Stimulants - restore health

[Xianyu 820]

So, when you get low blood in DayZ, you're in trouble. You start passing out. Your screen is all grey. It's hard to hear shit. Blood bags or eating a cow is the only way to go, really. Blood bags? No good for the solo player. And eating a cow requires a hatchet for wood, a knife for gutting, an actual animal to gut, a forest for the wood, and matches to start the actual fire. Not very good if you're low on ammo and are missing on the main components.

I'm suggesting stimulants. These would be a morphine-like shot. I'd say epinephrine, but that's already used as a 'pick me up' in the most literal term.

When you're extremely low on blood, just pop one of these injectors to get yourself a few thousand blood back. 2000-3000 would be enough.

For balancing purposes, the cons!

Con 1: The injector is rare.

Con 2: Multiple injectors cannot be used. A cooldown of say, an hour? That's more than long enough for a regular player to find a cow and eat that bitch up.

Con 3: After injecting yourself, you get the shakes. Akin to pain or the shivers. These shakes last fifteen minutes and make accurate fire impossible. There is no way to stop these shakes are they are medicinally induced by the life-saving drugs you just popped.

This way, we'd have an 'emergency only' booster that a player could use to regain blood in dire circumstances.

And for the obvious replies saying 'but that's unfair', I suppose to blood-bagging a friend to get back to full health is 'fair' too. Lone wolves shouldn't suffer. Bandits can't get blood-bagged without being body-bagged in most cases. And it'll add a dynamic to the game. Take the blood-regainer now? But you won't be able to be accurate with a weapon for fifteen entire minutes.

Low on blood, being chased? Pop an emergency REGAIN and try to get away. Because now you can't fire back without spraying ammunition all over the walls.

[Food 309]

Well there are MRE's now which are better for the solo player. You need to check mainly military spawns for them, although I have seen a few in industrial buildings.

[Clumzy (DayZ) 377]

I've never found it difficult to get back to full blood, solo or not. I don't think we need this.

[thesodesa 99]

I don't think the restrictions on giving yourself a blood transfusion, nor the food magically giving you instantaneous blood should carry over to the SA. Neither of these things are very realistic.

Also, no magic injectors that instantly give you 50% of your max blood back should be allowed. Slow blood regen based on how well hydrated and fed you are is the only realistic way to go.

Makes you avoid unnecessary combat when you can't heal so quickly. Another thing that would correspond to the real world better.

Edited March 1, 2013 by TheSodesa