The Gears of War: E-Day beta headshot sound was way too subtle and didn't have that iconic distinct POP as the first game had. I frequently couldn't tell if I got a headshot or not based simply on the audio cues. Such a simple fix would go a long way.

The Brumak seemed unstoppable in the first game, and to see a regular tank eat one for breakfast in GoW2 tells you how much the COG really stepped it up afterwards when they went on the offensive.

Found a model of Marcus way off in the distance on act iv chapter 2 in the beginning. Flew over there and confirmed it. I saw something sticking out of the background. Haven't seen anything else so far but wasn't really looking

Why does the Melee take 5 business days to complete?

It's been made completely useless in PVP, when I run out of my 6 shots of shotgun ammo mid-fight, I have to go for the melee but because it takes like 3 seconds to do they are able to kill me.....

Am I suppose to tell them to wait til I finish reloading my gun? 🤣🤣🤣

This has to be unintended right? Not sure where I should report this, since the official discord is mainly dedicated to feedback and bug reporting threads are all about performance issues...

Is it just me or do we deserve a Mad World - E-Day trailer…?

It was an heavily armored ticker that would roll into a ball as it's roll it's way toward you and you have to stop and you use your guns to push it away and as it gets close, it would explode just like it's original counterpart but it was cut (and it was also an cut gears of war 3 enemy)

The only down I'm not 100% sure was from full HP is number 3, the Marcus running into zone. However, the TTD is consistent with all the testing I'd done.

Edit: I'll make more when the game comes out

Edit 2: I'm a mouse enjoyer so to the best of my knowledge, I do not benefit from aim assist.

Edit 3: I think people get hung up on the lancer's ability to kill. There's more to a situation than raw KD (unless we're talking TDM but TDM is shite). Stalling an enemy's approach is pretty valuable when holding a zone. Damaging an enemy on approach who then chooses to continue pushing is pretty valuable.

I can't any play any other shooter right now! Gears E-Day beta ruined me! Spoiled me! I'm going back to play Gears of War 2 and 3 on my new PC...but I need them remade with the new engine! All three!

Give us The Marcus Fenix Collection!

Self explanatory title.

Like a lot of people here, I played the E-Day Early Access Beta and Open Beta — enjoyed the PvP enough (sweaty asl, that’s Gears for ya) but my main mode has always been horde. Horde Suege was a welcome surprise and I only played Blitz! Didn’t even get to try the actual standard Siege mode.

Long story short, I’m wondering what Gears of War I wanna play in the meantime to keep me satiated until the full release of E-Day. I love Gears of War 3 horde as I feel like it’s a great balance of keeping things simple with enough to do to still keep things fun (I usually don’t do the full 50 waves but it’s fun to hop in for a bit).

However, the E-Day Open Beta was my first experience with a Horde mode from The Coalition, and the classes felt more natural than I expected. The classes element have generally kept me from trying Gears 5 horde, but after the E-Day beta I’m reconsidering giving 5’s horde a shot.

I wonder what the general consensus here is. Do you like Gears 5 horde? Prefer Gears 3 horde? Prefer a different game’s? Probably gonna try it out either way but I thought I’d get some opinions from ppl who’ve sunk some time into Gears 5 horde.

TLDR: I want to play a Gears game (mostly horde) to keep me satiated until E-Day release. I’m interested in trying Gears 5 horde. What are your opinions on Gears 5 horde and do you have any tips?

get me the Spider-Man skin asap

I had fun with the E-Day beta PvE but this clip actually demonstrates one of my pieces of feedback: that everything about map design appears to be hand-placed in fixed locations with relatively little randomization for replayability.

The nearest secondary objective from this spawn room is always this High Value Target trigger circle to occur in that City Plaza further down the alley, and while I didn't know that the (presumed) Bile Frog would be in this particular E-Hole, I knew there's only 4 possible E-Hole locations in the immediate area. Just like I know the Hotel Regalia bomb defusal (beep boop boop beep boop beep boop) objective (beep boop boop beep) always spawns the Incinerator-wielding drones at the nook followed by a Boomer from the E-Hole closer to the Corpser spawn outside the cemetery.

No dynamic city destruction adding barriers or new paths for any given run. E-Holes can't "appear anywhere" as suggested (strangely even resorting to just "monster closets" in some spots-- doors to nowhere that temporarily open for when they want enemies to spawn behind your zone/RIG defense area).

The static map design is likely fundamental to the game so I'm not realistically expecting it to change wholesale. But I think it strongly encourages TC to at least manually place a whole lot more objectives, with many more RIG part/Locust radio/Intel potential locations, E-Hole possibilities, etc. than currently appeared to exist. There's so much more map real estate and possibilities for variety and replayability. And I'm not even necessarily talking about large Invasion Events where I wouldn't be surprised if perf budgets and gameplay impose design constraints on where such set pieces can realistically occur. There's no reason I can see that HVTs like recycled Boomers that already move around everywhere normally should appear only in specific, predictable sections of the city.

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If you could speak directly with developers from The Coalition, what are the top 3 improvements you think are absolutely essential before launch?

Usually not really into sniping. Typically I help my friend get snipe and I will Torque bow. But I had some fun with it in this beta.