First Strike and TKs

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Gaijin, why, after so many years, does someone TKing someone at the start of an air battle eliminate “First Strike” award for the first person to legitimately kill a legitimate target?

Normally who cares but when First Strike is part of a task of any kind, it’s infuriating to lose it because someone TKs.

Just got “First Convergence” daily task. Start of match, and an enemy immediately wipes out two of his teammates within 15 seconds of start. I make the first REAL kill of the match, and I don’t get First Strike.

Why is this so difficult to program around? Is the server code really so basic that it doesn’t care after the first thing is destroyed?

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Team killing does not and has never counted for first strike.
There is no elimination of the ability to earn it to my knowledge.

If you have evidence of issue I’d like to see it for I’m unaware of any current bugs.

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If you showed the battle log that’d make it a lot easier to see.

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Stop. You’re derailing the topic and trolling him! He said so!
Either way he didn’t provide evidence.
Of course there is a bug with it apparently:
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Anyway this is a years long issue that has been brought up numerous times. No battle log is needed.

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So where’s First Strike?

This wasn’t necessary to provide. This is generally known that this happens.

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That’s the top portion so you know I’m not hiding anything.

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The evidence was needed because I’ve received first strike on matches with team killers.
I needed to know if what you experienced was a new [at least to me] bug or not.

Instead of being hostile all you needed to do was provide evidence of potential issue on your end and guess what? I’m supportive as always.

Sorry that you experienced the bug.

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This isn’t new, troll.

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It doesn’t “count” for it… it eliminates the ability to earn it, Alvis. Please, learn how words work. My comment is not difficult to understand. Can’t you wait until the thread has more reasonable responses before you start derailing and trolling and intentionally misinterpreting?

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Awww you mad? You thought you flagged that one?

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@Rikers_Beard is out here claiming everyone are trolls for saying that there’s a bug with first strike. Typical.

“You’re trolling for saying that there’s a bug!”

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No only you.

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Be sure to keep flagging.

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@Rikers_Beard
I’ll go do a deep dive into this issue and see if I can find the method to repeat the bug.
There are many factors I’m thinking of based on your match.
You did a triple strike, and 2 people died with one pilot snipe.

Knowing it happened is half the battle.

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Dive really deep and stay there.

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Actually hilarious that that works that way.

It’s probably worth it to make a proper bug report with a replay and all that, since gaijin might not even know this is a bug.

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There’s no point. This has been a thing since I started playing years ago. I’m actually surprised it’s not common knowledge really. It used to be.

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If you think that you have found a bug, please submit a valid bug report here: Community Bug Reporting System
If you want to discuss TK policy, please use pinned thread.
Thank you

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