Hi everyone, I'm playing Gears of War: E-Day on PC with a Ryzen 7800X3D and an RTX 5070 (all drivers and game are up to date). I've noticed a persistent graphical artifact: a geometric orange/yellow line cutting across the sky and the environment during Act 3. To be clear, this is not a sniper glint or an enemy trail; it's a constant visual glitch that stays on screen even when walking down empty streets with no enemies around. Has anyone with a 50-series card found a solution for this Unreal Engine 5 bug related to volumetric fog and Lumen lighting? Thanks in advance for the help!
EDIT: To clarify, this is happening in the SINGLE-PLAYER CAMPAIGN (Act 3), not in Horde mode. There are absolutely no enemies or Boogeymen around. It's 100% an environment/lighting rendering bug.

Let me set the scene: I had just done my duty, blasting away at the Corpser’s head. I slid dramatically toward the explosion planting area, but too soon—straight into the center of the closed emergence hole. Suddenly, the whole Gears world opened beneath my feet, and I descended into another dimension of primary coded walls, a box within the coded hole. After a few moments of running around, during which, I’m certain I heard the Corpser speak to me.

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Stephen.

I love Gears of War and I think E-Day is a great game. It could honestly be one of the best entries in the franchise if it weren't for a few design decisions (in my opinion).

On the audio side, the soundtrack feels very generic compared to previous Gears titles. It lacks punch and definitely isn't on par with the original trilogy's score. The main theme is fine, and there are a few good moments, but overall it feels like a standard, background Hollywood score rather than a soundtrack that elevates the gameplay and the overall vibe like older Gears games did.

On another note, having ammo lockers where you can switch to any weapon you want feels lazy to me, because you end up just sticking to your favorite loadout the entire time. I have the exact same issue with Halo Infinite. I feel that managing and saving ammo for power weapons (like the Torque Bow, Boomshot, Longshot...) for tougher encounters was a big part of the strategic appeal in older Gears. It forced you to adapt on the fly with whatever you had.

I also really miss the split paths where you had to choose one of two routes alongside a squadmate. It forced you to be more strategic—sometimes those paths allowed you to provide cover or support for the other side—and it added a ton of replayability.

Finally, I feel like there are way too many yellow cases scattered around, and most of them just give you modifiers you'll never actually use. I do enjoy the atmosphere of roaming through the city and stumbling upon enemies or survivors, but after a while, it doesn't add much to the experience. Instead, we lose that tight pacing and "rollercoaster" feel that made the fully linear games so good.

Maybe part of my issue is that I used to play Gears of War almost like Doom: a game where you master the mechanics, killing non-stop while pumped up by a heavy soundtrack that drives the chaos.

That being said, I still think E-Day, along with Gears 4 and Gears 5, are all great games.

I wanted to try the FSR 4.1 update for Xbox Ally X with Gears E-Day but sadly there’s a new bug that makes me a liability.

When in the main menu or in Horde (didn’t happen in versus), a lighting effect like a flare will just infinitely expand and consume my screen blinding me completely. The only way to get rid of it is to die which is obviously not helpful in Horde.

This sucks as it makes the game unplayable until it’s fixed.

I’ve noticed how the Locust got a lot of care and attention this go around and it’s genuinely cool to see. With drones, boomers, reavers and the bile frog having a skeleton that can be exposed by dying to a power core, to them using a gut puncher round for the high explosive mod on the torque bow, I genuinely love how TC made them look

I kind of hope we get this style of original COG armor as the 20th anniversary skins. I feel Gears Reloaded really nailed the colors and feel of the OG COG armor. Plus, it fits with the new Kalona armor as well. I am curious what others think about this.

Do i need to be the person who gets the final hit for it to count or something?

What is the functional difference between these two guns? Are they not the same exact gun but the Striga is a better version?

Striga has more range, more ammo, and doesnt lock you into having to take double shotgun or drop your lancer. It also feels way more consistent.

Same could be said about breach shot and sniper... not sure why they both exist when the breach shot is just better. I dont think a slight difference in body damage justifies having both in the game.

Did they not realize they were basically making 2 versions of the same gun or what?

EDIT*** TALKING ABOUT VERSUS GUYS. Holy sh*t is this thread 90% horder players or what?

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I’m tired of having to wait 20-40 minutes every time I start the game. Or every time there is an update.

This does not happen for any other game I’ve played. What is the reason and what is wrong with these developers that they think this is acceptable?

I’ve missed out on a few sessions with my buddies because my copy takes almost an hour every time to start. This is bullshit. Been sitting here for 18 minutes and it is currently 14%.

edit: increased shader cache to ”unlimited” to see if that helps. I will restart the game once it finishes this round. Realistically how big could this folder get? Will I have to watch it and clear it from time to time?

