Guide

Keeping everyone standing through a run

How to use health packs, the truck's healer and the revive item in R.E.P.O. so that a bad moment costs the crew a detour rather than the run.

Applies to

0.4.0, read from the copy of the game this site was built from (see the sources page)

Before you start

• A crew of two or more
• At least one health pack bought
• A run already under way

Steps

1. Watch the health readout rather than counting hits, because health is a tracked number with a display of its own.
   a player's health is tracked and shown in its own interface
2. Carry a health pack before you need one, because recovery uses a carried pack rather than a command.
   recovery uses a carried health pack
3. Treat the truck as a healer and not only as the way out, because it has a healer of its own.
   the truck has a healer of its own rather than only a drop-off point
4. Do not count on every heal working, because the game has effects for a full heal and a separate one for a heal that failed.
   healing has its own effects, including one for a failed heal
5. Keep an eye on how many packs are around, since the game works out how many are available and keeps a count.
   the game works out how many health packs are available and keeps an amount
6. Decide when to stop hitting a monster by its health rather than by its looks, because it has a health total and a freeze time for dying.
   a monster carries a health total and a freeze time for dying
7. Use weight deliberately, because a light, a medium and a heavy impact each do their own damage.
   impacts hurt a monster with separate damage for light, medium and heavy
8. Remember that a kill can leave something behind, because a monster can be set to spawn a valuable up to a maximum.
   it can be set to leave a valuable behind up to a maximum number
9. Revive with the carried device rather than looking for a button: it is an item, and it shows what it is doing.
   reviving is done with a carried item that has lights, lines, particles and a shockwave
10. Spend upgrade money on health and stamina as a plan rather than a repair, because both are upgrades of their own.
    health and stamina can both be upgraded, each with its own wording

Common mistakes

• Leaving the health packs in the truck and meeting the first real monster without one.
• Assuming a heal always lands, when a failed heal is a thing the game draws and plays.
• Hitting a monster until it looks dead instead of reading its health and its dying freeze.
• Treating reviving as a command and forgetting the device has to be carried and aimed.

Related entries

Gear and itemsHealth, damage and recoveryPlayers have tracked health.Gear and itemsThe revive itemReviving is done with a carried item rather than a command.Gear and itemsHealing at the truck and the upgrades behind itThe truck has a healer of its own rather than only a drop-off point.

Sources

A local copy of the game, read only. The grounding for each step is listed on the technical reference pages; nothing here is estimated.