Joy questions

[KitKat]

So there's a joy meter that fills over time when you use it. Memory loss or something, right?

1)Is it a "game over" type of thing? Like a doomsday clock or something? You fill up the meter and game ends?
If it's not, then...
2)What happens when you fill the meter of memory loss, if not a game over?
3)Is there a way to clean this memory loss meter?

P.s. I'm not talking about the JOY meter itself or the anti-joy drug or something that makes the effects of the pill go away prematurely.

[MiamoAlex]

If you reach that meter, you'll have a joy crash, which means that you'll see the world... very weirdly (I won't spoil the effect) for a short time. It will also make you tired, hungry and thirsty.
There's not way to clean memory loss right now I believe.

[KitKat]

Originally posted by AlexandreSDev:

If you reach that meter, you'll have a joy crash, which means that you'll see the world... very weirdly (I won't spoil the effect) for a short time. It will also make you tired, hungry and thirsty.
There's not way to clean memory loss right now I believe.

Ok, so... The meter fills. This joy crash happens for a short time. And it makes me tired, hungry and thirsty... for a short time, yes?
And it resets back to zero? Or it will stay filled and every next time I take a joy pill/eat food with joy/drink water with joy, I will be getting this joy crash effect?

[MiamoAlex]

Originally posted by Tiny Tina:

Originally posted by AlexandreSDev:

If you reach that meter, you'll have a joy crash, which means that you'll see the world... very weirdly (I won't spoil the effect) for a short time. It will also make you tired, hungry and thirsty.
There's not way to clean memory loss right now I believe.

Ok, so... The meter fills. This joy crash happens for a short time. And it makes me tired, hungry and thirsty... for a short time, yes?
And it resets back to zero? Or it will stay filled and every next time I take a joy pill/eat food with joy/drink water with joy, I will be getting this joy crash effect?

You'll have to rest, feed and drink, it basically puts all needs meters to zero and yes, the crash meter will be reset after it, so you won't have it again after a few pills

[KitKat]

Alright, thank you for the answers.

Although.. I'll be honest, it makes the game seem a bit easier then. Would be logical to see this joy meter to be a sort of a "doomsday clock" over the player if they overuse the joy stuff on hard/permadeath difficulty or something. And of course add a way to flush the body using some kind of very rare or unique food/drug/injection/whatever to clear up this meter. Hard to obtain(perhaps even part of the quest?), to also use with care.

Makes sense that if Arthur(for example) would just go back to his "happy life" after overdoing Joy again while trying to escape - he'd just forget the reason that he wants to escape and... Decide not to. To get back to work, to normal life... Game over, start from scratch :)

[MiamoAlex]

Yes but adding a game over feature to act one which is veeeeery long could be... very frustrating