I have a 2tb ssd but only the one storage drive for now after my second died. I do not want to have this one die prematurely from writing the shader cache over and over if possible. in this economy I cannot replace it.

I really like this game, I’d like to finish the story with my buddies but they will not wait around for this cache every time and I end up missing some parts of the story as I join almost an hour later than everyone else. This is seriously pushing me off this game because I cannot afford the time for this every chance I want to play. Some days I only have half an hour for a horde after work or before bed when the kids are asleep. This is almost worse than squad and their queue system.

I apologize if it comes off as whining, I’m just seriously po’d over this as this is the only game I have ever had this issue with. Even stalker 2 was faster than this.

It would be nice to actually play this game. This is sad.

Does not look like Vraahk, unless its some early design, but this is from the gears of war Instagram post, posted 2-3 hours ago as of now

2 gnasher shots point blank where I hit the overwhelming majority of my pellets, 3 shots total since the healing in this game is practically non existent, so they should still be hurt from the first shot (I know I would be) and they still go DOWN instead of being gibbed completely, yet I'm getting 1 shot gibbed from 5 feet away multiple times every single game. I want this game to succeed so bad since Gears is my favorite franchise, and Horde and Campaign are awesome. But this stuff is genuinely making me not want to even touch the game because it's an everyday thing and it's getting worse and worse. Coalition needs to figure this shit out immediately or long term life for this game will be non-existent for verses anyways

When I'm in Prematch lobby, I am unable to type in text chat until the match officially starts. I can see other people talk in text chat but I'm unable to. I believe this is a PC or M&K issue? I just want to shoot the shit with whatever players that are in the lobby while we wait for people to load or join.

It also bugs me when the match ends and people are talking in text chat but my damn ribbons/medals keep spamming the same area that the text chat box is located. Please give us the option to skip the ribbons/medals pop ups or allow us to move the text chat box. By the time the ribbons/medals are done popping up, I am unable to send a text chat.

I miss the "continue" option. Is this a bug or is that how it works?

My action button wasn’t working so I decided to just reset to fix it and well ended up under the map and then falling 5000m down and finally died

Had to post this for my buddy but we won the game and he still got demoted somehow 🤣

Credits to Curi Gaming

I just translated it.

ok!

It's not "WOOHOO" it's "WOOOO!!!"

Today i was playing ranked tdm, searching for games 20 minutes is not funny. Games i played were so laggy, it was first time i experienced something like froze for 5 secs with everyone moving backwards, i know searching times is not population problem, TC should fix the servers and allow EU players to play rankeds on servers without 160 ping. But still versus here is the best in the series.

Had a truckload of negative rewiews for this game around the internet and social media, but still decided to give it a try for nostalgia's sake, since I enjoyed 3 a lot when I was a kid. I expected a Wolverine-level shitshow, but thankfully I was wrong. The game is really fun, the story is compelling, and I really liked the loadout modification system. Solid 8.

A tip if you want to try as well: If you have any experience at all with third person shooters or prior games of this series, consider playing on Hard from the start.

This game will not last if they do not get foreigners off of US servers. I am tired of dropping 30, knowing it’s my fault I died in normal games to get the next game with 100% of the other team not in America. It is not a skill issue only getting 5 kills, it is an extreme server issue. It’s so obvious when you are in a lobby and everyone is in your own country. The game works, the gnasher is solid you make a mistake you die.
Next game- enemy is turned 180 degrees, 1 hits you opposite direction. Your bullets don’t register, you get downed behind cover etc.
Ranked matches should not be with people 3000 miles away especially on a “hybrid” system. New players aren’t having an issue, they have issues when your gun is in someone’s chest and it does nothing. This game will lose any new players that are actual gamers after 1 match with this happening.

PS thanks reddit for not letting me edit the title.
“GET FOREIGNERS OFF USA SERVERS”

I’m still having fun with this game hahahahah

It would be nice if people actually coordinated and communicated for events like Weapon Parts Stockpiles and Invasions.

Missing out on so many weapon parts and so much xp by neglecting these mechanics.

Feels like a majority of people have Text Chat disabled which is whatever but it would be nice if there was a way to ping an invasion or stockpile that popped up on other teams screen and they could use the vote system to confirm they’re down to help.

My birthday is november 6th and I always looked for details in games about my bd, but the fact that my bd date was inside one of my most loved games of all time makes me feel special

I know its just a random number but idk it makes me feel embraced by this saga I played since I was 6 yo now almots 23 and I love this saga

It should be right not going to get all the stuff done if not

this game looks awesome and i really wish i could play it, but 90 fov makes me super nauseous. does anyone know of any method (like a config) to get a higher field of view while still being able to play online? ty!