So, wait, how do the medkits actually work?

[e11]

I've been in the habit of topping my health off if there's been a spare kit lying around, since I thought it healed a specific number. But someone told me during a game that it actually heals a PERCENTAGE of your current HP.

[Flariz]

100% guarenteed to heal at least 80HP.

If you have some spare permanent (not temp) health before using one, you will end up with a little bit over 80HP.

For the most of the part this doesn’t matters too much at the end of the day so I would say to not think about it too hard. Either you have spares to use or you don’t.

[doggun]

yeh it'll only heal 80% of your current SOLID health points. it doesn't include the temporary bleeding HP from pills or after you get revived.

[Red™]

If your health is below 70, it’ll always heal up to the max of 80% no matter what. However, if you find pills, they only heal up to 50% of your health (if your health 30, with pills it’ll go up to 80%)
Although you shouldn’t heal when you don’t need to heal. Better to leave that kit. You’ll never know if you need to come back and need it

[Teacyn]

Yeah, it's generally better to leave the kit if you have more than ~45 HP (unless playing on Expert where you can't really afford to backtrack), as you might need it more if a horde goes bad or a hunter gets you good or something similar. The diminishing returns mean that medkitting at 60-70 HP is extremely not worth it.

[Pyri]

If your health is under 50-40 ish, you'll always get 80 Health, if you heal with high health (60-70) you'll get like 92,93,94 around there.

I would recommend to heal if your near a crescendo event and do not have Pills/Adrenaline.
I always heal when I'm on Black and White screen. I don't want to waste the 60 Placebo health.

[Teacyn]

IMO, if you're on last down you should medkit ASAP even if you have a decent amount of Temporary HP on anything below expert (though if you have like, a full bar of Temp HP you should probably not medkit until you lose like 30 or 40 of it). It's not worth the risk of getting swarmed and dying outright because you tried to conserve like 20 temp HP.

As for expert, Medkits are *extremely* rare on Expert. Most of the time you will not find a single medkit outside of safehouses, if you're lucky you might get one. As such, you should save your medkits until the absolute last possible second.

[Tiptap]

It's 80% of your missing permanent health. Get incapped and heal, you'll get 80 Hp (0.8 x 100). Heal again and you'll have 96 HP (80 + 0.8 x 20).