So why do we have all these inflated numbers? Why is real rabbit meat 446% of the calories of the rabbit meat in this game? We wouldn't need to be a body building sprinting champion if the weights in this game were closer to reality. I bet if we cut down weights to real levels and then cut our carry capacity to match it would be a lot more reasonable and our character would be a lot more human. But are they really? With all the inflated weights I bet our actual carry weight is less than half of what it says. Our character has like olympic endurance and strength with the speed at which we can haul 50kg up a hill. Why are the weights in this game so off? Why not have more realistic weights but then just cut our max carry weight? I personally tried carrying weights up a mountain and it's really frickin hard. Weight management in The Long Dark may seem a bit daunting at first, or perhaps you're a bit confused as to what you should keep and what you should leave be. The one in the game is more than double that at 1500.

An average knife seems to be around 300g compared to 500g for the one in this game and I found weights on four hatchets ranging from 566g-930g with an average of 700g. So I was replying to another thread and noticed the weights of items in TLD are just wacky.

The long dark weight limit