Sanity??

[Hank Hill's Disappointed Sigh]

I've read that there are a few things that lower and raise sanity, but in my game with my girlfriend we have played the same amount of time and are usually doing the same task (i.e fighting, eating dried meats, staying up for days at a time) yet my sanity has been on a downward spiral and is now at 7% while her's has never dropped lower than 96%.
Can anyone explain this??

I also read that sanity makes no difference, but that seems strange for a game with so much detail. Can anyone confirm this?

[M.Red]

Sanity drops if you kill Cannibals, eat canibal legs and/or arms and within caves. Did you deliver more killing blows to enemys than your girlfriend?

[Qwib-Qwib]

The sanity drop from killing cannibals is pretty small. I'm assuming you're either eating the corpses, or spending a lot more time than her in the cave network. It steadily goes down in there.

[Wariat117]

or she dies more than you

dying in multi resets everything (if you were fat then you lose fat :V)

[Hank Hill's Disappointed Sigh]

Never eaten any body parts, same amount of time in caves. I have probably dealt more killing blows though as she uses the bow and I use the katana most the time.
I think she has died a few more times than me but at this point I have been alive 31 days and her for 28.
It just seems like such a big margine..

But either way it doesnt matter if it has no effect I guess?

[Wariat117]

Originally posted by Door_Face the 3rd:

But either way it doesnt matter if it has no effect I guess?

The only effect sanity grants you are effingies, if you are under 90% sanity you can build effingies from the body parts.
At least that's how it is on single, no idea about multi.

[Andi]

Actually, i have the theory that fighting the cannies with melee will drop your sanity much faster than killing them from a distance.
I know, this hasn't been mentioned anywhere and i can only tell from my own experience.
By the time you had to be below 50 to unlock the effigys, i was trying to bring it down on purpose and killing with the bow did much less than going into close combat.

[durkhaz]

I've had the same experience. My friend, who was the host, had a sanity of about 6% while mine was sitting pretty at 96% for the entire game. I think it's a Multiplayer issue. Same with the "covered in blood effect". I didn't even know it was a thing because it just never happened to me in about 10 hours of playtime, while my friend got it in almost every encounter with cannibals.
It's not a big issue, but weird nontheless.

[Hank Hill's Disappointed Sigh]

Originally posted by durkhaz:

I've had the same experience. My friend, who was the host, had a sanity of about 6% while mine was sitting pretty at 96% for the entire game. I think it's a Multiplayer issue. Same with the "covered in blood effect". I didn't even know it was a thing because it just never happened to me in about 10 hours of playtime, while my friend got it in almost every encounter with cannibals.
It's not a big issue, but weird nontheless.

Thats interesting as I am hosting the game for that one. She does get covered in blood but I get it a lot more, I figured from the melee.

[Hank Hill's Disappointed Sigh]

Originally posted by Andi:

Actually, i have the theory that fighting the cannies with melee will drop your sanity much faster than killing them from a distance.
I know, this hasn't been mentioned anywhere and i can only tell from my own experience.
By the time you had to be below 50 to unlock the effigys, i was trying to bring it down on purpose and killing with the bow did much less than going into close combat.

That seems both reasonable and accurate, good catch.

[Hank Hill's Disappointed Sigh]

Originally posted by Wariat117:

Originally posted by Door_Face the 3rd:

But either way it doesnt matter if it has no effect I guess?

The only effect sanity grants you are effingies, if you are under 90% sanity you can build effingies from the body parts.
At least that's how it is on single, no idea about multi.

Good because I am officially at 0% sanity... maniacal LOL

[YOWZA]

It drops if you chop up bodies

[threethreethree]

Most of my cannibal deaths have been via my traps, and a rare bow headshot. Guess that's why my sanity has been 100 for about 100 days??