Make the blood as persistent as bodies

[Brother Hao 28]

Currently, when you kill someone with a ranged weapon, the blood they splatter all over the ground will be gone in about 5 minutes. However, I think that a better option would be to have the blood be roughly as persistent as bodies are. The blood should also start turning black as the blood cells start to die, so I think that it would probably decay before the body itself decayed and leave a black spot of dried up blood next to whoever was killed. I think that this would be an useful tool for tracking down whoever killed someone with a gun. Thanks for listening!

[drgullen 597]

1 hour ago, Brother Hao said:

Currently, when you kill someone with a ranged weapon, the blood they splatter all over the ground will be gone in about 5 minutes. However, I think that a better option would be to have the blood be roughly as persistent as bodies are. The blood should also start turning black as the blood cells start to die, so I think that it would probably decay before the body itself decayed and leave a black spot of dried up blood next to whoever was killed. I think that this would be an useful tool for tracking down whoever killed someone with a gun. Thanks for listening!

It's a great idea, but the issue is the servers already can't handle the amount of things persisting -- this would add a helluva lot more that the server has to keep track of and I fear would only cause more lag.

A player can get shot several times in some circumstances and not die -- this idea would create a persistent blood splat for each shot that produces a bleed and then a final splat with a body once the player is killed.  This would be in addition to the markers that the server must keep track of to play the audio of a swarm of flies when players approach areas containing (or previously containing) a corpse.  It's a lot of persistence to remember for one body.  Love the idea, though.

[William Sternritter 449]

While it adds flavor, since the body is there the blood splatter is not all that important.

If you just wound someone however; it would be nice to see splatters as they bleed and be able to track them. This does not have to stay long, few minutes is ok.