Placebo effects

[UltimateGentleman 355]

So I assume at one point things like starvation and hunger will affect us in the game by lowering our stamina, disallowing us to run fast or even at all. Hopefully motor functions will also be affected.

 

Fizzy drinks have very little hydration value but if you were dehydrated, drinking one would definitely make you feel better, it might not actually hydrate you much but you'd feel better.

Which motivates you to run faster in the game and improves your action speed also.

Another thing it could do is make the screen a bit more colourful instead of black and white, or perhaps that could stay just to signify that yes you are still dying.

 

So you're not sufficiently hydrated but for a short time don't feel like you're going to die.

 

With hunger the same thing eat an apple or some berries and even though that's no sort of meal and you're still deteriorating just having some food in your belly makes you feel better.

 

 

Basically you get 5-10 minutes of the next stage of hunger/hydration up as in if you're at red hunger, hobbling along feeling like death is just around the corner you eat an apple and then you can move like you do in the orange-ish coloured hunger status. Up until you're at olive coloured hunger and can run and perform actions at a neutral level.

 

 

Would be a good way to give virtually useless food items such as berries, apples and tomatoes a use, it's only going to help a little bit but it might save your life all the same.