Med Gun Madness: How to Stop Your Mates Falling Apart During Siege of Orison

Siege of Orison is coming back, and that means one thing:

FPS chaos in the clouds.

Expect bullets, explosions, panic, questionable comms, and at least one citizen confidently sprinting into a kill box before asking why their leg no longer works.

Siege is the kind of event where medical gameplay actually matters. You are not just healing a health bar. You are dealing with injured arms, cooked legs, busted lungs, concussions, bleeding, overdoses, incapacitated teammates, and the classic Star Citizen medical diagnosis of “mate, you are absolutely rooted.”

Knowing how to use the med gun properly can be the difference between recovering the push, saving the squad, or watching your whole fireteam slowly ragdoll into the floor.

The Med Gun Is More Than A Heal Beam

The CureLife Medical Tool, usually just called the med gun, has two modes:

• Basic
• Advanced

Most players know the basic version. You point it at someone, hold the button, and it pumps Hemozal into them like a medical fire extinguisher.

That works fine for basic health damage, but once people start collecting actual injuries, basic mode is not always enough.

Advanced mode is where the good stuff lives.

MultiTool Medical Attachment vs Med Gun

Some people will suggest bringing a MultiTool with the medical attachment.

They are not wrong.

A MultiTool with a medical attachment is great for topping up hit points, stopping someone from falling over, and handling basic field healing when things are getting spicy.

But it is not the same as a proper med gun.

The MultiTool medical attachment is basically a simple heal beam. It is useful, convenient, and absolutely better than having nothing, but it does not give you the same level of control over specific drugs, injury types, or Blood Drug Level management.

That means it will not properly cater to specific injuries the way the CureLife Medical Tool can in Advanced mode.

If someone has a damaged arm, busted leg, torso injury, concussion symptoms, movement issues, stamina problems, or a rising Blood Drug Level, you want the actual med gun.

Think of it like this:

Tool	Best For
MultiTool Medical Attachment	Quick health top-ups and basic emergency healing
CureLife Medical Tool / Med Gun	Proper injury treatment, advanced drug control, scanning, and BDL management

The MultiTool medical attachment is handy.

The med gun is medical gameplay.

For Siege of Orison, bring the med gun.

How To Switch The Med Gun To Advanced Mode

To use the advanced medical options:

1. Equip the med gun.
2. Hold right mouse button to aim down sights.
3. While aiming, hold F to interact with the screen on the tool.
4. Click the toggle at the top of the display from Basic to Adv.
5. Use the sliders to adjust the drugs being administered.

There is also an Auto button at the bottom of the screen.

This works similarly to a med bed. The tool will attempt to adjust the drug mix for the injury you are treating. If you are not confident manually dosing someone, use Auto and let the magic medical brick do the thinking.

Reading Injuries

The med gun can also scan players.

Aim it at a player to see basic health information. Aim it at a specific body part to inspect injuries in more detail.

This matters because different body parts create different problems.

What Injuries Actually Do

Arm Injuries

Arm injuries make it harder to aim and fight.

Severe arm injuries can stop a player from holding items properly, which is less than ideal during an FPS event where holding a gun is generally considered important.

Leg Injuries

Leg injuries slow movement.

Severe leg injuries can stop a player from walking, running, or standing. If someone says they are stuck, crawling, or “the game is broken,” check their legs before blaming the servers.

Torso Injuries

Torso injuries affect stamina and breathing.

A player with a torso injury may struggle to sprint, move, or keep up with the group. In Siege, that can get ugly fast.

Head Injuries

Head injuries can mess with vision and hearing.

If someone is concussed, disoriented, or suddenly playing like they have discovered interpretive dance, they may need treatment rather than mockery.

Although, honestly, probably both.

The Drugs

Advanced mode lets you control the different medical drugs directly.

Here is the simple version.

