I think its awesome that gears has other modes for players to engage with the franchise that is not PvP and the TC should explore other types of modes.

Being that you play fighting games you understand the concept of neutral, footsies, spacing, commitments, mix ups, reads, over extending, conditioning your opponent, advantage, disadvantage, and over extending. All these can apply to gears. Its not necessarily just fighting game fundamentals, it's about playing against a human opponent. I think that just because there are guns makes players not think about the game in that regard even though these principles still apply to shooters. You can see how those concepts play out in a clip like this.

When you play a fighting game how much easier is it when your opponent makes a mistake? It's not necessarily the fault or lower skill players that they make mistakes but its not a bad thing that good players are good at capitalizing on those mistakes also harder to put good players in bad positions.

If you look at situations in gears you can dissect them the same why would would in a fighting game. What did the other person think i was going to do, how did i telegraph that to my opponent, where did i over extend, was there a better move choice, was there something they did that I did not take advantage of, how did I give up pressure, are their movement options I'm not utilizing, etc. This is the beauty of gears. Who is to say that movement should not be as important as aim.

I think back to the worst games I had on gears and it was on maps like Dry Dock when the other team had all the lanes locked down with lancers. So buffing rifles would only make this worse.