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In Portal (and Portal 2), I can get hurt by lasers, bullets, etc. Do I have a finite amount of health that is depleted every time I get singed, or is it a case of sustaining damage for a continuous amount of time resulting in death?

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I think its continuous damage = death – Joe the Person Oct 8 '11 at 21:36
@fireDude67 I think that's what it is too, but I have no evidence. – fredley Oct 8 '11 at 21:38

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You do have 100 health, only the exact number isn't shown on the HUD.

Continuous damage will kill you, but your health regenerates very quickly when you aren't damaged for a bit.

You can observe this in Portal 1 by giving yourself the HEV suit (console command give item_suit, needs sv_cheats to be enabled), which causes your health to be visible.

In Portal 2, issuing ent_dump player after being shot at by a turret displayed the following, so it's pretty safe to assume that it works the exact same way as in 1:

] ent_dump player
  [...]
  max_health: 100
  health: 10
  [...]
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You can't even kill yourself with lasers. – GnomeSlice Oct 8 '11 at 21:39
@GnomeSlice I'm pretty sure Portal 2's lasers do kill you at some point, if you mash your face into them repeatedly. Maybe it's just the co-op bots, though. – lunboks Oct 8 '11 at 21:41
I've definitely done it for minutes at a time with no exciting results. – GnomeSlice Oct 8 '11 at 21:50
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I've killed myself with lasers. – Raven Dreamer♦ Oct 8 '11 at 21:51
@GnomeSlice Maybe this was changed in a patch and you tried it before that. Using ent_dump, I've verified that lasers do between 2 and 3 damage. – lunboks Oct 8 '11 at 21:54
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