Honestly it seems that I cannot get my k/d to improve at all since I’ve played halo throughout the years. I mean since Halo 3 it has gone up probably by .10 from 1.3 something to about 1.44 in Reach and to around 1.43 in Halo 4. Now I know it isn’t always about your k/d it’s about team work and such but it frustrates me that it really isn’t progressing. Does anyone have any tips to improve my game or am I just looking at this the wrong way and it really doesn’t matter?
I hear you man.
My current k/d is pretty low right now (I’m only at 1.22 right now but I was at 1.45) mostly because I have been playing for achievements rather then kills lately, but it will roll back up to around 1.3 now that I’m bored with getting commendations.
Your stats and situation seem similar to mine - you seem to be a lone wolf kinda player that occasionally plays with friends (maybe). I honestly think that the reason we (players like you and I) aren’t advancing our k\d is less related to individual talent or skill and more related to peripheral choices.
My opinion is that if you or I want a >2.0 k/d we are gonna have to do one (or a few) of the following:
- join a team/clan
- stay away from certain game types (especially at certain times - you can play just about anything on a fri. night or sat. morning and average a 1.6 k\d or better)
- poach kills in btb and swat (especially on weekends)
- set loadouts specifically for the game types you predominantly play (ie. playing w/ dmr/pp, active camo on big maps)
- stay away from team-based game types unless you are playing w/ friends or are going to camp at your base/flag and defend all game
- if you play w/ a mic then start calling out your shots so that you can get support (ie. raises the chances of your teammates helping you win individual battles which in turn lowers your personal death count)
Personally I don’t think this makes the game fun, so I’m gonna keep playing the way I am and be satisfied with my 1.3 to 1.4 k\d.
Good Luck!
> I hear you man.
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> My current k/d is pretty low right now (I’m only at 1.22 right now but I was at 1.45) mostly because I have been playing for achievements rather then kills lately, but it will roll back up to around 1.3 now that I’m bored with getting commendations.
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> Your stats and situation seem similar to mine - you seem to be a lone wolf kinda player that occasionally plays with friends (maybe). I honestly think that the reason we (players like you and I) aren’t advancing our k\d is less related to individual talent or skill and more related to peripheral choices.
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> My opinion is that if you or I want a >2.0 k/d we are gonna have to do one (or a few) of the following:
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> - join a team/clan
> - stay away from certain game types (especially at certain times - you can play just about anything on a fri. night or sat. morning and average a 1.6 k\d or better)
> - poach kills in btb and swat (especially on weekends)
> - set loadouts specifically for the game types you predominantly play (ie. playing w/ dmr/pp, active camo on big maps)
> - stay away from team-based game types unless you are playing w/ friends or are going to camp at your base/flag and defend all game
> - if you play w/ a mic then start calling out your shots so that you can get support (ie. raises the chances of your teammates helping you win individual battles which in turn lowers your personal death count)
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> Personally I don’t think this makes the game fun, so I’m gonna keep playing the way I am and be satisfied with my 1.3 to 1.4 k\d.
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> Good Luck!
Your mostly right about me being a lone wolf player but I do try my best to stick with my team. Unfortunately most of my friends have moved on from Halo 4 and play different games like CoD and so forth. The lack of me having a good team/friends to party up with definetly has had a toll on my k/d due to matching with randoms vs a party and such. I agree with you on avoiding certain playlist at certain times especially when at night (It feels at least like it to me) a lot more competition seems to arise. Weekends/Mornings are a lot more relaxed I’ve noticed as well. Worrying about k/d can sometimes ruin a gaming experience for me so I ignore caring too much about it, I just was curious as to why it hasn’t impoved much for me in Halo. Anyways thanks for the tips and input man!
My Slayer k/d is around a 2. I usually lone wolf it too, but usually only in slayer. I never actually play with other people because none of my friends play. My k/d in objective gametypes is lower because I actually play the objective.
