Kaede’s Medic Guide
Kaede has a great medic how to guide. Excellent overview of weapons, healing, ubercharges, and general tactics. Great stuff!
It is acceptable to call for a medic when:
- You are wounded, preferably MORE so than the person I’m currently healing.
- You want to be buffed for protection.
- You want to make a push and require healing support as you go.
- You are damaging yourself in order to help your team’s medics build up uber.
Please do not:
- Call for a medic unless at least ONE of the above points is true.
- Yell at me for not answering your medic call – find out why.
- Spam “MEDIC!” for no reason, for fun, or to annoy me.
- Spam “MEDIC!” when I’m surrounded by wounded teammates – I’ll get to you.
- Spam “MEDIC!” when you’re already being healed. Honestly, why would you?
- Spam “MEDIC!” when you know your team doesn’t have a medic.
Stumble it!
Digital Jedi » Blog Archive » TF2 A Guide For Playing Medic responded on 07 Dec 2007 at 12:48 am #
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Gromky responded on 09 Dec 2007 at 4:27 pm #
Good, but I think the more important list is when to, and when not to, bitch at your medic.
Do bitch:
1. He swapped to the needle gun and ignored you.
2. You tried to precharge and he just sat there (please note, if he’s already precharging with someone else and you blow yourself up…no bitching).
3. Uhh, hmm…
Don’t bitch:
1. He threw an uber at a demo or soldier, and you’re a heavy. Perhaps the sentry was out of your piss poor range. Hell, a pyro may get an uber under the right circumstances (or anyone, if an uber has to be burned for extreme circumstances).
2. You or he was launched by a rocket and the uber broke due to range. It happens.
3. He had an uber ready and you were sniped. Yes heavy, there’s not much we can do against the one shot.
4. You died while your medic was frantically trying to kill some random spy and/or pyro at close range. Perhaps consider that while you were focused on getting your kills someone was busy raping your medic from behind.
5. He healed someone else first while everyone was injured, or took a second to lock onto you while 5 people were frantically running around in one tiny spot. If you keep going from behind to in front of, to the side of, to underneath, to inside a bunch of other people it may take a bit of work for the medigun to lock on. This isn’t World of Warcraft.
All said, I do love the medic. But it’s such an underplayed class, with such a huge job to do (heal everyone else who can’t be bothered to play support) that people get pissed when they aren’t the first priority for help.
Kaede responded on 12 Dec 2007 at 1:13 pm #
Wow, thanks for the linkback.
Didn’t know about this one – just that lately people have been e-mailing me about the guide, saying they ’stumbled’ upon it, and they don’t seem to have come from the Steam forums, so I went and checked whether my guide was coming up in Google’s results for TF2 searches, and found this.
You’re from Melbourne too, right? I think I had a look at this site a while ago. Good stuff.
- K
madlep responded on 12 Dec 2007 at 1:18 pm #
@Kaede – No probs for the link. It’s great content
Are you writing any other ones? Had a look on your site and couldn’t see any there. Would rock if you are.
Yeah, I’m another Melbournian (for now anyway till I move back to NZ in a few years).
Junior responded on 14 Dec 2007 at 8:39 pm #
I like the bit about “why the hell are you bunnyhopping in front of me you stupid medic?” The number of times I’ve hidden behind the ubered medic, and laughed as he jumps around his pet heavy just knowing that the heavy can’t see anything beyond Sahsa!
No one looks after their medics, and I love the people who do, try keeping a pyro handy if you’re going into their territory, having someone to watch YOUR back is immensely useful.
DamionKutaeff responded on 23 Mar 2008 at 8:57 pm #
Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
and wish to assit as far as possible.
derhimmelstoss responded on 07 Jul 2008 at 6:53 am #
Link is down. Madlep?
Anonymous responded on 30 Sep 2008 at 8:55 pm #
http://kaede.vort-x.com/tf2/guide/medic.html
dude responded on 12 Mar 2009 at 10:32 am #
dude….tf2 is a fucking cartoon style game…why would you be so serious about it? i mean come on one of the weapons is a sandwich
Uberturtle responded on 06 Aug 2009 at 1:40 pm #
Also, Scouts, if you want to get healed then stay near the medic. i can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a scout spam the heal button only to be healed only halfway as he runs out of range of my medigun. The medics are fast, but we can’t keep up with you scouts. and you will never get an ubercharge unless we are about to die. that’s just they way things are
Pyros, remember to fire behind us occasionally. we need that spy protection you can offer and we appreciate it.
Medics, keep your fellow medics healed. please. and when ubercharged stand in front of any incoming rockets and grenades so you get the back blow and your teammate can continue firing.
any n00bs who bitch at a decent medic can expect to not be healed for the rest of the game. and God help you if you steal our medkits! Medics get first priority on all medkits!
Pico responded on 29 Sep 2009 at 6:36 pm #
Link doesn’t work anymore…
snorsorbet responded on 20 Oct 2009 at 3:47 am #
Medic is a great class. Nice guide, too :O However, it’s very weak on most pubs due to lack of communication. I can’t mention I have gotten “raped from behind” by a random pyro, popping up from nowhere while my heavy buddy wastes his ammo at that sniper on the other side of the map.
One thing I’ve got to mention though, is when I am low on HP, on fire and stand beside a medic healing his overhealed Soldier almost outside our spawn.
).
I shouted “Medic!” several times, but he just turned around to face me, said “Need a Dispenser here!” and turned back (OK, he didn’t say “Need a Dispenser here!”, but he could have
I died from the flames. And raged.
Anybody else with the same experience?
Kaede responded on 06 Nov 2009 at 7:08 am #
Hey madlep and others, just a heads-up that the link is down again. I changed hosting a while back and haven’t reuploaded yet; in any case it was out of date after the medic update (with the new weapons). There are quite a few guides out now though, so it’s not a huge deal.
If you’d like I can let you know when the updated version is reposted?