Role-play without 'risk'? The risk is dying. Not finding food before going for the next fight. Role-play =/= Survival.

This cracks me up. So much hate over someone's opinion. He didn't say he was visiting all of our homes to mod it out, just his.

Does anyone know how fast does it regenerates?

KOTOR, Witcher, Diablo

And where is it stated that regen works during combat?

Also just look up the speed of it, obviously nothing will be able to kill you with that huge speed...

Oh yes, you can sleep without a bed, the ambush thing is really just an annoying artifical difficulty that can easily fixed by... fighting the thing that attacked you.

I like it. Much more natural than "waiting." It will give me an excuse to hang around town, visiting the tavern and the library while I recover from my injuries. It would be a problem if the rate were too high, but I'm sure it won't be.

Can't tell if this is sarcasm or a troll.

Anyway, not having the proper resources after a fight is just consequences of your previous decisions mixed with a does of luck. Proper planning and all that, tactics, etc. Also, that's life

For some reason, I vaguly remember daily healing as part of DnD back in the olden days. Or another PnP...at the rate of 2 HP per day. Of course, your statement begs the question of "what is an RPG" which is always good for for a few laughs in the Community Discussion

Also, the rate of regen and how one plays determines the "uselesness" of what you said, yes?

If the only thing that you are using Alchemy and Restoration for is healing, and only after a fight is over; then yes, it will be useless. However, if that is all you were using them for in the first place, they were pretty useless.

Considering the speed of the regen, completely relying on it seem to be a really bad idea...

I agree, but you really should expect this, games get easier every year, easier and easier, catering for younger and younger children, spoiling an invigorating challenge for the rest of us.

We have the power to improve Beths mistakes though, mod power.

why would it be easier?

No, really.

I don't mind some health regeneration, a least not at first. Later playthroughs done with a heavily modded game
usually has some realism/survivalist type mods added to them. Eat. drink and sleep. No sleep 1 hour heal full,
the usual stuff. FO3 had a whole bunch of good ones.

You know people do heal over time without medicine, or without constant application of medicine. Each game had a Health Regen amulet or method that was available to the player if they knew where to look or what to do. However, none of those devices ever regenerated my health to the point where I did not feel I had to have Health Potions or Spells.

I hate regenerating health in whatever kind of game.

It's not a dealbreaker, but I too, will take the first chance I have to get rid of it.

Well, it's easier for those who find it challenging to cast the starter healing spell. I think it will be rare that this change will have any effect at all on difficulty. I seem to recall rings in earlier TES games that had comparable effects, and they were conveniences not game changers that affected the outcomes of battles.

We'll have to see just how strong it actually is, but it does seem to make many of the minor active-healing abilities (simple healing spells, food, potions) somewhat redundant/less necessary. A bit odd.

I remember Todd saying in an interview that they did this so people would not rely on the "wait" function to restore their HP/magicka

Well so you say be ambushed during resting in dungeon full of danger is "artifical difficulty" do you accept thats smart enemy will not wait until such ridiculously nonchalant character heal completely by simple resting to full power and you say player character will able fight back well in such dangerous situation, especially when we take a nap not in sewer full of rats but in an Dread Dungeon of Doom, quite interesting logic you have.

If ambushes for you are "artifical difficulty" then what is constant health regeneration from almost zero health to fully healthy in one keypress for all characters and without consequence and requirements?
I think adding health regeneration must have consequence for example you can regenerate health in such way only if current health not below certain percent
e.g you cannot simple wait one game hour to restore broken limbs and damaged internal organs (health is below of 50% of maximum) but contusions and bruises (Health is not below 80% of Maximum HP) you can.
Since health regeneration is not an skill but actual trait of character body biology better if regeneration will be tied to an Attribute or character Trait, doubtfully you can simple learn regeneration as card trick, but since attributes is out and all traits what we have is racial only, we can try bind health regeneration to certain skills as form of health care preparation during stay in camp (Firsts Aid, Medicine) for example Restoration school and Alchemy skill can affect how well you can care on your health during rest.

If I had to guess, I'd say it was added to keep folks from getting stranded early on when they might not have access to food or potions and mana pools could be pretty meager. Later on when we have more resources and need more healing, I suspect most of us will ignore it and heal ourselves by other means when needed.

In real life, "health" regenerates on it's own... take for instance yesterday, I was applying Roof Sealer to my Aunt's roof. I'm 6'5" and the brush I was using had a short handle, so after 2hrs of scrubbing this stuff on, my back was hurting so bad and i could barely stand up straight, but a couple hours later, I could barely tell there was any soreness.

Obviously a crick in the back ain't like getting stabbed or sliced or burned etc etc, but minor injuries do indeed start healing as soon as they're acquired.

Now if you ask me, what is unrealistic, is that if you're hurt very badly, like say 10% overall health or less, you're nearing critical condition... You're cut very deeply or burned very badly or lacerated (depending on what is assaulting you), why doesn't your health continue to go DOWN, as if you're 90% of the way dead for said injuries, you're going to be bleeding out.

One thing I do like about this is I won't waste a 50 point health potion on the last 20 or 30 points of health on my life bar.

Also, does anyone know at what rate we regen? If it takes several game days to gain back half of your health, then this is really no big deal. If we regen all of our health in the time it takes to walk from one town to another, then it might be less than ideal.

maybe its really slow

I hope it's really slow, and that the "Wait" feature only regenerates the amount of health that would've regened in that span of time, so if you only wait one hour, you'd only regen the same amount of health as if you just waited 2 minutes in real life.

edit: unless you find an actual bed to sleep in, then it should double or triple, sleeping in real life does aid the healing process.

The only time I realy like regenerating health is when it is as an ability that makes you unique.

In Oblivion I used a birthsign mod that gave every birthsign unique very useful powers and abilities.
The Lord birthsign had the weakness to fire as usual, but you also had a dynamic health regeneration when your not being damaged. It wasn't overly powerful, and worked on a % base, but it was way better than the default Lord healing power.
Made me feel like I was special, my wounds would seal themselves faster than anyone else in Cyrodil.

I'll probably dislike the regen in Skyrim as it's not a special thing, but rather a default setting. Won't stop me enjoying the game, and I can always mod it to my liking if it bothers me too much.

This isn't necessarily the best thing for doing dungeons, but for just running around the world? I don't see a problem, seeing as I'd normally just spam whatever healing spell my warrior had a bunch of times until health got back to a decent level.

I don't like it.
If I use up all my health pots and don't have any healing spells then tough break champ.
I made a choice and now I suffer the consequence.
Allowing it to regen is ridiculous, if it's really REALLY slow or if it was unlocked by a perk or something then it'd be different.
But it remains to be seen just how fast or slow the regen is, I still don't like it.
If a player makes a mistake then don't coddle them, make them learn from their mistakes.


And Bethesda, no [censored] regen feature for Fallout 4 unless it's in the [Casual Mode] which I've suggested.
[Normal], [Realism] and [hardcoe] should not have regen.