...but will there be stats?

[FragMagnet]

The intent of this thread is not do discuss the pros/cons of a stat system. [I feel it degenerating into that already...]. Rather, I'm curious if there is a plan in place to *deal* with stats once the online fragfest begins.

ngStats was cool in UT. I was never going to be at the top but it was neat to see improvement and track kill/death ratio. But I cannot help but wonder what ngStats had so magically right that everyone else has failed at since.

UT2003? Stats were a mess.
UT2004? Didn't play it long but I seem to remember a prolonged stat outage. Maybe I'm thinking 2003. It's all 2k to me.

And now the latest (please no banz0r over mentioning another game)...halo 3...complete server meltdown over tracking game stats.

[and yeah...I dig Halo3. But I'm building a new PC to play UT3 so pffft.]

Thoughts? Concerns?

[D2F[Rob]]

Already are stats in community > leaderboard. Flawed due to a lot of servers not using it.

[FragMagnet]

I've not checked the stats out yet. I can't really play this game *yet* (XP 2400, geforce 600, 512MB RAM). Playing at 10 fps online really doesn't warrant checking stats.

[Mr Evil]

I want local stats back again.

[Discord 2.0]

A little bird tells me stats are the #1 reason GameSpy is involved in this game. Epic's in- house stats were a disaster last time and caused no end of outcry... GameSpy, crappy as they are, should at least be able to deliver consistent stats.

[Brutal]

Yes there will be stats silly

[Daimao]

I want local stats back again.

^^that too, it was cool being able to see how you fare against bots in original UT

[Simeon]

But these stats don't show as much as the UT2004 stats: no # matches won/lost, no kill/death ratio, no # hours spent in a certain gametype, no stats per map, ...

[Krag]

hmmm sound slike you guys are talking about off-game stats (i.e. I play the game, then quit and go on a website to check them out).

Any chance of getting *some* of the stats in the game ?
I mean, the current score screen in the vCTF games is a bit of a disappointment.
I'd love to know who got killed by whom (I'm not 100% sure I care to know which weapon everyone is using), without having to go on a website....

~K

[Simeon]

Yeah there are stats ingame.. like the second post said: go to Community, Leaderboards and double click your user name and/or play with the filters a bit.

It doesn't show who got killed by whom, it just shows the number of kills/deaths with certain weapons/vehicles and the rewards that you got (e.g., Flak Monkey...).