Anyone else love saving people?

[TopHatPenguin]

Just please, PLEASE don't run off with them without asking the medic first. It's really obnoxious to be working on a few people and a PFC (or a pilot, wat) strolls up trying to be 'helpful' and drags off your patient(s) to take them to the LZ or something. Don't be that guy, guys. If the medic is finished and wants you to take someone, they'll tell you.

I always just ask the medic "Is this one stable and ready to be moved?" if I'm moving them back to the Fob/LZ.

Most of the stretcher bearing I try and go for is for the marine chaps who are injured near the frontline and are deemed a lost cause but are still alive, from there I move them to a medic or if they're stunned save them from a xeno who's coming in for the kill. That's how I get my kicks atleast, I enjoy the challenge and also the fact that i'm improving someone elses round.

[alekfenrir]

Entierly why I play medic as a main. I like that my work gets people abck into the fight, or in some cases out of the cold salty grip of dead chat. Like most of the others here have said, the work often keeps you so busy you can't do more than quip or wave at folks before moving onto the next mangled pile of marine to try and turn back into a useful boot. Had some great RP moments as a medic, the rare chance I get to talk or if the doctor staff is on their game. Greatest round was while keeping the med bay aprised of the incoming triage and Evac's we were able to banter, mercilessly flame others, and generall have that great working relationship that I feel should always be there between the folks on the ground and the shipboard staff. Great time when it works out and can allow for some very active rounds.

[Nicboone]

I am not a good medic. Or a good doctor. BUT, Whenever I see someone who needs help, ill drop almost everything to get them to a medic or doctor. Karma, and all that.

[Jroinc1]

literally the only reason I play.

[CraayyZ]

Every Veteran know the reason we do what we do is cause we enjoy the thril & we're masocists lel. I do it cause I've always loved being a support class and keeping experienced & baldies in the fight. You gain recognition here & there, but mainly go unnoticed. Such is life as a Medic main.

[alekfenrir]

With you on the fact that medic mains are there for the stress, the hard decisions and the crazy support roles.

For being unknown and unnoticed: Yes and no. I've had a few people remark how happy they were to see medics they knew the name of. It’d like dropping with an engineer who you know, knowing your FOBS will be good, their hacking swift, and the sentry placement wise.

As with Engineers, it is with medics; When people see ones they know, who've they've played with and been brought back from the brink of death over and over again, it makes them think their round will be a bit better, the drama a little higher, the stakes that much more impressive because there's that chance to bounce back, instead of being left to the tender mercies of a baldie stuffing an entire bottle of tram down your gob because they don't know better.

[Heckenshutze]

I don't usually save people because I ask myself if they would do the same for me. Most of the times the answer is No.

But when I do, I do it in an epic way.

[CraayyZ]

For being unknown and unnoticed: Yes and no. I've had a few people remark how happy they were to see medics they knew the name of. It’d like dropping with an engineer who you know, knowing your FOBS will be good, their hacking swift, and the sentry placement wise.

I agree with you. Medic mains tend to be the ones who stand out due to their sheer will & ease of work, but Medics tend to go under the radar whereas a engineer who makes an amazing FOB or sets up power is considered a god send, but then again people don't do it for recognition sooo.

[Amaxin]

I agree with you. Medic mains tend to be the ones who stand out due to their sheer will & ease of work, but Medics tend to go under the radar whereas a engineer who makes an amazing FOB or sets up power is considered a god send, but then again people don't do it for recognition sooo.

I think it's mostly specialists, smartgunners and squad leaders that get the most recognition, if you're mentioning that. They're supposed to be the most vocal, they're supposed to be at the frontlines, where everyone can see them. Plus, you can see the fruit of their work, aka dead aliens.

[solidfury7]

I adore saving people, despite it more than often leading to my death.

Risk it all for your squad, mates.

[alekfenrir]

The other thing is that I and many other medics don't talk as much as other roles, second I find to the engineers, because of the tunnel vision their job gives them. So they're less on people's mind and more working in the background.

[Lumdor]

Never play medic, but anytime a marine is laying on the ground screaming and no medic is helping them out I'll help the poor fellow out with some bandages.

[OatzAndHoes]

Best feeling ever is managing to successfully drag someone to the dropship when the FOB fails. Bonus points if they're screaming at you to leave them and save themselves. Extra bonus points if LZ1 has fallen and you need to sneak over to the other LZ.

[CraayyZ]

Best feeling ever is managing to successfully drag someone to the dropship when the FOB fails. Bonus points if they're screaming at you to leave them and save themselves. Extra bonus points if LZ1 has fallen and you need to sneak over to the other LZ.

