They mentioned in the stream that the argument for TDM is about even.
That has too be a lie. On the forums anyway.
Well I must admit haven’t played gears this weekend due too there ■■■■■■■■.
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I’d debate their credibility after addling slower slide speed that no one even requested.
There should be an official poll to back them up, so I guess they want an exit by saying that!
P.S: OP2 tunning was the pinnacle of Gears 5 as per the most of the community here, now it’s back to rubbish.
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They don’t need facts. You can’t slam it in the forums without proof or it gets removed.
It’s a no win situation.
On a side note gears is now 41st place most played game. Fifa 19 at 3rd. Shows how much trouble gears 5 is in. They have too adress there bad situations soon or there game will fall of the 50th lol.
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TC, f you are reading this, kindly note that quitting rate is off the chart even for a player like me who stopped playing versus and back recently and it is quite frustrating, thus I would feel all the players who are in a good rank placement, matchmaking with solo or duo created more problems than solving it for TDM.
Either all modes should be unified as the current settings, or revert TDM back.
Thank you!
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According to TC it’s about 50/50.
The game fell down the charts which is a proven fact but that means nothing apparently
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When they forced us to play king that’s when there was an uproar on facing squads…
Instead they modify TDM as a result of the out cry to King treating them as equal modes when they’re not…
I didn’t mind with duo squads but after ranking up to diamond it really is hard to surpass that because your success depends on the mercy of randoms…
King matches last 30 minutes or longer so yeah stacks is dumb when it’s nothing but lancering for 30+ minutes camping a hill, seldom gnasher.
But tdm never had that issue. My matches always lasted 12-15 minutes. Very rarely I’d fight a camp squad out of the 30 matches I’d probably fight 1-2 camp squads.
Still, I never complained about stacks in tdm.
Suddenly forces us to play king for a month & I’m hating how stacks play in that mode.
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I agree, I hate king because of how long a game is.
TDM has that perfect middle ground where I could play with mates and in and out of competitive games in 10-15 mins.
Now I don’t bother trying in TDM ranked games. I even turn the console off now mid game if I’m paired with morons and can’t be ■■■■■ too play any longer.
TC for me have ruined the experience, I’ve even started doing what I hated people doing on my team.
As the old saying goes, if you can’t beat them, join them. And that is exactly what I have done. Ranked TDM isn’t a competitive serious mode now and has no place in ranked in my opinion. And as I don’t like too play gears on a solo flex FFA ain’t for me.
2v2 is basically now incorporated into TDM. And KoTH is too long games which I find tedious.
I fee the only way too win is reverse psychology and be the type of player I hate being paired with and encourage everybody todo the same until there’s outrage at it everywhere and TC do something to combat that (remove the cap).
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Dude, no one talks in game chat, you are literally gambling every time you queue up for teammates who have 0 critical thinking skills. It doesn’t help that their are gnasher inconsistencies on defaul-ternate. Can’t even get past O2 this season. Been master in every other season. 
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I miss my coordinated 5 man lancer wall )=
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And that’s the exact problem with attributing rank with wins… It has nothing to do with true skill.
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This is quite honestly one of the best replies I’ve ever seen. Thank you.
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I think @TC_Clown it summarizes two things:
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The true objective of Gears of War .
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A brief description of a job offering for a Mexican Cartel " LOS ZETAS " Enforcer man .
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Do free for all. Everyone whose hit onyx in pst OP is getting masters there…
It’s along grind… but I’ve seen some bad players hit masters there when they never hit masters in any op
@OxSIDExEROUS I miss my coordination too… I didn’t have a lancer wall but I didn’t have bots… so I’d link up with people that just knew when to do what… TDM only works if everyone works together…
you have that Rambo on the team it ruins strategy because now you baby sit the guy & he pushes in the most dangerous spots… I’m good but not that good to babysit sometimes…
I had no problem with stacks on TDM… king it was tedious because matches lasted a while … I stack when I play king, never going in that mode unstacked because I know how it is without a stack…
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any movement on this or is TC standing firm on this ruleset?
Something along these lines was said in last night’s dev stream ‘were going to continue analysing the data as its too early in the season to know if it’s working or not’
In other words we aren’t shouting loud enough!!!
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the real answer would be the mode population numbers. I can’t see it being higher in any situation.
I’m actually hoping the overall numbers for the game took a hit and they finally see how stupid this idea was.
None of my friends want to play Gridiron or KOTH, they’re actively asking wtf TC is doing and why there’s only 4v4 and limits on party size. It’s been a decrease in playtime across everyone I play with.
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This is irrelevant if more people are playing more often. It is about playtime the longer people stay playing the more likely they are to buy stuff from the store. If they lose a couple hundred players that only play for a couple of hours a day but gain 100 that play all day then they are going to stick to this model.
They are trying to get people playing against and with similarly skill players which is the objective of the mode.
Gears party’s and practice with your friends is intended for quickplay modes where rank is only there in the background to find other players close to you and your friends skill level.
Every player should be able to earn their own rank without the help of a dedicated team. If people are unhappy not getting easy wins because their team helps them to get there then perhaps ranked mode is not for them and they should stay in quickplay modes. Where wins are easy most of the time anyway.
TDM has a dedicated playlist there now that even lets you stack 4 players. If people are playing for fun then this should not be a problem. If they are playing ranked to get diamond and master weapon skins then they are playing for the wrong reason.
The skins where supposed to be a fun bonus to encourage players to play ranked games. The skins turned into a greed fest where some people paid other people to climb the ladder for them just for a skin.
Ranked mode is to match players with other players close to your skill level it is not about getting to the top spot on the list. If the top spot on the list is that important to some people then those people are the cause of the system breaking down.
This breakdown occurs when they rank up to those top spots then start playing a different account that is ranked lower to climb the ladder again getting easy wins by frustrating low ranked opponents that should not be playing against these guys.
This is the biggest reason people quit mid match leaving their team high and dry to get demolished by some guy that should be ranked way higher than they actually are because they might lose rank on their main account so they play against lower skilled opponents on smurf accounts.
We’ve tried to make a team for Gridiron but the wait times for games are horrendous and were always playing the same 1 or 2 teams, usually on rubbish ping too. The mode must’ve died off.
We just need to stay alive… they’re bound to notice …
I used to Stan TDM.
Now I just play less of it cause it plays strange as hell
And the ■■■■■■■ teammates who eat up lives and can’t duel with the gnasher save their life. That ■■■■ got old, so does the enemy team camping right outside spawn.
I used to be a high diamond player, now I don’t want to bother getting out of silver.
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