On pain and whiskey

[Duckman404 37]

I'm sure we've all run into the trouble of what I call 'the shakes'. You get knocked around by a zombie, a door, another player, and there's a chance that your hands start shaking really badly. Since I feel more comfortable aiming with iron sights, and scoped weapons become unusable, this is a real game breaker for me when I run out of painkillers.

So far, the only way to fix it is with painkillers, which I've found to be exceedingly rare. Broken bones are (in my experience) not nearly as common, so a lack of morphine injectors doesn't worry me as much as a lack of painkillers available.

If it would be possible for the 'pain' status effect to wear off after a while (even if it's half an hour), or degrade to something more bearable, that would be fantastic!

However, since it seems to be an integral part of the game, what I would like to see is something along the lines of whiskey becoming a consumable. After all, where did all those empty whiskey bottles come from anyway?

Since your character is 'in pain', and alcohol goes a good way towards numbing pain (as I think a bottle of whiskey would), I think that drinking a bottle should have the same effect as painkillers, if only temporarily. Then again, painkillers themselves are temporary...

So that painkillers are still the much better option, side effects might include visual effects such as increase in bloom, blur, and a little sway added (which would still be much easier to deal with than The Shakes), which could last for a good while.

I think this is especially necessary, since my friends and I seem to be only spawning with a single box of painkillers, which means they run out alarmingly quickly.

So, a tl;dr: I'd like to see whiskey help combat pain, or for pain to be a status that goes away over time.

Opinions? Thoughts?

[simasz 15]

Alcohol could be used as a way to get rid of the panicking effect. You get some whisky in your system and you're less scared.

[Duckman404 37]

Alcohol could be used as a way to get rid of the panicking effect. You get some whisky in your system and you're less scared.

That's another interesting take on it' date=' and I quite like that idea, since it gives alcohol a dual purpose. Not to mention, in STALKER it cures radiation poisoning :P

Which makes me think, another way to 'balance' alcohol could be to have it reduce your hydration.

However, I suppose my main gripe is with the persistence of the Pain status, and I'm looking for ways to make the shakes go away without stepping into a pvp hotspot like Cherno and raiding the hospital [i']while still being barely able to aim.