Once or twice a week I’ll look at my service record on waypoint.
And it will be terrible. Usually I’ll spend a long time trying to get my KDR up and my Win/loss ratio up, then I’ll play with a friend who is super bad online, and lose every time…
So, my record is awful. But then I thought about:
“What do I care more about?”
Playing with friends and investing in real relationships? Or playing alone and out of community to get my stats looking good on a VIRTUAL reality.
I think playing with my friends is a lot more important so when I look at my terrible record, I don’t even care.
I usually feel extremely addicted to my K/D and W/L ratios, to the point that I no longer have any fun winning or losing, so you’re doing a far better job at resisting the service record urges than I am. It’s why I fight for a social playlist that has no stat tracking to worry about.
As for friends, all of my friends have abandoned 343’s Halos and left me alone on Halo 5. Those are guys that have played Halo almost religiously with me since CE.
Hey OP, I feel the same way you do when it comes to tracked stats. In my experience, Halo is a lot more fun when you don’t care about them. I can respect that other people might find enjoyment in sweating over those numbers, and I don’t doubt that people might find some satisfaction in seeing a high KDA and stuff, but it was never my thing. I find enjoyment in playing the game, not seeing a big number on my service record.
And just in case some fool decides to say some ignorant thing like “only people who suck say it doesn’t matter”, I will also add that even if I had the best stats ever, I still wouldn’t even care about them. I don’t even think they’re exactly the best way to measure skill, and it makes Halo a lot more stressful when you worry about it while playing. It’s like, every match has high stakes.
And I think there should at least be some playlists where no stats are tracked at all, whatsoever.
I remember when I first started playing Halo 5 in January, my K/D was really low, and I was obsessed with improving it. But that ruined the experience, and now I could care less how high or low that stat is. And I think you’re right, playing just for fun with friends is much more valuable and enjoyable then playing for some meaningless number.
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> I usually feel extremely addicted to my K/D and W/L ratios, to the point that I no longer have any fun winning or losing, so you’re doing a far better job at resisting the service record urges than I am. It’s why I fight for a social playlist that has no stat tracking to worry about.
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> As for friends, all of my friends have abandoned 343’s Halos and left me alone on Halo 5. Those are guys that have played Halo almost religiously with me since CE.
I was really into keeping an eye on stats in H3 and Reach, mostly K/D and medal counts. Not like I was incredibly awesome but my K/D was positive and I won more than I lost, it was fun to track. That is until I started playing Halo 4 and I just lost all interest in it. It just didn’t mean anything anymore.
All of my friends jumped ship also, mostly in the first month of Halo 4. I went from a H3 clan of 30+ to im lucky to have 3 other friends to play grifball with on Halo 5.
This sounds like something my friend told me when he has over, about how I focused so much on winning and trying not loosing instead of just having fun. I’ve been away from online multiplayer for a while because of how I worry about getting myself on the loosing streak and getting my butt kick almost constantly. And I think that my K/D ratio is more or less even. Not too bad and not too great either. But it was nice getting back in again. Almost felt like I came out of retirement.
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> I usually feel extremely addicted to my K/D and W/L ratios, to the point that I no longer have any fun winning or losing, so you’re doing a far better job at resisting the service record urges than I am. It’s why I fight for a social playlist that has no stat tracking to worry about.
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> As for friends, all of my friends have abandoned 343’s Halos and left me alone on Halo 5. Those are guys that have played Halo almost religiously with me since CE.
Thanks. I hope you can find freedom from the KDR too. ;D
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> Hey OP, I feel the same way you do when it comes to tracked stats. In my experience, Halo is a lot more fun when you don’t care about them. I can respect that other people might find enjoyment in sweating over those numbers, and I don’t doubt that people might find some satisfaction in seeing a high KDA and stuff, but it was never my thing. I find enjoyment in playing the game, not seeing a big number on my service record.
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> And just in case some fool decides to say some ignorant thing like “only people who suck say it doesn’t matter”, I will also add that even if I had the best stats ever, I still wouldn’t even care about them. I don’t even think they’re exactly the best way to measure skill, and it makes Halo a lot more stressful when you worry about it while playing. It’s like, every match has high stakes.
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> And I think there should at least be some playlists where no stats are tracked at all, whatsoever.
Not gonna lie; you’ve opened my eyes, OP. The last couple of times I’ve played Halo 5 have involved deep, minor frustration stemming from my poor W/L and K/D ratios. I wanted to be good at Halo. I wanted to be so good, that my Xbox friends could be super jealous and I could be at the top of the score chart for once. I didn’t improve as much as I wanted to, though, and I’ll admit that I was frustrated. That frustration had managed to keep me from having, in my opinion, one of the most important things about a Halo game: fun. I don’t play to compete or get virtual bragging rights; I play to have fun on my own or with friends. Halo has always been about fun for me (that includes 5), and I guess I forgot that somewhere along the way. From now on, I’ll take a chill pill and focus on the game itself. Why should I care about my ratios when fun is all that matters to me?
I understand that some people really do care about these ratios, but they do not make up all of Halo’s player base. Play Halo solely for the reasons you want to play Halo, okay? It’s meant to be enjoyed, after all.
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> I was really into keeping an eye on stats in H3 and Reach, mostly K/D and medal counts. Not like I was incredibly awesome but my K/D was positive and I won more than I lost, it was fun to track. That is until I started playing Halo 4 and I just lost all interest in it. It just didn’t mean anything anymore.
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> All of my friends jumped ship also, mostly in the first month of Halo 4. I went from a H3 clan of 30+ to im lucky to have 3 other friends to play grifball with on Halo 5.
I hear what your both saying about your friends. ALL of my “real life” friends used to play Halo. Now it’s just me and sometimes my buddy. Everyone else either didn’t want to buy Xbox one, Halo 5 or have moved onto easier games COD, BF1 etc. where they play with a lot of there friends who to be honest aren’t great at Halo because they found it too hard to play. I miss playing with my friends, but I just really, hate COD!! Ugh!!! Luckily I have made a bunch of new online friends. If I didn’t, I think my MP halo days would of been done.
@OP I’ll admit I do care about my record but it hasn’t stopped me from playing with friends (ones I have left)
I’ve never really cared about it. I do care to win a match though because I want to beat the opposing team and -Yoink!- THEM MUHAHAHAHA!
But yeah, it’s not like I watch my record. I don’t even know my K/D. I payed more attention to that in Halo 3 and Reach, but not like it was my goal. My goal is to just lay back and have fun. I don’t need to become a MLG pro player or whatever. Could I become that? Not sure… My aim sucks during some points, but perhaps with some training? But that’s the whole point. Gaming needs to be fun to me. I don’t want to take it as serious as these MLG poopyheads. That would ruin it for me.
That’s what I hated during Halo s development. They had the pro players help make decisions. They don’t care about casual fun, so they kinda ruined Halo 5 for me. Everything needed to be pro-ified… It’s getting better with each new update however, luckily. Though, there are still a lot of issues here and there.
I feel like if they removed the W/L stats from Warzone and stats from social or at least made them separate from the main Arena stats a lot of people would enjoy this game more. For example, when I play BF I don’t even care when I lose or go negative since the stats aren’t an issue for me in that game when the overall stats are all bundled in one area which I doubt anyone is even going to see except for myself.