Why does BF1 have so many bad medics?

Battlefield 1 General Discussion
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In BF3, medics were great. In BF4, medics were still great. In BFH medics were non-existent (as in rarely anyone could revive).

BUT

In BF1, many medics just don’t revive. They can revive, but choose not to. This has never been a problem for me in previous titles. Why are medics so bad now?

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Floks will now come saying they are good medics and blabla. Truth is you’re absolutely right. Bfv is gonna be a cryfest when they’ll realize that teamwork is just another fancy marketing word in bf.

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It’s possible that it seems like you’re not being revived more than in previous BF’s because you’re now aware of just how many medics are around you (and their distance) while waiting to be revived. We didn’t know how many medics were around us in previous BF’s unless you saw some immediately before you died… I’m not saying you’re wrong, but we didn’t have that info available to us in the past and, now that we do, we can see just how many people are slacking on the job. (Sort of like it seems like there’s more bad things in the news now than 20 years ago, but it was always there; technology and connectivity just made it more accessible.)

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There are a lot of “bad” medics playing right now. It would seem they fall into these categories:

  • New/Clueless Medics - just don’t know how to revive or that they even can revive.
  • Selfish Medics - only are medics to self heal. They really have no motivation or intention to heal teammates or revive.
  • K/D Medics - will revive only if someone happens to die right at their feet and won’t lose the opportunity for a kill. They’re more interested in maintaining their K/D ratio and won’t risk a revive if it puts them in any danger whatsoever.

Those good medics are a rare breed and greatly appreciated. A buddy of mine only plays as a medic and often goes 7-27 (his aim is not so good!) but gets tons of revives/heals (30-40 revives a game is not unusual for him) and often ends up in the top 10 in points for his team in Conquest or Operations. I’d MUCH rather have a medic like him than the one that goes 34-7 but rarely/never revives or heals to help his team.

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door swings both ways, why are there so many noobs skip revive just as you are about to revive them after fighting your way over to them?

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I’ve been playing more medic lately I wish people wouldn’t skip especially when I mark them.

Though I do love the players that wait. I’ve had some on roofs that I had to jump out a window and climb a ladder and they waited for me.

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I’ve recently pretty much stopped playing Medic. It’s not very fun when your team literally doesn’t allow you to play your role because they skip. And for me, Medic guns aren’t fun enough to justify playing Medic just for that.

I’m also really tired of seeing 1-2 Medics within 10m of me, then 12m, 15m, 20m gone.

I think everyone just assumes that everyone is going to skip so there’s no point going for the revive, except that wouldn’t explain a lot of times where a Medic will hang around me (not even in danger as far as I can tell) through 90% of the bleed out, only to abandon me at the last second.

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This.

Plenty of medics never revived as far back as bf2 when they first introduced the mechanic.

Its just because you can now see nearby medics and their distance from you (which sometimes isn’t always right e.g having a Medic run away from to you revive you 19m away according to the tracker)

Hence it seems like medics are ignoring their roles when they have just like every other class since 1942. People will always be selfish that doesn’t change in online multiplayer games

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+1 for people skipping being a deterrent. I main medic mostly and am in the top 0.1% for revives but nowadays I’ll stop trying to pick up the blueberries, unless they’re at my feet or make no visual effort to skip, if my team that round are comprised of people who hold the skip button before their body even hits the floor.

To be clear I fully understand that sometimes people want to take the opportunity to respawn and change class etc or they don’t consider the revive as safe (there’s an enemy tank sitting on them for example) and am talking about the insta-skippers.

That said there are times when the medics are simply bad and make zero effort to revive or heal anybody but themselves. We’ve all been there I’m sure and it’s either because they’re selfish, overwhelmed by the firefights around them (to be fair I get tunnel vision in those situations sometimes) or they’re just not willing to risk it for a random.

I guess that what I’m trying to say is that from both sides it’s a player problem.

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Yeah, bad medics…reviving me while I’ve got my snuff box open getting a chew…or taking a drink…or just got up to get another beer…

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I have been revived more in BF1 than in all previous Battlefields In recent memory. Playing medic isn’t easy and players skipping or calling you names in the chat doesn’t make playing the class any easier.

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Easy for you to say, I still remember that one time you didn’t revive me. You apologized afterwards, but it didn’t really help me, did it? Bad Bran.

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I’ve tried being a good medic, people skipping even when u spot and about 2 needle them. Then on the opposite side I wait out the timer with 3 medics in 10 m range.
The most frustrating to me however is when the medictrain moves past and your like 10 meters behind the line and perfectly safe for them 2 turn back and revive you. But 95% of medics don’t look their minimap for the deathmark for easy revives, only the dead people directly in front of their nose which they have to struggle to get 2