I played in 2 LFG groups, some TDM and KOTH. Both times the game ended up doing the random freeze it eventually does. There seems to be a glitch with rejoining a ranked match. It will be on the loading map screen, just with the gear spinning forever, never joining.
I had to restart the game like 5 times before it got back into the game the first time. When it happened the 2nd time, the game was too near the end of the match, so I never made it back in because the same issue of it loading the map forever was happening, and I didn’t have time to restart enough times for it to finally join.
I already was wary of playing any ranked matches because of the PC freezing issue, loading forever bug while rejoining just secured it for me. I’ll probably not end up getting the Esports Kait for Gears 5.
Also, I only had the game installed about a week now, after not playing for nearly a year. After a day or 2, I decided to check my Xbox Live Reputation to see if people were still reporting players just for playing on PC, I had 2 “Cheater” reports. I figured that was fine, it was to be expected. Then after playing a match the other night, some random from the other team msg’d me “Nice mods… Trash!”.
I figured he prolly added a report, and I check, and I have 59 “Cheater” reports now. It seems either they allow for 1 person to spam report, or he got his friends list to report me. It’s hilarious how stupid the whole reputation system is, and the fact it’s still around in 2019 in such an infantile and unmanaged state. What makes it worse, I play solely on a Razer Wildcat X1 controller, such a joke.