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upcoming TF2 medic weapons details - Blutsaugher, Critzcrieg and Ubersaw

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shacknews said:
We've known for a while about Valve's plans to introduce unlockable weapons for classes in TF2, but the developer's now released final details on debut content - which will be available to the Medic.

Shacknews reports that Valve's just released these details over in San Francisco, providing official descriptions of The Blutsaugher, The Critzcrieg and The Ubersaw. The weapons are unlocked by completing new Medic achievements.

First up, The Blutsaugher's a new syringe gun acquired by completing 12 of the 36 achievements. It can't score critical hits on opponents but sucks the health from enemies when they're hit by the syringe. It's an ideal retreat-and-stay-alive weapon, says Valve.

You're awarded with The Critzcrieg after earning 24 of the achievements. This is a new medigun and uses its ubercharge "not for invulnerability, but to give its recipient 100% chance to fire critical ordinance."

Finally, earn all 36 achievements and you can get your Medic hands on The Ubersaw, "which will take damage done in melee attacks and convert it directly to ubercharge." Apparently, score four hits with this weapon and any medigun you have equipped as a Medic will be fully charged.

Valve's TF2 update including all this - in addition to a new game mode - is imminent. It'll release for the PC version of the game initially.
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edit: the 36 achievements revealed

First Do No Harm: Play a full round without killing any enemies, and score the highest on a team of 6 or more players.

Quadruple Bypass: Heal a teammate who's taking fire from 4 enemies at once.

Group Health: Work with 2 other medics to deploy 3 simultaneous uber-charges.

Surgical Prep: Have an uber-charge ready before the setup phase ends.

Trauma Queen: Deploy 3 uber-charges in less than 5 minutes, and assist in 5 kills during that time.

Double Blind Trial: Deploy an uber-charge within 8 seconds of a nearby enemy medic deploying his.

Play Doctor: In a team with no medics, be first to switch to medic after a teammate calls 'medic!', and then heal 500 health.

Triage: Deploy an uber-charge on a teammate less than a second before they're hit by a critical explosive.

Preventive Medicine: Block the enemy from capturing a control point with an uber-charged teammate.

Consultation: Assist a fellow medic in killing 5 enemies in a single life.

Does It Hurt When I Do This?: Kill 50 scouts with your syringe gun.

Peer Review: Kill 50 medics with your bone saw.

Big Pharma: Assist a heavy in killing 30 enemies, where neither of you die.

You'll Feel A Little Prick: Assist in killing 4 enemies with single uber-charge on a scout.

Autoclave: Assist in burning 8 enemies with a single uber-charge on a pyro.

Blast Assist: Assist in exploding 5 enemies with a single uber-charge on a soldier.

Blunt Trauma: Assist in punching out 4 enemies with a single uber-charge on a heavy.

Medical Breakthrough: Assist in destroying 8 enemy engineer buildings with a single uber-charge on a Demoman.

Midwife Crisis: Heal an enginner as he repairs his sentry while it's under enemy fire.

Ubi Concordia, IBI Victoria: Assist in killing 5 enemies on an enemy control point, in a single life.

Grand Rounds: Heal 200 teammates after they've called for 'medic!'

Infernal Medicine: Extinguish 100 burning teammates.

Doctor Assisted Homicide: Assist in killing 20 nemesis.

Placebo Effect: Kill 5 enemies in a single life, while having your uber-charge ready, but undeployed.

Sawbones: Hit enemies with your bonesaw 10 times in arrow without dying or missing.

Intern: Accumulate 7000 heal points in a single life.

Specialist: Accumulate 10000 heal points health in a single life.

Chief of Staff: Accumulate 10 million total heal points.

Hypocritical Oath: Kill an enemy spy that you have been healing.

Medical Prevention: Save a falling teammate from dying on impact.

Second Opinion: Uber-Charge 2 teammates at once.

Autopsy Report: Provide an enemy with a freezecam shot of you taunting above their ragdoll.

FYI I Am A Medic: Use your bonesaw to kill 5 enemy spies who have been calling for 'Medic!'.

Family Practice: Uber-charge ten of your steam community friends.

House Call: Join a game that one of your friends is in and then deploy and uber-charge on him.

