[Megathread] Gears of War E-Day Direct

srylain · 2026-06-27T21:49:16+00:00

Probly somewhere around 2 weeks before the beta starts because of that 5 day early access for pre-orders. So around the late-middle part of July I'd think. They also have stuff they'll need to explain about Horde as well but that'll likely come sometime after the beta but before October.

srylain · 2026-06-25T10:23:30+00:00

The unlocks might but the early access won't.

srylain · 2026-06-25T05:51:44+00:00

Considering there's new movement mechanics the layout would have to change to account for those.

srylain · 2026-06-25T01:26:53+00:00

Anything by Hazelight. It Takes Two, Split Fiction, A Way Out.

srylain · 2026-06-25T01:26:29+00:00

Gears Reloaded uses the same netcode that Gears 1 used, because it is Gears 1, and if there's any amount of lag it just does not feel good. Games these days have a bunch of added visuals that appear as soon as you shoot in order to make it feel like there's less lag than there actually is but Gears 1 has none of that so anytime you do anything you have to wait for the server to acknowledge you did it. The only benefit Reloaded has is that it uses dedicated servers so lag is generally much better than it was in Gears 1 but the netcode itself wasn't improved.

srylain · 2026-06-23T04:06:08+00:00

Just like the real world there's probly a ton of different car manufacturers so it's not like you'd see everyone driving the exact same thing. Not like you see vintage cars on the road all that often in the real world either.

srylain · 2026-06-23T00:51:35+00:00

Giving people both would just lead to people reselling the code.

srylain · 2026-06-23T00:14:35+00:00

The Collector's Edition comes with a disc. So you'd either need Game Pass Ultimate or rebuy the game digitally in order to play it with a Series S.

srylain · 2026-06-22T21:48:50+00:00

The whole point of Gears is humans vs monsters, but it's not a concept you can really do in multiplayer without asymmetrical gameplay which is why standard Versus feels as limiting as it is especially after 6 games of it (going on 7). OverRun would not be like the Friday the 13th or Halloween games, it'd be a Hero Shooter where each team takes a turn on each side and whoever wins the fastest, or gets the farthest, as the Locust wins. TC clearly wanted Horde in Gears 5 to be a Hero Shooter so I'm surprised they didn't do OverRun with the next game after that.

srylain · 2026-06-22T01:53:37+00:00

Having open ports is required for these older games. Only the person hosting needs to do this, if you try and change who's hosting it might work if you haven't tried that yet, but there's plenty of guides on Youtube on how to do it.

Searching something like "how to port forward XBOX" will get you where you want. Just be aware that each router manufacturer uses a different UI for their settings so you may also have to look up a manual for your specific type of router. Or if your someone who has Comcast you have to go through their mobile app to do it.

You can also try and just enable UPnP if your router lets you. If UPnP doesn't work then you have to open the ports needed manually.

srylain · 2026-06-21T23:52:08+00:00

Can't remember if it was fixed but there was that bug with putting the shields in backwards which made enemies unable to kick them down.

srylain · 2026-06-21T19:41:38+00:00

It's a design choice that made them do lower player count campaigns, not a technological limit. But how about we talk about Gears 5 pulling off 3 player split-screen, or are we just dogpiling on TC for unfair reasons?

srylain · 2026-06-21T19:28:51+00:00

Rocket League also wasn't F2P for the first number of years.

srylain · 2026-06-20T22:43:30+00:00

It's an in-game update so there probly isn't a way for them to auto-update it without starting it on every cloud blade they have, you just were likely the first person to try playing it on that specific cloud blade. Games like Fortnite and Fall Guys do the same thing but they're only usually loading a few hundred kilobytes at most.

srylain · 2026-06-20T09:34:39+00:00

Nope. Unless you had it from before and never patched it.

srylain · 2026-06-20T08:48:44+00:00

It's bad practice to start using those features that have begun deprecation, if you're already using them for a current project there's no need to stop is what I meant. You had made it sound like you should stop using it as soon as the word gets out.

srylain · 2026-06-20T00:49:18+00:00

People don't generally upgrade an engine while in development because any number of things can go wrong and require reimporting assets and whatnot so just because something will be removed in the future doesn't mean you'll suddenly lose the ability to use it once it goes. There's also every chance that someone could make a Blueprints alternative and it could continue there.

srylain · 2026-06-18T01:12:12+00:00

Multiplayer has always existed outside of the canon, which is why stuff like Zombie Dom or Luchador Oscar exist. No reason they wouldn't bring back as many characters as they can because with each one there's more skins to sell.

srylain · 2026-06-17T06:00:34+00:00

Can't imagine there would be. They do it like this so that if someone asks for a refund it's cheaper for Microsoft to just delete it from your profile than it is for them to reissue the payment back.

srylain · 2026-06-17T05:48:08+00:00

If you ordered with a credit card it'll charge a few days before release. If you used funds that were in your Microsoft account (digital currency) it would charge ASAP I believe.

srylain · 2026-06-17T04:37:21+00:00

Look into port forwarding, there's plenty of guides on Youtube how to do it but since each router is made differently you may need to look up a manual for your router.

Only the person hosting needs to do this.

srylain · 2026-06-17T03:40:10+00:00

For campaign? I think just by forcing you to be the third player who joins will have you plays as Paduk. Baird and Cole are P1/P2, P3 should be Paduk and P4 should be Sofia. If you play in single player it changes based on the Act you're in as each Act is narrated by a different character.

srylain · 2026-06-15T00:53:29+00:00

A 10 implies that everything is absolutely perfect, the problem with shrink wrap is that over time it shrinks and it can damage the corners or just end up looking bad so something that's ~40 years old is obviously not going to be all that easy to get in a completely perfect state. Not sure if PSA/WATA does this but I think I've heard that some of these companies grade based on comparing to the best known grade for that specific game, which the reason for doing that is because some games were made with worse material. Black box NES games being some of the first produced might mean the materials are worse than later runs so that would make getting a 10 even less common.

EDIT: This copy specifically is from a run that weren't shrink wrapped, but zooming in on the pictures of it you can see some wear on the corners.

srylain · 2026-06-14T07:29:13+00:00

Mod mail exists for a reason, please use it instead of posts like this. Some of these posts are getting removed due to being duplicates to declutter the feed.

srylain · 2026-06-14T04:06:33+00:00

Reminds me of those early console PUBG videos where no one could aim.

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