How could Gears of War be Improved?

[Zeus]

Lets take nothing away from Gears of War here, its gone triple platinum and for good reason BUT everything can be improved. Aeropause has put together the following list of concenrs regarding GoW - 1) quitters 2) host advantage 3) better weapon balance 4) Maturity levels 5) More players per team 6) Sealed map is a playable map 7) Connection issues. So does any one agree or have anything new to bring to the table?


Come one come all, let's start a Gears of War 2 suggestion box. I know, Epic's official site has one but I want to start a list because I have some issues with this near-perfect Xbox 360 game, in multiplayer mode.

1. First and foremost, I've never in my life seen so many quitters in one place. If people don't like the ranked match they're playing, they'll quit, leaving you and your teammates high and dry. This really rubs me the wrong way, so let's let people join a ranked game in progress like the non-ranked games - please!

2. The advantage the host has over others is insane because their ping times are way better. If you host a match, you've got a better chance of winning. I've approached many enemies and blasted them with one shot, no problem. It's like you're always a half second ahead of everyone else.

3. Better weapon balance. The game should be called Shotguns of War or Gears of Frag-Taggers, in my opinion. Tactical movement isn't really in the code for this IP, so it's pretty easy to be taken down before you were even aware you were down in the first place. Lose the sniper rifle and offer more balanced mid-range weaponry.


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[InsaneNutter]

The only thing I would like is more multiplayer modes, there all practically the same.
The game is grate but I’ve always thought multiplayer was really lacking.

[Yackom]

Team ranked matches like Warcraft 3 so you and your team share a ranking. Your team would get matched up with another random team, just like in war3, eliminating all of those team cheating they had before.

I think that is crucial feature and I don't know how they over looked that one. A supposed team game doesn't allow you to play ranked games with your friends?

Great game, but multiplayer is definitively lacking.

[pinchez]

I would like to see a propper server browser like you get on pc games with the ability to sort by country, ping and show all servers available etc. maybe even compatability with something like X-Fire. More online players would be nice.

[shakoor_h]

How about better graphics, LOL.

actually it would better if they had an open style world, not like corridors that lead you to the next area, in other words..more open plan, where your route is not pre-determined. That would be a huge step up.

Better story, maybe some interactive cutscenes, like resident evil 4

[Kakashi]

the weapons are very balanced if you just know how to use them.
pistol takes out shotgun in a flash. lancer is damn good midrange.

there's no way they can stop people from quitting and it already gives them bad player reviews and i'm not sure about leaderboards but i assume there's something negative there.

host advantage is in every game, it's not something that can simply be "fixed".

I don't see how Maturity Levels would work. Kids would still get a way to mark themselves as mature and it'll never end.

More players per team? Are you kidding?

Gears is one hell of a polished game. There's nothing that needs improvement.

[GHOSTIVVI]

cliffy B we need team ranked matches, fix the host thing where the host has advanatage over everyone, add more weapons and add more game modes.

[nsdothack]

Ok I have been playing Gears sense Gears been Gearing (like pimpin sense pimpin been pimpin... anyway) but with a rank of 523 in execution.

Kills:8303
Deaths:5309
Matches Played:760
Matches Won:476
Matches Lost: 284
Rounds Played: 9024
Rounds Won: 5337
Rounds Lost: 3654
Points: 229101
Headshots 222
Executions: 2068
Chainsaw Kills: 615
Curb Stomp Kills: 143
Revives: 374
Knockdowns: 3047
Grenade Tag Kills: 1692 (That’s ninja style not fag tagging)

I will give you an open and shut improvement for gears that EPIC should already know or should consider.


1st.

Fix all glitches like the crab walk, exploding chainsaw, super jump, weapon slide, moon walk ect..

Why fix: because any noob or even skilled player can find out how to do this and associate this with there original skill and will exercise this when ever or every time they please making it unfair to the players focus on skill and strategy to win rather the glitches or cheats.

2nd.

