I don't want to sound like I want cheese with this whine but....

[lillGIL]

Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that valve is bringing out the new map and achievements. However, my one concern with this is that your are going to see an abundance of medics for no reason is true. I came in to play Warpath2, and it didn't take 10 seconds of being in to realize that everyone wants to be medic to get the new achievements. I actually had people in the spawn healing to get to a certain amount, not leaving to help teammates in battle.
Now don't get me wrong, I like the fact that valve brought out the achievements and new weapons for people who can get them, but I for one feel that they should bring out every classes achievements and weapons at the same time. That way you don't see everyone going for the same crap and you will still get a normal game because everyone is trying their best with what they do best. I'm a sniper first, medic second and I now find it pretty difficult to justify medic when there are 10 medics on a 16 person team. Am I wrong here, or should valve have delayed the achievements until they had every class?

 

[Ryael]

I like that they put medic stuff out by itself first. It seemed like the weakest class, and a month ago it was pretty tough to get a medic on most servers. I'd consider the new stuff to be a fad. It'll take a week or so before people go back into their old habits and things settle down and REAL medics get back into it instead of posers (I consider myself an engi at the heart so you won't see me playing too much medic).

As an added note, there are a lot of people who are really bad with medic so hopefully the skill level will go up all around with the class. When things mellow out some, we won't have to worry about being healed by the medic that only shoots guys as we scream, running circles on fire and pressing 'E' a million times.

 

[HaloRacer]

People will get over it once they realize they would actually have to work really hard to get some. I play medic on Warpath because that's what I always play. But I don't think I'm gonna play medic a whole lot more just because of the new stuff.

 

[subtle_turtle]

It'll all switch once the next update comes with the new stuff for the other classes. I wonder what will be next?

 

[Ducttape]

so far on goldrush i've noticed many people playing meds who seem like they haven't played that class before !shy i agree with the comment that once people realize just how much it takes to earn those med acheivements they'll start to lay off...

 

[TheJudge(inactive)]

Let them grind their points out and it will all be over in a few short weeks. Don't sweat it.

 

[Nemo]

Yeah, they should have done several achievements for various classes at once.

 

[Moore Cowbell]

This all makes me very sad. I play medic first, and so I was excited to get some cool new achievements and the possibility of some weapons. So, after my game files updated, I logged on to good 'ol Convoy to check things out, see how many achievements I had already earned, etc...

And logged in to see one entire team of e's, eG's, and eGO's farming medic.

Literally 75% of the team was sitting in the spawn.

I have no intention of farming achievements. I never have. And now, I will have to deal with....what? Two weeks? Three? A month of people running around trying to catch each other while falling, with no intention of PLAYING THE GAME??

My big problem with all of this is that what is the point? Most of the people who are farming NEVER PLAY MEDIC. Why do you care about getting a cool needle gun if you play pyro all the time?

And the worst part is that this is a negative feedback loop. Now, when I see an entire team farming for the new bonesaw, I feel like I should farm too, because playing medic normally, it would probably take me two months to get all those achievements. I dunno. Maybe I just needed to get all that off my chest, and I should just take a hiatus until around July when things will get back to normal.

But hey, I guess this new MMO is cheaper than WoW, right?

 

[masterofpuppets]

So many people are playing medics now it actually lags the game. And I mean bad. Looking down range on gold rush tonight I had 1 heavy coming at me with 6....yes, 6..... medics in tow. It's borderline not fun.

 

[R.E.D]

Well you don't have to worry about me, I am the guy that never wants to be medic... I've tried it and it's just lame, maybe that's why they are coming up with all these incentives for people to be medic.... Valve checks the overall stats and maybe medic is the least played.

 

[Lafinass]

I said from the beginning, if they release the unlockables piecemeal like this it's going to unbalance the game.

Just wait until the next one. We'll have teams of nothing but BLANK.

Blegh.

 

[Booster37]

It'll stop once they get to a point where it will be inevitable that they have to try, and eventually give up.

 

[Nemo]

it's going to suck when the spy comes around. eveyrone will cloak. but hopefully pyro achievements will be out by then

 

[-nocturne=-]

I agree with Moore...

also... why not consider a cap on meds? Even if you set it high, let's say 6, it'd help a lot in cutting down the 'class spamming.'

 

[theblahman]

While it would've been nice to see achievements and special weapons for each class, the wait would've been much much longer, and that would be bad. A gradual release is better in this instance.

 

[Captain Mental]

People keep talking about the update and dont realise the impact of it.

Valve just killed the game for the next few weeks, right now i dont even want to play it anymore when i see 11 medics not bothered about anything else than getting their achievement.

See ya in the forums guys sorry.

 

[PurpleNurple]

I agree with Captain. It killed it for a while. It was fun and kinda funny for a bit watching them all running around or doing silly stuff, but when you are standing there on fire and 5 medics run by you attatched to one heavy and no one bothers to heal you, you can't help but get a little frustrated. And no one hardly attemted to get the intel, too busy medic farming.

Also, I like playing medic, but I don't even want to now until it all dies down.

On the plus side, medics burn faster than others

 

[Arbitrary]

I third captain. I normally play medic, but it's a pain when all there is on the servers is a ton of medics. There are some cases where this is not the case, but it's still silly to see all the medics on warpath.
Also, all the battle medics. Ugh.

 

[Lafinass]

It really isn't fun, is it? =/

 

[jonman]

yea its a fad thats due to fade, btw did you know u can get all achievements thru console just by typing in something. I unlocked all the achievements and medic weps in seconds