Exxxtra bonus points if you have to sedate them with soporific cause they won't let you help them. Exxxxtra bonus points if you have to fight off John Cena Runners in the process & successfully getting them on LZ 2. Massive bonus points if you reassure them that they will be OK and then you get RKO'd by a Hunter just as you say goodbye

[Rataca100]

I dont really love it, when you come to the realization they will die because the doctors spend 30 minuets on a simple fractured hand surgery and wont triage properly or know how to use drugs to stabilize people who are pain crit or bleeding out. :P

But i usually try and drag people back unlike most people, i dont do it when i cant let go of my rifle and then i will cover someone else or them as they limp back. I do the same with corpses. First time playing as medic, i didnt get injured and i evaced 2-3 people.

[jalen earl]

After lasting out a 3hr ice map the other day as a medic(only going up for supplies once) i have a new joy for saving marines some guys i pour everything i have into getting them on their feet again.

You still get the occasional assholes who drag you off a crit patient so you can bandaid their papercut or the guys that get the shits when you cant attach a prosthetic arm on the front lines.

But it also feels good getting your body hauled out by a dedicated medic as well

[Gnorse]

I vowed to never play medic because that shit is complicated as hell.
But, I will drag people away from combat if they're in crit.
If I'm part of the reason they're in crit (FF, Pushing them in crusher charge ...) I'll take time to bandage their wounds and maybe even hit them up with Tricord or Tramadol

[Rataca100]

I vowed to never play medic because that shit is complicated as hell.
But, I will drag people away from combat if they're in crit.
If I'm part of the reason they're in crit (FF, Pushing them in crusher charge ...) I'll take time to bandage their wounds and maybe even hit them up with Tricord or Tramadol

Not really complicated, Tricord, bandage and ointment wounds, splint any fractures, stick them on a roller bed (if they cant walk) drag back to boat for surgery. I didnt know what tricord did for the first half of the game i played medic. so i was using bandages and treatment kits etc.

<-- Is too familiar with triage and how medical things should be done in this context. XP

Basically, if its anything that needs a doctor to look at like a fracture, evac them, i usually didn't go up with them and asked the PO or another marine to make sure doctors got them. (i would go up if they needed a defib though or something like that)

[Crab_Spider]

I like saving people. I also like reminding them to be more careful. I like to torture people. I do my job, and be done with it. I do not like babysitting, in the slightest.

[jalen earl]

I vowed to never play medic because that shit is complicated as hell.
But, I will drag people away from combat if they're in crit.
If I'm part of the reason they're in crit (FF, Pushing them in crusher charge ...) I'll take time to bandage their wounds and maybe even hit them up with Tricord or Tramadol

It's fair easy just stabilise, stop the bleeding, dont OD them

Needs like a DRABCD style chart for treating people

[CraayyZ]

It's fair easy just stabilise

I don't think you understand how complicated it can get to let alone, stabilize someone when you factor in:

- Baldies spraying at anything & everything, hope to god they don't FF you
- Pissed off Aliens trying to decapitate you and everything you love
- Baldies pushing you while you're performing triage/stabilizing a pain crit marine (always the worst)
- Everyone pushes up and now you have noone to watch your back while you help a marine and then get RKO'd by a Elite Hunter
- Hold the line fails

I'm guarantee you I missed like 15 other things that make medics lives more complicated, but its all apart of the job.

[jalen earl]

but its all apart of the job.

Pull them back,carry a gyro shotty , punch baldies in the mouth. All part of the job

[jalen earl]

Medic acronym possibility i like to call DRSTRESS

D - check for danger, hostiles, firing lines, huggers. No uss helping if you die too

R - remove yourself and the patient from the front line if possible

S - scan and stabilize the patient: innaproviline and stop any bleeding with gauze or trauma kits. splint zones if needed

T - tramadol or other painkiller. Only use a single dose

R - benficial reagents ( bicaridine, dexalin, kelotane, dyvolene)

E - evacuate to almayer if wounds are serious or patient has been facehugged.

S - transport to surgery if required

S - send your ass back to hell

[Jroinc1]

It's not THAT hard... to stabilize someone. I have it set up so I can do it in one click (10u tricord, 5u bicard, they will heal, even out of crit). You just need to make SURE that you're moving the guy back to safety before treating him fully, as treatments on the firing lines are awkward at the best of times..

Personally as medic, I never shoot, unless I am the only person left standing. My rationale behind that decision is that you can either be a medic, or a standard, and any time you're shooting at ayys is time you aren't saving people. Standards can do all the shooting that has to be done, I'll be busy stabilizing/tending to light-green people/restocking my tricord injectors.

Bonus comment- I think the new tramadol autoinjectors are the worst thing ever for medics.
Oh, they aren't BAD per-se, just now people take them instead of tricord injectors, cause that's what the pouch comes with. They get scratched/burnt, inject, and don't seek a medic immediately, and don't notice until the painkiller effect runs out, which leads to- broken bones (cause the arm was at 15 damage, and one more slash did it...), blood loss (cause it was bleeding for the last 10 minutes), and infection/INSTA-paincrit (cause that spitter sniping you kept racking up the hits...).

[jalen earl]

Agreed i tend to avoid carryling loads of injectors anyway, usually only some for extrene emergencies. I tend to carry loads of trauma kits and pills instead