Startling witch bug

I have spotted several times that recently on coop servers ( I play on EU but i've seen this on US as well) there is a problem with startling witches. Problem is that witch is being startled be the same person whole map even if this person had nothing to do with that witch at all. Basically someone shoots the witch and there is communicate that someone else startled a witch. This is really bad as it can easily destroy reputation score while actually doing nothing wrong. Maybe i am not the only one who seen that.

 

im not quite sure how true this is but i remember seeing somewhere that they go after mains within the coop server. If you dont know what i mean by main, the mains in the game are the four players that show up when you press the tab key to bring up scores.

Now if 3 of the mains are dead (maybe they were bots or something) then it will go after the single person.

Maybe someone can correct me on this if i am wrong.

 

that happend to me 2 days ago, the whole frikin campaign the witch was startled by me but I wasn't doing shit.
It could be that someone else with the same char like me shot her and she went after me but that day happend like 7 times.

 

can i get an official admin response on this?
I did see that happening before, someone shoots the witch, but the witch goes for a entirely different person.

 

Works fine now, Marvel.

 

it happened to me as well, im on Asian server

 

Hate to be the bearer of bad news......but the bug's still there. And, frankly, it's on the annoying side. Probably shouldn't be typing this since I'm cranky from no food for some days. But....I guess it's a bit disheartening of a player, who tries to follow the rules and just being a decent player in game, to get pinned for startling a witch when they didn't do it. Yes, I do understand that you have players who need to kill a witch for a quest, are new and didn't realize that witches on MGFTW servers aren't normal witches on regular, 4-player servers, or, and my personal favorite *fluent in Sarcasm*.......lol trolls.

In just an hour or so of me dropping someone off and getting on one of the American MGFTW servers, I've been told that I startled three witches on the second part of Dead Center and the first witch from The Sacrifice. In Dead Center, I saw two of the people who shot the witch when it came towards me. I didn't see who did it from the get go in The Sacrifice.

Speaking of which....is it too much to ask for folks not to walk into a fire, unless they have the pain blocker buff or something that gives some kind of immunity to fires? I ask since somebody went into a fire caused by a molotov that I didn't mean to throw down on the witch while trying to jump away, after someone startled it but said I did it instead, which incapped them, causing my rep to go down from 'Average' to 'Bad'.

I prefer not to think of myself as someone who rages a lot or get upset over the rep system. It's just that I like to come and play on the servers. There seems to be nice players and admins, something you don't see often on other servers.....even with the trolls. Considering how my days are like/about to start with college on the way, the summer time is really the only time I can play without stressing over papers and presentations. So, to reiterate my previous statement of 'disheartening of a player' that's how it feels sometimes.

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Oh boy. I need to stop doing these long messages when hungry.

 

It has been said, and, I do see the pattern, that the startled witch will go for the mains in the server (mains are the ones who show up on the playerlist when holding tab.) I too think this is unfair as like you said, you prefer a game without 20+ startled witches on a campaign which is also my preference. (Which brings me to the point of never having custom witch music when playing on an MG server. It will drive you insane!)

I believe the person who startled the witch should be the person who pays the price as this incites trolls to constantly shoot the witches. I don't have any problems with the witch killing someone then moving onto the next victim, just don't target me first when someone who couldn't care less for rep or teamplay decides to trigger the emotional wreck.

 

right now its very easy to troll someones rep knowing that u are not on the mains list and the trolled person is.