Kill Stealing

[anonym_tQcfiLCaHU54]

Is stealing a kill that important to some people that it's worth running between a teammate and enemy that are so close together you take shots from both?  Hope the kill was worth it since the damage you took gave the enemy team points for your death right after the Molotov died.

 

 

Edit: Are there really so few people that read threads before posting anymore?  If you're just going to reply to the title don't bother.

[DasBootcamp]

The odds of that specific person seeing this specific post is negligible at best. Kill stealing is a pain, especially because players don't understand that dealing damage is where it is at.  But, yeah, thanks for the post? 

 

[anonym_tQcfiLCaHU54]

The odds of that specific person seeing this specific post is negligible at best. Kill stealing is a pain, especially because players don't understand that dealing damage is where it is at.  But, yeah, thanks for the post? 

 

The question was more for the general community.  Only the last part was meant for the idiot that did it.

[CAPTMUDDXX]

It is most certainly worth it each and every time. Hopefully you will see that player in many battles do exactly the same

[Crucis]

There's no such thing as kill stealing, unless perhaps there's an ongoing mission where kills are the mission goal.  And as bootcamp pointed out, damage done is much more important than kills.

 

The problem is that there are always going to be a bunch of noobs who think that kills matter, etc., etc., etc.

[AVR_Project]

There is no way someone will know if theirs is the last shot in.

Whenever a group focuses on one ship, it's a toss-up to see who gets the 'kill' flag.  As it was said earlier, it's about the damage.

I've been at the top of winning teams with ZERO kills.  That usually happens when I'm in a CV.

After a good manual torpedo drop, a battleship is knocked down from 50K to 3 digit health.  It's up to the friendlies to wipe it out before it heals.  I really don't mind.

Since I choose to drop on full health ships, rather than waste all the extra ordnance on 'almost-dead' ships being fired on by friendlies, things go better.

 

 

[anonym_tQcfiLCaHU54]

I guess the reason it bothered me is because last night I screwed up and ended up with a TK and now I'm doing team damage because of an idiot running up along side while I'm firing so he can get the kill.  And the fact that after loving the last ship the Gnevny has been hell so anything that mess up a game in it piss me off.

[LordCorellon]

I love how people cry "YOU STOLE MY KILL!" When the object of the game is to work as a team and succeed at the match objectives....

 

This isnt Call of Dooty.

[anonym_tQcfiLCaHU54]

I love how people cry "YOU STOLE MY KILL!" When the object of the game is to work as a team and succeed at the match objectives....

 

This isnt Call of Dooty.

 

Maybe read my last post before jumping to conclusions about why I posted this.

[Brofisticus]

Steal my kills, please! It will let me shoot at something else. 

[Mexicanarmada15]

There is nothing more annoying that shooting a ship down to a sliver and no one shoots at it. Worse is when you are in a bb. 20+ reload is not worth the 1k damage needed. Or when you are in a dd and a low health cleveland is coming for you. I am pretty much there yelling at the screen....Shoot her...... Shoot her!!!!!!! Take the Shot!!!!! Lol. I would rather live to do more than argue over one kill.

[anonym_tQcfiLCaHU54]

Steal my kills, please! It will let me shoot at something else. 

 

After fighting a Molotov at close range in a Gnevny there wasn't much of the ship left to go find another target.

[Halli_SPARTA]

I'm with the others it is the hit points that matter unless you are needing a specific kill count for something.

 

[Morpheus29]

Kill secure!

[anonym_tQcfiLCaHU54]

I'm with the others it is the hit points that matter unless you are needing a specific kill count for something.

 

 

 

Even in a situation where you have to run between 2 ships and take team damage to get the kill?  I know this situation is highly unlikely to happen again, it was just how stupid the guy acted to make sure he got the kill that got me to post this.  Most of the time I don't consider kill stealing to be a thing, maybe that was a bad choice of titles for the thread, but this was just so crazy I had to ask if people still consider kills to be that important.

[Amogussy]

Kill securing, not stealing 

 

[Blutbad]

I see that you are mostly referring to a particular incident, people get hot with the "smell of blood" and do all kinds of goofy things mostly cause they scope, I am however allergic to the "kill steal" accusation it's so far off the mark that I almost always shut down any further line with that player, it started with WOT of course where noobs would actually take shots at friendlies incensed that they "stole" their kill, as someone who died a hundred deaths at the hand off that 1% survivor I can tell you there is no bushido code here or other honorary thing involved, kill and do it quickly.

[LordCorellon]

 

Maybe read my last post before jumping to conclusions about why I posted this.

 

Maybe realize I wasnt calling you out, instead just saying how things go.

 

Lay off the Mtn Dew already

[Crucis]

Steal my kills, please! It will let me shoot at something else. 

 

 

So very true when you're in a BB.  Seriously, if I've just hit a cruiser for massive damage and left him a total wreck with under 1-2k HP, I'm perfectly happy to see a team mate finish him off quickly so I don't feel obliged to finish him off.  This is particularly true when the CA in question has torps and may be in range to use them against me.

 

"Kill stealing", more appropriately known as focus fire, is a damned GOOD thing!!!  It's also called TEAMWORK!!!

 

 

[Hellgrunt]

I'm usually too busy fighting to even notice less care.   

 

[Misniso]

I hate seeing an enemy with 1500 hp left limping away.  If your shot doesn't finish the job, then don't blame me if my shot does.

 

I've been in several shut-out games, and the common theme is that the team with a full roster is filled with ships at exceptionally low health.

[Lovebugjunkie]

I would not be happy if I worked at knocking a ship down to nothing and someone in range did not take a "shot" because they though

I deserved it.  Kill the sob as quick as you can by any means.  I have had people take the sinking shot of a ship that I had been pounding in my Atlanta,

I was glad they sunk it no matter if my next round was 1 inches from the ship and would have sunk it. 

[TheGirlFromIpanema]

Steal my kills, please! It will let me shoot at something else. 

 

Usually when I get a target whittled down enough, I announce to target it and finish it off and start working on a bigger threat, letting the vultures get the remaining HPs and cheesy kill where I walk off with mucho XPs.

 

[Viper069]

I can't speak for everyone else, but I'm just there to shoot red ships.  If I happen to kill one that has only 3 hp's left, YAY!

 

[Rikiri_Kardo]

Maybe the guy pulled an idiot move when he cut in front of you, but I don't believe there is such a thing as kill stealing. The object is to kill the enemy team and a ship that's sunk won't be doing any more damage to your team. I've been able to sink a couple of ships in games where I had just a tiny bit of health left. Any ship left afloat is still a danger.