Huge glitch with karma system.

[AttackingHobo]

Karma is based on damage done, and for the most part, it works out fine.

But what does not work out fine is how the damage is converted into karma.

It counts all damage done to your team and reduces your karma a certain amount per damage.(not entirely sure of the ratio).

But here is the thing that is messed up, it counts ALL damage including the overkill damage.

So if you headshot an inocent with a deagle or rifle, instead of losing karma for 100 life points, you loose karma for exactly how much damage you did.

I once killed 2 traitors, and then the detective and remaining traitor were fighting, I shot at the traitor and my first shot hit an explosive barrel that killed them both. I didn't mean to kill the detective, but I did kill him, so I would expect some karma loss. Instead I went from full karma to 150 karma, or 10 karma. All I know is that next round I KNEW someone was a traitor and I shot him in the face with two clips of MAC 10 fire, and could not kill him. I was then banned after that because they thought I was RDMing really badly.


I think most people would agree that you should not be further penalized for damage over 100 per person.

[Rectal Exambot]

I don't think it works like this, I stabbed an innocent (while innocent) for 2000 damage, by what you just said I should have been VAC'd let alone Karma Banned

[Scrap.est]

I don't think it works like this, I stabbed an innocent (while innocent) for 2000 damage, by what you just said I should have been VAC'd let alone Karma Banned

What? VAC scans for known cheats in DLL files.

[Secone]

It's a joke, Scrap.

[-Mythic-]

Oh, how delightfully embarrassing!

[Bad King Urgrain]

But here is the thing that is messed up, it counts ALL damage including the overkill damage.

No, it does not.

In somewhat technical terms: It looks at the victim's health and the damage done, and takes the smaller value. Hence, if you damage a 100hp player with 2000 damage, you are punished for 100 damage, because 2000 > 100. If you shoot a 100hp player for 20 damage, you are punished for 20 because 100 > 20.
The line of code in question:

   local hurt_amount = math.min(victim:Health(), dmginfo:GetDamage())

Perhaps the server you were playing on has meddled with the karma convars, making the kill penalty very high for example.