Diamond is the new onyx tier

Gears 5
#61

the players constant whining and complaining about the Ranked system being “unfair” has led to this.

TC has obviously eased the Ranked tiers and opened them up beyond what they were at in Gears 4 and where it was at for Gears 5 launch. They might have even turned this system into more of a progression system and not a real Ranked one.

this is a image of R6 Siege Ranks but it’s how Gears works too. (and all ELO systems)

what TC seems to have done is move the bell curve closer to the higher ranks opening up more space for players to occupy Masters, Diamond, Onyx.

the only thing that has changed is the tier placements not the players skill. if it means less entitled posts complaining about that Ranking system the better.

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#62

Eh just makes it no challenge lol.

#63

I’m the ultimate troll.

The gold demoralizer …

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#64

You dog

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#65

One thing : i see a lot of people on this forum saying “yea its easy to be master”,
“im master in 2 hours”,…blablabla

i just want to say NO, its not easy , i totally desagree with that.

Im master since last night in KOTH, and it was hard to succed it

i play solo most of the time, and im happy that i did it!!

I do not consider myself as a master,… seriuosly…i know there are a lot of players who are BETTER BETTER than me…But i did it ! lol

So stop saying “being master is easy” …that’s not true

#66

Congrats on getting your masters.

I hate to break it to you but masters is easy this season if you’re half tidy tidy at the game.

Out of curiosity, what was your highest rank from Operation 1 - 3?

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#67

thank you. i dont remenber exactly i would say onyx2-3.
and i play default setting, i just cant wallbounce like some eothers who play tournament settings…
Some are crazy wallbouncer, they good at it,

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#68

but ok may be its easier to be master on this season…

#69

getting to masters is now easy because it’s just a matter of grinding points
so just a matter of time spent playing

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#70

what do you do to de-rank? Do you just play a few matches and sandbag the entire match? If so I’m sure your teammates were not so happy. lol

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#71

I hear it’s pretty easy if your a very good player or better. I spoke to one guy on the forum who told be he hit Masters in 6-8 hours. He said it was pretty easy. Previously he said it took him 6-8 weeks on a team of 5 to hit Masters.

I think the current rank system had some flaws when it first rolled out. Mainly , the simple way of saying it was that wins were nerfed and losses were buffed. The points lost in a match typically FAR exceeded points won over several matches. And that you could win 7 out of 10 matches and make little or no progress because the GP reward was so low. When you stomped a team you might as well not played the match because the win counted for almost nothing. It could be argued they swung the pendulum too far in the other direction so perhaps some adjustments are in order if they want to make the higher ranked tiers more “exclusive”. I don’t know if this is a real priority for TC or not. I take it that the high skilled veterans of this game who grinded their way to Masters the hard way feel it’s been cheapened on this new system. Without starting from scratch they could make another tier rank for the highest skilled players. Higher GP costs . Lower rewards. IDK. Or just leave it at is and create a whole new system for Gears 6.

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#72

Nah,

I deranked in a manner that only affected myself & the games didn’t start , so no one got mad.

It’s easy. When people are voting just hard quit the match & the lobby dissolves.

Believe me, if I’m in a match the last thing I want to do is throw.

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#73

I don’t want to be rude to you.

Glad you hit masters.

But if this was a damage system there would only be like 200-400 total masters.

Now it’s in the thousands I’d say.

People just play to get it & stop so they can farm for coins.

Kinda hurts the ranked population making it so easy because the good players go to other games instead of grind.

These past OP’s I get it legit in a few hours.

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#74

That’s most real master players , honestly.

Grind used to be fun.

Needed a team & build connection.

Now I can do it solo in a few hours…

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#75

the other thing that happened is that theirs less players playing and the ranks needs to fill up.and the players that where onyx 2-3 and couldnt make dia in 4 cuz lots of players didnt play any more to not lose it are the ones now making it higher and so on the rest of the ranks.

#76

got it. That’s good that you have enough respect for your teammates not to screw them over.

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#77

I think you were the one who told me 6-8 hours , but I couldn’t remember for sure.

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#78

Probably lol.

I was pretty disappointed to be honest.

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#79

Did you hit Masters in anything else beside KOH? If so what was the hardest one to achieve? Or easiest?

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#80

I’ve hit it on all modes.

Hardest was tdm because I just have a short fuse on that mode now.

Got very campy with the recent changes too. I used to defend people calling tdm campy but I’ve seen people start the match & camp near an enforcer for no reason & keep going back there when they die.

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