Gears of War 4 (XB1/Win 10) - The Final Achievements revealed etc (p37)

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by Corazon de Leon » Fri Dec 02, 2016 12:51 am

I didn't realise my copy came with free copies of Gears, Gears 2, Gears 3 and Gears Judgement. That's a fantastic package for £20!

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PostRe: Gears of War 4 (XB1/Win 10) - Crossplay Versus Test this weekend & 2 new free maps/update on 6th Dec (p32)
by KjGarly » Fri Dec 02, 2016 1:17 am

Saigon Slick wrote:I didn't realise my copy came with free copies of Gears, Gears 2, Gears 3 and Gears Judgement. That's a fantastic package for £20!


And you'll probably get a message on Live with codes to download them all too so you'll have 2 sets of codes for all the BC Gears games.

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by Corazon de Leon » Fri Dec 02, 2016 11:45 am

To eBay! :lol:

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by Photek » Fri Dec 02, 2016 2:29 pm

Saigon Slick wrote:To eBay! :lol:

The gears games have been given away so many times on X1 you'd be hard pressed to get more than £1 for each.

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PostRe: Gears of War 4 (XB1/Win 10) - Crossplay Versus Test this weekend & 2 new free maps/update on 6th Dec (p32)
by Monkey Man » Fri Dec 02, 2016 8:15 pm

Cross-Play event is now live in matchmaking.

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PostRe: Gears of War 4 (XB1/Win 10) - Crossplay Versus Test this weekend & 2 new free maps/update on 6th Dec (p32)
by zXe » Sat Dec 03, 2016 5:54 am

How can you tell who are xbox one players as opposed to PC Win 10 players in this crossplay event? (I'm on win 10 PC).

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by mcjihge2 » Sat Dec 03, 2016 11:39 am

zXe wrote:How can you tell who are xbox one players as opposed to PC Win 10 players in this crossplay event? (I'm on win 10 PC).


In horde PC players have a monitor icon near their name (when playing on xbox). Horde mode has been cross play from day one.

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by Photek » Sun Dec 04, 2016 10:40 am

How does an X1 owner go about Inviting a PC player?

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PostRe: Gears of War 4 (XB1/Win 10) - Crossplay Versus Test this weekend & 2 new free maps/update on 6th Dec (p32)
by Monkey Man » Tue Dec 06, 2016 8:38 pm

Out now -

Title Update 2: December 6th 2016

XB1 - ~6GB // Win10 ~ 6GB with 7GB of disk space needed

Note: There may be disruption from 9am PDT onwards as we transition to this new Title Update. We recommend not starting any extended gameplay sessions near this time.

New Maps and Map Rotation Update

Glory and Speyer will be available in the Versus and Horde Developer Playlist from December 6th for Season Pass owners. Both maps will be available in public playlists for everyone, and Private Matches for Season Pass Holders, from December 13th.

When both maps arrive on December 13th, Gridlock and Relic will be rotated out of all public playlists. Additional to these two maps, Fallout has also been removed from Competitive Play to bring these playlists in line with the official Pro Circuit settings. As all of these maps are from the original 10 that shipped with the game, both maps are still available to play in Private Match for all Gears 4 players.

Updates to the Developer Playlist

This month’s Versus Developer Playlist will contain Team Deathmatch and King of the Hill with a squad size limit of three. The Horde Developer Playlist will feature Normal difficulty Horde.

With this update, Season Pass holders will earn additional XP and Credit rewards when playing the Developer Playlist during the week it’s available. Season Pass holders will continue to get early access to new maps and have access to all DLC maps permanently for use in Versus and Horde Private Matches. We’re continuing to look at adding even more benefits and value for our Season Pass holders in the future.

Horde Balance Update

Mountable turrets are now less accurate, do less damage and have lower maximum ammo reserves. Players using turrets receive less damage mitigation. Level 4 turrets also have reduced health.

Mounted Turrets are designed to be powerful fortifications that need to be used sparingly to deal with tougher enemies or a large wave of opponents storming your base.

After observing how players are playing Horde in the wild, we wanted to tune the Mounted Turrets to be a little less powerful to reduce the viability of only using turrets and barriers on tougher difficulties – while retaining the Mounted Turret’s role as important powerful part of your defenses.

Windows 10: Vertical Campaign Split Screen
We’ve completed work on Vertical Split-Screen support in Campaign for our PC players! You can change the split screen format in the Game Options screen.


Fixes and Improvements

Xbox One and Windows 10


Added support for First Win of the Day bonuses for Versus. Your first win in Versus Multiplayer will now grant an additional 1000 XP and 100 Credits.

