Medic

Medic, also known as Arkay, a former death god of a small pocket universe, is the chief editor and main writer of the Daily SPUF, producing most of this site's articles and also just randomly writing stuff.

That new Valve blog post.

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Since we get incredibly long gaps between blog posts, I can still call the recent one about bad weapon ideas new and still be fairly punctual even if the blog post was released a month ago. I suppose we should be thankful about getting a blog post at all, considering what Dota 2 has had recently… Anyway, spite aside, the blog post itself is fairly interesting. It’s nice to see that there’s someone in that office, possibly talking to another person about adding weapons for Team Fortress 2. Then again, I might be completely wrong and there’s just one person… [Continue Reading]

The Pyro should remain a mystery.

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The tagline for the Spy was that he is a riddle wrapped in an enigma, but it turns out we know quite a lot about the Spy. He fancies Scout’s mother and he had a full miniature meal in his teeth. The only thing that we know about the Pyro is that when fire is around, he sees everything as rainbows and candy. We don’t even know if he’ s a he. Actually, I say that, there is some stuff we know about the Pyro. We know it likes puppies and we know that it can actually run a business,… [Continue Reading]

Nucleus is a great map and I don’t care what you say about it.

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I remember saying once that I disliked Nucleus. I can’t remember why, but it was something along the lines of it being a Sniper friendly map. But after having played on it a bit more, and having played on REAL Sniper friendly maps, I feel I should retract that statement. And maybe add a few more positive statements too. My original thoughts were about Snipers being way too powerful on Nucleus, especially on Arena Mode since you die and that’s it. I decided though to try and play Sniper myself. We all know I’m a useless Sniper, but to be… [Continue Reading]

Medic tries to explain more things…

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There’s so much unexplained stuff that it hurts in Team Fortress 2. Alright, it doesn’t really hurt, but for an anal retentive OCD person, it probably does annoy them a bit. Just a bit, mind you. There’s generally more important things to be bothered about, like whether you locked all the doors or whether you turned the gas off. Today, I’m going to actually finish this article because I’ve been writing it on and off for about two months explain a few more things. Mostly taunt-related for some reason. The Medicating Melody Taunt Personally, I rarely find a chance to use the… [Continue Reading]

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

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It’s tough being a Pyro. Not in the same way that it’s tough being a Spy in a competitive environment or being a lone Medic in a team full of Snipers, but in a more philosophical way. People rage at Pyros no matter what they do, forgetting the ease at which they can fuck up the enemy team, forgetting the utility a Pyro can bring and forgetting that Pyros can extinguish fires so stop running away dammit! Of course, Pyros are appreciated in some ways. Everyone would rather see a second Pyro than a second Spy, because a Pyro, no… [Continue Reading]

Medic’s turn to talk about the removal of the Demoknight Turning Script

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I’m sure none of you care any more, unless your name is Craylash or something, but I want to talk about how I, often the victim of the Demoknight (and everyone else of course) feel about the removal of the Demoknight Turning Script. Now, I am a very fair person. I have a strong sense of justice and I always say what I feel is right or wrong. Well, not always, but in this case, I’m saying so. And I’m going to put it right here: I feel that the Turning Scripts and Charge turning are unfair to their victims.… [Continue Reading]

MvM for complete idiots

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It’s been a while since I’ve played non Mann VS Machine Team Fortress 2 and I felt I ought to write something about the one game mode that can essentially become pay-to-play, just like the game used to be. But since I’m cheap as chips, I won’t be talking much about Mann Up, mostly chatting about Boot Camp. In this article, I’ll go over a few general tips that will help all newer players so you don’t end up begging for mercy at the knees of a swarm of Heavy bots. 1. Upgrade after every wave. This is obvious but… [Continue Reading]

A Battle of Healers: Medic VS Gorge

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Quite often in a class-based game, Healers and Engineers are lumped in together and you’ll have the same person doing a couple of similar jobs. In that aspect, our Medic a bit of an odd one, as we have a whole other class, the Engineer, to do that. There’s a bit of an overlap between the two of them, as in they both heal, but Medics almost exclusively heal. This does make it tricky when it comes to these battles. Anyway, today’s enemy is a monster, literally, who acts as a defensive healing utility thingy who can heal both ‘buildings’… [Continue Reading]

Pets, Jackets and other Outerwear

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Back in the old days, there were not many miscellaneous items. You had your Procedure Mask, your Blighted Beak and that was about it. You also only had two slots, one for a hat, one for a miscellaneous item and that was also about it. It cost a minimum of 1.66 refined to buy a hat and crafting two hats together was not always a good idea unless you had duplicates. Keys were cheaper too, and two hats would generally get you one key. It was a simpler time, when you could name all the currently available hats and still… [Continue Reading]

A Battle of Healers: Medic VS Sona

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The Medic of the Team Fortress 2 world is wildly unique, somehow bringing together entire teams to the point that you can’t win if you don’t have one and the enemy has. So what happens when you compare our Medic with the healers from other games (and universes)? Who knows, since we don’t have inter-universal technology yet. Last time, Medic got his ass kicked by the TFC Medic, but this time, things may turn out differently. Of course, there are difficulties in comparing Healers from wildly different games, so we end up comparing based on mechanics and team work. Today’s… [Continue Reading]