Bedside Manner: Be healing a teammate as he achieves and achievement of his own.
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1up with preview, New Weapons Now, Classes Later?
 
Shit, I've been neglecting TF2 lately. This will bring me back IMMEDIATELY as I'm a medic player.

Regarding to that unlockable weapons and class achievments update. Does anyone know if all classes will receive it at the same time or if it's going to be spread out over time?
 
New Map 'Goldrush', 'Meet The Scout' video in 4 days!

Hope they upgrade the spy class next since they gimped his knife so much :(
 
Wii said:
New Map 'Goldrush', 'Meet The Scout' video in 4 days!

Hope they upgrade the spy class next since they gimped his knife so much :(
was it actually april 20? iirc they said "week of april 20"... which could be worst case 27th or something
 
I think I would use the Blutsaugher every match (If I play Medic) for sure. Not sure about the Critzcrieg, I think I'd only use that if you can swap mid-game (But I believe you can't, so I won't use it). Ubersaw doesn't seem to have a negative point so I'd definitely use that.
 
As awesome as this game is I've taken a break from it the last month or two because of how slow they've been out the door with the goldrush map and these new weapons. It's great that they continue to add so much to this game, and for free, but I'd like it to be a bit more of a steady stream of content so I don't take breaks.
 
Any news about the latest Meet The Team short? I remember hearing somewhere that it's Scout, but that could be false and this doesn't mention it at all.

Edit: Oh wait, hurrrr, it was mentioned above.
 
Excellent, finally some things that make the Medic's weapons a bit more viable. That mechanic with the syringe should be interesting in gameplay.
 
Pyroteknikz said:
Prepare for a week or two, of 5+ Medics on a team. Gonna be AWESOME!
Some of the best victories I've been part of were as a team of nothing but medics. Works great unless they have engineers.
 
Sounds great.

I havent really play TF2 much due to wow. Gave it a shot tonight and kicked some total ass, guess the long break was worth it :lol . Still such a fun game.
 
I wonder if once you unlock the weapons, they permanently replace the regular syringe gun/saw? and for the different ubercharges, you toggle them in prefs...

This stuff coming to the 360 version as well? I still need my Hardcore achievement!
PC only for now i believe
 
I've got Orange Box but still haven't gotten around to trying this game yet. I need to check it out, as the class thing interests me (I loved RTCW multi on the regular Xbox).
 
:D The return of the banana riders. I can see an Uber'd Pyro sweeping in from the right and a crit uber'd Heavy from the left sweeping it up. :D
 
Crushed you already made that joke! You need some new material.
nestea said:
Looks like I'm going to have to get my last achievement...
Actually I don't think the current achievements matter at all for unlocking the new weapons. Just the 36 new medic-centered achievements.

And these weapons sound awesome. I love the new needle gun especially. Makes being an offensive medic that much more awesome.
rakka said:
he's permabanned though :[
]:
(also, the 'gaf' server before used to be icy's one but he closed it i believe)
And then he reopened it and now it's 24/7 rock2. ;-;
 
rakka said:
I wonder if once you unlock the weapons, they permanently replace the regular syringe gun/saw? and for the different ubercharges, you toggle them in prefs...


PC only for now i believe

I kinda wonder what the relationship between Valve and MS is like right now.
 
ooh very nice, didn't know u guys had a TF2 thread (shud check online forum abit more)
as for the news, Medics and their bonesaw are pure evil, i keep getting killed by them argh!
 
flipping_heck said:
ooh very nice, didn't know u guys had a TF2 thread (shud check online forum abit more)
official thread should be moved back to gaming where it used to be :(

nobody goes into the online forum
 
flipping_heck said:
ooh very nice, didn't know u guys had a TF2 thread (shud check online forum abit more)
as for the news, Medics and their bonesaw are pure evil, i keep getting killed by them argh!
The range is blatantly too long on Bonesaw.
 
evlcookie said:
Sounds great.

I havent really play TF2 much due to wow. Gave it a shot tonight and kicked some total ass, guess the long break was worth it :lol . Still such a fun game.

