FREE FOR ALL!
that would be awesome. Maybe bigger games on a larger scale aswell.

Just some more game modes really. I liked the weapon setup and controls exactly how they were. I know someone people complained about the A button being overused, but I thought that was a good thing because it was beatable. So more maps and some cooler game modes.

A cool online mode would be, Free for all, Winner is first to 10 kills with snipe , 10 with boom and 10 with shotty.

quote Nate190

FREE FOR ALL!
that would be awesome. Maybe bigger games on a larger scale aswell.

quote Shattered Silence

I'd quite like to see an option for customisable default weaponry for player matches

I wouldn't mean full customisability. I would mean the option to disable shotgun as starting weapon, change Lancer for Hammerburst and Snub for Boltok. Of course the option to have power weapons from the offset would ruin it totally, so I'd hate to see that.

quote Shattered Silence

I'd quite like to see an option for customisable default weaponry for player matches, and perhaps have the shotgun taken away as a starting weapon as the default setting for all other matches.

Wouldn't like the whole weapon unlock thing though, would unbalance the game hugely, and just reward those with more time on their hands.

Haha, suppose you're right, but then that's already true for many weapons within gears.

A party system. A more matchmaking type system. But like COD, not Halo. COD seemed, at least to me, to pull it off better.

Plus, the ability to play Ranked matches with friends. I know it kinds *bleep*s up the trueskill stuff, but I've barely noticed that shit to work anyway.

I kind of don't like in COD how you just keep playing with the same people over and over until you or them quits. I like in Halo how you play one match, then it finds new people, sure COD gives you quicker matches because of this but if you want to play the same people all day that's what player matches are for.

I understand, but it is more just for the simplicity of rounding up your friends, and finding another group of people.
It's easier than hosting a game, and then playing with 7 other people, none of whom know eachother.

A group a friends VS a group of friends is less likely to have somebody quit, leaving their team to lose, or also quit.

It only let's you bring half the number of the maximum match size anyways, so you can't really play against a group of friends in ranked. If the match limit is 18 people, you can only bring 9 right? It sucks when you are on the other team having to face 9 people who all know each other and are on the 6th prestige when you are just starting out, then having to quit between rounds if you want to find another match.

Yeah, that does make me mad sometimes. All I really want is a simpler way to play with my friends. It really doesn't have to be anything like COD. As long as it's easy and convenient.

Yeah when Gears first came out you could see the name of the person hosting when you were looking at the list of matches, which was convenient when looking for a friends match. They took that out and now all you see is the level, rounds, and round duration. It's still not too hard to find a friends match but there definately should be a party system, even if it's only limited to 4 people.