#simplify medics

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hearty gulch
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It’s probably a skill issue but I feel like if I’m trying to heal a lot of people at once it’s suuuuper hard to switch between bandage and medkit and dragging and crouching. It feels like I spend most my time mashing keys hopping to get the right heals out quickly enough

hollow laurel
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I do agree with you

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From what you’ve said

hearty gulch
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I’d say maybe if you have medkit and bandage equipped you just have to hold out the medkit and you can click to heal as normal but if they need bandage it will automatically switch to bandage then back to medkit once the bandage is applied.

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It kind makes sense that a medkit would allow you to use a bandage 🤷‍♂️

brisk zephyr
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I too find it very tricky to switch between stuff quicly, often finding myself equipping the personal mine instead of the medkit >.<

muted gorge
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A good tip I found on youtube...rebind your bandage and drag key to F. Works like a charm. Now you can drag people if you need to and bandage at the same time.

hollow laurel
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Thanks

muted gorge
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No problem.

brisk zephyr
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wow genius

quaint scarab
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Having 3 be the default for reviving doesn't make any sense. Can't even move while reviving

muted gorge
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Well don't give me credit. I found it on a youtube video I didn't come up with the idea

wooden vapor
candid parcel
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I think the root cause of the issue mentioned in the OP is that certain things in this game block your other inputs and this particularly exacerbates trying to swtich between gear.

For example, I made a thread about ADS locking you out of switching weapons (and throwing grenades, etc). I think this is also true of dragging bodies, where if you are in the state of dragging a person it won't let you switch items. Therefore I decided to disable the option for toggle dragging. Still happens sometimes though. :/

I like this game but I've never fatfingered my inputs in any other game like I do in BattleBit.

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BTW I think this is a good post but the way that you titled it didn't do you any favors, lol. "Simplifiy Medics" implies something way different than what you described.

bitter mortar
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add AOE medkits with cooldown like in bf3/4

hearty gulch
hearty gulch
# candid parcel I think the root cause of the issue mentioned in the OP is that certain things i...

I think the less inputs a player has to remember to press the better. It reduces the amount of "I found this trick on youtube that makes my medic experience 800% better" instead it should be as simple as possible. (At least for medic because more medics the better imo). If I can just hold 3 while looking at a group of people and it will bandage / heal them as needed that would be ideal (to me at least).

candid parcel
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It actually made me sit here and think about what the 3 key even is. Funny that it's bandage and it's used all the time, but I couldn't recall the 3 key literally equipping a bandage. Weird.

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Yeah alright, I can see how this could be a design tweak worth looking into. +1

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Thread title still isn't great tho, lol

hearty gulch
candid parcel
bitter thorn
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I kept the original binds but added bandage to mouse 5 so i can press F, start dragging and hold mouse 5 to revive, then 5 to medkit, I think if you have medkit in hand as well and use the prompt to revive once the revive happens you maintain holding the medikit.

burnt elm
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True, Like give medic just medic kit and with that can revive and heal others, every class has bandages already so the plus of have medic is to heal.

dark storm
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I think the Medic shouldn't be able to use Assault Rifles honestly. Assault is limited to just Assault Rifles, so I feel the weapons should be more exclusive. Besides everyone is running Medics right now because Assault Rifles dominate and the Medics can just heal themselves so people need an incentive to play Assault. Medics can keep all their current weapons, just no Assault rifle that way they can't just sit back at long ranges and are forced somewhat into fights if they aren't focused on healing. Can give Assaults the ability to use SMG's or Carbines as well. Just one or the other, not both.

urban vessel
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i think a fast and easy fix for this one would just had unmber keys with what they are used for just like how you see press r to reload

kindred tulip
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Weapon/item switching has a small delay at the end of the animations before they are fully "complete". Meaning it appears you are done with the switch animation but when you try to input a new command it gets cancelled out if the timing isn't right so you will sometimes attempt a switch and it won't go through.

This is pretty common in both Unity and Unreal Engine, though may have nothing to do with the engines themselves. I think it may come down to animation input timing where just as the animation is finishing, you end it a bit earlier and accept player input so the player is more likely to get the switch off when it visually appears they should, as there is no other indication aside from game knowledge. Anyway, the idea is that if you have a switch time of 1.0 seconds, you run the animation for 1.15s or something like that - maybe command queue as well around 0.8s or something, but this sort of thing which might feel like input delay/lag is all too common in many modern games, it actually used to be better in the past....for some titles that is.

marble bloom
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Put the medkit down and you're done

bitter mortar
# marble bloom Put the medkit down and you're done

yes, cuz game is too dynamic for siting in 1 place and heal 1 person, a lot of medic just pick up u and dont heal. they left without hp :V devs should add cd for drop medkits and ammo kits and give aoe to this gadgets