Howto: Tk-Revive.

[Seph64]

1. Wait for player to have less than, say 20% health.
2. Shoot the guy with your main weapon so they won't think that you are a covert ops in disguise.
3. Do not waste your time TK-Reviving someone if they have around 50% of their health left. 2 Med-Packs/Stroyant cells will perk them right up.

God, I can certainly see why people look down on Tk-Revives. Especially if they are done idiotically. I had around 50% of my health left, and someone started knifing me, at first I thought it was a covert ops attacking me so I turned around and started shooting.

Low and behold it was an over-eager technician on my team wanting to TK-Revive me so bad that he had to bring me down from 50+/- health to 0 to revive me to... 50+/-. It would have saved him more time to give me 2 stroyant cells and be done with it.

[Ifurita]

Cheater

I try not to tk revive someone unless a) they are very low on health, b) not currently engaged in something (like defusing), and c) I have some charge left to drop at least one pack on them.

[Katarrn]

I shoot every teamkiller that I see to death. No excuse for technicians.

[reyalp]

If they are very low on health, you can use the shock paddles.

As strogg, TK/revive makes a lot less sense, since it leaves you vulnerable for much longer, and they can get more health from a single stroyent cell by transfering some of the ammo to health as well.

[Fade2Black_Qubenet]

TK/revive probably have no place in ET:QW.

I'm sorry but while you were TK me I probably was charging a grenade, or deploying something or doing something useful. Supply medic packs, call in a crate and i'll find it, deploy stroyent, make spawn hosts. But don't tk/revive me unless I ask for it.

Cause I won't be happy.

[danuker]

This same freaking issue has been around since RtCW days, and with the influx of new players, I expect even more complaints about it, its not worth getting a complaint filed for being helpful to be honest, unless the player is already screaming for medic and staring right at you with < 30 health.

[reyalp]

Originally Posted by Fade2Black_Qubenet

TK/revive probably have no place in ET:QW.

It's simple math

There's obviously times when you shouldn't do it, but it is a worthwhile and effective tactic in many cases. A busy medic can easily run out of charge, and it is far better to have you at 50% health before you get into combat than try to revive you under fire.

Expect experienced RTCW and ET players to kick you if you complain for tk/revive. I know I will.

[ShortyMcNostril]

I'm pretty sure there's a voice bind to warn someone you're going to TK revive them.
I heard it the other day.

[SlippytheWeasel]

Worst thing to experience is to have something in your sights, that you have been fighting hard to take out, getting severely injured in the process, only to have someone tk-revive you right before you do what you were trying to do.
DO NOT tk-revive unless someone is actively looking to you for medpaks/stroyent, and has called for them.

Shooting me to tk-revive me when I am trying to accomplish MY objectives rather than handing me some meds pisses me off.


Slippy

[TankGoat]

tk-revive no place in ET:QW???
hell, I think you mean in strogg, but for GDF , TK-revive is a nice tool
IF the medic TK-revive you when you are doing objective, file him, it's his fault.But otherwise, you are the one have fault and deserved to be kicked

[Bullveyr]

very important for GDF, espacialy cause med-packs are much weaker in beta2

I don't ask people if I should TK-revive them, i know what I'm doing cause Medic is my proffesion

If he wants to fill a complaint, well, lett him do it, if you get kicked, just rejoin are go to another server

PS: In save places it even makes sometimes sense for Strogg

[Mike_Miller]

TK - revive doesnt make sense at all and its not realistic too.

Why would a medic kill a teammate only to revive him later?
Only reason is to cheat and save respawn, heal time!

I dont like the idea...

[Bullveyr]

Originally Posted by Mike_Miller

TK - revive doesnt make sense at all and its not realistic too.

Why would a medic kill a teammate only to revive him later?
Only reason is to cheat and save respawn, heal time!

I dont like the idea...

omg, the realism arguement

We had this discussion in RtCW and in W:ET, and now we have it in ET:QW.
The result will be the same: You can like it or not, it's still a proper "tactic"

[darthmob]

don't know who it was but I liked the statement about realism concerning healing:
"throw a medpack at someone and see what happens!"

I guess people will get used to it. in fact most times you can see if someone is deploying something or holding a grenade. nevertheless tk-revive is easy and effective. as a medic I often get the most-tks-award because of this.

[reyalp]

Note that the bots have an option to make them able to TK/revive, and vsay to go with it. That should tell you something about whether this is an exploit or intended feature

[Sublim3]

I got TK revived when defending the the explosives i planted on the contaminator... it allowed me to defend it more which won the map.

Its only acceptable in some situations, ide hate to be the medic that TK revives me when i have plenty health and im doing something... ill make sure the rest of the game sux for him lmao!

[zig-zag]

Ahh, memories of early ET match strats:
Get a panzer (rocket launcher), wait in doorway for enemy spawn, have a med tk/revive as offense rushes you, invulnarable for a few secs and doorblocking= whole team dead with one panzer shot