The Blutsaugher
For players that earn one third of the 36 new medic achievements, they will be given a new syringe gun. Called "The Blutsaugher," this new weapon no longer has the ability to score critical hits against an opponent. Instead it will draw health from enemies each time a syringe hits. Especially useful as a weapon to retreat away from the fight while staying alive.

The Critzcrieg
Once a medic has earned two thirds of the achievements, they will be granted "The Critzcrieg." This new medigun uses its ubercharge not for invulnerability, but to give its recipient 100% chance to fire critical ordinance. Medics and the player they are charging need to be careful though, because as much fun as it is to fire critical rockets as fast as you can, the other team will see what you're up to and try to put a quick stop to your plan.

The Ubersaw
For the determined medic that has earned all 36 of the new achievements, they will find themselves the proud owner of "The Ubersaw," which will take damage done in melee attacks and convert it directly to ubercharge. Four hits with this new weapon will fully charge whatever medigun the medic has equpped.

Sauce

I don't know about you but i'd prefer critical hit chances rather than health steal, but then again I don't play medic that much.

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Thoughts?

f***ing sweet, I want it now!

game went to the dongs along time of ago, this just confirms what a f***ed up direction its taking

WTF!!!
I would give it a go, but jeez i hope they have a pure servers option to disable the ghey

last edited by 3x0dus at 23:51:31 16/Apr/08

How does this make it 'f***ed up'?

Thats sounds lame...

Ages ago there were rumors it was going to be another healing gun that permanently overboosted peoples health amounts and took twice as long to build ubers or maybe not at all.

That actually sounded awesome as it would add another element to gameplay and I was very interested to see how this would change tactics.


These weapons sounds really stupid to me. The medics are already weak enough as it is, you would barely be able to use the ubersaw... you have to get close enough for melee and 90% of the time you just get explodinated trying to stab people. I fail to see how this will be beneficial really and reflect all the hard work you'd need to put in to get there... unless you got full uber in maybe 2 hits.


TF2 works so well because its simple! Soldier has the rocket launcher, demo the pipe launcher, heavy the minigun etc. Additionally all the classes essentially have a sidearm and a melee weapon.

IMO if they try and add 3 new weapons per class its is going to become way too cluttered and confusing and just turn into fail.

Hmmmmm....going to suck being an engi with soldiers/heavies running around with guaranteed crits :/

Geez, lets all be medics :(

Pretty much stolen word for word from kotaku

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First Do No Harm: Play a full round without killing any enemies and score the highest on a team of six or more players

Quadruple Bypass: Heal a teammate who is taking fire form four enemies at once

Group Health: Work with two other medics to deploy three simultaneous Ubercharges

Surgical Prep: Have an Ubercharge ready before the set up phase ends

Trauma Queen: Deploy three Ubercharges in less than five minutes and assist in five kills during that time

Double Blind Trial: deploy an Ubercharge within eight seconds of a nearby enemy medic deploying his

Play Doctor: In a team with no Medics, be first to switch to Medic after a teammate calls medic and heal 500 health

Triage: Deploy an Ubercharge on a teammate less than a second before they are hit by a critical explosive

Preventative Medicine: Block the enemy from capturing a control point with an Ubercharged teammate

Consultation: Assist a fellow Medic in killing five enemies in a single life

Does It Hurt When I Do This?: Kill fifty Scouts with your syringe gun

Peer Review: Kill fifty Medics with your bone saw

Big Pharma: Assist a heavy in killing thirty enemies where neither of you die

You'll Feel a Little Prick: Assist in killing four enemies with a single Ubercharge on a Scout

Autoclave: Assist in burning eight enemies with a single Ubercharge on a Pyro

Blast Assist: Assist in exploding five enemies with a single Ubercharge on a Soldier

Blunt Trauma: Assist in punching out for enemies with a single Ubercharge on a Heavy

Medical Breakthrough: Assist in destroying eight enemy Engineer buildings with a single Ubercharge on a Demoman

Midwife Crisis: Heal an Engineer as he repairs his sentry gun while it's under enemy fire

Ubi Concordia, Ibi Victoria: Assist in killing five enemies on an enemy control point in a single life

Grand Rounds: Heal two hundred teammates after they have called for Medic

Infernal Medicine: Extinguish one hundred burning teammates

Doctor Assisted Homicide: Assist in killing twenty nemeses

Placebo Effect: Kill five enemies in a single life, while having your Ubercharge ready but undeployed

Sawbones: Hit enemies with your bone saw ten times in a row without dieing or missing

Intern: Accumulate seven thousand heal points in a single life

Specialist: Accumulate ten thousand heal points in a single life

Chief of Staff: Accumulate ten million total health points

Hypocritical Oath: Kill an enemy spy that you have been healing

Medical Intervention: Save a falling teammate from dying on impact

Second Opinion: Ubercharge two teammates at once

Autopsy Report: Provide an enemy with a freeze cam shot of you taunting above their ragdoll

FYI I am a Medic: use a bone saw to kill five enemy spies who have been calling for Medic

Family Practice: Ubercharge ten of your steam community friends

House Call: Join a game that one of your friends is in and then deploy an Ubercharge on him

Bedside Manner: be healing a teammate as he achieves an achievement of his own

Some of those would be hard achievements to unlock

last edited by Beanith at 10:37:36 17/Apr/08

That's some seriously gay s*** right there.