Added support for Daily Rewards, a new system that allows us to grant Bounties or other types of Cards as a gift on login. Daily Rewards will not be available on December 6th when this Title Update launches, but we’re planning to introduce them in the near future. We’ll share details on the Daily Reward system soon.

Audio levels for friendly footsteps have been reduced, and enemy footstep audio levels have been increased to make them slightly louder than friendlies. DeeBee ‘joint’ movement noise has been reduced to make them audibly on par with other characters.

Shotgun hit blood effects have received visual feedback improvements to relay damage dealt, allowing a better read of the percentage of damage done to an enemy. The more blood you see, the more damage you dealt.
Note: This visual feedback can only be seen by the player dealing the damage at this time (ie. a user observing your shotgun hits will see the old blood damage effects).

Added a new Inventory screen, accessible from the main menu, that shows all Cards owned (split by category) in one location.

New Cards in your collection will now be marked with an exclamation mark (!).

Audio and Video settings are now retained if the game is closed

Fixed an exploit where a grenade could be planted prior to the end of the round and still be present in the following round

When highlighting a Core or Competitive playlist, you can now see the Tier or Placement Match status of every member in your Squad

Class icons now display in the Horde Scoreboard

Player Cards have been moved closer to the edge of the screen in Spectator Mode

Removed the option to quit from the menu in Core and Competitive playlists

Fixed an issue where campaign completion achievements may not correctly unlock. Completing all chapters not registered as completed again should now unlock the achievement.

Re-Up achievements should now be unlocked the next time the game is loaded if they did not correctly unlock.

Fixed an issue where movement could enter a broken state after sliding into a piece of cover that another player is already traversing

Power weapon pickups are now prioritized over ammo pickups

When in the death screen roundup, you may have seen 100% damage or 0% damage dealt. This is due to ‘rounding up or down’ the decimal point in damage – the death screen information will now round to 1% or 99% in these situations to better reflect the actual damage situation.

An issue that could cause players to warp or teleport when evading or mantling has now been fixed.

Unequipped weapons can now be seen on squadmates / teammates in Campaign, Versus and Horde. Unequipped weapons on opponents in Versus Multiplayer are hidden by design.

Players will no longer spawn facing the wrong way at round start

Players getting up from DBNO on LAN had a chance to have an invisible weapon. This is now fixed.

In Splitscreen, Player 2 will now correctly show their unequipped weapons on their body

Fixed an exploit where a user could be idle-kicked in a no respawn game mode by being held as a meatshield

The Out from Under ribbon can now only be received one per round

Repair Tool executions are now affected by the Execution Bonus Skill Card, and now count as an Execution for Bonus Objectives

The Phat Loot ribbon will now be correctly awarded when completing a Survive or Time Limit bonus objective

Bonus objective score now counts towards total team score

Guardians should no longer get trapped outside the map on Reclaimed

Kestrals should no longer get trapped above the control room on Forge

The Snatcher can no longer be lured in a position where it cannot move on Reclaimed

Bosses will no longer get stuck on cover in Fallout

Fixed an exploit that allowed players to be on a turret while automatically reloading and repairing it

Fixed an exploit to allow users to farm Power at the start of a Horde match

Fixed an exploit allowing players to move before the wave has begun after a Boss Wave

Prolonging the placement of the Fabricator no longer awards additional resources based on the wave it is placed

Equipped Skill Cards can now be upgraded without having to unequip the Card

Using the Forge incinerator on a DBNO enemy in modes with Execution rules will now kill the enemy

Fixed a geometry issue on Reclaimed that allowed grenades to fall out of world at the construction area

Players can no longer launch each other out of bounds

Players can no longer use an exploit to increase the accuracy of weapons beyond their intended settings

Players can no longer time a weapon pickup in order to duplicate multiple versions of the weapon

Buzzkill saw blades will no longer get stuck in mid-air on Dry Dock

When failing to join a user in campaign due to NAT type, a new error will now inform you of the issue

Escalation Rings now have instructions based on their status (Defend / Break)

Bounties will now display a fly out (similar to Ribbons) when completed during gameplay

A Skull icon now appears on the Overhead map when a player dies

When a Re-Up is available, the War Journal will display an exclamation point ‘!’ icon

Escalation: Improvements to weapon selection icons in Escalation

Guardian: Team Leader’s Gamertag now displays in Tac-Com

Torque Bow reticle now supports Color Blind mode options

Chain Lightning ribbon now correctly awards when shocking two players with one shock grenade

Added Offline Customization support, allowing the use of owned customization items (excluding emblems) on LAN

