They fired 'a' bullet.

The award IS the stat, for people that care about pointless crap like that.

Killer gets whatever their share of the damage was, assists get whatever their share was. The kill "credit" number goes to the last shot so they can rub that satisfaction all over their bodies while staring at their K/D late at night.

My solution fixes the problem, you're inventing the idea that there even would be another one. If I did 99% of the damage, and you kill the guy with a stray bullet, the fact you got the last hit is academic - he was killed by me. It's like if an AIDS patient eventually succumbs to an opportunistic infection. Yeah, that normally harmless disease is what finally killed him, but the real cause was the AIDS.

You could tack on some bonus for being the last hit, but it's misleading to characterize the "killer" as the brave soul who put in long man-hours chasing down some guy to finally get the kill. Most assist/kill breakdowns don't happen that way. For instance, if you did 1% of the damage to finish off the encounter, give them a 10% bonus of the overall kill credit, but let the rest fall in accordance to the people that actually did the damage.

Rambling screed.

However, I've been known to wait out an enemy while he's fighting my teammate and purposely steal the kill for myself...

Ordinarily, I'd say it doesn't matter because it just winds up being a number on your K/D stat, but in Dust you're giving us points that translate directly to items (with respect to recruit awards) and SP. The "Killer" gets more points than the assist. However, currently the killer need not have actually done anything other than the last 1hp of damage.

I'd suggest giving kill credit to the person who did the largest share of the damage (similar to how loot rights work in some MMORPGs), and give the others the assist. It makes more sense in context of rewarding effort. Getting that last bit of hp can be hard sometimes, but I think that's the exception rather than the rule - and even then that person has to acknowledge if they weren't actually responsible for most of it.

This is a larger issue when it comes to credit with things like vehicle kills because they're worth more. There already seems to be some occasional issues tied to the self-destruct (on fire) element when vehicles get several damaged where you may not receive credit at all.

Thanks.

You should probably modify this to say that you want WP to reflect the damage you did to the target.

Right now it sounds like you want to stick the person who got the kill with half WP just because they didn't do most of the work.

Pray he doesn't alter it any further...

DUST does have a good system of sharing a kill.
No other game have I seen where 4+ people can get an assist for the same kill.

Its just easier to give everyone a set amount. Although sometimes I will run into the problem of shooting a guy to 0 HP and my teammates lands a stray bullet, he gets the kill, but my assist get forgotten; I receive no WP what-so-ever. However, I've been known to wait out an enemy while he's fighting my teammate and purposely steal the kill for myself...

Sounds nice. Ain't gonna happen.

This is the way it is.

To all the poor down trodden Forge Gunners. Make sure you reload early. Damage the target, reload and have enough rounds to finish the job. Much more consistent kills and WP.

Ordinarily, I'd say it doesn't matter because it just winds up being a number on your K/D stat, but in Dust you're giving us points that translate directly to items (with respect to recruit awards) and SP. The "Killer" gets more points than the assist. However, currently the killer need not have actually done anything other than the last 1hp of damage.

This is a larger issue when it comes to credit with things like vehicle kills because they're worth more. There already seems to be some occasional issues tied to the self-destruct (on fire) element when vehicles get several damaged where you may not receive credit at all.

Lets scale WP by damage done instead.

Thanks

Ordinarily, I'd say it doesn't matter because it just winds up being a number on your K/D stat, but in Dust you're giving us points that translate directly to items (with respect to recruit awards) and SP. The "Killer" gets more points than the assist. However, currently the killer need not have actually done anything other than the last 1hp of damage.

This is a larger issue when it comes to credit with things like vehicle kills because they're worth more. There already seems to be some occasional issues tied to the self-destruct (on fire) element when vehicles get several damaged where you may not receive credit at all.

Lets scale WP by damage done instead.

Thanks

I like the idea but people could boost by, one shooting, one taking damage, and one healing the guy taking damage. That gives you a constant flow of WP.

SoonTM - Seriously this is a planned feature that is being worked on.

Cheers,
Cross