Fix Host Shotgun. People have a problem with this everywhere you go and it is because of one thing ..... the HOST. It goes like this if the host is on DSL with a downstream of 300KBps (download speed = joining game speed) and a upstream of 45-50KBps (upload speed = host speed) then that means the host will have a godly advantage or better yet Host Shotgun because they don’t have the bandwidth to send packets to a full team of 8 players. So do the math, its more like saying 45-50KBps divided by 7 equals 6.5KBps to 7.1KBps each user that is on his host. When they say he has Host Shotgun its not because it is more powerful it is because when you encounter the host you fire your weapon and to him you fired at a target that is not there so he advances and fires back at you while on your screen it was a perfect hit when on his screen you missed the shot so he keeps firing at you until you are downed or kill while your dead your saying "That’s Bullsh*t I should have killed him". So to make a long story short Host Shot is only Host Shotgun if the host has a poor internet connection. Now me on the other hand I have one of the best internet connection you can have. I use Cox Communications Cable internet and they are giving 15MBps downstream and 2MBps upstream. I have that service and host at 260KBps on Gears and everyone likes my room because its no lag as well as no Host advantage. I get gunned down just like everyone else and that how it is suppose to be. Equal on both sides.

solution: Epic did this with Unreal Championship with XBOX but they should input a patch that pings and test the users connection speed and gives them a limit of how many users they should allow in a room for it to play smoothly. For Gears they should do the same thing but force this to the point that the host couldn't override this so if their bandwidth was too low they can only host 2v2 or even 1v1 only or what ever setting fits their connection speed. To make a long story short not everyone can or should host based upon their bandwidth and it should stay that way. Nobody wants to sharpen up their skills all day long and jump into a room and get Hosted by a noob with a poor connection and it goes against your rank score.

3rd.

Fix Quitters. Now everyone hates to play a 10 rounder or even 19 rounder and within the first 2 rounds you got a guy that quits. now you have a 4v3 and 90% of the time you will lose that match all because of some guy wanted to be Cog and he got moved to Locus.

Solution: Epic should make a patch that uses a 3 to 5 strike warning system for quitting in a rank match that will ban them from playing rank matches for a duration of time because of it while losing points as well. The same for players that ready up in a game and sit out the first 5-6 rounds. They could enable a patch catches this when they idle for a duration of time as well that would ban them from playing rank matches for a duration of time.

4th.

Fix Micless players. Yes ever hate being in a jam and your calling your only teammate for help or his position and get back no reply? Or better yet join up in a room and your entire team does not have a mic? Gears is a co-op squad play game if you can't communicate with you team your victory will never workout.

Solution: Epic should input a mic check patch for rank matches or custom matches that require the player input some form of sound into their mic to test if they have a working or even plugged up mic into their controller. Now you will have a full team of communicating player on rank match 24/7 on Gears. I say why fix the mic channel glitch if you still got players that don't even use a mic when they play?


After that being said that is what Epic needs to do to keep the Gear moving with Gears of War to maximize the fun effect of the game without all the Bullsh*t.

If you feel me on this hit me up on Xbox Live username: nsdothack

cya

[Trashcat]

Fix Host Shotgun.
Make some fucking dedicated servers instead of this P2P bullshit, what are we paying for?
Fix Micless players.
Solves nothing, you can check all you want ppl will just plug in a mic and still not talk simple as that. I don't use mic when I watch tv while playing (i do a lot of things at once) or at night when I already play with headphones so I don't wake ppl up. Guess you will have to make friends with more ppl so you can do some real team play with each other or something. From my experience its very rare to join a random game where every1 is using a mic.

[ILikeMelons]

And it's laggy as hell? Why can't it be like Resistance: 40 players online, no lag what so ever. And Xbox Live is suppose to be better than Playstation Online. But the lag speaks the truth.

[wkndplaya]

offline bots...and thats all I have to say about that.

[kazuyamishmawin]

1:offine bots.WOULD BE REALLY COOL.

2:fix the lag connection by using dedicated servers,Fall of man(ps3)40players no bugS no lag no glitchs ON HUGE BIG MAPS.

3:Fix all thoses $%#$%?$# GLITCHS.what happen with thoses beta testers,their were blind lol?

4:HAMMER oF DAWN SHOT, INSTANT BODY EXPLODE OR HEADSHOT FROM THE SKY by THE COMPUTER ON CAMPERS EXCEPT ON 1 ON 1 FINAL CONFRONTATION.10SEC MAX CAMPER ALLOWED AND ON FINAL FIGHT 15 SEC MAX.

5:NEW MAPS IS NEED CLIFFY CUS OLD BONE AND RAVEN DOWN ARE REALLY NOT GOOD,SORRY.

6:FRAG GRENADE TAG COUNTER BY USING A FAST BUTTONS COMBINASION GIVIN BY THE COMPUTER.

7:NEW SKINS

[Kakashi]

if they had bots, you'd all complain about the AI. campaign on insane is good enuf for you kiddos

kazuyamishmawin there's no point in doing #4. most of the time, there's round time limits and they're usually short