Also, once I stopped playing BTB and started using the BR my k/d slowly rose. I guess I would just try and find the weapon that works the best for you and go from that. If you aren’t using a weapon you’re comfortable with your k/d will suffer. Also, try not to put yourself in bad situations like 2v1s. I always try to run away and flank if I know I won’t win the firefight.
yeah same here 1.3 in general (i used to have more)
but i want to make commendations, experiment with weapons ranges some times
and even i practice a lot the snapshot with any sniper
and more in this moments that im a few numbers of the stance of ‘‘believe’’
but every day i get a positive K/D
maybe when i get the complicated commendations i will stop the risk style
but actually i don’t think the K/D means nothing
i have saw people with more positive K/D than me and normally i don’t have any problem battling them, even some times i win by good a difference
> Honestly it seems that I cannot get my k/d to improve at all since I’ve played halo throughout the years. I mean since Halo 3 it has gone up probably by .10 from 1.3 something to about 1.44 in Reach and to around 1.43 in Halo 4. Now I know it isn’t always about your k/d it’s about team work and such but it frustrates me that it really isn’t progressing. Does anyone have any tips to improve my game or am I just looking at this the wrong way and it really doesn’t matter?
I find that people who care too much about their K/D don’t have as much fun.
I used to have a friends with an amazing K/D (3.5+) and he deserved it, he was an incredibly skilled player. but only ever enjoyed himself when he wasn’t dying. any number of deaths especially when they occurred in a row caused the most extreme rage (and having to listen to him rage or have him quit out on me mid-game was incredibly annoying)
dont get me wrong, having a good K/D can be fun (because it’s more fun to kill than it is to be killed) but it shouldn’t be your goal if it takes the enjoyment out of the game for you.
if you want to raise your K/D then a few suggestions I could make are;
[/li]- Play with a team (obviously not with a bad team). people who will have your back and understand how you play (and you in turn need to understand how they play)
- Play slower. don’t just run into the fray. don’t keep rushing someone who keeps kiling you because you just want to see them dead.
- Play smarter. Think before you do things. do you shoot at someone as they run by when they haven’t seen you or do you figure out where their going and flank them with a team mate.
- Don’t necessarily play for the win. Im not suggesting that you go and stat pad in CTF, but you have to weigh up the importance of winning and your K/D. If your loosing a game then whats the cost of trying to bring it back. sometimes you just have to cut your losses and accept your not going to win inorder to avoid further damage to your K/D.
- Die less. K/D is not about how many kills you get, it’s about how much you die. If you want a K/D of 2.0 then every time you die you need to compensate by getting 2 kills. if you finish each game with only 8 kills but only 4 deaths then your K/D is still 2.0 (for that game).
also, increasing your K/D can be incredibly hard depending on how much you’ve already played.
If you’ve played a lot and you have 150,000 kills and 100,000 deaths then to increase your K/D from 1.5 to 2.0 you effectively need 50,000 kills and 0 deaths.
if you’ve played a little and you have 1,500 kills and 1,000 deaths then you only need 500 kills and 0 deaths.
a lot of the time people just want their K/D to increase quickly which makes them try to go for lots of kills but in doing so they are constantly putting themselves in harms way and will end up dying more as a result.
slow and steady wins the race, focus at getting a specific K/D one game at a time. as long as your K/D at the end of each game is higher than your over all K/D then you’ll (slowly) reach your goal.
And I can’t stress enough the importance of not dying. Lets say you want a K/D of 1.5, Currently you need 974 kills and 0 deaths to reach your goal. Obviously your going to die on occasion so for every 2 deaths you’ll need to add an additional 3 kills (minimum) to your requirement.
To raise your k/d to 1.5 you will need a k/d better than 1.5 for each game (to make up the difference).
