Medic Survival Guide #1: Introduction

so we're starting up a game of snake water all right let's take a look at our team we've got mostly power classes we've got some scouts some soldiers a demo and uh engineer and spy that's okay we don't need to worry about them too much but we also have a heavy and if you look at this picture i can't seem to find the heavy until i turn around and oh god he's using the brass beast so heavy weapons woomy doesn't look like he's going to get to mid anytime soon so i might as well run with the rest of the team here and this my friends is the rollout this is the race between two teams to get to the midpoint as quickly as possible but this is also a race between two medics to see who can get the uber charge as quickly as possible make sure you buff everybody and keep your uber charge percentage buildage up because the faster you build the better so we're at our mid fight and it looks like the other team is kind of late we've already got high ground here which is really good i'm just shooting people with arrows from a distance at this point just because the whole team is still up and the second i start pushing in and getting more aggressive is the second they start punishing me for it so i'm staying back here and waiting until i can have some more reliable people showing up and really holding this ground wait stop right there did you see that yeah right there if you look really closely you could see this scout bump a spy and have no idea it ever happened whether it's the goggles or the thirst for blood something's clearly affecting its periphery i'm not gonna chase a spy right now so all i can do is hope that the scout with horse blinders on hasn't gotten me killed the other team is losing players both their medics are down it's time to progress and i get an arrow to the face all because some chad sniper who decides to bring a bow and arrow to a gunfight decides to arc an arrow directly over the point and straight into my brain and so alas the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long and while we're on the subject of mad lads let's talk about this brass beast heavy still making his way to the midpoint look at him he's just chugging along so after spending two whole minutes trying to inch his way to the midpoint he's finally ready to defend but what is this a spy that we ignored earlier is returning with a vengeance oh no heavy look out behind ah we're trying to fight this heavy meta combo on top of the point now will smith decides to do something really helpful and stand directly still thank you will smith i appreciate that if you need help desperately and a medic is looking at you stare at him and stand still it will make him extremely happy so the spy shows up and i'm determined to take him down because the loss of brass beast heavy is still heavy on my heart but at last he gets away and my revenge is scoring for another day we're moving forward with the rest of the team and we're gonna go meet the rest of them who are trying to hold the second point now we are dangerously close to an uber charge here so if we can save that for the last push we'll win the rest of the team seems to be holding second pretty well so it's time to come and aid in that fight i try to hit this pyro with a crossbow bolt but for some reason the medic decides to catch it that's very rude and since we have a charge and i can tell the other team is going to try and make a push it's time to make a push of our own and we activate the uber's charge and this pyro goes ham the medic goes down the sniper goes down the mini sentry goes down and even this big century up here can go down but not before it takes down a race seven two but that's okay because the engineer's now pissed and that makes me really happy so now our final push has failed all right there's no hope left until i uh who is that heavy weapons woo me you're alive look at him he's just as slow as ever oh i've never been so happy to see a brass beast heavy before oh i'm so sorry we got you killed so now i love this brass beast heavy i'm going to keep him protected from everything else because he's so goddamn adorable look at him trying to fight he starts taking hits so i arrow him but then this pyro goes aggro and suddenly well i realize that we kind of have a game to win so we sit here and wait for this uber charge to be 100 and once it is it's time to move in the heavy suddenly takes out a dispenser and i'm super proud of him the team starts beginning to gather behind us and i feel the motion of a push coming on with a charge at 100 we move in this pyro once again proving to be the hero he pushes through everyone's backing up the pyro's air blasting us back but that doesn't matter i'm begging to god that the rest of the team is moving in too but it doesn't look like it suddenly it seems the pyro goes down the medic's about to go down and we retreat slightly and i look around i can't seem to find heavy weapons with me where is he where is he where is he where is he i turn there he is heavy weapons whom he is safe and sound instead of pushing with the rest of the team like he should have he stayed back here and kept safe which is incredibly important for somebody because i don't know what i would do if anything happened to you he stayed safe and sound and thank god because if anything happened to him when he was in that push i don't you son of a [ __ ] the brass beast heavy is down my revenge is swift and deadly but it is too late he's gone had i arrowed him sooner he would have lived it was completely because of me that