So I was reading the bulletin and came across this:
“When comparing yourself to teammates, medal points make all the difference and in each mode you’ll earn specific points for not only scoring but also helping your teammates. CTF, for example, has medals for “Flag Driver”, “Flag Assist”, and “Flag Defense”. We will be reporting stats for War Games as a mode, but also for the individual game base variants, meaning the underlying game types like CTF, Regicide, Slayer, etc. K/D ratio in general will only be highlighted for Slayer.”
Now does this mean your K/D is going to be off objective games or did I missunderstand it?
If it’s gone i’m shure i’ll be wery happy with Halo 4! What do you think about K/D in objective?
K/D shouldn’t be the sole determinant of one’s skill in objective modes, of course. But in a few cases it does somewhat help sort out those who tirelessly charge the objective and get killed over and over…
Edit, because my old post could give you a misleading opinion…
I do not really care for my overall K/D, but it’s still nice to see that you went positive, because it feels like you were a great asset for your team. While a negative one can encourage you to play better the next round and help out your team more.
But my opinion is based more on my own experiences, because I like to protect my teammates. I respond to every call-out and I often know that the rest of my team can handle the flag while I keep the enemies away from the flag and them. Obviously if I get the chance to get the flag I would just run it myself. It just helps me to think more and play safer instead of running at the flag the whole time because deaths don’t even matter.
So, I don’t think it really matters that much if K/D would be gone, it depens on the people who play and how they think. Some people just get kills for fun or to get multi kills for montages. It wouldn’t really matter, but I could be wrong of course.
K/D shouldn’t be a concern in objective games. Teams should get big bonuses for winning. Successful teamwork should be rewarded more than individual achievements. If not displaying k/d helps promote team work I’m all for it.
> > It won’t stop me from spawn killing annoying people…
> > Nothing better than going 40+ on CTF Zealot when the other team is trash talking. :’)
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> which makes your 2.61 KD invalid and a false #. Good job
You know that happens only like 1 out of 10 games, right? We always try to cap the flags pretty fast, but if you’re going to be rude we will punish you for it. But K/D doesn’t matter anything, my sister used to play on my account as well and untill I was a Noble my K/D was only 1.2 because I never played competitively, so I never cared about it. But then I met some people in a game and we started to form a team and I got better.
But really, that was totally off-topic. The point is that it won’t stop people from racking up kills.
> > > It won’t stop me from spawn killing annoying people…
> > > Nothing better than going 40+ on CTF Zealot when the other team is trash talking. :’)
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> > which makes your 2.61 KD invalid and a false #. Good job
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> You know that happens only like 1 out of 10 games, right? We always try to cap the flags pretty fast, but if you’re going to be rude we will punish you for it. But K/D doesn’t matter anything, my sister used to play on my account as well and untill I was a Noble my K/D was only 1.2 because I never played competitively, so I never cared about it. But then I met some people in a game and we started to form a team and I got better.
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> But really, that was totally off-topic. The point is that it won’t stop people from racking up kills.
I dont see holding the objective as punishment. Getting the team more mad by capping 3 flags in under 3 mins is much more embarrassing then making them go negative in a game…Not to mention if you time it right and tbag the person as the game ends is always a good “gotcha”.
As for my comment i more took it you were one of those constant stat padders my bad I’ll switch up my comment
> > > > It won’t stop me from spawn killing annoying people…
> > > > Nothing better than going 40+ on CTF Zealot when the other team is trash talking. :’)
> > >
> > > which makes your 2.61 KD invalid and a false #. Good job
> >
> > You know that happens only like 1 out of 10 games, right? We always try to cap the flags pretty fast, but if you’re going to be rude we will punish you for it. But K/D doesn’t matter anything, my sister used to play on my account as well and untill I was a Noble my K/D was only 1.2 because I never played competitively, so I never cared about it. But then I met some people in a game and we started to form a team and I got better.
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> > But really, that was totally off-topic. The point is that it won’t stop people from racking up kills.
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> I dont see holding the objective as punishment. Getting the team more mad by capping 3 flags in under 3 mins is much more embarrassing then making them go negative in a game…Not to mention if you time it right and tbag the person as the game ends is always a good “gotcha”.
> As for my comment i more took it you were one of those constant stat padders my bad I’ll switch up my comment
That’s very nice of you.
Yes it feels good to cap the flags fast and embarres them, but sometimes they just go too far and I can’t let it to make them even more mad. If there is one thing I hate it’s people who brag about themselves and try to ruin the game for the others, while you are just playing to have a good time.
I wish there were more people who can just say that it was a great game no matter if they lose or win. I’ve only encountered a few teams like that in thousands of games in Halo and that really depresses me.
> > > > > It won’t stop me from spawn killing annoying people…
> > > > > Nothing better than going 40+ on CTF Zealot when the other team is trash talking. :’)
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> > > > which makes your 2.61 KD invalid and a false #. Good job
> > >
> > > You know that happens only like 1 out of 10 games, right? We always try to cap the flags pretty fast, but if you’re going to be rude we will punish you for it. But K/D doesn’t matter anything, my sister used to play on my account as well and untill I was a Noble my K/D was only 1.2 because I never played competitively, so I never cared about it. But then I met some people in a game and we started to form a team and I got better.
> > >
> > > But really, that was totally off-topic. The point is that it won’t stop people from racking up kills.
> >
> > I dont see holding the objective as punishment. Getting the team more mad by capping 3 flags in under 3 mins is much more embarrassing then making them go negative in a game…Not to mention if you time it right and tbag the person as the game ends is always a good “gotcha”.
> > As for my comment i more took it you were one of those constant stat padders my bad I’ll switch up my comment
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> That’s very nice of you.
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> Yes it feels good to cap the flags fast and embarres them, but sometimes they just go too far and I can’t let it to make them even more mad. If there is one thing I hate it’s people who brag about themselves and try to ruin the game for the others, while you are just playing to have a good time.
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> I wish there were more people who can just say that it was a great game no matter if they lose or win. I’ve only encountered a few teams like that in thousands of games in Halo and that really depresses me.
Ya it seems those people are going away slowly. I barely even put on my mic now when I search alone. Slightly sad.
OT: even with the removal of KD people will continue to push games longer hold obj. ect ect. As long as there are sites such as halo charts, halo tracker people will do things to gain +1 on leader boards and such. sad but true. I hope 343 makes an option on your profile page to allow sites like this to not be able to access your stats.
From that bulletin comment it sounded like all stats, including K/D, will still be tracked/recorded. And there will be an overall summary page, including everything, but also playlist-specific stats which would “highlight” different things. While I think it’d be fun if the objective K/D were kept separate and didn’t contribute to the overall summary page, it doesn’t feel like that’s what they’re saying. So people will probably still boost their K/D if they care a lot about that kind of silly number.
