Bishop Steiner, on 06 April 2016 - 04:35 PM, said:
and yet, for all those factors...how often does it happen?
I Imagine you must have a whole library of Headshot screencaps to show us the truth of this plague?
If so, by all means, feel free. I have somewhere north of 20k matches. And yes, even when Gauss was even easier to use, did team drop against comp teams like LORDs (back when that meant something), etc, and I can't recall 5 times I dies to an instant headshot. Heck I can't recall a dozen total head kills, period.
Yeah, really... While I get the sentiment behind this, and I fully understand McGral's pint, this is just so damned rare it's not a problem.
(Note: I'd laugh SO DAMNED HARD if this ended up happening in the tournament finals)
I'm nowhere near Bishop's 20k matches, with just 8k or so myself... And I'd say I've been headshot killed
maybe, and I'm being very generous here, a dozen times. That's including artillery, and regular fire as well, not just dual Gauss and/or oneshots.
Death via headshot, for me at least, is so rare that it's a very stand out occurrence that ends with my congratulating the guy who did it and laughing about it.
This is a non-problem, that doesn't need fixing. In the big list of "Things that need to be worked on in MWO" (and yeah, it's a big list) this is so far down that it'd never be seen.
This is, at best, an amusing curiosity.
With that said, I'd support changing it solely to troll Graven, as per Fup above.