game industry, IMHO. Yet another zombie game, another survival game, another Assassin's Creed, another COD, etc. Creativity is dead.

[firestorm]

Originally posted by yogisgoat:

Or, to approach it from another angle, if your character is able to drop many thousands of dollars on weapons would they really be scrambling for food?

I know a lot of people that spend thousands on hunting/fishing gear in the real world.
And they hunt/fish because they enjoy it and do it to fill their freezers.
Where I'm from, it's actually illegal to buy/sell wild game meat, Same for fish.

There are exceptions, wild animals or fish raised on a farm
(elk, whitetail, Bison farms all over the state I live in as well as a few other animal farms,
I know of no commercial fish farms myself, but they could be some around?)

Fish can be sold by the natives on tribal lands as well as by permit for some types of fish.
By permit (non native people) it's a lot more regulated and the species of fish is very limited.

Hear you on the zombie thing though.
Been sick of zombies after night of the living dead for the 10'th time.
And that's before any ever put zombies in a game. (old movie)

But nothing saying a survival game has to include zombies.
I personally love the Idea, something like RDR2 as a base for an example would be awesome.
Hunting/fishing simulation part, over hunt or fish a area, and soon that resource is gone.

[Volunteer]

OP:no.

[Lori37]

nope, if that happens I quit the game

[Lonesome 77]

Sounds perfect for a survival mod or set of survival mods, along similar lines to Campfire + Frostfall and iNeed (or other similar ones) for Skyrim. Well, or a hypothetical (optional) survival mode/difficulty setting.

[QLIQ]

They should rather work on their engine, to allow foliage to draw out further. Animals stand out to the bland ground texture like a warning pole.

[Thermal Lance]

Oh hell no.

Just buy a survival game.

[mapperkids]

I'm barely new to the game; I can't even keep up with the hunting to get enough in-game money to buy stuff, so I wouldn't like to take care of food/drink needs. However, I think it is not a bad idea as an option, like DLCs. If people like that, they can just pay extra for it.

[DopaTrain]

Just eat real food and drink real water while you play.

[sheepstar85]

Originally posted by DopaTrain:

Just eat real food and drink real water while you play.

[ULTRA]

Nah, I could faintly see something like temperature coming in possibly? But it's not a survival game, you're just a park warden wandering around a little patch of land

[sheepstar85]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

Nah, I could faintly see something like temperature coming in possibly? But it's not a survival game, you're just a park warden wandering around a little patch of land

I understand not everyone would like the idea but a little patch of land? Have you played the game?

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by sheepstar85:

Originally posted by ULTRA:

Nah, I could faintly see something like temperature coming in possibly? But it's not a survival game, you're just a park warden wandering around a little patch of land

I understand not everyone would like the idea but a little patch of land? Have you played the game?

Yes, I've played the game 80 hours more than you have. If I were in any of these reserves in real life it would take me like 5-10 minutes to get to a road and around an hour to just walk out of the park (on the road). It's not exactly a survival scenario.