Escape is ruined tbh lol

Gears 5
#1

Came back and did 2 hives on master, 1 left. Thought it was weird that when in the safe room, it would take a lot longer to load up into the next chapter. Thought it was because of the mist mechanic.

Nope. Turns out all escape hives are like this now with a safe room. Why make the player wait that long? Clearly it isnt an engine limitation and you are purposely delaying the amount of time in to start the next chapter of escape. You can use the reasoning of “oh well we wanted to give you more time” but as a consequence you add on A LOT of time onto people doing escape runs with friends, especially ironman mode master runs, and nerf farming of cards from hives such as the clock and the surge. Wanted to farm cards with clay and realized just how much time has been added in the process due to this no matter what you do. Guess this was TC’s solution to make people do other hives, make long wait times in more than 1 chapter hives. Disgusting, just wanting you to spend coins on insanely priced upgrades (the purple/golds).

Pretty much ruined my mood to bother getting back into the game, at least PvE. PvP still sucks so guess that’s gears 5 for me. Still waiting for my iron for esports skins as I got con’d out of 10000 iron lol.

Don’t worry. In my short 6 hour span of playing gears 5 again today, I witnessed 2 huge bugs in escape. About to finish a hive on masters with Clay and about to use my ult. I die to an invisible rocket from a sentinel that wasn’t even looking at me and just spawned 30 feet away along with other units. Also activated the med bay on 2nd act but we did so after someone already died. Me and my partner died after and instead of respawning us, it just sat there for a good minute, then just said objective failed. LMFAO? what’s the point of a medic bay if it doesn’t even work? Better yet, what’s the point of putting a med bay on chapter 1 of an escape @ the end if it doesnt carry over?

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#2

My theory (I need a stopwatch and patience to measure this) is that they’re trying to speed up the initial load time by just loading the first act and then at the saferooms loading the appropriate act.
To know for sure I’d need to see the first act loading in around a minute instead of the 2 minutes that I used to get. Then I’d know that the 2nd minute was moved to the saferoom.
If that is what’s happening then escape isn’t worse it’s just different.

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#3

I have noticed no difference in loading into the hive itself.

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#4

I think I remember seeing some stating the issue is just as bad on high end Pc’s meaning its not a loading problem, however I am unable to confirm this myself @GhostofDelta2 or @III_EnVii_III would you be able to test/confirm this?

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#5

If what you say is true, then act 1 would’ve loaded faster, in case team didn’t make it into act 2. I can see that being useful for LE first blood where players don’t need act 2 loaded.

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#6

Loading times between acts is awful atm even with the 970 Evo Plus.

I don’t know what is causing it currently but I did brief testing solo and even with high ends NVME speeds it much slower than before.

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#7

loading is indeed bad even on high-end pc’s i can confirm this, sometimes it loads in like 10 seconds but mostly it takes around a minute even though i load in initially (pod) in like 5 seconds

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#8

Let’s be honest, TC screwed up again. They haven’t acknowledged it, but surely even they wouldn’t be stupid enough to think this was an acceptable change in preparation for the XBSX launch. There’s still going to be way more XB1 users of this game for the duration of Gears 5’s remaining lifecycle, so they have to cater to XB1 users first and foremost.

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#9

You are more likely to win the lottery than for TC to admit a mistake.

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#10

I know that some variation would come from other players achieving ready state. If I tested I’d solo private with locked slots so that I was the only one that needed to do any loading, maybe then repeat tests with friends that the hardware whose impact I’m interested in measuring.

#11

And I have already won the lottery, (no joke) so I guess we are screwed.

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#12

I think it’s the decontamination showers. I’m pretty sure they would all close shut when everyone reached the inner safe room, but now they always reopen when used and a timer runs down instead of just checking if everyone is inside.

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#13

I wouldn’t be surprised if they show off how great the Series X is…"Look how quicker everything is " and return the load times to normal for that. Or it’s to block speed runs (Just make cards easier to get)

I am still hoping things will return in OP5

#14

Nah, the initial loading-time is still the same. Tested it a week ago

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#15

The wait time in the safe room is not the same on all the maps. Some maps yes it’s longer than before but some maps haven’t changed.
Did solo on the Last Stand last night and the wait time in the safe room was very short. Basically I only had time to look for frags, pick them up and the doors were already opening.

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#16

Certainly quicker than the other maps atm but at least 5-10 seconds longer than it used to be.

t. finished it more than 100 times before the safe rooms broke

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#17

Definitely not. It’s still taking me absurdly long to load in on a One S sadly.

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#18

Fortunately, the best version of Escape is still intact. I call it the play-anything-else mode. You just pick anything else in the world and play it knowing that theres a 100% chance its a better way to spend your time.

I Believe Overrun was better than Escape by no less than 600,000,000 infinity miles.

MOD EDIT: Opinions and Speculations, yes. Stating ‘Facts’. no.

#19

Edit: Opinion: Overrun was better than Escape by no less than 600,000,000 infinity miles.

Another Opinion: Escape is the only good mode in this game.

All you’ve done is complain about this game since you stated you were back in another post. Go back to Gears 2 or go play overrun if you hate Gears 5 so much. Because it’s not becoming like the old epic games, I can assure you.

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#21

No sir. I was merely helping you to understand the difference between a fact and an opinion, since you appeared a little confused. I always try to educate those who appear to need it.

I get it. You apparently like simple things, like sitting behind a boomshield for 5 hours. Sounds enthralling.

Not.

In my OPINION, that’d be worse than eating glass.

But hey. To each their own. You go do your thing, and quit whining about a game I get the feeling you don’t even care about.

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