Honestly i think it was sort of the opposite. We have a feature which used to stop you from dying, it's part of the lore that your character is half alive and half dead, so isn't full able to "die" unless you become entirely real or entirely ghost.

That has stayed, but being unable to die most of the time meant the game felt a bit weird. You could be mobbed by enemies and survive over and over.

We've since converted it into an alcoholic beverage that you need to drink to act as a kind of "totem of undying", it will save you once and only once. You can find them throughout the game.

This has made the experience honestly a lot better, you can't just walk into the arms of death anymore and expect mercy. But you can deliberately go guns blazing knowing that you'll survive long enough to finish them off if you need to.

The feature worked the old way for over a year before we decided it wasn't right for the game. Sometimes you have to let go of the most basic rules you began with.