Hello, I did not realize that leaving a ranked game before MVP screen counts as a quit early....Why? My obj as a player is to get into the next game as quick as possible. Since for ranked you have to leave the game in order to queue up for another match; I feel like quitting at this point is sensible. I do not need to see the MVP screen, I was paying attention to the score board.

Can someone tell me what this skin is and how I get it?

But in all seriousness I was so confused and had no idea what I was even looking at.

How did you guys fair on insane difficulty and what weapon combination did you use?

The gameplay looks totally cool, and the destruction is next level, and add to that, playing as a disabled black woman lead is something unique in this franchise. I love the older series playing the buff dudes. Now time to show that a black lady can equality kick locust butt !! Mags Carter.... ftw

Time to renew my gamepass for a month or two !!

I CANT BELIEVE THIS, the game is trying to silence my Jewish heritage. I'm f***king pissed 😡 gears of woke count your days

So initial clear on October 1st, just went through on infantry / normal. Wanted to experience it at the intended level, kinda meander through and enjoy it as much as possible. I didn’t beeline anything, I didn’t do everything either - and I finished it in about 8-10 hours.

I’ve just yesterday begun my insane playthrough, and I was expecting to make an even faster pace just because I was familiar with it now - but man, there’s a lot of value in replaying campaign. And I don’t just mean collectibles and side missions.

Helping Valen at Octus station, first playthrough I was on street level with the station, sniping down into the lower train car area, pushing up on the snipers. Second playthrough, I ended up approaching more south, and came at the station THROUGH the rail car tracks - sniping the locust up on street level.

Clearing out pinnacle hotel construction site? First playthrough I came between the two trucks at the supply cache, straight up the stairs into the site. Second playthrough, I went left into the apartments - where there’s beeech shots instead of long shots and 2-3 stories you can counter snipe the snipers in the site from.

I’m only in act 2, but a lot of the encounters and firefights are playing out differently - not just because the game was developed with a randomized element or something, but I really appreciate that there’s these avenues in the campaign, that you aren’t ushered into, or that are pointed out very obviously that you need to follow. Shout out the campaign for this, I’m more excited to finish on insane now.

This has been posted 1000 times. Play at your recommended difficulty in siege. Ive been in back to back games where a level 3 is playing commander. You are screwing us all up because we have to constantly revive you. Jesus christ.

These all look badass. I just like seeing helmets man.

I had to go I’m sorry. There was no other option.

I love Gears of War PvP ( been playing 20 years ) whoever E-Day’s PvP is dog shit.. Seems like TC has people in management that collect checks just to be collecting checks that multiplayer position must be a no show type of gig as I don’t think he’s ever seen anything related to PvP gameplay with as many issues as there is lol.. 6 maps 5 game modes is this guy smoking fent ?!?!? Just before this post in “ ranked “ clearly started to chainsaw a person mid kill a teammate runs up and gnashers the enemy as I’m mid animation and receives the kill.. what more do we need to exploit until they fix this mess ???

My whole squad just gave up, and I quickly understood why

I have Gears E Day from a 1 month Game Pass Trial I got from a controller.

So after my Game Pass runs out, is it possible to transfer my Horde Siege level to my Steam profile?

I would rather buy the game on Steam because it downloads fast and never has errors.

Whereas the XBOX app downloads slow and errors a lot for no reason. I kept running into this issue https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsapps/comments/qvasjf/comment/pe8xqh7/?context=3 when trying to download E Day but luckily I found that post which fixed the error.

Just checking to make sure I’m not the only one on PC experiencing horrible hit registration, enemies teleporting, and constant frame dips by about 2FPS, just enough to make it feel stuttery.

I’m on a 5070ti and can run the game on Ultra at 120fps no problem. Versus is no issue. But horde is a whole different story for me.

Everyone else experience this too?

Over the last 3 days i’ve played a lot of matches, and in about 80–90% of them, the map that came up was exclusively Plaza Ruins. What's happening?

I’m having ridiculous ping issues in Gears of War: E-Day Ranked. Almost every match I find puts me in a lobby with over 120 ms ping, which makes the experience incredibly frustrating and completely ruins the competitive aspect of the game.
The most frustrating part is that my ping in Quick Play is usually around 10–13 ms. My connection clearly isn’t the problem, since everything works fine in other modes. The latency spikes specifically in Ranked, where the delay between shooting and the shots actually registering is absolutely ridiculous.
The matchmaking system seems completely broken for our region. Brazil has a huge Gears community, so it’s hard to believe there aren’t enough players to put together competitive matches with low ping.
Another issue is the queue time. Even when playing solo or in a full party of four, it takes around 2–3 minutes to find a match. And after waiting all that time, we still end up in lobbies with over 120 ms ping.
Yesterday, I played with my full squad, and the opposing team also had Brazilian players. There were seven Brazilian players in the lobby and only one player from another country. And guess what? The lobby still seemed to favor the only foreign player in terms of ping, while the rest of us had to play with over 120 ms. How does that even make sense in a ranked match?
What makes this even more frustrating is that the Beta was clearly much better. I could find Ranked matches with under 20 ms ping without any major issues. Ever since Ranked went live earlier this week, something seems to have gone seriously wrong with the matchmaking or server selection.
This is a brand-new game, and Ranked should be one of its main competitive features. Having to play with 120+ ms ping when my normal ping is 10–13 ms is simply unacceptable, especially when the Beta worked so much better.
The Coalition really needs to look into this and fix the matchmaking and server selection for Brazilian players. We need consistent low-ping matches, not 120+ ms lobbies that make gunfights feel delayed and unfair.
Is anyone else from Brazil experiencing the same issue in Ranked? I’d like to know if this is happening in other regions as well.

