We make TERRIBLE suggestions and come up with horrible ideas (Round II)

[Theundyingcode]

You are correct, Sepsis is a major concern with GSWs. The trick is, the hot brass bullet is sterile. The infections come from a piece of your very not-sterile shirt or whatever else the bullet brings with it getting embedded inside you. Plus, generally GSWs are deep puncture wounds which easily cause infections as they bypass all your skin.

[kevin.granade]

Well s/remove the bullet/clean the wound/ and we’re set.

[mentos046]

Acid Brutes that deliberately miss the first time, shooting a puddle behind you then punting you into it and inflicting Downed status so you can’t move.

[Mike_Oh]

Instead of 'O’pen, have players push or pull doors instead with some doors being able to open one way.

[DrakeDragon8]

Change hacking to require a laptop and A LOT of time to code specific viruses to hack specific terminals

[Theundyingcode]

Plants get trampled, so you have to be careful not to step on your crops… or let those brain dead people walk on them.

Bonus: Crops aren’t just in danger of being trampled by a survivor and their followers, small chipmunks, squirrels and, other vermin can ruin or even “trample” them.

[Erk]

Acid Brutes that deliberately miss the first time, shooting a puddle behind you then punting you into it and inflicting Downed status so you can’t move.

What’s bad about that? That sounds amazing.

[AseaHeru]

Well, time to give a bunch of bad ideas.

-When moving into things(or even next to things), one has a chance to stub their toe. Causes massive pain, but no physical damage.

-When handling paper, chance of getting papercuts, which hurt like hell and bleed but otherwise do no (initial) damage.

-When in pain, NPCs and the player might cry out in pain, curse, cry, or whathaveyou.

-If, while having an active mission, no progress is made after a certain period of time, have the mission giver get angry and attack you. If they belong to a faction, the faction also gets angry with you.

-make it impossible to mount a bayonet to a bolt-action rifle. Oh wait, thats actually a thing already…

[another_guy]

I actually kinda like the idea of crying or shouting in pain if it gets high enough. Right now your character can be slammed through a fucking wall by a brute while being completely silent.

[another_guy]

Dude that sounds awesome! Maybe the Old Guard shouldn’t be AS drastic but it would be nice if they noticed you were a criminal.

[mlangsdorf]

It’s a relatively easy change, JSON only, to enable a more perceptive Old Guard rep. Why not try contributing?

JSON only, by the way, means text files only and no need to know how to program.

[Theundyingcode]

Random chance that whenever you find a chainsaw it will literally be a chain-saw:

[TheZoneWizard]

Kinda reminds me of this scene from Ronin:

Just ignore the teflon non-sense…it is an old movie >_>

Scalpel / exact o-knife + mirror + first-aid skill ; optional enhancements = bandages and a form of sterilant. The sterilant should be used before hand and bandaged after for best results =D

edit:

Also this?

Caught as I was closing YT.

[nameless_survivor]

After walking through a radioactive area or through fungal tiles, you and your gear may become contaminated. Regular clothing cannot be decontaminated. Weapons and equipment/containers can. Contaminated hazmat gear (ANBC suit, power armor, etc) can be decontaminated, and will not have negative effects on you if it occurs while you are wearing it, but can contaminate you if you take it off before it has been sanitized.

Contaminated individuals must go through a decontamination shower & maybe a UV irradiation cycle, or risk contaminating the areas they move through, like your base or vehicle. Failure to decontaminate will have…unfortunate consequences. Also, NPC followers at your base and those at evac centers will react poorly to you tracking fungal spores and radioactive dust around.

[Erk]

Although your example is over the top, I would love to see decontamination be something we actually have to do. It would make fungus especially feel so real to have to decontaminate yourself or track spores around for a while.

[mr_sep]

After installing bionics you have to constantly and frequently use anti-rejection drugs or else terrible things would start to happen to your body governed by some RNG horror spinner.

[Mussorgsky]

A bionic realism overhaul, what fun, lol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transplant_rejection

[nameless_survivor]

It depends what they are made out of. Some materials are biocompatible and won’t be rejected or attacked by the body.

Biocompatibility

[kevin.granade]

After installing bionics you have to constantly and frequently use anti-rejection drugs or else terrible things would start to happen to your body governed by some RNG horror spinner.

That sounds like a great idea, I don’t know why you posted it here.

[Erk]

I’d be more worried about infection than rejection. Metal stuff doesn’t tend to reject, but it is incredibly prone to very ugly infections.