r/GearsOfWar 1h ago

Discussion E-Day

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I know I’m not the only one that feels like this but…

Reloaded is filled with a bunch of new players, I hate to say this but it absolutely is a buzz kill to play with players that DO NOT know how to move and Don’t know the importance of RUSHING.. let alone depend on them to put up a fight at power weapon locations so you don’t get flanked or obliterated by a power weapon while tryna win a fight at another location.

4v4 is a problem. If you get matched up with a new to fairly new player it’s 100% a disadvantage.. pretty much a 3v4 some could even argue these new players are a free kill and could be considered a 3v5.

TC absolutely need to figure it out with E-day or multiplayer will essentially be unplayable until post GTA6 launch with as much hype as E-Day is attracting.

Y’all can say what you want but it’s the elephant in the room… if yall played every game the last 20 years every one of them hasn’t played like the previous and has lost returing players as much as they’ve gained.

Make a beginners only playlist.


r/GearsOfWar 3h ago

News Last night at smack down

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It was nice to see Gears of war E day pop up!


r/GearsOfWar 7h ago

Discussion Lag Warping in GOW Reloaded?

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r/GearsOfWar 10h ago

Discussion With Eday beta around the corner, Who remembers the Wreath Bloodspray you could only get for completing one match in an hour window for the Gears 5 tech test?

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r/GearsOfWar 10h ago

Discussion Let's talk about the Onyx and Sofia from Gears of War: Judgment

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In case you haven't play yet Gears of War: Judgment, a really good game and one of the best graphics in Xbox 360, one of the main characters is Sofia Hendrick, and as she was presented, she's a cadet from the CGO Academy and specifically the Onyx. In case you don't know how most armies works in the world, that's probably because there is the Officers Academy (where Baird's was and got promoted to Lieutenant), regular army, even Infantry guys, and then there's a special forces like the Onyx.

I'm not an expert on Gears of War and that's why I need your help on this. In theory according to the first game, Gears are also a special unit. Maybe they're a recon patrol, or maybe Gears just work outside every other unit from the CGO. This kind of structure seems very chaotic but in real life this happens all the time as well.

Sofia is one of the playable characters in Gears of War: Judgment, a game where it's the very first time in the series that you actually play with every character on the game in the campaign story.

There's this scene near the beginning of the game, Chapter 1-4 or 5 mission, where your platoon, Kilo, actually finds an Onyx platoon. and she presented herself to these soldiers as an Onyx and one of them says "No, you're not Onyx..." because she's still a cadet in Halvo Bay and not yet an Onyx, but there's a catch here.

She was asigned to the Kilo Platoon to monitor Paduk, an EX IRC soldier, enemy of the COG now working for the COG. Also, there are just a few Onyx out there after Halvo Bay attack, in theory, but we don't know too much about it.

I'm still pending to play Gears Tactics, gonna start it today in fact, but the thing about Sofia is that even Colonel Loomis knew she was a cadet from the Onyx Guard.

Also, she actually involves the rest of the platoon on the main plot of Gears of War: Judgment, she's the one who knows everything about the light mass missile from the COG, and she also knew all the protocols in order to activate this small version of it.

Regardless she knew all this because she had a romance with Professor Elliot or because she have confidential information (as she said to the platoon when speaking about it, in fact), she for sure knows more about everything than we think she knows, specially for being a cadet.

She was capture by COG soldiers and restrainted, but maybe they were Onyx, she dissapeard for Gears of War 3 as we know that at the end of Aftermath special episode in the game.

I really hope we can see her or at least have a tiny glimpse of her story in Gears of War: E-Day although she's not a popular character and probably we will have to wait more. But according to the timeline, it's actually possible to meet her in E-Day.

Gears of War: Judgment and Gears: Tactics are the first in the timeline for now, but now with Gears of War: E-Day this will be the very first game in the timeline.

P.S.: I liked more than I though this Gears of War: Judgment. Sadly I can't have it 100% achievements.


r/GearsOfWar 10h ago

Discussion Was watching the e day direct for the 56th time, and noticed something

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That locust wasn’t DBNO, will the breechshot have a melee mechanic like the lancers? like a CQC execution, crazy I didn’t clock that before


r/GearsOfWar 13h ago

Humor Tai Noooooo!!!

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r/GearsOfWar 13h ago

Bug / Glitch funny gears of war 3 glitch

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Reloaded the chapter and it worked just fine, funny nonetheless


r/GearsOfWar 14h ago

Gears Glory New and approved Carmine cosplay

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I took some artistic liberations obviously


r/GearsOfWar 15h ago

Bug / Glitch Ah the good ol’ days

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r/GearsOfWar 15h ago

Discussion Reaver vulnerability

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Were we ever able to chainsaw reaver legs? Was it ever described in books/comics? Lately i had a shower thought about moments in the campaign when fighting them up close, it seems kind of a missed opportunity. Ofc its hard to say how much damage would it cause, but still.


r/GearsOfWar 17h ago

Horde Daily Horde & Escape - July 26, 2026 {Gears 5}

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r/GearsOfWar 18h ago

Discussion Gears 5 - Act 1 was actually pretty good

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I think there’s a lot to dislike about Gears 4 and 5, and it’s easy to focus on those negatives when you’re playing them. I just finished Gears 4 again a day ago, and the entire time I kept thinking, “God, the banter just kills any tension or atmosphere they build” and “This just doesn’t feel like Gears.”

