Inconsistencies with the Punishment of Teamkilling

[Cosmo]

(to preface this, I'm a newer player who knows less about the game than other people)

Does anyone else have scenarios of someone very obviously teamkilling them on purpose, going to press /punish, and then it says "none of your teammates have attacked you?" If so, I'd like to make a statement. PLEASE make the punish option function like it should.

I gave a callout stating "enemy is inside of the downstairs briefcase room, I'm checking the room." He ignored my callout and when I died, and we lost the round because of it, he proceeded to yell at me in the interlude between rounds and shoot me in the back of the head during match prep the next round, insult my corpse, and walk away from me. I go straight to chat to /punish and then I can't actually punish him for CLEARLY killing me on purpose.

This is really annoying, and at some point I wonder why certain people are just allowed to get away with teamkilling egregiously with no consequences and other times it works perfectly fine and I can punish people for killing me. Would someone care to explain how the mechanic works?

[Air]

I have mentioned this before on a topic the dev was active and didn't get a response.

[Rob Storm]

/punish is reserved for early round team kills at the moment. Basically when someone is just trying to spawn kill teammates

[Air]

Originally posted by Rob Storm:

/punish is reserved for early round team kills at the moment. Basically when someone is just trying to spawn kill teammates

The issue with this is that people are smart and just wait to TK on purpose.

[Rob Storm]

We'd need to make it so late game TKs don't sit the person out the next round then, because late game TKs do happen by accident and people will punish even if it was an accident.

[Air]

Originally posted by Rob Storm:

We'd need to make it so late game TKs don't sit the person out the next round then, because late game TKs do happen by accident and people will punish even if it was an accident.

Honestly I completely agree with this. someone that does it on accident more than likely will talk it out next round instead of being auto slayed and having to wait only to get more mad.

[DJexs]

Originally posted by Rob Storm:

We'd need to make it so late game TKs don't sit the person out the next round then, because late game TKs do happen by accident and people will punish even if it was an accident.

so what? accidental team kills can happen early game and now the intentional teamkillers just wait a couple a mins. You have done nothing to punish the actual trolls. All you have done is frustrate your legitimate player base, so thanks.

[Unique Divine]

Originally posted by DJexs:

Originally posted by Rob Storm:

We'd need to make it so late game TKs don't sit the person out the next round then, because late game TKs do happen by accident and people will punish even if it was an accident.

so what? accidental team kills can happen early game and now the intentional teamkillers just wait a couple a mins. You have done nothing to punish the actual trolls. All you have done is frustrate your legitimate player base, so thanks.

Not really, early game tks are much less likely to happen, especially on bigger maps. The tk time limit is 30s, which is plenty enough time to get away from whoever is trying to kill you. I know I 100% have accidentally killed someone late in the match, because they were In my line of fire, or because they jumped out at me and I reacted instinctively.

It really is the best of both worlds, it stops people killing you immediately upon spawn, so you can just run away, and it means accidental kills aren't punished.

[Marcus]

The heck is /punish

[Bink]

Originally posted by Marcus:

The heck is /punish

Command prompt given to you after someone kills you early in the game. It'll make them sit out a round if you type it in.