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[Troutmonkey]

Just played a game in which "UNKOWN" killed 3 mechs on Viridian Bog.

All three "UNKOWN" kills involved an Atlas (S?) as either the attacker or the person killed.

In one case, the team member I was spectating died without losing his CT armour, and he assured me that he did not have an XL engine (his ST was destroyed several seconds before he died anyway). Possible ammo explosion maybe?

Never saw this bug before the release of CW




https://dl.dropboxus...wn%20killer.png

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Edited by Troutmonkey, 16 December 2014 - 03:01 AM.

[Father Tork]

you can die from heat. if you have AMMO in CT, or just from taking CT damage from heat

[Troutmonkey]

So after being killed in a game while piloting my King Crab I can confirm that an AMMO EXPLOSION will cause UNKNOWN to be labled as the killer.
Still this is a bug, as kills should be awarded to whoever caused the explosion.

Also, if every UNKNOWN == AMMO EXPLOSION then there appear to be many more explosions in games these days. Did they up the explosion chance by stealth?

Edited by Troutmonkey, 16 December 2014 - 05:51 AM.

[SnagaDance]

AFAIK an ammo explosion killing the mech should credit the player critting said ammo for the kill. I know I've personnally got the kill against enemy mechs by making ammo in one of their legs explode which transferred to an XL-carrying side torso (and yes, they still had their other leg).

[Troutmonkey]

SnagaDance, on 16 December 2014 - 05:54 AM, said:

AFAIK an ammo explosion killing the mech should credit the player critting said ammo for the kill. I know I've personnally got the kill against enemy mechs by making ammo in one of their legs explode which transferred to an XL-carrying side torso (and yes, they still had their other leg).

I know it used to last patch, but I have no idea whether it does in the new patch or whether this "UNKNOWN" killer gets all the credit.

[Aiden Skye]

I had this bug yesterday for a couple matches. I was the UNKNOWN. It was not an ammo explosion. I was on viridian bog, in my Timberwolf. Killed a couple mechs using PPC's. They died right then and there with no delay, all showed up as UNKNOWN. Happened again in the next game but it seemed to have resolved itself.

[Valten]

My experience is that ammo explosions are up, WAY up. And yes, every one of them seems to list as UNKNOWN, but the player who caused the crit is still credited with the kill.

[Bront]

Turrets usually show up as unknown.

Maybe it was terrain damage that blew your ammo?

[senaiboy]

I can confirm it is ammo explosion. I have died multiple times to it over the weekend and it is all showing up as UNKNOWN, both in the feed as well as the deathscreen.

If you die from overheating or terrain, it shows up as YOURNAME killed YOURNAME.

If you are killed by turrets, it shows up as DEFENSE TURRET killed YOURNAME.

If you are killed by dropship lasers, it shows up as DROPSHIP killed YOURNAME.

Edit: This only changed since the CW "hotfix". Prior to it kills by ammo explosions are correctly attributed to the killer.

Edited by senaiboy, 16 December 2014 - 09:59 AM.

[GenJack]

There was a CW game I was in and I had a weird desync where people really couldn't shoot me and whenever I killed someone it came up as "UNKNOWN as killed [Name]."


I didn't understand at first but then when I went around and killed 3 more people and UNKNOWN kept coming up even when I was the only person attacking.