Playing the basic kits...help?

[Prancer]

Now a lot of the roles of each kit are self explanatory. But what's harder for a new player to figure out is HOW to go about accomplishing that role.

Medics especially. I think the vets will know what I'm looking for. What's that list of protips?

Any tips for the other kits as well? Any general tips?

[communistman]

Just focus on your fundamental intent based on your role; as a medic you are responsible for reviving downed team mates quickly and safely and keeping everyone healthy, so you should avoid leading attacks or leaving yourself vulnerable, stay close and available to your squad. Playing as AR, your job generally is to protect the squad with overwatch, and provide sustained fire during contact--so you must find good firing positions that give you a view of the squads path.

Put concisely; know your role and what it asks of you, the details of what to do will fill in organically when you understand your intent.

[ron366]

1. As for controlling those kits , just go to co-op and make your own private server and explore each kit and learn by yourself how to aim and use each kit , simply learn what every kit has and learn how to use it.
2. When it comes the role of each kit just use common sense and think , some kits are more "attacking" and some kits are more "defending" , it will come with time.

[=-=kittykiller]

1/ take medic and play medi *****, do your best and u may be trusted with UGL
2/practice everychance u get on map hitting target with UGL smoke especially near ammo
3/get trusted with LAT whenever near ammo take practice shots.

this is the PR progression

[HeadlessChicken86]

Theres only few basic things you should take care off:


1. Do not revive when its not safe. Whenever a squadmate gets shot dead-dead because you revived him in a stupid place its YOUR FAULT. Use smoke IN BETWEEN you and the enemy - not on the downed player - and only if enemies arent close enough to throw grenades. On the other hand dont be too cautious of course since you would end up reviving noone sometimes.



2. Do not smoke if its unnecessary, youre just helping the enemy team rushing your position without being shot at. In general if you cant interact with the enemy due to heavy fire or something do not start to randomly interact with the environment. You see this all day long, people dont know what to do and start throwing random smokes or run in cirlces seconds before an enemy comes around the corner and kills them. Often enough that one enemy guy would not even have gotten to their location if it wasnt for bad smoke placement. Instead just relax, keep situational awareness and just cover the area where the least amount of people is looking at, people are always flanking in PR.



3. Find a safe location before you revive and tell the patient where to go BEFORE you stab him. Always go with the safest revive first unless someone is about to go dead dead by the expiring 5 minute timer. If people in your squad die look at the menu and at the clock, keep that time in mind and the order in which your squadmates got shot. This way you will avoid people going dead dead because youre reviving others that still have some minutes downtime left.

However, if you cannot remember who died first communicate with each other, every squadmember should look at the timer himself the second he gets shot so he can tell the medic how much time he got left.

FYI everyone should also keep the time in mind when theyve been revived and play extremely cautious for the next 5 minutes to avoid going dead-dead.



4. Whenever you could get under fire only revive after dropping a field dressing. This will allow the revived person to instantly get up and run away into safety without being black and white as usual. Dont do this all the time since you dont want to waste field dressings.

If you are being revived in such a situation yourself you may want to spin your mouse while youre beind revived. This way you will take the field dressing instantly. Theyre kinda buggy or unresponsive and this usually helps.


5. If reviving doesnt work immediately use resuscitate on the wounded player, if its still not working try to drop a field dressing on him and try again. Epipen usually works best when the wounded body is still jerking around after resuscitate/fielddressing. Smoke grenades (dropped on body with RM) were doing magic in former versions of PR when it came to this, you could even get people up that were glitched into walls. Its not working THAT great anymore but I still suggest trying it if something like that ever happens. In this case a second medic who resusiscates while youre stabbing the patient may also do the trick.
If people are stuck in walls you have to get them out before you revive them, the downed player will see if that happens - his cameraview will start moving around more than just the usual resuscitate movement.



6. Sometimes when you are on hills or mountains the body of the wounded soldier will slide downhill while the actual player hitbox is still where he died. The problem here is that using the epipen wont work on the body, you need to stab the actual (invisible) hitbox to revive him.
-> If you use a field dressing on the body (its called ragdoll btw) it will slide uphill again to the patients hitbox position, you need to be quick with the epipen if that happens to prevent the body sliding down again. A bit sliding is okay since hitbox and ragdoll will stay connected during the first few inches.
You should know that the wounded persons camera angle is also not located at the body but at the invisible hitbox. You can also find it via mumble voice (since thats where the voice is coming from) and by asking the patient wether he can see you.

If youre not high up on a mountain and close to flat ground you may also just move the fallen player by resuscitate until he reaches said flat surface.



7. If youre not a medic always try to pickup medic kits from downed medics. If youre not going to do it noone will i guarantee it. The second a medic of your squad dies its someones job to take his kit and revive him asap.
Once you revived him keep the medic kit in case theres dangerous revives. Its better if someone else dies and just gets wounded instead of the just revived medic getting shot dead-dead.

If theres no friendly medic kit but downed people around you (for example if a fob despawned someones kit), search enemy kits for a medic kit and make use of that. You have to drop it after a while but it still gets the job done.



8. One medic each patient. Everything else is stupid except two medics are healing each other with the medicbag.



9. Whenever youre squadleading make sure the medic is competent, do not give to nubs. Bad things will happen. Its a burden and not as much fun as an AR but its BY FAR the most important kit in the whole game. If youre playing a clanwar or some kind of tournament always give one your best players the medic kit.


10. Do not expect a lot of public players to know about this. Play medic whenever you can be arsed to and please try to teach others how to do it aswell. I can tell you that its annoying since noone will ever listen anyway but lets keep trying...

[Cossack]

I second what Headless said. Thanks to OD-S I played 3-4 years as medic only.

Don't wait for skirmish to end. Go for risky revives. More guys up, more people able to shoot.

I know, this is teamwork oriented game, but on revives and heals, squad is top priority. Don't even bother with blue guys, because most just shouts medic medic and dies after revive. Also, your supplies are limited, so that is another reason. Only your squad matters. Keep it alive, save bandages and epipens.

[Heavy Death]

Medic protip: Do not revive until you are sure its safe. Go by gut feeling and circumstances. Also ignore all the meeeeedic meeeeedic, meeedic calls the idiits call out. Take your time. But do it one at a time. Never revive two at once and never help another medic with the healing, just go revive others or cover him.

[Prancer]

Thanks for the awesome replies guys. I guess I'll be jumping into coop to practice a little.