There’s an old speedrunning trick for this: If you don’t put new clothes on each day and instead keep re-wearing them, it stops growing.
The game tries to prevent this with the stench debuff and the hit to your cleanliness stat, but you can counter that with routing to avoid enounters with other players. Then the debuff does nothing and the cleanliness stat only matters once it gets low enough to trigger damage to your HP.
So it really only works for specific builds, but if done right it can save you a lot of time.
What do you mean they added a large negative modifier to the mental health stat when using this strat? I guess this works better on earlier patches before personal hygiene became so important in the meta.
There’s an old speedrunning trick for this: If you don’t put new clothes on each day and instead keep re-wearing them, it stops growing.
The game tries to prevent this with the stench debuff and the hit to your cleanliness stat, but you can counter that with routing to avoid enounters with other players. Then the debuff does nothing and the cleanliness stat only matters once it gets low enough to trigger damage to your HP.
So it really only works for specific builds, but if done right it can save you a lot of time.
What do you mean they added a large negative modifier to the mental health stat when using this strat? I guess this works better on earlier patches before personal hygiene became so important in the meta.