I was thinking about the fact that some Swarm species were completely redesigned and even retconed you could say from Gears 4; and it got me thinking that this actually shows some lack of consistency and creativity from TC in regards to long-term decisions.
For example:
Swarm Elite Drone
Swarm Hunter
What do you think of this?
The truth is that the GOW 4 Elite Swarm looks much better than the Gears 5 Swarm and apart from the GOW 4 game mechanics were better, they were LITERALLY AN ELITE SOLDIER. He used a lancer, gnasher, boltok and fragmentation grenades, he could even kill himself using his knife and chainsaw (like the Locust Cyclops). Its mechanics was like acting as a live player that an NPC so I loved it that the Gears 5 which is just another rifleman and with a rather weak appearance. Too bad they changed.
I’ve been trying to talk to TC about adding in the elite drone from 4 but they’ve been tiptoeing around the subject. I asked Octus on Reddit and he said they were trying to add him back into the game somehow. The thing is I’m not sure if he ever passed this feedback to the rest of the team before he left. Also I found a picture of the elite drone within gears 5 for the horde reveal but he could just be from the dev kit as something leftover. We need to let TC know we want this guy back in the lore and for multiplayer but I need your guys help giving this feedback. Maybe @GhostofDelta2 can help tag all of the TC devs on this forum if he’s still a moderator?
We need the elite drone back he had a completely unique and different phenotype compared to the other drones and should come back to gears 5 at least as a multiplayer character and back into the story for the next game/dlc. He was my favorite swarm and of course in gears 5 they had to take out my favorite one.
