Feature: Appling Damage and First Aid System

Description:

One of the Project Goals is to enable the experience of a real gun fight. In order to reach that goal, it is important that the player believes that he is very vulnerable. He needs to fear his own death. The other goal is a realistic simulation of weapon behavior that includes the attempt of translating the precalculated impact energy of a round into real injuries.

And that’s what this system is going to do.

Goals:

–       Simplify an human organism to apply the damage to
–       Translate the result of the damage calculation
–       Define simple injuries the players can suffer
–       Add the option to cure/heal those injuries
–       Define the circumstances and consequences to die and being dead
–       Include a simple respawn system (just to test things out)

Progress:

As this system should to be a very simple one, I was going to create a simple ruleset first of all. In real life, the human organism is bound to its blood circuit. It consists of an amount of blood that transports oxygen to the organs. And that is the critical part on the battlefield. If the combatant runs out of blood he will ultimately loses his life. Other injuries like a damaged liver or muscles of the limbs are critical too but they aren’t that critical in time than an urgent blood loss is. That is why I focused on that.

Ruleset:

–       The Player has an amount of 7 Liters of blood
–       There are three dimensions of wounds (minor, medium, large),
         which differs in the amount of blood loss and the possibility of curing it
–       Every 1000 Joule of Impact Energy will result in one single wound
–       The type of the bullet determines the probability of the wounds dimension
–       Every wound deals initial amount of blood loss during the impact
        and loss over time
–       There are eleven hitzones
         (Head, UpperBody, LowerBody, Arm, Forearm, UpperLeg, LowerLeg)
         respectively mirrored
–       The amount of blood loss corresponding to the wound dimension is multiplied
         by a balancing value determined by the hit zone

Example:

3546 Joule of Impact Power to start with. That equals to rounded 4 wounds. As it is a Full Metal Jacket round, each wound has the possibility of being 40% a minor, 30% a medium, 15% a large or 15% no wound. I assume the result is two minor and one medium wound. The fourth did no wounding at all. I although assume that it was a hit to the head. Corresponding the ExcelSheet, it leads to:

2x minor (initial 100ml) * head (multiplier of 1) = 200ml initial blood loss

2x minor (DoT 50ml) * head (multiplier of 1) = 100ml blood loss per minute

As the player wasn’t hit bevor, those two little scratches aren’t any kind of harmful to him, but:

1x medium (initial 500ml) * head (multiplier of “dead”)… that simply means he is dead!

Because there are two exceptions to the rule of blood loss and its consequences: The heart and the brain. Hitting them result to an instant death regardless of any other circumstances. Both are represented by a simple “death” in the sheet for head and upper body.