My Winter Car: The BEST Way to Get Sober (Get "Problem" Solved)

How to fix it

1. Prepare your character's thirst level to roughly zero. Drink one bottle of beer, then drink tap water from the kitchen sink or bathroom. Stop drinking water exactly when the thirst bar looks empty, as drinking too much pushes your hidden internal thirst value into negative numbers.
2. Eat three packs of potato chips all at once. Each pack increases thirst by 60.5%, bringing your total to 181.5%. This safely triggers the hidden super-sobering mechanic without needing to run around or punch the air.
3. Start a 7-minute timer on your phone or second monitor. Stand completely still and do not move during this time, because performing actions increases your thirst further.
4. Save the game precisely after 7 minutes. Saving and reloading prevents you from dying, and the game's failsafe resets your thirst stat to 181.3 to keep you in the super-sobering zone.
5. Load your saved game.
6. Repeat the 7-minute wait, save, and load cycle three more times (about 28 minutes total).
7. Drink tap water. You will know you are cured when the UI label permanently changes from "Problem" to "Thirst" and the apartment has no more bottles.

If it still doesn't work

• Check for negative thirst values: If your character still needs alcohol to reduce the bar after finishing the steps, you likely overdrank water during preparation. Pushing your hidden thirst parameter too far into the negative numbers prevents playeralcoholism from decreasing enough. Try the entire method again and be more careful when zeroing out your initial thirst.
• Ignore visual UI bugs: If the "Thirst" label changes back to "Problem" after later save loads, this is just a visual bug. You are actually cured, and you can lower the bar normally by just drinking tap water.