Pain Indicator

[MisterHaskins 1]

I had this thought in mind last night. What if a pain indicator was added? Arma has one (idk if it's vanilla or a mod) and I like how it easily and effectively conveys pain. It wouldn't have to be a hard thing to add since it directly works with the health bar. Depending on your health, you'll have different animations showing injury. It'd fit a lot better with an indicator.

100% to 90% health would be no indicator.

Any health value from 90% to just before yellow health would show a small white faded border around the screen fading in and out at 10 pulses a minute.

When you hit yellow health, you get sharp white flashes at 20 pulses a minute.

When you hit red health, sharp white double flashes at 40 pulses a minute.

At blinking health, you get sharp white double flashes at 60 pulses a minute.

It wouldn't have to be as oppressively large as it is on Arma due to the hit indicator and blurry indicators for illness. It could be sized just right and with the right transparency to convey the pain without making the player's eyes hurt. Something is just off about seeing your character in pain but not getting the feel for it.

[General Zod 1118]

So you want to give people epileptic seizures? Pain is already indicated by either limping and a fracture icon or grunting. And that does the job.  

[MisterHaskins 1]

On 12/20/2021 at 7:43 AM, General Zod said:

So you want to give people epileptic seizures? Pain is already indicated by either limping and a fracture icon or grunting. And that does the job.  

Not exactly. I'm not suggesting flashes that reach deep into the screen. I'm suggesting only around the border of the screen. It doesn't exactly have to be crazy in it's visual intensity. From my general understanding of the direction Bohemia is heading with redoing the health system and how the game plays, it's only going to be a matter of time until they look to doing more visual screen effects for conditions. They've already done a lot of effects for DayZ, especially the hit directions. Pain indications for the screen borders rings to Arma. It sorta adds a new element to the game if you have intense pain taking part of your screen after getting sprayed down and luckily surviving. If several games can get away with some degree of flashes, Bohemia can attempt it as well. In no way am I thinking of the crazy flashes you get on Arma. That stuff makes eyes hurt but realistically shows pain.