In Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 what is a good multiplayer kill to death ratio?

Question

I want to get better at the multiplayer in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2? What is a good kill to death ratio?

Right now for every kill I get I die about 10 times. What should I be shooting for?

Answer 1

Kill / Death ratio isn't that important really. For example, mine is about 0.7, but I regularly top the scoreboard.

Just focus on getting a weapon / perk setup that works for your play-style and have fun with that.

Answer 2

Anything greater than 1 is "good". More kills than deaths. Really good players do better than that. But more kills than deaths is probably a good starting point.

Answer 3

This really depends on what game type you play. On objective games (like domination / ctf / hq) the objective is the point. Dying less is probably still something to strive for, but if you're helping your team, good for you.

If you're playing kill-based games (free for all, team death match) your KD matters above everything else. It doesn't matter if you get 30 kills if you've died 40 times. Thats a net -10 affect for your team. Going 10-5 is way better than 20-25 or the like since its a race to most kills and every death gives your opponent a point.

Answer 4

It also depends on the game type your are playing. If you choose something objective-based like Headquarters or Domination you will die a lot just by random grenade spam and things like that because everybody knows where you are.

For TD I would go for 1 and above.

I noticed in my own matches that the mindset you're playing in is the key to a good K/D. Find a stick sensitivity you like and just play like you don't care about anything. Try mixing up your playstyle by being overly aggressive in some games (Marathon plus Lightweight to sprint the whole time and run directly at choke points where you know people are normally sitting or running by) and then play some very cautiously with Ninja and Cold-Blooded.

And the most important point, I hinted at in the paragraph above, learn the maps! Knowing where you will meet people after starting the match and running a certain route and just knowing camping places and choke points in general is the biggest advantage you can have, cause you will be able to run around groups and kill 2 or 3 players before they even know whats up.

well, and quick reflexes help too :)

Answer 5

Who cares about K/D ratio as long as YOU ARE HAVING FUN. It's a game.

Answer 6

K/D ratio of 1 is very good, because the median is probably about 0.7. Anything over 0.7 is good.

Answer 7

The obvious answer is that higher is always better, so there is no definitive "good" K/D ratio.

That being said, if the winning condition is based on kills, then a KDR greater than 1 is "good", because it means that you are contributing kills to your team's victory faster than you're supplying them to the opponents.

Answer 8

As has been pointed out, it depends on the game type.

• In all team deathmatch games, what really counts is the kill-death-spread (KDS) (ie. kills - deaths), since every death for you is a kill to the other team

• In objective-based games, it matters, but not very much, as objectives score more points. To be precise, the significance of your KDS is (points per kill) / (points per objective) (i forget the figures, being a TDM player myself)

• In free-for-all, all that matters is the number of kills

However, the way I read your question, you'd really like to know what KDR is "OK" - that you can feel good about. The only objective answer to that would have to be unity (1) - meaning you give as good as you get. Myself, I'm slightly below in my totals (about 18000 to 22000), and I'm perfectly happy with that.

As a caveat to all this - when it comes to team deathmatch games, I have always felt that a more accurate and fair ranking in the game would be by KDS (rather than simply kills). It doesn't look right when a reckless player with, say, 30 kills and 40 deaths rank on top, while the one with 9 kills and 4 deaths end up last (that tends to be me ;-).