The Kritzkrieg is an unlockable secondary weapon for the Medic. Similar in appearance to the Medi Gun, it sports an additional fixture to the barrel. The Kritzkrieg's beam has small yellow particles floating into the recipient.
Functioning similarly to the Medi Gun, this weapon heals teammates and disguised Spies up to the 150% base health overheal limit. The ÜberCharge deployed, however, bestows a 100% critical hit chance, rather than invulnerability. The Kritzkrieg's ÜberCharge bar is also filled 25% percent faster than the Medi Gun's.
The healing beam will stay locked onto its target as long as the wielding Medic keeps the attack button held down and keeps within range of the target. This allows the Medic to turn around and effectively keep an eye out for incoming enemies from behind, and even heal allies from around corners. In Options > Multiplayer > Advanced, there is an option to have the beam stay locked on without having to hold down the fire button. When a player has been overhealed, a team-colored "aura" follows them, similar to a Teleporter trail.
Taunting with the Kritzkrieg equipped causes the Medic to perform the Oktoberfest special taunt.
The Kritzkrieg is automatically given to any player who obtains 16 Medic achievements.
Healing and function times
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| Healing
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| Healing (in combat)
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100%
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24 / s
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| Healing (out of combat)
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300%
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72 / s
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| Function times
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| Effect duration
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8 s
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| Charge fill speed
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3.125% / s (1.563% / s)
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| Maximum charge time
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32 s (64 s)
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| Values are approximate and determined by community testing.
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Demonstration
Crafting
Blueprint
As a Crafting Ingredient
Related Achievements
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Master of Disguise
Trick an opposing Medic into healing you.
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Team Doctor
Accumulate 25000 heal points as a Medic.
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Doctoring the Ball
Kill 3 enemies while under the effects of a Medic's ÜberCharge.
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Class Struggle
Work with a friendly Medic to kill an enemy Heavy & Medic pair.
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Division of Labor
Kill 10 enemies with a Medic assisting you, where neither of you die.
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Party Loyalty
Kill 50 enemies within 3 seconds of them attacking your Medic.
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Doc, Stock, and Barrel
Repair a sentry gun under fire while being healed by a Medic.
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Bedside Manner
Be healing a teammate as he achieves an achievement of his own.
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Big Pharma
Assist a Heavy in killing 10 enemies, where neither of you die.
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Blunt Trauma
Assist in punching 2 enemies with a single ÜberCharge on a Heavy.
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Chief of Staff
Accumulate 1 million total heal points.
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Consultation
Assist a fellow Medic in killing 3 enemies in a single life.
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Double Blind Trial
Deploy an ÜberCharge within 8 seconds of a nearby enemy Medic deploying his.
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Family Practice
ÜberCharge 5 of your Steam Community Friends.
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First Do No Harm
Play a full round without killing any enemies, and score the highest on a team of 6 or more players.
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Group Health
Work with 2 other Medics to deploy 3 simultaneous ÜberCharges.
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House Call
Join a game that one of your friends is in and then deploy an ÜberCharge on him.
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Hypocritical Oath
Kill an enemy Spy that you have been healing.
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Infernal Medicine
Extinguish 100 burning teammates.
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Intern
Accumulate 7000 heal points in a single life.
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Play Doctor
In a team with no Medics, be the first person to switch to Medic after a teammate calls for 'Medic!', and then heal 500 health.
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Quadruple Bypass
Heal a teammate who's taking fire from 4 enemies at once.
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Specialist
Accumulate 10000 heal points in a single life.
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Trauma Queen
Deploy 3 ÜberCharges in less than 5 minutes, and assist in 5 kills during that time.
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Triage
Deploy an ÜberCharge on a teammate less than a second before they're hit by a critical explosive.
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Ubi concordia, ibi victoria
Assist in killing 3 enemies on an enemy control point, in a single life.
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FYI I am a Spy
Backstab a Medic who has healed you in the last 5 seconds.
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Insurance Fraud
Kill an enemy while you're being healed by an enemy Medic.
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Update history
April 29, 2008 Patch
- The item was added to the game.
May 2, 2008 Patch
- Fixed Kritzkrieg client crash in particle system.
May 5, 2008 Patch
- Fixed charge effect getting stuck on the Kritzkrieg when changing class/weapons.
May 9, 2008 Patch
- Fixed the Kritzkrieg not charging faster than the Medi Gun.
- Fixed melee weapons not being affected by The Kritzkrieg's critboost.
July 29, 2008 Patch
- Fixed the Kritzkrieg not working on servers with crits turned off.
August 19, 2008 Patch
- Increased the Kritzkrieg's ÜberCharge rate bonus from 10% to 25%.
May 5, 2008 Patch
- Fixed unlimited ÜberCharge exploit.
May 7, 2008 Patch
- Fixed another unlimited ÜberCharge exploit.
May 21, 2009 Patch
- Added a new taunt for the Kritzkrieg, which also heals for 11 points.
- Grenades and rockets deflected by a Pyro under the effects of Kritzkrieg will now be criticals.
- Fixed rapid weapon switching allowing Medics to prevent deployed ÜberCharges from draining.
May 12, 2010 Patch
December 21, 2010 Patch
- [Undocumented] The weapon was added in the crafting blueprint for the Candy Cane.
December 22, 2010 Patch
- Fixed a bug in the Kritzkrieg's animations.
January 7, 2011 Patch
- Fixed the critboost sound not playing when the Kritzkrieg charge is deployed.
January 10, 2011 Patch
- Fixed the Kritzkrieg charge deployed sound getting stuck on.
Bugs
- Even though the Kritzkrieg does not grant any invulnerability during its ÜberCharge, the ÜberCharge cannot be deployed while carrying the Intelligence. The Intelligence can, however, still be acquired by a player currently under the effects of the ÜberCharge.
- Healing a teammate affected by a crit boost with the Kritzkrieg will immediately dispel the boost.
- On the loadout screen, the Medic's model will still appear to be holding a Medi Gun even when the Kritzkrieg is equipped.
- When the 'Medi Gun heals without holding primary fire' option is active, the Kritzkrieg will continue to heal if the Medic taunts.
- There are also issues with the Kritzkrieg particle effects not appearing, or continuing to appear when the healing target is no longer alive.
- Both the textures and model of the weapon are of low resolution and quality in first person view.
- Taunting with the Kritzkrieg sometimes may not render the healing effects that the Medic inhales.
Trivia
- The name "Kritzkrieg" is a pun on the term "crits" (critical hits) and "Blitzkrieg", which is German for "lightning war", a technique used by the German army in both World Wars, unsuccesful and successful respectively.
- Before the Kritzkrieg was released, Valve stated in interviews that they were going to add an Overhealer that could permanently overheal team-mates to 200% of their standard health, but it would have a significantly worsened ÜberCharge, or be unable to ÜberCharge at all. This was canceled after playtesting; however, the model for the Kritzkrieg attachment still bears the filename "Overhealer."
Gallery
A Kritzkrieg ÜberCharge on a RED Heavy.
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