The upcoming Call of Duty: Vanguard has been extensively played in the beta, and the time it takes to kill (TTK) is being controversially discussed. There is disagreement among experts. Some professionals believe that the TTK is the fastest, while streamers like XQc argue the opposite. Find out everything about the topic on MeinMMO.
What is the TTK? The term TTK stands for “Time to Kill”. This refers to the time in a shooter it takes, on average, to take down an opponent. Games with high TTK, like Apex Legends, often require tactical gameplay, as you rarely take down opponents in one go. Conversely, games with low TTK are likely to demand aggressive, dynamic gameplay, as you quickly eliminate enemies if you shoot faster than they do.
It applies:
- The lower the TTK, the faster and more action-packed the game – Every mistake is fatal
- The higher the TTK, the slower and more tactical the game – Mistakes can be compensated, and you may even escape from opponents
In the Vanguard Beta, players were able to get a sense of the TTK in Vanguard, and no matter how one assesses it, it is not what many players want.
TTK is definitely a problem
What does JGOD say? The streamer and CoD expert JGOD has looked at the TTK in the multiplayer of Vanguard and is not satisfied with it. According to him, the TTK is far too low and resembles the TTK of the notorious multiplayer mode of Modern Warfare from 2019.
This means you die very quickly, and thus you can hardly afford to make mistakes. A burst of fire and you’re down. However, according to JGOD, this does not lead to dynamic gameplay, but rather to too much camping.
Because the time to return from sprinting to firing position would be “ridiculously low”. Therefore, it makes much more sense to just sit somewhere and already have an optimal firing angle, into which an opponent would likely stray soon.
Dynamic “run and gun” gameplay would be rather rare, as one is largely defenseless while sprinting. For JGOD, it would be better if the developers increased the TTK by adding more hit points to the operators and adjusting the weapons. However, he considers it unlikely that such changes will happen.
What does XqC say? Curiously, the streamer XQc sees it completely differently. He also played the Vanguard Beta over the weekend, but he found the TTK far too long. In a situation where XQc is even camping and expecting opponents, an enemy runs in front of him, and he can barely take him down with great difficulty. Then the next opponent comes, and even he takes a few bullets before he takes out the streamer with his Thompson gun.
This frustrates XQc, as he thought he had landed enough hits:
How can it be that I hit him eight times and he doesn’t fall? What is this? Compared to other CoD games, people here are so damn “tanky”. This is broken, the TTK is crap! That’s why players here will soon all run around with damn drum magazines. Then they just keep their finger on the trigger. This is bullshit! It promotes sloppy and stupid gameplay!
For XQc, the TTK, which he considers too high, is a reason why the meta will likely shift toward wild running types with drum magazines – like the Thompson gun – where everyone just runs around shooting wildly.
How high is the TTK in Vanguard actually? The opinions of players and professionals appear to diverge, but an analysis by YouTuber and expert TheXclusiveAce shows that the TTK in Vanguard is around 300 milliseconds.
In Modern Warfare, it was 196, and in Cold War, it was 322. Thus, according to this statistic, the TTK is definitely higher than in Modern Warfare and somewhat lower than in Cold War, where it was already perceived as very high.
Of course, the info on CoD Vanguard is based on the alpha and beta, and a lot could change before the release in November.
CoD Vanguard, by the way, brings many more discrepancies with it. For some players, it is a hit, while for others, it is a cheekiness.
