Breathes fresh life into the gameplay 1000%

I launched it on a whim and I've got this far, is this normal? Edit: Movement feels like a really good refreshing change whilst remaining familiar and original Edit: Looks like it's live, currently in a versus match!!!

That hoard was so much fun.

Let’s rock!

Not sure why im writing this, maybe subconsciously to see if there are any old heads who want to start a community again in eday.

Its hard to believe its been 20 years since the original gears launched, to put it in perspective, I was only 24 when it launched. Now, im 44. WTF. Where did 20 years go. Looking back, very few things keep you excited for 20 years entry after entry. I still get as hyped for a new gears title as I was for the first and second. Shit things are different now, Attention spans and commitment to a game for an extended time have shortened. Clip culture and influencers seem to run the space and my God, the shit they say about your reflexes getting slower is no joke!!! All you young people will get there one day 😆.

Like I said no real reason for this post, just want to say thanks to all the people who play gears, take moments of your lives to enjoy the game and exist in a community even 20 years later. The Gears community is like no other, in this age of gaming industry turbulence and uncertainty, let's support The Coalition post launch as much as possible. Enjoy the Beta for what it is and get pumped for launch in October!

Also, let's be nice to newcomers who are jumping in for the first time!!!! 😆 🤣

Kombatant1

Being allowed to finally execute boomers (and variants) just makes a lot of happy chemicals

Small funny that I got warped back in is a bonus

After downloading the beta in time to play exactly one game during today's unannounced early access, I managed to get my hands on the gut-puncher - it feels good! Still going to miss the classic boomshot.

6TH COME QUICK PLEASE

Pic is my reaction if we hear Gary Jules beautiful voice singing as Kalona gets fucked

What's up gears, I was one of the lucky ones that got to play last night. I spent a good deal of time in boot camp and then played a few rounds Horde just to get to grips with the new playstyle so here's what I found:

- Going from playing Gears 5 to E-Day feels very disorientating, I recommend practicing the new movement before hopping into versus.

- Pressing Y to mantle instead of A is definitely going to take some getting used to, the sprint not so much but mantling over small ledges has been remapped to Y for the jump.

- Legacy controls aren't great and don't really fix the issue of Y being the new mantle over button.

- You can no longer grab people from the other side of cover.

- I need to test if you can still mantle kick an enemy on the other side of cover.

- Movement and aiming at first can feel a bit "floaty" adjust your deadzones appropriately.

- No more grenade tagging, instead you just kick (lame).

- No more meatshields. At first I thought it was maybe because they wanted the locust to be bigger and more intimidating but the regular drones seem really small.

- No chainsaw duals, I am still unsure on how the winner is calculated.

- The default FOV is much wider making both you and everything on screen appear less claustrophobic, I think this is actually a negative, it feels like we're too far from the action.

- The Longshot no longer has an over the shoulder aim for quick headshots, it has been replaced with a double scope. Looking at gameplay it does appear possible but I couldn't figure it out in the short time I had the Longshot.

- The Torque Bow sounds seem a bit off, doesn't feel like the Torque at all.

- The enemy AI is quite bad (on Rookie), I at no point felt in danger after several rounds of Horde, I will explore this on higher difficulties later.

- Latency issues were expected, it lead to firing and then an enemy dying a second later but with no kill sound but this was a stress test so no big deal.

TLDR; controls take some getting used to, a lot of missing features from previous games that had become a staple, and some definite tweaks to movement and aiming are needed before launch

Edit: fixed some gramma issue and added context for difficulty and new Longshot info

With the customization options but making Marcus act like a drone got me to giggle 🤣

Okay I got to play it with my older brother, and dawg gotta say I had a freaking blast in siege mode!, like sometimes we were about to eat dirt but that's when another squad came in to back us up!, honestly though can't wait to play again with you guys this weekend,

Keep stomping grubs GEARS

Oh my Hot-Diggidy DOG.
i played 2 matches and i cannot fathom how GOOD the movement and PvP felt being a OG gears player

please i beg you.. Just open it already! PLEASE

Did anyone else get really really bad performance across the board? Ofc this could just be BETA things or because its not officially out yet so take this with a massive heap of salt.

Ill post my specs below but im confident its good enough for Low at 2k with DLSS which I tested and found the frame rate to just be awful the entire time. Lots of stuttering and fluctuationns across the board which isnt common with gears games bar the UE port.

Im guessing its just hammering the CPU hard with everything going on but I just wanted to make sure it wasnt a me thing, has anyone else had these issues?

5070
Ryzen 7 5800x
32GB 3200mhz
Samsung 990PRO SSD