Health
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General Description
Health pickups are a vital item in and out of combat. These items can have drastic effects on the flow of battle in both one-one-one and group combat. Be sure to make use of them whenever you can, but also be mindful of others who may need these resources more, such as friendly Medics.
Health may also refers to the hit point total that governs the survivability of the varying classes.
Health Kit pickups come in three different sizes. Each one heals the player for a different percentage of their total class health value. There are also several other sources of health that you may encounter:
Health Kits:
- Small (Pill Bottle/Chocolate Bar) 20.5% heal (10 sec re-spawn)
- Medium (First Aid Kit/Candy Tin) 50% heal (10 sec re-spawn)
- Large (Ice Cooler) 100% heal (10 sec re-spawn)
Dropped Items:
- Sandviches - If dropped by a Heavy upon death, a sandvich will heal a Scout for 75 HP and all other classes for 50. If the Heavy drops the Sandvich using alt-fire, it heals 50% of total health.
Other Sources:
- Dispensers (Level 1 - 10HP/sec ; Level 2 - 15HP/sec ; Level 3 - 20HP/sec)
- Carts (10HP/sec)
- Resupply Lockers (Medical Cabinet) 100% heal (These are found only in resupply areas, so don't be afraid to return to your spawn to use them.)
 Small Health Pickup |
 Medium Health Pickup |
 Large Health Pickup |
 Resupply Locker |
 Sandvich |
 Dispenser |
 Halloween Edition Small Health Pickup |
 Halloween Edition Medium Health Pickup |
 Carts |
Strategy
- Use health pickups to instantly extinguish fire inflicted by Pyros.
- Use health pickups to their full potential. If an item heals you for 50%, consider waiting until your health drops below 50% before picking it up.
- Let Medics pick up Health before you do. Their purpose is to heal other players including yourself and they will likely need it more than you.
- Staying next to a dispenser or cart in battle can give you an advantage.
- As Spy, it is possible to use health pickups even at full health in order to change the displayed health of your disguise.
Trivia
- The sound for picking up a health kit is the same for getting health in Half-Life, another Valve game.
- In the Event Harvest map, there are a decorative spiders in the resupply cabinets and the health kits take the form of chocolate bars (small) and candy tins (medium).
- The Heavy can recharge a alt-fire dropped Sandvich by picking up any health kit. This also means that he can drop his Sandvich to heal for 50HP and pick up a small health kit to recharge his Sandvich, and drop that Sandvich again. This can provide a teammate with 100 health points for the price of a small health kit.
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