Hello everyone!

It's time for another edition of This Week in Gears, our first one a week after the launch of Operation 6!


Before we dive into this week, we wanted to talk about the issue last week that recently resulted in an issue where boost wasn't granting double stars upon completing your daily challenges.

We deployed a fix for the issue at the end of last week, and we'll also be granting three days of boost as compensation. You can expect the boost to be granted to you after the store update tomorrow. Thanks for your patience, but hopefully this makes up for it!


Control returns for one last week. Control is based on King of the Hill but with some changes. While the main objective will be to capture an objective area, you will be required to stay inside the area to score points for your team. Additionally, each player will have an individual respawn timer and the ring will be 2.5 times bigger than the regular King of the Hill ring.

Get stuck in!

Read here for the full rundown of Control


Escape from Kadar returns for one final week, Niles has been up to his old tricks again and has created unique enemies for you to take on in this 10-wave epic.

Expect to encounter unique Locust enemies who will use weapons such as the Retro Lancer and even the pipe!

Oh… and expect many, many sires.

Read here for the full rundown of Kadar

• Collector's Major Paduk – 500 Iron
  
• Medieval Full Set – 425 Iron
  
• Chest Pump Expression – 300 Iron
  
• FALLEN Bloodspray – 125 Iron

• Zombie Benjamin – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins
  
• Collector's Sraak – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins
  
• Windflare Legacy Set – 850 Iron, 6,800 Gear Coins
  
• STFU Bloodspray – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins

Note: We've updated the prices of the following esport organization bundles/loadout sets, $14.99 to $9.99 for the bundles and $9.99 to $7.99 for the loadout sets, additionally we've also removed the esport organization bloodsprays from each of these.

• Team Rebel Bundle
  
• Team Rebel Loadout Set
  
• Rated R Bundle
  
• Rated R Loadout Set
  
• Elevate Bundle
  
• Elevate Loadout Set
  
• Hive Bundle
  
• Hive Loadout Set
  
• Fire N Ice Bundle
  
• Fire N Ice Loadout Set
  
• Pittsburgh Knights Bundle
  
• Pittsburgh Knights Loadout Set
  
• Rise Nation Bundle
  
• Rise Nation Loadout Set

As we've previously mentioned, we're looking to re-release some older Chrome Steel skins, expect more skins next week!

• Chrome Steel Kantus – $9.99 USD
  
• Chrome Steel Palace Guard – $9.99 USD
  
• Chrome Steel Queen Myrrah – $9.99 USD
  
• Chrome Steel Legacy Weapon Set – $9.99 USD

We'll also be updating the store to add the following to the essentials, this means they'll stay in the game permanently and can be purchased at any time.

• Armored Tai – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins
  
• Armored Sid – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins
  
• Armored Mikayla – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins
  
• Lambent Theron Guard – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins
  
• Lambent Grenadier – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins
  
• Lambent Drone – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins
  
• Armored Gabe – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins
  
• Armored Dizzy – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins
  
• Armored Anya – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins
  
• Sketched Full Set – 850 Iron, 6,800 Gear Coins
  
• Mech Vs Swarmak Banner – 100 Iron, 800 Gear Coins
  
• Team Scorpio Banner – 100 Iron, 800 Gear Coins
  
• Dizzy Banner – 100 Iron, 800 Gear Coins
  
• Giant Worm Banner – 200 Iron, 1,600 Gear Coins
  
• Dizzy Skull Mark – 65 Iron, 500 Gear Coins
  
• Team Scorpio Mark – 65 Iron, 500 Gear Coins
  
• Big Boom Mark – 65 Iron, 500 Gear Coins
  
• Ketor Skorge – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins
  
• Rapid Fire Execution – 300 Iron, 2,400 Gear Coins

This month is International Women's History Month and that perfectly sets up our theme for Gears Glory!

In the next week you can expect the following on our streaming platforms!

• March 10: A stream from LadyBoss we'll be hosting her! – 12:00 PST
  
• March 12: A stream from the Ladies of Dior, a women's esports team –12:00 PST
  
• March 13: The International Women's History Month esports tournament!

Take care and have yourselves a wonderful week.

TC

Hello everyone, Operation 6 is now live!


Jump into Gears 5 now and honor the heroes of Gears in the new update. In case you missed last week's posts, we outlined the main changes and updates coming to Operation 6. Check them out below:

• Operation 6: Reveal & Timing changes
  
• Operation 6: PvE & PvP
  
• Operation 6: TWIG

With the store updating each week through Operation 6 we thought we'd give you a preview of the new character skins you can expect to release during the start of operation 6, let us know who your favorite is from this list!


There is still more content to release Operation 6. We'll be releasing a second drop in mid-April which will include new characters, a new map and more! Keep an eye out for our news posts on this closer to that time.


The update is ready to download, grab it, jump in and experience Operation 6!

Hello everyone!

