First Aid UI (after a predator attack)

[illanthropist]

I noticed recently I usually sustain 3 types of injury showed on screen in the order below:

• A bleed requiring a dressing
• A physical injury requiring pain relief
• A risk of infection requiring an antiseptic dressing

Now if I treat them in the order displayed on screen it ends up using:

• A bandage
• 2 painkiller/cup of rosehip tea
• A further bandage then treated with antiseptic (not tested with old mans beard dressing but presume same).

However, if I ignore the first injury displayed, treating the second and third, the first aid for infection risk ALSO remedies the bleed damage saving on supplies.

Just thought it was worth mentioning...
 

[Wasteland Watcher]

I'm under the impression that game is designed so you need to think, prioritize, and treat the afflictions in the order you decide.

It's not designed to "hold our hands" and for this I am immensely grateful.

My recommendation is: always treat infections first because part of that is applying a bandage with stops the bleeding.
Unless the pain is likely to get you killed, I'd recommend not treating it and going home to rest. Save your painkillers for if you either needs to:
Quickly recover a sprained wrist in prep for a wolf attack, or,

Quickly recover a sprained ankle so you can run away from a threat.

Good luck!

 

[illanthropist]

14 hours ago, Wasteland Watcher said:

I'm under the impression that game is designed so you need to think, prioritize, and treat the afflictions in the order you decide.

 

But if that was true, in triage you would treat the bleed injury first followed by the infection risk and thus doing so would still require the use of 2 bandages...

[Wasteland Watcher]

4 hours ago, illanthropist said:

But if that was true, in triage you would treat the bleed injury first followed by the infection risk and thus doing so would still require the use of 2 bandages...

Well, honestly, I swiftly splash disinfectant on a wound and then bandage it, so I end up only using one bandage per wound.

[illanthropist]

45 minutes ago, Wasteland Watcher said:

Well, honestly, I swiftly splash disinfectant on a wound and then bandage it, so I end up only using one bandage per wound.

Ahhh perhaps I have misread the HUD, the bars list symptoms but the body indicates where?  I assumed it was 3 different injuries, a gusher an infected and a sprain.

[Wasteland Watcher]

3 minutes ago, illanthropist said:

Ahhh perhaps I have misread the HUD, the bars list symptoms but the body indicates where?  I assumed it was 3 different injuries, a gusher an infected and a sprain.

Yea I agree the traige HUD could be a bit misleading, but the 'gusher' wound is where the infection risk occurs.
Now, let's go kill (.....er...or avoid) some wolves! 

[bethany]

Thanks for your feedback here. This has been passed along for review.

[selfless]

Not true.

There is no second bandage used when treating a bleeding wound for infection.  The bandage that treats the bleeding wound counts towards the bandage+disinfectant treatment.  Reverse is also true; completing the bandage+disinfectent treatment for infection risk will also apply the bandage to the relevant bleeding wound and stop both. 

Exception is if you treat the bleeding with a bandage and then treat the infection with an old-mans-beard-bandage.  That sequence does consume two "bandages".  Solution is treat either wound with only the old-mans-beard bandage and both will recover together.  Happy surviving.

P.S.  Disinfectant is heavy, so I usually leave it at home.  I've never had a wound infection progress beyond 40% before making it home and properly treating it, after having bandaged immediately in the field of course.  Never leave home without bandages.  Bleeding is serious business.

 

[Raphael van Lierop]

Triage is the intention here. BUT, there may be underlying bugs/issues to be resolved.