Also I thought you were on a 6s team this season? Isn't this you? http://play.esea.net/users/494322

No one in 6s will be able to play with that scrim schedule, to be honest you'd probably have a better chance on the ugc forums, teamfortress.tv is still extremely 6s focused and people aren't willing to put in that much time into ugc after they've already paid to get to play in ESEA.

Having played with the new medigun for 4 hours now I'd like to point out a few things.

1. Using this medigun promotes aggressive play, while it does build uber faster both of the other mediguns are better once they have charge. Therefore when you are using this medigun you want to push quickly, or you will be punished for not taking a different medigun.

2. Due to the lowered buff rate you seem to have -150 to -200 health for the midfight compared to a normal medigun. However, you build at least 1 charge (on some maps 2) before the midfight starts if your medic has really good micro and shifts his resistance well you could balance out the health disadvantage by stopping a roamer from hurting your team or saving people from demo damage.

3. The Vaccinator adds a level of depth to the medic, this medigun is much worse than the other options if you aren't skilled. Being able to quickly react and deny damage will be the only way to turn this medigun into an advantage, rather than a disadvantage. Allowing this in competitive gives a new layer of skill in each engagement, and personally rekindled some of my passion for the class.

4. As the previous point touched on, this medigun makes medic FUN. You have to be focused, you have to be quick, you need to know who to prioritize and how to push to take advantage of negating damage types. This made medic something fun, and made it a challenging experience.

5. This weapon is still not OP though, if you are smart you can easily take out a team running this, having your team be extremely aggressive in the mid will give you a large advantage because you can focus down the other players before the medic pops, since everyone on the team running this has much less health than normal.

6. Demos by necessity have to be a half second slower to midfights because their 260 buff comes out slower. Not a huge deal, but still a thing to be noted, also, even with critheals it will take much longer to heal up your pocket.

7. Mixing up your positioning will be very important, and movement/surfing doubly so, this medigun doesn't make you invulnerable, you need to play it smart. Not to say that it's horrible like the Quick Fix, if you pop the Explosive damage reduction even 5 stick traps won't kill you. This also makes team focus fire more important, because the main way to counter this is to get both bullet and explosive damage onto the medic at the same time.

8. The best thing about this medigun is when you have bullet resistance selected you can't be quick-scoped or full charge body-shotted, you'll survive with 5 health.

That's all for right now folks, I hope you enjoy experimenting with this excellent addition to the game in some PUGs, and giving it the opportunity to prove itself.

Helpful tips from others:

Nixnyte
if you do not have a mouse3 or already have something bound to it, i personally found binding +attack3 on top of my slot 2 key to be very comfortable. what i mean is, for me, pressing E switches to the medigun if it's not out, but if it is, it instead changes the resistance type

just something to consider since i've heard some complaints about mouse3 tonight

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Thing is we're NOT struggling versus open and I believe that it's better to do a scrim that ends 5-2 for them than a scrim where you 5-0. I know demo reviews and we do that as well, and we all are aware of the ability to send in a demo to cyzer, b4lnk, or pyyour, hell I have most of them added so I can ask them questions. This is about us wanting something more than demos, something tangible where we can see how we stack up versus a team at the beginning of the season and see our progress versus them throughout the season. Guided along by their expertise.

Of course it won't be any help to the team playing against us, that why I posted this to the mentor thread, if I really wanted to play versus an IM team I could just go to IRC and find one. But this is about getting a mentor team, my team just has different needs than the standard STV review.

This guy gets what I meant. I understand that we'd get rolled at the beginning but that's the whole point.

Slin I appreciate the concern, no one wants to see another team die, but to be frank Slin you don't know my team, and you don't know how we respond to pressure. We want to play a team incredibly solid that can stomp us, on a regular basis. Emphasis on regular, I believe what you say is true when it's a oneoff occasion. However when you play with someone willing to treat you seriously (even if it just makes them beat you harder) on a consistent basis, you can improve dramatically.

To any people looking at this thread considering it, we aren't the type of guys to get discouraged and be done with this in a week.

We are dedicated, we are improving, we want your help.

Our DM isn't the issue though, we've played low IM teams and we are pretty equal in terms of straight DM, we want to improve other aspects of play that more experienced eyes will be able to help us with.

Tune Squad is looking for an IM or above team that is willing to spend 30 minutes a week or so destroying an open team and then pointing out the problems you see and what we could do to fix them.

Check his matches played, he backs up.

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