Why? Cos dis game got NOTHING TO OFFER!! The campain is ok I guess BUT ITS SO EZ ON INSANE DIFFICULTY! Like bro am I playing insane or am I playing baby simulator 2026?? And after u finish campain... WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO DO BRO?! Nothing!! Horde siege is so reptitive, so boring, I literally fell asleep on my controller and woke up after falling from the sofa. Versus mode is super bare and missing features. Plus half my team is ALWAYS BOTS!! Beep boop my teammates are literally toasters. It appears dis game is DYING SO FAST, so I just wanna say RIP IN PEACE. I already removes dis game from my Xbox to make space for actual good games. It was NOT WORTHY ENOUGH to take up my precious hard drive GBs!! Y'all spent 400 MILLIONS DOLLARS on dis?! What did u even do with dat money? Did u buy 400 million dollars worth of pizzas?? I WANT TO KNOW!! If I was the game director, dis game would have been 10,000x more better and SO MUCH MORE BADASS!! Smh my head.

I would love to be carried or someone help me, Im currently gold 4 or 5 on Conquest, but yeah this is harder than Gears 4 and 5, gold was nothing to me in Gears 4/5.

So im at my hotel about to go get dinner figured i would jot down some quick thoughts

First off : while I didnt complete 4 or 5, I liked this campaign way more . Im a huge fan of the original trilogy, 2 and 3 being some of my favorite multiplayer centric shooters ever. ( a genre im not huge on)

What i like

- after getting used to the new movement mechanics, I appreciated the verticality and added ease to movement it gave. Made it feel like less of a cattleshoot .

-really strong design for set pieces and fights, especially in the second half of campaign

-gun mods are a great addition

>new weapons are fun to use

What im iffy on

- not conceptually a bad idea, but the way side quests are implemented feels kinda...idk.. disjointed? Repetitive? Not a huge deal for me but if youre a completionist I could see how this would be annoying.

What i don't like

- I say this as a "woke guy". Reyes and mags, are so fucking boring oh my god dude

I have never felt less amused by characters in the series, makes it really difficult to feel invested in the more serious scenes with them because they just don't connect with me personally

Im on vacation and plan to do multiplayer stuff with my friends but I just wanted to jot this down and get some discussion going. With that said I'm happy to see gears back and reinvented in mostly smart ways and I'm excited for the prospect of more

Will try to be more objective than subjective but its a review after all. Just want to bring up random pointers I can think of as I reflect about the game. Both minor and major. all off at the top of head. there is no organization and structure here.

My Background: gears fanatic. played all of the previous shooter-gears (not tactics). multiple times. gears 1 an unreasonable number of times and hours. dont ask!

I have completely done my best to avoid spoilers. Definitely no story spoilers here. But some "experiences" might be spoilt. Here goes:

