There are medics in two campaigns available, Pacific and Stalingrad and they are a great tool to have.
Yet, it would be great if the AI medics could heal wounded team members/ other players AI soldiers on their own automatically, unless they are being fired at the moment. Then they should just proceed to shoot back as usual.
This could work in a way that a player could actually choose before entering a match and click “Allow medics to treat wounded on their own?” and have Yes/ No options available to click on. Or the choice could me made in the squad menu in the arsenal when attaching a medic to any squad.
This would increase the usability of the medics on the field because every player can control only 1 soldier at the time.
Then the medics could heal up rest of the team members, or revive casualties from the maps if your squad is nearby and some other player is knocked down etc.
They would end the procedure before following your own team.
For example, two scenarios to give some picture:
Nr. 1
Player Alpha has a team fighting on a village and other player Betas team gets shot to pieces on some cafeteria in the village. Player Alpha moves through the are and advances, yet player Alpha has a medic on the team that is AI controlled and has permission to stay behind and revive player Betas injured automatically. Player Alpha keeps going on forward and the medic saves 1-2 player Betas still alive troops before going after the Player Alphas rest of the team.
Nr 2.
Team is standing still on a building, waiting for the enemy to come again, some of the soldiers are wounded and there is a medic in the team that proceeds to assist/ heal the wounded team members automatically on its own. If the team members are healed (Setting more than 40% wounded before medic assists automatically) Then the medic can heal other nearby troops not being fired at the moment in the near vicinity area.
This would increase the amount of revivals a bit on the maps and offer much more in-depth content to the game that can be used elsewhere later on too on other maps/ nations.
It would also increase the survival rate of the troops in the squads that have a medic with them and assist also other players who are playing with you on the same server and on the same side.
It would make a little bit more sense for you to set up a triage center in some part of the battlefield Instead of the AI proactively healing as they walk around Otherwise you might have AI running out in the middle of a battlefield because there’s a wounded soldier or something
Kind of like, press number 8 like we press number 7 now for artillery orders and instead you could issue an are where your AI medic operates automatically and heals as many as he can.
That too could be a viable solution?
You take over some place with your team and you and your co-players have plenty of wounded, you press 8 and put the “Healing circle” on the map to top of your team and it has a range and the medic operates/ works there in that area independently.
That option could actually work together with the initial idea as well simultaneously? Or it could be separate as well, both have the same goal which is to make more use of that soldier class for the rest of the team and other players too.
Also, I am wondering when all the factions are going to get Medics added, I guess it is after the giant merge that is going on. I can imagine the developer team having their hands “a bit” full with it?
Anyway, all good things take time.
Having medical unit with an engineer is a great way to support your own team in any battlefield, spawn points, medical stuff and occasional support fire.
We already have medics for all campaigns technically Because when a new BR goes into effect they can just copy paste the medics from their campaign counterparts
In that case they should do ALL, also teammates AI soldiers, squad mates, just everyone that they can and have on reach. If I did not even notice that they do that automatically, then it means that they dont do it enough and therefore they could be allowed to also heal team mates squad members automatically.