in a slower, more thoughtful game, the whole “shit im hurt doc im feeling bad here here and here” might actually work, but this is how it will actually go
left leg, right arm, right hand, groin, also heavy burn on chest
nobody has time to RP in the middle of a combat zone, and I sure as hell am not gonna risk an HR slip to see which of the marine’s dozen or so bones are fractured mid fob siege, I’m just gonna turn them into a mummy or some shit (oh wait, I can’t really after the huge unneeded medical supply nerf)
what I mean to say is, it’ll be like early game req on high pop
okay so get rid of the med scanner now not only do you not have accurate medical readings but then what about IB? medics on the front can’t tell where internal bleeding is at all and secondly what about bald medics? one of the benefits of the scanner is that if you don’t know what to do as a medic it gives you a run down of what needs to be given to marines so taking that away will decrease the effectiveness of new medics
A simplified scanner (“first aid scanner” maybe?) could be a good fit for non-medical users and beginner Corpsmen/triage work, especially if it scans instantly regardless of medical skill and just presents more summarized information. And if anything, I feel like that’s the scanner where you’d want treatment recommendations, as those are just a waste of space for competent Corpsmen.
the medical scanner reccomendations are nice, but sometimes I feel like a majority of wounded marine situations become brain dead as a result, might as well replace medics with AI medical robots 80 percent of the time
What if, listen, what if we made the stethoscope that exists in the game actually work as the beginning to that whole concept: Make all medical personnel be able to use the stethoscopes to detect if someone have heart or lung damage (because in the actual version it doesn’t detect anything and always say that the patient is healthy, even when infact they are not). If we handled those to the field medics, they would have a manual and imprecise but still reliable method of finding organ damage! (At least for the respiratory parts).
The same concept can be applied to the penlight, that have the single purpose of checking the condition of the eyes of patients, but is completely useless right now because of how it is outdately coded. Maybe with both those tools being usable, things would be easier and more manual at the same time.
The stethoscope and pen lights having actual uses would be pretty cool. Implementing stuff like a sphygmomanometer or thermometers alongside that would provide alternatives to reading blood volume, and perhaps temperature would get a fix-up.