Will consuming food or water take time, or will it be an instant action like using a MedPen? Are we going to chew our food?

Okay, so consuming takes as long as the animation does. Now, what we've talked about in the past: right now a burger would be eaten in one bite. Obviously we know that's not the case. In the future, the idea would be that you take three or four bites out of it and then it's consumed. Now, it depends on the size of the burger. One of the things that we do have right now is that the food basically has kind of a consumption over time, or sorry, absorption over time. It's the same thing with alcohol, with drinks. So basically there's a certain time that it takes to break down and kind of move through your system. Now, what you'll see is basically you've been sustained, and it takes you up to that level and kind of resets the clock. And then, as it's being absorbed, that bar still hasn't been reset and started counting down. It just stays there until the absorption has stopped, and then the bar starts counting down, if I remember correctly on that one.

Chris has been known to say for a while: you take things to the point of realism, then you bring them back to the point of fun. The conversation now is about how long it should take to eat a burger. We can go for that fidelity, where you're forced to stop gameplay for a good five minutes while you eat a burger, but that might not be the most fun experience. You take it to the point of realism, you bring it back to the point of fun.