Comments on: An Apple A Day

By: CrashT

CrashT — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:54:06 +0000

Hey I’m usually a Medic and I care when I use the Uber and the guy just stands they doing nothing… Though after reading Walker’s “confession” I might be a little less forthcoming with my vitriol when it happens next time.

By: KingMob

KingMob — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:17:42 +0000

If you’re ubered and out of ammo as a soldier, just use the shotgun and hope for crits.

Anyway, Medics don’t care if they waste an uber on you, usually it was to save their own life as well. All we ask is that you withdraw when you see the uber is wearing off. Usually some demoman has planted 4 or 5 bombs under us, and if you just move we’ll both live.

By: Buxton

Buxton — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:44:09 +0000

Medics: Buy a good microphone / headset and use it.

Everyone else: You too.

The team that talks to each other, slaughters the other.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:40:29 +0000

I find the soldier the worst to be given an uber charge to. I’ll have two rockets left and suddenly someone slaps me with an ubercharge and I am running around firing rockets into the ground trying desperately to hit something, then have to wait while I reload in a painfully slow fashion as the charge trickles away. Then I have to listen to the medic complaining about me because I got us both killed and did nothing of use. I do pretty well as a soldier on my own, firing random rockets down narrow areas and annoying the other team, suppressing snipers or slowing down enemy rushes but the ubercharge definitely renders me usless.

I haven’t played for a while I was waiting for the medic achievement fever to die down now I am waiting for the pyromania to subside, hopefully I will be able to go back in a while. I used to play pyro quite a bit but being a pyro amongst other pyros will probably be embarrassing, everyone will be able to see how bad I am as one in comparison to everyone else.

By: Alex/Daffs

Alex/Daffs — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:28:04 +0000

Okay. I snapped. I was addicted to TF2 over Christmas (the 360 version, shamefully). All this talk of Pyros and upgrades and that sweet, sweet Sniper video… They lured me in.

I bought TF2 off Steam yesterday.

AND I IMMEDIATELY REGRET IT. Gahhh!
This is why I don’t buy online games for PC. I just can’t get them to run… Everything’s jumpy and I don’t know if it’s my shitty (though apparently above Recommend Specs) PC or my shitty (yet amazing for everything else) internet connections or some mystical intersection of the two.

I don’t have a friends list and get lost in the umpteen servers, where I instantly lose connection or end up the only one on a vast, empty map, or in an AchievementWhore game…

I’m not too used to the mouse, and don’t know what sensivity I should set it to, and so can’t hit a thing…

And worst of all…Everyone’s playing as Pyros now, my old favourite underdog.

(That said, I have played a good couple of hours this morning hoping my experience would get better, and if anyone wants to offer to hold my hand, they’re more than welcome.)

By: sigma83

sigma83 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:51:39 +0000

Poet: yes, totally aware, but single stickies flying across the map at 5 second intervals rarely get the job done cause the engy can actually shoot them off and repair the damage. A hail of well-aimed grenades; not gonna happen.

By: Malibu Stacey

Malibu Stacey — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:48:36 +0000

Being an engineer is okay, but people not knowing how to cooperate with a medic are meh. Often i get chased by pyros, while the people i heal don’t even care. Frustrating.

This happens constantly to me. I also love it when people are screaming for healing, I start healing them but they still keep running towards the nearest medpack & inevitably collect it as they are almost full of health. This is always followed by me being rushed by a Pyro & since I can’t heal myself, I die before I can find another medpack.

I think the medic unlocks might be bugged. I only have 21 achievements but it unlocked both the Kritzkreig & the Ubersaw for me last night (so with the 3 milestones I have 24/39 in the medic pack). It looks like it’s counting milestones as achievements which may or may not be by design but I’m not complaining to VALVe at any rate & if they do fix that I’ll probably have the 22nd I need for the Ubersaw anyway as I’m a little off completing some of the longer ones.

To everyone saying they can’t handle the pressure etc in team games like TF2 & CS:S. Have you ever considered maybe not playing Team based mulitplayer games? There was this multiplayer game type a while ago, not many people have heard of it so it may come as a shock to you. It’s called “Deathmatch” as far as I can remember & the concept is every man (or woman) for themself. Crazy concept I know, don’t think it’ll ever catch on but give it a bash if you ever find one of those “Deathmatch” games.

At the very least stop trying to play a team game like it’s deathmatch. Perhaps use your voice comm key once in a while & ask for advice? You never know you might be pleasantly surprised by the results.
I got the “Big Pharma” medic achievement (kill 20 enemies with a heavy without either of you dying) at the weekend on cp_dustbowl with a new player who went Heavy. He said on voice he was new to the game so I gave him advice on when to grab ammo (we were camping the right side spawn exit with the little hut next to it near the first cap point), what the ubercharge does etc. It helped that the opposition was full of clueless pyros all rushing him while I stood on top of the hut healing & ubering him but that’s beside the point.
I’ve never felt so proud of an achievement.

By: Arathain

Arathain — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:10:59 +0000

You know, when facing a sentry with an Uber, a good Medic will go first and get pinned by the gun, allowing their ward to move freely and kill stuff. Plenty of communication needed for this move.

Be not discouraged, oh people who think they are bad. This game has the best learning curve of any multiplayer game I’ve ever experienced. Play smart, pay attention, and you’ll learn be a vital team member very quickly.

By: th15

th15 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:05:33 +0000

That’s not that bad. The worst I’ve encountered was a medic who got defeated by a dispenser.

He was following me to the intel room of twoforts where an enemy engy had built a dispenser blocking the corridor. I jumped over it, he didn’t know how. So the medic stood there bumbling around infront of the dispenser while I grabbed the intel. Before I got back, he got blown up by a defender.

By: Chalky

Chalky — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:46:33 +0000

I have the same problems. Whenever I play a heavy, which isn’t that often, I get Übered the moment I reach the front lines, and pinned against a wall by a sentry, unable to accomplish anything.

I don’t play medic much either, as I have horrible timing.
Maybe I’m just not good at this?

By: DeadGodMax

DeadGodMax — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:06:41 +0000

I know how you feel!

But maybe that is one more of my reasons to play as a sniper. I always play as a sniper in all FPS and when i tried this free weekend the sniper it was great! No freaking grenades but 3 seconds after that though i was stabbed by a spy -_-”!

I sometimes change to scout for the speed of the kills, but one time when a med ubercharged me i was like all in panic, OMG i need to do a lot of kills or they kick me!

Loved this free weekend and now i am going to buy the orange box!

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:43:51 +0000

If I do get ubered I tend to run into a group of people and set off lots of stickies at my feet till it’s time to run away again.