I feel like this is one of those “Why are you doing this to us again?” type of updates
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God you people will complain no matter what they do
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Pleased Mr Shannon clarified the stray boomshot concern. Seems the fabricator can take a bit of damage. So you have to figure in some ways it is still a viable blocking tactic? Really interested to see how they balanced the damage it can take vs not using it to block lanes.
I know I’m in a minority but I like Dana a lot on the streams, I don’t follow twitter so not sure about there but he seems enthusiastic and has a horrible balancing act between what he can and cannot say. He’s a middle man and I don’t think he should have to go home and be into the game as us to gather feedback and pass it back. I really don’t envy him his job. I mean I play Gears more than most but if I did that job the community could pull me apart in seconds.
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They would probably have seperate rewards for 1-50 and Frenzy right? 
Anyway no point in worrying about it too much, we’ll know come Tuesday.
I’m only really interested in the extra cards, if I can do it on frenzy I will. I still cannot believe they haven’t made buying boost give you double cards. They could have funded extra devs right there 
I keep meaning to ask the question on the dev stream but I rarely get to watch it live as it’s midnight uk time and I need my beauty sleep.
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Idk, you could see Shannon get visibly upset when Dana kept interrupting him. And constantly ignoring questions just because it would show TC in a bad light is laughable. I really don’t understand this attitude of not acknowledging things while everyone is laughing at them.
The current issues with the Decon-rooms being a prime-example.
Just look at this thread. Didn’t even get a generic “Contact support”-reply cause then we would know that someone at TC actually read about this issue.
I also spammed the question for the entire stream and in the middle of the stream Dana asked if the Decon-room-waiting times will be shorter on new consoles. It’s like spitting in someones face.
Complaining about people complaining is even less helpful.
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You know I get that questions don’t get answered and it’s annoying but I hate the spamming of the same question over and over. I think they need a better way to manage that. Someone to pluck the interesting questions and have it flagged for a list to be answered even if it’s that they have nothing to reply at this time. That way the person can stop spamming and having their friends spamming for them. I mean how can anyone keep up with that while doing a podcast?
Again I though Mr Shannon did a great job as usual and of plucking out questions he wanted to address.
The funny thing is they have that already. One guy was being called out to stop speaking Spanish and someone kept track of questions for Dana. Near the end they went through some questions that were asked during the stream. Guess what though. No uncomfortable questions. Just stuff like, idk, will Daily Hives be playable in custom and such.
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Yeah fair enough but there’s nothing to know your question has been flagged so you can stop. They also need to be more aggressive and time people out for asking pvp questions in a pve stream and vice versa. Or future content questions. Luckily I don’t do the job, I’d be far more aggressive with the question stupidity each week.
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This would be a really useful feature
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That’s another thing. What qualifies as future-content? I was being called out by one of their mods in a stream a few months ago for asking if/when the old Chrome Steels would return.
Imo this isn’t exactly future content, when the content in question was sold well over a year ago. And yes, I know CS isn’t exactly popular but I really like them and removing the Lootbox-gambling should be supported.
philosophical question there lol. Whatever they don’t wanna talk about?
One of the questions I asked on stream a few months ago was about Pahanu (this was after it was released) and Dana just said “we don’t talk about future content”, that was pretty much the last time I bothered asking them anything on stream because I know they’ll just ignore it.
Like seriously, are they ever going to actually fix the bastions? I asked Shannon a couple of months ago and he said and I quote:
Now I’m aware that a bunch of stuff is on this guys shoulders, but still incredibly disappointing to see such a significant bug still be in Horde 4 months after, and for the patch notes to not even mention it.
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Well for the first time ever since the start of Op3, we got an acknowledgement of the chainsaw reload flinch bug, and Michael said it was being worked on. You can tell he cares about this game very much and I have to give him a lot of credit, and am willing to give the changes he has put in place a real chance because I believe he has made them with the beat of intentions.
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Honestly… in my opinion the solution needs to be to just remove the flinch mechanic altogether, instead of the lancer being this suppressive type weapon that shuts team down it should be this fun execution style weapon like it was back in Gears 1/2. It wouldn’t have been an issue if they didn’t put chainsaw on RB but if they didn’t it would appear inconsistent with Lancer GL.
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Bastion bug is fixed in Op5, just looks like it missed the patch notes.
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Wasn’t expecting a response on a Sunday, do you ever rest? 
Anyway happy to know that kamikaze bastions are behind us lol. 
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Suicide Bastions as a variant is still a nice idea. just needs some proper explosion fx and presto, new flusher type enemy.
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More enemy varients to spice things up never hurts.
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Did they say anything about the re-up curve? 19-20 has taken me forever, feel for those that achievement chase. It feels hopeless at level 19 and I have boost still running.
I played with the guy again at the top of the horde leaderboards. 1708 masters finishes, 935 of which he’s done on Overload. He still has a long way to go to 50! I mean that’s crazy to not hit 50 for him. Even if you guess each run took him on average 1 1/2 prior to overload that’s over 100 days of game time! Not many of us get to spend 1/3 of the total time we are alive in a year running horde and that’s still no enough! 
I’m assuming he’s running boost.
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There were changes planned and they said they were on track for Op 5. Currently, based on what little hints were given, we might get them with the first TU that follows the Op 5 launch.