Removed Point of Interest from the Alternate and Tournament Alt control schemes

Fixed a rare issue where a player could appear invisible to other opponents

Characters will now speak a line of dialogue when stuck with a Torque Bow

Users should no longer sometimes get a time out error when completing a Private Match, and should now return to the Lobby correctly

Switching to the Overhead Map while holding Tac-Com will no longer cause the Tac-Com effect to be permanently enabled

The Sudden Death timer now correctly disables in Dodgeball when the situation is no longer 1v1

A rare occurrence causing consoles to reset during matchmaking has now been resolved

Other miscellaneous bug fixes

Windows 10 Specific Updates

Player 2 can now set their own FOV in Split-Screen

Fixed an issue that could cause cinematics to freeze the game

General UI improvements for various resolutions

Motion Blur now functions correctly in Multiplayer modes

Future Updates

Quit Penalties
This continues to be our top priority. We are working hard on developing larger features that will majorly discourage quitting, and as such, these bigger features take time. We hope to introduce these new features as soon as possible.

We recently identified a bug on the services side that would cause a match to begin in a 5v4 situation (or alternatively cause your customization character of choice not to load in some circumstances). This would lead to more quitting from players who were starting a match with uneven teams.

We deployed a server-side update for this yesterday which we believe will cause this issue to be extremely rare. Please let us know if you continue to encounter matches in Core and Competitive starting unbalanced.

Competitive/Core Lobbies
We’re continuing to work on Core and Competitive pre-game lobbies. This is a big feature to develop, but it will be coming in a future Title Update.

Horde Leaderboards
We are still intending to wipe the Horde leaderboards sometime in the near future. Due to a number of exploits - the majority of which are fixed in this TU - we postponed the Leaderboard wipe to make sure any future scores are legitimate.

King of the Hill / Execution Time Limit Adjustments
We are looking to bring the King of the Hill Round Limit down to 1 in Social play, and reduce the Execution time limit. These changes will be made in the near future via server-side update.

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PostRe: Gears of War 4 (XB1/Win 10) - 2 new free maps & Title update out now! (p33)
by mcjihge2 » Tue Dec 13, 2016 6:47 pm

The developers playlist on horde gets double xp. the horde classes levels up very quickly. All mine are at level 10. My Rage Scout is pretty indestructible on normal and 1-30 hardcore, and very durable on insane 1-30.

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PostRe: Gears of War 4 (XB1/Win 10) - 2 new free maps & Title update out now! (p33)
by Fuzzy Dunlop » Thu Dec 15, 2016 4:14 pm

Which version do you have to buy to get the rest of the series for free? Ultimate Edition or just vanilla?

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PostRe: Gears of War 4 (XB1/Win 10) - 2 new free maps & Title update out now! (p33)
by KjGarly » Thu Dec 15, 2016 7:31 pm

Fuzzy Dunlop wrote:Which version do you have to buy to get the rest of the series for free? Ultimate Edition or just vanilla?


Just vanilla nabbed me 2 sets of codes for all games (card in game box and through an Xbox Live message)

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PostRe: Gears of War 4 (XB1/Win 10) - 2 new free maps & Title update out now! (p33)
by Monkey Man » Sat Dec 17, 2016 12:30 am



Celebrate “Gearsmas” With Unique Content, Special Events and Offers!

The days are getting colder and the nights are getting longer, which means it’s time for the seasonal signature event for Gears of War – Gearsmas! Beginning today, this year’s holiday spectacular marks the biggest event for Gears of War 4 yet with over 30 pieces of festive content to collect, a special playlist featuring the first ever custom weapon for Gears 4 and a whole lot more.

Take a first look at the Gearsmas Celebrations in the trailer above, then read on for all the juicy details.

The Festive Collection

Gearsmas brings a whole bunch of new festive-themed items to customize your look in the spirit of the holidays!

The Gearsmas Pack is full of Holiday Presents with 28 pieces of unique content to collect. For 400 Credits, each pack contains One Bounty and two items from the Gearsmas collection listed below:

3 ‘Ugly Gearsmas Armor’ Characters – JD, Kait and Swarm Drone
4x Gingerbread Weapon Skins
4x Festive Tree Weapon Skins
4x Snowman Weapon Skins
4x JD Wrapping Paper Weapon Skins
4x Kait Wrapping Paper Weapon Skins
4x Swarm Wrapping Paper Weapon Skins
1 Commemorative Gearsmas Emblem

For the first time, there’s also some special timed rewards to collect that can’t be found in the Gearsmas Pack. Our new Daily Rewards system will be handing out some holiday presents on the days listed below – simply jump on Gears of War 4 to claim your gift!

