Hey all,
Was hoping I could entertain any medics with this config I made. I was surprised when I didn't find anything like it out there, though maybe I didn't search hard enough. You'll notice lots of medics have their "uber pop"/"we have uber" binds say something like "Uber/Kritz popped" or "We have Uber/Kritz". I thought it would be helpful (especially in lobbies/games without comms) to make it as clear as possible for your team to know what gun you're on, so I devised this little config to sort of workaround that problem.
What this config does:
This config alters your chat binds (The "We have Uber"/"We Popped Uber" binds) to suit what medigun you currently have equipped without forcing you to press different buttons for different chat binds. That means that if you press the shift key in order to spam your "We Have Uber" bind, with this config, once you switch to kritz you'll be able to press shift and have "We Have Kritz" spammed in chat without having to faff about with changing binds. The config does all the work for you.
The same goes for the Uber Pop chat message. If you have stock medigun equipped, pressing M2 pops uber and says "We Popped Uber", whilst with Kritz equipped, pressing M2 pops kritz and says "We Popped Kritz". I also included this kind of functionality for Vaccinator, but I've noticed some people get annoyed when constantly spamming "Vaccinator Popped" in chat, so you might want to disable that functionality yourself.
//Loudout Switch
alias "medigun" "load_itempreset 0; say_team ** SWITCHING TO UBER **; alias "announce_pop" "pop_uber"; alias "announce_ubercharge" "uber_charged""
alias "kritz" "load_itempreset 1; say_team ** SWITCHING TO KRITZ **; alias "announce_pop" "pop_kritz"; alias "announce_ubercharge" "kritz_charged""
alias "vacc" "load_itempreset 2; say_team ** SWITCHING TO VACCINATOR **; alias "announce_pop" "pop_vacc"; alias "announce_ubercharge" "vacc_charged""
bind "INS" "medigun" //Press insert to switch to medigun
bind "DEL" "kritz" //Press delete to switch to kritz
bind "HOME" "vacc" //Press home to switch to vaccinator
//Fully Charged Chat Announcements
alias "uber_charged" "say_team ** UBER FULLY CHARGED **"
alias "kritz_charged" "say_team ** KRITZ FULLY CHARGED **"
alias "vacc_charged" "say_team ** VACCINATOR CHARGED **"
alias "announce_ubercharge" "uber_charged"
bind "SHIFT" "announce_ubercharge" //Press shift to announce to chat that you have uber
//Uber Pop Chat Announcement
alias "pop_uber" "say_team ** UBER POPPED! MAKE ME PROUD! **"
alias "pop_kritz" "say_team ** KRITZ POPPED! MAKE ME PROUD! **"
alias "pop_vacc" "say_team ** VACCINATOR POPPED! **"
alias "announce_pop" "pop_uber"
bind "MOUSE2" "+atk2"
alias "+atk2" "+attack2; announce_pop; spec_prev"
alias "-atk2" "-attack2"A few assumptions/things to note when using this config:
- The config assumes you have your Medigun equpped in loadout A, Kritzkrieg in loadout B, and Vaccinator in loadout C. If you don't have your loadouts set that way, you could either change the config to select your appropriate loadout slot, or change your loadouts accordingly
- The config assumes you'll have the medigun equipped by default, and will have the respective stock medigun binds set because of it. If for example you switch to medic with your kritzkrieg loadout equipped, you'll need to press the bind in the config that equips kritzkrieg in order to have the appropriate chat binds ready. I've made a habit of always pressing a loadout switch key as soon as I switch to med in order to make sure it doesn't mess up
- I believe class configs are re-executed when in tournament mode and the game goes from pre-game to starting. Because of this, if you equip something that isn't stock medigun with this config during pre-game, you'll start the game with your selected medigun equipped, but your binds will be set as if you have stock medigun equipped. Pressing the respective key to equip your desired medigun again should do the trick and set your binds accordingly (You don't need to switch from one medigun to another). This feature is also good for getting forwards spawns/back spawns and maintaining your uber. Try it.
- You will need to switch mediguns/loadouts with the listed binds in order for the chat binds to be set appropriately. Switching loadouts manually/any other way won't do the trick.
- Switching mediguns announces in team chat what you're doing.
How to use:
- Copy and paste the above code into your medic.cfg file
- Get on a server and switch to medic
- Press Insert to switch to stock Medigun
- Press Delete to switch to Kritzkrieg
- Press Home to switch to Vaccinator
- In spawn, press the respective button to re-equip your current medigun in order to get forward/backward spawns and MAINTAIN YOUR UBER
- Press/spam Shift to let your team know you have Uber/Kritz/Vaccinator Charge
- Press Mouse 2 to pop :)
That's pretty much it really. I've used this config for a majority of my time as a med main and have been pretty proud of it. Hopefully any of you that haven't seen anything like it before will try it out and have a slightly improved experience as med. The config is pretty straightforward but feel free to ask any questions :)
Happy healing