More powerful medic weapon?
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If you want to deal damage as a medic, I would recommend using a crossbow or an AK-47. If you want to deal lots of damage, you might wish to select another perk. If you enjoy healing teammates so they're not dying like idiots (this is needed more and more the past week) play medic. 
I usually just carry around a different weapon with my mp7... it's so light that you can carry an arsenal. AK47 + Katana, Dual Handcannons + AK47, Flamethrower, M14, Hunting Shotgun.
That's why I am a staunch supporter of the addition to passive medic weapons. Not necessarily my ideas, just something that the medic can use that doesn't deal direct damage (or, if necessary, as a secondary defense function).
A useful medic that wants to deal damage takes an Xbow, and fires the MP7. The MP7 is actually accurate if used in bursts, and the Xbow can help eliminate threats to the team (preventative medicine )
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A halfway competent medic is able to heal his teammates and would then be left with nothing to do 90% of the time onless the whole team sucks.
I disagree, a Medic should also contribute to the team's offense when everyone is healed. I mean, it's not like there's an overheal to maintain in this game or anything.
I'm just saying, when I'm Critical, and need healing, I don't want to see a medic running laps around the map with a katana.
sorry, why the m95 is overplayed? I had only saw it on bad company 2...
I do think that M95 will be a great choice because its totally defferent from mp7 and its bolt action, which means that it still balance!
Apparently you haven't been around the block.
http://www.giantbomb.com/barrett-m95/93-1336/
Compare that to the Skorpion Evo III, which has 0 games.
we still got:
black arrow M93
TAC-50
M90
ramo m650
OM 50
NTW-20( which is damn cool)
truvelo.50
KSVK 12.7mm
svn-98
wkw-wilk
RPA.50
AW 50
DSR.50( in normal game its 7.62 like MGS)
PGM Ultima Ratio
falcon op96/op99
RT-20(freaking cool,but sadly its single shot)
JS 05
AMR-2
M99B(again,COOL, but sadlt its semi-auto)
M99
Steyr AMR(cool,but semi-auto sadly)
Steyr .50HS(sadly single shot)
XM500(sadly,semi-auto)
Most of the guns above is all .50 and has 0 game(I think)
black arrow M93
TAC-50
M90
ramo m650
OM 50
NTW-20( which is damn cool)
truvelo.50
KSVK 12.7mm
svn-98
wkw-wilk
RPA.50
AW 50
DSR.50( in normal game its 7.62 like MGS)
PGM Ultima Ratio
falcon op96/op99
RT-20(freaking cool,but sadly its single shot)
JS 05
AMR-2
M99B(again,COOL, but sadlt its semi-auto)
M99
Steyr AMR(cool,but semi-auto sadly)
Steyr .50HS(sadly single shot)
XM500(sadly,semi-auto)
Most of the guns above is all .50 and has 0 game(I think)
The M99 would be great, i suggested it before with some good balancing; though it was to replace the then super overpowered M14.
However, a bolt-action single-shot sniper rifle chambered in 12.7 x 99mm NATO wouldn't be good for medic; it would have to weigh 14 blocks and have somewhat low ammo, comparable to Xbow's 40 bolts.
You might say that the medic doesn't need the MP7, but it's good if you know how to use it.
And as always, medic isn't an offensive-based perk; it's a support perk, pure and simple. Front lines: healing, back lines: healing, when you're not healing you're getting ready to heal. Unless your team is half-way competent. Then you've got another perk's weapon killing those specs that the guy over there missed.
However, a bolt-action single-shot sniper rifle chambered in 12.7 x 99mm NATO wouldn't be good for medic; it would have to weigh 14 blocks and have somewhat low ammo, comparable to Xbow's 40 bolts.
You might say that the medic doesn't need the MP7, but it's good if you know how to use it.
And as always, medic isn't an offensive-based perk; it's a support perk, pure and simple. Front lines: healing, back lines: healing, when you're not healing you're getting ready to heal. Unless your team is half-way competent. Then you've got another perk's weapon killing those specs that the guy over there missed.
This and those.
People who complain that the medic isn't powerful... aren't thinking like a medic.
And I think I've made clear my opinion on the hoplorrhoea that the OP's since engaged in in this thread.
Of course, but then being in the critical shouldn't happen too often in the first place, hence the Medic needs to be contributing to the team's offense in the meantime. Preventative medicine, if you will.
You see, that's one beautiful thing about the medic: its a flexible perk that can have multiple functions. If your team is getting frequently injured, then you can be a traditional healing medic. But when your team is fine, then you can throw in some bullets. This can all change mid-wave, but so can your tactics.
The key is just being near your team, in any case. They need you, or likely will, so just make sure your close enough to revert to healer when required.
You know a good thing about levelling Sharpshooter first?
You gain skills with the Xbow, such as calculating the trajectory of the bolt.
When you apply this to Medic, you must learn to treat the dart as a Xbow bolt.
Therefore, the MP7's "dodgyness" is almost cut in half.
And as to a more powerful weapon, how much more powerful can you get than the Xbow? it can oneshot a scrake, and twoshot a fleshpound on suicidal. This was on, i think, a 5-man game with the last medic soloing the wave.
If you want an assault rifle-style weapon, the L22 bullpup, or AK47 fits the bill.
If you feel like levelling zerker, Katana it is then.
TL;DR there's no need for another offensive weapon. Medics shouldn't be on the offence all the time.
You gain skills with the Xbow, such as calculating the trajectory of the bolt.
When you apply this to Medic, you must learn to treat the dart as a Xbow bolt.
Therefore, the MP7's "dodgyness" is almost cut in half.
And as to a more powerful weapon, how much more powerful can you get than the Xbow? it can oneshot a scrake, and twoshot a fleshpound on suicidal. This was on, i think, a 5-man game with the last medic soloing the wave.
If you want an assault rifle-style weapon, the L22 bullpup, or AK47 fits the bill.
If you feel like levelling zerker, Katana it is then.
TL;DR there's no need for another offensive weapon. Medics shouldn't be on the offence all the time.
gthe medic isnt dps, i think the gun the medic uses now is fine, i would like to see a heal grenade or maybe a heal shotgun
Bored using the same weapons as Medic? I'm sorry, but I have to ask why? As medic you can use any weapon you damned well please and noone will argue with you