Moodlets just ruins the game

[QwertyX]

Panic, Claustrophobia, Depression, Nausa, Exhaustion, Sleep. like give me a ♥♥♥♥♥ break! What is this a Sims game? i thought i was playing a zombie survival game.

- Can't sleep because of constant pain, i took multiple painkillers and yet nothing happens.

- Bandages gets dirty instantly after you cleaned them and put it on. Sometimes my heart still shakes and my health drops even if all bandages are clean.

Might aswell add a trait too that if you don't find toilet paper and wipe your ass everytime after you poop it gives you anal-itching and it increases your characters pain lol.

[Quill]

I mean

It would be pretty hard to sleep if you got shot

And painkillers don't work instantly

[QwertyX]

Originally posted by Quill:

I mean

It would be pretty hard to sleep if you got shot

And painkillers don't work instantly

That's the issue, it's TOO realistic to the point is not even fun to play. It has so many unnecessary mechanics. If i have pain or panic it takes 100 years to kill one single zombie

[PattyRick]

Originally posted by EnigmaGrey:

People obsessing over low tier moodles and/or small changes ruin the game for themselves. News at 11.

Devs fight back on fox news, i love it :D take more of my money

[Shylock]

Those moodles don't come out of nowhere. You either picked some negative traits or made some wrong decisions in-game.
Bandages get dirty very quickly if the wound is still bleeding. This should cease after a day.
If "your heart is shaking" (I guess you mean that you are losing health and the heat on the left side is shaking) it means you are experiencing condition loss. This is either due to overencumbrance or being sick (Flu or the zombie virus). Dirty bandages on wounds do not cause condition loss, but rather increase the chance of wound infection.

[Alehkra]

Originally posted by QwertyX:

That's the issue, it's TOO realistic to the point is not even fun to play. It has so many unnecessary mechanics. If i have pain or panic it takes 100 years to kill one single zombie

That's the game, friend. If you don't like it you don't like the game, and that's fine. Not everything is for everyone.

[Shady Allie]

Imagine no moodles at all. How would you understand why you can't move, fight, sleep, eat? Etc.

The moodle is your friend. It warns you of your environment and character condition. Seeing a moodle pop up lets you easily (after you learn what they mean) rectify your situation and allow you to live longer (once you learn how to deal with each of the moodles)

They are wonderful indicators of when to go home, when to back off from confrontation.

I guess they could have chosen a cartoon pop up thought bubble instead.
A little cloud with text... doot doot doot, "My, I'm feeling sleepy."

PS: there is no pooping in the game. That moodle would be useless.
There IS a cold moodle, which shows you that you have a cold, and that is a warning: you better deal with your cold or you might die.

Moodles are good. Silly name, but i can live with that.

[Ballistic Drop]

Originally posted by Shylock:

Those moodles don't come out of nowhere. You either picked some negative traits or made some wrong decisions in-game.
Bandages get dirty very quickly if the wound is still bleeding. This should cease after a day.
If "your heart is shaking" (I guess you mean that you are losing health and the heat on the left side is shaking) it means you are experiencing condition loss. This is either due to overencumbrance or being sick (Flu or the zombie virus). Dirty bandages on wounds do not cause condition loss, but rather increase the chance of wound infection.

Thank you, people complaining about the dirty bandage thing is a pain. Some wounds are deep and require sutures, they will continue to bleed and get "dirty" very often if you don't stitch up first.

Its a zombie apocalypse, you are going to be stressed out and paranoid unless you take things easy and at a slow pace.

Also remember, this isn't some linear game where as long as you make the right dialogue choices everything will be fine. This is the end times and you are likely not going to make it. Not everyone gets to be Darryl.

[Ballistic Drop]

Forgot to mention. Having just recently recovered from painful knee surgery I can attest to the lack of sleep thing. I had no zombies to worry about, great pain meds and a very comfy bed to lay in and I barely slept for the first week home straight. It makes sense.

[zdowgg]

What is this a Sims game? yes its based off the sims 2 with zombies

i thought i was playing a zombie survival game? yes u are hints why you need sleep have pain and other survival moodlets

i can't sleep cause of pain? apparently someone has never tried to sleep with a tooth infection

i took multiple painkillers yet nothing happens? you think pills work like an iv into your vain they take time to kick in and only takes one pain pill to make pain go away for about 4 hours

Bandages gets dirty instantly after you cleaned them and put it on? yes cause you probably haven't washed your cloths and have dirty skin that keeps making them dirty..... what do u not shower in real life and put on new cloths and be like why my new cloths dirty?

