I talked to some of our students, and they claim it happens when you
teamkill. You have -1 kills if you kill a teammate, -2 if you kill 2
teammates, etc. Not sure if it's true, but it sounds likely.
- Dave
Patrick Shelley wrote:
> i have seen players with negative kills in hlsw but dont understand why.
>
> On 19/11/2008, LDuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Perhaps bots kills are reported as -1 ??
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:41 PM, David A. Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a Perl script which uses the A2S_PLAYER query to get player
>>> information from a given server. For some reason, the 4 bytes
>>> representing a player's number of kills will sometimes be 0xFF FF FF FF,
>>> which is probably -1 but the player shows up as having 65535 kills in my
>>> script's output (I'm using an unsigned integer). This has happened
>>> sporadically with TF2 and CS:S before, but it seems to be happening far
>>> more often with L4D, especially in 8-player games. Does the number of
>>> kills become negative at some point? Does this happen when players are
>>> dead?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dave
>>>
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>>>
>>> Dave Parker
>>> Utica College
>>> Integrated Information Technology Services
>>> (315) 792-3229
>>> Registered Linux User #408177
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