disagree with 4 and 6
4 especially, what else is a smoke grenade gonna do?
First time I played versus except for (ranked 5 elimination for road to gears 5)no disrespect saying this,The RB for chainsawing,then mash B,is confusing at all times,when trying to win the fight with.(chainsaw),loved playing the tech test,roll on the weekend part. 2
Can we get environmental destruction back more gore !! AS well
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On Twitter you say you have this new cloud based matchmaking that’s going to be insane and paid you up perfectly with people and it’s so legit it’s unreal.
So you’re telling me this wasn’t applied to the tech test?
Because I was still paired against people with pings that were between 100-150 higher than my own. And their profiles were in languages not native to America. They’re gamer tags were clearly in languages not native to America. And when I spoke to them, they couldn’t communicate because they didn’t speak English.
So either you’re lying… or you didn’t even have any search parameters in the tech test.
Why spend all that time and money to develop some badass search BS, if it doesn’t even work?
And I’m tired of your excuse that anything within a ~250 ping is fair game. When I pay good money for my good internet and you pair me up against people who are using a public WiFi from a cafe around the corner, or someone who is playing gears while 8 people in their family are also steaming various shows on streaming services, I should not be penalized because of their garbage connection, and your desire to sell this game to as many people as possible, regardless of their ability to play legit games.
Your parameters need to be lowered. No ~250 ping. It should be ~100-125 at most.
So I call BS. I really do. There’s no way I live in the middle of Oklahoma, and on a Saturday during the Gears tech test, where there are thousands and thousands of people on… the closest you can get me in a game are people across a border… I call BS.
As far as I’m concerned, this is the single biggest problem you face making a Gears game. And I think that’s why people leave. Because you try to focus on quantity of games sold, and not the quality of those games. Hats why vets leave. That’s why your games are plagued, PLAGUED by foreigners. Because your game has a distinct advantage to higher latency players that most games do not have. And until you address this problem and make a game that works properly… it doesn’t matter how good it looks. If it doesn’t work… nobody is going to play.
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I feel like my thread was merged just to get lost in the crowd. I didn’t comment on the tech test in general. It was a specific post about the matchmaking. Just like the omen has its own post. And weapon tuning. And several other things. If you don’t care about my feedback. Fine. If you want to pretend the problem doesn’t exist… then just close the thread. Fine. But Im going to say this.
Gears 1.
4 GTs in the top 1000. 2 GTs top 100. Thousands upon thousands of hours played. Lag was not an issue. If you had a crap connection, you lagged into a wall and you were gibbed.
Gears 2.
2 GTs top 1000. 1 in the top 100. Again, thousands of hours played. If you lagged, you suffered. Not the good connections. Laggy people were penalized, as it should be.
Gears 3.
3 tags top 1000. 2 tags top 100. Thousands of hours. If you lagged, that was on you. Still not penalized for having a good connection.
Judgment.
I have 1,500 GS on 3 tags. Obviously not thousands of hours. Cause… it’s judgment. But I still played the hell out of it. And if you lagged, that was on you. No one else.
Gears UE.
This is when you took over. No leaderboards. No way of tracking aside from GS. I have it maxed. But this game is where lag comp really started to be pronounced. As soon as Black Tusk took control, there was an immediate shift. And now The Coalition has an iron grip on this lag comp.
Gears 4.
This is the first, the absolute first Gears I don’t have maxed out. And as much as I hate that… I don’t know what to say. When I play your game and I’m paired against people in different countries, across borders, across entire oceans who’s pings are 100-150 or more higher than mine, eating shots and killing me with ease… I don’t see what the point of playing your game is. You cater to the absolute worst connections and give them an insane amount of lag comp, just so they’ll keep playing.
If you’re smart, you’ll make a game worth playing. Gears UE and Gears 4 were worth buying… but not worth playing. When are you going to make a game worth playing? A game worthy of the Gears name? A game that is considerate to those who work hard for their money and use that money to pay for good internet, and not handing out participation trophies to people with laggy ■■■ dial up and WiFi?
Seriously.
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Played quite a bit of the tech test while apprehensive on some things (need to play the game longer to know how I feel about em), there are a few artistic things I’d like to point out.
Gibs are rediculous ATM and look worse than 4 IMO. Every GiB now completely delimbs instead of making the gibs more localized to the area you hit. Chest shots should not cause legs to break but should make their torso fall apart. Maybe even have the upper part fly back mostly intact with the legs flailing and such. Its gears 3 all over again.
And head shots should not GiB the entire body just the head. Every gnasher kill literally looks the same now and takes away from the look of the kills now. While I’m not a gnasher purist, heresy I know, at least make those kills look damn good when you do get one.
I’d say look at gow 1/UE and 2 for reference on great gibs. Those were top tier and made kills look rough in a good way.
