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Okay, start this off with this note. If you own a 360, which you likely do by being in this guild, and do not own Gears then I this topic obviously doesn't apply to you... in fact I even go so far as to question why one would own a 360 without gears in the first place, but I digress.

For those of us that own a 360 and Gears and have played online(which I'd assume is synonymous with owning a 360 and gears) certainly have a list of complaints and changes they'd like to see in the game. So I ask you, were asked to make a list of items to improve Gears' Online, what would you ask for?

I've played quite a bit have created my own list. Besides the normal wish to play with friends in Ranked I would like to see the following changes:
1) Patches that fix significant bugs, such as roadie shooting, long jumping, getting out of the map, climbing/jumping over cover to get stuck mid-air, and chainsawing through cover.
2) Be rid of host advantage. It's an unnecessary part of the game that does nothing but unbalance the teams.
3) Mid-game side choosing for Player matches if not giving the losing team the newer player for the advantage. Auto CoG is nothing but another unfair and unnecessary advantage.
4) Custom weapons layout. If not the possibility to change what weapons people start with, at least the possibility to allow people to choose which one of the default weapons they start each match with instead of having to switch guns wasting time.
5) More post/pre game host options, such as being able to change game settings, map list, weapon swap, and weapon type. Kicking players isn't much of a list for host options.
6) Hammer of Dawn melee boost. To begin with weapons not that great. Unless you have a clear shot at surface that doesn't move the gun doesn't serve much of an advantage save the initial splash damage, but to go as far as to nerf the melee on the gun to make it the only killing weapon that takes 3 hits to down someone is insane. Shotgun, Hammerburst, even the pistols take no more than 2 hits to down someone. The Hammer of Dawn on the other hand is slower than the Shotgun and takes 3 hits. It's balance to an already cumbersome and inefficient weapon.

Host name back in ranked.

The entire point of Xbox Live is to play with your friends. If you can't play with your friends you remove the entire reason of having it. If you random the teams, the sides can still be one sided. And if you have friends on your team, so what? If you don't like playing against clans or friends, then quit the game. End of discussion.

The only way for them to fix host advantage would be to have there own servers. Which is a terrible idea. It costs more for them and they can shut them down whenever they feel they want too. Look at EA. Ea would not let madden come to Xbox because they wanted there own servers and Microsoft didn't want that and for good reason. But they had to allow it in order to compete with sony...and now u have Sports games that every year have there server shut down to mae u buy the new year of the game.

Also, add in some new Locust, and some Cog possibly. The locust are either brilliantly white, which gives no camouflage, or are ******** huge with s**t floating about them.

The only advantages the cog have are, hoffman who has no glowing lights. Carmine who is small, and Cole who looks like a damn locust.

And Halo, I'm the same way with my friends, normaly I only play with one, possibly two on a good day. but never really four. I think they should make the matchmaking similar to Halo 2, which had the BEST matchmaking style. Join a room, then search for other players with your room.

I've kinda grown used to the non-spawn gameplay of gears, it's one of the reasons I love it so much, I think a deathmatch gametype would result in chaos.

The problem is that they may be a little more difficult to snipe, they offer no chance of camouflage or surprise because they are so large most of the time.

Hmm what would i complain about? Err what would i complain about... oh yes to change back to old settings like seeing host's names on ranked matches. Being able to get downed 1+ and thats about it. I like it better although sometimes it would get annouying but still when you could get players down like 10 times and i wanna play with my friends.