[2021] Not getting the upgraded version?

You can in fact starve and dehydrate to death. And it functions almost identically to old versions: Your hunger/thirst actually has to reach 0%. Not 66%, Not 33%, 0%.

The amount of hits you need to kill something also depends entirely on where you hit it. If you're smacking a boar on the hind, yeah, you're not gonna do a lot of damage. Land your blows between the brows though, and it'll die fairly quick. Headshots are invaluable damage.

Also the quality and mods of your club aren't as important if you dont actually have ranks in the club perk to bolster it's damage and effects. You're missing out on as much as 50-100+% additional damage and killing potential if you're not perked into the weapon with a high associated main stat.

Originally posted by ⚜ JOST AMMAN ⚜:

Originally posted by DarkLustre: I do aim for the head and it's not helping. In fact in the other versions all I would ever play with is a bow because I could headshot them from the start and never needed anything else. I'm a pretty good shot. I am a sniper in every game I can be. This version seems really glitchy tbh. I've been at 0 food for days and I'm still healing. I've eaten some animal fat and it instantly killed me. I came back and I had 5 on the food meter. I again eat animal fat. It briefly sent me to 10, and then it almost instantly came down to 0. I've tried harvesting grass for a bedroll but after hitting grass 20 times to collect it, my total was still stuck at 5.

Did you put any points in the skill Healing Factor? ... I'm telling you because that's a food drain, it sucks up all your food to heal you!

Also, check if you have any broken mods installed that can make the game bug out...

Also important to note, if you're looking at the number on the left side of the screen that appears when you eat something, that is NOT your hunger meter. Your hunger meter is the green bar under the hotbar; While your thirst bar is the blue one. The counters that appear on the left side represent the hunger of the food you just ate being digested essentially; As the counter goes down it fills up the bar below the hotbar. If the bar is already full, the number on the left will rapidly shrink to 20 wasting the food above that point, then slowly tick down to 0 filling in hunger but largely going to waste unless you're working hard and blowing stamina like crazy.

Originally posted by DarkLustre: Can anyone tell me if the new magazines are permanent? It says you learn the schematic, so I'm assuming they are.

They are permanent. Also in the case where they overlap with schematics learned from skills you only need one or the other; not both. EG: Both the 'Iron Tools Schematic' and skill 'Miner 69er' teach you how to make iron tools; You only need one of the two. If you found the schematic you could technically skip miner 69er.

But in all cases, the skills do more than just teach the skill, so, if it's for a skill you get a lot of use from, like Miner 69er for most people, then you'll have the skill anyway. By contrast, the Forge and Workbench schematics may be better learned from the item than from the skill, as the additional benefits from the skill aren't so huge that you cant ignore them.