Remove the kill counter?

[sCobra]

keep it, helps identify kills, the devs have already taken away the thing that says you've killed them.

precisely why it shouldn't be shown until the end of the round.

[TF6049]

Keep it. It lets you decide whether your target is down (important for high priority targets like enemy snipers).

[thecoolj85]

keep it its still a game and not every one plays till the end of the round so if i need to go i want to see how many i killed

[nick20404]

Ya keep it, it's not gonna make any of you bad players any better, and its not going to make any good players do better. When you have played pr as long as some of us just winning the round for your team isn't really as satisfying and knowing you are doing good with kills etc. If anything there needs to be a more advanced scoring system that also displays how many tickets you have cost the other team etc, and get rid of the old crappy 2040 points top score stuff, I mean the main score and teamwork are pretty hit and miss, k/d display is the only thing really telling how you are doing. different people enjoy the game differently and getting rid of the competitive aspect of the game will just drive off allot of people.

[hx.bjoffe]

Remove it all but name and ping until round is over!

[FeldwebelSchultz]

im for remove it!!!
cause in maps with no ticket bleed u can count how many tickets they have lost^^
same is for the maps with ticket bleed but here its not so exactly

[Mj Pain]

I agree too! Lets have a list of what scores the individual squads had at the end of the round, their names, the total score of the squad, and the K/D ratio of the entire squad listed below the names.

I support this.

[hiberNative]

i only look at my kills to see if the dude died or not.

[SleepyHe4d]

I read this and the other thread and I haven't seen one single valid argument or reason for keeping the scoreboard. In fact some of the people that want to keep it are stating reasons why it shouldn't be in, hah.

[McBumLuv]

i only look at my kills to see if the dude died or not.

Unfortunately, so do I. You can't exactly help it, but I sure as hell would that ability gone.

[ghettostankk]

the counter is good for spotting hackers.

[nick20404]

And the only kinda valid argument anyone who wants it removed is that you can see that you killed someone, even without the k/d stats you could see you killed someone by A) looking at there team and look for greyed out names B) check your main score to see if it went up.


PR has been around for years with a score board, back when Battlearena had a ranking system there was more team work than ever even know we were working for frivolous ranks.

besides 99.9% of any online shooter or any online game has a damn kill counter, removing it won't make you baddys any better and it won't make the people owning you any worse.

[McBumLuv]

besides 99.9% of any online shooter or any online game has a damn kill counter, removing it won't make you baddys any better and it won't make the people owning you any worse.

99.99% of any online shooter also revolve around being a WTFBBQ 1337l0nw0lfs, according to the same survey.

You might debate that there's less "teamwork" now than before, but that's what you take teamwork to mean. If teamwork is about communicating with your team around you to accomplish your goal together with mutual decisions rather than being directed like sheep together to preset objectives with no varying, than I'd have to disagree.

[nick20404]

99.99% of any online shooter also revolve around being a WTFBBQ 1337l0nw0lfs, according to the same survey.

You might debate that there's less "teamwork" now than before, but that's what you take teamwork to mean. If teamwork is about communicating with your team around you to accomplish your goal together with mutual decisions rather than being directed like sheep together to preset objectives with no varying, than I'd have to disagree.

Not true, if you have ever played any online game competitively you would know its not about lonewolfing but teamwork, even CS is about teamwork if your actually playing matches and not pubs. Even games like Arma have kill counters, and don't forget operation flash point.

Like I said before you don't have to admit it if you don't want but the game is about kills and competing with each other to see who can do better. Some people might enjoy the game differently. But getting rid of the kill counter solves no problems what so ever besides some people feeling bad that they cannot get as many kills as others.

[McBumLuv]

Were not suggesting that you shouldn't be able to see it at the end, when it really counts, anyways. I also enjoy checking up at the end to see how well I "fared" compared to others, but I don't think it's constructive during the game.

[SleepyHe4d]

And the only kinda valid argument anyone who wants it removed is that you can see that you killed someone, even without the k/d stats you could see you killed someone by A) looking at there team and look for greyed out names B) check your main score to see if it went up.

1) It's a very good reason to remove it.

2) For A and B, that's why you remove the whole scoreboard.

3) Another reason is making people focus on the team instead of themselves, how is that not a valid argument? Argue all you want but the fact is that it will change player behavior to be more team based, which is what this mod is about.

4) If #2 is too much, just removing k/d will still let #3 take place.

Like I said before you don't have to admit it if you don't want but the game is about kills and (1) competing with each other to see who can do better. Some people might enjoy the game differently. But (2)getting rid of the kill counter solves no problems what so ever besides some people feeling bad that they cannot get as many kills as others.

