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How to Medic good and alienate people

By Snilah

Being a Medic in squad is all about compassion and loving your fellow man right? Thats WRONG and you can take it from me cos I love men! This guide will make a STONE COLD MEDIC out of you

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Category: Classes, Gameplay Basics, Multiplayer

Languages: English

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2 Feb, 2020 @ 9:59am

2 Feb, 2020 @ 10:19am

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Guide Index

Overview

There are 2 Medics which do I pick

Positioning and Medic spacing

Pickup Prioritisation

thats all i can think of thanks for reading @_@

Comments

There are 2 Medics which do I pick

Left is what we'll refer to as "Irons Medic" (ignore the RDOT) and right is "Optic Medic", every faction has both these specs of medic and every squad gets the option of having one of each.

While it would be nice that both these Medic spots are filled per squad that doesn't always happen, because NO ONE likes to play Irons Medic and given the chance you should try to pick Optic medic EVERY TIME. Irons medic does get one frag grenade though, so if you're some kind of nade savant go for it. Otherwise both kits are the same (besides binos but who do you think you are, a squad leader?).

However! Both medics should be applied differently if both roles are filled within your squad;

Irons Medic

You are a babysitter for your squad leader
You are his rally friend he puts the rallies on you
You have devoted all your bandages to him
You love him
He WILL make you dig ♥♥♥♥
Do as he says
Only leave to assist your other Medic if they are down

Optic Medic

Good for you, you get to do stuff
You probably don't have an Irons Medic in your squad now, its all up to you
So keep an eye on your squad leader
Be forward but not TOO forward
Bait your squadmates for trade kills and free pickups

Positioning and Medic spacing

This guide won't teach you basic situational awareness, but a useful tip as medic is to use the CAPS LOCK quick map often and briefly to keep an eye on your positioning in relation to your other medic and your squad in general. Flash that map.

Luck you! Your squad has 2 medics! Now stay away from each other. Optic Medic I swear to god don't just hold your W key and walk ahead of everyone no one likes a rambo medic.

Pickup Prioritisation

Some lives actually do matter more than others, do not just chase every injured or downed person you see on your map pls pls pls. Lets do a list of most to least important people on your team!

1. Squad Leader
2. Squad Medics
3. Squad Fire Support Roles and Specialists (excluding Marksmen)
4. Squad Riflemen
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7. Blueberry (those not in your squad) Medics
8. Blueberry Squad Leaders
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16. Random Blueberries

Some notes here

Its easier to secure your Squad Leader's safety so he can place a rally to regroup your entire squad should you have mass casualties.
Blueberry Medics are more important than Blueberry Squad Leaders because a Medic's own Squad Leader is always their own concern, not yours.
Stranger danger is in effect! Do NOT pick up randoms, the only exception being if they are completely safe and doing so will not delay you or waste a precious amount of bandages.
Honestly don't bother though.
Ignore them if they are screaming at you in local from the middle of an open crossing.

thats all i can think of thanks for reading @_@

dont run out of bandages idiot

40 Comments

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Denneisk 27 Dec, 2024 @ 12:25am

optic medics when they have to engage in cqb because the squad leader actually does stuff instead of walking around aimlessly on the map:

Norfei 16 Oct, 2024 @ 5:08pm

Bro, don't disrespect the irons! My SL says I'm the best little slut around!

Kyr0 4 Oct, 2024 @ 11:19am

ignore all of this and just rp as a medic on normandy.

Hakurei Reimu 27 Sep, 2024 @ 4:04pm

medic waifu healslut

Cain (ᵔᴥᵔ) 25 Sep, 2024 @ 9:28am

@bakenbeans32 Yeah, I also hate getting top notch instructions on how to be an effective squad medic who is victory oriented. I rather play this game like any other CoD or Battlefield!
Who gives a shit about winning if I can waste my time with incompetent teammates and especially with absent SLs and lose each and every round despite rocking the leaderboard k/d!

What servers do you play on so I can avoid them?

kofu 23 Sep, 2024 @ 2:21am

@bakenbeans32 it definitely doesnt have that tone at all lmao

bakenbeans32 23 Sep, 2024 @ 12:02am

Of course you made some good points here and there, but the whole tone of your guide is "do what I say, or you aren't playing the game right" and idk man it just comes off as very condeming of anyone who just casually plays the game lol

bakenbeans32 22 Sep, 2024 @ 11:59pm

Honestly, some of these guides would be great if you didn't try to dictate the way the game should be played as opposed to how people like to play, and if you didn't take it so damn seriously. I play Irons medic all the time, anyone who says the Irons suck, and always picks optics over irons on principal, is an absolute fool. And no, i will not be the squad leaders bitch. Nobody actually wants to do what you described. That would be absolutely boring, and would eliminate all purpose of playing the game - which is to have fun. If you like exclusively following SL around, then go ahead, but lets just be realistic and acknowledge that the majority of people don't want to, and arent going to do that. And sitting here and pretending like anyone who does it differently is doing it wrong, is just stupid.

DeputyPelkMI 31 Mar, 2024 @ 9:10am

Another note, If you can revive at least 3 guys who are competent and have like 2 or 3 more squadmates in an open clearing, SMOKE THAT SPOT LIKE ITS SNOOP DOGG. Then, take your competent soldiers with you as a security team and revive and extract your downed guys before the smokes clear, then extract from the clearing to make a plan of attack on the enemy.

DeputyPelkMI 31 Mar, 2024 @ 9:05am

I think this is actually a very good summary of how to be a good medic and it also seems relatively idiot proof, I do think that it's a good idea to (when plausible) prioritize the other medic over your squad lead as then if you go down while getting squad lead, the other medic can (hopefully) get your ass back in the fight.

Otherwise, good writing. I personally just prefer the "irons" medic for the US Army faction but that's obviously just my personal preference. Any faction that actually has irons on their medic I typically try to run Optic. Just personally hate the ACOG.

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