I need answers... something

Gears 5
#1

I’ve seen a bunch of requests for TC to “show the numbers” because the game seems like it’s on the heavy decline of players. As much as I would love to think that’s not true, I can’t help to think that it is. I am constantly (while playing Quick Play) running into the same people, or rejoining the same damn lobby I was just playing in. But what really drives me nuts, is I played a whole Koth match, where it started the game as a 2v4 and I had to play 80% of the match BEFORE I got 2 other teammates to fill those spots. I can’t tell if the matchmaking is seriously broken, or if there was just no one searching QP Koth at that time. But if these numbers are supposedly much higher than we think, then obviously the 2nd reasoning for that match isn’t true. Right?

Edit: Also, why is it when I search for a match, it decides to throw me into a game in EU, despite me having my matchmaking settings set to “connection preferred”?? Again, either matchmaking is not working properly, or the game literally couldn’t find anyone to match me with on NA servers. Hard to believe there wasn’t 1 match with an open spot, on my servers, they could have dumped me in, instead of connecting me to a match across the world.

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#2

Dana will no longer be chief, so just relax & see how the next few weeks go…

I know TC is aware …

I’m sure the good people of TC will do right & nurture their community back instead of having a divided gears nation.

I find it dumb to have our fan base divided because we need everyone.

I hope they implement 2 tunings & prove to us that they care.

From what I see, letting Dana go is a big step. So I’m curious, but I’m sure letting such a juggernaut go wasn’t easy for them.

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#3

On last weeks stream Dana said the versus numbers are either the same or better compared to the previous tuning but since we all know that is a big pile of bs, TC (or Microsoft most likely) gave him the boot for being such a lousy liar.

Yesterday I was in a 4 party chat with 3 of us in quickplay with the 4th searching for a match, the result? A lovely game of KOTH 4v1 where the enemy team was my other friend. Seriously, if the numbers are good how can this happen?

And in the right direction. Hopefully the next communications director will actually play the game.

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#4

I’ve been saying the #’s are going low because the forcing of tuning along with only having 1 stacked mode to play on.

& we want classic ranked modes like full teams of tdm & guardian.

We don’t want grid iron. I much rather have execution than grid iron if they’re going that route & add the new tuning to that & escalation.

This game is sinking because someone decided to divide the community & have us be toxic to one another.

Perhaps have king, tdm,& guardian with the old tuning.

Have grid iron, execution, escalation with the “esports” tuning…

Or swap grid iron with old tuning & guardian with the esports tuning.

Something surely can be done to please everyone…

Seems like it would solve the problem… to me at least…

I’m hoping TC is willing to at least see this is what’s destroying the population of the game & amend …

When we had the fast tuning gears population was thriving … I’m all for esports having their slow “methodical” tuning but give us junkies who play for fun our style too…

Not like anyone plays this game to be apart of esports anyway. The gears esports pay out isn’t that much, better just to get a job if you’re living off esports … but I’m no one to judge…

Maybe if we had a bigger population people would buy more esports skins & these esport UMG players can have more money in the pot to compete for…

I think what’s failing is giving a small community more weight than the community that actually backs them up…

#5

Wait…What???

You find it dumb to have our fan base divided because we need everyone, but you want them to implement 2 tunings? Is this s troll post? I can’t tell.

I don’t think the fan base is divided, I just don’t think there is one period. Ranked might be slightly different, but for QP, it takes forever sometimes to fill a lobby and it matches you in games outside of your region because it “couldn’t” find you a local match. That has nothing to do with a divided fan base. Either there’s a lack of players in general, or the matchmaking is completely broken.

#6

With or without the new tuning there isn’t a great population. Gears is popular in like a certain country isn’t it? I’m in EST and I’m not having issues getting the game filled up fast when I play for the most part. I think it’s pretty luck based though I could definitely experience lopsided teams for a portion of the game sometimes.

I don’t think the new tuning is an issue at all regarding player base. It was low before. For me it plays better, the gear heads on my friends list are still grinding like before and post LFG.

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#7

I don’t know if you’ve play pvp but a lot of people bailed because of the new tuning & lack of ranked modes

The fandom is very divided , it has been for the past 2 weeks.

We had a higher player base & we were getting a decent population, best 5 has had to date, until the newest tuning went live.

You probably didn’t care or like the new tuning but there’s a lot of players that hate the tuning.

Not to mention all the already players that left the franchise because of the removal of ranked guardian, escalation, execution, and duo death match.

Yeah it’s hard to build a fan base in a small market but if TC just added content , which they did, players were coming back.

TC was projecting some good #’s then suddenly flipped the tuning out of no where.

Not to mention lack of ranked modes & divisive tuning a lot of players just quit the franchise until further notice.

Gears 4 had the same issue but 2 tunings & everyone was satisfied. TC should’ve just built off that but it appears they’re struggling to find their identity or conflict with the powers of within.

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#8

One of the worst (in a long list of bad decisions) that TC has ever made.

Play quick play to play with friends and u get no satisfaction from ur wins cause most ppl r potatoes and dont care for tactics/teamwork its just :running_man:‍♂gnasher die rinse repeat.

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#9

The tuning is fine. Just need a shorter GIB range. Gridiron was fun. This is 2021. Execution did get stale. Like the game is right now. Bring back Gidiron Or make a new game mode. Bring some flare back!

Some new original maps couldn’t hurt either!

#10

I think you’re putting too much emphasis on how much decision making Dana had in the studio. He did acknowledge our concerns with certain aspects of the game and brought them to the relevant people. They just didn’t act on them for whatever reason, be it internal numbers or a dedication to what they want the game to be.

don’t shoot the messenger

I’m starting to wonder if the Server Allocation Gears 5 gets from Azure has been reduced due to the population decline over the past year. This should be a question for the Dev stream because I too get put into East/Central when I should be in West.

I get once in a while, but right now it’s rare for me to put into West, like 10%-15% of the time. it does point to a population issue

#11

No just no

#12

This is a joke, right? This game can’t really be that f’d? Sadly it probably is.

#13

Well if #armsarentfallingoff I don’t want to play this unrealistic game anymore

@TC_Clown

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#14

Nope no joke. The 4th in our party chat after searching a few minutes by himself said “Guys I think I’m playing against you”, we thought he was joking but he wasn’t. We were in a squad of 3 and the game decided to start a match not only 3v1 but 4v1 since a random was placed on our team.

#15

#IRLsituations

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#16

Sounds about Gears.