Broken bones and humanity

[ahorseofcourse 22]

In interest of allowing the game to take on more incentive for teamplay, why not change the way a broken leg affects the player? How about change morphine so it can only be administered by someone else. Blood bags already work on this principle and while most players can make due hunting animals or huffing beans when low on health, breaking a leg in the wilderness on a solo run could mean life and death.

Also, maybe broken bones should have an ultra heavy bleeding effect that will rapidly drain HP and give some sort of UI indicator like a red screen pulse. You can still bandage yourself (possibley double bandage due to severity of blood loss), but the effect of being bandaged by another player is either quicker or replenishes a small amount of life. Consider it a humanity multiplier.

What do you think?

[WhiteTigerShiro 25]

No. There should always be methods of doing anything solo. Teamplay makes things easier, but it should never be the only viable solution to things. This is why blood transfusions work as something that can only be done by another player; because it's easier than having to run out and find enough animals to kill to get your blood full. If you have a teammate, getting blood back is as easy as 10 seconds of idle time. If you run solo though, you'll have to make it a point to go out hunting asap so that you can survive if your blood gets really low (having to hunt on less than 3k blood is a MASSIVE pain, I've been there); and even then it takes up to 15 pieces of meat (depending on how damaged you get) to fully heal. That's way too much to keep on you at all times, so at best, when going solo, you have maybe a few pieces of meat to keep you out of the worst of it, but then you'll have to go out and find the rest of the meat the slow way.

If Morphine becomes other-player-only, then there needs to be a secondary method of fixing broken legs.

[ahorseofcourse 22]

90% of the time i play solo. I'm not trying to say everyone should play with a buddy, I'm just saying that breaking your leg should be devastating. Morphine is questionable as a remedy to a fracture in the first place. Alternatives for healing a broken leg would be fine for lone wolves, just rarer in the game world.

How about adding a splint, which could be used by the player or another player? Morphine is readily available already if you know where to look, and the splint can be more rare, maybe hospitals only.