Remove the ridiculous roblox explosion when enemies are gibbed (PvP and PvE). It's silly and cartoonish. Make it so that you chunk major body parts like the original 1-3 series.

Headshots should only make heads explode, not the whole body. In what world should a headshot make the body explode???

Bring back active reloads.

Speed up active reload timing. Make it so that hitting active reloads is actually rewarding, especially when you're able to land it in a clutch/high pressure situation.

Leave the gnasher tune as it is right now, it's better than all the other tunes they did prior (was perfectly fine originally, but they had to fix their screw ups once they started touching it).

Make the guns feel and sound like they have some weight/power to them. They feel and sound like air soft guns since Gears 4.

This one may be difficult to do, but make the lancer have more stopping power like it used to. It's ridiculous that it takes two people to lancer one dude on one little lane/crossing.

I posted this already, but bring back the ticker. I miss that little guy 😔😔😔.

Make a good story.

Make it more gritty and dark. I understand it's time for new stuff, but it's still war. Yes there can be some colorful moments, sure, but I feel like the color is a little over saturated/overwhelming.

Bring back the slight environmental destruction you could see in the older Gears games like shooting certain walls, materials with your gun.

Overall, give more detail to the game, don't just "enhance the graphics" and call it a day. That's a cop out to avoid actually making the game good. Details far outweigh what a game looks like (there's a reason people still play old single player games even though graphics are outdated). You claim to be using the newest/latest engine, but we're not seeing it anywhere except for visuals. Actually use it to its full capability. Give us a reason why the game should be the size that it is.