Yes, part of the game is killing. A lot. Removing the scoreboard doesn't stop you from killing, it just gives you a different reason to kill. You still get the exact same satisfaction of killing someone and making them wait to respawn, it just removes the ability for other players to see how you did. This improves gameplay by making you focused on what helps the team, not yourself.

(1) Sorry to contradict you but actually this mod was made to get away from that mentality and change it to what team can do better.

(2) Wrong again, see above.



Now please stop using crappy, illogical arguments pro-scoreboard people.

[nick20404]

If you don't want to see how bad people are owning you don't press tab. The game it self encourages teamwork you saying that removing the kill counter will make all the noobs miraculously better is just a dumb assumption. Besides when you kill someone the kill doesn't even appear for 30-60 seconds so waiting around just to see if you got a kill would be a dumb thing to do when you should be still fighting, really if checking your k/d ratio is affecting your game play than maybe you should stop doing it. but if you like you can keep assuming what your saying is correct i know you will. (smugness)

[SleepyHe4d]

If you don't want to see how bad people are owning you don't press tab. The game it self encourages teamwork you saying that removing the kill counter will make all the noobs miraculously better is just a dumb assumption. Besides when you kill someone the kill doesn't even appear for 30-60 seconds so waiting around just to see if you got a kill would be a dumb thing to do when you should be still fighting, really if checking your k/d ratio is affecting your game play than maybe you should stop doing it. but if you like you can keep assuming what your saying is correct i know you will. (smugness)

Wow, nice job not reading or understanding my post at all. You're probably acting like this on purpose because you have no argument so I don't even know why I'm taking you seriously. You didn't provide any counter arguments to any of my statements at all. I'll give you that the 30 second thing is true but it can still help for confirming aircraft kills or something important like that.

As for the rest, I didn't say anything about skill and it has nothing to do with skill. It's about making people help the team win instead of helping themselves score good. I'm sorry if you're unable to understand that, I can't make it any more clear than that. You'll probably just ignore it all though and continue using insults as your argument seeing as you want to keep the scoreboard yet have no argument for it since you are apparently playing this mod for the wrong reasons.

[nick20404]

Wow, nice job not reading or understanding my post at all. You're probably acting like this on purpose because you have no argument so I don't even know why I'm taking you seriously. You didn't provide any counter arguments to any of my statements at all. I'll give you that the 30 second thing is true but it can still help for confirming aircraft kills or something important like that.

As for the rest, I didn't say anything about skill and it has nothing to do with skill. It's about making people help the team win instead of helping themselves score good. I'm sorry if you're unable to understand that, I can't make it any more clear than that. You'll probably just ignore it all though and continue using insults as your argument seeing as you want to keep the scoreboard yet have no argument for it since you are apparently playing this mod for the wrong reasons.

I understand what you are saying but what I am saying is you are wrong whether you want to believe it or not. I always try to get as many kills as possible every round and I always use teamwork to achieve it, like I said before but apparently its not an argument is that you are just assuming that taking away the score board will make all the noobs start using team work. If you had been playing this game as long as some of us you would know that most noobs who are not using team work are not getting kills or top scores so your main argument is just invalid and a bad assumption.


I don't think I have ever had to check the kill counter to see if I got a kill its because I am arguing with my squad mate to see who just killed that guy, that's how I play the game and allot of others play the game as well. I have never had your problem of not being able to identify an air kill as its pretty obvious with falling carcass etc. and like I said before removing the kill counter would not even make that possible they would have to remove all type of scoring from the game until the end of round, and like alot of other people have said not everyone plays till the end of the round so some people wanna know how they did before they leave.

So it seems like your only real deal with the scoring system is you don't want to be bothered with looking at your score and you think noobs are gonna play better.

noobs will get better and you can stop pressing tab any time you want.

If they wanted to get rid of being able to see if you killed someone or not all they would have to do is increase the amount of time it takes for the kill to show up and make it so you cannot see the other team so you can't see grayed out names.

[SleepyHe4d]

Just to make it clear, I've been playing since 0.3 and only ever check the scoreboard for tactical purposes or to check if other squads are doing anything, and whine to them if they are being noobs.

Here is where we disagree: You say removing the scoreboard won't improve the players contribution to the team and I say it will. Okay, fine, I'll accept that, even though I've given explanations for my statements and you haven't for yours.

To make this fair, since we both believe what we are saying is fact, how should we go about proving ourselves right? The only way I see being able to do this is with decent scale testing...

or we could always just agree to disagree...

or leave it to the devs to decide whether to include this or not which would probably end up happening anyways.