This is gonna be abit of a long thread but I think it is needed for many reasons, as you’ll find out below!
Okay lets first of all start off with Gears 5. These are all my opinions and issues with Gears 5, which I also believe the majority of Gears players would agree with.
Gears 5:
The title should have been Gears of War 5 (But meh, I ain’t that fussed over it so much)
Good things about Gears 5:
- Can hear enemy footsteps very clearly in this game unlike any other gears game.
- Instant smoke grenade just like they had in gears 1 which is amazing
- Separating smoke and stun grenades which is better and has more of a tactical play to it
- Showing the MVP player at the end of the match which make players more known and wanting to be that number 1 player!
Bad things about Gears 5:
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The amount of bugs the game released with really annoyed alot of players including me. As I had to restart alot of campaign chapters/acts because of problems with collectables and that raft thing getting stuck under the ground…
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PC problems…there was so many problems with Gears 5 on PC such as the Audio with using a xbox controller which is STILL present, constant crashing of the game but somehow the Gears 5 Beta never crashed once on me?.. I paid over £450 for a New gaming PC just for Gears 4 and 5 but both just kept crashing and I was hoping for 5 to be a crash free game but now my PC is just used like a normal PC… feels like I wasted alot of money there…
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Finding games: I live in the EU, and game modes like execution, escalation, FFA and Guardian don’t exist here anymore…very, very rare to find these games in the EU region.
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Playlists: There are way too many playlists out there which is separating players making it harder to find specific game modes. For example you have to ability to play against AI, there are 4 difficulties for it…why? Just set the AI to a medium setting and let players learn over there. Then there’s Arcade which I believe shouldn’t exist! If you ask me I think there should be:
- Quickplay playlist - For players warming up or just chilling for a few games which a mix of all game modes.
- Ranked playlist, gamemodes being: TDM, KOTH, Execution, Escalation, 2v2, FFA,
- Special Event playlist - Such as OSOK, Torque bow tag, gnasher only KOTH etc. etc.
And that should be it really, PLUS showing us the player count in each game mode like they did in Gears Judgement so we don’t waste time searching for dead game modes would be A GREAT HELP!
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Soundtrack: now I don’t know if this is just me but the background music in gears 5 just doesn’t have that scare factor to it like it did in Gears 1 to 3. The soundtracks from Gears 5 feel like they belong in Battlefield 1…
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Omen: “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” That covers it all really… The old school omen is great. This new one covers alot of the screen making it harder to see where to go to evade etc. Even though they came out with the new omen it doesn’t do the job properly because now I find it hard to understand how much damage I am taking because it looks too bright of a red to feel like I’m 90% damaged. That’s why the old school omen worked perfectly fine.
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Gnasher Shotgun: 6 bullets? WHY? This is the MAIN weapon in every gears game and its all about clutching it up and showing yours skills with the gnasher! but now… now I’m constantly worried about reloading it and by the time i’ve taken out 2/3 enemies i’ll probably die mid reloading it by the next guy who I could of killed if I just had the bullets in the chamber…
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Gnasher reloading: Why does perfectly active reloading a gnasher not give the damage boost it should give? Aswell as just performing a regular reload not reload the whole magazine of the gun?
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Overpowered weapons in multiplayer: The Claw and the Lancer GL especially, as they can down a player is less that 8 bullets (I think so atleast)
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Weak weapons: The boomshot, dropshot and nades don’t work like they use to…I’ve had people survive boomshots at near enough point blank range! The dropshot feels like it takes forever to land on the ground and then blow up and the grenades which I always love picking up, don’t have the blast radius they should have.
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Movement: Gears 5 movement is a big issue. This if the only gears game like feels CLUNKY!
Whenever you try and use skilful movement in previous gears games it works but in gears 5 theres no hope with using skill… I see alot of players just bot walking and shooting which seems to work for them. We want movement like we have in Gears 4! I don’t think anyone should be able to hyper bounce but we should all be able to move with speed like we use to. Meaning no delays when roadie running in and out of cover, no getting stuck on walls etc. etc. -
GIB Range: Alot of silly deaths happening from shooting someone and them shooting you from the same range but only you die and then are damaged at 97% percent of something similar… I’m sure you’ll fix that atleast…right? Because its annoying and frustrating.
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Gore: Gears is a gore game, we need more blood and bones showing like they had in Gears 1/2
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Emotes: Who’s ideas was this? This isn’t fortnite, we don’t even have time using these in mid game because you’ll get down and killed or sniped and then regret doing it… Gears isn’t about dancing in the middle of an intense ranked match
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Banners: Terrible idea since it only shows the MVP players banner, they should of left it like Gears 4 that shows the emblem on the scorecards of all players.
