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Is it possible to put blood in more and more increasing amounts the more damaged a person is? It would help medics identify and heal injured people more effectively and realistically. It is also a lot more immersive and realistic than a health bar or just running around to everyone in the area with a health bag in my opinion.

Nice idea, i think blood on clothes is hardcoded though. not sure :S

The idea I came up with to implement it is to add a scripted effect like burning or bleeding when you get below a certain percentage of health and when you get back above it the effect disappears just add another effect but instead of burning just apply a decal. every time you go below a level it adds another decal. can we do this? I don't remember bleeding out in vbf2 (then again I haven't played a single game since I found pr) so I assume we can add effects.

Yeah this could add to the realism, you could remove the overhead health bars that medics see and replace them with blood stains on friendly team members. Sounds ArmA-ish but I like it. Hopefully this one isn't hardcoded. Maybe 3 skins could be made for each kit? After a certain drop in health, the combatant could be switched to a "second combat bloody skin" and when the health would fall even lower, to a critical point, a third skin could appear this one being "extra bloody stained combats". If skins can be applied with a simple kit request why couldn't they be applied when health falls under a certain number? (e.g. 50%) I guess this new "feature" would require a lot of work though, having to make extra skins for every faction and kit in PR.

So could a feature like this be added in PR? It could add to the realism effect.

It sounds like a good idea...only problem is we're prolly looking at the dreaded "hardcoded" being posted here by a dev...lets hope that doesnt happen and it can be done though

Any DEVs care to comment? yes/no/maybe?

Could I get a comment from a DEV or somebody to say if this is possible/being thought about/whatever? I really don't want this thread to just fade away like some of my previous suggestions.

wait, what about kits being put on the person? That would do it... once you get to 15% health you drop your kit and get the "bloody" invisible kit...

Its only for asthetic purposes, and as such, it would not provide anything useful for the mod. I would rather have the devs focus their actions on Jonny's ballistics, or mosquill's 3-D Ironsights than have them sit here, commenting on how this is probally not even possible... But thats my opinion.

Why? It isn't PR's job to satisfy your gore-porn needs. If you want blood, use google, or a knife. This wouldn't help gameplay enough to justify it.

Fess|3-5| wrote:Why? It isn't PR's job to satisfy your gore-porn needs. If you want blood, use google, or a knife. This wouldn't help gameplay enough to justify it.

Well I'm medic and I see two guys prone on the ground, ones about to die and one is perfectly healthy. I would like to be able to tell the difference. every second counts when your a medic and being able to tell injured apart from healthy will greatly help. It's also better for realism and immersion than say, a magical bar over their heads.

If you guys manage to do it, we would by all means use it. Unfortunately we do not have the resources to pursue this suggestion at this time.