The old "hold E to harvest" is gone. With the new update, pressing a dedicated hotkey (default: 'M') while looking at a corpse instantly transfers all meat, fat, and hide into your inventory. No more tedious menus. No more "harvesting 0.5kg every 3 seconds." This alone cuts farming time by 70%.
We managed to get a comment from the lead systems designer (pseudonym: GrubRat): ez meat game upd
"We realized that nobody was having fun hunting. The 'EZ Meat Game UPD' was our way of saying: we don't want you fighting the environment. We want you fighting each other. Meat is just fuel for the real war. So yes, we made it EZ. Go eat, go fight." The old "hold E to harvest" is gone
They also hinted that in next month’s patch (v4.3), they will introduce "Rotting Meat Grenades" — using spoiled meat as a biological weapon. That’s only possible because players now have too much meat to handle. "We realized that nobody was having fun hunting
Ez Meat Game Update Adds Faster Matches, New Skins, and Balance Fixes
According to the official patch notes (released via Discord on [Date]), the reason for this "EZ Meat Game UPD" was to address three core issues:
Developer Quote: "We want EZ Meat to be a tactical tool, not a win condition. This UPD makes every bite count."