Serious question - I have been playing FPS for 20 years and I understand the 1/x calculation. Being normal I get 1-2/1, in this I get around 0.2 if I am lucky.This is the first time I have ever played a game where you can expect not to and consistently get no kills per round, which means you get a 0/x K/D, where x is any number you want before you press alt + F4.My brain is seizing up - how do you calculate a K/D where you don't even have the one in the first place?It has to be negative, but you get into the area of maths where you are dividing zero(?) or a negative(?) and it all goes very strange.I normally get 0/4 to 0/10 per round, you can't divide 0 by 10 a calculator won't allow you to do that and Excel says 0.Has BF2042 discovered a new field of mathematics?Chatgpt says 0/10 is 0.

Bad at maths and bad at pew pew. Sorry, had to be said.

How do you calculate a negative K/D?

14 Replies

DigitalHype
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I'm not sure what version of Excel or calculator you're using. But 0/10 is 0. It's the reverse 10/0 that is not valid.
For that single round 0 kills and 10 deaths is a k/d of 0. But for your cumulative stats you add the 10 to whatever your current total deaths are. So it could still bring your career k/d down even futher. Unless you've somehow never had a kill in the game. In which case it would remain 0 for the career as well.
Example:
Total all-time kills is 100. Totall all time deaths is 200. Career k/d is .5 (100/200). Then you go 0/10 in the next round. Your total kills remains 100. But your total deaths is now 210. So your career k/d goes down to .48 (100/210).
DaMutha1
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
Bad at maths and bad at pew pew. Sorry, had to be said.
halo572
3 years ago
Yes, that is what I was thinking, you can't have a per round K/D as it is mathematically impossible, so you have to have a cumulative.
A game so bad that likely for the first time in 2 decades I can't calculate a round ratio.
halo572
3 years ago
@DaMutha1 I have a doctorate in uninstalling and I have used my world renowned knowledge to unburden myself from the worst FPS experience I have ever had.
Good luck to you and your brethren who tappity tappity tap with 100% accuracy anyone within 1km of you, I will cherish the horror of playing this game for the rest of my natural days.
I will tell you something that unsettles me to the core of my being - the Steam forums loathe this game, don't really know why as I wouldn't spend any great time on there to find out, I left Steam 2 years ago, but to agree with that cesspit on something really is beyond the words I can describe and - somehow - the mostly negative it gets really is too kind.
DigitalHype
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@DaMutha1 wrote:
Bad at maths and bad at pew pew. Sorry, had to be said.
Lol. I take the time to answer his question and you make a slight insult (although you did write the honest truth). And he marks your post as solution. I swear this thread really explains why some rounds with random teammates can be so painful.
DaMutha1
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@DigitalHype wrote:
@DaMutha1 wrote:
Bad at maths and bad at pew pew. Sorry, had to be said.
Lol. I take the time to answer his question and you make a slight insult (although you did write the honest truth). And he marks your post as solution. I swear this thread really explains why some rounds with random teammates can be so painful.
Lol, this thread has been more entertaining than the game lately
A-RAF2019
3 years ago
@halo572
I don't know how it works, but when the game cannot do the math, they use if statements and replace zero by 1.
If K = x and D = 0, then D = 1.
Therefore 1/0 is replaced by 1/1, the result is 1, which is 100% success.

In theory, the lower the number you divide something by, the higher the result.
10/10 = 1
10/5 = 2
10/1 = 10
10/0.1 = 100
Then the closer to zero, the closer you would get to infinity. Computers can't handle these numbers

Although a K/D of 1 would be unfair for someone who does 10/0, the game cannot attribute a random value, so I believe the game would replace it to 10/1 which is the closest value, and even though, it is not the real number.
DigitalHype
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@A-RAF2019The OP was asking about K/D where kills = 0, not deaths. In that case there is no need to replace either the antecedent nor consequent. It's only necessary if the consequent (deaths) is zero.
I don't see how any of it matters though. AFAIK, the game doesn't output your k/d anywhere but the stats page. And that is cumulative. The score board only shows absolute values for kills and deaths. It doesn't show a k/d ratio. Neither in fraction or decial form.
AngrySquid270
3 years ago
A negative K/D?
I suppose if you figured out a way to revive enemies it'd be possible.
I'd love to see DICE accidently introduce that bug some day. Maybe just for a weekend.
Prof3ss0r_M1k3
3 years ago
@AngrySquid270 wrote:
A negative K/D?
I suppose if you figured out a way to revive enemies it'd be possible.
I'd love to see DICE accidently introduce that bug some day. Maybe just for a weekend.
negative K/D is anything under 1, not a number with a - sign