Option to surrender a ranked match in gears 5 when someone quits

Gears 5
#41

LOL, it’s been so long, bit I kinda remember that. It is nearly a decade later though, it should be way beyond that. It’d be nice if the AI in general was just actually smarter, but AI in games is one of the slowest evolving aspects of gaming, which is sad. Someone needs to work on a good 3rd party AI add-on for UE4.

The deep learning/machine learning and neural network type of AI, if configured properly with the right constraints/settings for advanced AI behavior and logic could be so amazing. They’re using this more and more for network and other stuff now, like what they say they’re doing for matchmaking in Gears 5.

The Nvidia 20 series cards having stuff built in for deep learning is cool. It just needs to start being configured and used for gaming NPC AI. A dev team focused just on that could make a great 3rd party plugin/add-on for game engines.

Until then, it’d be nice to just get a basic AI that is at least acceptable for 2019 though.

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#42

In other genres of games they have certainly evolved but for shooters it’s always on and off at times, as for Gears of war at least they make some improvements when they can but I can agree that they definitely should upgrade the AI again in Gears 5.

#43

OH MY GOD I WAS SO MAD HAHAHAHA

Seriously I hate that nap and it NEVER gets voted down. Like OMG you guys this map was lots of fun ten years ago in a game type people didn’t even play LETS DO IT…makes m wanna chop off my own toes I tell ya. I’m pretty sure my team had a quit in the first round so we lost round one, then I wanted us to lose round two and my teammates went all hero and we won by a point, then we got absolutely spanked in round 3. JFC I HATE RAVEN DOWN SO MUCH

#44

Hey , I really like this idea , sometimes your team is just brain dead , and sometimes you realize that the game is lost in the first 3 minutes , a surrender option would be much appreciated

BUT

I realize that the concept itself of “surrender” doesn’t work off in Gears.
It’s against the very lore of the game , Swarm don’t let humans surrender and on the other hand Gears would slaughter the surrendered Swarm no-mercy , not sure if they can surrender at all , being hive-minded.

How about a “Retreat” option?
Both COG and Locust used to give up and leave the battleground when the situation was given and the fight was clearly lost.
This might also be a good way to add some new interesting voice lines , I could clearly see Del shouting something like “this is pure madness , let’s get the – outta here!” when starting a “Retreat” vote. Also your leader would be mad asfu because of that and he/she would criticize you a lot , speaking about your cowardice etc.

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#45

Really? Even when we have ridiculous skins that completely break the lore and you wanna use the whole lore thing as a reason not to have this as an option? :man_facepalming:

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#46

You clearly missed my point.
I’d love to have this option , I’m a supporter of this! I just think that the “surrender” is a wrong concept in the Gearsverse since both sides … They just don’t surrender , they fight till death.
I’m just suggesting that instead of “surrender” it should be called “Retreat” or “Withdraw” look I’m sorry I don’t know the right word , I’m not mother lenguage ok?
That would make perfect sense.

And who said we’re going to have absurd bright skins anyway? So many people complained in this forum , they might even consider leaving them out. In Gears 3 we had Camos but the character was default and It worked out anyway.

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#47

No I didn’t misunderstand you but I’m not gonna bother continuing with this since it will go nowhere and I’m not in a mood for this kind of crap anyways.

#49

I would rather have bots replacing missing players.

#50

Just have join in progress, like every other game. It’s mind boggling how the devs keep going out of their way to have ■■■■ matchmaking. The way ranked is designed is purely for ego. Tc treats it uber serious and hardcore. It’s a freaking game at the end of the day, focus on playability. Players quitting with no solution destroys playability. Not everyone is always finding a 5 man squad to play with, and 5 man squads playing a team where players have quit is boring anyway.
If players want it to be so competitive and hardcore where there’s no join in progress and whoever starts the game finishes the game, they can play game battles.

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#51

I’d like it if they didn’t make it nearly impossible to rejoin once you lag/crash out.

I’m on PC, on an Nvidia 10 series card, so sometimes it crashes. I was playing KOTH with a squad for around 2 hours, up until a few minutes ago. It froze during the 2nd to last match.

The same thing always happens when I load the game up and try to rejoin, it does the deployment, shows the map screen with the loading gear at the bottom right, and the tips at the bottom of the screen, and just sits there loading.

I have to retry like a million times before it actually works, and a lot of times it gets stuck in the menus with it saying I’ve been kicked, then asks me if I want to rejoin again, and keeps doing that back and forth. I have to reload the game and get it to try rejoining and get to the loading map screen again, and hope that it doesn’t stay there forever on like the 80th try.

It’s bad enough the Quality of Life stuff in every aspect of the game is so far behind, but to be so broken in so many of these already lagging behind areas is just unacceptable. I finally got back into that game near the end, someone on the other team had quit around the time I crashed, I couldn’t help but wonder if it was the PC player on that team and if they had the same issue of not being able to rejoin and maybe just gave up.

I’m getting sick of the lack of basic functionality, too much stuff is glitchy, bugged out and broken.

#52

All i know is someone shouldnt have to face a 5v1 escalation match. Lol. We actually had a match where 4 people quit on the opposing team after going down 3-0 in Gears 4. At that point you shouldnt have to sit through that. Even though it
Typically goes fast at that point.

#53

Squad wipe another dumb mechanic they introduce to escalation don’t even have to set up the homes just go kill the guy
It’s a new game type called hide and seek or hunters and trophy

#54

Lol yeah I dont like that either, but I wouldnt play the new escalation. I play solo a lot. I played a little bit of escalation solo in Gears 4, but i wouldnt touch this variation. Too much coordination is required. And i think its kind of dumb that you pick weapons and then spawns swap so you end up with weapons you didnt pick.

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#55

Your weapons are always on your side my problem with it is 20 seconds of picking time per team which is 40 seconds of game time and if you ever played escalation you know they let that thing go to zero

#56

Lol maybe i just picked the wrong side then :joy::joy::joy:. I was high while I was playing.

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#57

I think TC was high when they messed with escalation

#58

Hahahhaha. I think in some sense it makes it more strategic.

#59

But it would be nice if there was an option for the Gears 4 escalation.

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#60

I spent most of my time in KOTH and 2v2. I dont see that changing unless they add Wingman.

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#61

Something definitely needs to be addressed about quitters and not just banning them for X amount of minutes each time.
With the tec test 80% of my games there was at least a quitter or afk person on my side. If join in progress isn’t an option, could a system be put in place where the game checks how many players are on each side at the end of the match and if one side has less than the other then the team with less players don’t loose any rank xp?
This would make loosing ranked games because you have less players far less frustrating and more fair.

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