I loved taking part of the medic role in DayZ but after a lot of changes since 0.63 I feel useless with my medical supplies
and sometimes I even drop my medical supplies when I need space for ammunition/weapons or more stamina.
Medical system
Blood Bag IV
Saline Bag IV
When was the last time you used these medical supplies in game?
https://www.strawpoll.me/17826498
Do you feel that medical items are less important with the new medical system?
https://www.strawpoll.me/17826510
Health value
Health value in DayZ is indicated by the first aid icon in bottom right of your screen.
It also determines your state of injury by limping.
Legacy health regeneration
Health value regeneration would not kick in until you took care of your character's blood value.
Saline and blood bags played a crucial part in regenerating your overall health status of your character.
This system complemented your health value with the blood value.
This design choice created value to saline and blood bags.
Current health regeneration
Health value regeneration since 0.63 has been a changed so that it regenerates independently from your blood value.
The dominant medical supply to your health regeneration is time.
Which of these healing processes do you prefer?
https://www.strawpoll.me/17826517
Blood value
In the legacy DayZ blood also complemented the health of your character meaning you had to take care of your blood before you started regaining your health value.
In the current DayZ getting hit by bullets does not decrease your blood as much as it did in legacy DayZ. This means that bleeding out in current DayZ is main cause of death by blood loss.
When was the last time you were worried about your death by blood loss?
https://www.strawpoll.me/17826699
Gathered data
Following data was gathered by personal experience and cited source videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPG3iKWQv5w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxKb8iVzLag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO7eHaKkPGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8r0siV1JMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pz9pCAf96c&t=1s
Causes of death by popularity in current DayZ excluding starvation and dehydration
Health loss
Blood loss
Causes of death by popularity in legacy DayZ excluding starvation and dehydration
Bone damage
Blood loss
Health loss
Original post was made here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/bdtd27/polls_blood_health_values_in_dayz/
There is also discussion on the comment section on reddit.
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