User blog comment:Iponce96/Operation Vigilance/@comment-3467788-20120908155112

Please define kill-stealing. If you do 95% of the damage and someone swoops in to "steal" the kill, you're still going to get the majority of points. I've had "assists" where I've gotten over 500 points, and "kills" where I've gotten under 60. Your point total isn't based on kills, it's based on how much damage you've done. Kill stealing doesn't matter.

On top of that, as far as I understand, the XP earned at the end of a match is the combined total of the whole team. In other words, it really doesn't matter who gets the kill. Everyone's point total is added up, and therefore everyone gains the same XP at the end of the match, save for the individual medals.

And as for those, the individual medals -- 25 kills, 5 biotic kills, 15 assists, etc. -- give a paltry amount of experience compared to the mission, barely worth getting upset about. The medals you get as a squad -- full extraction, kill streaks -- are the ones worth getting, and those medals are contributed to the universal XP gain at the end.

I mean, I am right there with you on irritation with people who can't seem to work as a team. But kill-stealing isn't even an issue.