Bugged Frostbite Risk?

[Shadow]

I have been stuck at 41% frostbite risk for awhile now. I thought it would go away once I got inside and had put my new mittens on but even though I have been above freezing for 12 hours inside it still is not going down at all. Has anyone else experienced this and is it possible to get rid of it?

[IFIYGD]

No other wet or frozen gear still equipped? No hypothermia? Everything covered, including head and feet?
It can take a really long time for Frostbite risk to drop off, more time for higher levels of risk %, once you are at a feels-like temp above freezing though, especially if you are playing Interloper or Interloper-based custom settings. If you can, make sure everything is covered in dry clothing, wet will not reduce risk. Check all layers to be sure all are dry.

[Shadow]

Yeah it was weird no wet gear no hypothermia everything was covered. It finally disappeared after almost 30 hours. This is my first true interloper attempt I wasn't expecting the frost bite risk to take so long to clear up.

[IFIYGD]

Glad it finally passed. And yeah, it takes a crazy long time to pass on Loper especially, but on Stalker too- it takes a really long time. Not sure if the game checks it hourly (in-game) or at the usual Midnight time check. I just try to avoid getting frostbite risk at all costs, when possible, but that is easier to do in stalker than in Loper. Stalker I tend to die due to overconfidence and "unfortunate" encounters with wildlife, while Frostbite and cold are what kill me most often in Loper.

[iwasa]

Keep in mind that frostbite and hypothermia are two very different afflictions and not knowing the difference can lead to "Frostbite! How can I get frostbite? I was warm!"

Hypothermia relates to whole body freezing so things like Feel Like Temperature (white for warming, red for cooling) matter.

Frostbite, on the other hand, relates to a point affliction due to an extremity being uncovered. In this case, the rest of the warmth bonus does not count because of the exposure. So Feels Like Temperature is not applicable.

The OP found mittens so the covering issue was dealt with, however the game can get glitched because, by his post, he put the mittens on after going inside. If the interior of the place was still below freezing (<0 C) I would guess that the game may think that his hands were still subject to the interior's freezing temperature and not updated because of the covering. The mittens should normally mean that the overall body warmth bonus now applies but frostbite risk can be tricky.

Maybe strip down completely then put everything back on. Try to force an update that way.

That's what I think may be happening. Good luck.

[Shadow]

It was above freezing in the dam esp in the bedroll but I still had it the next morning. It neither went up or down just stayed the same all day even through the trek to Coastal Highway. Reloading the save didn't do anything for it. However it went away entirely the next night while my character slept. I didn't think to take everything off and then put it back on I will try that if it happens again.

Thank you guys. :)

[iwasa]

Frostbite risk can be strange. Putting on a covering for the extremity at risk does not make it go away immediately or even, necessarily, very fast.

I would suspect that Feels Like Temperature (FLT) would then matter, given the covering, but unless the FLT > 0 C was pretty large (maybe like +10 C or more), the rate that the risk goes away can seem pretty prolonged (as the part otherwise slowly warms up).

Maybe in the future, once Story mode is not a factor, the devs might look at short-term immediate action warming like a bucket/pot of moderately hot not boiling water for fast warming the hands, hot compresses for the head (ears), etc. but that kind of intermediate temperatures don't really exist in the game currently and might be a bit complex to implement.

[Vrayna]

Making a cup of hot tea/coffee should help with the hand frostbite risk at least, because honestly, who wouldn't warm their hands on the cup while sipping the drink?!