During this afternoon’s gaming session, I encountered two incredibly infuriating incidents while playing the Su-25. While taking off and heading towards the battlefield, players (both flying F-4s) slowly approached from behind me, attempting to deliberately ram me and cause me to crash. Although these were two different players, both were in F-4s, which are absolutely incapable of flying slower than me. In one instance, I spotted him early. I deployed my airbrakes, letting him overtake me, and then promptly shot him down with my cannons. However, he and his teammate then threatened to report me for “Team Killing” (TK), which is utterly infuriating. I’ve encountered this situation before, but it’s become alarmingly common recently – I had two instances just this afternoon! If I encounter this again, what should I do? Should I still fight back them to protect myself?
If a teamkill shows up in the kill-feed then no report is needed, there is an automated system that deals with those.
If they ram you and you get killed in a way where it doesn’t show up in the kill-feed then report it using the Server replay report function on the main website. A guide on how to report each issue can be found here: (How to properly report players and contact Game Masters!)
DO NOT retaliate, intentional teamkilling is prohibited and there are no excuses.
I would suggest not shooting down team mates if they intend to ram you, reason being is because this accumulates TK points for the automated system and doing it too often will result in you being kicked from the match leaving you crew locked. My suggestion would be to keep calm and gauge whether they actually intended to fly into you or are just passing by closely.
You can always leave a game report and save the server replay if you want to report griefers who are ruining the game for you by ramming.
surely if the game can register damage by ramming planes, why can’t it flag a collision, which could easily be reported for review. Sometimes when I see people tk eachother by ramming it shows up in the killfeed, couldn’t this be made more consistent?
I don’t deal with development so i have no idea.
If you want to read more about the automatic system you can do so here: (https://support.gaijin.net/hc/en-us/articles/200069301-Teamkilling)
And in general, i don’t think you can through data alone judge if a collision is intentional or accidental. Additionally, i’ve actually seen very rare cases where the one getting rammed is the one that shows upp in the kill feed as the one doing the kill.