diff --git a/pkg/gameserversets/controller.go b/pkg/gameserversets/controller.go
index 10b49224c2..0fc803b786 100644
--- a/pkg/gameserversets/controller.go
+++ b/pkg/gameserversets/controller.go
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ func computeReconciliationAction(gsSet *v1alpha1.GameServerSet, list []*v1alpha1
 		if gsSet.Spec.Scheduling == v1alpha1.Packed {
 			potentialDeletions = sortGameServersByLeastFullNodes(potentialDeletions, counts)
 		} else {
-			// TODO: sortGameServersByNewFirst
+			potentialDeletions = sortGameServersByNewFirst(potentialDeletions)
 		}
 
 		toDelete = append(toDelete, potentialDeletions[0:deleteCount]...)
diff --git a/pkg/gameserversets/controller_test.go b/pkg/gameserversets/controller_test.go
index c04aab598e..8e16a62eaa 100644
--- a/pkg/gameserversets/controller_test.go
+++ b/pkg/gameserversets/controller_test.go
@@ -172,14 +172,28 @@ func TestComputeReconciliationAction(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	}
 
-	/*
-		TODO: make these tests work
-		t.Run("test packed scale down", func(t *testing.T) {
-			gsSet := &v1alpha1.GameServerSet{Spec: v1alpha1.GameServerSetSpec{Scheduling: v1alpha1.Packed}}
+	t.Run("test packed scale down", func(t *testing.T) {
+		gsSet := &v1alpha1.GameServerSet{Spec: v1alpha1.GameServerSetSpec{Replicas: 2, Scheduling: v1alpha1.Packed}}
 
-			toAdd, toDelete, isPartial := computeReconciliationAction(gsSet, )
-		})
+		list := []*v1alpha1.GameServer{
+			{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "gs1"}, Status: v1alpha1.GameServerStatus{State: v1alpha1.GameServerStateReady, NodeName: "node3"}},
+			{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "gs2"}, Status: v1alpha1.GameServerStatus{State: v1alpha1.GameServerStateReady, NodeName: "node1"}},
+			{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "gs3"}, Status: v1alpha1.GameServerStatus{State: v1alpha1.GameServerStateReady, NodeName: "node3"}},
+			{ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "gs4"}, Status: v1alpha1.GameServerStatus{State: v1alpha1.GameServerStateReady, NodeName: ""}},
+		}
+
+		counts := map[string]gameservers.NodeCount{"node1": {Ready: 1}, "node3": {Ready: 2}}
+		toAdd, toDelete, isPartial := computeReconciliationAction(gsSet, list, counts, int(gsSet.Spec.Replicas), 1000, 1000, 1000)
+		assert.Empty(t, toAdd)
+		assert.False(t, isPartial, "shouldn't be partial")
 
+		assert.Len(t, toDelete, 2)
+		assert.Equal(t, "gs4", toDelete[0].ObjectMeta.Name)
+		assert.Equal(t, "gs2", toDelete[1].ObjectMeta.Name)
+	})
+
+	//TODO: make these tests work
+	/*
 		t.Run("test distributed scale down", func(t *testing.T) {
 			gsSet := &v1alpha1.GameServerSet{Spec: v1alpha1.GameServerSetSpec{Scheduling: v1alpha1.Packed}}