(10-24-2014, 07:51 PM)doveman link Wrote: If I heal someone whilst they're lying down, can they continue to aim and fire normally and get up and move out of danger if necessary?As far as I experienced the answer is yes. It's enough you select the option and the man is healed, he can even move away and be 10 meters away from you by the time you finish the healing animation. In SP there is an animation for the patient as well, in MP it seems absent and it's been this way since Arma 1. So as long as we don't see otherwise in the game, there's no point in asking permission to heal.
(10-24-2014, 07:51 PM)doveman link Wrote: The other thing is the suggestion that the medic should be constantly checking everyone. This seems a rather inefficient use of him, as he could be checking five perfectly healthy people before getting to the one person that actually needs patching up. So it seems to make more sense for him to stay alert to reports of people being hit and attend to them (if it's safe to do so of course) and when appropriate, if he thinks there might have been injuries that haven't been reported or he might have missed them, ask over the radio if anyone thinks they need checking. Certainly though, once the fighting has finished and there's a bit of time, then it would make sense to check everybody before moving on to ensure that nobody slows down the group due to injury that they might not be aware of.
Don't take that part so literally. The point is that the medic needs to make sure everybody are patched up and good to go all the time. Of course, that doesn't mean he should robotically move from one guy to the other even if it's clear some other guys are definitely wounded. Of course, this should be done when appropriate and not in inadequate timings, I just find it a bit awkward to write that as it seems obvious. The point is, after engagements make sure everybody are fully healed. There are a lot of instances that people are wounded without noticing, and the only way to get to 100% health is the medic checking, so asking in the radio is useless in a lot of cases. If the situation permit, check your people if there's reason to believe some are injured. A good example for a great medic is Knight, who does exactly that.
(10-24-2014, 07:51 PM)doveman link Wrote: There's also situations where there are people down and it's unsafe for the medic to get to them but there's a risk of losing them and being unable to complete the mission, where it would be appropriate to ask the team leader whether he wants the medic to go and try and save them, or if he wants to send someone else in first, either to provide covering fire or try and drag the bodies back to a safer spot. If I was team leader in such a situation and the medic just decided that it was his job to heal everyone and ran in and got himself killed trying, leaving us with no way to get people up and complete the mission, I'd be a bit annoyed that he hadn't asked me for orders first, as I might be assessing the situation and trying to think of ways to salvage the situation that didn't put him in danger.
Yeah, good point, I'll add that to the OP.
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