TF2 Medic Achievements Released

[msleeper]

Yeah okay sure it's not Portal related but I figure TF2 is in the Orange Box and until something really groundbreaking happens that is Portal related (like say the contest that is ending today) I might as well post this.

Anyway, the new Medic Achievements and Unlockables that we have been foaming at the mouth over for the past few months were released yesterday and they are sure a bag of fun. Personally I couldn't care less about the Ubersaw but the new Needle Gun and the Kritzkrieg really kick ass.

Valve says they are planning on releasing the rest of the classes Achievements and Unlockables soon but we'll see how that actually goes!

[PortalFan77]

Valve will delay as always but I cant wait for a scout and sniper upgrade, maybe a spy tranq gun or something fro the beta.

I love the new medic stuff.

[msleeper]

I need my Engineer unlockables!

[taco]

[youme]

I paniced when someone pulled an ubersaw on me, I managed to burn his sorry ass before he got to build up an uber though

I was more excited about pl_goldrush tbh, I'm already making my own pl_ map.

[Hober]

[msleeper]

I don't think anyone should be surprised that, day-of release, people are trying to grind and/or cheat to get the most of the achievements. Most of these you would get playing normally - healing people on fire, healing people who call for medic, Uber-ing a Pyro/Demo/Solider/Heavy and having them get X kills with Y weapon. All of that happens on pretty much a minutely basis (atleast in the 32-man brawls I enjoy).

I also think that the Medic is probably the "worst" in terms of jumping through hoops to get things done, since effectively all of your achievements require you to have the participation of another player. I don't see this being as much the case with the other classes.

[PortalFan77]

I got 25 achievements now , all legit

[youme]

I've decided not to play medic (my second most played) untill the hype has died down a bit. I did switch to it by accident and got three achievements just like that (the 7000, 12000 points in one life and the 1mil total)

I'm looking forward to unlocking the blutsauger, I think it will save my arse just enough times to be usefull and the critzcrieg will probably come in handy too, not sure about the ubersaw though...

Now they've done all the back-end work the next set of achievements and unlockables will come sooner, They will probably do two or three classes together next time, help counter the "oooh I want achievements...<everyone plays the same class and breaks the game>" spam

[Hober]

Same here. I just can't be the fifth medic on a team of twelve without realizing God's gonna start spinning up the chainsaw and kill some kittens.

But the multiple classes idea does make a lot of sense. But first, I'd like to see the engi get some love all by himself. Not because I'm a big fan of the engi, but just because I want to see the 12 v 12 games where everyone is an engineer.

Cue the Yakety Sax.

[rellikpd]

there used to be an (orriginal) Quake1 Team Fortress (from this point on OTF) map called engbattle or some such thing. where it WAS a 24p engineer battle... it wasn't completly horrible.. i remember it was good for some laughs

[MrTwoVideoCards]

Yeah this is cool, but the amount of noobs running to get their achievements is just sad. People keep yelling at me for being a medic, however I've liked playing the medic alot, so it sucks...

Aside that, people have been cheating. I did! But just to see the new weapons, and then I reverted back, theres a console commands to just unlock the weapons until TF2 is exited. However Valve took away those commands yesterday.

[msleeper]

I am fairly certain that they tracked who used those commands and that they are 1.) reverting any achievements gained with them, and 2.) locking people out from ever getting them. So I'd be wary if you tried to get some of the new ones and you're stuck with the old Medic forever.

[PortalFan77]

[MrTwoVideoCards]

Yeah me too really.