December 16: Chuzzmas Emblem
December 27: Ice Boomshot

Special Events

On top of all the new customization items to add to your collection, there’s also new ways to play!

Snowball Fight is a brand new special event that features the first custom holiday weapon for Gears of War 4 – the Snowshot. This icy looking Boomshot that fires Snowballs which, in true Gears fashion, still gibs enemies!

The mode is a variant on TDM where everyone starts with the Snowshot and 2 Snowballs. Just like real-life Snowball Fights, you’ll have to scramble to pick up more Snowballs when you’re out!

In the spirit of coming together during the holidays, Crossplay Versus is also back in a Special Event playlist. Throughout Gearsmas, Xbox One and Windows 10 players can game on together in Social with squads of up to 5 players.

As an additional thank you to our fans, both of these playlists feature 1.5x XP for the duration of Gearsmas!

New Surprises

There’s even more to come throughout December for Gears fans. Later this month, the UIR are joining the fight with their own UIR Gear Pack – we’ll be revealing more information on dates and content in this pack next week.

Speaking of the UIR, fans have hunted down many an Easter Egg in our Campaign – but there might be something new to find on December 25. Good luck in your Easter Egg hunt Gears fans!

Gearsmas runs until January 4th, 2017 so there’s plenty of time to get in on the action. From all of us at The Coalition, we hope you have a blast during Gearsmas and a safe and happy holidays. See you online for some Snowball Fights!

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PostRe: Gears of War 4 (XB1/Win 10) - Celebrate “Gearsmas” With Unique Content, Special Events (p33)
by mcjihge2 » Thu Dec 22, 2016 2:27 pm

Theyve added a UIR pack for £9 or 4400 credits. The RNG gives you some more rubbish weapon skins or maybe a UIR character.

Very poor value for money IMO. The official forums are exploding with complaints.

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PostRe: Gears of War 4 (XB1/Win 10) - Celebrate “Gearsmas” With Unique Content, Special Events (p33)
by Photek » Thu Dec 22, 2016 2:56 pm

Barely touched this, the odd things is, I loved what I played of it. It's Gears though so I know ill give it a ton of time at some stage.

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PostRe: Gears of War 4 (XB1/Win 10) - Celebrate “Gearsmas” With Unique Content, Special Events (p33)
by chalkitdown » Fri Dec 23, 2016 3:57 pm

Definitely agree about the beginning. One chapter of the robots would have been more than enough. DBs!!!!!!!!!!!111

Also, you don't "kill off" the two best characters halfway through chapter 1. :fp:

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PostRe: Gears of War 4 (XB1/Win 10) - Celebrate “Gearsmas” With Unique Content, Special Events (p33)
by Frank » Fri Dec 23, 2016 4:55 pm

Wait, who were the two best characters? You can't possibly mean Oscar :dread:

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PostRe: Gears of War 4 (XB1/Win 10) - Celebrate “Gearsmas” With Unique Content, Special Events (p33)
by Monkey Man » Tue Jan 10, 2017 12:27 pm

Title Update 3: January 10th 2017
XB1 - ~7GB // Win10 ~ 9GB

Title Update 3 for Gears of War 4 is releasing ~6pm GMT on January 10th 2017.
Note: There may be disruption from 5pm GMT onwards as we transition to this new Title Update. We recommend not starting any extended gameplay sessions near this time.

Series 2 Release and Two Maps
Two new maps and Series 2 of our Gear Pack content arrives with Title Update 3, delivering hundreds of new Cards to collect. We'll be announcing details on all this and more tomorrow morning (PDT) - stay tuned for all the info.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Series 2 content will be Craftable once you download the Title Update, but will not be available in Gear Packs for a few hours following the update. If you are looking to acquire new Series 2 content, please withhold from buying Gear Packs until we confirm the Cards are available in the pool.

Combatting Quitters – Phase 1
Combatting quitting has been a top priority for us at the studio. We’ve been working hard since launch to introduce new punitive measures in Gears of War 4 that encourage staying to the end of the match and actively participating in Core and Competitive play.

As of TU3, we’re introducing new features as a first phase of updates to combat quitting in Core / Competitive. As of this update, players who quit a Core or Competitive Match will now be suspended from all matchmaking of any kind for a limited time to discourage drop out behavior – with the biggest time punishments going to the first player to quit the match. In addition, the more you quit, the longer the suspension you will receive from playing matchmaking.

