MA stated that overkill on a mob will cost you ped and as I recall they said it was around 7% I think. Anyway the question was asked about critical hits and how would that affect the loot. MA said that crit-hits were not used to calculate loot is was like a non-event as I recall. It does not count against you in loot because of the overkill.
It another post (which I can't find right now) a player stated that crit-hits do effect loot and went on with some very outrageous claims. I won't go into them but I though I would just start watching the loot and see for myself. I am about 100 runs into the watching and found some things very interesting. First off let me tell this is only on punys around Icarus second on the each run I kill about 250-300 mobs. What I found was at lease 90% (probably more) of the time I got 1 pec in loot(which is a loss of about 4 pecs on the kill) another 5% was 2-3 pecs when there was crit-hit on the mob, moreover I have not got a global on any mob where there was a crit-hit on the mob. Even if I am wrong about the percentages it is still way more than random and I am not wrong about the globals.
One thing I also thought about is it would not be obvious when hunting bigger mobs because of the amount of loot involved. It would be hard to tell if you got shorted a couple of ped when normal loot is several ped or for that matter 90 pec and you get 70 pec instead of 90.
I am not sure if we are on a new loot version and something has changed but i am sure it is not what was originally stated by MA about crit-hits in loot 2.0.
It another post (which I can't find right now) a player stated that crit-hits do effect loot and went on with some very outrageous claims. I won't go into them but I though I would just start watching the loot and see for myself. I am about 100 runs into the watching and found some things very interesting. First off let me tell this is only on punys around Icarus second on the each run I kill about 250-300 mobs. What I found was at lease 90% (probably more) of the time I got 1 pec in loot(which is a loss of about 4 pecs on the kill) another 5% was 2-3 pecs when there was crit-hit on the mob, moreover I have not got a global on any mob where there was a crit-hit on the mob. Even if I am wrong about the percentages it is still way more than random and I am not wrong about the globals.
One thing I also thought about is it would not be obvious when hunting bigger mobs because of the amount of loot involved. It would be hard to tell if you got shorted a couple of ped when normal loot is several ped or for that matter 90 pec and you get 70 pec instead of 90.
I am not sure if we are on a new loot version and something has changed but i am sure it is not what was originally stated by MA about crit-hits in loot 2.0.