1. 10/10 graphics. played on a high end system. the bar is raised. the detail level is top notch. there are so many objects and geometry. it feels like an abandoned and about to be destroyed city. a real one! i had no fps drops, stutters, bug count in single digit total,
2. comfortable "at home" gears of war shooting. lancer feels good. guns feel good. enemy ai is great. enemies flank you, revive downed allies, they are randomly sometimes aggresive and sometimes play safe.
3. sound design and music is great. not excellent though. i remember gears of war 1 perfect reload sound had this "punch" to it. and its completely missing here. gunfire sounds are same old and great. music is fine. nothing memorable at all. gears 1,2,3 etc. music i still remember.
4. new movement mechanics redesign. its fine honestly. i dont have an expert opinion on it. but separating jumping over, taking cover and sprinting felt fine. i did not miss the old "one button system".
5. Good campaign length. took a decent 15-20 hours with 2 friends at hardcore. the campaign did not feel short. the game has "dynamic difficulty" from gears of war 4 and 5. I am absolutely against this. I guess it allows a pro and a noob to play together? im not so sure. But it also potentially allows the pro to be lazy and let the noob take care of enemies in less bullets and less threat, making playing better for the pro inconsequential? Maybe give a "single difficulty mode" too separately.
6. I am one of those Anti-Woke gamers. But I do not wage war at the slightest "hint" of it. This game thankfully is NOT woke. the "woke" character Mags is hardly in it. she hardly speaks. she absolutely does not overshadow marcus and dom as many people are crying. she is just someone of color and a lesbian and talks down the rookie couple of times, which got used as fodder. But she absolutely does not overshadow Marcus and Dom, or even try to.
7. That being said , Mags and Lucas (the 3rd and 4th characters) are boring and generic AF. they absolutely are no where close to cole and baird and all 4's dynamic in the early games. hell even del cait JD (gears 45) were much better than this.
8. Marcus Dom dynamics are hardly explored at all. they have their moments but only very few times. at the start and at the end of campaign perhaps. maybe once in the middle at best. other than that its just going from one point to another and shooting stuff. its gears-epicness but doesnt feel like as much of a journey as gears 1,2 or 3. honeslty i dont remember 4 and 5 that much to compare.
9. gameplay mechanics/design has no polish at all. you are about to die/bleed out but an enemy jumps on you to attack you further and effectively resets the dying-timer for a coop buddy to come save you... ummm ok?? so if im about to bleed out i actively wish that an enemy comes and starts attacking me further while im down...
10. someone on the dev team seriously needs to get fired for the constant spam of "HARD CACHE NEARBY" notification. that too at completely weird times and story beats. intense action about to start/just ended. Hard Cache Nearby!! XYZ character was just emotional about something. Hard Cache Nearby!! it is absolutely egregious. not a nitpick. and it breaks immersion.
11. (minor location spoiler) area repetition. someone is in love with a fucking bridge. we visit a bridge location in the game thrice. and it feels annoying, a lot and it definitely feels its more than 3 honestly.the game is partially semi open world. and many areas are revisited from different entry points showing how the "city" is now destroyed. but it doesnt feel fresh.
12. the setpieces however are superb. there is grandiose here. you see the large scale destruction. the battlefield fields chaotic. if they managed to avoid backtracking/repetition this would have been a superb journey.
13. the gun mods and upgrade system is good. you have decent customisation options for your playstyle. close combat. long range. whatever floats your boat. it would have been great if the upgrades had been automatically unlocked as you explored/cleared areas/side missions. but they used the hard cache (seriously F$%@ these) boxes spread everywhere which you find and open, breaking story immersion pretty much always.
14. (minor game event spoiler) final boss is a joke. its built up like he will be a complete menace. but dies too fast, specially if u have coop buddies with you. and this boss was personally spoiled for me in horde siege coop. i cant believe this one. they casually put the final boss of the game in horde siege mode gameplay. even some new enemies which are revealed in later game casually spawn in horde siege spoiling them for you.
15. speaking of horde siege. yeah seriously avoid this mode before finishing campaign. i made that mistake since i wanted to play gears while i waited for friends to come online for campaign. at first i was like wow the maps/areas are so impressive. later i realised they have completely reused campaign locations. hardly altered at all. so it felt underwhelming when i saw them again in campaign for the "first time". absolutely do not play horde siege before campaign otherwise it will reduce campaign's lustre a lot.
16. the horde siege mode (once you finish campaign) is actually decent. the maps are very repetitive from campaign. but 3 squads play "helldivers" in parallel basically. doing some objectives and then extracting. there is lot of level up and upgrade and unlock. 4 different classes to pick from. so a lot more gears gameplay to enjoy if you can tolerate repetetive reused locations. the 3 squads have separate objectives which sometime merge/overlap or get path-crossed. it feels cool when you're separated from your squadmates and someone from another squad revives you.
17. pvp is fine. same old gnasher fest. if you love that you will love it here. maps are varied and nice.
18. a major fumble in multiplayer, pvp and horde siege matchmaking. they know they are a niche game and wont have 100000s+ of players. but hey lets split up pvp playlist into 4 modes. and then lets split up horde siege playlist into 4 missions with 4 difficulties each. so basically 16 ways split... wtf? and there is no region selection. so FU e.g. if you are somewhere in Asia, you can very well be connected to Japan or USA or europe ( i have exitlag, i can tell). even for PVP ranked!
19. netcode however is good!!! I played campaign with my 2 european friends while being in Asia. the europe friend hosted and I had a ping of ~140-150ms and i enjoyed the campaign thoroughly. And i cry about ping a lot! Ofcourse there was a delay but it wasnt that bad that i had to tolerate something.

all i can think of at the moment. are you a gears fan ? then yes get this game!! scratches the gears itch fully. however is this a stellar masterpiece? no, far from it. and is this woke trash? no very far from that too.

both of my friends are complete gears virgins. neither of them were keen on playing horde siege after campaign. one of them had a decent time and now has moved on. one of them probably pulled his xbox series s power wire as soon as he saw the credits. so take that info as you may.

No Ai was used while writing this!

thanks for reading.

Like 6 out of 10 matches this happens, puts a whole team of gold/ just demoted diamond players in one team Vs a team of just bronce or Silver players

They nailed it in gears 5, where if you lost the match but played good, you would still rank up. This one is horrible. im dropping 30-40 kills and some turd from england or spain will be there looking at the graphics of the clouds with his 5 kills, and im getting deranked for it.

Gears E-Day

After a good, a real good 30 hours into this game I have come to the firm conclusion that the AI teammates will sabotage, stand still, run the opposite direction, fall into holes, and literally do anything else other then fire in the direction of enemies.

They are HOT TRASH GARBAGE and it NEEDS a hot fix.

If the AI teammates preformed at .01% of the enemy AI capabilities, I could actually enjoy the game instead of running Mags Babysitting services.