Just want to say if this thread comes across as a rant, I don’t mean it to be but it’s really difficult for it not too.
I haven’t played a lot of Gears 5 across Operation 3 and 4 because ultimately i haven’t been enjoying it that much.
I haven’t played TDM, Gridiron or 2v2 Gnashers at all this Operation. I played a little KOTH and got Masters in FFA.
Beyond that i’ve had no will to play Gears 5 but today the last person i know who wants anything to do with Gears 5 asked to play a game or two of KOTH. So i hopped on as he only plays once in a while and this is what happened.
Played the first game, massively unbalanced, the other team were all ranked Onyx but played like Bronzes because it’s far too easy for bad players to get to at least Onyx 1. So it was a very boring stomp of the other team.
Searched for a second game, we get Asylum. The game loads in but 2 of my teammates don’t appear.
The game then proceeds to start despite it being a 3v5.
This has already annoyed me a little bit, the game should not start and we should be returned to the main menu.
So the game starts 3v5 and then one of the other team says “No capturen” so they can try and farm us for GP.
So i’m stuck in a game that should’ve never had started to begin with being farmed for GP…
My third teammate quits and i don’t blame him making the match a 2v5.
My friend obviously doesn’t want to stick around as he only has so much time to play so we quit.
(I just want to say i’ve only ever quit one ranked match which was last November because of how poor the state of the game was with the Flashbangs in KOTH. So this will be my second time ever quitting a ranked match)
So we go back to the main menu and try to search again and we’ve both been suspended…
Now it doesn’t say how long for… just that you’ve been naughty and you can’t play our game…
Forgive me TC for not wanting to play your broken game that starts unfairly and not be farmed for GP because your “improved” ranking system promotes people to be the biggest scumbags that they can possible be so they can flaunt their fake ranks that are supposed to show peoples true skill and create even and competitive matches.
Here’s a video so people can see i’m not lying about the game starting 3v5 and so TC can fix their broken game.
I’m going to be brutally honest here and say Gears 5 was dead on arrival and has been on a life support machine ever since launch. I don’t think TC really understand how fundamentally broken and off-putting their game is.
I’d be shocked if Gears 5 had retained an equal or a higher player base than Gears of War 4 had after it’s first year.
I knew seven people who i played Gears with regularly since UE. Three of which i met back in 2008 on the first Gears and only one wants anything to do with Gears now, and after this i’m pretty sure he’s done.
So much about this game is broken or completely neglected. I’m not a big PvE player, i’ve tried my best to get into it but i just don’t enjoy it so i spend my time almost entirely in PvP. But almost all of the recent PvE updates have been either wrong or broken in some way and some didn’t even get implemented into the game and just left.
Even the most recent F!#? up with characters being allowed to level to 20 which clearly is supposed to be an Operation 5 thing gets mistakenly added into the live game an entire month before Operation 5… how?.
Again i’m not even a PvE player and this annoys me because of how careless it is, and your reaction to this was to just revert people back to 18 and say “Just don’t play the character you levelled till Operation 5” like… really?..
Even the simplest of things like Medal descriptions are wrong and somehow get put into the game and you’re telling me that nobody from TC notices?. Do you not double check ANYTHING before implementing it TC?..
Then there’s things that effect me as a PvP player, the GP system, the matchmaking… my god what a ■■■■ show.
The matchmaking in this game regardless of which ranking system you’re using is straight garbage.
Here’s a thread i made back in January of this year and even back then i’m saying the same thing i’m saying now that the matchmaking is the worst of any game i’ve ever played.
There has been no improvement at all made since release and in fact i’d argue it’s gotten worse.
It’s far too easy to get Onyx in any mode, legitimate Silver 2 players can get into Onyx which creates incredibly unbalanced matches as Onyx players can play against genuine Master players.
Why is it also at Gold rank you can either find Bronze and Silver players or Onyx and Diamond players.
Forgive me if i’m wrong but doesn’t that completely defeat the point of having ranks?.
If i can find players from either end of the skill spectrum then how can you have an even and fair ranked match?.
You say you increased the gap to -2/+2 so people can find matches quicker due to low availability of players.
But why design a ranking system that requires playlists to have a high population in a low population game.
If i’m ranked at Gold 2, i should only be able to find Silver 3, Gold 1, Gold 2, Gold 3 and Onyx 1 players.
Which even that is too lenient realistically to provide balanced matches but it would help.
On top of that and i don’t know if TC are aware of this or not, likely their not let’s be real here. You can find Onyx and Diamond players as a Bronze 1 if you’re searching solo. My friend accidentally searched TDM instead of KOTH and found himself in a lobby with Onyx and Diamond ranked players… as a Bronze 1… Probably another thing that’s slipped under TC’s radar which for a new player is probably a very off-putting experience.
Gears 5 has hands-down been my least favourite and most blood boiling experience with any Gears game.
I try not to complain about the game too much or make pointless angry threads as there’s already enough fuel for that fire but it’s so hard not to when there’s just mistake after mistake by TC.
The games been out over a year now and you still can’t play the campaign from start to finish without finding a game breaking bug which requires you to either reload a checkpoint or restart the entire chapter. It’s crazy.
The way things have been handled and the decisions that have been made are really poor at times.
No Gears game is perfect and they all have had their problems but Gears 5… whole other level of flawed.
I’m not a developer and i’m sure it’s hard and i’m not trying to be a ■■■■ by writing this or undermine anybody’s work at TC but it’s so hard not to say something when the overall experience of Gears 5 has been just… a disaster.
The whole Gears franchise deserves to be treated so much better than this.
it really is so frustrating. I can have fun with it and desperately want to, but the fun is usually overwhelmed by the frustration, upset and broken gameplay. Who knows maybe with 6 and the more powerful Xbox, TC will deliver.
) and all the bugs/glitches/hax/whatever that are present in this game just exacerbate the issue and make Ranked cringe.