I believe I may have figured out a potential way to lower the WR on body count IL. It involves switching the intervention sniper rifle to the position directly in front of you, getting the AK and RPG and firing them as per usual, then grabbing the sniper before you jump out and attempting to wall bang spawning soldiers through the diner near the back door. The video linked is showing me doing it along with hitting the grenade launcher shot. I get the kill well before the 3.5 second mark. If this was combined with the RPG hitting the BTR it might possibly get the game to lower the score a bit faster and allow for a new WR. Of course I don't know that it would, it might not make any difference, but it seems like a theory worth testing. I've been grinding some attempts to no success yet. I've had plenty of attempts hitting the launcher and the wall bang just none with the RPG hit. On a small handful of attempts I've gotten a collateral through the wall and killed two. I hope that others will attempt this and we can find out if this is the secret to breaking the barrier.
Unfortunately that wouldn't work, the way the countdown of points works means the order of kills is important. There's lots of important pieces, but the most important piece is that each iteration of the points going down is based on the points the last kill you made gives.
So in the WR, the last kill gotten is the BTR.... that means that each iteration of the points decreasing will be by 4000, the highest possible. If you do what you're doing, then a simple normal kill is the last kill... meaning it will go down by 1000 each iteration. By the point we kill the BTR (which happens instantly) we already have enough kills to hit max points if it continues as is. What matters at that point is how fast it counts down, extra kills doesn't really do anything.
Another detail to think about for where improvements can actually come from is that on the second iteration of countdown you will get a bonus based on the killstreak amount. In the WR we kill 10 in the truck, and the BTR... so 11, a bonus of 1625. Getting that bonus high enough so that an entire extra iteration of countdown doesn't happen would be required. That requires 9 more kills. So somehow in the first tick, killing 19 people then killing the BTR would be required. (Remember, kills AFTER killing the BTR will not work - that lowers how much the score is counted down).
The second way to improve it would be killing 1 BTR, the 10 kills from the truck, then killing the 2nd BTR so that the BTR is last and you get that 4k countdown, while getting the extra 4k points from the first BTR - enough to remove an iteration of the countdown.
As far as I can tell, that's impossible in solo... but if you want to explore trying to decrease the time, those are the two avenues.
- 19 kills (10 from truck and 9 more) -> BTR kill
- BTR kill -> truck kill -> BTR kill
