Battlefield 6 Just Nuked Your K/D Ratio, and It Is Hilarious
If your kill-death ratio just dropped by 90% overnight, I have some bad news for you: you were only good against robots.
Battlefield 6 recently dropped its California Resistance update, and while the patch notes promised a lot of changes, the most impactful one was hidden in the backend. While players were initially distracted by a bug that broke defibrillators, which Battlefield Studios quickly fixed, the developers quietly flipped a switch that has decimated the egos of stat-padders everywhere.
The Great Stat Purge
According to reports from Battlefield Bulletin, bot kills no longer count toward your K/D ratio on your profile page. This was done to make stats "accurate and fair," which is a polite way of saying they wanted to stop people from farming AI lobbies to look like esports gods.
The impact is already hilarious. Retired pro player Otto "ottr" Borstrom shared a screenshot of his new stats, and the math is brutal. His total kills dropped from a staggering 88,838 to just 24,227. Consequently, his K/D ratio freefell from an absurd 92.95 down to a very human 3.81. It turns out that when you remove the mindless drones wandering into your crosshairs, the game gets significantly harder.
The Cruelest Twist
Here is the part that feels personally vindictive: while killing a bot no longer rewards you, dying to one still punishes you. Reports confirm that deaths by bots still count against your K/D ratio.
This means if you hop into a bot lobby to warm up and accidentally get beamed by the T-800 AI, that shame is permanent. It is a brutal double standard that essentially tells players to "get good or get out."
The community is taking it in stride. One Reddit user, thecraigbert, suggested that if they are going to be this petty, they should add a "Deaths by Bots" rank at the end of the match just to really rub salt in the wound. I fully support this level of public shaming.
Credit to the report from Battlefield Bulletin.
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