Main thread for TDM - Back after preseason with major changes

Gears 5
#477

SInce im a dad with a job, No, I dont watch the live streams. AInt nobody got time for that.

I do however read the the press releases, where I assume any relevant info is posted. And this has not been mentioned anywhere.

this is what the release says.

"As such, we’ve selected modes that represent a wide variety of the most popular play styles: King of the Hill (multi-respawns) and Gridiron (single-life) as well as a smaller squad with 2v2 Gnashers and solo play in Free For All.

Team Deathmatch & Escalation are being removed from Ranked. Team Deathmatch will now be in a dedicated Quickplay playlist and Escalation will continue to be available in custom lobbies."

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#478

gotcha,
i didn’t see this before my other reply.

#479

this is a big problem imo.

#480

I understand.

They don’t mention everything in the press releases, which I was surprised to find out, as well. I know someone asked a question during the stream about the popularity of TDM, and he said “I know it’s a really popular game type, however, we actually removed it to do some changes” (I’m paraphrasing). He also mentioned during the stream that escalation was not very popular at all, despite being the esports game mode (which I was not aware of), which is why they removed that game mode from ranked.

I’ll try to find that specific section of the clip & upload it here.

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#481

They should do E sports TDM would be more popular

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#482
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Bring back tdm for rank system, the game is boring
#483

Oh, how we love Gears 5.

#484

That sounds horrible

#485

to add insult to injury, you’ll be in a 1v3 tdm match and all the new players entering go on the side that already has 3 players lol

just delete the damn mode like you did escalation

#486

So essentially by removing tdm we now have 5-10 minutes waiting time for gridiron and a large player base quitting.

Can somebody explain too me how removing tdm was a good idea? Gears was borderline dead already, removing the most popular game type seems like suicide.

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#487

You like escalation? I forgot you love rings haha

#488

Na Escalation is straight up butt

I dont think TDM for Esports would be entertaining

#489

Let me guess you would prefer koth?
Which is pretty much the same but dumbed down, I think exucution would be the perfect game mode for E sports tactical and it would be sick

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#490

To me Gears isnt a good game to watch other people play. Add on the cringe factor of the promos with the teams crossing their arms, the tbagging and sh%t talking from a team thats down 6 to 1. Its just sad

If I do “watch” its for the skins

#491

You’re a leech on Esports

#492

I want to play in it, I don’t care about watching

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#493

Not sure what you expect me to say. Maybe… saying koth is more “competitive” than tdm is laughable?

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#494

Being rank 8 for tdm wins i can honestly say that taking tdm out of the ranked playlist made me not wanna play at all since that was all i played. Koth is fun and competitive but were all grown now i dont like the bloody battles of koth the lenthy time of the game is like 30 minutes or more tdm matches are more like 10 … But if its getting fixed honestly the worst part about tdm is quiters , the noobies using up all the lifes i hope it comes back to ranked

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#495

Short Time limit. Whatever team has less lives loses anyway, so…

Ranked

25 respawns. Exactly 5 lives per player. You lose 'em all? Then you yourself are out til the round ends.
2 rounds. 5 minutes, after that 5 minutes if a team has more lives they auto win the round.
‘after pickup’ weapon spawns.
Shorter and faster weapon spawn timers.
No dbno after first.

Quickplay and custom version with Multiple rule options for variants to not make it boring as sin to play.

(headshots only and no melee, time limit, gnashers only, weapon loadout sets - standard loadout, power, precision, rifles, and cycling/randomized weapons in variants with multiple rounds, mace only, heavy only, tbow tag, etc.)

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#496

5 mins is a really short time to kill 25 people… Other than that, I like all of your ideas