I'm really liking the new additions that Obsidian has added to bethesda's amazing game. I've been enjoying the hardcoe mode with one of my favorite aspects: recipes and cooking and the affect it has on your survival. But I don't understand why I can't cook on my oven in my awesome presidential suite. Seems pretty obvious to me, considering there are hundreds of ovens in the Mohave wastteland, but not a single one works. Which brings me to my next question. How do any of the NPCs that never leave their town cook and eat? eh oh well, immersion can only go so far I guess. Hopefully a modder sees this threadand makes it happen (thankfully I play PC)

Lack of working gas lines. Towns might have their own system set up, or they keep their campfire in the closet.

all the in game ovens are gas and npcs don't use them to cook with they use them as storage. Problem solved, immersion saved.

So.. What do they cook with? It seems strange to me too. I can sleep and repair things in a town, but in order to cook I need to go out into the wasteland? :rolleyes:

Ovens? REAL MEN EAT THEIR FOOD RAW. *Insert flexing and grunting*

Seriously, though, it's just for the 'Wastelander' feel.

Campfire-Immersive and usable

Oven- Immersive and a reminder to the player that at one time the world was clean, glitzy, and much more simple.

I can see that for most places in the wasteland. but it seems pretty ridiculous to me that i have all this food in my fridge in my suite on the strip, but in order to cook it i have to leave the strip and got into the wild. i guess at least ovens are useful for one thing. pilot lights!!! wooo haaa!

also there is a kitchen working kitchen in the one casino (sorry if thats a spoiler :/ ) so.... yeah.

its several hundred years after the great war.

You got shot in the head, and remember little. WHY out of anything would you remember how to use a gas (or electric) oven?
The in game ones appear to be gas (hence the pilot light) anyone can use a fire, and its not exactly hard to make a fire either.

maybe the kitchen that still works is converted to electric, or something?

That happened to me last winter when I ran out of propane and it was too cold to get it filled. And that was in real life.

that would have to be some significant brain damage to make you forget that, and be unable to figure it out again...

yeah i just figured maybe after 200 years someone would've figured out how to fix the ovens. i don't know. call me crazy. I mean I know slot machines and neon lights are crucial for vegas to run. by why hasn't Mr. House done something like fix the ovens so people don't have to travel in to wasteland to cook food? i mean, thats kinda dangerous for your every day run-of-the-mill Fallout NPC. also food plays a pretty important role in many of the quests. and is a factor among the different factions.

Why would you have known how anyway? and how many ovens will still work 200+ years later w/o any sort of upkeeping? let alone power or gas.

You'd think they would at least require you to have a frying pan or cooking pot in your inventory for some of the recipes.

I don't know what kind of crazy ovens you have, but the ones around here have a temperature dial, and three settings: OFF, BAKE, and BROIL. Perhaps an ignite button (which is electromechanical, or a pilot light would do)

Not rocket science

I just want to throw a part at my suite in lucky 38 for all my companions. i got beer and liquor, just no way to make any hor dourves or cook any tasty entree's. guess i'll just have to get drunk at the casino across the street. party canceled. thanks obsidian

Have room service bring it up.

At least you can pretend. Put some food about and let them help themselves.

Still gotta light mine, by hand.

And who's to say that most of them are not just plan broken?