Claustrophobic, free points?

[epicfacedave]

Question about claustrophobic trait and the outdoor one, isn’t after a good while the panic generated from them basically goes away much later in the game? Can anyone attest to this? I was going to start a new character and was willing to deal with it possibly if late game it eventually subsides.

[PlanktonHatesTheWorld]

It was dependent on how long it had been in world, in B41, yes.

B42, who knows.

[Anna]

If you live in a huge house like a factory or big storage claustrophobic is easily a free points. But even after a while entering tiny closets caused panic, that is for 41.

I would avoid it for b42 because cellars are now a thing worth exploring.

[MrBusine$$]

Sort of, but not really. The survival duration bonus causes your panic to decrease at a faster rate than the spawn default, to the point that your panic will eventually decrease faster than it accumulates from claustrophobic/agoraphobic, which will make it look like the trait is doing nothing. However, that accumulation is still there, so if you encounter something else in the feared environment type that ALSO raises panic (e.g. Zeds), your panic will rise faster and fall off slower than it would in a non-feared environment

[Rex87]

I personally think it is still worth taking it because you don't have to worry about character boredom indoors, but still I see there are more ways to remove unhappiness now, not just reading or eating good food, I have Fear of Blood on my current character so it may be related not sure yet but when I wash my character I lose unhappiness, also petting new animals that they added can remove it too, but has cooldown.

overall I think it's still worth picking this trait because sometimes you gotta just bunker in your base for long time, for example could be helicopter event and you may get your character depressed during it.