Guide To Being A Good Medic

[BuddyRP 41]

hey everyone, just registered and wanted to get more involved with the DAYZ community.been playing the game just about since it came out and i love it. recently ive gotten more into being a medic than doing anything else and in my travels ive come accross quite a few good & bad medics. so what i wanted to do here was leave a few basic guidelines on how to be a successful medic to those who are interested. (im by no means trying to put myself out there or saying that i know everything or that im the best in the world because i dont and im not. these are all just tips and rules i follow myself and thus far have proved helpful to me) so here it is:

• a positive sincere and POLITE attitude towards others will get you far. come out as an a-hole and people will either ignore you or worse, put a bullet in your head and loot you.
  
• remain UNARMED! no matter how nice you are to someone in need of help, they will ALWAYS be sketched out or uneasy when you approach them with a weapon in hand. give them NO REASON at all to feel threatened and they will almost always return the favor and allow you to assist them. (i keep a hatchet on my toolbelt for between patients in anticipation of zombie troubles, its more handy than people think) - also, the space used for pistol clips is valuable bandage space. all the more reason not to carry guns.
  
• assuming side chat is enabled, (not sure why but ive been in servers where it isnt) politely announce to players in text chat, that you are a friendly unarmed medic stationed in XXXXX town/city and will offer free blood transfusions ect. to anyone close by. almost always i get a response and will meet up with the person. if not simply announce it once in a while. (more often if you hear gunshots in your area) - 70% of the time my patience will offer in return food/drink because theyre just that pleased with being helped. also - i have "[MEDIC]' in front of my name in game which is a friendly sign for players in need of help.
  
• never retaliate when being trolled in chat, just last night a player was trying to troll and then kill me. 10 minutes later that same player had gotten into a firefight and was badly injured. when i offered my help, he accepted and honest to god did not fire upon me afterwords and was greatful. people can surprise you when you give them a chance and be nice.
  
• if you are the type of medic who is keeping to a specific area to where you assist others. be sure its out of zombie reach or difficult for them to get to. also be sure that you have a good view around your location so that you can see players around you. example: i often station myself on the docks in cherno. why? docks are a safe zone where zombies CANNOT reach you. also with the ocean behind me, i only have to worry about scanning a 180 degree view of area for approaching players.
  
• always be aware of the hospitals around you. if youre not getting patients for a while, USE that time to go and loot nearby hospitals to restock your supplies. i went through 40-50 bloodbags just last night and would not have been able to do so without having known where the hospitals where.
  
• we all know how some players aren't as civilized as others, and WILL open fire upon unarmed players. if you take fire, or your patient that you are meeting is compromised, GET OUT OF THERE. continue running away and get yourself lost deep within the town to escape from the fire fight. do NOT stop to bandage yourself if youre bleeding unless you are possitive that you have escaped. if injured and need blood you can always have your next patient give YOU a blood transfusion in return. im sure they wont mind it.
  
• backpacks. whether you're armed or not, if a player sees you have a nicer backpack than them, they may get greedy and try to kill you for it. i never go any larger than an assault pack. its just enough space to store a good amount of bloodbags morphine antibiotics ect. food and water are RARELY a problem for me as most patients will often give food in return for your help. also - the less gear you have, the less upset you will feel over being killed on that rare occasion by that not so nice player.
  
• avoid large groups of players! the more players gathered in a single area, the more tension there is because most if not all of them will be armed and on edge afraid of being killed by another. all it takes is 1 gunshot from any of them to set off a chain effect massacre that youre caught and trapped in the middle of.
  
• if you are killed by a player while on duty. dont get upset over it. there will always be those who kill freshspawns or unarmed players for their own personal humor. just respawn, thank them for their bullet, and be on your way. the same goes for that one patient who decides to turn on you after assisting them. complaining or getting upset will get you nothing and nowhere.
  

you are a medic, youre familiar with most if not all of the scenarios listed above. you know exactly why youre chosing to be a medic and you know exactly what you're chosing to get yourself into. staying possitive is the key to your success! thanks all for reading and i welcome other suggestions, the best of luck out there to all of you fellow medics!

[MEDIC] Stryder

Edited November 5, 2012 by Stryder.us

[Man vs Wild 313]

no you should be armed

have as much a nice pack as you want if they want it shoot them

if you go into side chat and tell everyone your in sos and so town and you are unarmed you will be sniped

[harley001 315]

no you should be armed

have as much a nice pack as you want if they want it shoot them

if you go into side chat and tell everyone your in sos and so town and you are unarmed you will be sniped

no you should be armed

have as much a nice pack as you want if they want it shoot them

if you go into side chat and tell everyone your in sos and so town and you are unarmed you will be sniped

.............I don't think you know what a medic is. "Do no harm" -I forget.

[BuddyRP 41]

no you should be armed

have as much a nice pack as you want if they want it shoot them

i was going to say that sounds rather counter-productive for a medic to do....

[herrjon 478]

I suppose being a solo medic healing randoms on a high pop server, this is the best way to go about it. If you have a squad though, it's better to be armed and lock down a smaller town or landmark and operate there with high security, assuming you have side-chat on the server. Otherwise operate in a big city and have a couple overwatch, preferably 1 thermal, and an on-site bodyguard incase something happens and the overwatch doesn't have a good shot.

I actually get in touch with my patients over the forums or teamspeak and run out to them wherever they are on the map. I run endgame gear for safety in traveling and on-site (I get a lot of NWAF calls) and the L85 helps spot snipers as well as the patient if they don't know exactly where they are. I have a coyote backpack just so that I can have lots of meds on me and heal a number of people up north without having to run back to Berezino constantly, but an Alice pack works fine too. I also refuse any handouts from patients and even offer extra food/drink and survival tools to any that need them, so that extra space helps.

Now, I do say to have guns and bodyguards, but I will tell you that I, as well as TMW as a whole, still don't actively shoot anyone, even if I know they're just a dick sniper. I just feel safer with it incase there is a set-up and I need to protect my gear and more importantly vehicle if I drove to the site. I have yet to actually be betrayed by the patient, but if I do come under fire the most I do is shoot near them and get them to back off, or knock them out, heal them up, and leave them there to wake up. I have only 1 murder and 3 bandit kills since I've started playing, and that was before I decided to become a full time medic. I still feel bad about them too.