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Hmm good question. I don't think I really miss it or not. It has kind of been a non issue since the introduction of vehicles with inventory anyway. I don't think I have carried food since the mini bike was introduced. That and can food is all I will keep from loot anyway. As Glock9 puts it.... **** cornmeal lol.

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I thought it was a perfectly cromulent game mechanic that sometimes made the hunt vs not hunt decision a bit more interesting. As it is now we just kill every animal we see because there is no risk in carrying around a bunch of raw meat.

 

I would not be mad if they brought it back and made the smell persist even inside of a wooden chest, but with limited vertical range. Like 30m radius, but only +/- 5m vertically. So you can bring your meat back to base and put it in a chest at the top of a tower and you'll be fine. But your temporary chest out in the street is not safe and will attract zombies.

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You CAN hide perfectly well in a dark corner...unless the game spawns a wandering horde headed in your direction while you're standing there.

 

Also, smell made no sense. The zombies are attracted to meat, but they make no effort to go after those same animals the meat is from while they're alive? It was also a mechanic that, as a problem, had very unintuitive counters. Drying or wrapping meat would be the most sensible solutions for masking smell....but instead we were encouraged to reduce the smell of raw meat by making...bacon & eggs?

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I thought it was a perfectly cromulent game mechanic that sometimes made the hunt vs not hunt decision a bit more interesting. As it is now we just kill every animal we see because there is no risk in carrying around a bunch of raw meat.

 

I would not be mad if they brought it back and made the smell persist even inside of a wooden chest, but with limited vertical range. Like 30m radius, but only +/- 5m vertically. So you can bring your meat back to base and put it in a chest at the top of a tower and you'll be fine. But your temporary chest out in the street is not safe and will attract zombies.

 

I agree.

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You CAN hide perfectly well in a dark corner...unless the game spawns a wandering horde headed in your direction while you're standing there.

 

Also, smell made no sense. The zombies are attracted to meat, but they make no effort to go after those same animals the meat is from while they're alive? It was also a mechanic that, as a problem, had very unintuitive counters. Drying or wrapping meat would be the most sensible solutions for masking smell....but instead we were encouraged to reduce the smell of raw meat by making...bacon & eggs?

 

Zombies used to chase after animals back when there was smell so your immersion would’ve been preserved. :)

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Also, smell made no sense. The zombies are attracted to meat, but they make no effort to go after those same animals the meat is from while they're alive?

 

Wat #1: zombie vs bear fights are real, I've seen them.

 

Wat #2: where exactly do you think all of the roadside animal carcasses are coming from?

 

In summary: wat

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Wat #1: zombie vs bear fights are real, I've seen them.

 

Wat #2: where exactly do you think all of the roadside animal carcasses are coming from?

 

In summary: wat

 

I love watching the zombies take on the animals. Often times when i see a zombie fighting an animal ill stop my bike and wait till the zombie kills the animal, happens most of the time, and then i'll go harvest the meat.

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