Store updated but can’t purchase Sid or Mikayla. Error message.
featured the same?
I just dashboard and it’s fine now
I meant the listing. Did they change it or is the announced stuff we already had?
Yep it’s updated.
Yeah announced stuff is up.
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Bruh moment.
Servers are absolutely dog ■■■■ at the moment Jesus
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Anyone else feel escalation badly needs to be 5v5? Great mode but far too quiet and quick
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good luck with that, lol… they’ll never release those…
BUT we know some things…
They have said, IN THE PAST, that they were “happy with the Horde player numbers” (on stream, not too long after release)… to the best of my knowledge (and please correct me if I’m wrong), they have NEVER said anything like that about the PvP player numbers…
They don’t make random changes… They make changes which they believe, BASED ON THEIR BACKEND DATA, will result in an increase in players… (be it existing players will stay on longer, or new players will stick around longer, etc)…
They have made numerous comments about the need for new/brand new players to quickly get kills in order to stay in the game… Which, IMO, by definition, means the game has to be dumbed down… How else can you help a brand new player get “kills”, when facing even a mildly experienced player?
To me this is a completely stupid and unrealistic and unachievable goal… There is NOTHING you can do to a game to allow a brand new, inexperienced player to, in any way, hold their own, against even a little bit experienced player… No matter how slow you make the movement, how weak or powerful you make the weapons, etc, etc - someone with experience will always have an edge over someone brand new… and the new person will keep getting killed and killed… you can’t change that…
All they are doing it make the game not fun for the likes of me… But i guess enough people will stay in it… and those who do will still kick the butts of any new players who’ll jump in…
They are trying to make the game have a very shallow learning curve… but it will never be flat… it can’t… you are just turning off experienced people…
Thats why I said “would” lol. We all know TC and or Microsoft would never release the number of players actually active in pvp or pve lol.
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Ok, so that means that sliding speed is now exactly the same as the running speed… lol… and they reduced the running speed…
I just can’t…
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I’ve wanted them to make improvements and bring escalation back, but I just played a couple games and I feel like it doesn’t work as a 4v4 quickplay. I mean there is absolutely no action in my games. I expect it to be better in a competitive arena, but nobody new to, or unfamiliar with, escalation is going to enjoy what I just experienced. It was more standing and less fighting than TDM.
Do respawns need shortened? Maybe. Would 5v5 be better? Probably.
My first suggestion would be to stop having the team leader place a single weapon every round. I get that it’s ‘escalation’ and as such each round more weaponry is added, but still pretty boring from the jump.
So my idea would be to get everyone involved and do something like the following:
End of Round 1 - everyone has option to change their assault loadout to: hammerburst. markza, or keep lancer.
End of Round 2 - everyone has option to change their pistol loadout to: boltok, talon, or keep snub.
End of Round 3 - everyone has option to change their shotgun loadout to: enforcer, overkill, or keep gnasher.
End of Round 4 - Weapons reset. Now maybe each team votes for what power weapon to spawn on their side (i.e. Longshot, Boom, or Torque).
Idk it’s just a thought. Maybe by the end everyone can spawn with Longshot and Drop lol. Idk, but maybe make it something fun. Nobody is really engaged when the leader is placing either incends or shock at the center of map after 1 round.
Would love to hear anyone else’s thoughts. Also, please tell me why my idea is dumb. Always enjoy that.
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Predator Hunt in custom horde options ? Nice one. Made for a good game on river. Fabricator seems available in custom so you can get weapons and build but there’s not much in the way of power. Enough to get some basic barriers up.
Now for a game on Overliad haha
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the only thing we can really do is look at matchmaking times ourselves and compare
I’m not too well versed with the PvP side of things but can’t you switch between tunings in custom games?
Yeah I think it should definitely be 5v5. I’m not even mad about the 4v4 for other modes. But knowing that they are changing (or have changed) esports to 4v4- I don’t see any chance that escalation will be changed to 5v5. Kinda stinks b/c I felt like it was a solid mode on GOW4. However, how it was and how it currently exists on Gears 5 is not very promising.
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Option to spawn with freedom lancer with no rockets would also be lit. Thing just does too much damage as a stand alone rifle tbh. Love shooting it though.
Oh and by the way guardian definitely doesn’t have the tuning live. Thought it was on everything from now?
Pleasantly surprised 
I’m not even firing the game up. I was becoming a frequent player with my friend too. No more logging online for dailies. Nothing. There’s nothing else I can do.
For the future of gears of war.
I’m not playing this.