how to regen health in a pause in the battle (no food)

[steveh2112]

i'm in the Wandering in the Dark quest and dealing with the hounds (right after golem) and kill the first wave but my health is down to about 30% or so. how can i get it back since i can't meditate and have no food, i'm kinda stuck and tired of having to restart from the the last savable point

[Helen Magnus]

Do you have your Swallow potion equipped? You can drink potions while in a fight. Take advantage any bombs you have. Have two different kinds equipped.

[steveh2112]

all i have is a tawny owl which doesn't do anything. i can survive the first 2 waves but my health is down around 10% after and i can't get the third and i'm on easiest setting. all the other games like AC odyssey you regenerate automatically. i don't want to go all the way back to a save outside the cave just to get some food, i'm pretty frustrated with this game. maybe there is mod to help.

[Stormsong]

Sounds like you might be under prepared for this encounter. I'm sure that's not what you want to hear, but if you're this far along and all you have for pots is Tawny Owl, you really haven't been keeping up with your potions. As far as reasonably quick, non-food heals. You have Swallow (which I know you said you don't have, but I'm listing things), White Raffard's Decoction, and the alternate Quen Sign.

If you like the idea of automatic health regen, I'd recommend looking into the yellow ability called... I think it's Gourmet? It lengthens food regen to something ridiculous, like 10 minutes, and makes it so that with pretty sparse re-application of food buffs you basically regenerate all the time.

[Hammer Of Evil]

that sucks man, i'd never be caught in a quest with one potion and no items/oils/grenades left. and the price for being under prepared and possibly under leveled is: now you have to use total skill to avoid taking any damage.

it's do-able but you're going to struggle.

what i would do: just take it on the chin, load a previous save, head elsewhere, level up, rebuild the stack of items, upgrade the armor, try it again later.

[Moist Butt]

Originally posted by steveh2112:

all i have is a tawny owl which doesn't do anything. i can survive the first 2 waves but my health is down around 10% after and i can't get the third and i'm on easiest setting. all the other games like AC odyssey you regenerate automatically. i don't want to go all the way back to a save outside the cave just to get some food, i'm pretty frustrated with this game. maybe there is mod to help.

You can try cheesing the combat by playing super safe. Basically only engage your enemy when you have quen on so in theory you will never take damage if done properly. Regardless you need to improve your combat skill or grind levels.

[MTV]

You will have to keep quen up and dodge all attacks when your quen is down. Otherwise you're gonna have to go back and be prepared. You might find more food in the ruins if you explore.

Early game. I think the yellow skill that makes food heal for 20 mins is very useful. You should have taken that.

[Moist Butt]

Originally posted by M'aiq:

Early game. I think the yellow skill that makes food heal for 20 mins is very useful. You should have taken that.

He probably didn't know and the perk is quite abusive in the early game too. Game becomes so much easier with that perk.

[natshely]

console commands

additem('Swallow 2')

additem('Raw meat')

healme - This console command will set your health to full

[steveh2112]

Originally posted by natshely:

console commands

additem('Swallow 2')

additem('Raw meat')

healme - This console command will set your health to full

awesome, worked great after i found out how to enable the console
https://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/343786195665968401/

i now realized i should have prepared better but it would be nice if the developers left some food or something close by to help, especially on the easiest level

[Prof. N. Euge-Boren]

i now realized i should have prepared better but it would be nice if the developers left some food or something close by to help, especially on the easiest level

I don't wanna judge or anything, I'm just curious. How can you end up with NOTHING to eat? My stash is filled with at least 30 Fresh Water, same amount for Meat and lots of small stuff just from looting. And just as a Tip: Loot everything, not only chests and crates. Also barrels, sacks and those other packages you can find. Food has 0 weight afaik, or at least not much ^^

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Just be better prepared, and if you don't want to do that, manually save more often 9even overwriting old saves if you want) and/or set auto save timer to less time.
But yeah, be better prepared.