Thoughts on special medic servers and the 1,000,000 heal hack server.

Well I didnt play TF2 for a while been playing WoW a lot I come back to find the medic patch had been added.I was like cool so i start looking through the list of things they want you to do and was thinking some of them are pretty easy and some are just retarded.

I started talking to a few people that i saw with the uber saw,asking them how the hell they did some of these things.There response every time was achievment server # (add number here).So i looked them up and was suprised when i logged into one or 2 special panels and control points to do all of them and even a hacked server that basicly gets you 1,000,000 heal in no time.

My opinion on them was basicly if this is how peopel wanna do it thats cool,I mean i even used them for a few the solider and scout uber killing ones come to mind as well as the one where you need to uber 10 friends.


How do you guys feel about these servers and have you used any of them be honest

If they want to obtain those items in a way that cheapens the effort involved, there's not much that can be done about that. I think at this point Valve should just unlock the weapons for everyone and be done with this kind of achievement model - it clearly is broken.

I only just a few days ago received my Vamp gun - I never even bothered to try farming or anything, just doing my regular stuff as a Medic, and even switching classes pretty frequently.

I actually got the million heal point total fairly quick because I played a lot of medic before achievement update

Yeah, Nam - I was at over 700k even before the patch. (Got 21+ hours as medic. Next closest - Scout at 3 hours.)

I think those servers are kind of cheap, but I also think the whole achievement thing is cheap. If people want to get the stuff through those I don't care. Personally I don't think there is a huge advantage to unlocking the kriz and the ubersaw, so if you want to skip the work to get those it's not that big of a deal. For me I want to get everything legitimately so I stay away from those servers and instead just focus on playing medic and if a opportunity presents itself to get a achievement I might take it.

I used the fast healing server, and really wish I hadn't.  I was only like 20,000 healing away from the big one, and my record for heals in one life was like 6600 when I wasn't really even trying to survive.  Afterwards, I needed to get placebo effect and had to charge and uber and thought assists would work and healed for ages without using uber, just trying to survive the best I could.  I'm sure I could have easily got these 3 healing amount achievements, even in one very short normal game more.  I was SO close, but I got impatient.

The reason I wish I hadn't is it screwed over my stats.  Now my top medic points thing says like around 400, and all the bars are tiny for the other classes making them look the same.  The points healed in one life are screwed up, so I'll never know if I've reached a new personal best.  It's not the end of the world, but I didn't need the server at all, I just wanted my ubersaw right away (which I still don't have because placebo effect is the worst achievement ever, I even made a thread about it).

Also, you can't reset your stats.  The button was removed in an update, and there is a console command but it doesn't work.  It will reset your max points and time played for every class for that game session, but when you open the game next time, your screwed up stats are back.  I'm kind of glad though, I didn't want my time spent playing whichever classes to be removed from the record.

Also see the Pledge to refrain from grinding thread, it's about the same thing

Wasn't concerned, already had 3 million heal points when the updates came out. Most of these people never play medic anyway, so meh to them.

Those achievements aren't hard at all. Just play the game a bit and you'll get it eventually. Honestly though, it's a grindfest either way, so does it matter how you get it? However, fast healing servers are kind of cheap. I don't like these achievement box servers, but hey, to each his own.

still took me about a week after the update to get Chief of Staff

I am not ashamed to say that I grinded out almost all of the medic achievements on a achievement box server... im actually the admin of one now...
I do not play medic at all( i had like 2 hours as medic until i grinded them all out) and i think the whole achievement system is crap so i just grinded them all out