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For your information: Rob Walker from Valve wrote:
Crits for competitive play is an interesting one. I keep getting emails from folks saying 'Hey, why don't you change crits to something like this?' And they describe something that's exactly how crits work.
So I thought this might be a good forum to describe how crits work and the design philosophy behind them that's interesting to the competitive player.
The way crits work: It sums up the damage you've done in the last 20 seconds, and the more damage you've done, the higher your crit chance is. And it caps out at around 20%.
So what this means is, as you do well, you're essentially earning a short-term bonus. If you happen to kill two or three enemies in rapid succession, then it means you have less than 20 seconds of bonus right now that you should go and use.
And if you hang back right now and go on the defensive, then you're wasting the short-term bonus. It's a large offensive incentive essentially...
From the Q & A Session with Valve Developers:
@Around 4:25:
Hence the soldier we faced against on the PWNageTV 5v5 tournie that owned us so much, that soldier aG Rent-a-Knight, he was raining down crits like crazy and we were all wondering 'WTF'. I guess it wasn't luck but he actually 'earned' those crits by being a killing machine. I think he just caused so much damage that he was always on this 'quad-damage'-esque run.
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Oh nice...always wondered how it worked.
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Does it include self inflicted damage? If you rocket jump does that increase the damage calculation?
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Wow, good to know. Klules goes into suicidal offensive mode yet again...
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Well now we know how this shit works. Time to use it to our advantage..............like killing klules more for me. Chase: the only refuge i have from my mom is when i go to my gf's Me: I have no gf, just palmela handerson Chase: Well at least you aren't a double amputee.
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