Space Marine 2 has a few interesting combat mechanics that enable players to heal up and progress missions. You’ll need to keep an eye on your healing, as dropping low can make you go down. Going down is a problem for your brothers, whether they are AI or players, as that adds more risk to the mission. It’s not so bad in normal mode, but players on harder difficulties will find that health management is very important. Here is a look at how to heal in Space Marine 2.
When you take damage, check the white health bar on your HuD to see how much HP you can get back by hitting enemies.
Healing in Space Marine 2
To heal in Space Marine 2, there are a few mechanics you need to be mindful of:
- Finding Stimm packs around the level
- Dealing damage while you have a white health bar.
- Activating Titus’ special ability.
The first tip is to find equipment around the map. As you play through the game, players can find Stimm packs. Ou can carry up to 2 at a time, and will restore roughly 60% of a player’s HP bar.
Now, the thing about the campaign is that they are not that common as they were pre-placed. So, you will need to do some exploring to learn where the stimms are. This is important, as when you decide to take on harder difficulties, you will find that you need to check in on these stimms to progress. So, learn the maps and the loot spawns are for stimms on normal modes, and then you can tactically look at the harder modes for when and where you need to heal.
The other major mechanic is the white health bar mechanic. When you take damage from certain sources, you can find a white health bar on your screen. This white bar indicated a replaceable health-type feature. If you can deal damage while you have the white bar, you’ll gradually restore some of that HP until that white bar becomes red. You can abuse this to get some of your HP back by playing in cover and taking shots at the easy-to-kill hordes or swarms of enemies.
If a hard part is coming up, be preapred to take cover, use greandes, pre plan heavy weapon use, or look for environment hazard to help beat your foes to avoid taking excess damage.
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On some occasions, you can get this white health bar from the instant revive. It is an item pick-up you can use when you go down, this allows you to get back up with 50% HP, most of it being white. You can tactically use this to go down, get yourself up, then kill a horde and get your HP back.
The other method is to play ass Titus in the campaign. Titus’ special ability will allow him to get his health back while dealing damage during it. This favours Titus to be more aggressive with the plays he can make and get his health back from his ability. It’s handy for fighting elites and taking a few hits from swarms, as you can get your health back.
Outside of that, you need to manage your health bar accordingly. It is part of what makes managing resources and planning an important strategy for taking on the harder modes in Space Marine 2’s coop and campaign difficulty settings.
