The mechanics for catching a cold virus over and over again if you don't disinfect your gear is stupid...

[❀ MOSOTO ❀]

You should catch the cold and then your body slowly build up antibodies depending on how strong it is and then you shouldn't catch that same cold over and over again...

after finding warmer clothes and some food for the journey, I ran all the way to nearest town to first aid place... scrounged & found 5 tetracycline pills... removed my head mask and hands equipement, began taking tetracycline pills... then read you gotta get rid of your water bottle and food if you handled it as well, so I ditched that... and finally after 45 minutes my cold went away... and came back 2 minutes later probably because my weapon or sometrhing else is infected with the same virus I just got over. all out of tetracycline, just went through 10 of them.... ditched half my gear and my water bottle etc... and still it's right back here. The same cold virus I had before.

Such a lame mechanic.

[ast]

lol, you're probably suffering from a rebound effect not because your gear is contaminated but because your overall immune system is still too low.

only if two of the three parameters food, drink and blood are maxed out you can build up enough immunity to withstand a virus without constantly popping meds.

[Topher]

If you have a cold the best way to cure it is to just eat and drink to max, where the increase chevrons no longer stay at 3 up and instead switch from 1 chevron up to 1 chevron down over and over. If you are at max health and blood then your immunity will be above the 95+ threshold to cure you and no longer have a cold.

[❀ MOSOTO ❀]

Originally posted by ast:

lol, you're probably suffering from a rebound effect not because your gear is contaminated but because your overall immune system is still too low.

only if two of the three parameters food, drink and blood are maxed out you can build up enough immunity to withstand a virus without constantly popping meds.

Since I started taking the tetra, I've had full thirst and hunger and my temperature hasn't dropped into any blues. IDK it seems like I caught it from another piece of my gear. When I finally cured myself of it for a minute or two... I was indoors as well when I noticed I contracted cold virus again... the icon popped up again... idk.

[❀ MOSOTO ❀]

Originally posted by Topher:

If you have a cold the best way to cure it is to just eat and drink to max, where the increase chevrons no longer stay at 3 up and instead switch from 1 chevron up to 1 chevron down over and over. If you are at max health and blood then your immunity will be above the 95+ threshold to cure you and no longer have a cold.

Does this mean if my thirst/hunger bar are full and show the 3 up... Do I eat/drink more to get to that 1 up 1 down cycle ??? or did I eat/drink too much if I'm at 3 up on full bars?

[Viking]

I have the same problem. I ate a dry zucchini, caught poisoning, ate a pack of tetrica, a pack of multivitamins, a pack of activated charcoal. All indicators at maximum, and the illness returns. I think it's a bug.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

I cured a cold yesterday on a community vanilla server no worries. Couldnt get my food/drink high enough to fight it off myself (fresh spawn) so had to just manage it and make my way back to base. Popped like 5 tetra over the course of 15 mins while i sorted loot and it went away.

Did notice that in one of the update vids i watched he said for immunity you need super high stats now. So the apple and bottle just appearing full wont cut it, you need them close to bouncing off the invisible top like ast mentioned :)

[etwas]

Originally posted by ❀ MOSOTO ❀:

Originally posted by Topher:

If you have a cold the best way to cure it is to just eat and drink to max, where the increase chevrons no longer stay at 3 up and instead switch from 1 chevron up to 1 chevron down over and over. If you are at max health and blood then your immunity will be above the 95+ threshold to cure you and no longer have a cold.

Does this mean if my thirst/hunger bar are full and show the 3 up... Do I eat/drink more to get to that 1 up 1 down cycle ??? or did I eat/drink too much if I'm at 3 up on full bars?

u CAN drink/eat on with full energy/water stats as long the arrows keep goin up. but once the symbols are visible "full" its enough. u also burn more energy with high stats, so its just enough to eat/drink until u hit the full symbol.
and yea... full stats (blood, health, water, energy) will get rid of most sickness over time. the longer u carry the sickness, the longer it might take to get rid of it.

[Idaho]

Nobody has mentioned multivitamins... This is almost as bad as real life...

[Revelation_jeff]

I'm sorry but this mechanic is beyond confusing to understand in game. Coming back from a long time off the game, I'm sick all the time, every time and can't get rid of it. Very unnecessary. You should at least build up resistance to it over time if it can't kill you.

[Jackie Daytona]

Don't worry i'll send you a stimulus check and tank your economy.