Done diddlely do…
Hopefully I’m not the only one concerned for how the gears 5 gnasher works compared to the originals.
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I’m pretty sure TC currently isn’t using that Twitter account so tagging it might not have had much use. If you’ve missed the news Octus has left to go back to the UK some weeks ago.
That being said, regardless of who’s tagged I have a feeling TC is going to be silent as usual on this.
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I was actually able to get the TOD yesterday by playing only the modes i enjoyed (Versus) without focusing on it at all. I only play 4 days a week, about 4 hours a day.
It is much better than it was on Op1/2 if you give a try. That is if you like the rewards ofc
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Well then I guess it’s a good thing that they extended this operations Tour of Duty to give people more time to complete it however I am not interested in playing four hours a day 4 days a week I want to play Gears when I want to play Gears it’s already bad enough that they choose to do their content updates on Tuesday which other games like apexlegends also do I don’t want to have to feel obligated to play Apex either but at least their battle pass every week gives players and easy way to climb about 10 to 15 levels in the battle pass without doing anything extra I barely play an hour of Apex a day maybe about 5 hours a week and I’m almost completed the battle pass I play Gears 5 pretty consistently but because I don’t play Escape or Horde as much as I play versus I will never see the stars or medals from those modes which means that I have to rely on daily challenges every single day if I want to gain a few Stars. I would be more interested if every time you level up you get one star and I’m talking about your rank from 1 to a hundred before you re-up every level should give you one star you should not be forced to do some gimmicky challenge or play a mode you don’t want to play or character you don’t want to play or use a weapon you’re not interested in or many of the other pain in the ■■■ ways they have put in this game to be able to complete this Tour of Duty
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If you don’t want to play it then you don’t get the early access to the rewards. This was my same argument for Gilded Raam/the Emerald Gear and Ruby Scion in Gears 4. I didn’t care for them so i didn’t grind it. If you don’t grind you don’t have to, but the rewards will become available afterwards I’m 90% certain like the Series 3 they did with Gears 4.
That being said I still think it could be better. Not really progression as it’s easily obtainable if you try key word there. Playing when you want won’t get you anywhere. I never beat Gears 3/4 and UE on Insane by playing how I wanted. I did that to beat it. I prefer playing Gears alone in PvE and sometimes PvP if it’s feeling good, but I still played it nevertheless because I wanted to complete the TOD. If you try, it’s beatable. I just think there’s not enough incentives to beat it and nothing to do afterwards. Thus, I haven’t loaded Gears 5 in nearly five weeks.
And as for the Tuesday updates, I think I remember somewhere that it’s got something to do with Xbox, the way they check-off and approve of updates before they go live means that Tuesday is their opening gate. This is why some games lie and say “Beta” way after release, because games in Beta are allowed to bypass some of these quality checks in order to more quickly improve the “Unstable” performance of a game.
I dont think the tour is that hard to complete, ive hit general in all tours with plenty of time to spare, i do also enjoy playing escape, mostly with randoms tho (can be very frustrating)
Ive even got full gamerscore completed in many other gms inbetween, destiny 2, borderlands3, dayz, the outer worlds, doom eternal, Wolfenstein youngblood and journey to the savage planet… and gears 5🤦♂️
I understand not everyone can/wants to play as much as i do, but its how i choose to spend my free time.
100% agree about stars tho, all objectives atm r pointless for anyone who has reached general, so i would also like to see some xp in return for wasted stars.
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I have Gilded RAAM. It was a cakewalk compared to TOD.
I never said I dont want to play. I said I dont want to feel obligated to play. I dont think its healthy for anyone to play the same game every day, and I enjoy variety.
I’m not wrong in saying it’s an error to force players to complete objectives in game modes they dont want to play, use characters they arent interested in, mine a specific amount of kills with a specific weapon…you’re right, if I sat in escape and reloaded an easy hive 50 times I could easily do the execute rejects thing, but why would you want to do that? You should want to complete TOD and it should be accessible in more ways than we have. If you get one star every level, re ups maybe get you 3 or 5 stars? Or 10? I would play more and be interested in TOD. But I’m not finishing 30 escapes as mac, or getting 300 boltok headshots in escape, or executing 50 swarm drones…it doesnt sound tedious until you’ve actually spent time trying and been exhausted dealing with horde just for a couple stars…not sure why you dont agree, seems like a no brainer to let people who only wanna play pvp not feel excluded or like we dont deserve rewards because we just arent interested in playing escape or horde all the time. I havent played escape in 5 months, I played horde last week and it had been 2 months since at that point. When I am bored of pvp and burnt out I switch to pve and chill as del, that’s the most TC is gonna get out of me and if grinding koth and sometimes choosing to check out other stuff isnt good enough, that doesnt negate my argument, it strengthens it.
Simplify the TOD, TC.
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That’s what I was thinking. I’ve hit general just through regular play in a couple weeks each time. I’ll re-roll daily challenges as I complete them but i’m not stressing to get anything done. In fact I completely stopped playing verses modes so it’s stress free.
It’s not like you have clear every single challenge in the list to hit General.
Only thing I would like to see is the surplus of stars roll over to the next tour or convert to iron as they just keep racking up once the tour is done.
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This was my idea I posted before. Where 1 Star = 5 Iron. So at most with the free bounties players could only earn as much as 60-120 Iron a day (Boost, 12x5, 24x5), Meaning that It’d take 5 days of lucky rolls and bounties to earn one store character. If they just made it so Esports stuff wasn’t Iron based I guess.
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I myself was thinking that my problem with the store wasn’t one of the choices.
I want them to offer everything that they care to sell all of the time. They could use sales to pique interest instead of FOMO. If they wanted hybrid FOMO then they could sell things cheaper when they first come out and then more expensive if you wait.
My survey answer expressed discontent with the store but my reason is more nuanced. The “not worth it” kind of fits but my reason isn’t just over price - it’s under availability and completionist desires.