I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: “the dead cannot play the objective”.
sure KD isn’t everything, but it is does signal higher survivability rates allowing said player to statitically be alive more on point to secure objectives, thus statistically be a better objective player. survivability is key, people always think that people with high KD are those who know how to kill and kill only, that isn’t true, people forget the “death” part- players who know how to stay alive will push a battle of attrition better.
in a WW1 settings with coming trench warfare, I assume it would actually be more important than ever, with victories coming by the thread of a needle ensured by soldiers that have higher survivability rates.
Rommel proved it with the Alpenkorps in WW1, with incredibly high kill to death ratio of his by ensuring their survivability as his highest priority.
he might have lost the war, along with the germans, but Battlefield is a BATTLE game, and in battles you win with tactics, every move counts, every shot, every death ammounts to a butterfly effect of controlled chaos.
and with all that said, I’m terribly sorry if you find it offensive, but most of the time I see those who complain about KD are just plain not very good at the game, or understanding the nuance of it at least. the srawman argument is always the “camper sniper”, but let’s not kid ourselves, we see this as we have seen this in every Battlefield game before, those who lead the objective play are those who knew how to survive their butchery chronicles, and those who couldn’t? well, they still have time to “git gud”.
+1
As said, BF1 is a BATTLE game, so it`s about war… and war is about killing (most of the time), so (a good) k/d is “worth” to be shown as ONE hint - next to others like "skill/teamplay/wins/service stars and so on - to describe a good “battlefield” soldier ; )
My only gripe with K/D is rush especially higher ticket rush. You often need to just throw bodies in to find weak points in the defenders lines. I think K/D stops people from doing that sometimes.
lets not have another thread about kd.
Close it down anther Aeittonttnwrohe! I will mess with the mind of any troll. It’s time sane people start to take over here!
There is already another thread covering this subject, what gives?
Yes, this totally need another thread, instead of simply posting it in the current, major KDR thread.
99% of the time high K/D = someone picking off the bottom half of the other team and pretending to be pro, but then they lose by 500+ tickets because they didn’t PTFO and wasted vehicles for the sake of topping the scoreboard.
what if.. just add a few more things to the scoreboard like triple kills, squad eliminated, kill streaks ended some competitive things, savior, avenger, nemisis
Let’s keep this discussion to one thread.