Guild Wars 2

This is a simple one. When in combat, if one runs out of hitpoints they have a chance to revive. So long as they don’t take too much damage, if they can either take out an enemy or their healing skill is high enough to revive themselves before they take a certain amount of damage or run out of time. So if one gets shot, stabbed, clubbed, stomped, torn, scratched, bitten, etc. too much they still have a chance to continue without having to go back to a waypoint.

Why is falling damage handled so differently? You fall down, suddenly its game over— straight back to the way point with you. Why not let the player revive themselves just like in combat?

Maybe one could rationalize this if players had no business engaging in activities that would cause them to regularly and repeatedly take falling damage. However, that’s just not the case. Instead, the game is filled with vista points, skill challenges and so forth that REQUIRE players to leap around in the air above deep chasms. I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say that between 30-40% of the times I have died in the game, it has been the result of falling damage.

If one was worried that players would perhaps… fall into a chasm without a way out, revive and then be stuck… that just doesn’t seem to be a realistic problem. Actually, I have gotten stuck in the scenery several times— the teleport to a waypoint system easily solves this issue.

So, I don’t see why falling should mean death should be more… deadly than death in combat. Is there a defensible reason for this? I’d like to know.

So you won’t shortcut through in areas that are tall.

Instead a fence you can’t pass, they put a height that will kill you.

You don’t revive yourself in combat. You rally after you got punched so hard in the face that you fell down on your butt.

what mithran arkanere said