This could be our last Gears of Wars

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#54

As an achievement hunter myself, who believes that TC ( and Epic before them) also takes Gears Of War achievements very seriously, here’s my take -

I do agree with the 100,000 versus kills / damage / assist achievements being unnecessarily high and should probably be modified (ideally 25K kills, 12.5K assists, 30 million damage should be the max for versus).

However, in terms of achievements, we need to keep in mind that we will only truly able to complete this game once the final achievement drop hits, possibly only in 2 years from now, so there is nothing wrong with having ‘long’ retroactive / cumulative achievements which are meant to be worked on slowly over time (such as re-upping 40 times, or hypothetically completing 1000 horde waves, which would still be realistically able to attain in time for the final achievement drop (hopefully we don’t get a Re-up 50 times achievement, which would be overkill imo).

As long as TC don’t overcompensate and nerf all subsequent achievements going forward, and just bloat the list with generic ‘50GS - Finish a versus match with more kills than deaths’ type stuff.

I still believe the game needs an achievement for mastering all Year 1 / Year 2 escape hives and horde maps, for example (either as part of a Seriously 5.0 - Chapter 2 or whatnot), given that many players (including myself) worked pretty hard to master all of post-launch hives / maps thus far in preparation for an achievement like this. I’m sure some people would agree with me, and some others would think that this would be too time consuming and unrealistic.

Bottom line, achievements are effectively your personal ‘digital footprint’ on a given game , they should be difficult, but realistic. It’s all about balance : )

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#55

KOTH all day everyday!

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#56

I friggen hate that splash screen of Dom,stupid looking smile as well.

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#57

Apparently people didn’t like the skins being locked to modes, I do recall VS players being annoyed that the Arid Gale skins were locked to Escape leaderboards, I’m not sure about ranked rewards though. Then again, the ranked rewards were in Gears 4, and people didn’t mind.

Like I said, it was a showcase of skill. What made those skins desirable was that they were cool and rare. If everyone had the skins they would be devalued.

@AlphaKnight04

At this point adding more grindy achievements will likely only annoy players, its likely to discourage people playing rather than encourage them.

My friend wanted to get all the achievements in this game, but just conceded defeat when these came out. He will still play, but not anywhere near as much as he probably would have done if the grind was more, reasonable, lets say.

Encouraging players to play skill-based achievements, similar to Gears 4 with the School of '08 achievement, is likely to open more players to this sort of thing. It may encourage more diverse custom lobbies, more challenge lobbies.

Because at the moment, Escape lobbies mainly consist of The Surge, The Descent, The Clock, The Malfunction. Horde lobbies will sink back into Forge central in the next few weeks once people have tried the new maps.

#58

On the developer stream from last thursday, Dana stated that there would be more reups coming. Potentially making more reup achievements.

#59

It sounds like you just want achievements which match the way you like to play. I already have the 100k achievement and I’m very close to the 100m damage and 50k assists yet I’m “only” re-up 17. I’d never get to re-up 40 just from playing versus.

#60

I agree with the Don splash screen.

Why not go with something like this?

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Well just ignore the RIP part but it at least feels like Gears.

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#61

Guardian all day everyday!!!

Fixed😃

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#62

Exactly, TC changed the system because VS players complained about the Escape rewards. That’s what I said. And as I said before, if a VS player wanted those skins they should have got busy in Escape. It’s the same if I wanted the Onyx or Master weapon ski rewards from ranked, if I wanted those I need to rank up in VS. I liked those being locked into categories because it showed skill. Now we just get more GC for each category we finish.

But as I’ve said in other posts long ago, I still prefer unlocking things via gameplay. You want Myrrah? Beat the campaign on Inconceivable (just an example). Want this skin? Master 50 waves of Horde or earn your first rank in VS. That would actually encourage players to try different game modes. I still remember a VS player who joined our Horde game 2 years after Gears 4 was released to get one of the achievements. Dude kept bragging about how he was a Diamond level player, but come wave 8 he was asking ‘What’s that spikey cat thing?’. He’d never touched the campaign in his entire time playing.

And I agree, more grindy achievements will just annoy people at this point. And you’re slightly off about Horde. I think it’ll become split between Forge and Blooddrive and not much else.

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#63

Like how?

#64

Playing pretty much nothing but KOTH since the game released = 120k kills. Probably 2/3 or 3/4 in ranked, the rest in social quickplay. Good luck Ron. You should really pray for a map with a turret in op5 like War Machine.

#65

This was a very well made post. Im not much for achievements, but actually being to get them would be nice xD

#66

That is really impressive m8.

I am more a PVE player, so sucks hehe.

#67

I like the new guardian actually. Better than the old. When it comes back to rank im gonna get on it. Only if TC doesn’t do some stupid A** S*** like keep F****** with Tuning and Movement I just want some dam consistency.

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#68

Spikey cat thingy? :joy:

I agree with you though, I regularly play all the game modes, and I think it’s part of the experience. I kno of people as well who only play pvp & only use gnashers. They’ve never finished campaign, never done an escape, it’s embarrassing. But then, they also don’t care about skins or achievements😅 so there’s that.

In addition, I just got the (insert whatever amount) assists pvp kills achievement yesterday. I haven’t looked at my progress for the others, but I feel like it’s attainable over time. Just not in a few weeks time. Maybe a couple months? :man_shrugging:t4:

#69

Lol, yea. And that was a direct quote of what he called it. The thing was, it wouldn’t have been so bad had he not also claimed to have beaten the campaign. It was pretty easy to call BS on him then.

#70

this IS my last gears game, the franchise is ruined…

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#71

Really? I’ve see the double boost weekends, never the x4.

I’d actually be willing to spend cash on a x4 boost tho, that team ice weapon skin is calling my name :cry:

#72

You’ll be here when 6 comes out. Your addicted just like everyone else on this forum.

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#73

They need to go back to weapon skins as rewards for Escape. VS players complaining about this is just stupid. They get their own skins and PvE never complained