medics are not that important, flags and control is, keep pressure on the spots at fullt health, block the flow, prevent enemies from moving to position
lol, a good sniper? in operations? yeah- not hard dropping 100+ kills sitting back with a gewehr 98.. KD doesn’t mean a thing, whether that be to snipers or people rushing.. all it takes is a campy play style or a squad running medic train to boost that stat up
I don’t understand how someone can truly believe a stat that only showcases the effort of one person, can possibly be the “ultimate” measuring stick in a game built on teamwork.
This is tantamount to claiming a baseball players homeruns are the only stat that matters.
I dont think that anyone in these threads has ever argued that K/D is the only stat that matters. I think it is commonly accepted that a picture of a player ability truly shows itself via a blend of stats e.g. KPM, SPM, K/D ratio, Skill etc etc
There is no one stat that tells you everything. However, if you were using valid statistical and scientist methods to build a true measure of skill at an individual level, you can be sure that K/D will be pretty high up on the list of weighted characteristics.
DICE did this themselves with their own (rather blunt) skill characteristic.
I disagree, people that care about stats in a game are probably more likely to care about stats and success in the real world. Competitive players are generally competitive in all areas of life. And I mean competitive in the general sense, not in actually competing professionally, but wanting to win or do well at everything they do.
The players that don’t care about stats probably don’t care because their stats aren’t what they want them to be and they’re looking for the PTFO gold star that validates their existence. They probably also get “thanks for showing up” awards in real life.
He’s saying that if people weren’t killing the enemies for you, you wouldn’t have the luxury of making it to the top three.
Here is an example. You are sitting in the flag cap zone soaking up points and another player is just outside the cap zone killing all of the players that are trying to reach you to stop the flag burn. You may get more points than the guy that is protecting you from the onslaught coming your way. In that scenario who is the better player?
Most of the KD doesn’t matter guys would say the flag squatter because he was PTFO while the other guy was “Just getting kills”. But that is the wrong answer.
No, what is being said is that kills are like hits, not home runs. And like hits, kills are not all that matters but they are extremely important because without them you can’t win. The PTFO guys want to get on the bases by getting beaned every time.