quote KR_1250
Well, if K/D isnt tracked in kill based modes then i would not buy the game. Who wants to do ANYTHING in life without knowing how well your doing it? For me thats when competative gaming becomes literally pointless. Folk can bob along the bottom banging their heads off of a brick wall all they want but me, i'd prefer to know how im performing. I mean why not just stop counting kills aswell, we can all run around having a big girls sleepover style pillow fight with no winners or losers right ? Sounds fun.
And i cant wait to see your faces if they remove K/D and the cmaping is just as bad as ever. When are you lot gonna realise camping has been here forever.
Maybe some of you young uns never played Soldier of Fortune, Unreal, Quake 2 or AVP none of which included K/D or proper stat tracking and ALL of which had just as much camping as any modern game. Camping is the result of human nature, nothing else. You cant stop it by removing a number that most campers dont care about. Most campers have bloody aweful K/D's.
- K/D stats make camping worse: No, no it doesnt.
- If you get rid of K/D there will be less campers. No, no there wont.
Not only that, but the modern trend in gaming is for more personalised customisation and more detailed statistics. No way are they ever gonna go backward. Its kinda funny that people think they will.
So you play like a respectable person and have good stats, while another person plays like a douchbag (spawn camping, camping, toobing, etc) and they have good stats.
Now with that who can tell which of you is the truly superior player, both of you have good stats, but are acquired in completely different ways.
Removing stats will not completely kill asshole players, but it will take away a huge reason to camp. And yes people will still do it, cuz they suck.
As it is right now stats are pointless, cuz how 95% of the people boost those stats. Hell if NO ONE but you could see you stats then that would be fine, cuz there is no brag rights. (People would arrogantly spew their numbers still, but i can easily call bull shit cuz there is no proof, that i can see)
So what are people playing for; The entertainment of doing something that is impossible in real life (respawn) or playing to boost a number so they can feel better about their insignificant life (or small penis).