Heart attacks happening at 120-150 stress?

[Coyote]

Why is this happening to me?
My guys are dying of heart attacks without getting max stress. According to lots of webpages they say its only supposed to happen at 200.

Whats the deal? Bug?

[Gilmoy]

Are you sure it's a heart attack?
Go to your Graveyard in hamlet, click on your dead heroes, and confirm that they died of "HEART ATTACK", and not something else.

Single-player or Butcher's Circus?
What were you fighting?

Without details, I'll assume it's reporter error

[Coyote]

Well, it said "heart attack" in huge letters above my characters and it dropped their hp to zero.

Singleplayer, no idea what butchers circus is.
I was fighting some little basic pig mob that used some toxic bite or spit in a difficulty 1 dungeon. He didnt hit my people they automatically died when the next turn came around.
All four of them.

All four of my characters had varying levels of sanity. None were maxed out.
One of them was close, but only 3/4 of the bar was full.
Another was like 1/5th.

[Hedning]

Heart attacks, deaths door and especially afflictions causes party wide stress, so even if your hero was at 150 stress if the party is afflicted and dropping to deaths door and dying then that last 50 will quickly be filled.

Other things like stalling the fight can also cause party wide stress.

[Hollow Heart]

From what I read here, most likely a heart attack put your heroes to death's door and then blight or bleed finished them off.

A hero is at death's door when their HP is zero.

Heart attack always puts your heroes to death's door. If they are already at death's door it kills them. And it always happens at 200 stress.

While on death's door any attack that deals a minimum of 1 damage has a chance to kill a hero. This includes blights and bleeds. And blight or bleed are the only things that can kill a hero "automatically" when they get their turn.

You can check the cause of death at the cemetery in Hamlet.

[No One]

There's a UI issue where if you get a pile of stress events at once, you get the heart attack and die before the stress meter updates.

One way to get absolutely wrecked is to retreat when more than one person is above 100 stress. You can chain down your entire team without seeing the stress bar update, because taking a heart attack causes party-wide stress, which causes a heart attack, which causes party-wide stress, which kills your original guy, which causes party-wide stress....

[vitez_vaddiszno]

Also, a Heart Attack resets the Stress of the afflicted hero to 150-170. So your Stress will only ever be 200 for a moment.

[Reeva!]

Retreating from a fight causes massive stress on everyone involved. Stress attacks can easily do way more than they're meant to depending on Torch level, extra stress received from Afflictions / Debuffs / Trinkets / Diseases, whether or not the attack used was a Critical Strike, or even someone getting put on Death's Door or 200 stress, it affects the whole party and moreso the targeted hero. Afflicted heroes also "comment" on actions in the party like getting ht, hitting enemies, missing enemies or dodging enemy hits, by raising stress for the targeted party member, as well as occasionally spouting something at the start of every round that increases everyone's stress levels.

Otherwise, bug, might be. I know chain heart attacks are a thing if you retreat or have very high stress levels just before someone has a heart attack. Heart attacks increases everyone's stress levels, but a member dying (especially from a heart attack) spikes everyone else's stress. It is possible to retreat from a fight full HP but high stress, and lose everyone in your party to a chain heart attack strike.

[Coyote]

Originally posted by vitez_vaddiszno:

Also, a Heart Attack resets the Stress of the afflicted hero to 150-170. So your Stress will only ever be 200 for a moment.

THIS is what happened!
Thanks!