Medic: HMTECH-201 SMG vs HMTECH-401 ASSAULT RIFLE

[Spoke]

I feel like Medic's SMG is better, since low recoil with means easier poping heads. Assault rifle has a crazy recoil and it's preety difficult for me to get multiple headshoots. I do way better with that smg. What are you guys thoughts?

[Ivara Ara]

Why would you ask about two quite different tiered weapons? The SMG is just downright horrible, i NEVER buy it. I always use my pistol until i have enough for the assault rifle, sell my pistol, save till i have the shotgun and just go with those. The Assault Rifle is superior in any every way.

[sebo]

SMG is definitely not horrible..its very good for the first couple waves..after than you need weapons with a bit more kick.

[SNS]

sebo eredeti hozzászólása:

SMG is definitely not horrible..its very good for the first couple waves..after than you need weapons with a bit more kick.

Thats what I use the shotgun/pulveriser for :P. Taking more weapons means more ammo total and sine u should be targeting trash that makes u even more effective.

[ryvrdrgn14]

You can get through the first 2-3 waves with just your knife and pistol. Just buy the rifle outright. If I play with friends, I always buy reload for my default gun at the end of the wave and throw all my spare cash at our medic until AR.

If I play medic, I only buy reloads until I get AR. I prefer my second weapon to be a commando weapon like SCAR or AK12 or the Zerkmallet.

[I'mNotSorry]

ryvrdrgn14 eredeti hozzászólása:

You can get through the first 2-3 waves with just your knife and pistol. Just buy the rifle outright. If I play with friends, I always buy reload for my default gun at the end of the wave and throw all my spare cash at our medic until AR.

If I play medic, I only buy reloads until I get AR. I prefer my second weapon to be a commando weapon like SCAR or AK12 or the Zerkmallet.

m8

[HUSdvz™]

Sp0k3 Sk3l370n eredeti hozzászólása:

I feel like Medic's SMG is better, since low recoil with means easier poping heads. Assault rifle has a crazy recoil and it's preety difficult for me to get multiple headshoots. I do way better with that smg. What are you guys thoughts?

You can go full MED and use any weapon on your perks disposal OR you can go Hybrid, this means you buy, 1-2 Med wep (you must be fast to switch into this), and either buy AA-12 or any High DMG Range weapon......like AA-12, .500....etc....etc.......remember as med you are the ultimate survivor because you can run fast and heal yourself.....in the downside you have a mediocre damage.....but you can kite around and find ammo :D......just don't get too close to those zeds.

[76561198067723583]

Personally I use SMG for the better accuracy.

[Delta]

Rifle all the way. The rifle is better at both healing and killing than the SMG so there's really no reason to go for the latter unless weight restrictions force it.

Rifle plus pistol mean you can pump out darts pretty much constantly, and still leaves enough room for a Pulveriser/Grenade Launcher/Boomstick/dual pistols.


If you're playing medic primarily as a healer (which you may as well, it's the only one that can heal whereas other classes are better at killing) I don't see why you'd use anything else.

[76561198067723583]

After using the AR again after using the SMG for so long I can see why most people choose it.

[Potpuri]

Smg and ar for maximum heal spam

[BlackSpawn]

MedAR+MedPistol for all healing needs. Pulverizer for defense and rekkage.
Self syringe to give yourself armor by taking out the syringe and pressing middle mouse button.

You dont need shotty to maximize healing....just alternate medAR and Pistol...youll be refilled with healing dart energy by the time you have changed weapons.

[Aya]

IMHO, the only time when the Medic SMG is an upgrade to pistol is if you're playing on Normal, since it takes 2 headshots to pop a clot on Hard and above and has the same syringe batteries as the pistol.

I still think that the Medic Syringe needs a headshot multiplier. Would allow it to pop clots while still punishing bodyshots.

[SupurDave]

Ruben T eredeti hozzászólása:

Why would you ask about two quite different tiered weapons? The SMG is just downright horrible, i NEVER buy it. I always use my pistol until i have enough for the assault rifle, sell my pistol, save till i have the shotgun and just go with those. The Assault Rifle is superior in any every way.

If you never buy it how do you know it's worse? pistol and smg get you plenty of healing for cheap and leave you lots of space for other weapons. Price and wieght are important factors to consider. top tier doesn't necesarilly mean it's always the best over all.

[Ultai]

AR is obviously superior. In fact I stick with the pistol til AR since the smg is barely a step up from it.

Ridiculously fast recharge and 30 syringe use per shot vs the smg's 50 use and recharge about the same rate as the med pistol, less need for weapon switching which we know is a bit slow in this game. AR can also stagger (flinching animation where zed is immobilzed for a about a second) trash up to husks and sirens. You can abuse this and constantly interrupt siren screams and keep them at a distance or interrupt a husk's shot.

SMG can can only do this on the clots crawlers and gorefasts, didn't bother with testing on bloat. Although testing just now it stops being effective on the gorefast as his hp drops.

Let's not forget the superior dmg on the AR, you're practically a mini commando helping him sweep trash more effectively with the AR. Only thing smg has going for it is no spread, in that case, don't full auto with the AR.

[BlackSpawn]

Yeah, the AR is a necessity to be the most effective healer you can be.
Especially on higher difficulties, where timing can really mean life or death for your teammates.

With the AR, you can also sedate scrakes and FPs more easily (medic dart dependent) AND help with EMP scrake decapitations.

There is really no question; if you are playing suicidal/HOE as a medic in a coop game and you dont have the medic AR in mid to latter waves, you are doing it wrong.