Give perk points for assists

[XxDaSTaRxx]

A countless number of times I have a secure kill, am pulling lead for a shot and a teammate zooms in and shoots down my enemy. If I had landed shots before, I get an assist.  

Say, give the person who brought him down some points, but at least give the person who damaged him some credit. It seems when I damage an enemy and somebody else kills him, they get the kill. But when I kill the enemy who is damaged, I always get an assist. Can somebody please explain how assists work? I am quite tired of taking peoples wings off and getting no perk points for it.

[Ack-Ack]

I always thought you do get a small perk awarded for an assist but never really bothered to check to see it does or not.  Basically, you'll get a credit for an assist if you do non-critical damage to a plane before someone does critical damage.  For example, you come in and hit the bandit in the wings, puncturing a few holes in the wing or maybe getting lucky and damaging the flaps or ailerons.  Now, here I come in with guns blazing and remove the tail from the plane.  I'll get credit for the kill as my damage was critical, whereas you'll get the assist because the damage you caused was non-critical.  Now a 3rd friendly comes in with guns blazing and fires at the bandit floating in the sky without his tail but will not receive credit for the kill or assist because critical damage has already been done to the bandit so the 3rd friendly at this point is basically wasting his ammo.  Anyway, that's the really basic layman's explanation.

Here's a really good tip to get rid of the assist blues...work on your gunnery skills.  The better the aim and shot you are, you'll see your kills go up, your assists go down.

ack-ack

[The Fugitive]

Who ever does the most damage gets the kill, everyone else who hit him gets an assist.

So just as an example... all numbers are fictitious!

Say it takes 500 hits to cause "fatal" damage on a pony. Your in a P47 with 50s and you get 5 points per round you hit with. You pump 40 rounds into him and do 20 points worth of damage.

Your teammate comes in to help clear your 12 oclock   and he's in a nik. His cannon rounds are worth 20 points per round. He pumps in 15 rounds as he blows by... almost a third less rounds than you, but his total adds up to 300, plus your 200, and the pony goes down, and the nik gets the kill.

Same goes the other way, if the nik hits him first and you finish him off 5 minutes later as he's landing   his 300 still beats your 200 and he still gets the kill.

Again the numbers are all fake, but that is pretty much how it works.

[XxDaSTaRxx]

I always thought you do get a small perk awarded for an assist but never really bothered to check to see it does or not.  Basically, you'll get a credit for an assist if you do non-critical damage to a plane before someone does critical damage.  For example, you come in and hit the bandit in the wings, puncturing a few holes in the wing or maybe getting lucky and damaging the flaps or ailerons.  Now, here I come in with guns blazing and remove the tail from the plane.  I'll get credit for the kill as my damage was critical, whereas you'll get the assist because the damage you caused was non-critical.  Now a 3rd friendly comes in with guns blazing and fires at the bandit floating in the sky without his tail but will not receive credit for the kill or assist because critical damage has already been done to the bandit so the 3rd friendly at this point is basically wasting his ammo.  Anyway, that's the really basic layman's explanation.

Here's a really good tip to get rid of the assist blues...work on your gunnery skills.  The better the aim and shot you are, you'll see your kills go up, your assists go down.

ack-ack

Thanks. But I have never noted getting anything out of assists. Thursday night, I landed because of fuel with four assists, and checked my score for last sortie in the hanger. The result: 0.00.  

[XxDaSTaRxx]

Who ever does the most damage gets the kill, everyone else who hit him gets an assist.

So just as an example... all numbers are fictitious!

Say it takes 500 hits to cause "fatal" damage on a pony. Your in a P47 with 50s and you get 5 points per round you hit with. You pump 40 rounds into him and do 20 points worth of damage.

Your teammate comes in to help clear your 12 oclock   and he's in a nik. His cannon rounds are worth 20 points per round. He pumps in 15 rounds as he blows by... almost a third less rounds than you, but his total adds up to 300, plus your 200, and the pony goes down, and the nik gets the kill.

Same goes the other way, if the nik hits him first and you finish him off 5 minutes later as he's landing   his 300 still beats your 200 and he still gets the kill.

Again the numbers are all fake, but that is pretty much how it works.

Hmmm... Alright.  Thanks.

[Lusche]

Thanks. But I have never noted getting anything out of assists. Thursday night, I landed because of fuel with four assists, and checked my score for last sortie in the hanger. The result: 0.00.  

That's not your score that's your perk balance. And yes, there are no perks for assists. But they actually do count towards score (indirectly), the damage you inflict on the enemy goes to "Kill Points" (which are actually 'damage points', as the kill itself gives only 1 single score point.)

[hotcoffe]

+1 for perks for assists.

[Debrody]

-1.
No need for awarding the gangers.

[BnZs]

Debrody has thought this thing through. Some kind of substantive reward for kills you don't make all on your own would just encourage them to NEVER leave a pack.

-1.
No need for awarding the gangers.

[aztec]

-1.
No need for awarding the gangers.

yep

[Vraciu]

Split the kills into fractions just like gun camera film analysis did.  26.44 victories, etc.

[Karnak]

-1.
No need for awarding the gangers.

This.

And apologies to the lightly armed fighters, but not all things can be accommodated.

[Vraciu]

This.

And apologies to the lightly armed fighters, but not all things can be accommodated.

You could give quarter kill credit if enough damage is done to get there.  That's certainly fair.  They chopped them into smaller fractions in the big show after all....

[Debrody]

And apologies to the lightly armed fighters, but not all things can be accommodated.

Been flying the 109G6 for years. One 20mm cannon in the spinner, 2 13mm guns on the engine cowling. Not too heavily armed, yet never had problems with getting kills.

[asterix]

-1.
No need for awarding the gangers.