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[DeathlyEyes]

After having a match where I Ac 20'd a locust and an atlas in the head and had to ask if I had headshot them I realized it would be nice to see a system implemented to confirm when a kill is done with a headshot. I often am engaging enemies I am unable to lock and it would be really cool if the kill scrolled sorta like counter strike does. Perhaps instead of simply saying X has killed Y we could have it say X ppc Y or X ppc headshot Y or better yet X (picture of ppc) (picture of component) . This would also help clear up what weapon actually killed a mech since that is often hard to tell. Optional quake style sounds would be cool tool Hhhhhhheaaaad shoooooooot. Lllllllllllleeeeeeegggggg shhhhhoooooot, etc. Seems simple enough to code in.

Edited by DeathlyEyes, 11 November 2014 - 09:03 PM.

[Kiiyor]

There already is confirmation.

Enemy1: "AAAARGH, YOU HACKER"

[Davegt27]

I have gotten taken out with head shots twice in the last week

first I am shocked and the only thing to do is type "nice head shot"

[MandyB]

Also the achievement tracks your shots, so go check it after the match, if your number went up, then it was a headshot.

[DeathlyEyes]

MandyB, on 11 November 2014 - 09:19 PM, said:

Also the achievement tracks your shots, so go check it after the match, if your number went up, then it was a headshot.

The ui has enough clicks. Every other shooter has this feature. There is no reason for mwo to not have it.

[Felicitatem Parco]

It's a cockpit...

I don't know how you'd word that kind of "shot" without making people giggle all the time.

[Kiiyor]

Prosperity Park, on 11 November 2014 - 09:50 PM, said:

It's a cockpit...

I don't know how you'd word that kind of "shot" without making people giggle all the time.

Well, NOW i'll giggle.

I think the ingame screens could possibly be used for that.

OR - the parts hit on the enemy ragdoll flash more.

[Felicitatem Parco]

Well, they Devs deliberately made enemy units targetable for a few moments after death because players were wanting a way to see how the enemy died. They leave the ragdoll visible long enough for you to see that it died with all torsos intact, and a head missing...

If they give Achievement points for it, though, then I think it should have an on-screen prompt to notify you of it. Not an imposing one, but a little pop-up in a corner that gives the achievement name that you just contributed a point toward.

Edited by Prosperity Park, 11 November 2014 - 10:04 PM.

[SweetJackal]

Prosperity Park, on 11 November 2014 - 09:50 PM, said:

It's a cockpit...

I don't know how you'd word that kind of "shot" without making people giggle all the time.

Crushed Cockpit. Cringe appropriately.

[MechWarrior849305]

DeathlyEyes, on 11 November 2014 - 09:01 PM, said:

Hhhhhhheaaaad shoooooooot.

Actually, Unreal (Tournament) style

[BattleBunny]

Bitching Betty could point it out with a simple "Headshot" before " target destroyed"

[Keira RAVEN McKenna]

or "pilot knockout"...

I'm stuck in a rut at 41 pilots dropped. Cant seem to progress from that lately.

Edited by Keira RAVEN McKenna, 12 November 2014 - 12:47 AM.

[Taffer]

Make it a Warhorn too.

[MeiSooHaityu]

DeathlyEyes, on 11 November 2014 - 09:01 PM, said:

After having a match where I Ac 20'd a locust and an atlas in the head and had to ask if I had headshot them I realized it would be nice to see a system implemented to confirm when a kill is done with a headshot.

HEA...HEA...HEA...HEAD SHOT!

Edited by MeiSooHaityu, 12 November 2014 - 02:53 AM.

[Darlith]

sneeking, on 12 November 2014 - 03:39 AM, said:

Most my builds run little as 4 points in the windshield and I think iv been beheaded once.

I always watch in amazement how players plug away at a front ct of a dc or afk instead of taking the glass, why does nobody go for it ? Even if you miss the worst you get is that ct you usually aim for anyway

Well most people I see chew off the arms and legs of DCed mechs first, for the extra component destructions and damage padding. Since there is no tangible reward for headshotting an enemy for most of us.

[Joseph Mallan]

Prosperity Park, on 11 November 2014 - 09:50 PM, said:

It's a cockpit...

I don't know how you'd word that kind of "shot" without making people giggle all the time.

Money Shot?

[Alistair Winter]

Headshots aren't really a thing in this game, basically. You don't just aim for the cockpit, you have to know which specific glass plate on the cockpit is the real cockpit. I wish they'd just make it so glass = cockpit and then increase the armour limit on the cockpit, so certain mechs can protect themselves accordingly.

If you had a bigger cockpit with lots of armour, it would potentially be an advantage against people with unreliable aim. Because shots that would normally hit your CT would now be partially "deflected" by a well-armour cockpit. It's kind of like hitting someone's cockpit when you're sniping from 1000 meters away. It's almost a wasted shot, because you know you probably won't hit the cockpit twice anyway.

[Fut]

Oh lord... Please no arcade-like text scrolling across the screen. The new rewards scrolling up on the bottom is more than enough already to break immersion - it'd be way to much to have "Headshot multi-kill" bullshit popping up all the time.

[Nostromodamus]

Fut, on 12 November 2014 - 05:10 AM, said:

Oh lord... Please no arcade-like text scrolling across the screen. The new rewards scrolling up on the bottom is more than enough already to break immersion - it'd be way to much to have "Headshot multi-kill" bullshit popping up all the time.

Agreed.

Have it in the post-game report, sure, but not Unreal Tournament style flashing across the screen and yelling about it.

[Lily from animove]

I once ran through the crimson tunnel as a locust ran into me, I shot 2 CERPPC at him and his head was gone.
I thouhgt me and a teammate just killed his CT at the time together, later I watched that record and realised, it was a headshot.