#ULTRATRON HEALTH REGENERATION PC#

You say that the lack of regenerating health can put the player in scenarios where they can not progress any further. In general, however, the swarm-like nature and consistency of health-regen games hurts the pacing of the games themselves. Unfortunately, health wasn't a big part of that level as there were many moments where being discovered led to death and gave no opportunity to regenerate health. For example, All Ghillied Up in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare mixed slower moments where the player would actively look at the beautiful destroyed Chernobyl and high-tension moments when the player avoids being spotted.

Quite a few of the levels have considerable pacing and commendable level design and both games are well praised because of it. However, understand this isn't true for the entirety of the Call of Duty series. The level consists entirely of moving forward, shooting, and ducking behind cover. Not only this, but it makes the game feel more linear as the player has no time to examine his environments. This makes the level flat in terms of pacing and almost chore-like and repetitive. I wrote this on /r/truegaming two months ago:Ī common argument against regenerating health is that it can be an excuse to implement poor level design and poor pacing.Īllowing the player to insure his own security in any high-tension event by ducking behind cover for a few seconds not only entirely halts gameplay for a few seconds, but gives level designers the excuse to disregard level narrative pacing (and promote longer, extended climactic events).įor example, both the first and second Call of Duty: Modern Warfare games have extremely long combat sequences (particularly the levels where the player must hold off swarms of enemies) where there's almost little to no contrast for the duration of the level. So essentially I'm just wondering why health regen is so looked down upon when there are problems with pretty much any health system ever created. Many people argue it isn't realistic but is slapping on a medkit or whatever device really going to insta-heal your various bullet wounds, putting you back in 100% fighting condition in real life either? Games that combine the two systems using segmented health bars or limit regen to a certain percentage do alleviate the problem and with proper distribution of health restoring items can work flawlessly. However you can't really translate that into a game that isn't open world. Now there are some examples of games without regen that largely circumvent this issue like Fallout since you can easily have stimpaks with you at all times mid-late game and if you don't you can either find a bed or find a relatively safe path back to a city/town. So what could have been done in maybe 10-20 minutes with regenerating health took somewhere between 1-2 hrs of constant saving and dying. For example I was stuck at the power plant just before the Wish Granter in S.T.A.L.K.E.R SoC (not saying regenerating health would be better since it wouldn't fit the game but just to use it as an example) which I could have run to in 2-3 minutes had it not been for the hardest enemies in the game combined with radiation, low health, and low armor durability.

The biggest problem for games without regen and the greatest advantage of regenerating health is when your stuck at one of the hardest parts of the game with low health.

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