Open Medic Add a Weapon that grants Medical Experience from Missions/Quests

shintufelper · Aug 4, 2023

While this idea is common knowledge in the discord, there is no formal PV representing it or containing a developer response for the community to see. This is a very straightforward idea and solution, and by having this player voice here we can point players to it that seek change to make their voices heard or show intent for a change.

Reevesy202 · Aug 4, 2023

Why go for a weapon? Why not say "If I have any boxes in a medical profession why not also grant me medical XP upon completing a quest like we do combat xp"

civic · Aug 4, 2023

I have some medic ideas that I have drawn up and this is closely related to one of them, I think a medic weapon is a good idea to use, not just for xp but other things like perhaps even +5 healing range to help out the melee healers a bit, and some extra potency or something as well. If it's a weapon you can also lock certain skills behind it too, if needed in the future.
The xp from the weapon is already a feature in the game so should be easy enough to implement without much work.

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elvismonkey · Aug 4, 2023

Could the spray stick be changed to fire the combat medic offencive abilities?

Names is apt. Dunno if it's a used rifle or not though.

AhnNu · Aug 4, 2023

How about something that could be baked into the weapon like augments. We have SEA's that effect healing abilities, why not tie those to medical XP?

Banth · Aug 4, 2023

Reevesy202 said:
Why go for a weapon? Why not say "If I have any boxes in a medical profession why not also grant me medical XP upon completing a quest like we do combat xp"

Probably more new-user friendly to say "hold this Syringe when handing in a quest to gain medical exp" than it for it to be a setting toggle or just automatic. The "weapon" also puts people in control of what exp they are getting when handing in a quest, just like other weapon exp.

AhnNu said:
How about something that could be baked into the weapon like augments. We have SEA's that effect healing abilities, why not tie those to medical XP?

This QoL change would be mostly aimed at new players completing quests, whereas SEAs are more of an end-game goal.

AhnNu · Aug 4, 2023

Banth said:
Probably more new-user friendly to say "hold this Syringe when handing in a quest to gain medical exp" than it for it to be a setting toggle or just automatic. The "weapon" also puts people in control of what exp they are getting when handing in a quest, just like other weapon exp.

This QoL change would be mostly aimed at new players completing quests, whereas SEAs are more of an end-game goal.

I was thinking of the SEA Slot, not the actual SEAs we use now at end game

Reevesy202 · Aug 5, 2023

Banth said:
Probably more new-user friendly to say "hold this Syringe when handing in a quest to gain medical exp" than it for it to be a setting toggle or just automatic. The "weapon" also puts people in control of what exp they are getting when handing in a quest, just like other weapon exp.

This QoL change would be mostly aimed at new players completing quests, whereas SEAs are more of an end-game goal.

So long as a new player tutorial helps people know to hold a specific item for medical XP then sure I am all for it. But don't even medics/docs have some weapon to do some damage so would they not forget to swap out sometimes? Not sure how people would feel about medic specific weapons.

Banth · Aug 5, 2023

Reevesy202 said:
So long as a new player tutorial helps people know to hold a specific item for medical XP then sure I am all for it. But don't even medics/docs have some weapon to do some damage so would they not forget to swap out sometimes? Not sure how people would feel about medic specific weapons.

I envisioned it as just like holding a entertainer prop or bouquet of flowers, in that it doesn't actually do anything aside for the purpose of providing medic exp from quests when held. It sounds a bit janky on paper but its intuitive when, as you said, a new player is told that equipping something in the weapon slot grants exp when handing in a quest.

Can be given out by the novice medic trainer too like in your PV for basic weapons.

CaptainShack · Aug 10, 2023

I've always thought the game should have some kind of medic specific gear.
Like a markings indicating they are a medic, or a fancy medical back pack. A "weapon" or held medical scanner or tool for getting XP during quests seems like a fine idea.

Aconite · Aug 13, 2023

We're not doing this through a weapon, as that wouldn't make sense. I think the larger issue makes sense to address, though. Maybe through tracking healing during a quest and then grating a proportion of that experience as Medic Experience, or increasing the XP rates from healing others/using stims.

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