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Fish 2 questions.

First off, I felt a lump around my testicles what should I do?

Secondly, do you ever pop out the needles in fights when you’re not alone, say apart from defending yourself on occasions when necessary, do you ever think it is worth going battle medic?

Quoted from hans

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The Peano axioms would have been a better example, but I wasn’t sure you’d get it then.

Let’s stop this here please, this thread is about what Fish should write in his article, so whatever explanations you may or may not have given and whether or not they are good ones is totally irrelevant.

Fancy try at taking the high route all of a sudden, anyway to add to the topic:

How do you deal with a negative feedback cycle in team morale?

Quoted from Hildreth

Secondly, do you ever pop out the needles in fights when you’re not alone, say apart from defending yourself on occasions when necessary, do you ever think it is worth going battle medic?

Only if you’re an -AsS- medic!

(On a more serious note: min syringe dps = 50/s, min medigun hps = 24/s, max syringe dps 150/s, max medigun hps = 72/s. In other words, if your needles are good, it’s definitely worth going battle medic in some situations)

If you want a “simple” tip on how to keep track of ubers, something that I’ve been doing ever since I took this walking dispenser class seriously, is to comprehend and call your own ubercharge in terms of seconds instead of %. For me it really helped to disregard the whole percentage thing and see it all as a matter of timing. Keeping track of enemy uber and figuring out the advantage times become a near automatic thing. Also, an added advantage in my opinion is that your team gets to hear WHEN you will have uber, instead of a way more abstract percentage. Your team is already too busy doing damage, don’t make them do extra head-math by calling your uber in %.

I think doing “just” the subtraction thing is not sufficient; you’re skipping too much steps. The approach that grimbar and Vanilla were touching on in their posts come from a more fundamental perspective, resulting in actual comprehension instead of just doing something because someone instructed you to do it.

Quoted from skeej

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Only if you’re an -AsS- medic!

-AsS- representing xD

Quoted from skeej

I think doing “just” the subtraction thing is not sufficient; you’re skipping too much steps. The approach that grimbar and Vanilla were touching on in their posts come from a more fundamental perspective, resulting in actual comprehension instead of just doing something because someone instructed you to do it.

You’re completely right about the fundamentals. Frankly, I assumed that any medic who plays competitive knows that stuff already, and if they don’t, well, it’s easy to look up. Plenty of reference material available already.

Maybe I’m wrong extrapolating from myself back in div5 and the (thankfully relatively small amount of :D) medics who’ve come to me for help since then. But the problem often seems to be more “I know how fast uber builds but I need a shortcut how to keep track of it while actally having brain space left for other things I need to concentrate on, should I maybe use a stop watch fml” if you understand what I mean. It’s a small thing, really. I didn’t expect it to turn into a lengthy discussion tbh.

Completely agree on the seconds vs % btw.

+1 to both

Personally I only count my own percentages and keep track of obvious advantage/disadvantage eg. “I had 30% uber when their medic spawned so I guess we have advantage so let’s FUCKING push!”

But then again I should use voice commands to fake uber or cover the “uber ready” sound effect or whatever it is cool kids do nowadays.

To sum it up: I’m shit.

Fixed, and yes you’re shit ))

Also +1111111111111 to the few posts above

I’m scout. I’m capping enemy Spire. We have players down, say both our sollies and the 2nd scout. Our Medic/Demo are in Trash/StoneBridge and get attacked by a Solly/Scout.

Do I sit on the cap and pewpewpistol down and get our team forward respawn, or do I give up the cap and save our medic/demo?

Quoted from agron

[…] thanks, good fix. Have to agree with that. You are shit if you think spamming sound effects fools anyone into thinking that you have, or dont have, uber. Deploying edited safeties: : D :D

hihihi))