Beautiful Operation

Gears 5
#1

I don’t know if this goes for anyone else…

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But this is probably my all-time favorite image of Marcus, it just looks really nice to me. So playing on Nexus, as Classic Marcus, going all “Burn Baby!” on DBs and Swarm, With that classic music mixed into the new menu soundtrack, and an achievement called “Ben Would’ve Loved This,”,… let’s just say I have a lot of positive things to say about OP5. But the biggest thing I can give it, is that it feels Gears.

From the Music, to the Maps, to seeing 2008 Tai and the Scorcher… I don’t mind the new music I actually really like it but if you haven’t seen from me before, music is very important to me, and I never felt like Gears 4 or 5 sounded like Gears…not that bass-y, raw strings with high chorus feel that Jablonsky brought in. 4&5 don’t have bad music, but they don’t stand out and feel more like generic action music. But the Gears 1/2/3 music being mixed into this new semi-heroic actiony menu… holy jesus’ flaming balls I love it.

Just hoping… they keep this momentum. But with every OP Gears 5 improves… although I felt like we should’ve been here 10 months ago.

#BusterOut!

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#2

They did a superb job with content for sure.

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#3

Yeah Operation 5 is just great.

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#4

I like the new music (specially the music before pressing A to enter the game).

Yesterday was my 1st op5 gameplay. Looking at Nexus splash screen with that music was wonderful.

With Regency splash screen was soothing. Remember me of Bioshock Infinite.

Thanks TC for changing splash screen. I can’t wait to find River :slightly_smiling_face:

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#5

Fully agree with the maps being stunning, well the new ones+River.
I really wish they would have done something with the colour palette at the very least with the two returning maps, or maybe added some dynamic things, but still that does not take away from the other 3.

TC have always been pretty good with character sculptures, not always facially though, so again a good job.scorcher returning is a total win.

It would have been nice to get some new executions. TC have done some brilliant ones, but further new ones have crawled to a standstill.

As for the PvP changes, I’m not a fan at all. 4v4 just doesn’t feel right for Gears 5.

Overall I would rate the op. 7.5/10 :+1:

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#6

Well “Great” is a bit of a stretch. Good content, but horrible gameplay changes and massive bugs and clipping issues.

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#7

Nah, Op 5 is great. Also the gameplay changes were already confirmed to be a mistake and were reverted back yesterday.

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#8

This is very true! There’s still a few weapons like the markza for example that don’t have there own new execution yet just the default and a rehash…

#9

Still issues with tap spawns.
Absolute chore to engineer without an engineer.
No new modifiers added to custom.
Atrocious card drop rate and new level grinding.
No scrapping system.
1 new weapon and no new enemies.
Great maps.

5/10

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#10

The maps are awesome, Nexus is the best mañ

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#11

Best operation by far! Awesome to see Skorge, Tai, Anya, & Dizzy and River come in one. :raised_hands:

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#12

Jablonsky did the original trilogy? I wasnt even aware and I love this mans work, one of my favorites is his original transformers soundtrack, i miss martin o’Donnell and all the wonderful music he made for halo, that music makes me feel some sort of way, but yes i do think the music is an improvement, tbh I turned the music off for the main menu and such cause it was always so annoying and didnt feel gears, yesterday I had a reason to put it up to full volume, I love it!

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#13

Operation 5 gutted Playlist. Pvp sucks but hopefully the pvm warriors are loving it.

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#14

He scored 2&3, as to why they sound so similar compared to 1. Judgement was done by someone else too, but they reused a lot of Steve’s work.

Idk man I played a Ranked KOTH and QP KOTH and I think I liked 4v4 more. Better on one-man gnasher duels. But it means a weak link becomes even weaker.

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#15

Yeah I agree - the 4v4 is better, a bit less of a random player coming behind out of no where (how gears 1 was), just the gnasher tuning at the moment is still wack. (and lancer is pointless… it does no damage at all…)

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#16

Pvm?

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It’s lame for PvE.

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#18

Never heard someone use pvm. Only ever heard pve

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#19

So this is going to sound like a dumb question, but I’m planning on getting Gears 5 on Steam once the Black Friday sales hits. In order to get the Horde abilities/classes, do you need to get the character first or did they unlock all the abilities for Op 5?

#20

2k coins in the ingame-store. They unlock with any skin of the character. There’s plenty of coins in the tour.

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