PSA: Combat Medic and Forced Friendship Aced

[Cooptimus Prime]

Guys, stop using the aced version of these skills. It's a massive waste of points.

Combat Medic aced gives 30% more health to players you revive. On Mayhem and above you only get 10% health after being revived. That 30% stacks multiplicatively with that, which means you've given the player a whopping 1% extra health for each skill point you invested in that. and one shot will easily erase that extra 3% health. Like sure, on Crime Spree it can be useful, but it isn't elsewhere.

Forced Friendship aced gives a grand total of 4 damage absorption (so all damage is reduced by 4, not 4%, just 4) to your crew under its max conditions. That amount would be pitiful even as damage reduction. Also, unless you have civilians still kicking around, you're unlikely to ever have 8 hostages. Jokers don't count for this one.

Take those 3 points and throw them into High Value Target or Shock and Awe basic.

And for the love of god, get in the habit of marking enemies even if you don't have High Value Target.

[Sir Tontonolous]

Originally posted by Hero Complex:

Combat Medic aced gives 30% more health to players you revive. On Mayhem and above you only get 10% health after being revived. That 30% stacks multiplicatively with that, which means you've given the player a whopping 1% extra health for each skill point you invested in that. and one shot will easily erase that extra 3% health. Like sure, on Crime Spree it can be useful, but it isn't elsewhere.

Something extra to note about Combat Medic Aced is that on higher difficulties, a large percentage of players tend to run Anarchist, usually paired with Frenzerker so they can get bonus damage. By giving these players more health when they are revived, you're actually hurting them by slightly reducing their damage boost rather than helping them whatsoever.

Oh, and a quick edit: It is absolutely not helpful on Crime Spree, especially when you get to the higher levels where enemies start dealing more damage than on Death Sentence. It wouldn't be helpful even if it was a complete health restoration.

[B〄F Altonator]

Sometimes it's needed for filler. Like if you don't want a certain skill but need 3 more points for tier 4.

[Torque]

I like the skills tho..

[Cooptimus Prime]

Originally posted by B〄F Altonator:

Sometimes it's needed for filler. Like if you don't want a certain skill but need 3 more points for tier 4.

In both cases there’s much better options haha.

If you want to get to inspire, ace the second and third tier skill.

If you want to get to hostage taker, just grab joker skills

[badmedicine666]

THANK YOU!

FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE WHO NOTICES !