Question about HIDDEN traits.

[SIDEKICK]

so apparently there are some hidden traits that you can show when you take a fellow survivor as follower and while hes following he will sometimes talk and reveal hidden traits.

my question is, is this trait already in effect before its revealed ?
or does the revelation adds a new trait ?

because if its already in effect even before revealed then it wouldn't hurt to reveal them.

but if HIDDEN traits are actually added to the current traits i wouldn't want to reveal the hidden traits of an already good set of traits.

[Crazy_Raccoon]

It looks like added after and takes effect once revealed. I honestly dont believe I ever got a positive in most cases its red traits ether starts conflicts or can become conflict victim. I never took any of my own survivors for a mission because of that but now after update I got those hidden traits instantly revealed before I even got to my first base on 2 other starting survivors and that sucks.

[SIDEKICK]

Originally posted by Kamikazuchi:

It looks like added after and takes effect once revealed. I honestly dont believe I ever got a positive in most cases its red traits ether starts conflicts or can become conflict victim. I never took any of my own survivors for a mission because of that but now after update I got those hidden traits instantly revealed before I even got to my first base on 2 other starting survivors and that sucks.

oh that sucks. now i cant bring any of them with me :( ... i was able to recruit a survivor i helped and shes got traits like IMMORTAL and Keeps Hidden Puches and 2 neutral traits. i dont wanna risk a negative trait on her. sad..

[Protectron]

Just get morale to Cheerful or above, and you'll not notice any of the troublemaker quirks. The negative quirks that ruin a character are usually visible right away. Like fewer skill "stars" and lower than 100 Stamina/Health. Those that aren't visible like this are pretty rare.

[SIDEKICK]

Originally posted by Protectron:

The negative quirks that ruin a character are usually visible right away. Like fewer skill "stars" and lower than 100 Stamina/Health. Those that aren't visible like this are pretty rare.

but that would mean the hidden traits are already in effect before you discover them.
are they ?

[Protectron]

Yes - except the very few of them that are added afterwards as described in this thread. They start yapping about something in the past on the way home to the base, and then you'll discover that they have a new trait. Until one of the recent updates, one such trait would give a character with no 5th skill the 5th skill Music - but they changed that and claimed that they have now patched up all such instances in the game.

Those are rare, though.

Edit: in most instances, all traits are hidden when you view a character that you'd like to recruit. The questionmarks indicate how many traits the survivor has, and it ranges from 2 to 4. As I describe in the above post, you can often figure out the ones that affect important stuff like Stamina, Health and skills before recruiting them and revealing the questionmarks. But on a rare occasion the game adds another trait after recruiting. This has happened to me like three or four times in 2000 hours of gaming.