thanks in advance.
Winning is far more important to me than a high K/D. I used to be a statmonger about it but all things change I suppose.
You’ll often find me on an objective like a fly on dung in Warzone. I expect to be taken out at some point but I’ll be taking as many enemies down with me. It’s all about having a good time, anyway.
I’m shocked people seem to prioritize winning over personal performance. There’s nothing wrong with winning, it’s great, but if you can’t stand on your own two feet then your just getting carried at that point. I’m K/D all the way.
I have fun, but sometimes i go a bit competitive and want to win 
K/D in slayer, winning in objective games like Warzone. K/D is the best measurement of skill we have.
YES!
I try to play 70-Winning/30-KD. I like winning for the team aspect, but I’m also working on balancing my KD ratio so that I’m not a burden.
Winning is always my primary objective, but I do keep an eye on my K/D so I can assess my personal growth as a killing machine while also doing my part. I am a very persistent attacker in objective type games (especially if it involves territories/dominion or CTF) with a fairly aggressive play style so I use the carnage report K/D to assess how efficient I am as a combatant. I try to be as reliable as possible to my team because I mainly play objective gametypes (not much of a slayer person as much as I used to be), so its important that my teammates can rely on me when they have the bomb/flag and they need an escort.
Still, the primary objective is for all of us to win, not just me.
Winning is always higher priority, the amount of times I have sacrificed my K/D to return flag to base just as the enemies are about to score, so unless I am in Slayer variants where K/D is part of winning I tend to just go for the win.
Winning is the most important. Why?
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This is how the ranking system assesses you.
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Pros will argue that K/D doesn’t necessarily make you the best player. This game is about team work. Sometimes dying so your teammate can kill 2 opponents will lead to victory. Victory leads to cash payouts. This game is all about supporting your team mate when they will lose an encounter and preventing opposing players from escaping a losing encounter.
Winning… Only because of the rank
Winning, of course. Why wouldn’t it be?
You can have a terrible k/d but if you captured the flag and won then you well… Won.
Winning. I laugh when the kids play TDM in war zone while I kill the bosses and whim by a landslide.
Both are important; Contrary to what a lot of people seem to think, killing in objective gamemode is very important. If the entire team is on respawn, that’s some free time to advance the objective. Even in warzone its very important. Slaying is linked to pushing the objectives; in Warzone, for example, I sometimes take the fight to the enemy and harass them (though granted, I also do it by taking care of the marines then start capping their armoury, as it always brings a crowd) because when people get killed they tend to want to kill you back, thus drawing them away from the objectives my team is pushing. Even if they don’t take the bait and throw themselves at me to try and kill me, I am still picking some of them off so thats 8 seconds those guys aren’t playing and thus aren’t pushing or holding.
Overall, one should prioritise winning over KD. It is ultimately a team game and sometimes you have to sacrifice your KD. EG, if you grab the oddball (well, you cant because there is no oddball for some weird reason) than you are making the choice to give most of the slaying to your teammates so you can advance the team towards victory. At the end of the day, nobody cares about your KD if you lose every match.
I usually play slayer, and since I’ll be paired with 3-4 teammates with unknown potential (I don’t know if they’ll be good or bad) it can be like gambling. Since teams are only as strong as their weakest links, I could go HAM and best-case scenario get a 30-0 perfection but still lose because a teammate is oblivious and feeds kills to the other team. This has happened often, and I’ve made peace with it. So I value K/D, a factor that I can control, more than W/L, a factor that is more difficult to control.
But even then, recording a clip of a funny or an epic moment is more satisfying. I can go positive in any match, but it’s not every match where I see something like a wraith mortar shot killing someone literally from across the map.
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> I’m shocked people seem to prioritize winning over personal performance. There’s nothing wrong with winning, it’s great, but if you can’t stand on your own two feet then your just getting carried at that point. I’m K/D all the way.
Just because your K/D isn’t great doesn’t mean your a bad player NECESSARILY. Yes it says something, but doesn’t tell the full story all the time…sometimes, but not always. A lot of factors go into this let’s not kid who here and yes K/D is important, no if ends or buts, but to a point! If I go +30 and we lose…well yes I played well, but how many of those kills were because my team called that guy out, or I just happen to get the final shot? How many assists did the other people get and so oh…
So many people won’t go after that guy or move with the team or do certain things because they’re more concern about there K/D then winning. If someone on my team gets 5 kills, 10-15 assist and 10 deaths in a match, that player is helping the team. I’d rather have a guy who has K/D of 1 who talks, is engaged in the game, and is willing to do what it takes for the team to win, then a guy who has a K/D of 2+ who does none of those things and is more fixed on how’s he’s doing then the team and we lose. Some people with high K/D (not all) are quick to bash others with low K/D but I find a lot of those guys are the ones that keep to themselves, don’t talk etc Yes maybe your good, maybe your the best on your team, but maybe if you called out more and such, those guys with low K/D wouldn’t have as low a K/D you know.
To be clear, yes K/D is important, and I care about it for sure, but if I go -1 or something and we win, that’s all that matters to me. You win as a team, you lose as a team.
This post isn’t directed to anyone btw, just saying in general.
In this order
- Having fun
- Winning
- K/D
Running over people in ghosts.
Now that my K/D is fairly good, I’d rather win. Especially since I’ve lost a large majority of my recent games. But I still try to maintain my K/D most of all.
I personally focus on my KD because it’s a good measuring device for how helpfull/hurtful I am to my team. I aim to win but focus more so on staying alive. Its just a plain and simple fact that even if you get 30 kills per round, but are dieing 50 times, you’ve given more points to the opposing team than you’ve helped your own.