WTF were they thinking, medic was perfect.

I just want to heal people and uber, GTFO Valve.

Medics and the player they are charging need to be careful though, because as much fun as it is to fire critical rockets as fast as you can, the other team will see what you're up to and try to put a quick stop to your plan.

What, you mean they'll take time off trying to kill you, and change their strategy to involve trying to kill you?

last edited by parabol at 10:51:59 17/Apr/08

What, you mean they'll take time off trying to kill you, and change their strategy to involve trying to kill you?

I think they mean that the other team will stop trying to kill everyone, and all of them will just try to kill you.

Holy lol half those would be impossible almost.

Now with screens;

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Goldrush;

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Does It Hurt When I Do This?: Kill fifty Scouts with your syringe gun

Like what the f*** is this s***? Seriously... what the f*** is Valve thinking.

FOAD Valve, make some new maps and the leave the gameplay as it is.

Yeah, I am looking forward to this gold rush map .f*** stupid achievements off.

The Meet the Scout video will be coming out this Saturday morning. (on GTTV)

Also 1up believes a new class will be coming up, although I can't find where they heard it from. They'll probably release more info in the podcast (also coming this Saturday morning)

I just hope to god it's not the dropped class the officer.

last edited by Phooks at 14:45:38 17/Apr/08

http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=833
This review really makes the new map sound sweet.

The more I read these achievements the more stupid it seems... just give everyone the 3 new weapons so we don't have 6 medics per team trying to kill people with bonesaws and syringe guns instead of healing.

Big Pharma: Assist a heavy in killing thirty enemies where neither of you die

Err? Good one Valve :S

Medical Breakthrough: Assist in destroying eight enemy Engineer buildings with a single Ubercharge on a Demoman

This one is going to need multiple stick crits and 4 SG's/4 dispensers within a tight area in a 10 second ubercharge... I've pulled off some bulls*** Dustbowl ubers (especially stage 3) but that's ridiculous.

Trauma Queen: Deploy three Ubercharges in less than five minutes and assist in five kills during that time

What's the point of the 5 kill assits, if you can somehow whip out 3 ubercharges in that time you should get like 30 kills... what sort of idiot is thinking of these?

God I'm raging! I really enjoyed playing medic and being a team player, I got nearly 30 hours now on him... now I have a feeling there's going to be a bunch of douche's ruining the team play dynamic.

Sure, some of those achievements are hard, but they're supposed to be. They're for hardcore medics.

I just can't wait for spy achievements to come out. I want cool spy weapons!

instakill face stabs! disguises where you can walk through enemies!


*drool*

instakill face stabs!

Pretty sure they have that currently as an unintended feature lulz.

I don't think a good medic should have the time to think about his weapons unless he's dealing with a spy or scout in which case the bone saw can nail them both in around three hits.

They should buff the scout, I think. At least make his bat a little more powerful.

I don't think a good medic should have the time to think about his weapons

Bingo! Hit the nail directly on the head.

A medic is a selfless class, you're there to heal and help your team ultimately win. I can just see "new" medics switching to bonesaws/syringe guns to try and get a new achievement rather then healing the heavy/solider right next to them.

There's enough medics playing properly at the moment, they didn't need to try and make it more attractive by turning it into some semi-retarded DM style class.

At least make his bat a little more powerful.

90% of my scout kills are bat, I typically give it 2 - 3 scattergun blasts then I proceed to blunten them to death.

last edited by CHUB at 17:06:14 17/Apr/08

I don't think a good medic should have the time to think about his weapons unless he's dealing with a spy or scout in which case the bone saw can nail them both in around three hits.

They should buff the scout, I think. At least make his bat a little more powerful.

you're joking right? a really skilled scout is almost unstoppable.

Serious clans will just have a "get the medic achievements" grind session and will do it in a day.

The casual gamer will never get close to the end... pretty lame imo.

i'm sure the tournament mode on servers will be updated to either unlock all weapons for players or to restrict players to the original weapons.

Fear the bonesaw medic, people think medics are wimps'n'easy targets then BAM out comes the bonesaw. Killed plenty of soldiers like that.

Also, quit the rage. They haven't taken away the healing of the medic. If you want to heal like you always have, you can.

Also, quit the rage.

No Toll! They're ruining my perfect little TF2 world!

Aww well, f*** the healing, time to sticky whore non-stop :D

I think it is great that a game keeps changing, for the good and for the bad. Change keeps it fresh and fun, always learning new things.

I agree changes ftw. As much as people bag valve out, they are awesome at getting some fun multiplayer happejning.

Fun facts;

Medic achievements are being released on Hitlers birthday.

Medic is German.