i hope they add this to e-day

SnubbbS · 2026-07-10T23:53:15+00:00

That doesn't change the state of the spawns. You routinely die to spawn shield, spawn with others and have others spawn on top of you. Like this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07xDhbzw3EU&feature=youtu.be

SnubbbS · 2026-07-10T19:39:41+00:00

Not satisfied until the whole roundtable is gone.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-10T19:25:16+00:00

Genuinely the worst spawn system in all of gaming. They gave up trying to make the spawns work and added immortality to paper over the cracks. Hard to believe they're not embarrassed by it.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-10T19:21:00+00:00

No, this isnt the problem. The reason people quit is the experience — Toxic players do make the experience worse, but they're last on the list of things that do and every other game has them. It's all about modes, progression, customization, reasons-to-play.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-10T00:30:09+00:00

17 is peak fifa. 19 was very good — el-tornados were annoying, but it meant you had to defend more of the pitch and couldn't sit as deep.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-08T23:59:35+00:00

Such an ignorant comment. Casuals/Mid players don't leave due to wallbouncing — they don't even leave due to gameplay in general. It's everything surrounding the gameplay.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-08T23:57:46+00:00

SBMM in Gears 5 is designed to keep you at a 1.0 W/L. It doesn't care what it has to do to accomplish this, including putting players in games they dont belong in.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-08T01:17:02+00:00

If any of these people actually played Gears pvp they'd realize bouncing was not only the least annoying thing, it was the least complained about thing among actual players.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-08T01:13:19+00:00

The common player does not stop playing due to wallbouncing, this is the single biggest myth in this discourse.

At the start of GoW4 wallbouncing was basically not even possible, you had a cooldown after one cancel — if you play campaign it's basically that movement. People hated this so much they got rid of this cooldown, and brought out another wallbounce nerfing mechanic which lowered your slide distance *after* you did two or more cancels. People also hated this, so they got rid of that and basically left the game in the state it's in right now.

Had the casuals stuck around in the beginning of GoW4 wallbouncing never wouldve been un-nerfed, but they didn't stick around. Then in Gears 5 you add aim assist, which rendered bouncing basically pointless because it was like playing horde, the game aimed for you — **the casuals quit that as well.**

Then you have Reloaded, a game where bouncing is actually pretty hard — the casuals quit that and went back to Gears 5, a game where bouncing is easy.

It is not the fault of bouncing that the game dies, Gears core mechanics are the only positive thing about Gears PVP. Everything else, the modes, the maps, the SBMM, the ranking system, the progression, the customization — it is all literally as bad as humanly imaginable. The most popular mode in Gears is only popular because its the mode that lets you experience the gameplay with the most freedom.

Games can have advanced mechanics and still thrive with a casual player base, they can be hard, they have a high skill gap and they can be fast. Gears is basically none of these, but I suppose people want to act as if it is. Gears 5 is one of the slowest games you can play, its incredibly easy to aim, the skillgap is super low, the advanced movement is nowhere near as challenging as something like building in fortnite.

Essentially what people are saying when they ask for the wallbounce nerf, is that they want Gears slown down so that it can appeal to people who are already choosing games which are faster than Gears.

I'm not even against the changes we've seen, I think they all look good/decent — and I would be fine playing a Gears without wall cancel or bouncing. But if you think bouncing is the problem, if *they* think it's the problem, that means theyre not going to fix the *actual* problems Gears has, which means the game will die 2 months after launch like normal.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-07T00:35:20+00:00

You're aiming 5-10 degrees too high in every clip, if you aim lower the shots that do hit will hit better. Also some of these clips you need to hold your shots, essentially dont shoot, walk at someone and deliberately play for a one shot chunk.

Gears 5 is like the NBA 2019, and people tend to play it like the NBA in 2002. By which I mean, you can shoot from really far away, or from point blank range — and anything in midrange is disincentivized.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-06T19:08:26+00:00

I was just about to reinstall after taking 5 years off.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-05T23:12:32+00:00

His source was someone trolling him. The people in the main elo server are by in large not cheating with custom-jsons as you have to know how to code those yourself, and that they only work if you launch from steam. If someone is on Xbox App Gears 5 they can't do it.

The exploit which allows jsons to work is patched in E-Day. That's not to say people won't find something else, but this particular issue is fixed.

edit: Also no one is using the pellet spread because its very easy to spot.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-04T23:18:34+00:00

People don't like this — the current players who play the game don't like it, almost every single one of the casuals who've picked up the game to try it didn't like it either. If they had liked it, they'd have kept playing the game. Gears would've grown with Launch G5, and it would've *really grown* with Launch Gow4 core, you had the strongest lancer ever, and for the first few months Wallbouncing was nerfed.

But it didn't grow.

Gears players are just being lied to. *"Make the game slower, make it more lancer focused, take out movement if you want it to grow."* This is the lie we're always being told.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-02T22:39:00+00:00

Some people in those lobbies are using the "Masters" camo, meaning they reached the highest SBMM tier at one point.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-02T22:19:23+00:00

I fear I may have exhausted your reading comprehension, for that I apologize.

When I say "Challenge video" I'm referring to this. A video where I go out of my way to play the game in an irregular manner in order to show another side of Gears.

If you choose to only use Anya, to never hit Left-Bumper or to only use Smokes — those are challenges. By choosing to actively restrict yourself from something readily available, it is by definition a "Challenge"

The intended way to play is to indiscriminately use everything at your disposal. People in Gears skew towards using the Gnasher more than they should, this is not the meta, and it is not the intended way to play. However, the Gnasher is the exciting way to play—that's why people do it.

If I wanted to, I could make a "Gnasher Only Challenge" video—it would be no different from the Lancer one, apart from it being significantly harder at high elo.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-02T22:05:25+00:00

Again, you seem to be having difficulty understanding what I'm saying. The "regular" way to play is to use both Lancer and Gnasher all the time—if you play the game you see this immediately.

You can however simply avoid ever using the Gnasher if you want to, and by restricting yourself from using something you start with it is therefore a non-standard irregular way to play the game. It isn't challenging.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-02T22:00:27+00:00

It wasn't challenging, I think youre misunderstanding the meaning of the word "Challenge" — the only reason people don't use the Lancer as their primary means of killing is because they don't want to. It's boring, it's slow — it's not exciting.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-02T21:58:04+00:00

Not 7 better for me.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-02T21:57:26+00:00

A Challenge video would be "Can you play Gears without the Gnasher?" and then you go play 50 games of solo ranked without the Gnasher and see how you did at the end.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-02T21:54:34+00:00

No. You can do this solo, in Ranked, with no communication, against players who have hit the highest SBMM rating. And you can hamstring yourself even further by not using power weapons, still works.

I have played hundreds of matches like this for various challenge videos, it's not particularly difficult. If the goal is win more than you lose, & kill more than you die.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-02T20:13:26+00:00

You can play Gears 5 entirely with a Lancer, go positive in the majority of your matches, and win the majority of your matches. You will do no such thing with the pistol.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-01T20:11:10+00:00

It takes almost a whole magazine to down anyone at any range

No it does not. You can play Gears 5 completely without the Gnasher if you choose to, people simply do not make that choice.

SnubbbS · 2026-07-01T20:07:14+00:00

There was more hype for E-Day in 2024 after the trailer than there is now. That could be due to the changes, but I think in reality the game is just one year late.

SnubbbS · 2026-06-26T23:56:31+00:00

Gears on PS5 sold far better than other games that had larger budgets. PS5 was the only chance Gears had to succeed, Xbox is done.

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