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Qdude

Jan 7, 2022 @ 9:17pm

Stress to skyrockets when watching PawsTV and Turbo

I chose the Smoker trait for my character, and smoked one cigarette before bed to maximize sleep. (I don't actually know if it's Smoker that causes this but it's my only chosen trait that affects stress and panic) I wake up and I'm perfectly fine. I go to turn on PawsTV because I know it decreases stress and unhappiness and my stress moodle appears and skyrockets to nervous wreck. How is this possible? Has PawsTV really caused this even though it technically should reduce stress? After continuing to play my stress moodle has gone down when I stopped watching the TV. And when turning it back onto PawsTV it INSTANTLY goes up to Nervous Wreck despite the text popping above my character says "Stress (down)" and "Unhappiness (down)"

Last edited by Qdude; Jan 8, 2022 @ 10:52am

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Rincewind

Jan 7, 2022 @ 9:24pm

just bad news on the tv. smoker is not broken.

Turd King

Jan 7, 2022 @ 9:25pm

I found it wasnt smoker that was making that moodlet. It was being around Z's too much. Spending time away from Zs and smoking helped.

Scub

Jan 7, 2022 @ 9:29pm

I had this happen. I consider the stress symbol kind of like an early warning radar that many zombies are around me. It happened to me in a hotel. Despite never seeing a single zombie my stress was extremely high. The game knows they are there even if you do not and will display that to you in the stress/panic icon.

Last edited by Scub; Jan 7, 2022 @ 9:30pm

Qdude

Jan 7, 2022 @ 9:30pm

Originally posted by Rincewind:
just bad news on the tv. smoker is not broken.

Yeah, no. it was PawsTV which doesn't broadcast news. I tested it again and my stress went up to Nervous Wreck one moodle at a time per audio text from the TV.

Qdude

Jan 7, 2022 @ 9:31pm

Originally posted by Scub:
I had this happen. I consider the stress symbol kind of like an early warning radar that many zombies are around me. It happened to me in a hotel. Despite never seeing a single zombie my stress was extremely high. The game knows they are there even if you do not and will display that to you in the stress/panic icon.

That's not true. Just walked around my entire house and nothing even in my furthest zoom radius. I think Smoker is broken.

Turd King

Jan 7, 2022 @ 9:32pm

Originally posted by Qdude:
Originally posted by Rincewind:
just bad news on the tv. smoker is not broken.
Yeah, no. it was PawsTV which doesn't broadcast news. I tested it again and my stress went up to Nervous Wreck one moodle at a time per audio text from the TV.

Totally unhelpful I know. But maybe the thought of puppies dying to zombies made you sad?

Scub

Jan 7, 2022 @ 9:34pm

Originally posted by Qdude:
Originally posted by Scub:
I had this happen. I consider the stress symbol kind of like an early warning radar that many zombies are around me. It happened to me in a hotel. Despite never seeing a single zombie my stress was extremely high. The game knows they are there even if you do not and will display that to you in the stress/panic icon.
That's not true. Just walked around my entire house and nothing even in my furthest zoom radius. I think Smoker is broken.

hum Maybe two different things going on then. I play in solo mode right now on custom mode, so I set the positive traits number to a level where I can have 5-6 positive traits with no negative points spent. more testing of the smoker trait would be interesting.

Last edited by Scub; Jan 7, 2022 @ 9:37pm

Qdude

Jan 7, 2022 @ 9:38pm

Originally posted by Scub:
Originally posted by Qdude:
That's not true. Just walked around my entire house and nothing even in my furthest zoom radius. I think Smoker is broken.

hum Maybe two different things going on then.

Yeah, after rethinking I don't necessarily think it's smoker causing it, as I've watched PawsTV before on this same character and it's never done what I've been describing. But Smoker is the only trait I chose that affects my panic and stress levels, and I've never played with Smoker before so it just stuck out to me. Still don't know what's happening, though as literally nothing else is wrong with my character, no moodles or injuries at all.