KingBabar wrote:"Oh not another KDR thread..." Sorry but I just had to.
KDR is the most important stat, thats a fact.
In Skirmish we have a nice little bar that shows how much shield and armor both of the teams' MCC have left. On the bottom you can se available clone reserves, in other words how many clones have a team lost so far during this battle. I implore you to pay attention at the end of games and see the similarities between getting owned and, well, getting owned. I played for 4-5 hours yesterday and had a lot of Skirmish games for once and in all the battles the winning team also had the most kills. It also seemed that the more kills the winning team got, relative to the loosing team, the "bigger" the win was. (By bigger I mean you win the game with lots of armor or even shields left on your MCC).
I don't think that this applies to every single game, there will be exceptions. Like when the loosing team is 90% snipers hanging on top of hills and such and couldn't care less about the objective.
There are also some exceptions on the personal level:
- If your one of those "hang as far away as possible from harms way" kind of snipers and couldn't really care less about the outcome of the battle. Your personal KDR doesn't really say much about anything else than perhaps your aim.
- Its a little dodgy perhaps since the tanks just got nerfed a lot, but at least pre-nerf tanking and getting a KDR of 20 isn't very impressive.
- Dedicated pilots and I'm sure there's many more good examples.
So lets take all the kittens out of the equation and your left with the objective oriented "wanna win at all cost" kind of players. Do you really think a well organised team of good players stand a chance against a team of elite killers? Do you really see yourself winning when your boys keep getting dropped over and over again?
Don't think that your a great contributor to the win when you hav 0.3 KDR just because you wave a repair gun occationally. And don't think you're the only one picking people up just because you have a logi suit, I and many more carry it with us on our Scout suits even.
And don't get me wrong, I don't mean that your a scrub if you don't have a 3 KDR. As long as its at least "1", then no one is entitled to smack talk in my opinion, you've held your own. But please, pretty please, with sugar on top, don't act like KDR is some BS stat only used by tryhards to brag about their epic skills. This is a shooter, being good at shooting people is very important....
[I make this post to try and get some people to work more on their gun game. I had a 0.62 KDR in MAG before I decided to "get gud" and I got myself up to an average between 2 and 3 with some effort and training. I was still the same O-holder (team player) as I always was, just better at the killing part aswell. You can always be both.]