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Best medics?
Created 31st October 2009 @ 22:04
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watching demos won’t make you any better
and you are? :)
sorry, couldn’t resist.
I guess there are a lot of players who would disagree with that statement, Arnold being one of them I guess (he always preaches “WATCH DEMOS” to new players it seemed to me)…
From my POV, I used to consider myself as a fairly good medic, and I’ve never really watched demos, I usually made mistakes ingame and then “knew” about them and tried to fix them next round. When you play 1-4 games/day/2 months, then you’re kinda settled anyway :P
edit: what I want to say: Try and watch some demos, but dont rely on them exclusively… for instance, agron’s mates will play differently than yours, and in the end, THIS is what makes a medic good: The “playing WITH the team”, the adjusting to each other. You can see a lot of things in demos, maybe new routes etc, which you can try to bring into the game of the team. It wont work if you try to do it yourself only.
edit2: also, reactive clown, really helpful there.
Last edited by Waebi,
yes i tell players to watch demo’s from the highest level rather than just expect us to teach them personally. Also tf2 is so much more than the class you play. Watch your own teams demo’s and watch what everybody is doing, get to know what they do when and why. Improve as a TEAM would be my suggestion.
And i have to disagree that you would get to mid++ from watching a few demo’s and playing a few games, there is so much going on in a match of tf2 it seems only a few people really graps how complex the game really is.
Even after watching a few last night and trying to work out what was going on I have got some useful (albeit minor) things to try out which might take a role in my usual medic playing. I guess demos do have a use despite apy’s insistence otherwise ;)
tf2 is so much more than the class you play. Watch your own teams demo’s and watch what everybody is doing, get to know what they do when and why. Improve as a TEAM would be my suggestion.
We occasionally do have some teamplay issues, but often I find the teamplay issues are between the other players. As a medic I am pretty much with them all the time, and we’re playing together (whether in scrims or pubs) pretty much every night, so I know most people’s playing style well.
Last edited by octochris,
One tip: When healing someone, dont look at him at all time, look around for weak mates and rocket’s spam.
from my experience just watch demos and try to get mentored by someone with lots of experience, also playing lots of pcws helps.
Demos are the key to numlocked’s socalled “success” at going from “how do i detonate stickies?..” to.. “IM DIV1 (but really he still gets dominated by engineers in warmup)”. He drooled over byte and his fucked up FOV for ages. Go drool over agron, do the complete opposite and you’ll do just fine.
i also had demos from joske, and nos taught me _a lot_ of stuff :)
Last edited by numlocked,
I consider myself to be quite good as it is
Playing medic is about 95% gamesense
gg
just gg
Ye, ok, i’m being daft. :(
He was calling you shit.
He was calling you shit.
Oh really? So tell me then, How can I be shit if I seem to know what im talking about? :)
Last edited by Skyride,
One tip: When healing someone, dont look at him at all time, look around for weak mates and rocket’s spam.
I already do that, but thanks.
from my experience just watch demos and try to get mentored by someone with lots of experience, also playing lots of pcws helps.
Dny offered to do some sort of team mentoring, but I don’t know if the rest of us would be up for that (personally, I’m willing to try just about anything to improve).
One tip: When healing someone, dont look at him at all time, look around for weak mates and rocket’s spam.
I already do that, but thanks.
I just saw u werent doing in the vids, but probably those vids are old ..
Last edited by Kasuno,
He was calling you shit.
Oh really? So tell me then, How can I be shit if I seem to know what im talking about? :)
Vali’s guide to being a good medic:
Step 1: Say “medic is 95% gamesense”
Instant div1 success guaranteed or your money back (well, some of it).
One tip: When healing someone, dont look at him at all time, look around for weak mates and rocket’s spam.
I already do that, but thanks.I just saw u werent doing in the vids, but probably those vids are old ..
Which ones did you watch? They’re dated.
He was calling you shit.
Oh really? So tell me then, How can I be shit if I seem to know what im talking about? :)
I was with a nice friendly american team playing against a mix that included skyride and also shintaz etc. As soon as young master shintaz got mouthy, so did skyride!
That’s div1, right?
Also well said waebi, that’s pretty much how you’ll get better. Demos will help but only if you’re clever enough to understand what they’re doing and adjust it to your own situations. And you may need praccy for that.
Last edited by vlad_drac,
funny things u write about demos… if ur new to game and want fast improvement, basically u need to watch 3-4 games and ur at least mid even if u play the game for 1 week….
You should watch some demos then Animal
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