So... Lava Element... I got lava pits generated on Hell 8, so I cleared out hell 9 after defeating the Lava Elemental (really easy, as I had a pretty broken weapon- Modded up laser rifle = pure win...), which of course had dropped a "Lava Element." I am not sure how new this is- I didn't run lava pits in 9.9.1, but I did a couple versions ago. Anyway, I didn't know what it did, so I used it after playing around with cybie for a bit (just toying with him, wanted to see what it did). Anyway, it gave me invincibility, so naturally, I primed up the Nuke I was carrying around... Anyway, long story short, you have to use the damn Lava Element second or you stand to get nuked (I nearly killed the damn thing in the 3 seconds I had left...), but it looks like the lava element can basically guarantee a chance at a full win (as in, getting a crack at JC) if you take on the Lava Pits?
Also, I'm new to 9.9.2, but I can't seem to get the medical armors to actually heal me at all... I found medical power armor right before going to visit Cybie and jumped in a lava pool to lower my health (Wiki isn't sure what % it's supposed to bring you up to) and it just didn't do a thing... And the regular medical armor similarly didn't do it's thing... Am I doing it wrong?