User blog comment:MarkvA/Gamescom - Assassin's Creed III Preview/@comment-203.129.48.86-20120822151144/@comment-4868246-20120823233641

Reply to Joker: Actually Connor doesn't regenerate "Very quickly", Ubisoft stated that Connor must escape combat and wait breifly to begin regenerating. Much like AC1 but harder since it won't start to regenrate until you escape and vanish :D