This tool will correlate your equipment choices with your KDA spreads.

What?

I play hunt showdown a lot. It's very fun. It's also insanely frustrating sometimes. The game has long matches, very frantic, quick battles, and a wide variey of meaningful character specialization and equipment options. It can take dozens of matches to determine if a loadout is worth it, and there are many loadouts, and a match takes an hour ... In short, it is very hard to get feedback on what equipment loadouts, tactics, or friends are useful.

For that, I keep a journal of matches, and am writing this tool to output some insights on the data gathered.

To use it, you will have to write down match information. But matches last an hour, so that's not much overhead.

Then, you'll have to use the tools this package provides:

• kda-summary will summarize your K, D, and A values (and the usual KDA metric) over the entire journal.
• kda-compare the alpha (unstable, unreliable) version of some multi-variate hyothesis tests that will tell you if you're doing significantly differently with different loadouts.

Basics

Keep a match journal like this (fyi this is key value count format ).

<date> [<items or friends initials>] [K|D|A|B]

For example, my Hunt diary looks a little like:

2021-03-12 BAR+Scope pistol K K B alone
2021-03-12 BAR+Scope pistol K D D jb
2021-03-12 Short-Rifle Short-Shotgun K D jb
2021-03-12 BAR+Scope pistol D jp+jb
2021-03-13 BAR+Scope pistol jp D
2021-03-13 BAR+Scope pistol jp B D D A A
2021-03-13 Shotgun pistol jp D
2021-03-13 BAR+Scope pistol jp K
2021-03-14 Short-Rifle akimbo  alone
2021-03-17 LAR Sil pistol  alone
2021-03-17 pistol-stock akimbo  alone
2021-03-17 Short-Shotgun pistol-stock  alone

you can use whatever you want to denote loadouts or friends ... it'll just run multi-variate regression on all of them with the important parts: K D A or B, for example... Contents of journal.txt:

K K Sniper
K D Shotgun
K K JP Sniper
K D B Shotgun JB
K D B Sniper JB

is 5 matches:

1. two kills with a sniper loadout
2. a kill a death with a shotgun loadout
3. two kills with a sniper loadout and team-mate "JP"
4. a kill, a death, a bounty with Shotguns and team-mate "JB"
5. Same, but with Sniper loadout

KDA-Summary

Let's see the summary over time:

$ <journal.txt kda-summary
    n       Date   K   D   A   B   KDA    sK    sD    sA    sB  mKDA    mK    mD    mA    mB 
    1          1   2   0   0   0  2.00     2     0     0     0  2.00  2.00  0.00  0.00  0.00 
    2          2   1   1   0   0  1.00     3     1     0     0  3.00  1.50  0.50  0.00  0.00 
    3          3   2   0   0   0  2.00     5     1     0     0  5.00  1.67  0.33  0.00  0.00 
    4          4   1   1   0   1  1.00     6     2     0     1  3.00  1.50  0.50  0.00  0.25 
    5          5   1   1   0   1  1.00     7     3     0     2  2.33  1.40  0.60  0.00  0.40 

Not bad. Notice, kda-summary requires the use of tags K for kills, D for death, B for bounties, and A for assist. It outputs your per-match stats, the KDA value of (K+A)/D, the sum of the K, D, A and B, and the mean (avg / match) of KDA, K, D, A, and B.

Note the Date field. If you put dates of the form YYYY-MM-DD somewhere per line in the journal, it will populate that field. See example above or kvc.

KDA-Explore (formerly kda-compare)

With kda-explore the semantics of 'K' vs 'k' vs "kill" is irrelevant. We explore the data by asking it to analyze variables by name. For example, in the data above, to see kills "K" per match with Sniper and without, you form the "experiment" denoted as "K:Sniper" and ask kda-explore to run that experiment by kda-explore -c "K : Sniper"

You can run many experiments seperated by 'vs' (this will change), against many output varaibles ... All are valid:

• kda-explore "K D : Sniper vs Shotgun" to see which is better
• kda-explore "D : K" to see if you die more when you kill stuff or not
• kda-explore "Sniper: JB" to see if you play sniper more or less when you're with JB
• kda-explore K:all to see kill spreads and sorted rate comparisons for all variables

and so on ... each "tag" (item on a line in a journal) is a valid input or output depending on your determination of experiments.

Heres one:

$ <journal.txt kda-explore "K D : Sniper vs Shotgun"
Processed. Read: 5 rows and 7 variables
K Sniper Shotgun D JP JB B 
Debug: processing: K: Sniper vs Shotgun
K:( Sniper ) 5.00/3 = 1.67  vs 2.00/2 = 1.00 Rates are same with p=0.373
K:( Shotgun ) 2.00/2 = 1.00  vs 5.00/3 = 1.67 Rates are same with p=0.373

We note that the rates of kills with shotgun exactly equal the rates of kills w/ not sniper, so this test results are the same.

Use

Warning, this functionality will change rapidly prior to 1.0 release

$ kda-explore -h
USAGE:
    kda-explore <command>

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

ARGS:
    <command>    The A/B comparison to run, of the form '<some variables : <other variables>'. e.g., 'K: pistol'
                 will check kills with and wtihout pitols [default: K D A : all]

One way to interpret this is "This doesn't make sense". That's true, it's primitive still, and mostly a toy for my own use.

Get for debian / WSL

For now, just grab one of the test debs in releases/

Then,

sudo dpkg -i kda-tools_0.5.0_amd64.deb

You can use the example above as-is.

Todo

• document match journal format better. see: github.com/jodavaho/kvc.git
• improve match journal to allow :count. (see kvc again)
• provide linter for match journal
• tool to create / factor matricies in format ammenable to third-party analysis (e.g., R)
• Perform power tests / experiment design
• remove '-c' as mandatory switch ... obsolete when baseline '_' was removed
• Provide a library version in C,
  • C++,
  • Rust

Known issues

• If you have an item you use every game, then you have insufficient data. for every test of the form k:A there must be at least one match without A occuring. It's ok if there's no kills (k).