I, for example, liked that update, which many called the most terrible complex and everything in that spirit. only one thing was terrible - the hunter’s sniper rifle always hit. there tanks and reapers were worthy of respect)
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In all honesty it feels to me as if the machine AI almost turns off at a point.
A hand full of hunters can be a challenge; they flank, snipe, leap and deploy ticks.
However, get a couple of harvesters together and have them start to deploy hunters and you can quickly get 20 or more… at which point they become mindless. They pretty much run towards you, then stand around and look at you while deploying ticks. The ticks become more of an issue than the 20 hunters. You can see a glimpse of this here (along with a flying harvester).
The changes to the harvester are the most annoying. Gone is the nice animation for the “summoned” hunters arriving and they can repeatedly spam hunters at you without you killing off the first wave, resulting in bizarre “zombie” hunter behaviour described above.
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The missing animation for Hunter summoning is a confirmed glitch, is it not?
That means it will be fixed, like the Boo bridge. It’s not supposed to be like this.
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In my opinion, the runners have became really scatty, they have no synced movement with their environment and they have killed each other on numerous occasions in combat without flares, they run away from you, shoot everywhere, but you, they just seem like how someone would spam shots after a jumpscare 
It could be that a machine fell into a lake or got destroyed somehow without the player actually beeing there. Maybe the player did some damage to the machine earlier, and hence got credited the kill.
So yeah I would say that is a bug, even though “everything is working as intended”.
Could maybe also be done if you put a mine down with a lure, and then you fast travel far away. Maybe the machine will go into the mine and die.
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I’ve witnessed it in my game many times, where machine walks/falls into the body of water and gets destroyed. At this event, it doesn’t matter if machine was following you or running away from you after you damaged it greatly, environmental death of a machine does not give you credit for it’s kill.
Same is when you use other machines to kill one machine. E.g aggro tank and harv and keep the harv between you and the tank. Tank’s weaponry (autocannon), eventually will kill the harv but you will not get credit for harv kill.
If you Fast Travel away from placed items, they will despawn.
GZ has some fixed radius around the player, where placed items remain and after player has traveled further than that fixed range, the item despawns. I don’t know the exact range but in early days, it was well shorter than 400m. More like 200m or so.
I got credit for kills like that before.
Also isn’t explosive damage from gas tanks (both small you place, and the big ones standing around, and also car explosions) considered environmental damage?
You’re right. The consistency of this game is laughable:
Place an EMP an the ground, fast travel away, and then back, the EMP is gone.
DROP an EMP on the ground, fast travel away, then back and the EMP is still there.
This game. Seriously.
It is. But what i’ve observed so far, environmental damage, specifically: body of water, doesn’t give credit for the kill.
There are challenges in the game, where you need to kill X amount of machines. During these challenges, i found it out. Among these, i also found out that if tick runs out of juice and blows up on it’s own, you won’t get credit for the tick kill. There is no credit for kill either when e.g tank uses it’s rocket salvo and happens to destroy ticks running behind you.
Yeah, because ticks take so much damage to kill.
It could very well be if you do more than 50% damage you get the kill regardless.
Also blowing up machines purely from gastanks would not yield the kill, but it does. so?
Kill assist? Sure. But full kill? No.
On many instances, game rewards the kill even when there’s two steps in the chain, e.g:
Step 1 - shoot the gas tank; Step 2 - gas tank explosion kills the machine
Step 1 - place the land mine; Step 2 - land mine explosion kills the machine
Step 1 - shoot incendiary round at the machine; Step 2 - fire from incendiary round kills the machine
Step 1 - shoot chain-lightning round at the machine; Step 2 - chain-lightning arcs over to 2nd machine, killing it
Etc.
However, there is no player initiated chain of events which will result machine walking into the water and thus dying.
Water in general, is Area Of Denial for the machines. But it’s the game coding, namely the holes in it, that allow live machines to end up in the water.
Ofc there is:
Step 1 - shoot the machine. Step 2 - Machine walks into an environmental damage dealer (water, fire, etc, etc) which kills it.
Yeah, those “holes” are called bugs.
There are no confirmed cases of players being able to direct at which direction machine is moving when shooting at it.
When machine walks into area of environmental damage, it does it by it’s own accord. Only way to direct machine movement, is when you use a lure. But that is not considered as: “shooting the machine”.
Why would they need to?
Moved discussion to topic concerning Machine AI.
//Mod
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To your accord, to be directed into environmental damage dealer and after blowing up, crediting the player for the kill.
Why do they need direction for that?
So that they can walk into it? 
But since they do that on their own…?
And when they are doing that on their own, player hasn’t contributed to the killing of a machine and thus, should not be credited for a machine kill. E.g when machine walks into water. Or when ticks run in the AoE area of tank’s rockets.