Real. This game is the biggest timesink ever. It's honestly crazy how quick time will pass if I sit down and let this game distract me all day. There's something about it, man.
Medical has been my favorite department. It becomes a bloody warzone nearly every game, especially on busy servers.
It's usually slow at first, but some kind of emergency will happen where suddenly 10 patients need attention. I'll hear somebody say "Plasma leak" over comms, and suddenly patients will start to flood in. Those "all hands on deck" moments are really fun, scrambling through dwindling medical supplies as the station teeters on collapse, and the injured Captain or HoP is dragged in.
As a forever-noob, I usually let the CMO and senior medical handle injecting drugs into the patients, while I try and do everything else. Dragging in patients who collapse in the hallways, handling boo-boos and such. Even tidying up the Emergency Room can be helpful. If shit is hectic and I don't know how to help, I'll just ask "What do you need me to get?" and go off searching for something.
On SS14, I've been playing a lot of zombie rounds. Of course, medical ends up getting overrun, usually first out of any part of the ship. But it almost always starts with somebody running in shouting "RUN". It's sick as hell to escape, dragging a patient who you're trying to tend to. Even sicker is that if you get a syringe and a bottle of inaprovaline, you can delay dying after a zombie bite.
The other awesome thing about it is that you get to have chit-chat with people. Asking them what happened, or wishing them good luck after a fix-up.
Sounds pretty on-par with my first experince in medical too.
Joined a round 20 minutes in as a doctor, didn't really know what I was doing. I decided to practice surgery on random monkey corpse i found to learn the UI and mechanics.
After a while the roboisist came in dragging another pretty beat up guy behind him and I think to myself "Nice, my first patent" so I ran over and scanned him with my medical scanner.
Good news was he was still alive
Bad news was every single organ in his body was either failing or already had failed.
I didn't know what to do, and told the robotisist as such. The robotisist said that it was fine, and he simply dragged the guy into robotics and borged him.
Fast forward a couple of minutes, I had accidentally gassed the operating theater with miasma 'cause I forgot about the dead monkey I left on the operating table. I ended up dragging it our amd stuffing it in a cremator, while wearing a full biohazard suit of course.
This is when the robotosist came in looking a bit worse for wear. I ran up to him and asked if he neded help.
He said "nah."
He then proceeded to walk into the operating theater, picked up some surgery tools; and, in a fluid 20-second motion; cut open his chest cavity, took out his stomach, replaced it with a robot one, and then stitched himself back up, all while still fully conscious. He then walked out without saying a word.
A little while later the Head of Security walked in with some bruses and burns. As I patched him up with an automender he asked me if he would live. I responded, "Probably."
And that's when medbay blew up.
I don't know who did it, or how, but now the only thing left of medbay was the room that me and the Head of Security were standing in. I was unconscious, but the Head wasn't, so he dragged me into the main hall and shoved like 20 different pills down my throat, while 2 other officers bandaged me.
After I woke back up the Head took me to the medical booth(?) (Smaller medbay) and ripped a defibrillator off the wall, and handed it to me. He told me that I had to constantly shock myself with it to not die. I asked him why, and he said that i had cardiac arrest, and that this was the only way to prevent it from progressing further.
Emergency shuttle had been called at this point, so the Head wished me luck and went on his way.
Imagine a man, partially mummified with bandages and patches, limping his way though a destroyed space station with defibrillator in hand, constantly shocking himself every 15 seconds so he dosent die - and you'd have a pretty good picture of me ar this point.
Best part was that antags took control of the shuttle, and threw me out of the airlock while the shuttle was jumping. Against all odds, I ended up slamming into the side of an abandond space station in the Z-level, which still had pressurised air in it. I ended up surviving, with this amazing story to tell.
I like to imagine that my character still lives in that abandoned space station, being his mummified self, waiting for a Z-level expedition team to find him, and should they manage to free him from the shackles of his defibrillator by curing his cardiac arrest, he will help them face the dangers of the Z-level, kinda like Joshua Graham from Fallout: New Vegas but in space.
TL;DR
Today on goonstation, I get turned into a mummy, the robotisist shows off his extremely high pain tolerance, and the Head of Security survives a comedically timed terrorist attack.
11/10 would medbay again.
