To Shoot or Not To Shoot—

—the guy that's literally 4 seconds away from sinking by firebomb and the burn has 9 seconds left. Do you shoot him in this situation, claiming the kill as your own? Or do you just sail away slowly like a boss?

(For all intents and purposes, let's assume there is no fixer involved in this picture)

 

I used to calculate and if im sure he's dead, I won't shoot. But alas, he had time to launch another explosive cannon shot at me before he died, and sometimes his sneaky bandage actually saved him from death. So no, now I just shoot them to death with extreme prejudice, no matter how many fire icons are on top of their head.

 

Your teammates probably did not look at it in the same way

 

Depends. If there are enemies around I let him burn. If he is alone I shoot to kill. But you gotta make sure he ain't got that:

 

It highly depends on the situation, if it's early in the match i will shoot to kill just so he cant get off a final shot and lower my teams hp for other shootouts. If it' late match and I have a lot of hp left I let them burn.

 

That depends on the battle situation.

 

Good responses, lemme add to the scenario.

The enemy on fire has less hp than any bandage can repair before burning out—he's 100% going to burn to death. He's the last enemy standing and you have backup, but only you're in range. The burn is not from your own ship. There is 0 risk to not shooting him, but do you still shoot?

 

Ah the troubles of dueling with long cooldowns, i feel your pain.

 

Yup this is why I love my handy standard/blast cannon combo. Plenty rapid firing action there, and when that blast crits it's a monster.

 

I wouldn't shoot...

Spoiler

Because I'm a pacifist

 

Do you run fire buffs with that?

 

Just 1 epic burn perk on the standard cannon. My blast has 2 crit, 2 damage (1 strike, 1 speedy, respectively).

How have you survived on the bay lmao

 

I don't know how he survived in this Battle Bay.
Maybe with Triple or Quad Lv50 Leggy Duct Tapes?

 

Oh yes. I forgot that one lol

JK

 

I would just use my battling gun to finish the ship off and not waste my main burst damage blast cannon on a overkill.

 

In normal matches, it doesn't bother me when speeders (or some enfos) are going around sniping kills on the ships I have burning out ... Infamy means more than a K/M ratio .. especially since the number of "experimenters" with 2-3 kills per match is getting fairly common.

However, in TDM .. I do care when I have someone burning out and running away, then a "teammate" decides it's worth it to suicide over a mine field to get the last shot in .. when they could have put some damage on another ship and helped me get that 9th or 10th kill.

Best case, they drag the match out longer.. Worst (and more often) case, they cost me the win and 5 coins ...