Muscle strain

[Samtaro]

Killed 8 zombies with a bat and now my character is wining about muscle strain. Is bro built like a twig or what? Is there any way to improve this? I'm guessing levelling up strength or something.

Edit: I have level 7 strength so I shouldn't be getting muscle strain that fast, surely.

[Animalman]

it wares off pretty quickly seems the more you hit while under strain the worse it become and the longer it takes.

Major violence nerf i not sure how to play

[Kryzx]

It IS an unstable build so we'll just have to deal with it for the time being.

I took out about 12 zombies before I noticed the attacks were slowing down and I checked the health UI panel. Also saw that the strength skill says it decreases the muscle strain the higher it is, but that's concerning if you were at Lv7. I was playing with default Lv5 strength when I noticed that it came up.

I took out 6 zombies with a carving fork (short blade) before I found a couple of hammers to use for the next 4 before I was struggling with the last couple due to the muscle strain.

I'm wondering if the object we're wielding & striking zombies with affects the rate, or perhaps the amount of time we're swinging & clobbering in a short period increases this? Maybe we need to space out the amount of zombies we're killing instead of bringing in a group of 5 or more to kill all at once; i.e., just bring 1 over to you & kill, rest, then repeat.

[Glenarn]

Some of the traits you picked might be affecting it as some of them got updated like shortsighted making you basically blind without glasses.

I went with Lumberjack with level 6 strength and haven't run into this issue.

[Animalman]

the character takes a short break when under strain every 8 or so hits, he takes a breather

[SgtEmissary [Kane's Will]]

One thing about it. It gives pain pills more of a use, with the injury system lacking. At least I figure pain pills mitigate some of the muscle strain.

Interestingly, according to a study I found when browsing the net. Taking pain pills may aid in developing more muscle mass so perhaps this could be a good thing in disguise where the devs could implement some bonuses to gaining strength in this way.

I theorize with this being unstable they may do far more with the muscle strain in the future. While this is the groundwork being laid.

Originally posted by Glenarn:

Some of the traits you picked might be affecting it as some of them got updated like shortsighted making you basically blind without glasses.

I went with Lumberjack with level 6 strength and haven't run into this issue.

Oh damn they actually nerfed Short Sighted? Thats a welcome change. For the longest while it really had no impact on the game and was free points.

[Donkle]

From what I understand muscle strain is its own thing separate from strength and fitness and is connected to your skill with that kind of weapon. So the more you use a particular kind of weapon the less muscle strain you'll deal with.

My source is literally a youtube comment though so take that with a pile of salt.