When I come to the soldier and there is text “press e to help”, I press and hold and nothing happens, only the text changes to “press f to pay respect”, so I am not sure if I helped him or he died :D
yeah it must work like that :) i made the chance 50/50 either you can help and he will simply disappear, or the attempt to help will fail and then he will die and you will have to pay respect. unfortunately, i didn't have time to refine the UI to show it clearly.