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NieR: Automata – How to Restore Health

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NieR: Automata – Restoring Your Health

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Unlike most modern video games these days, NieR: Automata doesn’t feature any sort of health regeneration. This means that you’ll have to use healing items in combat, or rest until the bar completely refills. Below, we’ve listed all the ways you can restore your health in the game.

Healing items: Pressing down on the d-pad will allow you to access your quick menu, where you can use a recovery item. Alternatively, pressing the left side of the touchpad on the DualShock 4 will pause the game and bring up an items and equipment menu where you can use recovery items as well.

Resting: Once Anemone gives you the spare room at the Resistance camp, you can head there at any time to rest and regain all of your health.

Chips: Enemies drop them, and supply vendors sell them, so make sure to look at all your chips whenever you pick up new ones. There are chips that will let you regenerate small bits of health over time, as well as chips that restore it with every enemy you kill. Install these, and you’ll probably never have to use a recovery item again in normal fights.

Be sure to check back with Twinfinite and our ever-expanding wiki for more tips, tricks, and information on NieR: Automata.


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Zhiqing Wan
Zhiqing is the Reviews Editor for Twinfinite, and a History graduate from Singapore. She's been in the games media industry for nine years, trawling through showfloors, conferences, and spending a ridiculous amount of time making in-depth spreadsheets for min-max-y RPGs. When she's not singing the praises of Amazon's Kindle as the greatest technological invention of the past two decades, you can probably find her in a FromSoft rabbit hole.