Medic Grief

[Smash2K]

Anyone else with me in thinking that half your team as medic trying to do nothing but avoid the fight and get achievements is bothersome to the rest of the team?

It's basically intentionally staying out of battle causing teams to be severely unbalanced?(2:1), letting the half thats playing get stomped.

It's "griefing" players, plain and simple. Its intentional, it disrupts play, and its being done by everyone.

I've seen other servers having less problems simply by discouraging it, or even no problems at all, as they kicked people doing it, however harsh that sounds. I saw eGO members asking for people to stop playing and stand behind the gates so they could get achievements. If this is what eGO is about, I think I'll help fill other servers until people get bored of medics...

 

[cccp]

Yeah heard from m,y friends who have been playing here, said that most medic will go out of "medic" way to go saw the enemy medic to get the achivments... I kind of expected that, but I would find it extremely annoying.
The only problem that I either play spy or sniper so dont use medic much...

 

[Arn0t]

idk i havent had a chance to play TF2 in a while (since the updates) but i can see your point Smash2k, it would get annoying to just have people getting medic achievements than actually playing the game.

 

[OODA Loop]

yeah i agree man.

9-10 medics and a pyro can't get a frikin' heal?!?!? Also I see groups of medics, 3-4 just running around healing eachother. eGO definitely needs to put a cap on the medics. Until things settle down, I'm playing COD4.

 

[Sharp67]

I havent went medic but once and i quit after 6 medics were on the team...not goin medic till things loosen up a bit

 

[Pock3ts]

giv it a week or two, it'll die down. Anytime any game has tried something like this, this is the results.

 

[Cboardwarrior]

I was playing Heavy on Goldrush today, and I swear on my life that 3 medics followed me out of respawn and stalked me the whole match. Like Sharp I'm taking a break from medic until the frenzy calms down.

 

[Pock3ts]

its nice not to die when playing heavy, and that'll keep up for a few weeks at least.

 

[Raziel44]

i will only play as a medic if needed.. sitting is the spawn healing eachother just sounds stupid xD

 

[The Red Comet]

Griefing is definitely against the rules, and should be prohibited. This isn't the place for grinding stats just for achievements, is it? They can find another server if they wish to do so, but I just don't think the =(eGO)= servers are the place for it. If a lot of people are playing medic, they should at least be playing such that it'll be very hard to kill the non-medic players.

 

[Primesghost]

I'm gonna take the other side on this one. First of all, it is only going to be a week or so before people go back to playing their regular classes (at least teams don't have 5 or 6 snipers right now). And secondly, I ws on the Gravelpit server last night and we had half the team as medics (I was one of them) the other half were soldiers, demos and pyros. We walked over the other team like they weren't even there. There's some real power to be had when everyone on the team has their own personal medic.

 

[Flippy the Squirrel]

To be clear, we will not take action against those who are farming achievements as a general rule. It is not griefing, as the intention there is to make people upset so they leave the server. We will no more kick/ban for medic farming then we would for any other behavior on the servers.

 

[Groo]

I'm not sure if people have seen the youtube video of the dueling uber-bonesaw medics. Two medics working together. One ubering the other who is using his uber-bonesaw to recharge his uber and within 10 seconds switching. Lather, rinse, repeat. They go on quite a tear and if timed correctly could mean a really, really long ubered time frame. I don't want to post the link, because the song is awful. As soon as i could hear what the words were, I muted it (songs these days...). But basically, as it stands, if the medics work correctly together and have enough targets they can have unlimited uber. I hope Valve tested and planned for that before releasing the update. =)

-Groo
ps- I posted this here so as not to create a new thread. I for one do not want to face the wrath of the squirrel

 

[Captain Mental]

[quote1209724645=Flippy Squirrel]
To be clear, we will not take action against those who are farming achievements as a general rule. It is not griefing, as the intention there is to make people upset so they leave the server. We will no more kick/ban for medic farming then we would for any other behavior on the servers.
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Since then, council banned achievement farming on ego servers. Just would like to make sure people dont get confused about it, thanks.

 

[TheJudge(inactive)]

Medic Complaint Post #234217

 

[Flippy the Squirrel]

I declare this topic to be excessive.