(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Ok, this has been bugging me for AGES! I've been stuck on a skull for ages now, so many different theories about KDR (Kill Down Ratio), and every "mission" I've finally obtained for the bowie knife haven't come true so far.

Since my downs are so high, it's taken me a long time to bump my ratio up (no I'm not crap at zombies, I tested the so called permanent jugg before the recent update where they actually put it in, so in 1 game of 2 player Tranzit I went down 100 times at each bus stop; depot, diner, farm, power and town. In one game.....) anyway enough about my tear jerking story.

So from what I read I've had to aim for the last missions which is if you have over X amount of kills, you need a KDR of ____. So you had to get a KDR from as low as I've heard from 60 all the way to 100. I always thought that was vague, I mean surely it would be a set number rather than in between number X to number Y?

But I rounded up my kills to an easy number last night, I'm on 100,000 kills to 920 downs, according to my calculations, I should been on a KDR of: 108.6 so over halfway to 109, and yet I still lack the rank up.

So I have met the requirements for the Bowie knife and still haven't obtained it, what I'm planning to do is, dunno why, do custom survival game on town and round the KDR to 110, but I'm gonna do solo Tranzit today and try and get to round 50 and higher.

I just want to know if anyone else has had similar experiences with both KDR (and I'm hoping, rounds), I'm going to assume it's rounds, because before the round skipping glitch was patched, those that did it and glitched to rounds 200+, were getting shotgun ranks.

Thanks for taking the time to read my constant headache in zombies

I hope so, I finally got my Bowie knife last night, I got to round 53 solo Die Rise, so I finallly hit the 50 mark at last!
Also got to round 25 in 4 player Die Rise, unfortunately for the last 6 rounds of that game, I was carrying the team, meaning they went down at the start of each round and I had to take on 4 players worth of zombies (thank jeebus for the Sliquifier!)

Gonna do more solo tonight and aim even higher!

good luck my friend and may the force be with you !

Well I got my bowie knife a few days ago now, but because of those crippling downs, which were standing at 1,100, I decided to wipe my stats.
(I would have to kill 1,100 zombies without getting downed to increase my ration by 1, not hard but very time consuming.)

So, I started fresh earlier today, I must of played around 3 hours total now, so now my stats are:
Kills: 13,521 Bullets: 6091 Downs: 4 Revives: 1 Grenade kills: 1421
Headshots: 278 Deaths: 2 GIBS (body parts): 19,053
Perks: 23 Doors: 13 Accuracy: 0.95 Distance: 4 miles

So my KDR would be: 3,380.25
I got the crossbones after finishing my recent game, I quit it at round 74 with around 11k kills (I'm scared because one time I got to round 94 but I got disconnected from my internet >.>

There's got to be something more to this ranking system, I wanna try and make it more clear hopefully....

u gotta play everyday at least 1 game bro to level up trust me

I am, I'm getting a tally a day, I've got over 13k kills and 4 downs, my ratio is incredibly high, so that shouldn't be the factor (if it was at all.)

I got a free night tonight so might do a long session and see how that affects my rank.

On crossbones atm, was 3 tallies this morning before i left work, played 1 game of round 15, easy, custom survival on town, killed over 100 zombies, left the game and got my 4th tally. Played 3 more just wiping out the first wave (44 kills) and no more tallies, so will see if a good session can bump my rank further despite getting my tally today.

YUP thats treyarch 4 u , i got deranked for not playin 1 day by 5 tally marks so i gave up!

its kinda ridicules that treyarch made it this way but you only have to play 1 game a day to not get deranked but like a said ,its bullss*** i gave up lol

So quick update, got my bowie knife back, got it from a 4 player game of Die Rise, it was about round 22, I was carrying the team, so every round they'd respawn, try get perks n stuff, but die again, but 1 player was away, so I kept reviving him in my train spot.

I must of got like 14 revives that game, then he finally started playing, got down then rage quit (I don't mind because his downs will hamper his stats) so there was nothing left to do but do a Leeroy Jenkins and dolphin dive of the edge since it was gonna be a painfully slow game with just one player.

But my point is; maybe getting those revives got me my emblem? My KDR (if it's still the factor) is over 10k still so maybe my other stats need to bump up in order for me to get Shotguns?

I personally don't mind having emblems it's making me get more out of Zombies than the last 2 games, I just wish they'd add your highest 4 player round score next to your name again to truly see who is good in a lobby rather than a vague emblem that nobody is too sure on how to obtain yet

I was stuck at the very first skull for a long time and I had alot of downs. The way that worked for me is I played about 3-4 games each going to atleast round 30 on solo and I ranked up. You may need more than just 3-4 games depending on how many downs you have.