Regenerating health?

[mkreku]

Remember playing scavenger hunt for every single item of food in the entirety of Deus Ex? I do.

And obsessively drinking ten times out of every water fountain.

[Musopticon?]

Deus Ex is the only rpg I've played where the player character carries 10 potato chip bags everywhere.

 

Quirky in its own way, yet not something I'd like to see repeated in modern titles.

[Pop]

Abuse your boom!

 

Good for kicks. Unkillable characters! The great Lebedev jaunt! The basketball killer strikes again!

Edited October 16, 2008 by Pop

[Matthew Rorie]

Currently, the system does not regenerate health. You have a set health (which can be modified upwards through the stat choices you make), which can be replenished through health kits found in the level or items that you can bring along into the mission.

 

There's also armor, but that's another system.

[Pop]

What sort of stat choices? Is the system like Mass Effect's, where there are only skills, and your health can be upgraded through a pertinent one, or is it like most other RPGs, where you have a separate set of stats that govern basic character traits?

 

I've been meaning to ask that, anyway.

 

Also, are there going to be game choices, like in MotB, that influence your stats, or are they strictly a leveled deal?

[Shryke]

Remember playing scavenger hunt for every single item of food in the entirety of Deus Ex? I do.

And obsessively drinking ten times out of every water fountain.

 

honestly i never needed to do that

 

most times i'd actually have the max amount of medpacs (15 i think?) for pretty much the whole game

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Uhm... how does the armor work anyway? Not like Mass Effect shields, right?

 

 

That would be pretty bad.

[Wrath of Dagon]

Currently, the system does not regenerate health. You have a set health (which can be modified upwards through the stat choices you make), which can be replenished through health kits found in the level or items that you can bring along into the mission.

 

There's also armor, but that's another system.

Awesome, it would make more sense to me to bring the healthpacks with you, but that's a minor point.

[Cl_Flushentityhero]

Currently, the system does not regenerate health. You have a set health (which can be modified upwards through the stat choices you make), which can be replenished through health kits found in the level or items that you can bring along into the mission.

 

There's also armor, but that's another system.

 

And scavenger hunting it is . . . maybe going light on weaponry will allow us to carry enough medkits to avoid that.

[Hell Kitty]

Health kits doesn't have to equal scavenger hunting. Rather than having numerous single kits spread out over the level/mission in all sorts of odd places, have them only in obvious places, areas you'd expect to find first aid kits in real life.

[Cl_Flushentityhero]

Health kits doesn't have to equal scavenger hunting. Rather than having numerous single kits spread out over the level/mission in all sorts of odd places, have them only in obvious places, areas you'd expect to find first aid kits in real life.

 

I've heard that explanation before (with Max Payne for example), and I can't help asking: "what are these real life places that have first aid kits?"

 

Unless all of our battles occur in hospitals, private residences, or at sporting events; I wouldn't really expect to find a whole lot of them. It's hard enough finding the prescribed-by-law fire extinguishers in most buildings, much less a medical kit suitable for treating gunshot wounds.

[mkreku]

And make them rare! Make it so you actually have to work to complete a level! Make it so that when you finally find a health kit you'll feel ecstatic!

[Hell Kitty]

what are these real life places that have first aid kits?

 

Any workplace. And if they don't they should.

 

And if you're suffering from gunshots wounds I think you're well past first aid kits.

[Wrath of Dagon]

I think they want to spread them around so you don't use them up too quickly and then have to restart the level. Oh well, it's still a game, I suppose if people carry weapons, they should expect to get injured and thus would have first aid around.

[Hassat Hunter]

I've heard that explanation before (with Max Payne for example), and I can't help asking: "what are these real life places that have first aid kits?"

You're a spy infiltrating the enemy base? Surely a pit of hostile foes have some medpacks stored in a room (or with them!)

 

Breaking in an embassy? Check the medical wing. And if your out on a mission in a sleazy hotel getting at a foe, well, you surely expect less to be found, so savior the one you had.

 

Also I second Shryke in that I usually carried the max number of medpacks and augmentation batteries around most of the game. Never really a need to use snacks and waterfountains beyond lvl 2.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Bah, do whatever you want, but make it fun. Not annoying.

[Humodour]

Currently, the system does not regenerate health. You have a set health (which can be modified upwards through the stat choices you make), which can be replenished through health kits found in the level or items that you can bring along into the mission.

 

There's also armor, but that's another system.

 

Awesome.