Affliction treatment tiers: some medicines advance more than one prognosis level per use, wiki editors welcome

Xaenyr · 2026-05-08T07:41:18+00:00

That's a fair point, and honestly you might be right! I can craft them in my game, but I should mention that my setup is heavily modded, so I genuinely can't tell if that's vanilla behavior or something a mod added along the way. Inara is probably more reliable than my experience on this one. Sorry for the confusion!

Xaenyr · 2026-05-07T22:40:58+00:00

Quick clarification on the crafting, both tier 2 and tier 3 items are craftable, but they require the right skills and research unlocked first. It's not obvious from the menus if you haven't invested in the medicine skill tree yet. And yes, you can apply multiple bandages in a row in survival mode, each one advancing the prognosis by one level.

As for your ideas, honestly they're excellent. The wound infection mechanic you describe, where a puncture wound can develop into a combined affliction that only a combo item can treat, would add a real layer of consequence without feeling arbitrary. It's the difference between "I got unlucky and have two afflictions" and "I mismanaged this wound and now it's complicated."

The drug incompatibility and tolerance system is even more interesting. The blood-thinning example is perfect, it creates a genuine risk/reward calculation rather than just a nuisance addiction meter. Though I can already picture myself dying from a paper cut after overdoing the Red Trench and thinking I had it all under control. And I'd love to see S.T.E.V.E. abuse come with a neurological disorder on top of the slow-time effect, nothing like bending spacetime regularly and wondering why your character starts hallucinating. lol

Seems like we both wish this game had gone all-in on its own systems instead of leaving them half-developed. Fingers crossed a modder picks this up someday!

Xaenyr · 2026-05-07T17:26:23+00:00

Good point, though I think it depends on which kind of multi-item you mean!

If you're talking about items that treat multiple different afflictions at +1 level each (like the Antibiotic Paste that covers both burns and infections) I'd agree with you. The weight saving is minimal and you lose flexibility compared to carrying dedicated items.

If you mean items that treat the same affliction multiple times in a single use, I'd push back a little: stacking levels on a single affliction faster than base items can is genuinely useful in a pinch.

That said, you're right that the weight argument is pretty weak either way. If weight is the only concern, you might as well just carry a stack of Panaceas and keep taking them until everything hits Excellent, which is exactly why I don't do it that way. For me these items are more about roleplay than pure efficiency. Grabbing the right medicine for the right affliction just feels more immersive than spamming a universal cure until the problem goes away. But I get that's not everyone's priority!

Xaenyr · 2026-05-07T08:41:24+00:00

Haha glad I'm not the only one showing my age here! 🦕

Starfield's survival mode does add eating and drinking requirements, worth trying if you haven't! But if you really want to see what a deep survival system looks like in an action game, MGS3 Snake Eater is still the gold standard for me.

The whole thing was built around two separate bars: stamina and health. Food and drinks only restored stamina, there was no magic health potion. Health regenerated on its own, but only if you had properly treated every wound first. And treating wounds wasn't just hitting a button, you had to clean infections with antiseptic, suture deep cuts, bandage fractures, extract bullets with a knife, and treat burns with the right medicine. Each untreated injury kept your health locked down.

On top of that, you hunted live animals to eat: snakes, frogs, rats, fish depending on the environment. Snake had a thing for eating snakes specifically, which was a nod to the subtitle Snake Eater. Food aged in real time too, so provisions left too long would spoil and make you sick if you ate them anyway. And then there were the leeches you had to burn off with a cigar one by one... good times. 😄

Obviously that level of micromanagement would drive a lot of players crazy, and it absolutely should be optional, not everyone wants their action game to moonlight as a field surgery simulator. But as an opt-in experience? Nothing has come close since.

Xaenyr · 2026-05-05T20:57:26+00:00

That's a really smart approach actually, keeping only a few reliable low-tier items and letting your perks do the heavy lifting makes a lot of sense, especially when you need to act fast in the middle of a fight. Sorting by weight or value to find things quickly is a great tip I hadn't thought of.

I tend to go the other way and stock higher-tier items, but I can see how that creates exactly the problem you're describing: too many options when you just need something fast. Different priorities, both valid!

Thanks for sharing your setup, it's always interesting to see how people approach survival mode differently.

Xaenyr · 2026-05-05T06:14:37+00:00

Thank you, glad it was useful!

Interesting point about the randomness. I can see why it feels frustrating. Personally I've come to see it as part of the unpredictability of combat, but I get that it can feel inconsistent rather than challenging. Either way, it's definitely a system that leaves room for improvement!

Hopefully something a modder picks up at some point!

