Transfuse with your own blood

[jameswhithow 0]

basically instead of transfusing someone with a blood bag you could do it with your own blood. it would take longer that normal, 100-200 or so blood per second until the transfusion is stopped and require somethinhg like a consumable needle or a needle that degrades and keeps having and increased risk of infection to both parties everytime it's used. so for example my friend could have 6000 blood and i could have 12000 so wityh a needle i could give him 3000 blood and then we'd both have 9000, this would take 15-30seconds to complete, however.

edit: also suggested here and on reddit to add blood types, base it on real world percentages as well, type o is best for donating but worst for recieving and the opposite for ab, etc. and also add that modifier to blood bags.

sorry for any spelling mistakes / lack of capitalization, i typed this out on my tablet.

Edited August 9, 2012 by jameswhithow

[Pinkkifantti 11]

LOL, i just imagined this irl situation...

"Here, take this filthy hose and inject it in your veins"

[stsjamie 34]

Meh. I personally like the challenge of having to raid a city and get to the hospital for blood bags.

[Booker (DayZ) 47]

Having different types of blood bags would be cool, like you specifically have to find your blood type.

Would mean people would have to raid hospitals more I guess.

[Static (DayZ) 1]

Sounds like a lot of moving parts, and developer time for something that wouldn't be used very much at all, plus it would be abused, a clan might have a blood mule that essentially acts as a medic, tranfuses, dies, respawns and then heads back to transfuse some more, or newbies would be held up at gunpoint for several units of their blood.

If you're going to have to find a transfusion kit and reusable needles anyway, why not just get the blood bag? If you really want to add a dose of magic realism, you can assume the blood bags in medical locations are a universal artificial blood that's stable at room temp.

I'd happily vote for a blood level that slowly regenerates while you move slowly (so people just don't go hide idle in the shadows for half a day to rejuvenate) but continual transfusions seem a bit far fetched in a survival situation.

[Ampoliros 43]

Put Medical beds in hospitals, you can load a blood bag into it and use the bed. Have it take a full minute to refill blood or slowly regen it over time.

I'm also of the mind to change the healing to slow regen with faster regen when fed and hydrated and uninjured. (By slow I mean 1-2 points a second, of course we won't see those until standalone or even later.) For now I carry medpacks in the form of cooked meat. Cows are 10x better than hospitals right now.

Edited August 9, 2012 by Ampoliros

[jameswhithow 0]

or you coukd have a blood mule that keeps dying until cherno/elektro spawn or somewhere with a hospital on a low pop server, gets a bunch of blood bags and runs too your group rn? i dont see how this breaks anything.

to recon, raiding hospitals would still be neccesary as this wouldnt result in a net increase of blood.

[Static (DayZ) 1]

or you coukd have a blood mule that keeps dying until cherno/elektro spawn or somewhere with a hospital on a low pop server, gets a bunch of blood bags and runs too your group rn? i dont see how this breaks anything.

I guess it depends on your definition of broken. I would argue that someone ghosting between quiet servers to find blood to supply their clan is giving them an unfair advantage over more honest players, I think 'in the field' blood transfusions would lead to a similar advantage and I hope the goal of DayZ as it moves deeper into development is to make the playing field as even as possible.

The self administered blood transfusion in a hospital bed/army tent seems like a nice solution for lone wolves. For now, I'd rather have meat in my backpack for the same reasons as Ampoliros.

[FiSHNuTZ 11]

How about, expanding on this, the ability to knock someone unconscious and steal their blood? :)

[jameswhithow 0]

How about, expanding on this, the ability to knock someone unconscious and syteal their blood? :)

and some sort of test is needed to determine your blood type, so you could risk taking their blood without a test but it could end badly for you (unless you are ab)

[Pinkkifantti 11]

How about, expanding on this, the ability to knock someone unconscious and steal their blood? :)

I would make series day z: twilight zone to my channel on youtube after this kind of update :D