Dropping carried people with medic job and splint kit

[xzcion]

Couldn't find a report of this bug using search. but it seems a fairly trivial one to find.

If you are carrying a person and have the medic job while carrying a splint kit, you will happily drop the person you are carrying to splint people.

Combine this with:
+ every time a minion ticks up one health the game likes to auto splint that one point
+ if you drop someone while moving they usually go flying, straight up or over the other side of the map, whichever is more inconvenient at the time.
+ or just disappear into the ground if you're really unlucky.

Hope this helps make clicking medic on and off not necessary in future patches while carrying people.

[Tolwrath]

To my knowledge, first aiding people has always forced the medic to drop they person they are carrying. This is because bandaging people is a two handed activity, and the person must be dropped to make both hands available. You might also have noticed if you have a wounded right arm, you will not be able to carry anyone.

And the catapult throwing isn't based on if you're moving, but rather if the person being dropped is unconscious. The direction and distance they are thrown is proportional to how far you are from where they were picked up.

[xzcion]

good to know on the catapault.

I was refering to people with shift clicked medic. medic as a job.

they will not auto-medic people while they are carrying a person. they will auto-splint someone, and cause the drop, because, as you say, first aid is a 2 hand activity.

so the workarounds for hte bug are remove splint kits from minions carrying people, or remove the medic job when they're carrying someone, and then reinstate the job/kit once they drop the person.

still rather not have to use workarounds....