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Lack of Content:
- Maps: The game was released with so little maps that the game became very boring and so repetitive after a very short time. You could of given us all the old gears game maps such as mansion, bullet marsh, River, etc whilst you make some new ones instead of making us wait 3 months just for 2 maps…and then getting bored of them again after a short time…
- Skins: I have to say so far there are no decent weapon skins in this game whatsoever…I’m using the black phantom skins from gears 4 still…alot of the new skins look cartoony and have an annoying logo on it saying ‘Gears 5’ which is useless because I know what game im playing…
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Blood Sprays: Blood sprays are okay… if they are relevant to the game itself, BUT who the heck put a few Forza blood sprays in the game? and many other weird useless ones? This is gears of war isnt it? I’m pretty sure its gears 5 im playing because it’ll say it on my weapon skin to remind me lmaoooo
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Characters: Sarah connor?..Terminator?..and other characters I’ve never seen before…why? The games been out 6 months and still no Carmine brothers, original delta squad, skorge, savage kantus, etc. Plus these ‘new’ characters that are known as ‘Winter’ characters are just lame af! Who wants a winter JD when it looks like a regular JD? We want Black Steel, Chrome armoured (or any good design) skins sets for all types of characters… and none of them should look the same at all.
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Weapons: I feel like alot of the old weapons should return to the game such as the Digger, Oneshot, hammer of dawn because they were something different. Maybe the hammer of dawn count have a limited uses on it such as 3 pulls of the trigger that last around 3 seconds? Idk you tell me.
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Horde: No fun, im not really a horde player but I play all 50 waves atleast 3/4 times in every gears game but this Horde in gears 5 is…just plain boring… we just need a simple horde where surviving is difficult and not having to rely on automatic weapons that have been placed down.
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Core and/or competitive: WE ONLY NEED 1 WEAPON SETTING! Don’t make more than one, every should be on the same setting for all game modes, therefore we don’t have to keep adjusting and being worried about being able to push or not.
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War journal: Where did this go? Why doesn’t it exist? I loved being able to see my detailed stats of every weapon and the medals and ribbons I’ve got and how many of them I’ve got as well as the win/loss records etc. etc.
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Ranking system: Yeah that failed, I went from high ranks to low in in less than 3 games and I’ve even lost points for winning…as MVP! Just make a simple system…where winning means you go up and losing means you go down…
There probable a few more things to say but I don’t remember at this movement and time, so moving on…
Okay so enough of Gears 5. But as you can see there are more negative things than positive things in Gears 5…
Lets talk about what I think would make the perfect Gears of War Game!
Gears 6 (Or as I would call it, Gears of War 6)?
Firstly to sum it up, we need a Gears of War game with Gears 1 soundtrack and gore + Gears 2 campaign style + Gears 3 Multiplayer and Horde + Gears 4 fluid in movement = A good gears of war game!
Gears 1’s gore was intense and amazing, when chainsawing down someone of just full of blasting their body apart with the Gnasher! The soundtrack was also scary and put you in the feeling of being in danger like a wrench is gonna jump out at you in your own living room!
Gears 2’s campaign (and some of gears 3, but mainly 2) was the most thrilling campaign! Going into the underground world, entering a giant worm, unexpected character deaths (such as Tai), it made me feel like the whole squad was gonna die by the end of Gears 2 and the locust would have won the war!
Gears 3’s Multiplayer was the most fun and competitive yet, as well as the horde being straight forward and challenging! (Although the horde from Gears 2 was the most challenging ever but very basic). The multiplayer did have its bad things like the sawed off and the retro but they were tolerable and the game was still being enjoyed because the movement was fast (maybe too fast at times, such as hyper bouncing, but non the less still good) the weapons were adjusted right which the right amount of damage dealings, a wide variety of weapon skins which LOOKED so amazing such as Oil skin set which was my favourite and the imulsion sets etc.
Gears 4’s movement was probably the best in terms of speed.
So, in finalising all of this, for Gears of War 6 (whoever is gonna make it) needs to bring back the old gears feeling towards the game. We want a dark, gory, thrilling game, which makes the campaign look like every character is going to die and the human race is gonna be over an done with, making the enemies scary and brutal. A game with multiplayer being competitive, balanced and detailed the way the players want it to be, making those clutch situations possible again! A horde that’s challenging and fun for those who love horde.
If the game was down to me, I’d know I wouldn’t fail in making a good gears game for everyone, so maybe you guys should hire some long term die hard gears players and get their input because making another gears game…
That’s all… Thanks for reading, I know this probably won’t make any difference whatsoever but oh well I tried.
Peace.
