"Reasonably slow but complete healthregeneration for everyone"
The title already sais basically everything.
[EDIT: YET ACHIVING THIS THROUGH THE PERK "BLESSED BLOOD" IS JUST AS FINE. EVEN THOUGH THAT WOULD REQUIRE A SECOND PERK SLOT FOR EVERYONE. OTHERWISE THE OTHER PERKS WOULD PROBABLY GO TO WASTE.]
Yet since i am pretty sure you already had this in mind, since it is technically already implemented in the form of the perk "Blessed Blood" the reason you refrained from just making it a passive for everyone to just have is probably your fear of its impact on the gameplay.
Now allow me to speak freely here for once:
THE IMPACT WOULD BE AWSOME! DO IT! JUST DO IT!!!
I mean sure there are other things, like just for example the fact that despite of the big "customize everything" shown in the trailer, I still can't add or remove helmets just simple helmets, which a LOT of people want by the way since a faceless guy can just be related to MUCH better. But you see I very well
understand that this kind of stuff takes time and work. And this brings me back to my original point. This is not such a thing. In comparison, it probably would be a few clicks on the right machine for you. But yeah, that is of course not even the big matter anyway. The big matter here is:
Do the potential advantages outweigh the risks.
I mean, I can imagine someone reading this thinking: "Well then why not just make every bullet oneshot aswell now that were at it, and increase the overall health to 10 times the current amount Ha-ha-hA-HA-HAA!" And sure, it is entirely possible to screw up the gameplay like this.
BUT "Reasonably slow but complete healthregeneration for everyone"
WILL MOST CERTANLY NOT!
IT WILL DO THE OPPOSITE
I love Deathwing, I love Warhammer, and I have great respect for you devs
because I know you do too.
So let me give specific reasons as to why
"Reasonably slow but complete healthregeneration for everyone"
should defenately be enabled.
1.This is not Vermintide. I am fairly sure that you took at least some inspiration from Vermintide when you guys first designed the overall gameplay system.
It was probably something like this:
In Vermintide there is no real healthregeneration, just some potions, some perks and bandages. So lets go a similar way in Deathwing but with an Apothecarius instead of the other stuff. And on paper, that doesn't sound so bad, but in reality, it is just not as good as it should be. In Vermintide, everyone is almost 100% responsilble for one's own health. That is the key difference.
2.You are absolutely dependant on your Apothecarius. Now sure ... you can go into a mission without one. But dooing so right now equals ruining the fun part of it completely. You see, every class in Deathwing is more or less equal at the moment. Good job on that devs. Every class with gigantic exeption of the Apothecarius, why? What makes him so special? Don't get me wrong, the Apothecarius is really awsome the way he is right now. Do not nerf him.
Enabeling "reasonably slow but complete healthregeneration for everyone" even includes him.
But it will make him equal and there is nothing wrong with that.
3.Now reading my last sentence "... nothing wrong with that." you maybe think of the scenario where a mission is launched without an Apothecarius, and whenever someone gets hurt he, or even the entire squad would just start to wait around for them to heal. Boring right? Yeah except for the fact that in 4of5 places you are beeing bombarded with Xenos. And even when you find a secure place, it is not even a bad thing to just wait a few moments to catch breath and regenerate. I mean, that is one of the reasons why psygates exist right? But the strongest thought that speaks against this fear is the following: It already is this way! Especially when someones legs get cripelled you have no other choice but to wait for the heal of the Apothecarius. Which he sometimes just doesn't care about because the Assults healthbar itself is often still not really down far.
4.Deathwing is a teamgame. No doubt. But why give away free possibilities?
I mean like 100% free. What I mean here is that, I for my part enjoyed it
incredibly much to just walk inside a mission alone. Not the campagin as there you are not really alone, but the multiplayer missions. But I never could do that with anything else than the Apothecarius. I honestly already fantasized about doing this with someone like the Assult like as if that was an unachivable dream. Yet it does not need to be at all. The only thing required to make it real is "Reasonably slow but complete healthregeneration for everyone".
Make it happen. S'il te plaît.