Automatic health refills on grounded?

[iliya0212]

Hi everyone! 

So I started my grounded playthrough today, and wanted to ask if anyone knows the checkpoints where health refills. For example, I took one hit in the beginning of the game when fighting Robert's guys, so I the questions is should I redo this section because of this, or my health will refill after escaping with Ellie (not that it is a very hard part, but still), I do have a health pack, but I try to play very conservatively with resources. I looked around, but haven't found a list anywhere.

If anyone knows would be very appreciated!

 

Edit: Just to clear things out, I enjoy the difficulty so far, just don't want to find myself in the situation where I can't get through an encounter because I got hit once an hour ago  

Edited December 14, 2020 by iliya0212

[craig_obviously]

I used one whenever I took a bit of a decent beating... but I never made a single health kit on my run.. there is enough health about to keep you topped up

[iliya0212]

1 minute ago, craig_obviously said:

I used one whenever I took a bit of a decent beating... but I never made a single health kit on my run.. there is enough health about to keep you topped up

 

I see, well ok, if there is enough to find I should probably be good, I don't think I ever crafted one either when I was doing survivor, but given that resources are rarer on grounded wasn't sure that I would be able to get away with that.

 

Thanks!

[Platinum_Vice]

*iirc* [someone please correct me if I'm wrong]

 

You get a top up to max at the end of most chapters...

- Completion of Outskirts -> beginning of Bill's Town

Outskirts is mostly stealth anyway except for the last encounter which takes place in a museum after a character dies. Don't use a health kit because you're so close to the end of the chapter.

 

- Completion of Bill's Town -> beginning of Pittsburgh

The last encounter for Bill's Town is right after getting a car. Might need a health kit for Bill's Town due to the amount of close quarters encounters with infected.

 

- I don't remember if you get a top up at the completion of Pittsburgh -> beginning of the Sewers when you jump off the bridge, however, it might be as such (correct me if I'm wrong) if you were desperately low (around 5%) then you will have had a tiny boost (up to around 20%).

 

- NO REFILL PROVIDED at the completion of the Sewers (last encounter is at a door where Ellie squeezes through a hole to open it from the other side while you fight off a wave of infected (spare Molotovs are insanely effective for multikills here)) but there's definitely a health refill at the completion of the Suburbs -> beginning of Tommy's Damn very soon afterwards.

The Suburbs is fairly simple with only one encounter being a downhill push towards a sniper nest in the roof of a house. The Pittsburgh to Suburbs chunk is a long stretch of multiple encounters, you might need one or two health kits for this stretch and that's okay.

 

- Don't refill your health in the Tommy's Damn level because there's not many encounters (1 long push at the damn, one in the forest pushing uphill and one in the house) and they are fairly easy with the range of weapons that you have amassed by now.

 

- Health refill at the completion of Tommy's Damn -> the beginning of University. Don't use a health kit for the whole chapter if you can avoid it, it's only really the escape from pursuers once you get spotted that has any need for combat. The chapter ends soon afterwards.

 

- Full health at the start of the next chapter (Winter level). Use a health kit before the final room if you have one due to one of the hardest encounters in the game including a bloater and multiple infected. There's a sequence in Winter where you switch between playing characters a couple of times. Health kits and molotovs from one of those characters doesn't carry over into the next chapter, and molotovs aren't overly effective here, so crafting a health kit if you are struggling is okay.

 

- Health refill at the beginning of the penultimate level: Bus Depot. The only encounters are with infected and there are no more infected after this. You have so much flamethrower ammo provided here and you don't need the flamethrower after this level, so use it without fear. No health kit needed here as a result (just go on the offensive with that flamethrower instead).

 

- Final level is the Hospital. There's not many encounters here. The big one is right at the beginning of the level, so use a health kit if necessary during or at the end of the fight. If you have any spare stock of anything then use it as desired.

 

 

 

In general, there's enough refills and free health kits (two from assisting NPCs and one from scavenging) in the early game to get you through. Craft Molotovs for clicker multikills instead.

