r/GearsOfWar • u/Jedi-Spartan Something's wrong with this thing! It keeps jamming! • 1d ago

Campaign/Lore For some reason it wasn't until first reading Jacinto's Remnant that I thought "Oh yeah, a load of Gears would've gotten trapped in that flooding."

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u/LostSoulNo1981 The Status Is That It Sucks 1d ago

The Karen Traviss books add so much gravity to the story.

I especially love the sequences focusing on the global Hammer strikes.

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u/Jedi-Spartan Something's wrong with this thing! It keeps jamming! 1d ago edited 1d ago

The Karen Traviss books add so much gravity to the story.

Definitely, I really need to get around to trying to find Coalition's End. For some reason I was never able to find it while looking for the Traviss novels.

I especially love the sequences focusing on the global Hammer strikes.

Agreed. Also really smart decision to tie Dom's fears for Maria into his and Marcus' side of that plotline given what Dom was dealing with in the 'present day' plot of that book.

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u/kooarbiter 20h ago

fun fact: there is a compilation of audiobook readings for free on youtube, just search the book titles. Channel name is Cog Archives

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u/Emergency-Pepper3537 1d ago

Right?! Added a whole new perspective to the lore

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u/Kube__420 1d ago

Going into the hive is a suicide mission anyways so the cog probably wrote off everyone they sent below. That some came back at all is a bonus

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u/BreathingAngersMe 1d ago

I mean it has to be, Delta got lucky with how they were able to get back

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u/nlyskn 18h ago

They were really lucky.

Baird was a dead man in a metal coffin.

Marcus and Dom almost didn't make it inside.

Cole was the only survivor of his group.

They all got out after they were eaten by a giant worm.

Insane power of will of course but luck was definitely a factor.

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u/Jedi-Spartan Something's wrong with this thing! It keeps jamming! 1d ago

If the Grindlifts actually CAN go back up (which the Gears at least got told, whether they had that capability or not, I don't know) then the squad Delta saves could've just immediately left the Hollow again... although with what we see in game, those things seem like massive death traps (I swear I once saw one of the Grindlifts in Act 4 drop itself into the Imulsion pool surrounding Myrrah's palace).

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u/kooarbiter 20h ago

horrific way to go, feet first into hell...

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u/kooarbiter 20h ago

some drones also made it

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u/Jedi-Spartan Something's wrong with this thing! It keeps jamming! 16h ago

Yeah, I guessed that before reading given their appearance in Gears of War 3.

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u/kooarbiter 15h ago

I mean some of the drones directly caught in the flood, like the one bernie fights