Kill Assists

[Ordonator]

It's suggested many times in game chat and on Ventrilo that kill assists be logged and/or tracked.

Just forwarding the info.

 

[SockMonkeh]

Would be cool to get a kill assist if you did at least 50% of the damage done to a character but did not strike the killing blow. Maybe instead of just kills and deaths you could have Kills Assists Deaths and Score (kinda like Gears of War) where you get 2 points for a kill and 1 for an assist or something like that (plus then you can give people points for capturing flags or being alive at the end of Battle mode or whatever else).

 

[ElijahT]

This is really needed.  Nothing is more annoying than spending tons of time battling someone, almost getting them to die, and having a friendly archer get the last shot, nullifying your effort.

 

[clench]

It would be cool if they would track your horse kills also.

I must killed 2 or 3 horses a round as Nords, but someone always steals my kills

 

[Redfyre]

Someone was talking in Vent about it counting killed horses already.

 

[vuk]

Well, I do not think that killing horses should count at all...for anything. Kill assists though should count for a full point, and kills for two. There are very few ways to deal small damage in MP, so I would make it that you get a full point for dealing damage, and another for killing.

 

[CtrlAltDe1337]

If you do more than X amount of damage (such as 25 or 50%), I agree that a kill assist should be awarded and you should get points/gold from it.

 

[gypsydevil]

That's a bump vote for kill assists

 

[Orion]

Here's a simple idea. The percentage of damage you do it a person is the percentage of the total gold that you get. So if three archers all shoot the same guy and do the same damage, killing him, then all three archers get 1/3rd of the total gold.

If I swing my sword at a horseman and get him down to 50% health and a lancer finishes him, I get 1/2 of the gold and the lancer gets 1/2 of the gold.

As for getting credit for the kill, the person with the highest percentage of damage gets 2 points, and the rest get 1 if they contributed over 20% damage.

 

[Ordonator]

Makes a lot of sense Orion.

They could even track a separate column on the score sheet for gold earned; which technically would be come the most important score. Especially if you gave extra gold for capturing objectives or surviving and winning rounds.

 

[Banok]

necroing thread so I don't have to make a new one. really want kill assists. also killing someones horse should count as you assisting killing them. assists would get you a little money too.

this way when i go pikeman and I kill 5 horse but teammates get the kills I don't stay so poor even thought I am helping my team greatly.

 

[Amroth]

If that is actually implremented then there should be a way of telling between horses that are ridden and rider-less horses.

 

[Banok]

If that is actually implremented then there should be a way of telling between horses that are ridden and rider-less horses.

yeah you shouldn't get kill assists for killing unmounted horses, that would be daft.

 

[Apthorpe]

I've never seen anybody disagree that the game would be improved by kill scores. I think the devs will add it before the game's release, but sooner is always better than later.

 

[capnprophetic]

Whenever they do get around to it, I say Marnid's come up with the best system.

 

[Luxus]

Lots of good ideas here.