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Back by popular demand, it’s What’s Up – your weekly update on all the latest news, game updates and more in Gears 5 and beyond.

Here’s What’s Up in Gears this week:

Store Changes based on your feedback
Title Update 1 out now!
Boosted Double Stars Every Saturday!
Arcade Double Trouble Special Event
New Escape Hive: The Surge

more heat than light wrote:I have a slightly unorthodox method that gets me a lot of abuse, but it works.

Welcome to What’s Up, your weekly update on all the latest news, game updates and more in Gears 5 and beyond.

Here’s What’s Up in Gears this week:

New Characters Coming Wednesday!
TU1.5 Patch Notes
New Weekly Hive: Venom Run
New Versus Event: Arms Race Unchained
Curbstomp Comeback!
Weekly Supply and Store Refresh
Quit Penalties
What We’re Working On

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The onslaught of the machines begins with the Terminator Dark Fate Horde Event!

Running until October 29, this special Horde event pits COG Heroes against waves of Rev-9s, T-800s, Kestrels and Trackers.

Complete special Medals in the new Terminator: Dark Fate Tour panel to earn exclusive Terminator: Dark Fate content including a new Blood Spray, Mark and Banner!

The team is continuing to work hard on fixes and improvements for our upcoming Title Update in early November, with even more to come with our huge Operation 2 Launch in December.

We won’t keep you waiting too long to find out more about what to expect from Operation 2. New modes, new maps, new Characters and more await.

more heat than light wrote:

more heat than light wrote:I have a slightly unorthodox method that gets me a lot of abuse, but it works.

See.

more heat than light wrote:I did report him, not sure if anything came of it though.

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In that context, how do you view the success of a title like Gears 5? It's obviously not about sales for you. So how do you justify the investment in a big project like that? How do you measure its success when you've got this game that's coming out on Game Pass day and date with retail?

Phil Spencer: Gears 5 sold well for us. It sold better than Gears 4. And we feel good about it. If people want to make the choice of buying Gears, that's an option we want to give them. I'm not trying to funnel everybody who wants to play Gears into the subscription. It's about giving gamers choice. Certain players will make the decision as part of Game Pass that they'll either want to start to subscribe, or they're already a subscriber and they stay subscribed.

Right now the easiest metric to talk to Rod or anybody about the success is, how many players did we find with this game? And let the gamers choose how they actually want to get the entitlement for the game. It is an evolution, there's no doubt. Studios have been trained that, what I look at is what are my day one sales, what are my week one sales? And as an industry, the press wants to know. Hey, how do I judge if Gears 5 has been a success? What I will say is we're incredibly happy with Gears 5. It did review well. It has a tonne of players. We're taking feedback on certain things. The economy - I see the feedback on the game as well. But I thought it was a great release in the Gears franchise and it drove a tonne of players who wanted to go play, and that's awesome.

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Peter Crisp wrote:To be honest I completely forgot I had Gears 5 .

I played the multiplayer beta and was frustrated voice chat didn't seem to work and since then I've been mainly doing a rewatch of X-Files and playing a bit of Borderlands 3 .
Erm, I have it downloaded I think so is it any good .

Having Game Pass and a shitty memory means it's just like a huge jumbled pile of games in that I just see the pile and go "Yeah, that's a thing that exists!" and just kind of let it just carry on existing without actually doing anything with it.

Manwell Pablo wrote:Single Player campaign definitely worth a play through

I guess the multiplayer/Trophies are dependent on how much you like Gears and how good you are. It's a good game but it's grindy and the standard on ranked at least is high. even in the silver regions.

Peter Crisp wrote:

Manwell Pablo wrote:Single Player campaign definitely worth a play through

I guess the multiplayer/Trophies are dependent on how much you like Gears and how good you are. It's a good game but it's grindy and the standard on ranked at least is high. even in the silver regions.

While I've completed Gears 1,2 and 3 multiple times I just kind of hated 4 as the robots were shite so I quite like the series overall.

I've only ever played the multiplayer during the Gears 5 beta and I was lets say gooseberry fool as I play as a medic or mechanic when I play multiplayer games and need team coms so I can run about doing healer type stuff.

mcjihge2 wrote:Have you tried the horde? You can do the engineer thing as Del, or the medic thing as Jack.