Can I please go back to having fun on Ranked TDM with my stack. You’ve had your fun now TC, but I’m sick of dragged out games of gridiron, rubbish spawns on Koth and death magnet headless chickens on TDM. Please revert this completely idiotic decision.
If anyone wants to sit and argue about which game mode is best go elsewhere.
completely agree
this dumb change didn’t stop the solo players from complaining about stacks. the mode didn’t return with some newfound vigor in the way it plays.
all TC did was ruin a good time for people who enjoyed the mode for what it was and found it rewarding despite it’s faults.
we had fun with the mode. why does not being “competitive” enough trump that?
TDM is by far the worst ranked mode now. 4v4 worked in GoW 1 because maps were meant for it. That plus the lack of 3 or 4 player squads makes for a broken game. Every match becomes a camp fest of lancering behind cover and running out the clock.
Completely agree. This change in ranked TDM just doesn’t make sense to me. The game is slower and there is significantly more camping. It was good how it was, they just needed to fix spawns (which they still haven’t done by the way).
I’m not a regular PvP player, but I played TDM and now the game feels like KotH without the rings. 2 players on the left and 2 on the right, camping and waiting for the other team. I don’t hear emotes, except for “fall back”
It’s worse than Gridiron IMO
Agreed.
It was much more satisfying to win against a stack of people in TDM than randoms.
You have my signature @Mad_Mikeigan but I’m sure everybody on the forums knows my opinions as I make them apparently rather clearly .
5v5 stacks allowed = gears 5 back in top 15 played game 
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All the solo players that have a problem playing in a team based mode as a coordinated ranked team there is social tdm or FFA.
I actually like that it’s 4v4 but not being able to run a full team makes no sense. The solo players complaining can go play free for all
Just to re explain my point of being forced to play with other players ruining my experience.
Great fun this TC. Good job.
agreed!
tdm is awful right now
Yes.
Worst thing they ever did adding an icon to show who is/isn’t stacked. Get rid of that then all the ‘I’m solo against constant stacks’ tears will stop. Been more crying about that than there was for the change to be added in the first place.
How would 2 extra people make it not a camping lander fest? Did you play ranked TDM before this update, or in the previous games? It’s always a camping lancer fest.
5 v 5 is how it should be with as many friends as you want. Tc wtf you doin?
Agree 100%
TC ruining their best mode and punishing players for having friends.
Quickplay TDM just results in teams leaving or never a full team… its a joke.
One of the reasons why in only a year Gears 5 went from peaking worldwide players at 10k to now it peaks around 500 players.
Reducing the player count is a regressive tactic that should never have been an option on the board. I know there are a group of players that believe it was a good decision and I’d like to see how many of them are the Gears 1 elitists that are only happy when they are playing a carbon copy of the first iteration.
The fifth player on a team simply adds more chaos to the game mode which reduces camping. The issues of players setting up and lancering still exists just simply with one less player shooting and one less target running around. The problem there is a question of map and weapon balancing… not player count.
TC’s ranking setup has also created a condensed competitive environment even in the lower ranks. Placement matches are need to be reintroduced to divide the population back to the segments it needs to exist in. The slow grind of ranked has encouraged players to use more assured (albeit broken) methods such as lancering the entire game.
Personally, I don’t mind the team cap since I tend to play as a duo. Though I believe they should have capped it at three and kept the fifth player. Four and five stack players shouldn’t be banned, but they should basically only be finding each other. These stacks are the ones that I normally experience the aforementioned methods.
It all comes down to a balancing act. Rather than figure out how to make these matches enjoyable and fair TC just removed a player. It’s the same logic that was applied to the starter weapons in Gears 4. Stop removing aspects that Gears of War garnered over time and start learning the balance your matchmaking and weapons in a meaningful way.
TC just puts a bandaid over a bullet wound.
I just can’t see the sense in banning stacks in a team based mode. Camping is always going to be a part of TDM the whole point of it is to preserve lives so running round like a loonatic isn’t always going to work. In any game mode when played at a higher tier such as diamond your going to see people set up and lancer.
The annoying thing is @mjrdecision acknowledged on the stream last night that people who hit masters do tend to have a team or be one of the best players in the world! Don’t quote me on that but it was something along them lines.
The worst part about all this is I’ve made all these friends since Gears 5 launch through playing Ranked TDM and now I cant even have fun and enjoy playing with them. Also awful the amount of them that just completely stopped playing when they removed TDM in the first place. I’m not sure who TC are actually listening to when making these decisions!! But certainly doesn’t seem to be the TDM fanbase!
That is definitely what was said 