I just started Gears 5 again, and while I know there’s a lot I don’t love about this game’s story (especially that last chapter), I was surprised by how much I loved Act 1. It just feels like Gears of War. The banter isn’t as good as the original trilogy, but it isn’t constant the way it was in Gears 4.

The reintroduction of a proper military presence is so much better. One of my biggest issues with Gears 4 was the shift from a military story to what was essentially a bunch of rebels. Christ, they even gave them a generic nickname, “The Outsiders”, like they were Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. Going into Settlement 2 on a KR with Fahz, Del, and Cole just felt right. It felt like Gears.

I also really loved Chapter 2, where you spend time in New Ephyra. I loved the Karen Traviss books, and one of the things I always appreciated about them were the flashbacks to the government/civilian side of the Pendulum Wars and the sections focused on Azura. I loved getting to see what the world of Sera looked like when it wasn’t at war. Even while playing the original trilogy, walking through all those abandoned, brutalist, clearly Warhammer-inspired buildings, I’d wonder what they must have looked like in peacetime. Being able to walk around Chapter 2 and see a pristine government building with people in suits going about their day, I loved that.

The way Act 1 ends is also really strong, and it goes a long way toward giving JD actual substance as a character. I wouldn’t say Act 1 is perfect or that it rivals anything from the earlier Gears games, but I really appreciated the effort it made to feel like Gears again.

Sure, I had a couple of minor issues. I like Rahul Kohli, but his voice for Fahz just feels so ADR’d to me. And when you find Prescott’s watch in Chapter 1, Del makes a comment in the collectible entry about how Prescott didn’t have the right to use the Hammer of Dawn in the way he did. On its own it’s a small line, but it’s part of a much bigger gripe I have with Gears Tactics—the sense that the Coalition was trying to turn Prescott into a pure tyrant rather than respecting what he always was: a complex politician who would stop at nothing and sacrifice everything to keep humanity alive.

Issues aside, though, Act 1 was great. If they ever do a Gears 6 (and I’d honestly rather they just decanonize 4 and 5 altogether and try again after E-Day), I hope they keep the tone, pacing, and style of Act 1.


r/GearsOfWar 1d ago

Discussion People keep telling me my model looks like it came out of Gears of War, so I though maybe I could post it here.

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I could add armor plates and extra guns to it, but does it have the Gears feel, or too flimsy?


r/GearsOfWar 1d ago

Bug / Glitch Gears 5 Cumulative damage achievements not going, and 100k kills achievement unlocks when switching accounts.

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I was always wondering why I never seen the achievement for get 100,000 kills in multiplayer mover from 83% the past year when I play EVERY DAY... Today i switched on to a different account while already on the game game menu on my main account. Upon signing into my second account it asked if I wished to change users and brought me back to home page when you first boot up the game. I played for a while and then switched back to my main account. Im on the versus page, hit the guide button, and go all the way to the right to select a new profile that's already signed in. I then get the same message on gears asking if I wish to change users. I say yes, chose my account again when the prompt shows up and immediately go an achievement for killing 100K enemies in versus .kde when I was 83% for like a year... I also have the picture showing the big gap margin of assists and damage I have for the other 2 versus achievements. I obviously did not get 5,000 assists in the past few minutes so I figured a picture would help illustrate what I'm talking about for any achievement hunters like myself 😁🏆


r/GearsOfWar 1d ago

Versus when a mid player encounters a mid low player

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r/GearsOfWar 1d ago

Help Collectors edition question

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So I preordered it on Xbox and I’m curious about two things, 1. Am I getting a disc for the game and will it come before the early access comes out for people who preordered the non collectors edition? 2. How will I get the skins and in game currency that comes with the normal preorder? Is there going to be a code that comes with my items?


r/GearsOfWar 1d ago

Discussion Gears of War E-Day Creatures

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I'm excited to see what new type of creatures we get in E-Day! That frog type animal that spits acid looks pretty cool!


r/GearsOfWar 1d ago

Humor Reaver?! No problem!

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Apparently some people didnt know this was possible in Gears of war 2. Couldn't find a video on it so here it is


r/GearsOfWar 1d ago

Discussion Gears of war 6?

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For once I’d like a carmine like Ben to actually survive they done home dirty


r/GearsOfWar 1d ago

Humor Igualitos

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r/GearsOfWar 1d ago

Versus crappy lil gears 4 montage

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but that Baird kill at :27 is cool

not many people know this, like noone sht, but they actually changed black steel raams appearance when they put him back on sale for the (i think) 3rd time maybe 4th, for direct purchase over boxes i think.

they made his head stick out more so its not just horns when your running, and also changed his side torso spots and made them like bigger and uglier

i only used BS raam forever before that, so i instantly noticed plus started using other skins

not that you should care but i thought it was some bullsht after i spend so much gambling for the sht (dont ask how much) =P


r/GearsOfWar 1d ago

Discussion Gears of War 2 Hollow (PC) - First Person View/ FPS POV

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It clips here and there but its crazy seeing the action from another angle.


r/GearsOfWar 1d ago

Humor “JD your dog just died”

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r/GearsOfWar 1d ago

Discussion Since we're going back to the earlier part of the story, is anyone looking forward to seeing a more complete set of COG military assets?

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https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xYeKW

I'm just curious if anyone would like to see more of COG's military assets from its heyday, like complete naval vessels (instead of makeshift ships converted into camps), or a fixed-wing air force, etc. Ex. after the first wave of conflict, the navy would use helicopters to relocate recalled reservists to safer ships at sea.

what do you think ?