Reusing dirty bandages?

[FlashHawk4 44]

In the medical world, having fresh bandages is one of the most fundamental and most important rules of all. But what if you don't? You're in a survival situation. You're bleeding profusely, and you'll die in about three minutes if you don't find a bandage to stop it. You had one on a few hours ago, but you chose to throw it away. It was your last one.

Now, this might strike you as a bit of an uneccesary feature- I mean, you must have at least three in your inventory right now, right?

The individual I'm looking at for this would be the newer player- the one who just happened to find a piece of rare loot early on, say a Czech backpack or a good gun. He's been playing long enough to stock up on some things, but not others, like bandages. Why would he have to bleed out or fight zombies while frantically searching every corner for a little strip of prepackaged gauze when he could just reuse the nasty, bloody one from yesterday?

Now, obviously this is bad for your health. To make it so in-game, I propose we make it not as effective- either only partially stopping the bleeding, or a chance of coming off or bleeding through in a few minutes. But the main reason you want a clean bandage is the risk of infection...this game already has infection, does it not? That could be the primary reason why it would be a last resort. Perhaps a 20% chance of infection every time you use a dirty bandage, as opposed to the short-term risk of bleeding out.

These could spawn somewhat in the world, making bandages slightly more rare (not even moderately more rare, put down the pointy sticks y'all), and they could have a 50% or so chance of being produced when the player uses a bandage. After all, some bandages become so bloodsoaked that they're practically saturated and thus practically useless. If the veterans don't like them, they can toss them out, just like empty cans or whiskey bottles.

I know that if I were gushing blood as badly as the guys do in-game, I'd try to stop it with SOMETHING. Damn the infection if I'm going to bleed to death in the next twelve and a half minutes otherwise.

[UndeadAssassin 23]

but you have to wash them in water like a pond and then have to dry them by the fire

[FlashHawk4 44]

Perhaps, but it seems to me that by the time they have THAT capability, they'd have bandages to spare.

[FlashHawk4 44]

Bump?

Come on, at the very least it's an original idea.

[Scerun 227]

A pretty good idea, and might be a way to make real, clean bandages a lot rarer without having every player bleed out after they snag themselves on a zombie fist.

ofcourse, antibiotics would need a reasonable spawn rate, as they aren't so much now.

[Gaidoon 19]

A pretty good idea' date=' and might be a way to make real, clean bandages a lot rarer without having every player bleed out after they snag themselves on a zombie fist.

ofcourse, antibiotics would need a reasonable spawn rate, as they aren't so much now.

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I agree also i never figured out how a zombie can hit you and cause you to bleed to death maybe they have 3 inch claws lol.