question about death messages

[tarquinbb 28]

okay so my friend and i are looting the north west airfield in pitch black and find a guy in the barracks with a chemlight. my friend has a view right into the barracks corridor and opens fire, but gets spotted and dies (suspect the guy was using some kind of gamma exploit because we were out of the chemlight radius and he was too accurate to be merely returning gunfire to the muzzle flash).

server: *my friend was killed.*

i wait a while because he doesn't know i'm there, then he kills someone else which i couldn't even see.

server: *other guy was killed.*

i wait a while longer, knowing he'll probably try to come out and loot bodies. sure enough he makes a dash, and i shoot him down, hear a scream... then move towards him and spray his unconscious/dead body full of holes from about 5m away.

server: .... (no death message).

then i get killed by someone else.

server: *i was killed*.

what the f*** happened here? did he alt+f4 and that's why there was no death message? because i fired about 15 rounds into his lifeless body from 5m away. it got me killed as well, because i needed to confirm that he was dead...

yeah yeah i should have checked my murder/bandit kill counter but you easily forget this in the heat of the moment. anyway.... alt+f4 really stops the death message?

Edited July 22, 2012 by tarquinbb

[[Gen]Adzic 241]

If he logged out (alt-f4) before his death there would be no death message, he would likely be bleeding/broken bones upon his return though.

Depending on how quick you died yourself after firing at him is a telltale sign.. if it was him he would need to boot the game back up after he alt-f4'd.. join a different server, fix himself up then move to a spot he thinks would be behind you.. then log out of that server, log back into the server your in then find and kill you.. all that commotion takes quite a few minutes.

Maybe someone else was there. Afterall the NW Airfield is a dangerous, popular place.

[Priceless 154]

Probably had a friend and kills messages can be turned off.

[tarquinbb 28]

it

If he logged out (alt-f4) before his death there would be no death message, he would likely be bleeding/broken bones upon his return though.

Depending on how quick you died yourself after firing at him is a telltale sign.. if it was him he would need to boot the game back up after he alt-f4'd.. join a different server, fix himself up then move to a spot he thinks would be behind you.. then log out of that server, log back into the server your in then find and kill you.. all that commotion takes quite a few minutes.

Maybe someone else was there. Afterall the NW Airfield is a dangerous, popular place.

it was definitely someone else who shot me... because i shot a guy down 100% definite, then i went close and fired like 10 bullets into his body from 10m away... but no death message. yeah pretty careless, but i had no idea there was another guy silent in the bushes all along - i gambled that i was the only silent observer.

if that guy managed to survive after a server hop... what a cheating kid.

Edited July 22, 2012 by tarquinbb