If your connection temporarily dropped or your pet tripped the power cable, all is not lost. Players can rejoin the match they left (provided it’s still in progress) for up to 5 minutes from the time they quit through a new ‘Rejoin Match’ option in the main Versus menu. Rejoining and completing the match will result in no penalties.

With these new features, we hope to see a major improvement in player mentality to committing to a match in Core and Competitive. We have further quit penalty and balanced match features in the works – including Core/Competitive pre-game lobbies – coming in future Title Updates to further improve the online experience.

- Players leaving a Core/Competitive game early will now be suspended from matchmaking
- Players can rejoin a Core/Competitive match within 5 minutes of being dropped or quitting from an option in the main Versus menu
- Rejoining and completing a match will remove the matchmaking suspension time
- Added functionality to display matchmaking suspension time (including to your Squad Leader). You will not be able to matchmake if your Squad contains a suspended user until their suspension has completed.

Spectator Mode Improvements
As we enter 2017 to continue the huge season of Gears of War 4 eSports ahead, a small part of our team have been working on improvements to the Spectator Mode experience for viewers and casters.

This latest update brings far more information for viewers to follow the action, while reducing the real estate taken up by Player Cards to make them more viable for use when streaming tournaments. We’re excited to see what fans and casters think of these improvements over the coming months!

- Player Cards have been re-designed to take up less visual space
- Player ammo and reloads are now visible in the Spectator Mode UI
- Crosshairs are now visible to Spectators
- Respawn timers are now displayed on Player Cards
- Weapons holstered onto a player’s back can now be seen in Spectator Mode
- ‘K’ keyboard button now removes spectator inputs UI and/or the black bar altogether
- ‘L’ keyboard button toggles Player Cards to the far edges of the screen or normal positioning
- ‘V’, ‘B’ and ‘N’ keyboard buttons now jump to specific Escalation hill battle cameras
- Fixed an issue with X-Ray vision not rendering as intended
- Made X-Ray a ‘toggle’ rather than ‘Press-And-Hold’
- Fixed the ordering of players in Competitive UI to match the Lobby Order
- Pressing B while holding Jump Cam now cancels a pending Jump Cam
- Added new mapping for specific face buttons for specific camera modes, listed below:
Gamepad ‘A’, Keyboard ‘Z’ -> Switches to Player or Follow Cam. If already in Player Cam, switch to Follow Cam and vice versa. Last used mode is saved as your preference when switching back to Player/Follow Cam from other modes and when using the Jump Cam
Gamepad ‘X’, Keyboard ‘X’ -> Switch to Ghost Cam
Gamepad ‘Y’, Keyboard ‘C’ -> Switch to Battle Cam

Other Fixes
- Skill ranking will now be visible again at the end of match scoreboard
- Added ‘Spawns Swapped’ UI when spawns flip in Versus
- Increased the Energy cost of the Hammer of Dawn Strike in Horde
- Increased Escalation Win and Loss bonuses
- Increased Escalation Win Bounty Rewards
- Tuned criteria and rewards for King of the Hill Bounties
- Fixed an exploit that allowed players to teleport Energy to their position in Horde
- Squad Members can immediately see when they have been removed from a Squad
- The ‘Horde Skills’ UI Notification alerting you to new skills now works correctly
- Horde Skill cards can now be equipped and unequipped in the Horde Skills inventory
- Added UI notification to show new Cards in your collection when opening Gear Packs
- Improved UI on Turret Heat bar
- Improved performance when switching tabs in Card view menus
- Added slider to control how long text chat remains visible after a message
- The Longshot can no longer shoot through walls if positioned through a 90 degree corner
- Added a Duplicates Only filter to the Inventory Menu
- Fixed an issue where audio slowly cut out in Horde
- Fixed an issue allowing grenade effects to continue into the next round in Versus
- Removed an exploit allowing users to break the map boundaries in Horde on Foundation
- Fixed an issue that allowed players to respawn out of the map boundaries in Horde
- Fixed an issue where offline customization would reset if user changed characters
- Miscellaneous fixes and improvements

We're continuing to work on lobbies for Core and Competitive in addition to more punitive measures for quitting and investigating tuning improvements. We can’t wait to deliver all this and more throughout 2017. Here’s to another year of Gears! We’ll see you online.

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by Monkey Man » Tue Jan 10, 2017 8:45 pm


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PostRe: Gears of War 4 (XB1/Win 10) - Title Update 3 out now with 2 free "new" maps (p33) £20 on Amazon
by mcjihge2 » Tue Jan 10, 2017 8:49 pm

As a horde player it seems a pretty shitty update to me. Theyve nerfed the hammer of dawn and not made any improvements.

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