1. You get wounds but nothing serious, they heal over time.
2.a You are bleeding, but regeneration rate is faster and you get better. You may pass away in short term.
2.b You are bleeding, but regeneration rate is not enough, you pass away unless you(or someone else) treat your wounds or you die.
2. You get wounds, they are fatal, you die.

I think new system is closer to reality. It just needs different rates of bleeding damage and locational damage. (and a more sophisticated treatment system(a medical skill would be nice!))

I've always been against 'Health' in games. A decent sword swing would pretty much lop off a leg and that would be that.

I've always had to mentally replace the word 'Health' with 'Combat Points' or 'Luck Points'. To this end I always imagine that any blow which would reduce my Health, my character has actually either dodged, or rolled out of the way of - the 'act' of dodging or rolling has reduced my Combat Points. When my Combat Points expire, then the next blow that hits me is the actual strike against my person which is serious enough to kill me.

To this end, I guess Combat Points (or health) can regenerate as my character recovers his composure after a battle.

Sort of.

I understand why it is there. In previous games after a battle you jsut 'waited' to heal yourself after every battle....or re-cast heal until you were good again.....the regen is there to save us having to do that constantly.


Its not perfect, but neither was the previous system.

I was kind of disappointed too, it felt less realistic, but I can see why they did it. I mean, with regenerating magicka, you would just recast a healing spell after every battle, or you would just wait an hour. I guess Bethesda saw this, realized they couldn't stop exploits like that, and instead decided to cut out the middleman

Like most of the mechanics in the game, you're free to ignore it and rely on healing potions or heal spells or even life leach.

Oh, it has been discussed. Fact is combat regeneration is too slow to be depended on to "turn the tide of battle" and out of combat regeneration is a godsend, it is this way to alieviate a minor annoyance of the previous series.

Lets say you get in a little fight, and take 5-10 points of damage (or some minor amount) in all the other series you would have to bandage all your little cuts and scraqes by stopping, chugging, healing, or waiting 1 hour ect.. for every single engagement, or risk not being at full capacity. The little regeneration removes this annoyance.

Once again the choice this time around is given to the player. If you feel you need to treat every boo-boo you recieve by stopping, healing or chugging 50 times a dungeon crawl, that is certainly still doable - and totally your option to do so, but for many others, it was an annoyance that now can be ignored. If you find yourself taking advantage of it- guess what? it is taking away some of the annoyance you used to have to deal with.

Oh, and it has been discussed on here much- since before the games release, quite a bit actually.
I totally argee that potions are too common this time around.

Semantics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic

Quite so...however where I have to 'bend' those semantics is when I see my blood splattered on the screen, when I should have executed the perfect dodge.

Health regen makes a good chunk of Restoration school obsolete. And that svcks.

Or you coudl enchant a piece of armor with CE regen health, which was also fun.

IIRC, you could not get much that way, say one or two points of health per second. But, it was enough to heal me by the time I got to the next dungeon. Still a bit too fast, but I would accept even that rate as better than what we have now, which is "Oh, I am almost out of health, let me stand in this room for a minute before I go into the next room that has enemies in it"

Sort of.

I understand why it is there. In previous games after a battle you jsut 'waited' to heal yourself after every battle....or re-cast heal until you were good again.....the regen is there to save us having to do that constantly.

Its not perfect, but neither was the previous system.

There are two ways to design the game that are equally valid. First, you can balance the difficulty on the assumption that people will regen health and enter each battle with full life. This is what Bethesda chose. The second is to remove health regeneration and balance the game on the assumption that people will complete an entire dungeon before restoring their health.

It's much harder to balance the game on the second theory without making Restoration and/or Alchemy either essential or overpowered. They would need to add further restrictions, such as a much smaller carrying capactiy that limits the number of potions you can bring and either a limited magicka pool to prevent Restoration spam or some restriction that prevents casting Restoration spells inside a dungeon.

Bethesda chose versatility and freedom over "realism." Especially since a non-regenerating health pool isn't much more realistic than a regenerating one.

Do not understand everybody has healing spell and it's lots of healing potions.
In Oblivion you simply selected heal minor wounds and cast it to you was out of mana, moved on and repeated casting then it restored . Potions if you feared more enemies up front or in combat.
In Morrowind the heal on use magic items was essential. As somebody say the 1health/second permanent enchant was nice.


In Oblivion I made an character who could not cast magic at all, silence effect as racial bonus.
I gave her an ring with an script who restored 10health every minute to avoid having drinking potions for minor injuries.

There are two ways to design the game that are equally valid. First, you can balance the difficulty on the assumption that people will regen health and enter each battle with full life. This is what Bethesda chose. The second is to remove health regeneration and balance the game on the assumption that people will complete an entire dungeon before restoring their health.

It's much harder to balance the game on the second theory without making Restoration and/or Alchemy either essential or overpowered. They would need to add further restrictions, such as a much smaller carrying capactiy that limits the number of potions you can bring and either a limited magicka pool to prevent Restoration spam or some restriction that prevents casting Restoration spells inside a dungeon.

Bethesda chose versatility and freedom over "realism." Especially since a non-regenerating health pool isn't much more realistic than a regenerating one.