I had a 2.6 K/D ratio before the "bot reduction," (Which seemed completely fair to me. Let's earn the k/d ratio honestly, right?) which dropped me to 1.9.
Currently I stand at 2.029 and probably that will rise slowly because mainly I play as an Engineer Tank Driver or Recon Sniper. Enemy engineers and enemy snipers are my major nemesis. (I consider my main job to cover one or two objectives, ping entering enemies and attack them either with my tank weapons or sniper/dmr rifle, depending on which I'm playing.)
I don't think K/D ratio alone is a singular criterion for banning people, but in egregious cases it would be an indicator of Wallhack and Aimbot hack. I would think that a K/D ratio above 5.0 would be a certain indicator that some cheating is happening.
They are working on a streamlined reporting system for reporting suspected cheaters and I think that is a very good thing. Let's give it a little time. The game only released in October and it usually takes about six months to work out the bugs and make significant changes.
No, even at 5.0 K/D you couldn't really tell. People like to bring up some arbitrary number, but it's highly dependent on context.
Let's say I purely played Liberation Peak, used Recon with a sniper rifle and ignored all objectives. I'd play it extremely safe. No exposed hill top sniping, but consciously staying behind my teammates, keeping proper distance and sticking to cover as if it's a religion. As soon as my team loses and can't hold a position I quit the game.
I'm pretty sure I could get a K/D that's 4+ at the very minimum and I would technically not do anything to cheat or break the terms of service. I personally don't play like that, because it's boring and my goal isn't to cheese my statistics, but there are people that do enjoy that kind of playstyle.
