examin corpse to determine time and cause of death.

[DeadManWalking2 27]

when you come across a player corpse there is currently no way of knowing how or when they died. this should not be the case. even someone with limited medical knowladge should be able to tell the difference between death by bullets, axe, blunt instrument or Zombie laceration.

In addition you would also be able to tell whether the corpse died recently or not. I.e. is it still warm, rigamortis has set in, the corpse has began to decompose.

I therefore suggest that when you scroll down/up on a corpse as well as getting gear and hide corpse options, you also get examine, which would if sellected tell you 2 things.

1) cause of death (bullets, axe, zombie, blunt force trauma)

2) roughly how recent (still worm; rigamortis; starting to smell; filled with maggots)

so examining a corpse would therefore produce a message like

this person died from a bullet wound to the head, they are still warm.

upon finding this out you can then act accordingly. because you now know there is likely to be another player around.

Edited September 16, 2012 by DeadManWalking2

[paxodeus 15]

soooooooooo.......Bobby from the neighborhood is now pathologist ?

[Welch (DayZ) 756]

I don't think that it's such a big deal....

[nyk_nunya 40]

Checking for temperature and bullet wounds doesn't require any knowledge.

Edited September 16, 2012 by Inc0gnit0

[deadlykenny 37]

Protip, get an L85AWS and look at the dude from the thermal scope feature, if its less white then the dude is dead, also where the blood is coming from, is where they were shot, so if they were hit by an axe its most likely in the middle of their body, hope this helps you.

[DeadManWalking2 27]

Protip, get an L85AWS and look at the dude from the thermal scope feature, if its less white then the dude is dead, also where the blood is coming from, is where they were shot, so if they were hit by an axe its most likely in the middle of their body, hope this helps you.

only if I were a hacker and could give myself such a rare item. or were SUPER lucky

[John Spectre 32]

tie it to skills and I say yes.

[Zeppa 562]

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/91273-study-body-in-stand-alone/

[DeadManWalking2 27]

http://dayzmod.com/f...in-stand-alone/

your version of the suggestion gives a numeral value of how long ago the corpse died (which only a pathologist could manage). It also does not show OBVIOUS causes of death. if you cant tell the difference between a bullet ridden corpse and a zombie slashed corpse you're going to need your eyes tested.

[Zeppa 562]

your version of the suggestion gives a numeral value of how long ago the corpse died (which only a pathologist could manage). It also does not show OBVIOUS causes of death. if you cant tell the difference between a bullet ridden corpse and a zombie slashed corpse you're going to need your eyes tested.

My suggestion?

pls read again and other posts too than the OP..(my eyes tested?), and I linked it only to inform that there is another thread about this.

Edited September 17, 2012 by Zeppa

[bazbake 456]

Dude flies a helicopter and reloads a M107: "What, it's a survival game?"

Dude checks a body to see if it's still warm or smells bad: "Psh. What, like he's a pathologist?"

[00dlez 22]

soooooooooo.......Bobby from the neighborhood is now pathologist ?

Bobby can probably tell the difference between a .50 cal round to the face, zombie maul, and falling off a ladder.

Not to mention that this sort of science isn't totally unknown to the common man, my high school science class did a 3 week long time of death experiment with chickens. Probably more believeable than Bobby being able to accurately fire an assault rifle on rock-and-roll mode.