If you don't play Team Fortress 2, this is probably a waste of your time. If you're interested in my views on a new medigun then please, read on.


With the release of the Mecha Update and its new weapons,  I plan to do a post on each of them as I get them. This one will cover a game changer, The Vaccinator.
This was originally a discussion with .

The Vaccinator:
Special-Attack:Cycle through resist types.
While healing, provides you and your target with constant 10% resistance to the selected damage type.
+50% Übercharge rate
-66% Overheal build rate
Übercharge provides 75% resistance to a selected damage type.
You are healed for 25% of the matched incoming damage on your heal target.

"2:20 PM - Alpherio: what do you think of it vs the others
2:21 PM - Black Mage: as in the other mediguns
2:21 PM - Alpherio: yeah
2:21 PM - Black Mage: Popping 5 second ubers every 10 seconds is fun
2:21 PM - Black Mage: not to mention storage
2:21 PM - Black Mage: i can guard against players better then i could
2:21 PM - Black Mage: keeping me alive using the medieval medic set along with it
2:22 PM - Black Mage: overheal isnt much of a problem if you know what your doing
2:22 PM - Black Mage: and a man cant be afraid to pop an uber to escape or to keep his patient alive
2:22 PM - Black Mage: Vaccinator is ment for a crack shot team of 1-2 patients you keep alive with short bursts of uber to make it through a push.
2:22 PM - Alpherio: do you know why its banned in some servers
2:23 PM - Black Mage: claims of op and crashes
2:23 PM - Alpherio: really? op?
2:23 PM - Black Mage: i took on a heavy using one uber
2:23 PM - Alpherio: you have to really be paying attention or its useless
2:23 PM - Black Mage: i bullubered a pyro with axtinguisher
2:23 PM - Black Mage: he lit a heavy up
2:23 PM - Black Mage: popped it
2:23 PM - Black Mage: he struck the heavy down with his axtinguisher
2:24 PM - Black Mage: (2 swings ofcourse)
2:24 PM - Black Mage: theres many openings with this
2:24 PM - Black Mage: and its by far
2:24 PM - Black Mage: my favorite and best medigun
2:24 PM - Black Mage: also it looks and sounds cool as hell
2:24 PM - Black Mage: and has the best backpack yet
2:24 PM - Alpherio: do you think its op?
2:24 PM - Black Mage: I think its perfectly ballanced
2:24 PM - Black Mage: its not for a normal medic
2:24 PM - Black Mage: but in the right hands
2:24 PM - Black Mage: this thing will out do them all
2:24 PM - Black Mage: even invincibility aint got shit on this
2:25 PM - Black Mage: 300% healing is nothing
2:25 PM - Black Mage: kritz
2:25 PM - Black Mage: who needs em
2:25 PM - Black Mage: now this may not be a good mvm medigun
2:25 PM - Black Mage: and robots are best left to kritzkrieg
2:25 PM - Black Mage: but theres still downsides to this one
2:25 PM - Black Mage: you only guard against one element during an uber
2:26 PM - Black Mage: so a sentry could end it with a rocket even though the bullets are ignored
2:26 PM - Black Mage: a soldier could take you out while storming some pyros
2:26 PM - Black Mage: you could block rockets
2:26 PM - Black Mage: but a heavy might show up and end it
2:26 PM - Black Mage: its a matter of knowing what your walking into
2:26 PM - Black Mage: and popping that five second charge at the exactly right time"

All in all; The Vaccinator will quickly take its place as king of mediguns and cause Spuf to whine some more, its very hard to learn however some have a talent with it, I'm rather good with it.