You know what I think would be even cooler than paralyzing venom? Venom that makes you have a heart attack. It would do little damage with each hit, but your screen would start to beat to the beat of your increasingly quickening hearbeat pounding louder and louder into your ears. Get 5 injections in short time, you die as your heart explodes in your chest.
Wonder if it will be doable when Garry finally adds a system for allowing status modifiers to effect your screen. I'll be quite about this till he finally adds things like shivering when cold.
I think it makes logical sense to add status effects especially in a game like Rust i don't see why they wouldn't do it, though its not important yet, i reckon they will add them, after all they added head bob and just about every one hates that, will they hate the shivering too?
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Maybe if their eating was similar to the mutant chickens way of eating(or at least how I imagine they eat). Make all the mutants into giant hollow mouths in the shape of animals, say they have venom that paralyzes you after enough is injected, then try to eat you whole/take as big a bite as possible and digest it elsewhere.
The reason I include the venom is because it would allow them to hit you and "take away" health without tearing you and your equipment to shreds. Then carry your items around(digested over time). If killed, they would drop what is undigested, and a bit of random loot.
I like the idea of venom this would give us a reason to harvest the bushes for herbs and plants to create herbal remedies that counteract the venom, would be good to have poisonous snakes in game too maybe big mutant anaconda's that swallow people and wont disappoint us like the anaconda man.