Whatsup /hg/. Last night I had a blast playing with you all, especially during the 1v1's. So doing some thinking about that I thought about doing something similar for Gears, depending on if enough people own and play the game or if people want to play it. So /hg/ has Halo Fest so I thought I'd try doing Gears Arcade. I'm calling it Gears Arcade because Gears doesn't hold a candle to the level of customization Halo has. So basically all this is, is a few map and game rotations with a settings switched up for balance and a more OG Gears gameplay. I'd also love to do 1v1's at the end of it.

So I've been in the private match settings tweaking some things around to see how I could make this both fun and "competitive."

Match 1 -

Map: Gridlock
Game Mode: Team Deathmatch
Weapon Replacements: Removed Shock Grenades
Bleedout/DBNO Time: 15 Seconds
This is basically a big warm up match for anyone who hasn't had a lot of time with Gears 4 or Gears in general. So just kill each other for 2 rounds on a classic map to get a feel.

Match 2 -

Map: War Machine
Game Mode: Dodgeball
Weapon Replacements: None
Bleedout/DBNO Time: 15 Seconds
Round to Win: 6
War Machine is an excellent clutch map given the amounts of area's you can use to kill your opponents, so I feel Dodgeball is would be a fun mode for this map.

Match 3 -

Map: Canals
Game Mode: Execution
Weapon Replacements: None
Bleedout/DBNO Time: 5 Seconds (classic Gears execution hosting)
Rounds To Win: 7

Match 4 -

Map: Avalanche
Game Mode: Escalation
Weapon Replacements: Buzzkill with Trishot
Bleedout/DBNO Time: 15 Seconds
Rounds to Win: 4
I think with the changing environment of Avalanche and it will provide an interesting match for escalation, however, I've reduced the rounds to win because normal escalation take a fucking years and a half to win.

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Match 5 (Tie Breaker Match) -
Map: Raven Down
Game Mode: Execution
Weapon Replacements: Removed Hammerburst and Enforcer starting weapons. Only Lancer, Gnasher and Snub Pistol with map grenades.
Bleedout/DBNO Time: 5 Seconds
Round To Win: 10
Raven Down has always been the perfect tie breaker map because of how small it is, it will decide the tides quickly.

Now we move on to 1v1's for the last bit of "Gears Arcade." The very first 1v1 map will be decided by me and then after that the winner of the 1v1 can pick whatever he'd like. You do not need to own the season pass if the host of the lobby has it. The map are free to everyone. Each 1v1 will be a Team Deathmatch game mode of 10 spawns (10 kills). Please tell me what you think of this idea.

If you'd like to participate, please respond with you GT. Gears online matches hold 10 players and 2 players in spectator mode. So if you'd like to be a sub or watch, please specify you'd like to spectate or be a sub. Starting now there are 9 spots remaining. I'd love to see /hg/ battle each other out on some Gears.