Your character has three needs, each from 0 to 100. New characters start fed, watered and calm.

• Hunger and thirst slowly drop while you play (a full bar lasts about two hours). Eat and drink to fill them.
• At 0 hunger or 0 thirst you start losing health every few seconds until you eat or drink.
• Stress goes up when you drive very fast (lower limit without a seatbelt) or fire a gun. It slowly fades by itself.
• At high stress (50+) your view shakes now and then; the higher it is, the more often and the stronger.
• Police and EMS gain no stress while on duty.
• Nothing drains while you are dead or down, or while you are in character select.
• The Drifter origin drains hunger and thirst at half speed for the first 3 days.