he's dead how do i live with this kind of guilt gentlemen we have to win this we have to win this for brass b's heavy he's dead and we'll never see him again until he responds we need to win this we've got a charge we're going in guys a demo man charges in with a cable for some reason and misses me just as i pop the uber charge but unfortunately takes two of my teammates we push farther in than many centuries down the other team is starting to panic a little bit as people start stacking on top of the point this is for you brass beast heavy this is for all those people that died to that random caper accident this is for all the teammates we've lost this win is for all of you i'm so proud of this team i think i'm gonna cry i always think it's fun to watch what people do when they're stuck in spawn when they're on blue team in a payload map and there's literally nothing for them to do for a solid minute except just wait for a red team to set up some people taunt some people kill themselves how i pass the time is apparently running around the spawn room like crazy trying to figure out which of these three holes the most people are going to come out of because that's pretty likely the one that i'm going to be coming out of too so the round starts and i stay in spawn and i stay in spawn partially because i am waiting for the right moment to come out and use this uber to its full extent but also because i am pretty much a coward the first 30 seconds of any payload map on offense is an absolute meat grinder it looks like blue team is getting some kills a sniper demo and engineer are down this is probably a great time to go and take out some century nests so the soldier jumps ahead and instantly gets into trouble and because i'm determined to take out the sentry i pop on him and then we try to go for the robot the soldier and i go in for the kill on this sentry but as it turns out dane has taught his engineers too well and he gets it away before we can do any damage to it the uber fades and i have to get the hell out of there because the last place i want to be is in a place with a sentry that's about to be redeployed for now i regroup with the team and help push the cart now this is where probably 50 of your uber gets built up just in this small moment where you're trying desperately to drop as few players as possible all you can really do at this point is just try to land all your crossbow shots and keep people as buffed as possible and if they do something stupid then you're not responsible for pretty much anything that happens to them at that point now look what's coming around the corner right here do you see this flaming shovel coming straight for us good because this pyro does not the pyro in fact walks right under him so yeah i get corked but as a medic you can't let the little losses get to you okay you gotta break a couple omelets if you're gonna make an uber charge so 90 seconds later we're finally able to capture this first point all right not stop watch time but whatever so it looks like there's still a teleporter and a bunch of people in this building off here to the right and i see the pyro about to go in i see that i have a full uber charge and i did the math ah there's always something so calming and cathartic about seeing an uber charged pyro maybe it's because everyone's running away maybe because they never show any kind of mercy whatsoever but it also might be just because it's super funny and i think it's only during an uber charge that we all get to understand exactly what it means to be a pyro murder okay so here you can tell that at this choke point which normally really sucks red really doesn't have a lot built up or they don't have a lot of player presence there so we can kind of hold a little bit more forward than we normally would but we can't relax you want to know why because flaming shovel to electric boogaloo is in production but see this scene has a twist in that the pyro is actually aware that he's coming and just denies him with an airblast perfect i live for another day until i get taken out by the goddamn caber i'll tell you something though i'm really glad that pyro did something about me being market garden because getting market gardened is super humiliating i said getting market garden is super humid there it is okay so now we're trying to force our way into this building and you can tell it's a bit of a war zone people are getting hurt people are getting damaged there's a lot of people covering this from the other side but nobody's dying and the reason that is because we have two medics when you have two medics it's important not to compete with each other for the heels because at that point you're not really efficiently spreading your health around one of you should focus on the crossbow bolts while the other should focus on using the stock metagun because the sooner you can get someone to full health with the crossbow the quicker the other medic can start buffing them and don't forget that the other medic has a health bar too heal him if he needs it and if he's getting ready to move in make sure you buff him too so that he can survive longer so this medic and i are on the same heavy for some reason and we decide to use the uber charge as we come in but unfortunately there's nothing built here red team has no presence at this choke point and when it comes to payload people please you need to play the choke points they need to be defended okay it's called defense not the gate is open come on in and i feel really bad for this heavy because he gets loose cannon