Comments on: Critical Warfare

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:36:30 +0000

Try a kritzed sniper who uses his SMG. You can empty that 25 round magizine pretty damn fast, and at 24 damage a pop, most things can’t stand in its way for very long.

By: Cupcake, Darn It!

Cupcake, Darn It! — Tue, 05 May 2009 04:48:55 +0000

Even through my lack of a mic and my incoherent typing to my team, we were able to coordinate an uber and a kritz at the same time. Oddly, enough, not amazingly devastating. I think the shiny uber kind of scared them off anyways, so there was no one to hit with the kritz. Beauty of the kritz is that it’s not as obvious, so enemies run into the stream of shiny bullets and spam

By: diddlysquat

diddlysquat — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:39:26 +0000

The sniper now critz from a charge as of a recent patch. Why valve went out of their way? Dunno…

Quote from update news:

“Sniper rifle now supports Crit Boost state like all other weapons (i.e. Kritzkrieg makes all shots critical hits)”

By: Anony1200

Anony1200 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:41:20 +0000

My biggest gripe about the Kritzi is the fact that it’d work way better in a TRPG.The biggest problem is not only are you completly vurnurable,it sort of gives you tunnel vision-after all,who uses the kritzi non-offensivly,anyway?
Another major gripe is VALVe stil has yet to implement crit detection on buildings(it’s obvious that this is on purpose,yet VALVe seems to be going as far as possible to make sure Engineers are useless as a defensive measure rather than a support measure so it may come on sentries some time).If there’s a level 3 sentry ahead,and you’re healing a Heavy who isn’t overhealed(like you tend not to be in a cruber),I hope the heavy packed a Shotty and not a Sanvich(Be your own medic in 1 easy unlockable!).

By: SAC

SAC — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:42:54 +0000

@Dingo!:

Actually, it’s entirely possible to consistently facestab, not looking at the problems that Valve has patched.

I won’t reveal it, of course. League of Spies honor code. =D

In addition, I would like to say that I take kritz over uber most of the time. With a competent shooter, you can easily decimate a collective group, whereas ubers are mainly better for destroying sentries, on pyros, and on heavies.

By: n00bie51

n00bie51 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:24:27 +0000

I think the Kritzkrieg is more of a precision-based scalpel and that the Medigun’s ÜberCharge is more of a broad sword. Using a Kritzkrieg and succeeding seems to be trickier than standard invulnerability; I think it requires the same amount of coordination if not more to utilize effectively and competently.

By: APARTHEID

APARTHEID — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:54:24 +0000

As I’ve found, one’s playstyle changes as they choose the healing implement of choice. With the Medigun, one must be more cautious of battle and position themselves away from danger, looking only for lone stragglers to Ubersaw if the opportunity presents itself; with the Kritzkrieg, one can be more aggressive and actively take advantage of their increased crit-rate to outgun ( … or outsaw ) wounded opponents.

Kill for kill, a proper Kruber can net enough kills to put some punch behind the Syringe Gun and a better guarantee behind the Ubersaw. A Medic can use their crits to flank unaware enemies, but it isn’t something you want to do often.

( Mind you, there are many more Kritz-friendly options than there are Uber options, so they’re much easier to pull off as well! )

By: n00bie51

n00bie51 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:25:33 +0000

Kritzkrieg + Snipers = pr0?

By: Monchberter

Monchberter — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:32:15 +0000

I love being a kritz medic, especially on a team that is struggling, joining and then surgically using the power to give the other cocky team a nasty surprise.

I;ve always found that my default kritz target is heavy (a GOOD heavy mind) on defense because you can run to their frontline and catch them off guard, this does not work so well on offense as the other team are usually more spread out and looking in your direction. If i’m playing offense, i normally use the medigun, unless we have another medic, although a good crit-demo or crit-solider does a huge amount of damage, but then again, it almost always is of more benefit on defense.

