First off I have to say your wrong all of those titles are exactly the same at the core. they are shooters where you try to kill your opponet with a weapon of some sort. The weapns and how they work are irrelevant at this point. Removing death streaks from CoD would make it the same as all of the rest of them at the core of how the game is played. People only hate death streaks because of the random factor it adds to the game that is harder to predict and counter.

Small maps do not make it nearly as chaotic as you think, A good team on a small map can easily hold it regardless what the other team tries to do. Used to do this on noobtown all the time when played wiht friends. No offending team could ever get to where we were if we worked well. Kill streaks only at a limited from of chaos when you have perks that can protect you from them. I do not fear any of them because I am basicly immune to any non player controlled kill streak when I play. So that bit of randomness is negated and easily dealt with. So no impact in how I play from those. The spawns are only hard to handle if you team has rushers moving around the map too much. If everyone has a set area they guard and patrol/camp the spawns are very easy to handle and do not add in any additional chaos as people like to claim.

I am not complacent by my use of them in fact I understand them and the benefits they give to all players from new players to the experiences players that artfully use them thwart an enemy team easily. Yes they may help some bad players get easy kills, but for those players that do not need them for kills they are a great way to end a so called better players kill streak randomly and this is why they are hated so much. Because kill streaks have been made over important in the game series.

As for you adapting as well that it where the true challenge and fun comes from, someone that is not stuck in rut playing only one playstyle all the time like so many others do in this game and then cry when someone beat them at their own game and way of playing.

I do not just rush in letting the game do it for me. I sitll do my part but yes I will let the streak help me out for that is what it is there for fundementally, refusing to use it out of some sense of vanity or pride is just foolish and poor strategy and is another reason people hate them, for those taht know how to use them to help get the job done and end an enemies streak.

My approach is not just letitng the game get the kill for me, it is using the streak and both defensive and offensive back up further enhancing my total destructive power and not just relying on a weapon alone. A true warrior uses everything around them, not just what they have to kill the enemy. Something so many games have forgotten over time as things like k/dr and kill streaks were made more important and key points in the game.

I do not have to assume they are not using them because they do not need them. That is foolish way to think. They chose to not use them and that is all I need to know, for it now has removed several vectors of unpredictable playstyles from the equation. And each vector removed makes the game even easier to play and requiring less over all skill or ability to do so.

Even if they try to be as random as me, those removed factors make a big difference in what is worried about, more so than what has not been removed. By them limiting themself then it also opens up other door ways to approach them that they may not be ready for or able to handle such as the suicide nade rusher cooking a frag as they run into a heavily guarded area. I play more than just TDM so my K/Dr means little to me. In the end it is the entire round and how it went and not just my k/dr or the w/r that makes the game fun or not for me, nor is how many deathstreaks or kill streaks I managed to get either. It is the sum total of the entire round and everything learned and experienced both good and bad that makes the match and game interesting, not just a simple stat.

Though battlefield may seem a little more realistic it is still basicly the same as this game at its core. CoD is only an adventure shooter if you chose to see it such. Strategy and tactics can still play a very large part in the outcome of a match, even in a game like Halo it did which is about the same as BF but set in the future.

I have joined matches where the team was loosing because all they cared about was camping for kills and ksr and I rushed the rest of time getting objectives and lead the game to a win instead of loss. I died alot and used my ds well though; but my willingness to sacrifice a stat improved another stat instead. So k/dr is not always nearly as important as some make it seem to be at times in every game mode.