Attempts for regaining consciousness

[yorkie065 78]

A lot of people are falling unconscious for what is either a really long time, or indefinitely. So I thought it would be a good idea to create a thread with a list of all the different steps that people have taken to get their buddy or some random person out of the unconscious state. Hopefully people will post up any attempts they have made to eliminate different possibilities in the hope of finding a solution, providing this whole thing isn't just a flat out bug. If it is, then hopefully a fix will come soon to shorten or limit the amount of time, whilst a way of getting someone out of the state is found or implemented. 

 

Please don't fill this with posts saying you've been unconscious for 'X' amount of time and how much it sucks. Thats not what this is for as there's plenty of other threads doing exactly that. Hopefully we can fill this first post with things people have attempted and make it actually useful. 

 

Unsuccessful Items tried: 

• Epi-pen (Epinephrine): A friend tried this on me when I fell unconscious as it was an item that was used in the DayZ mod to wake someone up, and also in ACE mod for Arma 2 when used in conjunction with morphine. Turned out to be unsuccessful. 
• Morphine: Also tried after the Epi, and again no success. 

Unsuccessful procedures: 

• Tonyb3 made this post (http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/154075-unconcious/?p=1547348) in a thread which was basically blood bagging and giving blood to the person who was unconscious. Unfortunately it was me and my mate, and no one else around, but he tried taking the blood from me and giving me the transfusion (not really logical taking blood out and putting it back in, but it being a game, it could have worked) following the same steps in the post. Didn't work. Needs testing to see if having blood already in a blood bag before person passes out and gives transfusion, or takes the blood from a third person and giving it to them works. 

A lot of people have said to basically constantly eat food and drink loads to keep your hydration and hunger levels up, however can be difficult depending on how much loot you find. Also, hard to actually get a solid reference as to what level your at with no indicators other than screen blurring and going grey scale when it goes bad (reports of people passing out before this just randomly, also pretty much impossible to notice any warning at night). 

 

 

Other than that, we've tried giving food, water and vitamins to the unconscious person but it doesn't have that interaction built in yet (?). I've seen bottles of certain medicines and other pills (antibodies or something), syringes and a few other medical equipment around. Maybe some of those may work. 

 

If anyone's tried anything else, please post in here with what it was so we can build up a database of what has and hasn't worked, and see if we can find a solution to this rather infuriating mechanic (or bug). 

[mmmsoad 7]

In the bug report it says to rejoin another server and you should be conscious. Some have said it worked but it didn't work for me. Think it needs to be removed for now until its fixed, for me its the only thing ruining the alpha

Edited December 17, 2013 by mmmsoad

[Dgenerate 7]

failed attempts to avoid dehydration and there after, unconsciousness. Have been vitamins, antibiotics, epipen, eating fruit. I went through 3 towns and about 15-20 kilometers without finding a single thing to drink. I almost drank my disinfectant spray, but I figured it'd probably make me sick. I was unconscious for about 15 minutes before I logged out.

[leezle 0]

I have stayed in game for about three hours now while I went and ran some errands, and I am still unconscious. I have also tried jumping to multiple server as well as disconnecting and rejoining. Still no luck. I would hope this would be one of the first things they attempt to fix. Also I was drinking and eating constantly as well as sitting to rest. I fell unconscious with no warning.

[Tyneic 0]

Did anybody try using a defibrilator?

 

I've seen one in the game but died shortly after (actually I fell unconscious and didn't want to bother waiting 5 hours, ironic isn't it?)