The flu. OH COME ON

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-04-22T19:19:48.000Z

Press | .

Should be right above your enter key and you gotta press shift.

vache · 2014-04-22T19:46:44.000Z

Yeah, the flu and cold are WAY too debilitating in the game for my tastes, and more often than not I just end up debugging in royal jelly immediately upon onset. For a 14 day season, being all but crippled for 5 of those days is incredibly obnoxious, and not compelling gameplay. Coughing and increased thirst/hunger are fine, and introduce complicating mechanics for exploration/avoidance, but the broad stat drains are just awful, and essentially just force you to remain in shelter until it blows over.

i2amroy · 2014-04-22T23:32:50.000Z

Currently I’m about halfway through a health and disease rework, one effect of which will involve rebalancing the cold/flu diseases.

Blackopsman9999 · 2014-04-23T04:14:14.000Z

Ya wouldn’t get the flu if you got vaccines and vitamins…

system · 2014-04-23T04:35:04.000Z

Blackopsman9999:

Ya wouldn’t get the flu if you got vaccines and vitamins…

I’m not complaining about getting the flu. I’m complaining about the flu being double-plus unfun. Getting mauled by a bear or chased by a pack of shambling undead is fun, even if they kill you. I don’t even mind backpack management, which is good, since there’s a metric shit-tonne of it. I love crafting, scavenging, grinding out skills, and so on. This evening, I spent my night gathering virtual firefood. That’s it. It doesn’t take much to amuse me. What isn’t fun is sitting at home base typing $ $ $ $ $ $ and engaging in competitive eating between vomits while I wait day after day after day for a game mechanic to finish. I eventually just abandoned the game because I had stopped enjoying it.

Edit: Day 2 of my new game, I get the flu. Shub-RNGurath is angry and unappeased. Fuck it, I cheated royal jelly into my inventory.

ChristopherWalken · 2014-04-23T07:59:12.000Z

Craft yourself a dust mask, makes you impervious to diseases.

Jiamil · 2014-04-23T11:31:00.000Z

Hm… quite bad luck with this flu. I’m now at day 16 without a disease. What I can tell is, try to eat a variety of food and try to avoid junkfood when you don’t have vitamins on hand. Also if you want to sleep and don’t get interrupted by coughing noise cancelling gear does wonders.

AseaHeru · 2014-04-23T12:21:18.000Z

I dont think any of my people have gotten the flu…

Arek_PL · 2014-04-23T13:04:33.000Z

ChristopherWalken:

Craft yourself a dust mask, makes you impervious to diseases.

so i know why i do not get flu or cold
i wear gas mask

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-04-23T13:12:13.000Z

Lol

Zireael · 2014-04-23T16:27:03.000Z

I was wearing a survivor mask and had Disease Resistant, yet still came down with a cold which doesn’t want to let up after 4 days.

Paquito · 2014-04-23T17:14:54.000Z

I find the mechanic entertaining, in that it’s something I need to account for, and makes stockpiling my food worth it. Also, there’s medicine like all over the place which should keep your vomiting to a manageable level. Cannibis might help with that too.

ChristopherWalken · 2014-04-23T17:25:57.000Z

Zireael:

I was wearing a survivor mask and had Disease Resistant, yet still came down with a cold which doesn’t want to let up after 4 days.

Unless they changed it all mouth items with an environmental protection above X (I forget the exact number but it’s not particularly high) should make you completely immune to disease, so either they changed it, you took it off at some point, you caught the disease before putting on the item or something not intended is happening.

Homebound · 2014-04-23T18:20:20.000Z

ChristopherWalken:

Unless they changed it all mouth items with an environmental protection above X (I forget the exact number but it’s not particularly high) should make you completely immune to disease, so either they changed it, you took it off at some point, you caught the disease before putting on the item or something not intended is happening.

I’m curious as to what that number is. I just recovered from a cold in my current game, and it wasn’t much fun.

esran · 2014-04-23T18:51:54.000Z

wear a gas mask ASAP. its the Apocalypse you know. 2 dust masks and a filter mask or 2 also work.

cr4y0nb0x · 2014-04-23T19:51:23.000Z

So what i found helped me sleep is the noise cancelling earmuffs. I put them on, bundle up and i can sleep through the entire night. Aside from that, vitamins, cough medicine and water/food to keep you satiated.

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-04-23T20:04:31.000Z

I just used a shot and it gave me a cold

Oh well.

prytoclasm · 2014-04-23T20:53:28.000Z

Seems like there are still people underestimating the Flu. “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic”. Good read. It’s not an illness to take too easy.

Homebound · 2014-04-23T21:00:00.000Z

No one is questioning how serious the flu can be in real life, just whether or not the in-game mechanic of it should work how it currently does.

Weyrling · 2014-04-24T21:07:14.000Z

Homebound:

I’m curious as to what that number is. I just recovered from a cold in my current game, and it wasn’t much fun.

The Wiki:

Both are infected with 3 strength, which means that mouth protection helps, and moreover if you wearing a gas mask permanently, then you are immune to ambient diseases too!