Arcade is meant for more casual players and I’m not sure if it’s been considered but a good player is rewarded more when they get more kills leaving losing or unbalanced teams a further disadvantage while playing. My consideration is that if a score threshold is met then the losing team is rewarded with additional skulls. For example; Once the leading team is 15/20* points ahead of the currently losing team, the losing team are awarded with 2* additional skulls, and after a 3* minute cooldown if the winning team is still leading by 15/20 points the losing team are again awarded another 2 skulls. This could obviously be translated into other modes such as KoTH, though I am unsure how it would pan out.
Or change it to the embar instead.
Overall i like Gears5 so far, but of course there are some Things i wanna point out;
- being down on a Cover/Corner not able to crawl in full cover to (maybe) get back up again
- Execution on B-Button sucks because you tend to just kick the Enemy which is and will be a Pain on Arcade or Horde (on Execution Bonus-Wave)
- Put Chainsaw back on B
- Option to deactivate Aim-Assist for every Mode (it might already be in the Options i didnt got in the Options to much, was to busy Playin’ lol. I personaly feel like it didnt help me place shots.
- Boltok feels very weird i couldnt hit much with it (some of my Friends could some of em dont so i dont really know whats wrong with it)
- Markza ; same issue as Boltok
- Overkill is OP it takes 1 shot of the double shot to insta-gib a Player if he’s close enough
- Gnasher is still inconstant not as bad as Gears 4 but 92,93,96,98s, are the new 82,83,87s
- Omen pleeease make the Sides more transparent, my first Opinion about it was that it wasn’t that bad on Versus but then i thought what if i’m playin Heavy-Class on Horde with this type of Omen erm… yeah no thx
- Faster respawn of Pick-up-Weapons
- Faster Reloads
- Frags sometimes take for ever to explode, sometimes the almost blow up immediately.
- Hitboxes on Arcade are way to Huge IMO
- Let us see the Names and Rank of Players in Lobby
- We dont need Emotes
- Banners replacing Emblems is just Bad - Players only gonna see them when you’re MVP
- Kait’s hands are still way to big lmao
IMPORTANT:
- A System detecting if a Player Quit or just got kicked in Ranked because alot of times it happens right before the End of the Match and that Player ends up with a Penalty just because he couldnt get back in the Match fast enough.
Now just a short List of issues on Horde mode in Gears 4 i hope TC fixed in Gears 5 because we not gonna be able to Test it before Release:
- Stuck to Locker after putting Weapon in
- Let Players see Class lvl,What Cards are used by everyone in the Lobby so Players got some more Info on what to expect from the Match so they might can switchout some of the Cards.
- Get rid of that Dropshot (Own or Swarms) bounces of Wall insta-Death
- Speaking of it; Dropshot glitched after accidentally shooting against cover/wall
- Chainsawing Deadeye getting shot at the same Time - stuck in gamebreaking Bug (atleast with out Teamrevive)
True that.
You both make good points, no doubt I will be playing Gears 5 and we will all have to see what TC do with our inputs.
I agree with 99% of your post. The only part I dont agree with is that they arent trying to accomplish what you are requesting. And from my time with the tech test I found that damage was highly consistent, and lag comp. much less of an issue than Gears 4.
4 Gamertags? Why did you have 4 Gamertags? Couldn’t you just use one?
So I’ve been playing on the original Xbox One 500GB. And I’ve been very harsh on the game this far. I watched a YouTube review that has played on both the original and the latest X. They said the game plays much better on the X. Smoother, your shots feel like they are more accurate, player moment doesn’t feel as chunky and so on. I just bought a new X 1TB off amazon last night. It will be here Thursday. I was due for an upgrade anyway, but this just made it easier to finally do it. I will report back to this thread after playing the test tech this weekend on my new X and see if it changes my view on this game. Hopefully it does so I didn’t waste $400 lol
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Im sure the base Xbox One is struggling a little to run this game, especially since it seems the tech test wasn’t fully optimized. Even on my PC the optimizations aren’t there yet, so some matches I had trouble. But my overall impressions were that this will be the best game in the series. Time will tell.
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The new omen covers a lot of the screen, and I always been bothered by the classic omen because it also obstructs vision. My suggestion is to keep the classic omen but give us the option to select where to place it for example in the bottom instead of the middle of the screen,
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I’ve always been a “sweaty” type of player since gears 3. And feel like the aim assist in King of the Hill was too easy and made the game essentially boring. I’ve always had the impression that ranked games were meant for more competitive types of players. So in my opinion just maybe keep the aim assist to quickplay or rolling matches. What do you guys think?
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I think Aim assist should be scrapped for Ranked.
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I dont really understand why Ranked even has a Core and Competitive. All Ranked is competitive, and now that there is a universal tuning, there is no point in separation.
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The original omen also gave a reliable indication of centre screen without obstructing the outer edges of the screen, the reason this worked so well is two-fold. Once damage is taken, especially in closer quarters you’re choice is to fight or flee. On the one hand it gives you a temporary reticle to use while blindfiring (fight) and on the other it doesn’t obstruct the surrounding area, so you can quickly find cover or an escape route (flee).
Curious. Keep us posted 
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