So, due to the glut of medics, I was pyro (my second class) most of the round, causing havok among the medics who hadn’t quite got their ubercharge yet.

I was not best pleased.

I was hurt!

The crazy few who manage to unlock the Ubersaw are going to be taunting with it like mad. I hope the animation’s something really dirty.

I tend to think of myself as a medic. For that matter, several of the regular Javaserver players think the same. But, Medic is languishing in the middle of my ‘hours played’, despite my best scores coming from it, and this is because I feel awful when playing medic if we don’t need it. If the rest of my team are spies, scouts and snipers, I’m not going medic, because I won’t be helping. Instead, I’ll switch to Soldier or some other damage-dealing class.

So, my worry is that I’ll log on to a server to find 3 medics on a team of 12, and I won’t be ABLE to play medic because the team doesn’t need them. Let me stress that I think the team-based aspect of this game is fabulous, but it’s exactly that aspect that will cause problems, at least for me.

Anyway, enough of a rant, and now for a hope: I hope that some of those achievements are retroactive, as my highest healing in one round is 11000. I’d really like to not have to get that again. =P

I love the little circle-jerk you’ve got going on here ;)

I see the Blutsauger spelled “Blutsaugher” sometimes, and it’s wrong! (Spelled without h)

Yeah, you’ll get basically the same thing if you have two players, one invulnerable and one critted, attacking together, but at least it’ll be a little harder to coordinate — four players instead of three.

It just seems like, the same way you can’t uber someone who has the intel, you wouldn’t be able to uber someone who was already being critzerkrieged.

So well, finally someone will play medic. Like … EVERYONE!
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not criticising Valve for their new ideas, but I’m afraid that it won’t be possible to play the game like we’re used to, after the release of the new achievements. The enthusiasm about the new stuff will keep many people off healing the ones, that really need it, like you already said. And I know myself long enough to predict that after the 5th time I died as Heavy in the front row, watching nearby Medics in the deathcam playing Rambo and chasing some stupid Scouts, I will quit the game, totally pissed off.

I can’t say that worries me at all. I have a hard enough time getting four hits with the standard saw let alone one which is nerfed (but then I’m crap at melee), and as such I think it accentuates the risk/reward of having at the opposing team with your saw quite nicely. As a side effect, so long as your uber isn’t full, it does a nice side-line as a Spy checker (same goes for the Blutsauger).

That said, I’m willing to bet Snipers are one of the last classes to get their unlocks. I think perhaps Heavy or Pyro next – new weapons bring a lot of new players to the class, and I think those two are under-played but good.