By: Eran

Eran — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:01:14 +0000

@BlueMouse:
Did the Diamond on a 12-a-side duel_duel2 game (I’m not making this up) and started a forward movement which destroyed six sentries and the people defending then. We then started to spawncamp their team. Glorious.

By: General Goose

General Goose — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:55:53 +0000

Shame the [-Q-] servers went down. Apparently the person running them had to much to do in his personal life.

By: Dark Master

Dark Master — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:39:22 +0000

Dingo: Sounds more like you’re bringing an additional element of chaos to the battlefield. Sometimes, if you can’t match somebody’s level of skill or playing style and you have to “Surrender to chaos”.

That said, I’m always swapping the weapons depending on the situation.

By: Dingo!

Dingo! — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:23:08 +0000

@ Wormatsu: Alas, no, it doesn’t. Neither can you facestab with the spy’s knife.

Since I’m usually the only Medic on my team I prefer switch-hitting. I swap guns every death or two. Alot of times what this comes down to is a battle of wits with the enemy medics, and if you can keep them guessing for most of the round they’re going to have a hell of a time trying to counter.

By: Himmelstoss

Himmelstoss — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:48:15 +0000

Who exactly are you referring to by “more vocal author”?

I don’t know. Ranting just comes naturally to me, I guess.

By: Himmelstoss

Himmelstoss — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:07:53 +0000

Nice post. I’ve never really gotten the hang of using the kruber (even on defense!); this post was pretty useful. And of course, I’m reading it from one of the best medics I’ve ever played with, I know I can trust it!

On a side note: NOOOOO! THE [-Q-] SERVERS WENT DOWN!!!! Man, those servers were so awesome, I’ll miss them.

By: This is not my real name

This is not my real name — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:00:02 +0000

Quite a nice article…to say the truth, l was a kritz-hater when the kritz first came out…why?
Because if two medics fave each other, the uber one is ALWAYS going to win.
I know, it’s stupid, but that’s what l thought.
Then, well, l broadened my mind and saw some advantages, but still..
I always used the medigun and gave the kritz no chance at all…now maybe l will give it a chance…the one thing l know for sure is that it’s more fun that the medigun…now if it gives you more points too, then, l’ll use it alright!

By: SAC

SAC — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:43:53 +0000

The revolver is an underestimated and underused tool. Decent amount of damage, great accuracy, and a spontaneous reload combined with a decent ammo pack size. I once got a lucky crit streak and took out a full health Heavy with the revolver head on, without a scratch.

As for Kritzes, it’s my default healing tool. It’s more my style; destroy, rather than protect. But hey, what do I know? At 20 hours, the Medic is my least played class. Don’t even have the Ubersaw yet.

By: Wormatsu

Wormatsu — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:20:07 +0000

Actually I’m rather sure that a Kritz-Sniper Rifle does all criticals too. I was kritzed when caught off guard once and after taking the attacker out with the Crit-Kukri I aimed and shot an enemy pyro in his chest and got a critical.

By: Corodan

Corodan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:54:35 +0000

People are stealing my credit of bringing up the KruberRevolver. D;

By: The Light

The Light — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:28:31 +0000

@Hell-met: I thought that’s what it’d do but I wasn’t sure. Thanks a bunch!

@Chronomeister: That’s a good point though the hardest part is FINDING a competent demoman, especially on my team. The evil bastards tend to be against me all the time. While I don’t think you can get off all 12 in the ten seconds (slightly less than one shot per second rate of fire IIRC) it does get a lot more fire power out faster than a soldier. Assuming he can aim well. :B

@General Goose: Ah, I hadn’t thought about looking up frag videos of it in use. Good finds there.

@FrohmanForPrez: “I think it’s highly dependent on the map, objective, & players.” You hit the nail on the head there. I honestly only find myself Kritzing if I’ve got a friend on or at least someone intelligent enough to communicate with me.

Thanks to everyone who has said they like it or anyone who finds this marginally useful. I’ve written and re-written it so many times I just about had given up on it. @_@