Sometimes my heart still shakes and my health drops even if all bandages are clean????
yea bandages arent from star treck and insta heal the wound under the bandage clean bandages only stop infection...... witch will still happen to you cause your a dirty bum

i love coming here for worlds dumbest complaints if its not this guy its some guy complaining that his mods broke the game thanks devs why dont you fix your game to work with my mods im tired of the bugs that my mods cause and you should go through workshop and fix all my mods get to work grey!

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by QwertyX:

That's the issue, it's TOO realistic

-> buys a game that has the goal to be realistic
-> is mad that the game is realistic

the game isnt wrong, you bought the wrong game, learn that games are not made to be perfect for you and only you.

[PattyRick]

Originally posted by Underestimated:

Originally posted by QwertyX:

That's the issue, it's TOO realistic

-> buys a game that has the goal to be realistic
-> is mad that the game is realistic

the game isnt wrong, you bought the wrong game, learn that games are not made to be perfect for you and only you.

One of the very few games where the devs dont care how hard it is, they are making a survival game how it should be, for sure not for everybody

[Shady Allie]

Originally posted by Underestimated:

the game isnt wrong, you bought the wrong game, learn that games are not made to be perfect for you and only you.

this game CAN indeed be perfect for everyone...
FULL MOD SUPPORT - as one of the first decisions the devs made at the drawing board. Right from the get go, this game can be whatever you want if you take the time to mod it.

OP can make a mod that changes all the moodlet icons into just an invisible alpha channels. Game no longer feeds you visible moodlet information. Problem solved.
............

Pain and killing one zombie in 100 years... the moodlet is there to let you know, "Hey man, I am fighting with a nerf because of pain, maybe I should back off and go heal up."
Is my hand cut? push it over and stomp on it. Are there more than two or three zombie on me while in pain with that hand cut? time to abort the attack and beat feet to safety.
or
My moodlet is telling me I am in a panic, this means I am less effective. Back off, or take a beta blocker. Deal with the information given.

Live to fight another day, or stubbornly ignore the games way of telling you that you might die if you keep on this road.

Perhaps you (op) just need to rethink your tactics in how you attack this game. It isn't always full blast kill kill kill. It is planning, survey the situation and learn to deal with things as the plan changes. sometimes in a moment things go sideways. Moodlets HELP you decide fight or flight.

[Glaston]

Another irritating thing is that something breaks everytime there's an update, then a hotfix issued. Clients update at launch and then can't connect to a server because versions don't match. It would be nice to just be able to leave the server alone and not have to constantly fix things. You can't though. Because this update could be the one that fixes the things that are broken. Usually not though. It's like windows update. The next update could be the one that fixes everything, but it's just as likely to be the one that breaks it even more.
This game must have the record for being in "early access" state the longest. It's been 10 years hasn't it?
As soon as you start to feel like certain mechanics are working smoothly and reliably, they get "fixed" and the cycle repeats. Seems like an unspoken Meta feature that you will not be able to rely on anything in this game. Even launching the game, it might not happen, and that's just the game. If you don't enjoy those aspects, then you don't like the game.

[Raymond]

This isn't a casual zombie game, this is a zombie survival SIM. Taking care of your body is and has always been imperative for your survival in any high stake situation. Post-wwI when most military didn't have all the hygiene precautions, at least a quarter of the casualties of any combat force would perish from disease and non-combat related afflictions. Keeping yourself alive and in good shape before the real action is as important as the action itself.

Of course if you want to play a casual, arcade zombie games, there are tons out there. 7 days to die, left4dead, minecraft, etc...

[Shady Allie]

Originally posted by Glaston:

Another irritating thing is that something breaks everytime there's an update, then a hotfix issued....and more stuff...

Do you know that build 41 is now very near complete if not totally done? within a few weeks people will be saying "the devs are abandoning the game. where's the updates?"

build 42 is a long way off....you may soon play build 41 for a long time without dev code changing things every week. This development cycle is finalized and pushed to stable.

Give it a few weeks for any final patches or fixes, then play for months and months and possibly years before any build 42 drops.