So lets say you aim for a k/d of 2 per game. to show the impact that deaths have we’ll do a comparison between some examples of kills and deaths per game over time
With the following K/D’s you would reach 1.5 in this many games
K : D (K/D) - Games
5 : 1 (5.00) - 278
5 : 2 (2.50) - 487
5 : 3 (1.67) - 1949
5 : 4 (1.25) - Never, this is lower than your current K/D
K : D (K/D) - Games
6 : 1 (6.00) - 216
6 : 2 (3.00) - 324
6 : 3 (2.00) - 649
6 : 4 (1.50) - Never, this is you goal and you need more than your goal to make up the difference between it and your current k/d
K : D (K/D) - Games
8 : 3 (2.6) - 278
8 : 4 (2.0) - 487
8 : 5 (1.6) - 1,949
8 : 6 (1.33) - Never, this is lower than your current K/D
KK : DD (K/D) - Games
16 : 08 (2.00) - 243
16 : 09 (1.77) - 389
16 : 10 (1.60) - 974
16 : 11 (1.45) - Never (after 7,771 games your K/D would be 1.45 and would never get higher)
hope this helps and sorry if it’s a bit all over the place, im kind of tired and probably haven’t constructed my sentences as well as I could have…
edit: i was going to show how many games required to get you k/d to 2.0 but the numbers are much larger and not as easy to get your head around. hopefully even just showing you whats needed to get to 1.5 will give you a good enough idea…
The thing I recommend is this: Be aware of everything that is going on. Be alert. Never let your guard down. Always be aggressive and never give up. This is how I have kept my K/D at a 2.15 throughout all of my career in Halo 4. It may also help to surround yourself with players who have high K/Ds so you can also win your games. Plus, it never hurts to be part of a clan or team. Everyone who has joined my clan, Immortality, has improved their K/D significantly and they continue to get better every time we all play as a clan. That is all the information I can give you on how to improve your K/D. Good luck dude!
> > Honestly it seems that I cannot get my k/d to improve at all since I’ve played halo throughout the years. I mean since Halo 3 it has gone up probably by .10 from 1.3 something to about 1.44 in Reach and to around 1.43 in Halo 4. Now I know it isn’t always about your k/d it’s about team work and such but it frustrates me that it really isn’t progressing. Does anyone have any tips to improve my game or am I just looking at this the wrong way and it really doesn’t matter?
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> I find that people who care too much about their K/D don’t have as much fun.
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> I used to have a friends with an amazing K/D (3.5+) and he deserved it, he was an incredibly skilled player. but only ever enjoyed himself when he wasn’t dying. any number of deaths especially when they occurred in a row caused the most extreme rage (and having to listen to him rage or have him quit out on me mid-game was incredibly annoying)
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> dont get me wrong, having a good K/D can be fun (because it’s more fun to kill than it is to be killed) but it shouldn’t be your goal if it takes the enjoyment out of the game for you
I agree with you on this because I used to worry about my k/d in other games and it really stressed me out and ruined the experience for me, plus it’s just a game and getting that worked up over it isn’t worth it. The question I asked in my first post was about how I didn’t understand why my k/d really didn’t increase throughout each Halo game. I think after reading your post and a few others I realized I’ve been to aggressive of a player by rushing in to battle when not needed. I also am not as good with the OP DMR than I am with a BR or Carbine, surprisingly. Anyways thanks for all that info that was a pretty long post lol. I’ll use those tips and try to improve my game as much as I can.
Being aggressive is very important, but you do not have to engage or kill an enemy where you first encounter him. I have turned the tables on countless people simply by baiting them into an arena of my choosing. And when you do this, it is best to turn on them when they least expect it, not only when you reach a tactically superior position.
If you notice that your team is not doing something properly, it probably means you need to do it yourself. (such as flanking or laying down suppressive fire… oh I absolutely hate it when my entire team neglects to use suppressive fire)
One last piece of advice… you are not only playing against someone’s twitch skills, you are playing against their mindset and strategies. Those are the two biggest factors in k/d ratios.