Seriously, why don’t we have these? IB is already a pain for Marines especially when there are no medics around so it’d be nice if we had torniquets to lessen the effects of IB. Obviously it’ll only be applicable to limbs. Having a torniquet on your neck turns out isn’t a great idea…
How it works;
Greatly lessens the effects of Internal-Bleeding
Torniquet on leg/s - severely lessens movement speed. It’s literally SOP for medics to ensure people can’t walk once they had a torniquet on their legs and often do races with people with torniquets.
Torniquet on arm/s - has the tendency to drop items.
Last I checked, tourniquet’s are used to stop heavy external bleeding, not internal bleeding. How would you know someone had internal bleeding?
Medics would have very little reason to use a tourniquet as they have the capability of fixing internal bleeding in the field. It might be useful in a high stress environment where there are multipole casualties and you can’t get to everyone, in which case it may be better to use some tourniquets to get some people more time.
Marines having access to tourniquets might be useful, but insofar as I am aware there is no way for a Marine to know if they have internal bleeding until they either notice they are suffering from low blood, a corpsman scans them, or they fall unconscious.
For Torniquets to have any justification to exist in game with current medical system is to either make them “unrealistically” help with IB which is proposed, but other problems were brought up, or to nerf bandages.
You bleed so you use a bandage on a bodypart that is bleeding, it no longer bleeds. No need for torniquets. No matter if you were scratched by runner’s bone shards, or eviscerated by bigass Rav’s scythe.
So additional system of “small” and “big” bleeds would have to be introduced.
Or that you get your limb cut-off, then you have to use a torniquet.
I guess it is kind of soul, but also an item bloat. If somebody really wants to go with it, don’t forget about “medical” glue which was also used to stop bleedings. Especially in Vietnam War.
