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How to heal without items
By Andreng
Limping with 1 HP with no healing items? Black and white with no first aid kits? Use the environment to your advantage!
   
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Category: Co-op, Secrets, Walkthroughs
Languages: English
Game Modes: Campaigns, Mutations
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20 Apr, 2017 @ 5:24am
15 Jan, 2020 @ 6:50am
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Overview
How do I use the environment? 
Drowning 
Ledge hanging 
Video demonstration 
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How do I use the environment?
There are two ways of regaining health without items:
1. Drowning
2. Ledge hanging
Both require a teammate to work. These only work in specific areas of some maps (like those with ledges and high water levels).
Drowning
Things you need:
1. VERY high water levels
2. A teammate to get you up
3. Time
If you stay long enough underwater, your character will start to lose health from drowning. This lost health is regained when you get out of the water (unless you die of course). The health you gain back is always permanent (does not decay). Using this trick, you can convert temporary health lost into permanent health gained back.
Tips:
You HAVE to lose health by drowning. Getting shot to make the process faster does not count.
If you did this right, you will no longer be black and white.
Remember, health lost = health gained. You can convert the 50 health given by pills into 45-48 permanent health.
Ledge hanging
Things you need:
1. A ledge to hang from
2. 1HP
3. A teammate to get you up
Simply walk off a ledge to hang from it. When your teammate gets you back up, you will have 30 temporary health as if you were incapacitated. This is better than letting the infected incap you as hanging will never make you black and white so this can be used repetitively so long as your health is 1. This ONLY works when your health is ONE.
Video demonstration
42 Comments
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Martian Mandalorian 21 Aug @ 10:23am 
New exploits glitches under the map kind of stuff
Andreng  [author] 21 Aug @ 7:37am 
What kind of new stuff?
Martian Mandalorian 21 Aug @ 7:30am 
No one has new stuff thats sad
[ﻮΗc] Comrade Broski 27 Oct, 2019 @ 9:51am 
very handy, those extra hit points are a lifesaver
CooL 5 Jun, 2017 @ 3:40pm 
Nice
Sегiоus Sемеn 7 May, 2017 @ 8:31pm 
не консольные ли это команды??
DG | Tom Da Bomb [S] [D] 7 May, 2017 @ 11:31am 
o nice lol, yeah i havent used the old health tricks since playing l4d1 on xbox XD i dont think it was a known thing tho, but most of the time people just kill someone with low life in the safe house before they close the door so they come back with more life and dont have to use their kit right off, if you kill them in the safe room then close the door they get to keep their melee weapon etc. next round

or a lot of times in the middle of a campaign people stop at a rescue room thats easy to defend from hordes and kill 2 teammates and wait for them to show up and keep going. Which is a pain in the ass but they're things you gotta do to be able to be an expert difficulty player, well unless you just hammer at it over and over till you get a lucky run where everything works out perfect, but thats commonly known thing for expert players so its not really needed, lol actually thats what i thought this would be but way to bring them back
The unusual demo 6 May, 2017 @ 12:49pm 
interesting
:steamsalty:
Andreng  [author] 5 May, 2017 @ 10:37pm 
Most of the time people would want to keep their secondary weapon
Liro Raériyo 5 May, 2017 @ 9:53pm 
is it common? i havent seen it in years, and i still play pubs.