Protag counter should display to others

When you look at others' chosen protag, it should include the counter of how many times they've earned that protag (if counter > 1). For instance "ground zero" is a lot more intimidating if it says "ground zero" with a "x286" on it. It means that when an air bomb is stuck to your face, you can't be all "that was just blind luck" - more like "wow, that dude is killer with those bombs" - which is hard to do.

It already keeps track of this info - if you're in your locker room looking at your protags, it already says, for example, "x286" on the protag. I just want that to appear in game and in the lobby room. It means something totally different than just the protag alone.

Good point. I'll make a note of that. Thanks!

Yes, I too want people to know not only how big my e-wang is but how many times I have used it.

:lol:
But no really, this comment all the way.

What would it display next to Career protags?

Maybe remove the X from the number, off set it with parentheses and add a comma for numbers over 1000.

Example:

"Pain Train" x1333 would look like I got 1000 tank charge kills 1,333 times

"Pain Train" (1,333) would show my protag for the milestone as well as my total number of tank charges.

It would be nice for those of us who like some of the lower pro tags even if they have less of a sense of prestige attached to it.

I would totally rock "$$$" (630) over "Limited Time" (630). "$$$" is 100 product grenade kills vs "Limited Time"'s 500 product grenade kills.

Awesome - thanks Hellchick!

The number of times you receive a career protag is 1. Therefore no number would be displayed on career protags. It's the only clean way to do it.

Thinking about the example from "Im Hudson" -- it doesn't seem like an option. The healgun on support, for example - mine's at like 2,000,000+. And then, which protag would you put the counter on (since they're already levels of the same action)?

It doesn't make much sense, unless counters were added to career protags (ie, i've earned the 500,000 hp protag 4x) but that's not being kept track of already, and (imo) not worth adding.

No need to turn this into something more complicated - sticking to non-career protags (whatever they're called, I can't remember atm), would be awesome.

Yeah, forget what I said, for these exact reasons.

Good point.

highlight protags

funny story behind that. all i thought there were for a month were career protags. i kept seeing protags not in that list. first was shotgun xl. i was so confused, i asked everyone where on earth is that protag at in the career tab.

i was so happy when i found the other 200 protags under highlights lol. most of them are more infamous than career ones anyhow. like shotgun mega xl. which i dont have yet and its too popular for my taste, but its an example

btw, like this idea a bit, if it would be a simple patch. depending on how the game engine works, it might even be patchable server side. if it were that easy, id take the effort if i made the game. i wouldnt ask for the team to put too much effort into it if it was a difficult patch to make, just for a little thing like that

Instead of having the number of times achieved on the pro tag, couldn't you have different colour backgrounds to the tag depending on how many times it has been achieved. This would mean that you can scale the tags. For example say there is bronze, silver and gold. You would need a lot more 3 kill streaks to get gold than say picking up bacon.

Aww, but my 34 million+ healing points will go unseen. I'd really like to rock that next to a Healer Protag (5000 healing points). :lol:

highlights over 1000 just show up as: x1000.

I think that a counter on career milestones would be pointless, because even with the last milestone people could see it and say "Well this guy knows what he's doing." but the highlights should definately have a counter, I mean I see Uber Streak and I think if this guy has played a team of idiots and got lucky and only has got it once or is he for real and has it several times.