VR was a really cool idea when the movie Lawnmower Man first came out but public interest in it has been in a steady decline ever since.
It’s never going to take off.
I have an Xbox but I prefer to play Gears 4 on PC. I’d say I’m pretty skeptical about anyone earning my trust with the way this game crashes. I can play Guardian, KOTH, or anything else mostly fine but I can’t for the life of me play Escalation because it likes to lock up just short BSoD whenever someone places a weapon. And then you can’t rejoin even though you’re booted back in within 30 seconds because it can’t connect to “Gears of War services”. Pretty much forcing you to try again in an hour or just wait till tomorrow to try and play again.
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.
Well first off youre miss quoting him. He said “with gears 4 we wanted to earn your trust”
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This. People don’t listen and they mishear things all the time.
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Ill admit i laugh hard with this. I loved GOW1 Ultimate Edition and they had my trust at that moment but when GOW4 came out, it didn’t took long before they lost it.
Useless season pass of 60$(CAD) that ultimately gave like 6 new maps and a tons of recycled maps. Maps from previous GOW where barely changed at all, not even theme changed (Canals GOW1 vs Canals GOW2 on ice) and they had the audacity to give us variants of the GOW4 launch maps.
Terrible RNG pack system designed to milk the gamers. Gatekeeping horde skills behind them (thus making it pay to win even if its coop) + money only “epsorts” packs that contained the best skins. Altough they made it less of a mess by the end, it still was some form of RNG with real money.
Making us grind the horde in speed runs for XP and gold to get said packs, a mode wich i think is fine ocasionally when chilling out with friends but nothing more. Seriously i never did as much horde in any gears as i did in 4 and that include the requirements for Seriously 3.0 in 3… I am STILL on horde overdose even if i have not played that mode in MONTHS.
Anyway thats just a part of it, but the fact they had to come out and reassure us that RNG packs where gone, no season pass is an admitance of guilt because they know if they didn’t, lots of veterants wouldn’t had bite this time.
Don’t forget EVERYONE got access to those maps for free after we were duped into paying for them in the initial pre-order. There’s no offline play in Gears4 so the benefit to “owning” the maps was marginal at best.
For me gears 5 is where they’ll get their trust everything relies on this game
It wasn’t pay to win. More like play to win. I didn’t spend real money but still got all Horde skills, two or three times.
Brief background on me as a player…played every game except Judgment an extended amount. Not GoW1 as much, but I had something like 90 days of playtime in GoW 2, and not that much different in GoW3 and 4. Used to spend a lot of time on the forums too but…wife, kids, jobs, and just being my late 30s, makes it tough to find extra time.
Figured I’d pop in today to see what people are saying about the tech test and it’s the same old stuff here that it always was. This community just sitting around saying things that they don’t like are broken without citing specifics, raging at TC, showing some entitlement, and assuming that the people who are on the forums are the majority of the player base and expecting to be catered too. Classic forums, oh you guys…never change!
GoW4 was good. It wasn’t universally and objectively perfect, but it was good. Movement felt good. Weapons were fun. Campaign was decent. Horde I thought was phenomenal. It was far from perfect, there’s plenty to complain about. PLENTY. The loot boxes were especially awful, and the season pass was a huge rip off, the fact that I think only 6 (not sure but it’s something like that) of the 24 DLC maps were legitimately new, blah blah blah…again, not perfect. But as far as just loading up the game and playing a couple matches of KoTH or TDM or old school execution, or rounding up some buds for Horde…great fun. Y’all need to realize you aren’t the only gow players out there and that maybe some weapon tuning changes you don’t agree with or some poor DLC are not the same thing as “broken.”
Side note for PC players…your game might actually be broken, I have no idea. I’ve never heard anybody say the game runs well on PC. But those of us on XBox need to chill.
Well if it makes you feel any better, they still havnt fixed gears pc crashing. It has been transported over from 4
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I’ve heard it’s a different crash so all hope isn’t lost.
Yea, just got a crash just now. It’s worse for me than on 4, on 4 it’s currently a soft-freeze, so I can Alt+Tab out and close the game. It’s a hard-freeze here, I think it was on 4 in the earlier days before 382.53 driver also.
Anyways, after it rebooted, the Gears 5 Tech Test shortcut icon I had on my Taskbar is an invisible icon now, lol. This dev team man. I guess they can fix the crash on 4 and 5 at the same time now, since it seems it’s the same issue.
I definitely won’t be pre-ordering anytime soon, it’s just so disappointing.
I ran very smooth and didn’t even stutter or crash in the 5-6 games I got.
Obviously won’t know till I play more later.
Yeah nobody really trusts TC but the youtube guys and whoever is constantly in the DEV streams. That whole Earn Your Trust comment was a bit too much.
You heard wrong.
I don’t know.
I’ve had friends tell me it’s different. That’s not to say the old one doesn’t exist but a new one also does then.
It seems to be the same as the original GOW4 hard-freeze BSOD for me. GOW4 currently does the soft-freeze where I can Alt+Tab out and close the game, but before driver 382.53 and whatever major Windows updates, it was just like the Tech Test BSOD for me.
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Gears 5 should be on steam according to Likebutter. So Gears5 should be ok due to Nivida having a lot more pressure to the correct the issue gears4 had. Also no season pass, one combined tuning and cross-play should enhance the gears5 community.
Plus Gears5 just looks badass overall, so let’s be humble. We are all hardcore Gears of war fans and this franchise has been through a lot, let’s have faith and support our developers.
Nvidia and pressure don’t go together.
They heavily marketed Gears 4 with the 10 Series GPUs.
Only took 2 years to fix and probably because of 5 really as same crashing cropped up again.
Can’t affect their 20 series sales and can’t affect future 20 series sales.