Ace3: Pain always descreases from an untreated wound

Created on 16 Sep 2017  路  4Comments  路  Source: acemod/ACE3

Testing the medical rewrite with untreated wounds we found the following.

Observations:
Pain never increases from an untreated wound.
It always goes down on its own even when wound is left untreated.
Pain never stays unchanging or fixed once it is present.
Pain always decreases.

Thoughts:
If left this way morphine is useless.

Expected:
Pain once it exists should either remain steady or increase if the wounds that caused it are left untreated. Especially if movement continues.

kinbug

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Make it not an arithmetic fade, but a geometric one.

Alternatively, or additionally, make it a piecewise, but continuous function.

Problem is, that this has probably no data irl, so you have to bullshit something together that feels right for the game.

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Pain decresse had been disabled and will be _fixed_ by #6910
#define PAIN_FADE_TIME 900 - That's 15 minutes
imho this is way too fast, you can go from moderate (0.5) to minor pain (0.25) in less than 4 minutes
People will call for a medic and pain will be gone by the time they get there

Pain does decrease a little naturally over time.

For example I cut my hand very badly a couple of years ago and it hurt like an MF when I did it, but the pain had started to ebb while I was waiting for stitches at the hospital.

It should never reduce to zero, but a small reduction over time couple make sense, especially for smaller wounds.

I think making pain increase from movement could make sense too, just check the players velocity in the pain loop.

Make it not an arithmetic fade, but a geometric one.

Alternatively, or additionally, make it a piecewise, but continuous function.

Problem is, that this has probably no data irl, so you have to bullshit something together that feels right for the game.

Look into using exponential decay

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