Ok, this was annoying AF when it was chainsaw in Versus… I would reload or jam the gun when trying to revvup the chain… Yeah, annoying…
Now, go to Horde…
Are you kidding?? I’m trying to activate the ultimate, and the CLAW starts to reload! And the reload takes FOREVER… then I try again, and AGAIN it starts to reload… WTF??? Finally, THIRD time it works…
Geeze… it’s not like activating the ultimate on a Boss wave of an Insane Horde run is EVER time sensitive or anything, right???
Man, ohhh, man…
Of the many things they got wrong in Gears 5, this linking other, critical operations to the reload button has GOT to be near the top of the list…
The fact they haven’t even acknowledged this as an issue and even remotely thought about an option to restore the Chainsaw back to B is ridiculous.
…as well as the executions restored to Y.
As for the Ultimate, sure they could’ve though of a different button combination, it’s almost as if they’ve forgotten how many buttons an Xbox Controller actually has.
No one who tested this game, during development, was an actual user of chainsaw in actual combat, because if they were, they would have detected the usability problems immediately.
They probably did the “standing in the open, press hold RB, does the chainsaw revv up? Yes? Ok, then all good” type of a test…