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If Anxiety Was a Skill in a Video Game

Kelly Tompkins
2 min readJun 14, 2021

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What would it even look like?

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06/14/2021

Version 1.66.7

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We’ve heard you loud and clear folks, our characters need more skills, something to make them more relatable. We sat in our offices and brainstormed for days (hours) to come up with the most relatable skill. Available now in our beta branch, so give it a shot!

Listed below are some of the features you can expect and how to best utilize it.

As always, let us know what you think. Tweet at us, send us a DM on Instagram, you can even email us!

New Skill

  • Adding skill: Anxiety

Features

1.Applies ‘Hyper Vigilance’ and ‘Fast Talker’ as bonuses to character stats.

Hyper Vigilance is triggered when Anxiety is used. Lasts for the entire duration of Anxiety and can be stacked with all other skills and buffs. Causes the player to have a +5 increase in awareness over other players; this persists through walls. Can sense movement in low light areas.

Fast Talker is triggered when Anxiety is used. Lasts for the entire duration of Anxiety but can’t be stacked with other buffs or skills involving speech. Gives a -5 to diplomacy but +5 to cast…

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Kelly Tompkins
Kelly Tompkins

Written by Kelly Tompkins

Austin,Texas sober girl. Lover of horror movies, cats, and fitness. Occasional bad poet.

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