The new system feels more fiddly than the old one (I’ve accidentally eaten a lot of raw meat while trying to select it from the radial menu), but it makes cooking feel more tactile and slows down the pace of a game that’s already luxuriously slow.
But it also means you have to keep an eye on your food, so don’t read a book for too long, lest your water boil away or your food get charred into an inedible crisp. Ostensibly this lets you do other things while you cook-read a book, repair your items-or you can cook multiple things at once, if you find a big enough stove. After a certain amount of in-game time passes, your meal is done. While you used to boil water or cook food in a menu, you now put items in a pot or on a hot surface. The Long Dark added manual cooking in its June update. You are watching: The long dark how to cook meat I couldn’t pull it off in my last game, as well as in most of my own home cooking. Like in real life, it requires timing things just right. Last month, snowy survival game The Long Dark got a new cooking system.