deeper into enemy territory and i'm a coward so i didn't go with him because i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm so sorry heavy i i left you out there i'm so sorry every time i see an undisguised uncloaked spy i get very conflicted because on one hand i think oh if i engage with this guy at all he's probably going to backstab me right but on the other hand free uber charge and you don't even need to kill him just and so thanks to an extremely butter fingered spy we have an uber charge right now i'd like to pause and work through what happens here so i activate the uber charge on the pyro right but then the heavy jumps in front of the line of fire and suddenly he's about to take a world of hurt so i take it off the pyro and put it back on the heavy the second i take it off the pyro he gets immediately obliterated by the loose cannon so obviously the goal here was to flash him again after the heavy has taken most of the damage so this happens a lot and we can argue whether or not it was a good idea to flash the heavy at all all we want but the lesson to learn here is that no matter how good you think you are at your job circumstance will always say otherwise the best you could do at that point is regroup recollect yourself and get ready for the next push the good news is this heavy gives me a sandwich so i can only assume that he forgives me for all the times i've let him and his teammates down so that's good and again the spies with the room temperature iq i don't know where they keep making them i don't know how they keep showing up i notice that as a medic you kind of have this magnetic pull on other players for wherever you are well mainly because you're their only source of convenient healing but you can use this to your advantage and encourage players to hold a spot that would be even worse for your team if we were to lose it now here's a quick note for all of you never push into this hallway unless you have an uber charge because this hallway is a hallway of death and thanks to another clumsy spy we've got another charge so it's time to move in now in front of me are two things that could most definitely ruin my day one is a cabernet and the other is a market gardening soldier coming straight for me i don't like playing that game i activate the charge just as both of them crash into me but as it turns out the heavy forgot to go to the ammo store today and suddenly runs out of ammo in the middle of a push and so to add insult to injury that spy that had so generously given me multiple charges of uber has also decided to give me a stab in the back how kind of him the death hallway didn't really work out that well so we're trying something different and we're on the right side this time sometimes being a medic is as easy as just following the crowd and clicking on people and with two medics like we have here i actually enjoy it because it makes my job even easier see it's because we have two medics that we can even hold this area right here which otherwise would have been spammed out immediately we finally get this uber charge and this charging demo knight cabor knight decides to go for me but it doesn't matter i have the uber charge i activate it and we win anyway so none of it mattered whatsoever and i'll be honest as easy as these games normally are i don't like when one team is rolling the other i think that's really boring and it's not very fun for anybody but it is really nice to see at the end of the game your name right here with the highest kill streak because as a medic your killstreaks get very very high so hey welcome to the medic survival guide i guess you could call this series sort of a demo review sort of what mr paladin does and what uncle dane does and so i figured i'd jump on that train too but this series is also here to give me a bit of a break from the extensive script writing and really upload content that doesn't require 60 plus hours of editing because i realized that there's a lot of things that i wanted to say and a lot of things i wanted to talk about and just sort of emphasize about playing medic that i really can't quite squeeze and fit into any other script so the idea behind the series is that each entry has three different clips from three different games over which i'll record my own input my own analysis and my own feedback from each game that i played here are a couple disclaimers though when i play medic i play as best as i can right but i primarily play to have fun there will be a lot of cases where i do something entirely stupid and the only reason i did it is just to see if i could get away with it in other words don't expect super pro medic gameplay here because i'm not taking it very seriously also expect me to double back and contradict myself multiple times or my gameplay not reflecting what i'm talking about because when i play team fortress 2 i have the attention span of a gopher and hindsight is in fact 2020. so i hope you enjoy the series i hope it helps you i hope it makes you laugh i hope it makes you cry i hope you makes you feel something i hope it makes you feel like you've got a friend who's suffering just as much as you are and this very much is the first time i've done something like this so if you have any feedback please i would love to hear it please write that in the comments it'd be fantastic thank you so much i'll see you guys next time [Applause] [Music] we got the same enemies

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Length: 13min 0sec (780 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 29 2021