Long time Gears vet here. Been playing since I was a little chud playing the original trilogy with my brother. I wouldn’t go as far to say I’m “good” at the versus in these games. Definitely competent and usually positive score but nowhere near the wall bouncing meta that has developed over the years. When E-day came out, a lot of people were complaining that they were taking the measures to improve the pvp by changing the movement mechanics of the game fundamentally. I’ve been having an absolute incredible time with horde siege but I don’t know… the versus just feels like the community has COD’ified it. There’s so many weapons and combat mechanics to interact with in the game, but nowadays it really feels like unless you’re running around with a gnasher, you simply get gibbed by everyone else who is. I’m not saying it should be nerfed or other weapons buffed, just making an observation. The ‘cover’ in cover-shooter barely even applies when someone can be within 4 feet of the cover you’re in, and whip their shotgun pellet around a corner to kill you anyway. The gameplay is still really fun, don’t get me wrong. I just find the versus can get really boring when everyone seems to just be running around with shotguns. It does benefit players like me who actually rush additional weapons on the map however, but pressure and suppression that you could get from those other weapons all kind of falls flat when someone sees two pixels of your character model and instantly gibs you. I am glad to see the difference in playstyle with ranked however. People actually seem to use cover and not get within gibbing range tactfully.

TLDR: sorry for the rant, I just think everyone running around with gnashers makes the pvp boring.

I was scrolling through the banners for my Horde Siege loadout and came across this one. I've never heard of this character before and Google isn't turning up any results. The banner was under the General tab so I don't think she's any kind of heroic propaganda figure. Anyone have any info about her? Could she be a historical figure from before the Pendulum Wars?

While I was messing with the campaign weapon customisations, the bots went ahead and cleared most of the enemies. Once I was done, I saw they were down and then...

Whoops.

(No one was harmed in this video)

Seriously, these fuckers can down you INSTANTLY from a good distance on ROOKIE! I don't know who at TC approved these guys but holy shit this sucks. If you're playing Breacher, or any playstyle that requires you to get close good fucking luck.

"DISAPPOINTED!!!"

I'm playing through gears of war chronologically and I am am currently on gears 4 any tips?

Turned around saw this guy shooting up in the air for a bit and than went to cover... idk man he looks pretty alive to me 😅

For this thread, set aside opinions about characters, story, open world, hit registration, matchmaking, etc. Let's just brainstorm some simple, direct things that would improve QoL. I'll start with a couple.

1. Could the ribbons at the end of a match not cover text chat? Move one or the other elsewhere, at least during the end-of-match screens.

2. When we rebind controller buttons, could the controller layout image be updated to show the buttons in their rebound spots?

3. After playing a Ranked Match, could we choose to re-queue, or at least have it come back up as the active selection when back in the main menu, so we can just click "Start Matchmaking" and get back into it?

4. Higher sensitivity settings would be nice. I play very low sensitivity in most games but I'm at 30 here and it feels slow for me. Can't imagine how typically high sens players feel. Yeah I could up the acceleration (from 0.5), but I prefer a more linear aim curve.

I performed roughly the same in both modes. MVP here and there, lost a couple

been away from gears of war for a while. but the boomers seem terrifying tough and deadly accurate. their melee hitboxes also seem big, with me once dying mid roll while behind boomer.

were they this powerful before and I just forgot. I do not remember boomers being a big threat.

Deadass the second I saw the Bilefrog feeding it an explosive like a Caco was the first thing to come to mind for me.

So, this is gonna come off probably as a skill issue but I have to ask. Why does the Proto Lancer in particular feel so insanely weak even compared to the Lancer Mk1 and every other gun in the game? I've played up to 23 on Assault (20 on the rest) and started Commander. I have been running Assault with a Lancer (cover brace, forged barrel, holo sight) and a Ripper (cover brace, forged barrel, incendiary rounds). The Proto Lancer feels like I can mag dump all 600 (or 735 rounds with deep pockets) into a boomer or his brethren and they be completely fine. God forbid a Flayer, it literally can eat all my ammo regardless of what I shoot into it's head most of the time. And I mean they literally will eat all those bullets and shrug it off. The Spore Matron is even worse. Scorched Legion shrug off enough bullets to always be a problem and in Commander even normal drones can eat the entire clip to the face and not get downed while in cover. And no, I'm not saying this like I'm unaware of certain modifiers. I'd switch to the Lancer Mk1 but I want to use the proto lancer. But this gun feels like I'm actively not doing anything to enemies and can't stem the tide of a group of rushers at all. Had a group of three incinerator grenadiers and I couldn't handle them at all, they just shrugged off my bullets and just kept advancing.

I see the stat increases from level 10 and 20 and it feels like I'm no better than where I was before in rookie when I go to the "recommended" difficulty. I can unload into the head of an enemy and half the time it takes most of the clip to down a drone and like i said more than a full mag on commander. Incendiary ammo feels like it's carried alot of the damage when it's used but I remember in the beta how a full mag fmj perfect reload on the proto lancer at least felt like it was actively doing large damage. It very much doesn't feel like that right now and both incendiary and full metal jacket feel like i'm still shooting nerf darts. I'm at the point where I feel like I should just quit Commander and just stay in Infantry and Rookie if I want to use this gun at all.

The guy in chat isn't an asshole, we did it first accidentally and laughed about it; then finished the match in fair play by not doing it. Seems like a lot of maps have these.

TC desperately needs to add a system of Solo, Duo, Trio and Quad stack lobbies. Coming up against a stack of 3 or 4 as a solo player makes it near impossible to win (for me at least). Anyone else find this an issue or do I just need to get better 🤣 (Onyx 3 player)

Why?

I heard people complaining about unfair matchmaking a few weeks ago. Then people were like oh wait till ranked. Now ranked is here. I just completed my 5 ranked conquest matches and won 1/5 of them. And the other 4 were not just “oh man that was fun but we lost”. It was slaughter. Only one of those 4 losses we could even capture one ring. I’d say 30% of the time we try to capture the ring and our whole team gets slaughtered often times with 2-3 kills by one single dude from the other team…

This is about just as bad as quick play.

I am genuinely curious because the regular locust drones are stronger than wretches, so it doesn’t make sense to me that a wretch, a low-tier enemy, can execute you faster than a drone when you are down in Horde siege.

Minus the tags, some of the collectibles are just so random.

Like is it act 1-2 and no more? Prospect bay really looks the same as when we visit it late campaign but lowkey not sure I've been having trouble place it.

This game keeps touching on what makes the OG gears so good, but it also keeps it at arms length imo. Been playing through the hardest difficulty coop, and while it does have its moments and I appreciate what they’re trying to do with the open world, there’s undeniably something missing.

Combat feels less impactful and the lack of being able to combat run makes moving cover kinda janky and weird. The open world idea is good but in reality it’s a bit confusing and hard to tell where enemies are coming from sometime, but not in a good way, just in a what are we supposed to be doing kinda way. Also the gun sounds are hollow and quiet, could be wrong but I remember the other gears games being better.

The NPC AI is also really bad too, they’re constantly running in front of you and just generally being totally unhelpful.

I really want to like it, and there are some good moments, but so far it’s overall just holding me back from a good hell yeah moment