108 replies to this topic

[Wine O]

HAH, then you and I are two completely different kind of people.

I take delight in it.

Edited by Wine O, 04 December 2014 - 03:48 PM.

[DEMAX51]

32/4019

I don't actively try for them very often. Only if the head is already significantly damaged, or if I'm in a dual-gauss 'Mech. I'd bet most of the 32 are from Arty-strike kills and Disconnected 'Mechs.

[Jman5]

About 1 headshot every 76 kills.

If headshots were any easier to get, everyone would aim for them and you would need to buff the hitpoints.

[Gyrok]

2342 kills
29 headshots including arty headshots without arty is probably about half that many.

0.0124%

[Alistair Winter]

Jman5, on 04 December 2014 - 04:18 PM, said:

About 1 headshot every 76 kills.
If headshots were any easier to get, everyone would aim for them and you would need to buff the hitpoints.

Just to clarify, are you saying that if headshots were any easier, then everyone would aim for them? That we're currently at some sort of treshold, and if cockpits are marginally increased, it would result in a headhunting bonanza?
Or are you saying that if headshots were significantly easier to get, everyone would aim for them?

Gyrok, on 04 December 2014 - 04:33 PM, said:

2342 kills
29 headshots including arty headshots without arty is probably about half that many.
0.0124%

Well, it's actually 1.24%. You have to multiply by 100 to get the percentage

So you seem to be above average, compared to other people in this thread.

[Jman5]

Alistair Winter, on 04 December 2014 - 04:46 PM, said:

Just to clarify, are you saying that if headshots were any easier, then everyone would aim for them? That we're currently at some sort of treshold, and if cockpits are marginally increased, it would result in a headhunting bonanza?

This. If headshots were more attainable, cockpits would become the go-to place to aim for. People would then naturally become much much better at hitting cockpits and that would compound it further.

[Scratx]

Jman5, on 04 December 2014 - 04:54 PM, said:

This. If headshots were more attainable, cockpits would become the go-to place to aim for. People would then naturally become much much better at hitting cockpits and that would compound it further.

Only problem is that it would take in the very least doubling the size (and effectively quadrupling the surface area) of the cockpits to even begin to have a cockpit that's reliably hittable.

No, shutdown and afk mechs don't count.

[Vezm]

19/2242

Most of the time I just shoot for CT, other times I'll pile rounds into the cockpit for the scare/dust in the eyes. Other times a crit cockpit will present itself or like my last two I didn't even notice them.

My favorite was 2 volleys of PPCs from my TDR-9S across the river on river city, I managed to get targetting data just in time to see an unscathed battlemaster (IIRC) with no head. In chat I said "lol, wow" the prompt reply was simply "NS", nice and friendly.

Another was a fresh dual gauss/ppc direwhale while I was in the same, but more beat up already. He was not so happy to be head shot.

I find that head shots are difficult mostly due to the misleading cockpit skins rather than the small size of the cockpits, I haven't really bothered memorizing what portion of the cockpit is cockpit. The ~250ms ping doesn't help either. I think head shots are about where they need to be.

My favorite is when you aim an AC/20 at a stripped jenner CT only for their cockpit to tank the shot

[YokiLin]

Eboli, on 04 December 2014 - 02:43 PM, said:

2 headshot kills out of 2060. Basically every 1000 kills i get a head shot. I suspect that these may have been arty strikes as well.

Makes sense as over a 900 these kills have been from my SRM Oxide with quite a few of these being Heavies/Assaults getting their rear armour ripped out.

got 57 headshot kills out of 17,627 kills....


um. but I think got over 5,000 butt-kills

Edited by YokiLin, 04 December 2014 - 07:32 PM.

[Alistair Winter]

YokiLin, on 04 December 2014 - 05:45 PM, said:

got 57 headshot kills out of 17,627 kills....

You must have the highest kill count per forum post in the game.

[LT. HARDCASE]

2,811 kills

1 headshot kill ever. It was a beautiful shot to kill a Spider. SPLAT. Felt so good.

Edited by Kevjack, 04 December 2014 - 06:08 PM.

[MandyB]

Ok now i see so you divide headshots by kills and multiply by 100 to get your percentage? If so im at 1.41%

[Jiang Wei]

Where is this headshot stat? I dont see it in the stats page

[aniviron]

7/1,980

.35%

EDIT: I don't use arty. I would be interested to see who does, as I would guess a pretty significant chunk of all headshots come from artillery/airstrikes. Since the stat reset when it started tracking kills again, of my 1980 kills I have been headshotted ~10-20 times, and can only recall ever having it happen twice to anything but consumables (those were both double gauss).

Edited by aniviron, 04 December 2014 - 06:49 PM.

[MuzMuzMuz]

46 Headshots
2191 kills
2.23%

Of these about 20 are from disconnected mechs. Another 20 are from playing a dual gauss k2 and deliberatly aiming for headshots. The rest were randomly done in other mechs.

for the 20 aimed headshots, there's easily 100+ times that I hit the head once and "it got away" - either lrms/arty/somone else took out it's cherry red head or it died otherwise with the badly damaged cockpit going begging. Of the 20, most were 1 shot with lucks crits or hits on an already damaged head. a few were point blank and I could follow up with 4x M lasers.

As stated above several times It's almost always more efficient to aim for the CT or whichever other section will destroy the mech quickest.

[Alistair Winter]

Jiang Wei, on 04 December 2014 - 06:46 PM, said:

Where is this headshot stat? I dont see it in the stats page

Read the OP again

[Jiang Wei]

oh I see... why did u put that in a spoiler thingy?

[Cow And Chicken]

1503 kills
67 Headshots.

Regards,
C&C

[topgun505]

Anyone else remember the days of closed beta where the head hit box of the Atlas was THE WHOLE HEAD? Talk about a fast TTK on that mech. You needed a stopwatch that could measure 1/100th of a second. heh

Jman5, on 04 December 2014 - 04:54 PM, said:

This. If headshots were more attainable, cockpits would become the go-to place to aim for. People would then naturally become much much better at hitting cockpits and that would compound it further.

[GumbyC2C]

1225 Kills
0 Headshot kills.

No luck yet on the HS kills though I swear I got one last week but no credit for it.