Regardless of your play style in Space Marine 2, players will inevitably sustain damage from either formidable ranged weaponry or relentless hordes of smaller adversaries, leaving little opportunity for respite. Your primary means of protection is your armor, indicated by the silver bars situated beneath your health, which will absorb damage initially.
Once your armor is depleted, your health will begin to diminish, and recovering health becomes significantly more challenging. Prior to the complete loss of health, it enters a contested state; this contested health can be restored more easily if you are familiar with the appropriate strategies.
Navigating Contested Health: How to Identify and Restore Well-Being
Contested Health refers to health that has been diminished but can be regained with prompt action. It is indicated by the white line on your health bar, which will decrease rapidly if you sustain additional damage or delay in its restoration. To recover contested health, engage enemies using any available method to inflict damage while avoiding further harm.
Due to the rapid decline of contested health, players are encouraged to adopt an aggressive playstyle to restore their health. However, this approach carries risks, as it may result in sustaining more damage than the health regained.
How to Respond to Overheated Health
The restoration of Contested Health is beneficial for recovering any health that has been recently lost; however, a similar strategy can be employed to regain more health than what was initially contested. When you inflict damage on an enemy while possessing contested health, a portion of that health will be returned to the player, with the specific amount being determined at the moment the enemy is damaged. If you are utilizing a single-target weapon, the health regained will typically correspond to the amount of Contested Health you had.
In contrast, if you manage to strike multiple enemies simultaneously, the health restored will exceed the amount of your Contested Health, and this additional health will also be replenished. To optimize the health recovery when you have Contested Health, it is advisable to employ a powerful area-of-effect weapon, grenade, or melee attack to engage numerous smaller swarm enemies, thereby maximizing the health regained.
