Welcome back
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I only made the comment about the numbers because it something we heard before but they never provided the numbers that they said were low, and now we know TDM is popular but it’s been removed so I’m just not sure that low population was a valid excuse, wasn’t trying to start anything with you And I would be happy to invite you to a Guardian match!
Edit:
Bring back Guardian to ranked permanently!!!
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I’ve always felt TDM wasn’t a good mode in a competitive ranked playlist, I feel objective modes call for more teamwork and strategizing.
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I want to start by saying that I think that quick play needs to have the squad search limit removed, i’ll explain why.
I am glad that TDM has been removed from ranked and this is 1 of the modes I would play the most, I am happy to see it removed because players would play it like their life depended on winning, they would spend the entire match Lancering and not moving purely because it was easy to do and it would net them the points to rank up. This wrecked the mode.
Think back to Gears 3, this game introduced TDM and Gears 1&2 players hated the idea at first, but for the most part quickly started to enjoy the mode and it was 1 of the highest populated modes for the entire time (It actually displayed a player count…wink wink). Players got used to this new mode and continued playing it into Gears 4 whereby it was evident that people played it weirdly campy in ranked so that people could level up, it felt nothing like how people played quick match TDM from Gears 3 because there was no rank incentive, in Gears 3 you would occasionally find a 5 stack but even a 5 stack sweat back then was nothing like a 5 man campfest that we got on Gears 4 or 5’s TDM. Leaving the tunings aside, the only difference I see is the rank incentive.
Based on this, I think that putting TDM back into quick play is a great thing for people who enjoy that mode, but it needs to allow for 5 stacks so that friends can play together, I would imagine for the most part if they’re searching social then they’re not looking to try hard. I would also say that it’s important to show some love to the servers that social games run on. Ranked seems to have the servers spot on now, whereas social matches are always 200ms+ which is an awful experience.
As for the ranking system, I want to try it before I judge it. I like the idea behind it but I think that it’s opening the door to allow for players to be carried to higher ranks than they deserve if they just grind enough matches.
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If you think about it, you will find matches faster now since all tdm players will join the koth player pool. So you should find koth games Very easily now. i think making tdm exclusice to quickplay & custom was a very good move.
You’ll aways be able to go into a rank match from the way I understood it. You’ll drop to bronze and bronze is always O points to enter. If your better than that in those lower tiers you’ll always be able to accumulate or offset your GP. So I guess you’ll have enough gp banked by than in the higher ranks and say you lose 10 matches in a row your either gonna drop and gp entry will cost less or you’ll drop enough until you finally win. I really don’t think this will be a issue. It will help with Quitters because we might not see that type of player around in our matchmaking (level) those types will keep quitting lose points and stay with the bronze (low level) player’s.
Well well well. Look what the cat dragged in. How the hell are you? Welcome back! I actually inquired about you a couple time but @Mark36111 was no help at all. Thought maybe he was tired of carrying lol jk.
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TDM is Camp mode…really dont care it does not exist anymore.
“I want to start by saying that I think that quick play needs to have the squad search limit removed,”
Quickplay has had the squad search limit removed since the launch of Operation 3. I think this was missed in the Op3 patch notes; I am working w/ community to make sure it is broadcast more widely now.
Groups of 5 are currently able to queue Quickplay, and in Op4, the Quickplay Team Deathmatch playlist will be TDM only and will not have bots enabled.
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Ohhh I had no idea about that, thank you 
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Lol thanks. And of course. @Mark36111 is never any help. I was hoping that during my absence he left this community and was gone for good. Seems like my hopes and dreams have been dashed against the rocks.
Curse you Mark
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Hey! Long time no see.
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I’m screwed in a sense because you know I cross more than jump in a hill. In fact you guys have come to rely on it on a lot of maps.
The objective to me isnt capping the hill in as its securing the area before you cap it ap you cam hold it.
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Yeah bruh people see Lebron James or Patrick Mahomes make crazy plays but they never realize that their teammates make those plays possible, in KOTH you are penalized far less for being aggressive so crossing imo is probably lowest in that mode but there’s always room for 1 or 2 players on a team to cross.
my friend (you know who 
) kinda taught me that playing more aggressive can work well, I think about the same as he does when it comes to teammates, I don’t expect to be carried, I just expect you to use your mind and finish my kills and stuff.
Once the enemy team got 150ish score bruh I expect you to sacrifice yourself for the sake of the team lol, I literally call people out by gamertag and tell them to break the hill because you can get 3 downs and still lose when the score is that close.
anyways bruh I won’t be playing KOTH again til OP4 because I wanna keep my Masters Skins… Took a fortnite to hit Masters mayne, not losing it for anything. Will probably screw around with some Horde or Escape though for sure.
GGs 
Wonderful. You got masters and I’m stuck in onyx…lol…
I see your GoFundMe for Xbox gold finally worked out.
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How many hours you put in? It took me like 300 hours to get to Masters, now I was real close like a week or 2 ago but due to some unfortunate losses was deranked back down to Onyx 3 then came back with a vengeance 
It takes a long time to master Gears 5, even though I’m Masters I’m nowhere near the best (I’ve played almost everybody except PC players in KOTH though), it takes a long time to get composure when fighting multiple opponents and even longer to get really good at movement.
Hopefully OP4’s ranking system will be a bit better for you friend.
Yeah I noticed it takes a long time.
I wish TC would have done something about cross-play by now … Make it input based so us PC players could play with controller, with console players …