Infections - Make open wounds a potentially fatal threat

[hannibaldaplaya 1095]

I was playing Neo Scavenger, and while taking out a fellow with my bow, he pulled out the arrow I shot into him, charged at me, and slashed my forehead with that same arrow.

 

I killed him, but I had a hell of a concussion, and developed a Sepsis infection.

 

This forced my character to spend in-game weeks fighting off the infection, which nearly resulted in my death.

 

This would be great in DayZ - Make open wounds deadly.

 

If you get shot, cut, gashed, or slashed, you should have to clean it out if you don't immediately bandage it, and if you are slashed with something dirty, rusty, or infested with bacteria, you better clean it out.

 

This would make a hit from an axe or a gunshot wound something you want to tend to immediately. You want to get that wound tended to so it doesn't develop into something worst.

 

Getting shot and leaving that hole there for a while during a gunfight, leaving it open and exposed to the enviroment, should be a death sentence.

 

Basically, infections, it would be great to have 'em.

[Pandafish 60]

or zombies clinging onto players and actually biting to infect.

i wonder how the disease spread? it wouldnt take long untill people found they should just run in circles and dance around the zombies, or go to high ground so they phase through the stairs.

i'd suggest that the survivors corpses would reanimate from death by starvation but food and drink is so plentiful every house in chernarus is a mini supermarket.

Edited May 8, 2014 by Pandafish

[hannibaldaplaya 1095]

or zombies clinging onto players and actually biting to infect.

i wonder how the disease spread? it wouldnt take long untill people found they should just run in circles and dance around the zombies, or go to high ground so they phase through the stairs.

i'd suggest that the survivors corpses would reanimate from death by starvation but food and drink is so plentiful every house in chernarus is a mini supermarket.

I meant infections as in real, everyday infections you can catch from having an open and exposed wound.

Edited May 8, 2014 by Insane Aradia

[Pandafish 60]

I meant infections as in real, everyday infections you can catch from having an open and exposed wound.

oh. well i guess that'd give a use for the ingame injection vials and syringes. yea it seems like a good idea but it might have been suggested before.

[nexventor 429]

I endorse this idea but surprised if it hasn't been mentioned before, in fact I think it has.

[nettles 396]

I'm pretty sure infections from not cleaning wounds are already in the works. Not only that, but Dean's mentioned having different kinds of diseases that would require different kinds of medications instead of the broad range antibiotics that're so common in the game right now. They're already planning to have a wound-cleaning mechanic- we've been seeing alcohol tinctures from day one it seems like.