Valve have thankfully left you the edifying option of ‘achievement farming’ with a bunch of randoms.

The ungratifying, far-from-pretty alternative is to jump onto a server whose name implies achievement farming and then to access the Steam interface in-game (default: Shift Tab iirc). From here you can select ‘Players’ and ‘Add as a Friend’. Then you sit around not playing the game with your newfound (pseudo-)friends for the best part of a couple of days until you’ve unlocked the Blutsaugher and the Kritzkrieg, with the Ubersaw being nigh-on impossible for all of TF2’s casual (and supposedly target) playerbase to acquire.

And, I agree, Goldrush is the only good thing to come out of this update.

Not that I want an ubersaw desperately (and not that I’ve managed to unlock any of the medic achievements yet, despite medic being my second most played class), but it is a little urking to be condemned just by not being popular…

Goldrush, on the other hand, is the best thing since sliced bread.

Other advice: point out how punitively stupid it is to have six medics on defense, and point it out repeatedly. You become “that guy,” but your team does better, your whole team will get into the communication groove more, and the whole affair becomes much more fun. People do listen. Cheers ;)

Guess all that “taking one for the team” and being medic in the past really has paid off…

I found I had to continuously take one for the team and be an engineer in the past, so no such luck for me. Now post-patch I STILL have to take one for the team and be engineer since we usually have 5-6 Medics on a given team defending with 0 engineers. I’ll be a medic when we only have 2, but within 10 minutes we’ll have 5 medics and I have to switch back.

It’s amazing that, even with so many medics, there are so few ubercharges deployed on the many teams I’ve been on. People seem to think it’s enough to randomly heal and then die in waves without ever getting ubercharge.

Also, what is the deal with all the people who cheated to unlock the medic things and then hog the medic class? >:0(

and problem solved. ps the ubersaw is just better than the old saw, no real trade off

I used to play CS and CS:S a lot about 6 years back but always with a group of friends, because of the tide of arseholes that seemed to inhabit most servers (I mean, who wants to play a game like CS and not play as a team – that always seems baffling to me). And then I kind of.. stopped.

Sounds like I’ll wait a few weeks before I try TF2, because I really want to play a Medic, not because of silly achievements. I’m already in the RPS group (as qrter) anyway, I’ll have a look where RPS people are playing.