Extra Health

Once I 1337haxorred myself a pwad which removes health armor and ammo limits (atleast I jumped up the limits to 32000 or something), in order to help calculate how much health would be needed for my maps; say, if I can calibrate the amount of healthpacks to be around 1/12 more than the damage the player can accumulate in the map (like, one hit from each monster or something). I think it was worthless in the end because players can be really dumb and get themselves rekt by enviromental damage and whatnot and in the end I just used the pwad for my own leisure (to roleplay as a energy-collecting demon-slaying knight who absorbs stuff and gets power levels and stuff). Why did I mention this?

Other than that, I really love health closets; places where health is often stored, and often in forms of either 5-6 medikits or tons of stimpacks; it can guarantee that a player would return to such a closet eventually (unless the player is a god at the game and dodges every single source of damage, in which case, fun stuff, have unavoidable enviromental damage help > ) and can be a good ground for a potential ambush scenario or whatever. Randomly thrown across medikits (even if a supercomputer calculated their most optimal positions) kinda ruin the aesthetic for me, as I consider item and health placement as kind of art; in a realistic setting, would you grab the medikit which lied in the filth of the sewers for some time now? Or would you prefer the one that is on a ledge or something and away from the wet horror that is sewage? That is kinda why I like health closets; without further thinking in regards of superbly tactical medkit placement, you can put them in a convenient spot, and you can bet on the player passing through the area more than once without having to toss a keycard there. I like the example shown in the picture, and really love with when FPS games in general gimme a health closet like that to get back though; even if I know I would have to deal with some surprising son of a bitch eventually, to know where they all are and to not stress yourselves over the question "Where is the next medikit?" but "How do I get to the medikit?"; the answers given to the second one can be more colorful and satisfying to answer "Just over that horde of pinkies, is the ladder that brings me back to the closet. You can do it Korbs!", whilst just asking the first one is "Uhh... I checked here, I checked there... How I am going to be sure I won't get pummeled by stepping onto that medikit over there?".

For the record; I hate when mappers have the secret soulsphere be worthless to fight for when you get ambushed immediately from all sides and you end up with less health than you should have got.

(my english sucks this fair afternoon)