It sometimes happens that a teammate deliberately tries to kill you for example if you stand in his way. It often happens on Province or Malinovka that I hide behind a rock next to the spawn area and snipe from there. Sometimes someone else tries to push you out and if it does not work they start firing at you.
In these cases I ask them to stop but 80% won't do so and in this case standard procedure for me is to ensure survival: I kill them and continue the game. Today I received an 1H ban because of "Team Kill" but in fact it was self defense. What can I do in these cases? Just standing there until I die is not an option.
Best Answer
There is integrated mechanisms to handle these sort of things, and the system knows how to tell the difference between accidental and intentional team damage.
For example, an artillery unit who hits an enemy unit, but simultanously does splash damage to nearby friendly units is not nescesarilly sanctioned, although they will pay a fine to repair the friendly tank. As a frequent arty player, I have accidentally killed friendly unites several times – it sucks, but as long as you don't make it into a pattern, you're cool.
Players who continues to shoot on friendly units, or who shoots a friendly unit immediatly after the battle starts, are marked blue in the list. This carries on over to their next games, and is a warning to the player – if they continue, they will receive sanctions.
The blue status also lets other players know, to look out for this player. If you damage or kill a player that has been marked, you don't receive a fine or penalty to your score:
You will, however, receive a -1 to your counter. Don't be alarmed by this:
The system will know which players do team damage and team kills, and will be dealt with automatically. You do not need to report people who do team damage:
However, you can report the player in-game. This is done by Ctrl-clicking the player name, whereafter a context menu shows up. In this, you can choose to report the player. After the battle, you can right-click the player in the battle report to get the same menu.
Read more about the complaint system.
Read more about reporting a player.
Read more about the automated system for registering team damage.