I can do without all the ingame chat, email, and other mess they put into Tribes 2, but I do agree the stats were cool. In fact that is one of the few things I liked about BF2… when the stats weren’t outrageously bugged.
It really bugs me, especially in a single player game when you don’t get any feedback about your play this way. It’s not like it’s hard to program, just updating stat variables and having a formatted view of them later, but apparently not important to developers.
In ET you have quite a bit of stats at the end of a match, but they are bugged to high hell… sometimes I seem to throw 4,000 satchels in a map somehow, and these sort of things shouldn’t be incorporated into overall accuracy. I would love to see a lifetime stat viewer in Quake Wars, with many entries, including stuff like teamkills by weapon and life expectancy in each vehicle (average of how long you stay alive in each). I had a stat ‘Most time dropped the flag’ in my short lived Tribes mod, and really like those sort of strange stats.
I know in Tribes 1 a user made script kept track of alot of stuff like this, but I think these days you would need to mod something which would give you invalid pk3 errors to get the same result.