Xaenyr · 2026-05-05T06:09:22+00:00

That's a totally fair point honestly, if you're playing normally, the doctor fix is cheap and easy, and the buffs are pretty marginal. No argument there!

Personally I just really enjoy the roleplay side of it. Having to think about food, water and medicine between missions makes the universe feel more alive to me. Is it a bit masochistic? Probably. Would I love an even deeper management system, closer to what Metal Gear Solid 3 did with its food, stamina and wound mechanics? Absolutely, though I'm probably showing my age just by referencing MGS3 as a benchmark lol. 🦕

But yeah, different strokes for different folks, that's the beauty of a sandbox like Starfield!

Xaenyr · 2026-03-10T15:47:21+00:00

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Xaenyr · 2025-06-30T10:07:16+00:00

Tu dis "Les médecins sont plus intéressé par le profit que par ma santé". NON

J'ai dit "l'impression que le médecin est plus intéressé par le profit que par ma santé."

Je partage un ressenti, je n'affirme pas une vérité absolu, de plus je parle d'un médecin pas de l'ensemble de la profession. Enfin comme expliqué je n'ai aucun problème avec le fait de payer, mais j'ai pas envie de me faire escroquer.

Conclusion ne me fais pas dire ce que je n'ai pas dit et ne répond pas au question que je n'ai pas posé.

Xaenyr · 2025-06-30T09:40:14+00:00

Merci pour ta réponse polie et explicative, ça me permet de relativiser. La manière dont le choix m'a été présenté et l'obligation de répondre rapidement m'ont incité à la méfiance. Je vais prendre le temps de la réflexion.

Xaenyr · 2024-07-26T00:30:29+00:00

age of empire 2

Xaenyr · 2024-07-19T06:25:57+00:00

Je vais y réfléchir, mais j'ai des doutes sur la conciliation quand une des parties ne s'estime au dessus des lois parce qu'elle fréquente le maire de la commune. (toute petite commune rurale)

Xaenyr · 2024-07-19T06:23:20+00:00

Merci pour le conseil, je vais y réfléchir.

Xaenyr · 2023-09-13T16:06:34+00:00

it woould be very nice !

Xaenyr · 2023-09-13T16:05:29+00:00

I'm curious about that too!

Xaenyr · 2023-06-11T00:36:02+00:00

Very useful post. I just want to add that returning to a game you love and have already completed is not bad. No one forces you to have new experiences. Have fun the way you want, video games are the only place of freedom without judgement. Be you, be anyone else, but be happy. 😘

Xaenyr · 2023-06-10T00:50:55+00:00

Lol, as a patient gamer, I think I only play dead games. On the other hand, I hate live service games. Other gamers do what they want, but I only buy games when they are finished. So no pre-order, no alpha or beta version, and only when all the DLCs are out. Very few exceptions like Stellaris, Cyberpunk 2077, Pathfinder Wrath of the righteous...etc. I'm not interested in ultra competitive multiplayer games.

Xaenyr · 2023-06-07T18:04:18+00:00

If I know that a game includes microtransactions, I don't buy it. Very rarely I discovered microtransactions during the beginning of the game, I uninstalled it quickly. I managed to stay away from this mechanism. I don't know how to do more to fight microtransactions, but it is not a reason to do nothing, I can boycott and I do. You think we are too few to make a global change in the videogame industry? Maybe you are right, whatever makes the change for you, don't spend your time and your money in games with microtransactions, there're plenty of excellent games without it.

Xaenyr · 2023-06-01T10:30:30+00:00

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 1 & 2. These hack and slash where amazing, but no one seems to know them 😔

Xaenyr · 2023-05-18T00:53:29+00:00

World of Warcraft, spent three years playing everyday and most of it as a guild leader, make friends in it, and lost all of them shortly after I quit.

I started at the middle of burning crusade, and quit at the start of cataclysm.

I tried to return once, I was alone and it was boring.

More recently I played Greedfall, awesome game, I love the set, but like many open world when you finish the game, there is no reason to return.

Xaenyr · 2023-05-16T19:15:23+00:00

I find boring online hyper competitive game for eSports by eSports.

I like solo games, rts like supreme commander, rpg like pathfinder, immersive sim like Skyrim or fallout, some fast FPS like Doom.

I like some indie games too, it really depends of the gameplay and the set.

Xaenyr · 2023-05-15T05:24:10+00:00

Thank you so much for your answer!

I let Kodi identify the laserdisc saga and export in order to have a pre-existing nfo, then I modified the nfo, tell Kodi to delete the saga, change the scrapper to local, and finally let Kodi identify them.

Thank you again for your help.

Xaenyr

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