supression idea

[slowdownloader]

my suggestion for supression is to give the supressed viewer the clear shockwave efects of bullets like when a stone hits the water to some degree. creating the apearance that your vision is impaired but still able to make some things out depending on the rate of fire.

 

[General Naga]

Varying the amount of supression is important but an issue I can see with a ripple effect is the motion could well cause motion-sickness of some people.

 

[slowdownloader]

the supression concept isnt my initial imagination . i was dreaming to invision it somthing believeable . my first impression of supression is that the idea came from a conjured of fantacy

 

[Kevino]

Maybe have the screen act like you're blinking your eyes a bit? the heavier the suppression the longer the eyes close(or less you can see through the slit in the screen) ?

 

[Alex]

Yes, supression will have a key role in gun play.
I think maybe the screen will shake as if you have a quick reaction, possibly your screen "greys" out for a little bit?

 

[Swaffy]

Here's my take, for whatever it might be worth.

The shockwave from a bullet (especially a rifle round or bigger) would create a shockwave effect when flying by an object (a person for this case). Unless it is a subsonic round being fired from a suppressed firearm, the bullet will be traveling faster than the speed of sound. So if it flies closely (note the word "closely") by the person's head then it can [a] send a high amount of pressure into the person's ear causing ringing and temporary hearing loss, and in high frequency (multiple bullets flying by) cause a bit of disorientation. The disorientation can also be caused by the ear pressure because our ears help with our balance. It would be a minor effect unless we're talking about an MG42/MG34 blasing next to our ear. But the trick is this: the bullets would have to fly by the head because that's the one place where all of our senses meet.

 

[VonMudra]

The point isn't so much to recreate physical effects of a bullet, but more the pyschological effect that the chance of death actually causes to a person and your average soldier. Thus we are looking at a variety of visual effects which will prevent the player from effectively engaging targets when being fired upon.