Well would you look at this

Gears 5
#46

I was a diamond on gears 4 also, thanks for the pep talk, but I’m perfectly happy to come to my own conclusion without any external influence from you. I’m glad you’re enjoying it, that doesn’t mean I, or for that matter all of the other pros and veterans who are in the same camp on this one, will agree.

Edit: Your entire argument is also just a strawman argument predicated on some notion that I’m not doing well on gears 5. I have been playing just fine and have not been killed by ‘low skill players’ (EU servers permitting), I simply take no joy in winning or getting kills because it’s a slow and easy game.

#47

I’m sorry, but any amount of defending this game is null and void. It’s 22nd most played game, it has a 2.7 Rating, it has 1k viewers on mixer, fell behind farming simulator.

If you truly love this franchise you need to open your eyes and see this game is killing the franchise.

The thing is, I agree the game isn’t completely terrible, it has a ton of potential but all the minor tunings the did to nerf the gnasher players is outrageous. When I fired up Gears game it’s because I wanted the in your face skilled action game where the better player earned his or her way to be the better player. Learning and adapting to the weapons the art of the shotgun and how to maneuver. This doesn’t exist anymore, it’s why we all feel so disconnected.

  • Tone down Aim Assist by a lot
  • Get rid of the Bullet Magnetism (it’s very much still there)
  • Tone down the lancer or remove its stopping power
  • Get rid of the Delays, the game needs to feel fluid
  • Better Maps, they are balanced horribly

These 5 things had been fixed ASAP the game wouldn’t be in the situation it’s in. The mass decrease in player count makes defending the game fairly pointless.

Ps if I want to play a rifle heavy game, I’m going to play a game that does it better. Cliffy B had his problems, but he still didn’t over do it. What they have done without him there has been complete garbage.

#48

Correction Sir or Madam, it has a 2.5 * rating on the official Xbox store.

$ Laughs in Coalition $

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#49

Well I’ll just keep it 2.7 to be nice.

#50

Lmao

#51

As funny as reading this is, and knowing it likely is auto correct, it is magnetism and not magnesium.

#52

Wrong. Bullet magnesium is a bigger issue than bullet magnetism. Overdosing on magnesium is a serious concern when playing Gears5.

#53

I don’t know what is used in Gears Flashbangs, but it doesn’t look like magnesium to me.

#54

The point is more important then the spelling.

#55

Of course it is, but do you lose anything by not being serious from time to time?

#56

It’s in the words bullet magnesium. Ever since the fall of the Locusts, metals needed to make bullets were harder to find so they started using magnesium. Now everytime yo take a shot, you get a boost of it in your system. It’s a serious health concern and TC needs to resolve this asap.

(K it’s early in the morning don’t even know what I’m talking about anymore lol :sweat_smile:)

#57

I’ve been joking on here frequently tbh, but I’m to the point with this game where I’ve lost my laugh when it comes to the anything related to it. Not personal to you.

#58

Almost every game above it on that list is either a Battle Royale or an EA sports game, I see nothing above it that wasn’t already going to be above it regardless.

From review bombs on the MS store, it’s sitting in the high 8s on Metacritic.

Lol, I love it when people use twitch or mixer as a some kind of metric. Right now, Gears 5 is in the middle of very solid games. By your logic, the fact that Borderlands 3 has fewer views than nerds sitting in front of a camera playing D&D means that it too is a failure. This streaming nonsense can’t be measured in a way that’s an actually useful indicator of quality.

#59

Since this was indirectly aimed at me, that’s simply not my mentality whatsoever. Am I not allowed to take the opinion that the game has been made easier with a reduced skill gap, whilst also being perfectly aware that I’m not pro or even all that good in the grand scheme of things?

#60

Is he not allowed to poke fun of you for it?

#61

Of course, just didn’t seem like a joke on the back of that other guy basically accosting me of being terrible at gears :joy:

#62

Because once again, the gears community created the meta for gears online. Gears 1 multiplayer was thrown in last minute and was pretty basic and the players took it and made it one of the most fun multiplayer experiences of all time. It was pretty easy because the shotgun gameplay was definitely the most fun. The community was very big which is why these changes anger so many people. Look at cod adding jet packs

#63

Wasn’t talking about you I was making a generalization. But why does it matter if it’s made easier. If it’s easier for new people to get kills it’ll also be easier for you so it balances out.

#64

Like I said, it has become joyless to play in my opinion. I am still playing well, but if you dumb a game down enough it simply becomes boring. I played ranked on 5 for a while and honestly tried to give it a fair shake, but on returning to gears 4 I realised just how dull MP on 5 is in comparison. Again, it has absolutely nothing to do with how well I’m doing, the game itself is now joyless to play. One simple example of this: Headshots with snipe/boltok/markza are now meaningless, you just get handed them on a plate. You had to earn headshots in gears 4 even in social play. I don’t receive enjoyment from the skill gap being reduced so far that it is now less competitive than social play in the previous game.

Edit: spelling

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#65

Matchmaking tells a different story, it says the reviews on the Xbox fans are raw reviews from the fans that have played, and don’t anymore. Personally the fans review means more to me then some business junkies paid off by Microsoft to give this game a good review. Plain as day.

If they game was good it would be doing a lot better with player count and if you say the player count is good, I’d challenge you to show me your numbers because the 22nd most played game for one of Microsoft’s core games is pathetic.

And yes for Gears to have literally no viewers when it had big success on YouTube in the past means it did have a big audience, it doesn’t now, it’s not fun to play, so definitely not fun to watch.