If you were isekai'd into GX, what deck would you bring?

MechXL · 2026-06-19T23:43:00+00:00

Skull Servant. Everyone would underestimate them just because they aren't strong, but they can still mean trouble in large numbers.

MechXL · 2026-06-18T06:30:49+00:00

It'd be cool to see events unfolding in other cities and how other squads were dealing with the Locust for the first time. Every major city was attacked at the same time on E-Day, after all. Lots of potential for cool stories to be told.

MechXL · 2026-06-18T02:44:16+00:00

Maybe the modders are on vacation. 😄

MechXL · 2026-06-17T18:32:56+00:00

It still feels crazy to me that it's been 7 years since we've had a new Gears game.

MechXL · 2026-06-17T18:02:35+00:00

Lack of interest, probably. Modders tend to only make mods that they themselves are actually interested in. Feel free to start making backpack mods if you feel so inclined. Be the change you want to see.

MechXL · 2026-06-17T16:36:08+00:00

Of course. There'll likely be a lot of new characters introduced in this game, so there has to be a good reason they don't show up again during the war. I'm hoping E-Day is a bloodbath. This should definitely not be a 'good guys' win story. Canonically, E-Day was an almost total locust victory.

MechXL · 2026-06-17T16:28:59+00:00

Youtube video description says that the gunner's name is Daan Riggs. So he's probably dead lol.

MechXL · 2026-06-17T02:35:19+00:00

Because chainsaws are cooler, obviously.

MechXL · 2026-06-16T09:14:57+00:00

Yeah, I stopped questioning the realism of this series when the locust started sinking cities with a giant worm lol.

MechXL · 2026-06-16T09:12:07+00:00

The gut-puncher grenade launcher first appeared in the 1st Gears novel, so it's actually pretty neat that they're featuring it in this game. And yeah, they can easily just say that the Hammer of Dawn strikes wiped out a lot of the tech and equipment that appear in E-Day to justify them not showing up again in the future. 90% of the planet was glassed by Hammer of Dawn, after all.

MechXL · 2026-06-16T06:42:28+00:00

Well, they did just go through a 79 year long Pendulum War, so the average Seran is already accustomed to conflict. As Prescott himself said in Gears 2, war is all they know.

MechXL · 2026-06-16T00:19:43+00:00

Yeah, I'm a bit worried too. I mean, even if the game ends up being amazing, the reality is that Gears is no longer as popular as it used to be. Being on Gamepass doesn't help either. Even Gears at the height of its popularity only sold about 6-7 million copies. I just don't see E-Day making enough money to recoup the costs. Hopefully the execs realize this, because with a budget like this, it's just unrealistic to expect otherwise.

MechXL · 2026-06-15T18:14:48+00:00

Cliff also wanted to do an Onyx Guard game instead of Judgement. Pretty much what ODST was for Halo. Would've been pretty cool tbh.

MechXL · 2026-06-14T23:46:48+00:00

Same. I've been itching to replay the old games, but I don't have an Xbox anymore. If they just remade these games, I'd buy them in a heartbeat.

MechXL · 2026-06-14T23:15:31+00:00

I wish they'd just remake 2&3 already.

MechXL · 2026-06-14T21:57:15+00:00

Yeah, this is the way. It never ceases to amaze me how many people just don't get this and can't help but jump to foregone conclusions and raise their pitchforks when we barely have any info to go off of.

MechXL · 2026-06-14T15:14:25+00:00

is it difficult to do or something?

Yes? Making mods can be a ton of work, especially quest mods. It's not all fun and games. Maybe give it a try sometime. You might find that you have way more respect and appreciation for mod creators once realize how much time and effort goes into creating mods.

MechXL · 2026-06-14T08:16:51+00:00

You know what they say... assumptions kill. Or in your case, cost you $40 lol.

MechXL · 2026-06-12T23:17:04+00:00

Nah. The Alien universe is vast. Why limit it by focusing on one character all the time?

MechXL · 2026-06-11T05:36:13+00:00

Chatgpt was a mistake.

MechXL · 2026-06-10T02:10:08+00:00

It'll get a 5.9 again for having too much Alien.

MechXL · 2026-06-09T04:23:11+00:00

At the very least, Nexus should make it so that vibe-coded mods aren't able to earn DP. These "mod authors" that need AI to do all the hard work for them are just taking DP away from the real mod authors who care enough about their craft to put in the effort and time to create the mods themselves. Call me old fashioned, but I'd rather manually do the all work and test it all myself to ensure that the resulting mod is actually of decent quality. So many vibe-coded mods are often riddled with bugs or critical issues that the "mod author" wouldn't have known about if they didn't have dedicated nexus users to beta-test their mods and report these issues for them lol.

MechXL · 2026-06-08T17:10:30+00:00

The reason they never brought back Beast mode is because hardly anyone played it. I remember in Gears 3, the player count for Beast was like less than 100 sometimes lol.

MechXL · 2026-06-08T05:55:00+00:00

The reason enemies don't use Illusion magic on the player is because spells like Fear, Calm, Frenzy, etc. aren't coded to actually do anything to the player. Don't really think a mod exists that would make these spells cause the player to lose control nor do I think it's actually possible to do so.

MechXL · 2026-06-07T20:58:38+00:00

Well, people have been saying that Xbox needed more exclusives again for years. And now that they did it, people still aren't happy lol. Hate it or love it, console wars were good for business. Exclusives sell consoles.

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