You know, I bought the Orange Box, and I played through Portal, but every time I tried to install Team Fortress 2 it crashed my computer. This is likely the ONLY reason TF2 has not been in the comic before.

Well Monday morning I received an email from James C. about an issue he had begun experiencing after a recent patch.

Hello Woody!

TeamFortress 2 just came out with a new patch, mainly focused on encouraging people to play the least played class, "The Medic." The problem I see, is that now when I log in, over half my team is medics. You often see Medics healing medics, as there is no one else to 'UberCharge.' So my idea for a comic would be to see one Medic charging with his BoneSaw, with the entire background filled up with Medics healing him.

I realize it's only half an idea, but perhapes you could fill in the rest with witty commets =)

Thanks, James C.

Source: Team Fortress 2 Patch Note [ more info ]

I've always liked the art direction on TF2 so really this "joke idea" was an excuse for me to draw something fun. And that would be why there's so little text on the panel, just the game name and patch that spawned the problem. The idea was to give the patch a "title". I opened the floor to folks in the GU Live chat and where we all came up with some pretty funny options, nothing really fit perfectly.

In the end I decided to just leave the "patch title" off. I figure the artwork is strong enough to stand on it's own. Besides, this gives you guys the perfect opportunity to toss your card into the hat. Hell, if one really fits, I'll toss it on there.

Anywho, thanks James for the idea and thanks to the folks in GU Live chat for all the title suggestions.

The rest of you can watch me produce comics live at 6pm mountain (GMT -7) Sunday through Thursday at gucomics.com/live.

I play TF2 a lot and this has been a massive problem all round. With the sheer amount of medics and people farming achievements it's been very difficult to get a decent game lately. Thankfully it's starting to die down, probably due to the fact people have been farming their achievements on private servers.

A lot of the public servers i've been on have had to put a limit on the medic class so that they don't end up with a 12 medic team. While this is a good idea it leaves the team with whoever picked medic first, and that can mean a lot of nooby medics.

I don't mean that in a bad way at all, everyone was a noob at somepoint including myself, (and they tend to stand still in wide open spaces which makes them very easy for me to snipe ), but with them farming achievements there's a big chance of losing the game four or five times in a row which does get irritating after a while.

The main problem i've had with TF2 lately has been the age old problem of lag. I've spoken to many moderaters of many different servers and they've all said that it's valve's problem and nothing to do with their servers. Generally the lag isn't bad and I can play through it, but lately my char has just been freezing up when i try to move and then i get put back where i started. It took me seven or eight attempts to get out of spawn the other day while playing on a Goldrush server and after i was killed my respawn time kept changing.

Coupled with this there are a lot of people who are only getting out 10 fps on certain maps, and in some cases all maps, when their machines should be more than capable of running the game on full. Changing the graphics settings doesn't help and it appears to be another problem that valve need to sort.

And then there's the glitch that allows the medic infinite ubercharge. *sigh*

Don't get me wrong. I love TF2, it's a fantastic game. I can't wait till they get round to putting in more class specific achievements, but Valve really need to sort these glitches out. It would be a shame for TF2 to become like BF2 where you had a patch to fix the bugs and errors caused by the previous couple of patches.

Rant over. Apologies for length but it's something i've needed to discuss for a while now.

Great comic Woody. I actually enjoy playing the doctor. The only bad thing is getting splatted right before you would have gotten uber.

Perhaps.....

"The Doctors are IN!"

Great comic, and it really has turn into that kind of game.

Doctor Herr Doctor!.... Herr Doctor? Herr Doctor!!!

I was hoping you'd do some TF2 comics eventually Woody. I missed out on that GU Live session but hope to see another TF2 clip being created soon.

Madok, that's actually the last option I had on it last night, and then decided to take it off at the last minute.

"I diagnose you with a case of KICKED ASS!"

To riff off of the only good thing about Star Trek: Voyager, "I am the nature of your medical emergency."

I miss grenades! I miss the "third weapon" each class had! I miss Det Packs! I miss armor!

But TF2 is still fun for mindless slaughter!!

And yeah there are medics everywhere now. We had a medic chain last night for 6. 3 healing 3 healing a Heavy.

Last night was a blast, so much that I finally decided to sign up to this forum after several years of reading the comics.

There was so many titles being thrown around but a few stood out:

"This...is....Bonesaw!" *Kick!*

"Com'ere! Let me heal your face off!"

"Stay back boys, I'm gonna go heal 'em dead!" (Paraphrased)

*Ted off screen* "Uh, Woody...Mind checking to see if the cat isn't playing Team Fortress 2"

"The Bonesaw is a lie"

Actually makes disguising as a medic(when a spy) doable. This has been a great patch for Spy players like myself. Less random projectiles to knock you out of stealth, and a whole lot more backs turned. I got a 9 man backstab spree on dustbowl 2 nights ago, and nearly all of them were medics standing around building ubers.