The Craziest Idea - Forum Competition

Gears 5
#46

I have always loved the idea of having special variations of enemies, like the blue (champion) and yellow (rare) enemies in Diablo 3.

Give them more health, accuracy etc. But also give them special abilities from a list,

  • Like being able to call in Juvies,
  • harden themselves to make themselves take less damage,
  • Dodge much more,
  • spot the cog/fortifications
  • focus swarm fire on one target.
  • regenerate health.
  • Heal other units
  • Inspire other units to swarm/rush

You could give them a certain amount of abilities and increase the number with each difficulty.

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#47

Arnold Schwarzenegger playable character. Already got other terminator skins so why not add the real deal. When you die “I’ll be back” or “GET TO THE CHOPPAH” to tell your teammates to get the circle. The possibilities are endless

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#48

You gave me the scene of when he smacks the Camel as Conan the barbarian.

#49

While having Sarah Connor is cool and all, I just can’t imagine them not having tried to get Arnold as well. I wonder if he either turned it down or was just too expensive. Or maybe they’re somehow keeping it a surprise.

#50

It’s possible, but since they’re just doing a Gears-ified Skeleton, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s just a generic robot voice, or even just the same voice as the DR-1’s.

We’ll have to wait and see.

#51

I’m talking an Arnie skin for COG, unless the Swarm skin would be all destroyed looking with the skeleton poking through. That could work too.

#52

I’d assume it’s the one they showed off, with the skeleton.

#53

The Doomslayer from the new DOOM games as a Multiplayer character. Man, that would be epic.

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#54

Not necessarily a crazy idea but turn friendly fire on for multiplayer. This will make it harder for your teammates to just lob a frag or launch a bin shot in the middle of the team to save them all but kill the opposing team.

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#55

Teammates won’t care. They’ll kill you and get some kills while they’re at it. And then they’ll kill their teammates for power weapons, and finish off downed teammates for lulz.

#56

I’d frag tag every teammate that follows me to frags on security. Like I can’t pick them up myself…

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#57

Ever done the weapon pick-up animation, but somehow the teammate gets the weapon from you a second later? Love lag.

One time in Gears 4 I picked up a power weapon moments before my teammate got there. Then they did the pick-up animation on my Lancer, and suddenly I had their colorful Lancer in my hands, while they got the power weapon. (I think it was Boomshot)

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#58

Lots of times I’ll get to frags or another pickup first, press X, and a teammate is right behind me. The animation starts and then it’s like I get froze while the teammate gets the pickup.

Same thing when doing gnasher battles. It feels like I get frozen for a second while the enemy chunks me. Lag compensation in all its glory. If Gears 5 multiplayer is the same, I’ll stick with Horde and Escape.

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#59

Yeah, that happens to me in every game. It’s pretty common. Sometimes I’ll even see enemies attack me right as I attack them, but their damage never lands and they die. And once in a while, it’ll happen to me and then happen to that enemy the next time I meet them. Because few internet connections are truly stable (at least in America).

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#60

If your teammates kill you is a simple thing if they lose points and a kill off their score. As for picking up the weapon you just picked up, being the game knows it’s a teammate that killed you, you would not drop the weapon you are holding.

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#61

So if you’re downed, a teammate could kill you so the enemy couldn’t get your power weapon?

#62

Why is that an issue?

#63

Because it will be abused, and it will get players killed on accident even more often than it’s abused.

It’s alright if there’s one game mode with friendly fire enabled. But it needs to be a highly competitive game mode for stacked teams only.

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#64

Just imagine, 2 fully random teams, just sitting there, waiting for Drop or Boom :joy:

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#65

That’s the point though. Why should it be that you can lob a frag into a ring a kill all of the opposing team and your team gets out just fine. Accidental deaths are going to be part of it and makes you use it more strategically. Also for those that are abusing it that’s why you put in that it takes away from your score and point total. Even if they did it for just explosives.

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