Rod was more of the Time/Budget guy, though he was more involved then, as it’s always mentioned that it was him that stressed they make sure to get Multiplayer in the game in time for launch, instead of it being something they just messed around with. I guess he’s not involved enough now, or doesn’t care enough.
The dev team at the helm now is a cookie cutter dev team MS just threw on the job. They’re clearly just trying to milk the name of the franchise. We complained about how high the microtransaction prices were in GOW4 and the fact it was still RNG when you spent $.
They went ahead and removed Gear Packs and Credits, and try to get praise for actually making it even more predatory. We can’t even earn the stuff that would normally be in Gear Packs now, their locked away in the $-only store. The Tour of Duty and regular Supply items are what would be in GOW4 Series 1-3 unlockables.
AI in the game seems to somehow have gotten worse than GOW4, which is insane. That’s why I can’t even enjoy attempting to play the PVE modes like Horde, ontop of them still refusing to add either way more Swarm or Locusts to Horde. No one wants to see a dozen clone Scions coming out holding different power weapons, when in older Gears it’d be completely different Locusts with those weapons. Same for all the robots, so lame.
This. The maps, the enemies, the setting, all these things take away from the old Dark Theme.
