Eh, filthy can be fairly painlessly negated: a knife and a plank can make a washboard; that plus a sponge or a rag gets you a washing kit. Take that along with soap or detergent (neither hard to find in regular houses) to any body of water (a simple puddle will do) and you can quickly wash large numbers of items.
I think there were moves towards making wearing filthy clothes giving you a greater chance of infection if you were hit somewhere covered by them, but I’m not sure anything ever came from it, so the only drawback is the morale penalty.
It was such a nice little planned gameplay incovenience to have, similar to weapon durability, sure you could make the washboard and just go on with life, but there were situations were you had to use the fiflthy clothes because of the stats but risk infection, or one of those cases were you couldnt access any cleaning product if using one of those difficulty mods, if anything the mechanic should have been expanded, something like boomers not only blinding your character when they explode but also instantly making all of your clothes filfthy, or weather effects like a goo rain and stuff like that.
The problem with this game is that they have been remaking the same core gameplay aspects for 10 fucking years now, instead of expanding or actually focusing on other aspects of the game that are abandoned, hell any faction that is not a zombie are as barebones as they were in the times when DDA was good, give them more dungeons, more rewards, more enemies, make them feel like they are also breaking shit up , add something like for example: some special MiGo bionics that play in the whole organic tech they have with some interesting otherworldy effects, triffid mutations and interactions if you have the plant mutation, more special cities like a Triffid or mycus infested city with special buildings and enemies that only spawn here, so far the only special city is the necropolis with the irradiated zeds, they could do and add so much cool shit with the other stuff but they are autistically focusing on things that already worked.
what made this game so cool for me is that it started as a normal zombie apocalipse like zomboid, but once you survived long enough and became skilled enough is when it slowly changed into a more action packed and sci fi madness wich fits for the zombies going from walking death esque to literal demons (and i feel every other non zombie faction should also evolve over time), the survival elements and planned gameplay annoyances were tuned just enough to be challenging and entertaining during the early and start of the mid game to be completely a non issue once you became into a turbo chad lizard cyborg making the progression very rewarding.
Also, they also havent fixed NPCs wich are still fucking retarded despite them gating content behind them.
