Pain is a state, that affects the accuracy and movement speed. It has 4 phases: minor pain, moderate pain, major pain (erectile phase of traumatic shock) and extreme (?) Pain (torpid phase of traumatic shock).
1—14 — minor pain. Can be gathered by scratches and other minor damage. Very slightly reduces accuracy
15—39 — moderate pain. Can be gathered if you got a deep wound or if somebody punch you. Moderately reduces accuracy and movement speed
40—69 — major pain. Gathers if you got shot, minor fracture or got hit by melee weapon. Accuracy and speed hardly reduced. In this state character can moan and scream (if voice acting will be implemented)
70—99 — extreme pain. Can be gathered if you have a lot of bullet wounds, major fractures and bleeding. Maybe even at the same time. How are you still alive? In this state player can’t move or gets unconscious.
100 — Dead because of pain shock.
P.s: my explanations may be bad but try to understand, OK?
What i currently imagine, assuming this were to get added in, is that this would be hell. Like, so annoying to deal with on top of everything else. I could see myself getting mad from being hit by a zombie by accident and having pain my pain level go to 20+, then getting hit twice more and… having to take a break.
On the other hand, the things i liked were
1: Moaning or screaming after being shot/stabbed (or having taken a lot of damage in general.) Maybe this would be triggered when your character starts to bleed?
2: Becoming unconscious after taking a large shock, or impact. This would be nice, for example, when you take a good high caliber sniper shot to the chest and miraculously survive because of your military vest, or maybe just when you get to very low health in general.
If this, or a more watered down version of this, were to be added, what might be the cure to the pain?
EDIT: I think some people would really like this idea, but perhaps only in a certain mode (e.g easy, medium, hard). Something like “Hardcore” mode with a bunch of features like this might be really enjoyable when you’re in the mood for it.
Heal a source of pain (wound, fracture e.t.c) and wait. Pain should be removed
Take a painkillers or morphine shot. That wouldn’t decrease pain forever, but it would be good if you need to remove pain quickly (while shootout or chase)