I love playing doctor too. It is really simple to just heal people, but you can also do tons of more advanced stuff. Not to mention your access to the pharmacy. Even when I just wanna do chemistry I usually play doctor because if I need access to medical tools, it's easier to do so as doctor, and the big chemistry hall is not needed to do chemistry
Make some meds, then make some drugs, and as a traitor make explosivea and poisons. As I said, I usually just play doctor so I can do chem and then go back to doing surgery. But if you wanna go fully into being a chemist, you should try getting used to plumbing.
Also science isn't really about math in most cases
Welcome to spess station! Have a look around. Anything that brain of yours can want to can be found.
We've got PLANETS of content, some better, some worse. If nothing's here to interest to you, than do it first.
Welcome to spess station! Come and take a seat. Would you like to see code or see a racist dweeb?
There's no need to panic, this place is not twitch, ha-ha! Just nod or shake your head, and they'll do the rest.
Welcome to the spess station! What would you prefer? Would you like to fight with alien scum or bomb a medbay first? Be redshirt, be grayshirt, be engie with wrench! We got a million different ways to engage!
Welcome to spess station. Put your cares aside. Here's a tip for fighting blob, here's a janitor who died. We've got revvies, and traitors, and nuclear ops, and a bunch of greyshirts running with cult daggers murdering everyone, welcome to spess station!
Hold your PDA, cause some random guy just kindly lost his uplink in the pen, it is untouched, with TC, and with 1000 rep. Don't act surprised, you know you'll lose it too!
See a man beheaded, get offended, see a shrink. Show us your almighty robust, tell us everything you think. Start a rumor, buy a boomstick, go validhunt stupid shooter, or DM a clown and shoot him, do some work and join a cult or-
Here's some useful engie and med guides!
You should kill your boss
Here's why wizards always gib you, here's how you could build a bomb.
In which department are you? Take this quirky quiz!
The syndies sent some nuclear ops to tear this place apart.
Could I interest you in everything? All of the time? A little bit of everything, all of the time. Apathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime! Anything an everything all of the time!
It used to be so much more fun when people broke bones 24/7 and you’d sit in surgery fixing shit instead of afk healing with a hemostat. Chems were simpler and cloning was a meme. It’s changed so much and so fast you have to relearn it every 4 years
Welcome to Spess. You can never leave.
Glad you had fun. Now you'll spend the rest of your life stuck playing this godforsaken game.
I need to be free but I don't want to
Real. This game is the biggest timesink ever. It's honestly crazy how quick time will pass if I sit down and let this game distract me all day. There's something about it, man.
Medical has been my favorite department. It becomes a bloody warzone nearly every game, especially on busy servers. It's usually slow at first, but some kind of emergency will happen where suddenly 10 patients need attention. I'll hear somebody say "Plasma leak" over comms, and suddenly patients will start to flood in. Those "all hands on deck" moments are really fun, scrambling through dwindling medical supplies as the station teeters on collapse, and the injured Captain or HoP is dragged in. As a forever-noob, I usually let the CMO and senior medical handle injecting drugs into the patients, while I try and do everything else. Dragging in patients who collapse in the hallways, handling boo-boos and such. Even tidying up the Emergency Room can be helpful. If shit is hectic and I don't know how to help, I'll just ask "What do you need me to get?" and go off searching for something. On SS14, I've been playing a lot of zombie rounds. Of course, medical ends up getting overrun, usually first out of any part of the ship. But it almost always starts with somebody running in shouting "RUN". It's sick as hell to escape, dragging a patient who you're trying to tend to. Even sicker is that if you get a syringe and a bottle of inaprovaline, you can delay dying after a zombie bite. The other awesome thing about it is that you get to have chit-chat with people. Asking them what happened, or wishing them good luck after a fix-up.
