Why is my character always stressed?

[Masterbio]

Since last update, my pg is costantly at a nervous wreck, I keep reading book and stuff but after just half a day it starts to get sad and very quickly gets depressed, very annoying as doing things take much longer in this state. What could be the cause of that?

[The Gat]

Are you using hemophobic?

[Nordil(Hun)]

They changed hemophobic mechanic...so if you have it and your character has blood on him, or sees blood, the stress level constantly raises, until character becomes a nerve wreck.(It is not panic). Means you will need to wash your character with soap quite often. Would also say this Treat is not a -3 treat thus anymore...but something like a -5 at least.

[Masterbio]

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

They changed hemophobic mechanic...so if you have it and your character has blood on him, or sees blood, the stress level constantly raises, until character becomes a nerve wreck.(It is not panic). Means you will need to wash your character with soap quite often. Would also say this Treat is not a -3 treat thus anymore...but something like a -5 at least.

Uh I guess that makes sense. I choose the trait before the last update because it was rather convenient (just a little panic attack until you apply bandages is not as bad, but now he's costantly depressed and on the verge of a breakdown and I don't have any soap. He also get stressed every time I hit a zombie

[StopClippingMe]

Originally posted by Masterbio:

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

They changed hemophobic mechanic...so if you have it and your character has blood on him, or sees blood, the stress level constantly raises, until character becomes a nerve wreck.(It is not panic). Means you will need to wash your character with soap quite often. Would also say this Treat is not a -3 treat thus anymore...but something like a -5 at least.

Uh I guess that makes sense. I choose the trait before the last update because it was rather convenient (just a little panic attack until you apply bandages is not as bad, but now he's costantly depressed and on the verge of a breakdown and I don't have any soap. He also get stressed every time I hit a zombie

The shake means its hindering the combat, it doesn't mean Its increasing.

[Masterbio]

Originally posted by TomCZE:

The shake means its hindering the combat, it doesn't mean Its increasing.

Oh I didn't know that, but I though to be obvious that if he was scared of blood he would be even more scared when crushing a zombie's skull and splattering blood all over the house walls

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Masterbio:

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

They changed hemophobic mechanic...so if you have it and your character has blood on him, or sees blood, the stress level constantly raises, until character becomes a nerve wreck.(It is not panic). Means you will need to wash your character with soap quite often. Would also say this Treat is not a -3 treat thus anymore...but something like a -5 at least.

Uh I guess that makes sense. I choose the trait before the last update because it was rather convenient (just a little panic attack until you apply bandages is not as bad, but now he's costantly depressed and on the verge of a breakdown and I don't have any soap. He also get stressed every time I hit a zombie

Yeah same thing happened to me. I usually took hemophobic only when I wanted to play veteran. As the veteran trait actually easily mitigated the panic. So in my first build 41 run i noticed my char is constantly stressed out as well. Until for some reason he was not. Then i tried to maintain the stress level with books and what not but did not work, the stress level constantly rose. So i thought back hard and figured maybe soap did the trick since i once washed all his clothes. So i did it again.(Found two soaps after two weeks in game.) And it worked. To confirm i checked on the net, and i found a mention about the new hemophobic mechanic.(I think was a dev diary not 100% sure.)

Instead of hemophobic i always take peaceful now. If you employ a good two handed weapon like the wood axe(or as i refer to it greataxe) the peaceful negative will not affect you that much. Allthough i do not know how much less damage you make but probably around 30%.
Also lucky and smoker are a great combination too. Sadly i never dare to take it as i know how my luck usually is in such games:)(even with traits or abilities boosted!)

Hah just noticed...shows how i have not started a new char for a while.
The last change has updated hemophobic trait to a -5 instead of -3!