Why is HP hit points

[Simon]

and not health points? Seems fitting, it's your *health* bar and those are its points.

[Apotheosis]

Because

[Ethan_ELI]

It is in Pokémon

[999999999]

It's both.

[Dewa]

Hit points = a value of how much damage or "hits" a character can take in a single life

[crypt]

Silly, OP. HP is a tech company and the brand of my desktop.

[Dewa]

Автор сообщения: crypt

Silly, OP. HP is a tech company and the brand of my desktop.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_V2sBURgUBI

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Автор сообщения: Big Buoy

and not health points? Seems fitting, it's your *health* bar and those are its points.

I think people who ask these questions are born past 2005.

They probably wont get peoples sarcasm posted here either.

[Simon]

Автор сообщения: LeWolfie!

Hit points = a value of how much damage or "hits" a character can take in a single life

Well the first time i heard hit points for a split second i interpreted it as literally hit points, like as in if an enemy has 100 "hit points" he takes a hundred hits to kill.

[Turtle McTurtleson]

Автор сообщения: Big Buoy

Автор сообщения: LeWolfie!

Hit points = a value of how much damage or "hits" a character can take in a single life

Well the first time i heard hit points for a split second i interpreted it as literally hit points, like as in if an enemy has 100 "hit points" he takes a hundred hits to kill.

sometimes it will take more than 100 hits to kill someone

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Автор сообщения: Big Buoy

Автор сообщения: LeWolfie!

Hit points = a value of how much damage or "hits" a character can take in a single life

Well the first time i heard hit points for a split second i interpreted it as literally hit points, like as in if an enemy has 100 "hit points" he takes a hundred hits to kill.

Well then you gotta understand how much damage enemy does. If he got 1 damage, yes, 100 hits will kill you. If he has more damage, then he will kill you in less hits than that.

[VλλK CSGOSKINS cs2cases.pro]

why does its matter even
its won't change any thing

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Автор сообщения: aymen

why does its matter even
its won't change any thing

but it ish too harde to undershtand what hit means

[VλλK CSGOSKINS cs2cases.pro]

Автор сообщения: Rei-

Автор сообщения: aymen

why does its matter even
its won't change any thing

but it ish too harde to undershtand what hit means

hit point indicate how much the enemy deal damage to you to die
if its does 5 damage and ur hp is 100
he will need to hit you 20 time for you to die

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Автор сообщения: aymen

Автор сообщения: Rei-

but it ish too harde to undershtand what hit means

hit point indicate how much the enemy deal damage to you to die
if its does 5 damage and ur hp is 100
he will need to hit you 20 time for you to die

thenk

[sfnhltb]

It all goes back to the original design sessions for Dungeons and Dragons - essentially when converting wargame rules into a role playing game, instead of one hit killing a unit, when that unit was a hero the player was invested in, it became apparent giving the heroes a number of hits before they die was preferable, so the hit point system came about - basically similar to how Warhammer minatures still plays where large units and heroes have "wounds" which follow the exact same logic of a number of hits the unit can take before it goes down.

The ideas around the game evolved so that different weapons did different amount of hit points in damage, but they kept being called hit points rather than being renamed due to inertia I guess.