Help understanding crit messages

[goobieaus]

I occasionally see players who seem to have an impossibly high crit rate, I am not familiar enough with all the mechanics to know if it's a loadout thing.
It's typically obscured in the kill feed by a glowing Australium weapon but in the console it says it was a crit (mini crit i think). Is this console suffix reliable? I have examples of players who have literally a 100% crit rate. No buffs or medics.

PlayerA killed PlayerB with cow_mangler. (crit)
PlayerA killed PlayerB with minigun. (crit)

 

[SIS]

were you playing on the idle or trade servers?

 

[goobieaus]

2fort AU

 

[Seminal Inhalation]

I occasionally see players who seem to have an impossibly high crit rate, I am not familiar enough with all the mechanics to know if it's a loadout thing.
It's typically obscured in the kill feed by a glowing Australium weapon but in the console it says it was a crit (mini crit i think). Is this console suffix reliable? I have examples of players who have literally a 100% crit rate. No buffs or medics.

PlayerA killed PlayerB with cow_mangler. (crit)
PlayerA killed PlayerB with minigun. (crit)

Last I recall, mini-crit kills count as "crits" in the console since it can't tell the two apart. So stuff like: Fully charged cow mangler shots, enemies covered in jarate, players affected by buff banner, etc show up as "Crits."

I could be wrong though.

 

[goobieaus]

Ok, so if a player with a cow mangler, concherer and disciplinary action is getting 100% crits are they cheating? On every single kill incl the disciplinary action. Both of them are australium

 

[Seminal Inhalation]

Ok, so if a player with a cow mangler, concherer and disciplinary action is getting 100% crits are they cheating? On every single kill incl the disciplinary action.

100% crits does not sound right at all, sounds like crithacking.

 

[goobieaus]

Thanks, i just wanted to avoid false accusations out of ignorance.

 

[goobieaus]

Do you know if the skial stats show crits? I had a quick look and it doesn't seem to record if it was a crit or not.

 

[Seminal Inhalation]

Do you know if the skial stats show crits? I had a quick look and it doesn't seem to record if it was a crit or not.

Only the command console.

Note for future reference: Do not call people out for hacking, or do votereport on them. This alerts them and gives them time to turn off any potential hacks they have and evade punishment due to lack of evidence. Just spectate them from a first person perspective and record them for several minutes, then make a manual report with the evidence you have.

 

[goobieaus]

I have footage of them but the australium obscures the mini crits

 

[goobieaus]

Seems like this is fake news, australium weapons seem to always report as a crit in the console regardless. Maybe something to do with the the glow effect in the kill feed.