Character Body - Body Parts

[merlointhesky 20]

premise: I haven't seen something similar discussed or foreseen in the upcoming changes, if I missed something forgive me.

premise2: some stuff in here can be quite gorey.

 

This is a collection of thoughts I had while playing the game, that could make the character body feel more real:

- body should have different parts, so that wounds are listed and treated separately on each part. This would allow multiple wounds on the body i.e. zombie bites you to the neck and hits you to your left arm. This would require multiple bandages/rags to be applied.

- display body parts and status while in the character screen, when clicking on "bleeding" icon change the view from equipment to body "damage" view. This would allow interaction with the parts and bandage the part required.

- Bandages could be displayed on the body part, even when not applied on a wounded part. Go naked and dress as a mummy!

- applying unclean rags might cause things to get worse, but this might introduce possibility to change rags with bandages. Wounds that get worse could reach a point where a limb needs to be mutilated, or simply cause death if the infection starts from a non sawable body part. This involves the possibility to saw off a limb, bandage it and calculate blood loss. I think that finding mutilated people would increase reality in a zombie apocalypse game. Also introduces torture with people trying to saw your limbs off.

- body parts that had wounds not threated with alchol (or not sewed properly?) could display scars.

- possibility to loose an eye (i.e. when shot in the head) and cause part of the screen to go black.

- possibility to loose an hand or too many fingers causing problems when handling stuff, impossibility to use certain tools that require 2 hands.

- bullet extraction surgery when shot and surviving (using pliers?)

- impossible to walk without clutches if you loose a leg, Not able to run anymore.

- characters could be born left/right handed, so that if you loose your main hand, takes longer to do action with your other hand.

 

This is not strictly related, but I think in a game rated already 18+ it should be possible to display nudity, so that dropping all your clothes including pants leaves you as mother Bohemia Interactive made you ;) and also humiliating hostages :p

 

[Vector636 30]

Yeah I had suggested losing a eye b4 it would be interesting. They could problay do fingers but losing a hand might be to much. I would definitley like it if you had to extract bullets similar to MGS3. I am alos sure they are thinking some about some of those things, using a bad rag already can make the rag tear Im sure if you used a infected rag things would get much worse. I also like the bandage body cast lol like Joshua Graham that might be interesting when they add the ability to be burned, it would also let people identify friends if they have a certain color bandage.

[merlointhesky 20]

yes there is already some sort of of wound infection that can be cured using alchol on wounds, even after you bandaged yourself.

 

loosing a limb to horrible infections would be something that occurs in extreme conditions. The main idea was to have those wounds affect a specific area and related behavior of your character, and add interaction with your own body. 

 

It would also add to the game an element like scars or lost limbs to make people more recognizable, with veteran telling stories of how they lost their leg in a fight in Berezino with a band of Blood Bandits ;)

[Munchermanjz 36]

As of now, infections are not in the game. The status that pops up after you use alcohol will always pop up. This is because the way the alcohol tincture works is it takes you immediately to the last stage of infected wounds, the recovery stage. This stage will pop up even if you had never gotten a single wound up until you used it. Try checking out Merino's guide here:

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/159251-merinos-in-depth-video-guides-updated-jan-22nd-all-medical-items-to-keep-or-not-to-keep/

This will help you learn most if not all you need to know about what exists in game at this point.