Ever since the first update on Gears of War, I have noticed many things on Gears of War, some of the stuff for the better, but much of it has been for the worse
Let's talk about the positive things with the first update, before I go onto talking about the negative things
1. It got rid of Farming the Downs during Execution and limiting the downs to only 3, so therefore a player or group of players cannot get 10 to 20 downs a round and that was ruining the game before, because it was disruptive to matches and it just got on people's nerves and made people quit
2. Getting rid of the Security Cameras from Ranked Matches, so a dead teammate cannot look around on the Security Cameras and private chat a teammate that is alive, tell where the emeny is at on the map
Now onto the Negative things
1. Getting rid of the host name in Ranked Matches was one of the worst decisions to be made on this game, getting rid of the host name has only caused a player to get stuck with more players that act stupid and just become annoying and to tell you the truth, getting rid of the host name, has not stopped people from playing with Friends on Ranked Matches
Because all you have to do is private chat a teammate and go to the find a custom match and scroll through the menus and if you want to get a teammate in a ranked match and you want to play the mansion for example, you look for a number of rounds, where nobody else has a Mansion open and you take that room and tell your friends, that nobody else but me, has a room open with that amount of rounds on that map and boom they are too the room in no time
Another thing ever since the host name has been removed, fewer people are playing Ranked Matches on Gears of War now and that really sucks
2. The Shotgun between host and the other players has only became worse, because it seems like since that update that the Host Shotgun is more powerful then the other players in the match and I have noticed this, because since I host many matches and I have joined my share of games, yes it has always been an issue, but it has got worse since the patch
3. Ever since that first update, you get that Connection Error constantly during matches, it does not matter how good of a connection that you or the host have, because I have a very good connection and I know friends that have T1 for a connection and they even get the connection error message way too much. So the issue is not anybody's connection
4. I mentioned earlier that limiting the amount of Downs in Ranked Matches was a good thing, but it has came at a cost, because during Execution, you are suppose to be Executed to die during that, but after you are downed 3 times, you are basically just being punished for the greed of other players, because the farming of downs is what caused Epic Games to have to put that into the game, so it would not disrupt the match
5. The Ranked Matches on Gears of War are full of too many whining kids, because everytime you turn around you hear some little kid crying about being grenade tagged or being chainsawed and that has only became worse since the patch
If you do not like what is part of the game, then you should not play the game, if it is part of the game, then it is fair game to be used
Things that I would like to seen them have fixed
1. Make it so that Execution is only played with a 5 second bleed out, I mean no more giving players the option to have more then a 5 second bleed out, because anything more then that just makes Execution Warzone and it defeats the purpose of Execution
2. I do not know why it is, but the host Advantage on Gears of War is more obvious, then it is on any other game on Xbox Live and find a way to make things, so that everybody has an equal Shotgun
3. Spread the Weapons out on Certain Maps better, like on Gridlock for Example, the Grenades are way too close to the Sniper Rifle in the Sniper Tower, make it so that the whole team cannot gather around 1 weapon and spreading out the weapons on the Maps, makes it so that there are more 1 on 1 battles or 2 on 2 battles instead of forcing all the action to 1 area on the map
4. Make it so that Achievements can be earned during Players Matches, instead of only Ranked Matches, because as long as Achievements can only be earned during Ranked Matches, players are going to find a way to play with each other during Ranked Matches
For Example, Make the Achievements harder to earn in Player Matches, if they ever choose to put that in, Like make it so that you have to have double or Triple what you do in Ranked Matches, make it so you have to earn 200 or 300 Kills with a certain weapon to earn that Weapon Achievement, because then there is still a lot of hardwork involved to earn that Achievement
5. It is a joke that the Seriously achievement is only worth 50 points, when you have other games, where it takes 30 minutes in a Sports Game to earn an achievement for 100 points, when it takes months of Playing to earn that seriously achievement and only get 50 Measly points
I still think Gears of War is an awesome game, but Epic Games made some bad mistakes with the game with the first update and they did not need to fix the stuff that they fixed, expect the number of downs that a player can be downed during Execution and removing the Security Cameras from Ranked Matches
But Epic needs to understand that if they are going to stop friends from Playing with Each other, they need to consider some of these things, because the only way to ever stop friends from playing with Each other during a Ranked Match is too remove the option of finding a Custom Match during Ranked Matches and only allow you to join a Quick Match or to not allow players to host a Ranked Match
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