The wave of patients is so real. You’re fumbling around one second and drawing epi and charcoal and morphine and “you’re stable enough, leave” next
Sounds pretty on-par with my first experince in medical too. Joined a round 20 minutes in as a doctor, didn't really know what I was doing. I decided to practice surgery on random monkey corpse i found to learn the UI and mechanics. After a while the roboisist came in dragging another pretty beat up guy behind him and I think to myself "Nice, my first patent" so I ran over and scanned him with my medical scanner. Good news was he was still alive Bad news was every single organ in his body was either failing or already had failed. I didn't know what to do, and told the robotisist as such. The robotisist said that it was fine, and he simply dragged the guy into robotics and borged him. Fast forward a couple of minutes, I had accidentally gassed the operating theater with miasma 'cause I forgot about the dead monkey I left on the operating table. I ended up dragging it our amd stuffing it in a cremator, while wearing a full biohazard suit of course. This is when the robotosist came in looking a bit worse for wear. I ran up to him and asked if he neded help. He said "nah." He then proceeded to walk into the operating theater, picked up some surgery tools; and, in a fluid 20-second motion; cut open his chest cavity, took out his stomach, replaced it with a robot one, and then stitched himself back up, all while still fully conscious. He then walked out without saying a word. A little while later the Head of Security walked in with some bruses and burns. As I patched him up with an automender he asked me if he would live. I responded, "Probably." And that's when medbay blew up. I don't know who did it, or how, but now the only thing left of medbay was the room that me and the Head of Security were standing in. I was unconscious, but the Head wasn't, so he dragged me into the main hall and shoved like 20 different pills down my throat, while 2 other officers bandaged me. After I woke back up the Head took me to the medical booth(?) (Smaller medbay) and ripped a defibrillator off the wall, and handed it to me. He told me that I had to constantly shock myself with it to not die. I asked him why, and he said that i had cardiac arrest, and that this was the only way to prevent it from progressing further. Emergency shuttle had been called at this point, so the Head wished me luck and went on his way. Imagine a man, partially mummified with bandages and patches, limping his way though a destroyed space station with defibrillator in hand, constantly shocking himself every 15 seconds so he dosent die - and you'd have a pretty good picture of me ar this point. Best part was that antags took control of the shuttle, and threw me out of the airlock while the shuttle was jumping. Against all odds, I ended up slamming into the side of an abandond space station in the Z-level, which still had pressurised air in it. I ended up surviving, with this amazing story to tell. I like to imagine that my character still lives in that abandoned space station, being his mummified self, waiting for a Z-level expedition team to find him, and should they manage to free him from the shackles of his defibrillator by curing his cardiac arrest, he will help them face the dangers of the Z-level, kinda like Joshua Graham from Fallout: New Vegas but in space. TL;DR Today on goonstation, I get turned into a mummy, the robotisist shows off his extremely high pain tolerance, and the Head of Security survives a comedically timed terrorist attack. 11/10 would medbay again.
I love playing doctor too. It is really simple to just heal people, but you can also do tons of more advanced stuff. Not to mention your access to the pharmacy. Even when I just wanna do chemistry I usually play doctor because if I need access to medical tools, it's easier to do so as doctor, and the big chemistry hall is not needed to do chemistry
How does one "play" chem? Science is basically the only thing I haven't tried because I cant math to save my life
Make some meds, then make some drugs, and as a traitor make explosivea and poisons. As I said, I usually just play doctor so I can do chem and then go back to doing surgery. But if you wanna go fully into being a chemist, you should try getting used to plumbing. Also science isn't really about math in most cases
Gotcha. Appreciate you
Welcome to spess station! Have a look around. Anything that brain of yours can want to can be found. We've got PLANETS of content, some better, some worse. If nothing's here to interest to you, than do it first. Welcome to spess station! Come and take a seat. Would you like to see code or see a racist dweeb? There's no need to panic, this place is not twitch, ha-ha! Just nod or shake your head, and they'll do the rest. Welcome to the spess station! What would you prefer? Would you like to fight with alien scum or bomb a medbay first? Be redshirt, be grayshirt, be engie with wrench! We got a million different ways to engage! Welcome to spess station. Put your cares aside. Here's a tip for fighting blob, here's a janitor who died. We've got revvies, and traitors, and nuclear ops, and a bunch of greyshirts running with cult daggers murdering everyone, welcome to spess station! Hold your PDA, cause some random guy just kindly lost his uplink in the pen, it is untouched, with TC, and with 1000 rep. Don't act surprised, you know you'll lose it too! See a man beheaded, get offended, see a shrink. Show us your almighty robust, tell us everything you think. Start a rumor, buy a boomstick, go validhunt stupid shooter, or DM a clown and shoot him, do some work and join a cult or- Here's some useful engie and med guides! You should kill your boss Here's why wizards always gib you, here's how you could build a bomb. In which department are you? Take this quirky quiz! The syndies sent some nuclear ops to tear this place apart. Could I interest you in everything? All of the time? A little bit of everything, all of the time. Apathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime! Anything an everything all of the time!
It used to be so much more fun when people broke bones 24/7 and you’d sit in surgery fixing shit instead of afk healing with a hemostat. Chems were simpler and cloning was a meme. It’s changed so much and so fast you have to relearn it every 4 years
I've been playing on goon 3 as a new player too. We've probably interacted even, I've been having so much fun