10 Hidden Video Game Mechanics With MAJOR Consequences
4. Hidden Weight Value Can Kill You - Crusader Kings III
Crusader Kings 3 is Paradox Interactive's grand strategy game set in the Middle Ages.
The game loves to share info with you. Every minute detail is accessible, from the tax income of individual provinces to the traits and sexuality of NPCs on the other side of the world.
And yet, for some reason, the game still hides one simple but secretly very important mechanic from you—weight.
Even though it should be obvious, the weight value of your character is never really shown or explained, even though it comes with some pretty relevant consequences.
Gaining or losing too much weight can give your character special traits, such as fat or malnourished, that greatly reduce their health, endangering you to starvation and lethal heart attacks!
The only way to realize your character's weight has changed is when you've already gained a trait, so it's best to take preemptive actions just in case.
You gain weight when throwing feasts or stressing out, and you lose weight when exerting yourself physically or getting sick, so ideally you want to do all in equal measure.
Maintaining a healthy weight is a careful balancing act with next to no explanation. In other words, it's about as easy as keeping your diet in real life...