New Hand animation: Hand Warming

[Draco122 412]

An idea I had once regarding the cold and shaking hands is to have a toggle animation where the player will clasp his/her hands together and breath into them to warm them up. It's not gonna prevent hypothermia by any mean but it may stop your hands from shaking for a few minutes. It could also slow the rate at which a player becomes cold to freezing or something.

 

 

 

[netzzwerg 9]

Good idea, I'm up for it and the effect you suggest seems pretty fine and balanced enough.

[joe_mcentire 2074]

In reality how does it actually help? It doesn't..

[Rags! 1966]

But by blowing on your hands, you moisturize them. And in the cold, wetter hands are a big no-no. 

[therandomredstone 432]

But by blowing on your hands, you moisturize them. And in the cold, wetter hands are a big no-no. 

It depends on how you blow on your hands. You do moisturize them but this animation would cause you to get a bit colder after you  warmed up a bit. For example you have to snipe someone in the next 20 seconds. You warm up your hands, your hands are steady, you kill them. Your hands would've warmed up for a minute or so because of your core inner temperature, but then as the moisture that you had breathed on your hands starts to freeze and get cold, that's when you should wear gloves or go find a fire. So this wouldn't warm your hands up, for more than 30 seconds before you started to get even colder and shakier than you were before. After the temperature and weather system is almost perfect halfway into 2015, they MIGHT add this in. But it would be a cool addition!

[Draco122 412]

But by blowing on your hands, you moisturize them. And in the cold, wetter hands are a big no-no. 

That could be a counter mechanic, to prevent people from using it for too long to prevent from going normal to cold or cold to freezing. Besides, you could always take off some gloves, breath into your hands for a minute and then put the gloves back on.

 

It depends on how you blow on your hands. You do moisturize them but this animation would cause you to get a bit colder after you  warmed up a bit. For example you have to snipe someone in the next 20 seconds. You warm up your hands, your hands are steady, you kill them. Your hands would've warmed up for a minute or so because of your core inner temperature, but then as the moisture that you had breathed on your hands starts to freeze and get cold, that's when you should wear gloves or go find a fire. So this wouldn't warm your hands up, for more than 30 seconds before you started to get even colder and shakier than you were before. After the temperature and weather system is almost perfect halfway into 2015, they MIGHT add this in. But it would be a cool addition!

 

This is ideally what I had in mind, to allow you those few precious seconds to warm your hands prior to an egagement so that you could have less shaking hands while aiming a weapon.

[Beizs 186]

Personally, when my hands are cold, I just rub them together a bit. No moisturization issues with that.

 

I'd also like to see the ability to walk with your hands in your pockets, reducing hand shake drastcially, but limiting you to a light jog (and slowing the rate at which you can pull out a weapon a little).

[NoPaEr10 50]

IMO that idea is awesome.
Blow into your hands to heat them up for an important Mosin 150m shot, loot the body and go have a fire because you got colder than before. It would be worth it