Comments on: Being the Medic

By: Razerfox

Razerfox — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:01:39 +0000

In reply to Zoidberg. Sweet! Don't drop the uber :P

By: Zoidberg

Zoidberg — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:30:58 +0000

Great Guide.
Thanks Razerfox for all your awesome posts.
Inspired me into playing more medic, which is now my main class. xP

By: ShadowNX

ShadowNX — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:39:42 +0000

Great read, just one thing i realized that i did not find in this guide is that:

When healing and topping up, keep your eye on your ubercharge meter, if you heal someone and the charge does not increase , your target is a spy and should be smoked asap.

Great way to become a spy hunter in my opinion 😛

By: vomitshovel

vomitshovel — Sat, 22 May 2010 10:30:13 +0000

To be honest, Medic is the hardest clas to play in my opinion.
Anyone, i mean ANYONE, can aim. Anyone can predict. That’s just practise.
Medic is a whole other ball game, replacing aim with positioning.
Having had Beetle as our medic for a while, no offense to lawnmower who is a ROXORZ medic, but the difference between a division 1 medic and just… a medic, is very apparent.
Having a good medic is the backbone of the team, and knowing you’ll get your heals when you need it allows you to push confidently.
South African TF2 has the tendency of assigning medic to the “fat kid” or the least skilled player in the eyes of the team. This is RETARDED.
Your medic should be calling, setting the pace of your teams push and ultimately, staying the hell alive.
The difference between a medic and a PROMEDIC is very apparent when watching ETF2L or ESEA replays of medics.

By: shoootaaa

shoootaaa — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:42:06 +0000

I WANNA BE A MEDIC NOW! 😛

By: Peng

Peng — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:57:39 +0000

However Razer I have to disagree with you…. I still believe it is the easiest class in the game to play.

WHAT?! Medic imo is hard to play, for me personally, it’s the demoman that’s easy. Demoman and Soldier. Point and click ftw 😀

By: Razerfox

Razerfox — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:37:33 +0000

Alright the poll is up! But yeh all comes down to “personal preference and experience to master a class” anyways guys this was more about motivating to play/improve the class as less experienced teams and players only give credit to the top frag hunters forgeting the vital support of a Medic’s job.

By: Deacan

Deacan — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:40:49 +0000

Well I have dedicated a lot of time to medic…. I find it a lot easier to play the medic class as opposed to say soldier. Maybe this has to do with my game style than any thing else. Maybe the article is correct in saying that the easiest class may be player specific.

However a new medic is very noticable in pick up or clan game… but that learning curve to being fairly decent is not that long. Since this seems to revolve more around heal order/priority and positioning/map knowledge. After that comes your movement and your ability to identify danger and dodge damage and this is what separates the top medics (like Andy…. can only comment on local players) from the rest of us.

Maybe the the moral of the story is for us “medics” to realize that there is still room to improve our games and stop moaning about being stuck on medic all the time? There is a reason why people want us to play medic all the time. Take it as a compliment and use that time to learn and adjust things we might be doing wrong. (More a note to myself than anything else, sorry just had an Epiphany)

By: Randomsaurus

Randomsaurus — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:29:04 +0000

I totally agree with Andy. Most of the tf2 classes are designed to be easy to play, except in cases like with the sniper, where some skill is needed, but other than that most of them are pretty easy to just play and be at least semi descent with. The difference comes in with experience I believe. As with anything in life, the more you do it, the better you become at it. To just come back to the whole point about medics being easy to play etc. As a person who loves the medic, in both playing them and just being healed by one. I just have to say, yes anyone can play medic, but to really impact the game and help push your team into a winning position, you need to know how to play the medic well! And like beetle said, the difference between a skilled medic and a mediocre one is pretty obvious!
But before I start writing an essay, I just wan to say, nice article! I enjoyed it and completely agreed with all that was said! I too hope that this will inspire a few other peeps to give ze Medic a bit of a go! OKTOBERFEST!

By: Beetle

Beetle — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:32:55 +0000

“However Razer I have to disagree with you…. I still believe it is the easiest class in the game to play.”

I think it is the easiest class for someone to just pick up randomly and play, but in order to play it well, in order to master the class as only people like Kynnel and the top top medics have, you need to be smart, you need ultimate gamesense and you need experience.
It may be the easiest class for people to play randomly, but the difference between a good medic and a bad medic is visible if you know where to look.

I think that medic is the most difficult class to rate skill wise since many people play medic on the same level, with only a few outstanding characters, this is because many medics undervalue the potential of mastering the class.