I just wanted to know your thoughts on the Out Of Bounds kills not being registered. I once grappled an assassin (I play the assault) and she landed on top of the side-exit of our spawn. She had a few hitpoints left and nearly instantly died because of the OOB fire. In the top right corner it showed as if she killed herself by walking OOB, so I never got the kill. Anybody else agrees that this needs fixing? On a completely unrelated note. I think that while using the assault SMG you should be able to use Q for grappling. The grenade launcher has a grapple option, why doesnt the SMG? Nobody uses anything else than Space for the jetpack anyway, right?
Your alt fire as an assault gives you an accuracy bonus. The grenade launcher grapple is mostly for killing bots or stalling juiced people anyways. I've knocked people to edges and onto the roof and not gotten the kill. But I do get the assist. Techniquely you didn't get the kill as the Out of Bounds fire did. It's not as if it happens that often to justify that much recoding. Plus you still get 15 dollars and they still have to wait for 5 seconds to respawn. I think he just wants access to the grenade launcher grapple with the assault rifle out.
All secondary weapons have a grapple. Not to mention I use q to hover when I don't want to be grappled but also don't want to be in the air.
You don't remember the name of said Assassin by any chance? Because that scenario and your name somehow sound familiar... Should it be fixed? Yup. But trust me, it evens out with the number of times I have lunged off the map due to a lag spike and somebody got the kill for that.
I'm assuming this happened today. Col. Jessup. Happened to me on Grenade III today. Got knocked up onto the burning things above spawn and died. *edit* I'm almost positive that it was me now since he just complained about the exact game me and friends were in.
Considering that tf2 was able to make it so airblasts into environmental hazards gave you points I don't see why they can't do this.
Holy crap, another TF2 comparison! It's not even the same engine. Not even close. Come on, really guys?
No but it shouldn't be too difficult to write something like if grappled into OB fire grappler gets the kill. Cos right now I think OB fire is counted as an entity that steals kills, like bots.
I'm sure that there is a lot more coding than a single line to straighten that out. But it's also like getting your kill stolen by a bot. Should they let the last pro to hit that pro get the kill if a bot gets it as he/she is running away? I personally don't think that you should get the kill. It's not as if you really knocked them off the map or initially killed them with the grapple. Also, this happens so rarely, I don't know why it's such a big deal.
It didn't happen today And im sure theres some way to see how long a player has been OOB or how much health he had when he went OOB. If he had less than 10% or went into OOB for less than 2 seconds before dying, the player who made the last damage gets the kill. I never got an assist btw, and theres more bugs too, like the one where you get teleported out of the arena if somebody I grappled uses his grapple in midair, so it doesn't really even out..
Correction, BAD assaults have 2 grapples, good ones have one. Good assaults generally don't get charge 3.
That explains my random OOB kill. I was minding my own business in Tank with no enemies in sight, just spawning and leaving my base, when suddenly I got a Ring Out on an Assassin I had not shot or hit in any way. I will assume this was the kill it meant to give to you but instead gave it to me on another server at the same time. So you see, it all adds up in the end. L. Spiro
What happens that angers me more often, is during a gunfight when I have an opponent down to no health left and am finishing it with the final shot... and as I squeeze the trigger and the bullets fly into him, it shows a slim bot that walked up randomly tac'd him for the last shot and stole my kill. Since i'm pretty sure that slim bot is such a kill-stealing punk (he didn't need the cash, or the k/d anyway), I wouldn't mind giving you the kill for something you were in the middle of attacking. Goes for anything that kills you that doesn't have an owner (ownerless turrets, bots, heat vents, gravity).
Call me a bad assault but I love the lower cooldown on charge 3 and the ohko on anything I want to be dead.
