Sigh* I KNEW right away that the out cry would be " lower the ttk". It's not impossible to 1 vs 3 in this game, I've done it multiple times and got my whole team back. This is probably the only high ttk game on console that i know of, everything else is twitch based. For the love of god can we have just this one? there are already a load of these games with low ttks and br's at that. Why does everything have to be the same???? Why does every game have to be like some other game?? let this game be its own thing. If you want low ttk, you have options, go play that. I 100% disagree that low ttk is a higher skill ceiling.
Low ttk, *: whole team can get wiped very fast and very little chance of even regrouping or planning cause things go out of control to fast and easy. Also, skill wise, i find reaction time with less emphasis on aim, to not be MORE skill, in fact easier it is to die, the more likely a lucky shot can give someone a victory. dont know about everyone else but more luck has an outcome the less skill as i see it, you see it all the time, watch people and most of the time they spray and pray all over and if one shot gets lucky placement out of the 30 rounds they plastered all over and 1-2 shots hit you die... yeah no. Pros: instant gratification, no need for great or even moderately good aim to achieve, can play only once week and probably be able to kill people who have been playing for months well enough.
High ttk, more chances to turn things around, campers or ambushes can get out played by better skill and aim. more muscle memory and consistent aim with quality shots being best, one or two lucky shots isn't gonna give someone the win, meaning luck has even smaller odds of effecting the outcome. If you can survive more damage you wont get absolutely obliterated because of team fire taking your low ttk death time of .2 or .3 seconds to .1 or less if you get team fired.
I've been playing shooters since the very early 2000's, i gotta say im tired of the newer twitch shooters, if i wanted my gameplay to be 95% about reaction times, i'd just play some QTE game where i just react to button prompt. I want to actually aim, as i find in twitch shooters that the key is to NOT aim and just spazz out and fire at someone first, if you take even a fraction of a second to aim the guy who simply pulled the trigger with no aim at all, will win almost everytime. Unfortunately low TTK has been a fad for years now and probably wont be going away, as every game that comes out with high ttk has eventually got updated to be low ttk by people who cant be bothered to aim. so the market is flooded with them, and its largely because its casual friendly, that's why people like cod, its easy to do well with little to no practice, drop in drop out, no dedication needed.