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[Deadpoodle]

So I've noticed quite a few funny causes of death since the death screen was implemented.
First and foremost, I now seem to have the ability to kill myself by firing SRM straight forward. They blow up in my face and I receive a suicide. Fun stuff. Happens mainly on my light mechs, so I assume it's something to do with the netcode and the speed of the mech, but I was never able to run into my own missiles before last patch.
My latest odd/silly/what? cause of death happened just now, and was so bad I felt I should come by and let you kind folks know about it.
I know for a fact that I was killed by a teammate walking into me, because I had critical chest internals. I bear him no ill will, he was just moving in for the kill (through my still living body), but the fact that it lists Fall Damage as my cause of death, and the obvious lack of damage to my legs just seems a bit much.
Now maybe dying by fall damage is a totally legitimate way to go, and I've just never experienced it in the past few months, but I still think the cause of death needs to be tweaked/expanded a bit so it's more accurate.

Edited by Niko Snow, 16 April 2013 - 11:01 AM.

[aniviron]

I totally have gotten legged by fall damage in my 3L. It's legit.

[Arcturious]

If you were in water when firing those SRM's (which it looks like) see this for Supports answer on the issue:

http://mwomercs.com/...13#entry1899813

When in the past we mostly chalked these deaths up to a random hit from elsewhere. Now with the log reporting who killed you and why we can finally realise we've been killing ourselves all this time!

However I have now seen quite a few people reporting the issue. Also of note, is every single one has been SRM4's.

I'm going to adjust my 2D's loadout to SRM6 in the chest and run a few games testing this to confirm it is legit.

I'm 99% certain the same thing will happen - it makes sense as every single report so far has been from in water AFAIK.

[Banto]

I had listed "Fall Damage" pretty often in my logs. I don't know what's the cause, maybe the ragdolling after death has something to do with it.