Checking a Body's Status/Wounds

[hells high 676]

Hello,

 

Apologies in advance if this has been covered, I've been following the game for a while and did a search around the forums and couldn't find anything.

 

I often find myself wondering what could be lurking nearby when coming across a body. From a distance I can usually tell if there is any gear or not on it, and a silenty surveying of the scene has helped me stay alive on a few occasions. However when you do aproach the body there really is no way to tell what happened to the poor soul. If he is missing his gear, was he murdered and robbed? Or was he mauled by zombies and simply picked clean?

 

An interesting idea might be to allow the player to check a dead survivor's status (although with the ARMA action menu getting the boot it could add an unnecesary key to the mix). Walking up and checking their status could reveal if the body was still warm, cool, or cold; and reveal whether they had been hit with something, mauled, or shot. A warm body full of bullet holes could alert you to bandits close by, or even a cold body with all its gear could signal an impending ambush (in all fairness though its probably too late by then).

 

I'm not sure what kind of ideas the team might have regarding player model damage and so forth, so features to come could completely negate the usefulness of it (and its usefulness in the first place could be up for debate). Feel free to discuss or tell me I'm an idiot, just a thought I pertaining to some recent situations I've had in the game.

 

Cheers!

 

HH

 

Edit: Just occured to me that a lot of people probably bite the dust from thirst or hunger, so a check could reveal that there were no visible signs of trauma or something.

Edited December 18, 2013 by Hells High

[Alll420 14]

+1

[Alll420 14]

i hope someone has read this, i love this idea

[eamz 3]

bumb this. amazing idea