With the addition of field doc, you rarely need to leave groundside for treatment unless things are REALLY bad. Doc as a role was already undercooked with most maladies being either treatable by medics or killed so slow it didn’t stop the marines from entering combat…and so now what do they even have to do? what is the point of this role now?
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Doctors exist to remove larva and play D&D.
Also they get the FOB doc his bonegel fix.
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If you get rid of Field Doctor, you just have the same problem but now one of the regular doctors deploys instead. In theory, there’s a whole medical rework on the long-term plan to implement more proper attrition on a medical front and stuff like infections. For the time being, the only quick fix that I can see would be to just outright prevent groundside treatment which seems like overkill.
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the apes would riot if they tried to outright remove groundside treatment. marines find it troublesome to get fixed first place even if they have doc right next to them god forbid having to go all the way top side.
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If there was a faster way to get shipside than the ever so unreliable medevac stretcher that requires your GP to pay attention to comms and remember that they are not there just for CAS runs or Schrodinger’s Alamo which MAY BE on Almayer or LZ but somehow when you check it its never there then maaaybeee people would go shipside to get their bones fixed.
I personally go to shipside doctors only if there is a queue of 4 dudes to the field doc but most of the time I just choose to thug it out. Its better to fight with a severe disadvantages in forms of fracs and organs then waste 15 min in the waiting simulator.
If there was any faster and more convenient way of getting to doctors shipside then they would be a viable option but for now all the transit and the unreliability of dropships just blocks them from being used.
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you have me wrong: I think field doc is great. I mean now that we have it, what is the point of having SHIPSIDE doctor?
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Most time dealing with hugged can only be done shipside. Also its fucking bizarre how often i have to mend the ship crew. it doesn’t happen every round, but happens way more then one would think.
Also to be fair this doesn’t ONLY cover the doctor but manning the chem line and acting as support is big thing. Getting bodies to the morgue, Getting xeno bodies up the ladders, feeding the hungry hungry OT.
True a lot of this tasks could be done by a nurse, but the thing is you need a Doc on standby shipside. But there is a lot of filler work that needs to be done to support the other rolls.
Also really it could be timeing issue on your part Kooarbiter. As some rounds i straight up do nothing what so ever while other rounds i am up to my ears with hugged and lads missing limbs and having fracs.. A heart break here and there… even with a fob doc.
Low pop tends to be more on the slow side so if play on low pop you likely are getting more do nothing rounds.
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Just ask anyone that regularly plays doctor as the solo ship doctor. Its quiet until it isn’t. You start getting a stream of hugged individuals, people still come up to with fractures and organ damage, and you get the occasional MP on the medical channel going “Can I get a doctor to the Brig?”
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people are just gonna roll surv doc if that happens.
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I love that people do not remember the medbay lines.
Back in my day you used to see +10 marines lying on the floor, in a line waiting for treatment in the Almayer. We didn’t complain. We didn’t cry about it.
We just thugged it out because there was no other way. Back in the day, you could spend 1 hour waiting.
These marines nowadays complain about head IB for not wearing helmet, about fracs and shit.
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Just do what I do when I hop on the CMO grindset and literally deploy the entire department as you 1-man-army the entire medbay work schedule on your own.
There is no “waaa CMO get to brig”, lift your fat ass from the cameras seat, cuff the offending MT and come down to med.
There is no “CMO GET INTO CIC XO DIED” the bald fuck has a CIC lockdown button and their SOs have engi and med skill, get the fuck out.
There is no “HOSTILE GREENOS IN RESEARCH HELP” because Jean you baguette inhaling fuck I told you for the 11th morbillionth time to NOT make xenos. There is no way you yearn that much for the type 73 treatment.
Also my docs really enjoy making a clinic on FOB, so let them have fun.
Edit:
Jk Jean is the only based researcher that never had a greeno project backfire on my CMO rounds
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I remember, I cut my teeth on the surgery/cloning line on the sulaco, good times. Not better times IMO, but good times.
I think the more we streamline the game, the less use we have for “slower” roles like ship doctor. We have only one exotic “disease”, no complicated surgical procedures or conditions or anything that might make playing a high tech medical physician on a space ship in the distance future as cool as it should be (see: star trek)
If we aren’t going to have dr. crusher with pulse rifles and parasitoid wasp lizards, why do we have their dopey, do nothing underlings sitting around a lobby waiting to be useful?
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add TGMC cloneloss
everytime you are revived you take 10 permanent damage that can only be healed in a cryotube
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Memories.