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Ydiss · 02-25-2002, 10:00 AM

It's not that they stay up on the screen for a while (in fact, in DM games the kills remain up there for a very short time before being shunted off by other kills).

It's just that if you kill 5 players in one shot (or grenade) you will see 5 consecutive kills by you on the top of the screen. It shouldn't be segregated by other players' kills like Spiewalk's is in his screenshot.

It could technically happen. If someone died at precisely the right time in between the server registering the death of two of your 5 kills, then perhaps that would be up there too. We're talking about microseconds here, though.

But, it wouldn't happen as clearly and blatently as it has in the screenshot.

And anyway, this is presuming that two players have the name Lonewolf, that SenorSexy managed to kill one of the other 5 kill victims exactly in between those 5 kills and also die to the same rocket in the same instant, and that magic fellow respawned almost instantly and killed Spiewalk.

All in the period of about 500 milliseconds.

That is unless there is a magic clone, too.

Anyone want to buy a lottery ticket while this kind of freak chance is occuring?

Didn't think so

[This message has been edited by Ydiss (edited February 25, 2002).]

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Ydiss is Offline Senior Member Posts: 2,377 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Nottingham, England	02-25-2002, 10:00 AM It's not that they stay up on the screen for a while (in fact, in DM games the kills remain up there for a very short time before being shunted off by other kills). It's just that if you kill 5 players in one shot (or grenade) you will see 5 consecutive kills by you on the top of the screen. It shouldn't be segregated by other players' kills like Spiewalk's is in his screenshot. It could technically happen. If someone died at precisely the right time in between the server registering the death of two of your 5 kills, then perhaps that would be up there too. We're talking about microseconds here, though. But, it wouldn't happen as clearly and blatently as it has in the screenshot. And anyway, this is presuming that two players have the name Lonewolf, that SenorSexy managed to kill one of the other 5 kill victims exactly in between those 5 kills and also die to the same rocket in the same instant, and that magic fellow respawned almost instantly and killed Spiewalk. All in the period of about 500 milliseconds. That is unless there is a magic clone, too. Anyone want to buy a lottery ticket while this kind of freak chance is occuring? Didn't think so [This message has been edited by Ydiss (edited February 25, 2002).] [This message has been edited by Ydiss (edited February 25, 2002).]