Ubering a heavy and having him FALCON PUNCH four peoeple isn’t.

I hate the achievements, I hate the idea of unlockables, but I love the idea of new weapons. Don’t play medic much, but I will jump with joy for the demoman and scout ones.

Untill I realize I have to get ubered by a medic, bottle five guys, taunt in front of a train, then get crit kukri’d by a sniper with the letter z in his name while singing sweet home alabama to get them.

Long story, but it happens when posts are made without an email see this comment I made yesterday. I’ll hack into the code at the weekend and get it sorted.

bit strange. Either a massive coincidence or some weirdo making posts in my name for kicks

It’s all about prioritising, which is the main basis of the class. If you can do that well, then those things shouldn’t be a problem.

Still, it doesn’t make the achievments any more valid if a medic can do that. Who really is going to uber a scout in a proper match? I agree with you on those points.

As it is, some are alright, some are challenging, but still good, and some are outright ridiculous. The Bonesawing and Syringe-gunning should be for classes in general, not tied to just Scouts and Medics. Heavy-punching should *not* be tied to the achievements. Placebo Effect is possible in normal play, but the knowledge of it just makes bad medics play worse. Bah, I’ll stop complaining.

In my opinion, those achievements that seem to be there just for random no-one-cares bullshit fun should be in a category of their own. Ubering a Heavy that punches out people, I’d do that in a game where it didn’t really matter, and neither team cared too much about winning (say a get-together or even some pub matches that just get the right people playing at the right time, where people are mucking around and socialising more than playing). I like the random not-serious-play-at-all achievements as long as they’re there for *fun*, and not tied to unlocking a weapon or something along those lines.

HOWEVER,limiting these achievements to attacking only ONE class (Scout, then Medic) entirely overlooks many scenarios where you’ll be defending yourself. If anything, the needlegun achievement should have been attached to killing Pyros, as they seem to be a major Medic + Patient teambuster.

The end result of this achievement crap has been to encourage a reckless (and inefficient in all but the best players’ hands) combat-Medic style of play that has very little to offer in a team environment.

A good medic should be looking at what is going on around them and shouldn’t get into that situation too often anyway. It’s not somewhere you want to be.

Making it something that is *encouraged* to do as an achievement is just stupid and goes against all logic and strategy in the game.

Either with me as the medic or scout, I don’t needle or get needled much; scouts are good at evading fire and the needlgun is the worst gun in the game for hitting a target moving perpendicular to your line of fire. So I would argue the point still stands.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=677914

I think that perhaps what would be better for unlocking new weapons would be to take a similar approach as in CoD4, namely giving experience as they play the class. That way whether they get the weapons isn’t proof of their devotion to the achievements but to the class itself.

I like the idea of the new weapons. But most of the achievements are pretty lame.

Silan, if you read it again carefully, madlep didn’t make the statement you’re questioning. Still, the syringe gun is not the most effective scout killer. It’s not even close. Sascha is the most effective scout killer. That’s the point Spotpuff makes in his article.

You really ought’a write an email to them.