Were you playing on GameArena? Remember playing against someone called Evil Cookie just before
 
i don't want to make a new thread for this question, but how the hell do i play this game?

i tried last night and was totally confused and didn't know what to do especially as the Engineer. is there a noob guide on gaf or the intraweb for this game/class?

thanks.
 
TheOneGuy said:
And then he reopened it and now it's 24/7 rock2. ;-;
ICY: WORST SERVER ADMIN OF ALL TIME


Hey guys wanna play this one map 24/7

No

Okay how about my new special mod that I just found

No

Okay loadan up teh modzzzz

Goddamn it Icy we want to play TF2, not TFIcy

Imma teleport you around the map now and freeze you lolololol

Icy you just goddamn it Icy what the hell
 
Crushed said:
ICY: WORST SERVER ADMIN OF ALL TIME


Hey guys wanna play this one map 24/7

No

Okay how about my new special mod that I just found

No

Okay loadan up teh modzzzz

Goddamn it Icy we want to play TF2, not TFIcy

Imma teleport you around the map now and freeze you lolololol

Icy you just goddamn it Icy what the hell
not to mention him shutting the server down just like that.

then a week or two later reopening it.

no way i'm playing on such an unstable server

sexconker on the other hand paying for the server, not taking any donations, intending it to be long term, etc. and he's the one with the perm :(
 
so_awes said:
i don't want to make a new thread for this question, but how the hell do i play this game?

i tried last night and was totally confused and didn't know what to do especially as the Engineer. is there a noob guide on gaf or the intraweb for this game/class?

thanks.

How to play Engineer
How to play Pyro
How to play Spy
How to play Scout

You picked one of the most complicated classes for your first go. Try Soldier first, or Pyro. Demoman's also a nice pick, as is the Heavy or Medic.
 
so_awes said:
i don't want to make a new thread for this question, but how the hell do i play this game?

i tried last night and was totally confused and didn't know what to do especially as the Engineer. is there a noob guide on gaf or the intraweb for this game/class?

thanks.
Start out as a soldier or heavy or something more newbie-friendly. Then just play. You'll learn the tricks pretty easy. Watch where engineers put their turrets, watch how other people approach different situations. It's the best way to learn. Much better than reading a FAQ. D:
Crushed said:
new (but sort of old) material
That's better.
 
rakka said:
not to mention him shutting the server down just like that.

then a week or two later reopening it.

Icy why is the server down?

WHY DO YOU THINK YOU SON OF A BITCH

...We don't know, that's why we're asking you.

WELL FUCK YOU

The server's back up. What's going on?

I DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER YOU.
 
Why did valve remove the ability to spread disease as a medic? that was the most fun thing to do, and they made the scout too overpowered for what it is.
 
WhatRuOn said:
Am I the only one that read buttslaughter?
Nope! :D

I really want to see what they plan to do with other classes. These new medic weapons are already more than what I expected.

I'm not sure if I like or dislike the fact that the last weapon unlocked seems to have no disadvantages.
 
TheOneGuy said:
Nope! :D

I really want to see what they plan to do with other classes. These new medic weapons are already more than what I expected.

I'm not sure if I like or dislike the fact that the last weapon unlocked seems to have no disadvantages.


Though I am hardly ever an Engy (too impatient), I'd love to see their plans for that class. Things like land mines or a little robot walking around with you shooting crap would be awesome.
 
Netrunner2k2 said:
Though I am hardly ever an Engy (too impatient), I'd love to see their plans for that class. Things like land mines or a little robot walking around with you shooting crap would be awesome.

I would like to see something like make your sentry invulnerable for 10 seconds.
 
Doc Evils said:
Why did valve remove the ability to spread disease as a medic? that was the most fun thing to do, and they made the scout too overpowered for what it is.


There's a lot of stuff in TF2 that I just can't agree with.


It's really not the same game at all. Most of the greatness is gone IMO.
 
GameGamer said:
There's a lot of stuff in TF2 that I just can't agree with.


It's really not the same game at all. Most of the greatness is gone IMO.
Well your opinion is wrong.

I said it.






Neener neener.


Visualante said:
You guys sure are being bitches to Icy.
Icy can handle someone being a bitch. If he couldn't, he wouldn't be able to look at himself in the mirror.
 
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