The new tuning makes the game more consistent, and this consistency will inevitably lead to a higher skill gap. This is just how it is — the people trying to argue that it reduces the skill gap literally must believe that skill is limited to how quickly you can hit buttons ignoring every other aspect, including the history of the franchise itself where Gow1 & Gow2 both had higher skill gaps and were slower paced than this beta tuning.
I will say this part — I think they nerfed the wrong things with the tuning. Wallbouncing and wall cancel is genuinely quite skillful, but more importantly it’s a lot of fun and the ability required to make it work/useful combined with what you get out of it is such that I don’t actually believe it’s that overpowered.
The least skillful thing in the game is shooting out of your runs, and it isn’t nerfed anywhere nearly as bad as wallbouncing is on the beta tuning. Shooting out of runs in Gow4 & 5 is the worst, most overpowered movement mechanic in the history of this series, and it escapes nerfs every single time.
The best thing about the tuning in my opinion is the weapon swap speed being lengthened, this punishes players for having the wrong guns out, increases the skillgap, it’s exactly what GoW needs more of. They should have stuck with this theme of punishing mistakes — for instance there should be a much longer delay when you come out of a roll. Every person reading this has died to people coming out of rolls/runs who never finished the animation on their screens more times than they can remember, happens every game. People make a mistake, or they’re unaware, and not only is this mistake not punished, they’re sometimes rewarded by being able to shoot someone who doesn’t even know they’re in a position to shoot.
Ideally for me, you’d keep the weapon swap speed from beta tuning, add a longer delay to shooting out of runs and rolls, and leave everything else as it is right now. Maybe slowdown the up-a speed, maybe — but I like it.
Edit: https://twitter.com/sSnubs/status/1217498019307950081 that clip is everything I’m talking about. I did that to the pro player sleafer in a singles match when he was like 60-0 — you shouldn’t even be able to do that to a silver ranked player, meanwhile you can do it to people who’ve literally won GoW eSports events.
