OP4 achievements are a joke - 100k kills, 50k assists, reup 40? Time to uninstall

Gears 5
#165

I have to agree that these achievements are a joke. Having grindy or difficult achievements are fine, but these are not really achievable.

As others have pointed out, the time sink for anyone to unlock these is insane. I think judging from a lot of the comments on here and on other forums, this has put the ‘the completionist’ players off from buying any further titles in this series, and i can’t blame them.

I feel fatigued just thinking about how much of a grind this is. Its not like you can even mix it up and play different modes. If you want this achievement, really your only option is to play KOTH against bots, all day every day, for a very very long time.

This really needs to be reassessed. After an overall great update with title 4, this has left a very bitter taste in a lot of peoples mouths.

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#166

Same, I’m not afraid of doing a grind, after all, I was brought up playing Classic WoW, where you had to spend hours upon hours levelling up in The Barrens with no quest helper (except WoWhead but I didn’t use it as much), and no dungeon finder.

So jealous of the people playing today who can level up so quickly and without much difficulty.

#167

It is also a continuous showing from TC that they do not give a f*ck about what their playerbase wants. They are too busy catering to E-sports.

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#168

It is interesting to see people with thousands of games on their account, and with very few Achievements. I do not know if people still do it, but years ago, people would buy a game, complete it, then trade it in for another one.
With todays technology, it is mostly Digital Download. I rarely traded in games, i have basically bought only games i have a feel for. 90% of all the games i bought in the past, i still own, even right down to the Original Halo game, and one of my Crown Jewels, Knights of the Old Republic.

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#169

I agree. I judge games based on the single player campaign purely because you can never tell if the online servers will be a ghost town after a few months. The MP component is secondary and a bit of a bonus even if this is where I spend the most time. It’s just frustrating when so many parts of a game are online-only nowadays. I mean, Mr Games Developer - if you expect me to be always online then please deliver a service which is always online.

#170

I’ve played since launch and I’ve got em. Why are you crying over achievements.

#171

Got what? The 100,000 kills and 100,000,000 damage?

#172

I play too for the story, that’s how I started played Gears. Gears 1 have a good story, and with Gears 2 was a lot better, and the end with Gears 3…

I didn’t play so much single player games now because I had to grind Gears achievements, now I’m an spectator of franchises that I played before, like The Legend of Zelda, Fire emblem, Pokemon, Harvest moon and I more than I don’t remember. I watch what my husband plays (he finds achievements stupid too, but he helped me with some of them). I know about more games than my played games on my profile shows. Red Dead Redemption, Batman Arkham series, Alien, Final Fantasy and many Nintendo games.

#173

The achievements in gears 5 are a lot worse than gears 4. I was late to the party on 4 but managed to get every single achievement between June 2018 and March 2019.

There is absolutely no way someone can get all of these achievements, without using exploits and/or using a cheating device, in 9 months on gears 5.

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#174

Believe it or not I’m only at just over 34K kills out of the 100K. Of course, I do believe it will come naturally and don’t really see a problem with it.

@xxxGAUNTLETxxx, the fact that you’re double my kills goes to show how much more you play than me, lol. I’ve been slacking off.

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#175

And his profile is conveniently on private as well. :joy:

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#176

You don’t have them.

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#177

Don’t believe I’ve ever commented in these official Gears forums, but I am now to agree and side with those who think these new achievements are horrible. They’re not creative, and they’re not fun - it’s a poor attempt to lock people in Versus for months/years on end and get them to purchase boo$t.

I am a completionist and don’t mind a good grind, I’ve 100% completed most of the Gears games. BUT this game has turned me off from the series in the future. There are far too many other great games coming out, and far too many better things to spend my time on outside of the TV screen.

I will try to finish Gears 5, but it will also likely be the last Gears game I play.

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#178

Same here bro, my last Gears.

Done with grinding killing bots.

#179

@II_RENEGADE_II Same here. This is a slap in the face by TC. Everyone should be entitled to get the kills in any mode. Horde, escape, campaign and pvp should all be counted.

I definitely won’t be buying another Xbox Studios Game.

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#180

According to Dana 100k kills take 3 weeks of casual playing so there isn’t much thinking going on over at TC in general.

#181

They are delusional.

#182

The tantrums people are putting on about these achievements is overly dramatic. If this makes you stop playing, anything would. Yet I bet most will keep playing despite the threats.

#183

I would not say people are being overly dramatic. People get enjoyment and a sense of accomplishment from different things.

For some gears fans, it is about climbing up to masters in ranked, and there has been a lot of discussion around how the ranked system works.

Within the gears population, there are also achievement hunters. However, the issue people have is that these achievements are just too grindy and not enjoyable. For most people it will be impossible to reach the numbers they have put forwards as people just can’t commit that much time. They have stripped the enjoyment out of the achievement process, which other gears games have had.

Having an open discussion around this I believe is helpful, the devs should be aware that they are punishing or alienating a population of their fanbase. Just because you think people are being overly dramatic, does not make it so. People play the game differently, enjoy the game differently and are entitled to voice their opinion and concerns to try and help shape the game into something that appeals to as many as possible.

I do hope that these achievements are reassessed. I am happy to grind, like the 25000 achievement i think is fair. However, its the final achievements (100000 kills, 100000000 damage) that are just too obscene.

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#184

Albeit very poorly…

Not looking to start a console argument, but Trophies suck. The 4 tier system is just boring to me.