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Speaking on an episode of the IGN UK Podcast (arriving in full on Friday), Kaplan - with reference to how it can sometimes be hard to tell when certain characters are contributing to an Overwatch team - explained:"We're experimenting with adding assists to the kill feed. It's something we've wanted for a while, it's something that players have talked about on the forums for a while."Kaplan has spoken before about the idea of adding assists, but went into much more detail about the possible feature. While the feature is still in development, the current design philosophy is to add assists for plays that don't specifically centre around damage, but still benefit the team:"We're still playing around with it, I don't know, maybe someday we will count damage, but right now we have it so that, like, crowd control abilities - you know, if Mei has somebody frozen, or if Reinhardt has somebody Earthshattered, Junkrat's trap is on you, anything that removes your control - that will trigger an assist. Or things like Mercy damage boosting you, or a Zenyatta Discord Orb."The idea seems to be not only to better telegraph how the game is progressing, but to improve community relations by making good play of all kinds transparent to players not necessarily part of the same group."Sometimes there can be that guy who's just contributing way more than you realise, and the game doesn't always tell you that. So it's easy to get grumpy at them, like, 'whoa, what's Zenyatta doing on our team?' You start to see all those assists pop up in the kill feed and you realise, like, every single kill is because he has a Discord on somebody."Essentially, you'll soon have fewer excuses to scream obscenities at/about strangers, which is probably a good thing.Kaplan talked about much more on this week's IGN UK Podcast, including the games he's playing that aren't Overwatch, his surprising response to playing with a bad team, and his opinions on *gasp* Hanzo mains. It will be available to download this Friday, April 14.

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