Injuries and respawn

CIG recently released a new medical ship and reworked the health and respawn mechanics a bit. Here’s the most important info about it.

Health points (HP)

As in most shooters, you have a health bar here too that goes down as you take damage. Whether from gunfire or from an unplanned, sudden encounter with the ground.

Your armor lets you minimize the damage. The heavier the armor, the more damage it blocks. The heaviest armor reduces incoming damage by 40 %, but also noticeably slows down your character’s movement speed.

Body part injuries

Besides the main health bar, different body parts also have a health status. It isn’t shown as a number, only by color in your HUD. The individual zones are the head, torso, right and left arm, and right and left leg.

Injuries to the individual body parts have different effects and also lower your maximum available health.

You can’t heal these injuries in the field. With special MedPens or the MedGun, though, you can at least switch off their effects temporarily.

Effects of injuries

Injuries come in three tiers, with tier 3 being the lightest and tier 1 the most severe. You can tell from a warning in the game (for example “Tier 3 injury detected”) or from the color of the limb in your HUD.

Healing

If your health is low, you can restore it. There are several ways to do that. The quickest is a MedPen. You can attach up to four of them to your armor and then equip one with the 4 key. Once it’s equipped, use it on yourself with a Left click, or on another player nearby with a Right click.

Another option is the CureLife Medical Device, also known as the MedGun. You can use it on yourself or on other players too. Press B to switch between these two modes.

There’s also an attachment for the Multi-Tool that can heal as well. It’s far inferior to the MedGun though, so I won’t go into it further here.

Treating the symptoms

If you have an injured body part, you can only heal it in a medical bed. To ease the effects in a combat zone, though, you can use your MedGun or MedPens.

MedGun

The MedGun is the easiest option, since you don’t have to lug around a whole arsenal of MedPens.

Press and hold F while your MedGun is equipped. Then use your mouse to flip the top switch from BASIC to ADV. (advanced), and then click the AUTO button at the bottom right.

The MedGun now automatically sets the required medicine mix and all you have to do is pull the trigger. Switch it back to BASIC afterwards so you can heal normally again in combat.

MedPens

You can achieve the same symptom treatment with MedPens too:

Overdose

Every dose of medicine, but also of alcohol, raises your Blood Drug Level (BDL) along with your health. If it’s above 50 %, you start to sway and your vision gets worse. The higher the value, the stronger the effect, until you eventually lose consciousness.

Your BDL drops on its own, but you can also speed that up. Use a DetoxPen for that, or increase the Resurgera share in the MedGun’s advanced view.

That also reduces the duration of other medicine, though. So you have to find a middle ground to keep your BDL low and still benefit from the medicine for a long time.

Medical beds

A medical bed is the only way to fully heal injuries of tiers T3 to T1. The bed also lowers your BDL at the same time, raises your HP and even satisfies your hunger and thirst.

You’ll find these beds in medical clinics and hospitals in all landing zones, as well as on some ships.

Healing injuries at stations is free. To do so, use a terminal in the entrance area, where you’re assigned a room. Remember the room number and head there, that’s where you’ll find your bed.

You can also use a medical bed on a spaceship, but it has to be stocked with MedGel for that. You have to buy and refill the MedGel so your bed can keep healing injuries. To regulate your HP, BDL, hunger and thirst, on the other hand, the gel isn’t needed, so that’s free.

One or more T3 injuries need MedGel worth 2,500 aUEC, T2 5,000 and T1 10,000.

Death and respawn

If you take too much damage, you’re incapacitated. Your vision blurs, you lose consciousness and a timer appears showing how much life you have left. In that case you have the following options:

• If you have a friend or another helpful Citizen nearby, they can get you back on your feet with a MedPen or the MedGun.

• If that’s not an option, holding the Backspace key helps. Your character then dies immediately and respawns on a medical bed. You keep all your equipped items, but lose the contents of your inventory. Everything that was in your backpack or your armor is still lying where you died. You or any other player can pick it up there. You’ll see a marker on the map showing the position.

Setting your respawn location

After your character dies, you wake up in the hospital of your starting location. If you want to change that, you have to go to a different hospital and find an insurance terminal there. Alternatively, lie down in the bed on a ship. There you transfer your so-called imprint to that bed, or reset it to your original hospital.

Once you’ve transferred your imprint, you’ll respawn there from now on. Unless the ship with the bed gets destroyed or runs out of MedGel, because respawning in your own bed uses up MedGel worth 50,000 aUEC.