Stupid the mechanics of heart attack

[JohnPain]

I must to talk about how stupid the mechanics of heart attack are. you cant know when it hapens, not the stress 200, not the stress 150, just when it come out " oh, its time to DIEEEEEE for u " . I can only feel mock from the Developers, not any funny.

[Eyre]

Heart attacks can only occur on afflicted heroes at 200 stress. They don't just happen randomly.

Heart attacks instantly drop the hero to death's door. They are not instant deaths. They only kill if the hero is on death's door. As long they have some hp remaining they will survive the heart attack.

[JohnPain]

Originally posted by Echo:

Heart attacks can only occur on afflicted heroes at 200 stress. They don't just happen randomly.

Heart attacks instantly drop the hero to death's door. They are not instant deaths. They only kill if the hero is on death's door. As long they have some hp remaining they will survive the heart attack.

it happend at 180 stress in my game. even 170 (7 white block whit other three hollow)

[Eyre]

Hmm... It could be bug.

However this does not make the game unplayable. Stress management is extremely important. Enemies that do stress damage should be priority targets. Kill them first. It is easy to heal damage but it's a lot harder to heal stress.

Some camping skills are good for reducing stress. Keep the torch light above 75 because enemies do more damage and stress damage in the dark.

[h0b0king]

It happened at 200 in your game, you just messed with a curio that gave you 30 stress or got blasted by a spell that did 20. That said stress can rise quickly at times, those 3 or 6 there in the hall from walking about add up, traps give a lot, curios more and if give stress dealing enemies a chance they will swamp you.

Also the stress bar notes how much stress you have, but it rounds down - like if you have 186 stress it's going to look like 180 unless you mouse over it.

However, learning to manage stress is the major skills in the game. Things you should do:

1) Don't mess with every curio, learn which ones do what, and usually touching unsafe curios without the right object is a bad bet. Sure you can sometimes get something good- more often no.

2) Scouting helps, traps do a lot of stress damage, and the 8 relief you get from disarming them is quite useful as you can apply it when you need to a degree.

3) Learn to kill the back rank attackers that inflict stress. Don't use slow front rank attacking heroes and expect to crave your way to victory. Focus fire the stress dealers, stun them, pull some of them to where they can't hurt you (this also goes for many damaging attackers as well - most have a very feeble attack if pushed into the right place).

4) Learn when to give up and cut your loses. If you've got a hero at 150 stress, the rest of your group is likely in a terrible state as well, consider leaving the dungeon unless you are about to complete the quest. Never stick around after a first heart attack, just don't your hero is basically already dead if you do.

5) Learn who to take where, stress producing trinkets and phobias add up and they actually matter. Liekwise taking a level 3 into a long veteran dungoen is going to build up more stress then taking a level 4. Taking a level 0 on anything but a short run means careful management or risk taking (perhaps an anti-stress trinket).

6) Light, yeah use it, at least until you aren't worried about stress anymore.

If you do these things and learn how to manage the game you can avoid using the chapel and tavern except very rarely. Most of the time your heroes will leave the dungeon with 20 or 30 stress.

[lupious]

This is pretty much 100% avoidable if you know what you're doing, kill rows 3/4 first, use stress heals, etc. My last two wins (full runs, beat the game), I haven't had a single character hit 100 stress and this last run, not only did I never hit 100 stress, but I never used the stress relief activities in town. If you're routinely hitting 100+ stress, you're doing something very, very wrong.

[🎃MaximusBlastalot🎃]

In Ea stress was largely meaningless untill they added heartattacks/debuffs.Basicly your complaining that theres a malus for reaching 100% strees.

Theres also a malus for reaching 0 hp (and its not even a sure thing) shall we ad that to the heap of silly complaints?

[kebabsoup]

Originally posted by Echo:

Heart attacks can only occur on afflicted heroes at 200 stress. They don't just happen randomly.

Exactly. I would even add that heart attacks are much more predictable in this game than IRL...

[Satoru]

You can disable the mechanic if it doesnt appeal to you

Heart Attacks should only happen if you hit 200 stress. While you can end up in some negative feedback loops, you ultimately have control over the risk/reward of pushing forward when you hit high stress. Stress management is a critical pillar of the game just like HP management is.

[DJTron]

as the others have said, when your whole team is afflicted and some are about to have heart attacks, that's a VERY obvious indication that you need to cut your losses and leave. It doesn't matter how close you are to finishing. if you have people who are about to die always expect the worst

[Hazza]

I had 4 heroes suffer 8 consecutive heart attacks. I had just finished the quest and went back to fight the shambler. They all died simultaneously. I didn't get a single chance to retreat.

[No One]

Mancy type: necro.

[Sir Francis]

Originally posted by Prank Sinatra:

They all died simultaneously. I didn't get a single chance to retreat.

Massive necro.
Also what are you talking about? How about retreating when all heroes are afflicted? How about not even attempting a shambler fight with high stress? You know that you can just leave the shambler fight after the first round? Not a single chance.... actually ridiculous.

[BoddAH]

Originally posted by Prank Sinatra:

I had 4 heroes suffer 8 consecutive heart attacks. I had just finished the quest and went back to fight the shambler. They all died simultaneously. I didn't get a single chance to retreat.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.