This Week in Gears 5 - February 24th 2020

Ohh, yeah, salvos, turrets, sentries, sniper’s strike was modified to hit guardians into the shields (heads before) making it useless, HoD cost went up, mortar strike level 6 was useless they never fixed it, they kept changing spaws in an effort to fight speed runs to the point where some maps like blood drive were impossible on higher levels (buzz kill scions would spawn right next to your base), etc…

They did a LOT of nerfing changes…

Re soldier: resupply was a good card…

I did beat Blood Drive on Insane and Inconceivable several times after they severely screwed up the spawns on the map. But it was pretty much always in a very small, restricted area because everything else was just too risky to try with the enemies spawning on your heads(pretty much).

I do know of a Gears 5 nerf that annoys me to this day. Mac used to have Boltok bleed and Adrenaline Junkie at 100%. But then, somewhere mid-way through Operation 1 TC pulled a to this day unexplained stealth nerf to put both to 60%, when Mac felt completely fine. He’s still useful but it was an unnecessary change that sometimes makes the Boltok in particular feel a little underwhelming if you’re not basically right up in the enemies’ faces, and the bleed, again, still useful but feels a little underwhelming. Particularly when you have to hit headshots, which don’t affect the bleed damage itself, to make the most of the weapon. They yet have to comment on this matter. I ain’t forgetting it.

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So on Feb 24, we are told that there is an event running from 18-25 Feb. Surely this is a mistake?

Probably a typo on their part as the text above Read More for the article states :

“ Feb 25 – Mar 2: Arcade Double Trouble and TU 4.1”

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This got added in later.

DOUBLE CHARACTER XP WEEKEND: ESCAPE

Double Character XP Weekend is back and we’re dropping it hot into Escape!

We’re doubling the Character XP rate of Boost all weekend (Friday – Sunday), up from the usual 2x rate to 4x! If you aren’t Boosted, we’ve got you covered with a free Boost drop every day beginning Friday at 2am PT.

Well I’ve just added it just now.

They’ve done some minor buffs.

But yeah…basically as you said, the primary changes have been nerfs. Also, most of these nerfs were just in reaction to various speed-run techniques…not really about trying to “balance” regular play

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New skin Rasputin after being thrown into the freezing river WITH rope that shakes around the hands!

This had me dying

Better call 911

also Is your refrigerator running

He needs more than counciling

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Winter Fahz is actually pretty dope. Fur on the collar? Its wintertime…what is tbe big deal…

I did end up getting the Neon Set.

But I hope we get better next week.

Come on TC,

New Month,

Up the quality please!

Honestly Operation 4 is where the party is happening. Operation 3 is already old news :sunglasses:

Operation 4 with its delays might see the light of day in late Summer, early Autumn…

Can’t wait for the winter Dave/Jack

Maybe OP4 will be delayed for month thanks to the upcoming COVID-20 global pandemic! :open_mouth:

I doubt that at this point now, with release so close :sweat_smile:

All the content is there and easy and has been for a while.

They won’t delay anymore.

It’s coming Tuesday!

I wrote about OP4 and not the upcoming OP3. :upside_down_face:

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