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[Scum of the Earth]

Excuse me and sorry if this was brought up before. I did a forum search and couldn't find the answer. What I was hoping to find out is if you crit a target and trigger an ammo explosion, does it count towards your final damage score?

I ask because of a match earlier where I was piloting an Archer 5W that I have equipped out with 8 x SRM 4's. I fire them in groups of 4. I was surprised that I had top damage considering that I only shot at 3 enemy mechs.

The First mech, a Timber Wolf, I fired at 5 times; missed twice but hit the other 3 for 96 damage on that target before other teammates helped blow it up.

The Second mech was a LRM Archer that I able to sneak up on from behind. I fired 6 times, hitting each time, and then over heated and shut down. Oddly, about 2 seconds after being shut down, the other archer blew up and I was given credit for the kill in the chat window. I thought it had to have been an ammo explosion that did it or it was an odd delay of lag in the game. Either way, I should have done about 192 damage to that enemy.

The third target was a Dire Wolf that I shot 6 times and hit each time and then the match was over before either of us died (my team capped the 1 min Domination timer). So, I should have done about 192 damage to him as well.

When I got to the score screen, I was a bit shocked to see that my damage read out at 892. 500 I can account for but can't place the nearly 400 other damage I had in that game. The only logical explanation is that when the enemy Archer blew up, the ammo explosion added to my score. I wasn't aware of this if that's the case but I can't recall ever hearing how an ammo explosion is calculated in the game. I know you can over heat and do damage to yourself that doesn't count for the enemy but since an ammo exploding is a reaction to you shooting it, I guess it would count I suppose.

Does anyone know for "sure" if this is the case and not just guessing like I am?

[Darian DelFord]

I am relatively sure that it does.

But don't quote me on that ;p

[SirNotlag]

I think it does.

I had a similar experience where I only killed 2 people from ammo explosions before dying and still had a huge damage score at the end of the match.

[Carl Vickers]

I guess thats why leg shots on IS mechs carrying ammo weps are a good thing, damage padding FTW.

[Ghogiel]

Unless they changed it, ammo explosion dmg that you crit is credited to your score.

[TercieI]

Yeah, all damage you do, be it crit, explosion or component (blow a ST, get credit for remaining health of arm) is included in your total.

[BabyCakes666]

i cooked an atlas with flamer spam one time and he blew like a zit think he did dmg to me as well from the explosion

was in a locust btw

ammo per ton needs to be higher then i can make a hole missile boat lance pop one buy one XD

more ammo more pop

[Mcgral18]

BabyCakes666, on 25 April 2016 - 10:57 PM, said:

i cooked an atlas with flamer spam one time and he blew like a zit think he did dmg to me as well from the explosion

No

[Narcissistic Martyr]

I think so but I honestly can't remember the last time I saw an ammo explosion...

[wanderer]

Ammo explosion graphics are much reduced from the old days, where it'd look like a chain of explosions going off.

That and the 10% explosion chance for a critted ammo section.