Discussion: Human Health Regeneration

[Menroka]

Hello everyone!

I would like to open a discussion about the current state of the health system regarding seemingly minor injuries.

To describe the problem:
I just had an experience, where I was attacked by a drone. During the attack there were lots of visual effects like the entire screen going red and white, as well as the health overview indicator on the right side blinking in all kinds of colors.
To me as a player, this picture screams: OH MY GOD, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE IN LIKE 5 SECONDS.
Luckily I escaped and made my way to the med bay. When the doctor took a look at my injuries, all of them had already healed up completely and fully by themselves.
So the reality of all those fancy visual effects was: This situation will automatically resolve itself with a positive outcome in roughly one minute.

All in all, this just feels inconsistent. The VFX indicate: Death imminent. But the health system says: Nothing to see here, please move along, you are perfectly fine.

Maybe the intention is to scare players away from dangerous situations, which would be reasonable, but then I would have expected some kind of need to visit a doctor afterwards.
I would guess with some more experience you would be better able to estimate the actual level of danger you are in, but right now it feels very hard to determine how much pain/dying you should be RPing.

A situation in which a character screams for help over the radio becomes very silly once the doctor finds absolutely nothing.