So I'm a big fan of FPS games, competitive FPS to be precise and recently a few friends and I have really gotten into Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and a few things have become apparent:

K/D matters to the majority of players here just as much as it did in CoD.

The Objective has become secondary to players.

First I'd like to clarify that I've had over 700 hours of CoD experience, 500 on MW2, 150 on Black ops and about 100 on the console versions. I feel that gives me adequate experience to confirm the importance on K/D for the majority, I also feel that people saying that Bad Company is completely different are simply wrong, it's true that the ratio of objective players to K/D players is certainly higher in Bad Company but it's definitely still a problem.

Second, my friends have come from CoD just as I did though they have 500 - 1000 hours each on Battlefield 2 that I never had. We've put roughly 100 - 150 hours each into Bad Company now and since soon after we started we have consistently been topping scoreboards even with half the kills of the guys below us simply because the objective is primary. This post is not supposed to be a brag, we were as surprised as anyone until we realised just how much people will sit in the corners of buildings, aiming down their sights, staring at a door while sitting on an ammo pack 10 buildings from the MCOM when they should be attacking, what is this ever going to achieve?

Black ops had a good idea that was, unfortunately, poorly executed and that was showing the objective in the scoreboard. I.E Flag captures, Defends, Bomb Defuses, Bomb Plants and so on. What they didn't do, which I think they show have, was remove the K/D stat completely from the scoreboard, while a controversial plan I believe it would get people out of their corners and actually push them to go for the flags / bombs / intel, whatever the objective may be which would be fantastic. Showing K/D in team deathmatch / Free for all, absolutely fine, killing people is the objective and should be rewarded as such.

There is one major flaw in the plan to remove K/D that I can think of off the top of my head and that's the defenders, the guys who tasked themself to defend their own flags and leaving the capturing to others, sohlud they be punished for their choice? Of course not, adding a new stat for killing enemies near your own objectives could be added, Battlefield already has this and should hopefully become standard for all.

This rant has gone on a while so I'll wrap it up, it's not supposed to spark a CoD vs Battlefield debate, they're both fantastic franchises that have brought me many hours of enjoyment there are just things that irritate me about these games and these are a couple of them. I also realise that I'm late to this party, the games have been out a long time and people are probably sick to death of these arguements already but what the hell, it's my blog and I felt like venting.

TL;DR read the damn thing, lazy!