Surgery Slip Up Indicator

[NotDucc]

Yeah, this is something I added years ago for OP's exact grievance. The sound and blood splatter effect IIRC. But I still do not think that they are noticable enough; as is clear by people not noticing. I didn't want to make the bloodsplatter larger (and therefore more obvious), but it would have been too much for onlookers and looked overexaggerated.

I would like to see something to make it clearer to the surgeon, moreso than onlookers though. I think the first thing I'd reach for now is some sort of HuD or effect appear broefly over the patient, visible only to the surgeon to clearly show your mistake. Like the red-flashing "KILL" HuD sprite when strangling someone, maybe it could say "OOPS" or other silly words you'd associate with making mistakes. Not that it needs to be text like that, just the first thing that came to mind.

I don't like broadcasting OOC HuD effects to all watchers in most cases because it adds visual clutter, but adding them for things like this to display specific, critical information to the person performing the action to that one person is more than fine.

Yep, I never even noticed the blood splatter until I talked about this yesterday and someone pointed out it existed a little after I posted this. Though I do like the silly text idea!