Hectyk

A stress mechanic would be a terrible way to reduce KOS in my opinion. The reason KOS is so prevalent is that its a game with guns and right now you are very limited in how you can interact with other people. When Team Rocket starts adding things that actually make it fun to interact with people in a positive way, then we'll finally have less KOS. Card games, music, ball sports, maybe some board games or something... IDK. Including mini-games to play with other survivors would go a long way I think. Basically anything that would require multiple survivors will increase coop play. A stress mechanic is just one more punishment for interacting with other players and makes the game feel tedious. It would be one more thing that bandits just circumvent. There will always be players killing other players no matter how you punish them for it (see how item durability damage hasn't changed player mentality?). Emotional responses should be left to the player, not your in-game character.