please help (warning spoilers, endgame)

[Laracroft4sakn]

I cannot get John to cook with spices. I cannot complete the sage herbalist challenge because of this. anyone know how to get John to cook with spices? I also didnt complete the Algernon exotics requests quests and cant find him with john. the quest doesnt show up either. so now i have a giant stack of alligator eggs...for no reason? some one help!

[VampireKrush]

Which sage does it ask for or any in particular? I know there are a few different varieties of sage and only certain ones can be used for certain recipes. 

[Limey77]

I had no issues completing up to Herbalist 9 with John. What happens when you try and cook say Thyme Beef does that work?

[Laracroft4sakn]

I have all the herbs. there is no option to cook with any of them. only the option to cook plain things. the herbalist challenge doesnt specify. its not supposed to be specific.

[Limey77]

So when you go to cook it should show you Plain Gam, Plain Beef, Plain Venison etc, then you click on that and have the option to scroll right to get to other recipes.

Do you just not have that option? Or are they greyed out saying you don't have ingredients?

[Laracroft4sakn]

Thank you! left on the d-pad... Weird cause the mechanic was different with Arthur.. right?

[Limey77]

Glad you sorted it out and I could help. Enjoy the challenge of completing all the challenges - some are very annoying. Wait until you get a bit higher in the Herbalist challenges.

A little tip, often when it says "herbs" in the challenge it actually means "plant" - so always check by picking random things.

[iaai1001]

As I have many years experience as a Software Engineer and this game doesn't really have one related to content programming. The problem in spicing meats is that FIRST you have to craft and fill the normal  meat slot before you can craft spicy meat. And this becomes more and more difficult as you complete satchel upgrades as the normal meat quantity increases. Another example of a decent content Software Engineer is that you won't see "I," "F," or "E" used for "Inspect." Problems like these are resolved before the game goes to press. Also, in really large games like this, you don't use work-arounds for bug fixing unless it is very temporary as the game will become bloated and eventually nothing will work, case-in-point -- Bethesda Softworks where the new owner, Microsoft is deleting the work-arounds and actually fixing bugs but the process, for example leaves ESO totally in the dumpster for many months where the game was actually already in the dumpster but many or most of the players didn't notice. The end result is that game mechanics work for the very first time in years not just the graphics: an example is you shoot something and some times the hit does 5, 9, 50, 12000 etc. damage or never hits or always hits and so forth; with the bug fixed, the damage is always 35 for all players and all classes.

[harry747]

are you saying it doesn't work the same way with john as it does with arthur? that would be weird