The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya. For this reason, it is often known as the Maya Long Count calendar. Using a modified vigesimal tally, the Long Count calendar identifies a day by counting the number of days passed since a mythical creation date that corresponds to August 11, 3114 BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. The Long Count calendar was widely used on monuments.
Background
The two most widely used calendars in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica were the 260-day Tzolkʼin and the 365-day Haabʼ. The equivalent Aztec calendars are known in Nahuatl as the Tonalpohualli and Xiuhpohualli.
The combination of a Haabʼ and a Tzolkʼin date identifies a day in a combination which does not occur again for 18,980 days (52 Haabʼ cycles of 365 days equals 73 Tzolkʼin cycles of 260 days, approximately 52 years), a period known as the Calendar Round. To identify days over periods longer than this, Mesoamericans used the Long Count calendar.
The Long Count calendar is divided into five distinct units:
- one day - kin
- 20 days - uinal
- 360 days - tun
- 7,200 days - katun
- 144,000 days - baktun
Mesoamerican numerals
Long Count dates are written with Mesoamerican numerals, as shown on this table. A dot represents 1 while a bar equals 5. The shell glyph was used to represent the zero concept. The Long Count calendar required the use of zero as a place-holder and presents one of the earliest uses of the zero concept in history.
The Mesoamerican Calendar - Ancient Americas 
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had a dumb idea earlier. You're a medic on Blu with the stock medigun with Uber ready and need to push through a strong defense. You got 2 options for who to charge, a soldier, or an engineer with 10+ frontier justice crits and a pistol who's trying to convince you this is a good idea. Is giving the uber to the engineer in this highly specific situation ever worth it?
If I'm the medic I'm giving the uber to whoever I want. Spies, scouts, other medics etc
Metagaming is a scam, do it for the bit
Disclaimer: I've never played comp and haven't touched the game in almost a decade but I say no
Engie is too slow and it might be a little hard to actually push through the chokepoint with him
Uber the Soldier and let him chase them down
If it sounds like a fun idea you should do it.
If I'm on comms with the engie, and it looks like they're a decent player, then sure. The crits can't be reflected and don't have bullet drop, so could be useful for taking out high value flesh targets. I never really liked ubering sollies in any case. I'd usually go heavy > demo > pyro > solly if trying to break through a solid bottleneck.
i think this is a false dichotomy
why can't you flash your uber between them?
I thought switching patients mid uber caused it to drain much faster but it's been a while
It does make it drain faster, but it's worth it in most circumstances