 

Also: upgrade pills don't just increase your max health, they also fully refill your health too. Use these tactically instead of a health kit in the earlier parts of the game if you are desperately low on health (maybe have it fully upgraded by the end of Pittsburgh at latest). A health kit will only refill a small amount of health but pill upgrades fill it to the top and add some more, and the earlier your health is at max equates to greater advantages from free end-of-level-refills.

 

 

 

Also: you're desperately low if Joel is breathing heavy, bent over like he has a stitch or a wound, or if the edges of the screen are red.

 

TL;DR: it's really only the

- Pittsburgh -> Sewers -> Suburbs stretch, and

- the Winter chapter

that are the long stretches of repeated difficult encounters without health refills being close by.

 

 

Edited February 7, 2021 by GonzoWARgasm
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[iliya0212]

26 minutes ago, GonzoWARgasm said:

*iirc* [someone please correct me if I'm wrong]

 

You get a top up to max at the end of most chapters...

- Completion of Outskirts

This level is mostly stealth anyway.

 

- Completion of Bill's Town

For your reference: the last encounter for the chapter is right after getting a car. Next chapter is the arrival in Pittsburgh. Might need a health kit for Bill's Town due to the amount of close quarters encounters with infected.

 

- I don't remember if you get a top up at the completion of Pittsburgh/beginner of the Sewers when you jump off the bridge, however, if you were desperately low (around 5%) then you will have had a tiny boost (up to around 20%).

 

- NOT at the completion of the Sewers (spare Molotovs are insanely effective for multikills here) but definitely at the completion of the Suburbs straight after that. Last encounter is pushing downhill towards the sniper nest at the top of a house. Health refill at the beginning of the Tommy's Damn level. The Sewers/Suburbs is a long stretch of multiple encounters, you might need a health kit for this bit.

 

- Don't refill your health in the Tommy's Damn level because there's not many encounters (1 long push at the damn, one in the forest pushing uphill and one in the house) and they are fairly easy with the range of weapons that you have amassed by now.

 

- Health refill at the beginning of the next chapter (University). Don't use a health kit for the whole chapter if you can avoid it but there are a lot of human encounters here, so one may be needed (but no more!)

 

- Full health at the start of the next chapter when playing as someone else. Use a health kit before the final room if you have one due to one of the hardest encounters in the game including a bloater and multiple infected. That is also the last encounter of the level.

 

- Penultimate level: Bus Depot. Only encounters are with infected and there are no more infected after this. You have so much flamethrower ammo provided here and you don't need the flamethrower after this level, so use it sparingly but without fear. No health kit needed here.

 

- Final level is the Hospital. There's no many encounters here. The big one is right at the beginning of the level, so use a health kit if necessary during or at the end of the fight. If you have any spare stock then use it as desired.

 

In general, there's enough refills and free health kits (two from assisting NPCs and one from scavenging) in the early game to get you through. Craft Molotovs for multikills instead.

 

Oh yeah! Upgrade pills don't just increase your max health, they also fully refill your health too. Use these tactically.

 

It's really only the

Pittsburgh -> Sewers -> Suburbs stretch,

The University,

And the Winter chapter

that are the long stretches of repeated difficult encounters.

 

You're desperately low if Joel is breathing heavy, bent over like he has a stitch or a wound, or if the edges of the screen are red.

 

Omg, the amount of effort you put in this list.. Thanks a lot, will definetly use this!!! ??

[Platinum_Vice]

Just now, iliya0212 said:

 

Omg, the amount of effort you put in this list.. Thanks a lot, will definetly use this!!!

 

You're welcome bro. 

 

I must have played this campaign a dozen times. ?

[iliya0212]

Just finished grounded mode, and have to say that there are definitely more then enough health kits to find and automatic health refills to comfortably finish the game, if you are careful and reset encounters when taking unnecessary damage, and even doing that it took me about 20 hours (and I am an average gamer).

I did ended up resetting quite a bit, but only because I wanted to be as conservative with recourses as possible and used only one health kit for the whole playthrough, which also was not really necessary (in the start of the second part of winter chapter, didn't remember if you start wounded, and didn't want to risk it).

So yeah, definitely more than doable, and recommend everyone to try  

 

Thanks to everyone who helped!

Edited December 17, 2020 by iliya0212
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