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parallelogram13
Rising Novice
2 days ago

[Request] Please track wildcard/revivals kills and kd separately (or not at all)

I know previous revivals and 3 strikes counted to kill-trackers and kd (which I hated then as well).  I was really hoping for the new permanent mode, we’d either get separate stats, or at least not counted to kill trackers and kd.

Revival and 3-strike modes by design are much faster paced, with both kills and deaths racking up wayyy faster than ordinary battle royales.  It’s an entirely different game.  But if people actually play wildcard as much as regular battle royale, then wildcard will completely dominate your kd and your kill trackers.  And it will also be polluting your lifetime kd.  As unreliable it is at the best of times, it’s still one of the best skill-indicators in the game, and this choice is going to destroy its reliability.  We’ll only have ranked kd and revivals-dominated kd.

I enjoy working on my kill trackers for different legends too as a way to see how far I’ve progressed learning them.  But this breaks that as well, because everyone’s kill trackers are just going to be inflated by a permanent revivals mode.  It was bad enough when temporary modes added to trackers, but it’s 1000x worse to do this with a permanent mode.

Finally, it also really hurts the potential of wildcard as a fun casual low-stakes game mode.  We all know how brutal apex matchmaking can be.  Losing streaks are frustrating enough in normal battle royale.  But losing streaks in revivals can see you die tonnes of times in a single match without getting many or any kills to counter.  That’s fine if it’s untracked, but it’s really frustrating to see your seasonal kd completely tank from just a few bad games.  And apex matchmaking can very regularly put you in much longer death-loops than just a few games.

Please please please either track wildcard kills/kd separately, or just don’t track it at all.  It could be so fun, but after trying it out, it was such a gut punch to go back to lobby and realise that my kd and kill trackers this season were going to be completely ruined if I play the new mode.

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