You need to play more defensively and take your time. What you hunted in ~10 minutes will now become ~20 minutes.

Probably a bit of CS:GO for the multiplayer thirst and a bit of Orc must die 2 with the GF because nothing strengthen bonds like slaying endless hordes of orcs.

Indeed they had both better chances of survival. But at their level, the slightest detail can change much.

It’s not related to the hit dmg. It’s related to the launch effect when a character receive a hit. If your character has 50% dmg and receive a smash attack, your character will be launched in that direction, for exemple, 50 meters.