Drug	Pen Version	What It Does
Hemozal	MedPen	Restores health, stops bleeding, and can recover someone from incapacitation
Roxaphen	OpioPen	Helps with pain and mobility issues from arm and leg injuries
Demexatrine	AdrenaPen	Helps with concussion symptoms, muscle fatigue, weapon handling, and movement
Sterogen	CorticoPen	Helps with torso-related symptoms like stamina, fatigue, and respiratory issues
Resurgera	DetoxPen	Reduces Blood Drug Level and helps with overdose symptoms

Blood Drug Level: Do Not Overcook The Patient

Blood Drug Level, or BDL, is basically how medically cooked someone is.

Most drugs increase BDL. Push it too high and the patient can start overdosing, which causes impairment like blurred vision, poor movement, and general “oh no, we made it worse” symptoms.

If someone is overdosing, use Resurgera or a DetoxPen to bring their BDL back down.

In other words:

Do not just keep pumping your mate full of every drug because the bars look fun.

You are a medic, not a nightclub.

Basic Mode vs Advanced Mode

Use Basic Mode When:

• Someone has simple health damage
• Someone is bleeding
• Someone is incapacitated and needs to be brought back up quickly
• You just need fast, simple emergency healing

Use Advanced Mode When:

• Someone has an arm, leg, torso, or head injury
• Someone is suffering from movement, stamina, vision, or weapon handling issues
• Someone has a high Blood Drug Level
• You want to manually tune the treatment
• You want to use Auto mode for a better injury-specific treatment

Self-Healing

You can use the med gun on yourself while it is equipped by pressing B.

This is worth remembering because during Siege there is a good chance your assigned medic will either be dead, lost, distracted, or yelling “I’m coming” from three platforms away.

Stabilising Is Not The Same As Fully Healing

The med gun can keep someone going, but not every injury can be fully fixed in the field.

Minor injuries can usually be treated on site with the right medical gear.

Moderate and severe injuries may need a proper medical bed or hospital to fully repair. Field treatment is often about stabilising the player and removing the worst debuffs long enough to finish the objective or extract.

That is the key mindset:

The med gun keeps people in the fight. Medical beds fix them properly.

Medical Beds Matter

Medical beds are still important, especially during longer operations.

Different bed tiers can treat different injury severities:

Facility / Bed	Minor	Moderate	Severe	Stabilise
On-site player medical assistance	Yes	No	No	Yes
Tier 3 medical bed	Yes	No	No	Yes
Tier 2 medical bed	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Tier 1 medical bed	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hospital	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

If you are planning to run Siege properly, it is worth thinking about where your nearest proper medical support is and whether your group has a ship with a useful medical bed nearby.

Quick Siege Medical Tips

Bring a med gun.

Bring spare MedGel.

Bring a couple of medical pens anyway.

A MultiTool medical attachment is useful, but do not rely on it as your only medical option.

Do not ignore injuries just because your health bar looks fine.

Use Advanced mode when someone has symptoms that basic healing is not fixing.

Watch Blood Drug Level.

Use Auto if you are not sure what to dose.

Do not abandon the medic.

Do not be the medic if your plan is to sprint first into every doorway while yelling “breaching.”

The SCANZ Medical Doctrine

You do not need to become a full-time space doctor.

But for Siege of Orison, every citizen should know the basics:

• How to swap the med gun into Advanced mode
• How to scan injuries
• What the main drugs do
• How to avoid overdosing people
• When to stabilise and when to extract
• How to self-heal when everything goes sideways

Because it will go sideways.

Someone will lose a leg. Someone will get concussed. Someone will shout that they are bugged when they are actually just medically ruined. Someone will overdose their mate trying to help.

That is Siege.

Bring ammo. Bring armour. Bring a med gun.

And for the love of all things holy, learn where the Auto button is.

Source

RSI Support: Healing and Medical Treatment
https://support.robertsspaceindustries.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409996816535-Healing-and-Medical-Treatment