I’ve never been a good Halo player, and up until Halo 4 i didn’t care at all. Now i find myself quitting games, and raging if I don’t get a good score. Am i just to competitive? Or is this a common characteristic?
I’m with ya man.
I’ve always been a big niche about k/d tho
If you quit games, your k/d means nothing. (…noob)
It just means your getting tired of just playing the game, and now you need to find new ways to play it, getting a high KD is one.
Just change your goal in the game, mine is to get better personally. So i still get mad if i do bad, but i dont give 2 beeps about my KD.
Maybe you aren’t at peace with yourself? I know that sounds silly, but usually when I find myself getting angry about a game or something else that in the grand scheme of things should be trivial (no matter how much I love games, which is a lot believe me…they’re just games,) if I’m honest with myself it’s because I have some level of insecurity or unacknowledged source of stress elsewhere in my life.
Or maybe you just like to win lol. Nothing wrong with a little healthy competition. Just don’t take it to extremes.
I’m trying desperately to get mine above 1.0, when before I never cared. It’s is damn near impossible considering my disability (my reaction time is 4 times longer than that of a normal person, and my fine motor skills are very poor).
> I’m trying desperately to get mine above 1.0, when before I never cared. It’s is damn near impossible considering my disability (my reaction time is 4 times longer than that of a normal person, and my fine motor skills are very poor).
A 1.0 means you have brought your team to defeat more times than you can imagine. (50% of the time you are hurting not helping)
A “good” player aims for 2.0, even when it’s difficult to do so.
> > I’m trying desperately to get mine above 1.0, when before I never cared. It’s is damn near impossible considering my disability (my reaction time is 4 times longer than that of a normal person, and my fine motor skills are very poor).
>
> A 1.0 means you have brought your team to defeat more times than you can imagine. (50% of the time you are hurting not helping)
>
> A “good” player aims for 2.0, even when it’s difficult to do so.
That’s what really sucks about it. I love playing Halo, but I can’t do it very well at all for reasons I can’t control…
If you care about your KD, don’t quit out of games just because you’re losing.
Once you start the heavy manipulation of quitting out every time you’re losing, or ignoring obectives so you can stat pad, your KD is no longer a true representation of your skill.
If you care about it, let it improve naturally and progressively as you improve.
If you’re going to manipulate it, why bother?
Personally few things pissed me off more than stat padders with inflated KDs, who then talk down to other people because of it.
Play the game, learn from your mistakes and experiences, improve naturally, and your KD will be fine. The hardest part seems to be learning from your mistakes.
There is a phrase, that if at first you don’t succeed, try again. The trick is knowing when to try again (To perfect the technique), and when to NEVER do it again (Because it was flawed to begin with, and will still be flawed no matter how many times you do it).
Dude just know KD doesnt mean anything. I could go to btb and get a 5.0 or go to slayer pro and only get a 1.1.
It proves NOTHING.
> > I’m trying desperately to get mine above 1.0, when before I never cared. It’s is damn near impossible considering my disability (my reaction time is 4 times longer than that of a normal person, and my fine motor skills are very poor).
>
> A 1.0 means you have brought your team to defeat more times than you can imagine. (50% of the time you are hurting not helping)
>
> A “good” player aims for 2.0, even when it’s difficult to do so.
Strive for a 2.0 right? Because mine is only 1.24, yet my good matches out number my bad matches, and I have won 67% of the matches I have played in, and given the amount of times we all join mid game to a lost cause 67% feels pretty good, and I find myself enjoying this game more than I do screaming into the mic.
It’s all good, Ch1ck3nFr1kaS33. You should never allow an uncontrollable medical condition make you feel inferior. Least of all over a videogame.
Remember, you’re playing to have fun. If you’re not, why bother? It sounds like your life is hard enough without making yourself feel worse over a videogame, which should be an escape and a source of happiness not a source of stress.
Just have fun. If anyone holds it against you… tell them a random weirdo on the internet named Vamphaery said they’re jerks. 
> I’m trying desperately to get mine above 1.0, when before I never cared. It’s is damn near impossible considering my disability (my reaction time is 4 times longer than that of a normal person, and my fine motor skills are very poor).
Hold the phone! You have a disability, and you are tryin to hold yourself to other peoples standards? Don’t let anyone tell you what your k/d should be,and just try to be the best you can be.
> > > I’m trying desperately to get mine above 1.0, when before I never cared. It’s is damn near impossible considering my disability (my reaction time is 4 times longer than that of a normal person, and my fine motor skills are very poor).
> >
> > A 1.0 means you have brought your team to defeat more times than you can imagine. (50% of the time you are hurting not helping)
> >
> > A “good” player aims for 2.0, even when it’s difficult to do so.
>
> That’s what really sucks about it. I love playing Halo, but I can’t do it very well at all for reasons I can’t control…
Hey be realistic about it. Everybody has things they can’t contol.
Some of these can be avoided.
Some of these can be reduced.
Some of these will bite you in the -Yoink- no matter what.
I try to be a good player, and I’d say hit 2 KD in 80% of my matches, but no matter how good you think you are, there will always be that one “Reality Check” match, where you get the -Yoink- stomped out of you.
Beating yourself up because of obstacles is the losing attitude. Just stay positive no matter what. The winning mentality will not guarantee victory, but the losing mentality will virtually guarantee your defeat.
Edit
Hey my bad bro, I had just responded to the last post I had seen and didn’t catch the part about your disability.
I wasn’t trying to be insensitive.
Here are some hopefully inspirational videos for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83nSodg-HTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-7q9aFJ_T4 (The guy does fairly well at MW3)
For what it is worth, Borderlands 2 (While it isn’t competitive, it is all coop), is disabled friendly with fully remapable controls.
In the months leading up to this game, I made a thread asking 343 to do this as well, so that disabled gamers would be able to participate, needless to say the responses I received weren’t the greatest.
If you don’t mind my asking, what specifically do you have? Add me on XBL, BWO Arbiter, I’ll try my damnest to come up with a viable strategy which you can use.
The “Reality Check” Matches being the ones were every random frag seems to find you, the guy on Solace who never seems to run out of ammo with the freaking cannon of bouncing flames of death, and no matter how many times you blast the sword carrying Spartan in the face he still covers the whole map and slices you in half. However, if it wasn’t for those matches than we would not appreciate the ones where we are unstoppable death machines.
I would say that I’m an above average player but K/D in Halo 4 doesn’t say much. I quit games largely due to lag problems with the other team or I join a game in progress that is already lopsided in the other teams favour.
K/D ratio only matters in slayer and regicide. If you die a crap load of times during an objective game, dont worry about it, because that means you are actually trying to help your team win instead of hanging out in the back trying not to die.
When winning the game no longer matters (no competitive ranks), K/DR is the next best thing in terms of finding something competitive to base your skill on. Of course, K/DR is meaningless in this game because of the Trueskill system. My theory is that the system aims for everyone to have a 1:1 K/DR.
> K/D ratio only matters in slayer and regicide. If you die a crap load of times during an objective game, dont worry about it, because that means you are actually trying to help your team win instead of hanging out in the back trying not to die.
Even in Slayer you can tell the players that only care about their stats, the ones that stayed crouched while you are engaging the enemy and wait for the outcome to try to get the easy kill, so instead of helping and taking out the enemy player or players, he allows you to die while he gets an easy kill. Now, instead of walking away from that situation with at least + 10 or even + 20 your team will be lucky to break even.
I care about K/D in the sense that I want it to keep improving. Once I got my kill total to be +100 from my deaths, I was glad. Then it worked up to +200, +300, +400, and so on…
And now I have a K/D in Dominion of 2.05.