Tip: Don't go damage hunting.

Go cap hunting, because caps = points = victory!

What I don't get is why you whine about HP trinkets when a noob can afford them. LAZY. Yeah you, Hol

In maps with 2 paths, go to the one with less people (typically top route), kill all of them, go to the middle of bottom route, kill all of them.
Proceed to spawncamp and go to any one of your caps that go grey (they're capping, go kill them).
Happy hunting.

EDIT: @nightmare playing without trinkets isn't as bad as it seems.
http://i.imgur.com/pGRSRvb.jpg

@Deleted-Knight

Don't bet on it. You would mimic the response on Infinity Ward's plan to ditch dedicated servers otherwise.

To be honest most of the other team will go to caps...so in fact where you will find most damage are at caping points not at the base. Thats why its Caps first damage second in my opinion

caps > defs > dmgs

I remember a game 2 days ago. I was with good players and thought we would win.
But at the end 2 of my teammates hit 30k dmg and 0 caps. And so we lost.
my poor 15 k dmg and 10 caps didn t manage to get the victory even if I kept yelling "cap cap!" for the whole game.
the opponent had no ecpxceptionnal players but they were all capping and capping. And so they won.

it is useless to do high dmg , hunting all around the map if you let the opponent get all the points.
yes, you will defend but if you don t cap back , your defenses won t be enough because except for spawnkill gamed you will never be able to prevent every cap.

So either you spawnkill and don t need to cap for tje ennemy cannot even leave the base or , you defend and cap ( defends brings a lot of dmg too).

Your contributions to your team aren't very easy to see in the few numbers available. High damage doesn't mean you're able to secure kills and 20k can be worth much less than 10k. High defends are good and all but not all high value kills are recorded as defends. Caps are good as well but if your team has a lot of them, it just means that you are bad at defending. Of course, these statistics are still interesting if you compare with the other team and your teammates. 13k damage isn't a lot, but if the rest of your team got 5-7k each, you probably made a major contirbution. If your caps are high and also are more than the sum of all your teammates caps, it means that they'd probably have lost without you.

A good amount of contributions are not at all accounted for in the statistics. If I spend two minutes bombing a point and watching two opponents mostly buzz around and not really doing anything, that alone is worth gold. If I kill a strong opponent, I've probably saved the life of two of my teammates but the damage noted is the same as the amount I'd get off a newbie who just got their first trinkets and doesn't even know what the concept of spacing is. If I decap the opponents last point but don't manage to fully cap it for my own team, I may have increased our point difference dramatically, but there's absolutely no credit for that in the scoreboards.

I think a big problem with LD is that people have a hard time putting together the pieces for winning properly. In a lot of games it's, for example, simply kill all the opponents to win. The players are presented with the amount of kills they achieve during the round and get pretty clear feedback on how well they help their team. In Lockdown, there's a lot more going on than something simple like that. There's capping, backcapping, area denial, decapping, and so on. While it's not necessarily possible to account for it all in terms of score, OOO has hardly made a good effort to reflect on what's important in the scoreboard. But since the scoreboard tells people what they've done well, people assume it's the only things which are relevant to do well.

Such a system would have the same flaw as rank points currently have: it would show activity, not skill or contributions to a team.

Then maybe you should ask some poeple who might know in-game, google it, or make a separate thread instead of trying to derail this one. Either way, you get an endless game when the timer hits 0 but both teams have equal score. If you start a game by having both teams cap one point, they'll have the same score throughout the game. Then the game doesn't end until the timer has hit 0 and one team has gained a lead.