Health bar and character's death | Types of missions Destiny Guide
Last update: 01 February 2017
Destiny uses automatically regenerated health bar, which, however, can be rebuilt only when the character is not currently under attack and is not receiving any damage. Health bar appears on the screen only when the controlled character is being attacked. Additionally, more serious damage is indicated by red spots appearing on the screen, which suggest that you need to find cover as soon as possible.
Reducing the health bar to zero results in death of the character, however, the consequences of that are not severe. Namely, you have to wait a few seconds until respawn, and after you press the assigned button, you can resume fighting in the same location (without having to return to one of the previous checkpoints).