So if it’s possible to have a high K/D and be bad at halo…
…is it possible to have a K/D under 1 and still be good?
It’s always possible, if you have a rocket launcher or an omnipotent banshee bomb. But generally though, a KD of less than 1 tells me that you die more than you kill. Everybody has good games and bad games. KD measures how many good games versus bad ones you have.
Don’t stress about it too much though, as long as you have fun playing.
It depends, if you always go for the objective, then your k/d may be below one but you could still be good. Or your play style could be run and gun or serve as the distraction for your teamates, but by yourself you could still be good.
> if you always go for the objective, then your k/d may be below one but you could still be good.
I don’t see how. There’s nothing smart about going for the objective without doing any slaying, or leaving it all to your teammates. It’s easy to go positive and do the objective at the same time.
I dont think so man. Even if you only play mlg going negative is the telltale sign of a bk.
I know I am going to have to put on my falmesuit with this, but here it goes…
OP…This is Halo:Reach. K/D, Rank, are 100% irrelevant to anything in this game.
I know several people with high K/D and can’t fight their way out of a wet paper sack in ANY MP/MM game and mostly get a few kills and then camp out somewhere. Hence their high K/D.
Now, if you are part of some MLG Team and on the circuit, sure it means something, but in Halo:Reach with Grifball in the playlist that counts within your stat’s to make up this make believe number, it is just like everything else.
So answer to both questions is…YES!!!
A good deal of people who are at the top of the global leader boards are utter trash outside of their BTB teams and their vehicles.
K/D just means you have better situation awareness and can tell when to stay alive or not.
I try, to keep it at exactly 1.
But i like to get in the -Yoink- of the combat. Anyone can camp out spawn kill with the sniper. If you remember, the first halo. There were no stat tracking, k/d worrying, kinda crap that has truly ruined the game. It was this:
I see you
You see me
We run at each other guns ablazing, one of us is going to die.
Respawn
Repeat
k/d does not always indicate how good a player is or how well they played. Do not look at statistics to determine how welled you played or how good you are, look at the outcome of the games.
K/D only measures combat effectiveness, so it isn’t reliable in and of itself in predicting how helpful or valuable a teammate will be. Players with a low K/D can still assist with objectives, distract and bait enemies, and call out vital information that they see on corpse-cam, among other things. These are activities that do nothing to improve such players’ stats, but that help the team in Objective matches and even in Slayer games.
(Example: You’ll have a much easier time killing the enemy if you always know exactly where all of them are, because of a a “bad” teammate that is continuously calling them out. You’ll also tend to die less as well, because your “bad” teammate is making sure that you always know what situation you’re about to walk into.)
Corpse-cam!
Some players are only good when playing with an organized team but when they do play with an organized team they destroy.
Other players’ Rambo style becomes hindered with an organized team.
What I consider a “good” player to be is one who can tear it up with terrible team mates, or in FFA, but can also restrain themselves to organized play with a team.
Either way there is really no excuse for having a KD under 1 if you consider yourself to be “good”.
I’m going to leave this thread before I get banned for talking about stats.
> So if it’s possible to have a high K/D and be bad at halo…
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> …is it possible to have a K/D under 1 and still be good?
Yup! You can accomplish an extremely high K/D ratio farming kills on Big Team Battle. Most games tend to be filled with below average skilled players, and if one were to play a big team battle game with skilled players, that player may back out and find a lobby filled with noobs.
On the other hand, you can have a negative overall K/D ratio playing a lot objective, and/or constantly playing off host against competitive players.
Basically, A LOT of variables must be taken in consideration, and you can only truly find a player’s skill by watching how they play. NOT by looking at their K/D or Battle rating on Waypoint.
My buddy only plays objective, has a .85 k/d ratio, but he wins 84% of his games (almost never in a party of more than 2, so not being carried, just a general support player).So I’d say it’s possible, it’s just a different kind of playstyle.
> > So if it’s possible to have a high K/D and be bad at halo…
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> > …is it possible to have a K/D under 1 and still be good?
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> Yup! You can accomplish an extremely high K/D ratio farming kills on Big Team Battle. Most games tend to be filled with below average skilled players, and if one were to play a big team battle game with skilled players, that player may back out and find a lobby filled with noobs.
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> On the other hand, you can have a negative overall K/D ratio playing a lot objective, and/or constantly playing off host against competitive players.
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> Basically, A LOT of variables must be taken in consideration, and you can only truly find a player’s skill by watching how they play. NOT by looking at their K/D or Battle rating on Waypoint.
Even with all of those variables factored in, it’s impossible to be considered very good with a K/D under 1. Period.
Basically the ONLY acceptable reason for this would be constant play against top MLG players on a consistent basis. Other than that, regardless of playlist/playstyle, anything under 1 is pretty bad at the game.
But, it is completely possible to be terrible at the game with a high K/D ratio. Playing with full teams in BTB accomplishes that pretty well. Or camping for power vehicles and power weapons.
With a low K/D ratio, there’s literally almost no way to be considered that great.
^No one said anything about being considered a great player. It was ‘can someone be a GOOD player’. I stick by yes.
> ^No one said anything about being considered a great player. It was ‘can someone be a GOOD player’. I stick by yes.
Then what do you mean by good?
I mean to be considered even average you have to be banging around at least a 1.0 K/D ratio.
Even while playing solely Objective/MLG, if you aren’t at least killing a single person for every time you die you aren’t doing jack for your team.
The Objective is the target, but to get to it you have to kill the enemy team.
High K/D ratios don’t mean much, but really low ones, like below 1, just can’t be considered all that good at the game.
I say winning 84% of your games when you don’t search with a full party, with a <1 k/d, is better than most people I see with 1.5 k/ds who usually win around 70%.
team doubles more individual skill. (4v4) A major team effort. BTB a major team effort/ spawn trapping. I guess it depends on what you like!