I know this isn’t Reddit and I don’t know what to put this as but can there be some change to this? He just swoops in, fires a spamraam at 2 PEOPLE DOGFIGHTING and dips. I get that people are kill-hungry for the “rewards”, but he literally already has the Eurofighter Tranche 2, there’s no need to be such a rat.
I’m pretty against AI in general, but I think there should be a system where it can detect if a kill was stolen - if the AI can like analyse the player who is damaged, has a massive fireball strapped to its back, and has no control of his ailerons at 100 knots and another person finishes him off, the guy should get minimal rewards. There are cases where they can sling a missile while burning and nearly dead, but it’s quite obvious that in this case, the Su-33 had no chance of whipping his nose around to shoot me down.
Sorry if this whole post is just pointless bs, but I’m just tired of this happening and it’s really pissing me off. Just for more context, if he didn’t steal my kill, I would’ve won a 2v1 dogfight in an F-18.
Oh yeah at the end you can also hear an AIM-7F fired from an F-20 which also tried stealing my kill, but at least he was “nice” enough to turn his radar off and let it IOG its way to the dogfight.
I don’t want to sound greedy or spoiled but seriously, players have gotten so much more pathetic than they used to be
With all due respect, I think you are totally over thinking this.
To your perspective the Phantom stole your kill.
But to the Phantoms perspective, they probably saw an F-18 dogfighting an Su-33, might have even seen the attempted use an Aim-9L that immediately nose dived, and figured it was someone that needed help and decided to help win the fight. Though probably fired the AMRAAM around the beginning of the clip, 15-20 seconds before you even got a gun solution, and not after the aircraft was on fire.
Or let me put it another way. If you had been fighting that Su-33, loosing the fight and he had killed you and you realised that there was a teammate just sat their watching and not helping, would you have been just as mad?
There is already a mechanic in place to deal with this situation, its called severe damage. So the only real issue I see in that clip, is that for some reason, the damage you inflicted did not count as severe damage, everything else is totally and completely irrelevant.
There is little if any chance of this happening, the whole game is a chaotic free for all so trying to determine what is a kill steal and what is not would be almost impossible.
Also it is how the game has been constructed it is all about the individual doing well so players will push their own side out of the way into the enemy line of sight, bomb and artillery their own side to get a position they covet or is ‘their position’ or that somebody else is doing too well in. You get rewards for winning and a few crumbs for team play but it is not how you get great rewards.
It is a very toxic game made even more so by the company and the direction they steer it for more money, and most of the players play with little intelligence or thought it is a quick fire shoot em up, try to grab as much as you can and then move to the next game.
Also if it takes so much time to finish off an opponent that still may be a threat is it kill stealing ?
With all respect, but AIM-120 could flew for like 10 seconds before stealing your kill, top tier ARB are just chaotic thing