Eff the Stats - Be a Good Teammate!

So I've seen people asking how to get your Kill Death Ratio (KDR) up in Killzone 2. Truth is as you learn the maps and the guns and flow of the maps you will start to get better just over time. Worrying about KDR is garbage - it makes you a worse player and it doesn't help your team (I'm as guilty as anyone of thinking "hmmm I really need to get my KDR up"). Here is something I posted to someone asking about how to improve KDR in Warzone.

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If you are worrying about your KDR then you are probably playing 4 of the 5 game modes wrong. The only one where KDR means anything is body count. If my team / squad needs a tactician to drop a spawn and we don’t have one then I will blow myself up and respawn as a tactician to help win the round (i.e. in Search and Destroy or something). KDR should not be your focus - winning each round should be and having a positive KDR only really matters in Body Count (although it obviously helps not to die a lot).

- Staying alive - don’t run often. It drops your weapon down and then you are not ready when you need to be and you have to take a second to raise your weapon. Run when you are retreating or trying to improve your teams position - don’t just run to get into the battle faster.
- Get in a squad and stay with your squad (spawn with your squad). Strength in numbers and the ability to push up with your squad is powerful.
- Don’t run and gun. If you’re using rifles stay med / long distance and stop and aim your shots. If you get in closer ranger shoot from the hip in short bursts (I think I strafe in close). Shotguns are just going to cut through you if you run up with a rifle.
- Take advantage of the FF being default off. Spam nades into highly congested areas for cheap easy kills.
- Ammo up. If an engineer has repaired an ammo box and you are near then load up. You don’t start with enough ammo and running out of ammo or nades when you need them because you didn’t take 2 seconds to ammo up is lame.
- Head shots....try and make em. You can take down anybody with one head shot - even the assault class with his boost on.
- Stay back a little - and make sure you have cover that you can get to if you need to regenerate health.
- Learn the maps of course...learn them really well.

- Use your radar!! (not the guy from M*A*S*H*)

Be a good teammate - get in a squad or start a squad. Be a medic if one is needed or an engineer or whatever is needed. Don’t play for KD play for the win.

Have fun!