IRL, you can see people and easily recognize their face and you have a better awareness of your surroundings. In the game, it's difficult to know who if that guy coming out of a house is your friend or someone yet unknown. Having an easier way to identify your friends seems to make sense to me. What if the clothes we tear into rags could be tied around your arm for a color marking so we can tell who our friends are? Or perhaps be able to rub different colors of berries on rags to make your team's color?