We're less than 24 hours away from the launch of Operation 6 and have some added details coming your way.


Watch the trailer now!


Control is based on King of the Hill but with some changes, while the main objective will be to capture an objective area, you will be required to stay inside the area to score points for your team, additionally each player will have an individual respawn timer and the ring will be 2.5 times bigger than the regular King of the Hill ring


We have a brand-new Horde event kicking off Operation 6 – Escape from Kadar

Niles has been up to his old tricks again and has created unique enemies for you to take on in this 10-wave epic.

Expect to encounter unique Locust enemies who will use weapons such as the Retro Lancer and even the pipe!

Oh… and expect many, many sires.

Read here for the full details on both events!


This bundle will give you access to the three, new Operation 6 drop 1 characters, a new weapon set, and more!


You can purchase the Bundle for $14.99 USD.




We have a new set of rewards for the new Tour of Duty this operation, with the General reward being the striking Blood Red Queen Reyna.

Along the way you will earn five character skins, three new weapon sets, a mark, bloodspray and expression<s>s</s>. Should you reach General, you can continue to progress and earn even more Gears Coins that you can use for items in the store.

You can see the full Tour of Duty reward table below!



With a new operation comes a new medal list for you to complete! As always, each individual medal gives you progress towards your Tour of Duty, and if you finish a medal group, expect some extra coins for your efforts.

Note: You can view the PvP and PvE medal groups here.



Completion of this medal group will grant: 2,000 coins



Completion of this medal group will grant: 2,000 coins



Completion of this medal group will grant: 3,000 coins



Completion of this medal group will grant: 5,000 coins


This Weekly Hive has a very simple description: "Just run, run, run"! Outrun the venom and get to the exit!

• Armored Hoffman – 250 iron
  
• Queen Reyna – 250 iron
  
• Zealot Kantus – 250 iron
  
• Locust Zealot Mark – 65 iron
  
• U Mad? Bloodspray – 250 iron

• Collector's Minh – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gears Coins
  
• Vold RAAM – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gears Coins
  
• Ghost Legacy Set – 850 Iron, 6,800 Gears Coins
  
• Rock Paper Scissors expression – 300 Iron, 2,400 Gears Coins

• Chrome Steel Kantus – $9.99 USD
  
• Chrome Steel Palace Guard – $9.99 USD
  
• Chrome Steel Queen Myrrah – $9.99 USD
  
• Chrome Steel Legacy Weapon Set – $9.99 USD

And to close out, here are the patch notes schedule to release in Operation 6:

• FFA Gnashers/Torque Bow Tag: Regular weapon spawns that persisted in certain maps will no longer continue to do so.
  
• A rare instance in which a user may start with no weapon on 'Gnashers Only' modes has been addressed.
  
• The observer numbers when spectating will now correctly line up.
  
• Players now spawn in their correct position in Escalation.
  
• Players will now spawn after joining a Guardian game in progress while their leader is still alive.
  
• Players will no longer see the placeholder leader skin if they have no customization installed.
  
• Gridiron: A endzone projection will no longer clip into a boat on Canals.
  
• Gnasher: The Gnasher will now show 'tracers' when firing, this will allow you to visually see where your bullet trails go.
  
• We've now improved the consistency when it comes to gibbing a player who's sliding into cover.
  
• Playlists that are set as 4 v 4 will no longer fill to 5 v 5 when bot backfilling is enabled.

• Upon dying, Jack characters would see an "Ultimate Ready" text line, this is now fixed.
  
• Users should no longer encounter multi-second freezes while playing Escape.
  
• Horde: Fortifications placed inside walls will now be able to be picked back up.
  
• Horde/Escape: Decreased the Frozen Damage Multiplier for Snipers from 5x to 3x.
  
• Horde/Escape: Reduced Fabricator spawn blocking distance on River from 30m to 25m.
  
• Horde/Escape: Decreased Frozen Damage Multiplier for Shotguns from 7x to 3x.
  
• Horde/Escape: Tweaked the following daily rewards
  
• Skill Cards (Advanced) 3 -> 4
  
• Coins (Beginner) 100 -> 200
  
• Coins (Inconceivable) 300 -> 400
  
• Coins (Advanced) 150 -> 300
  
• Blademaster: The Blademaster now correctly receives 30% damage resistance from melee attacks. (Previously hotfixed)
  
• Pilot: When equipped on the Silverback, the Scorcher will no longer point to the ground.

• Outsider Kait: Kait's gums will no longer clip through her lip while performing the "Thumbs up" expression.
  
• esports Kait: Kait's shoulders are now weighted correctly during expressions which addresses clipping issues.
  
• One of Dizzy's character lines will no longer have a narrator voice play.
  
• Characters will no longer display the wrong full model when full customization is not installed.
  
• The character skin faction icon for cards will no longer overlap with the rarity.
  
• Sid will no longer say "get out of my way" when shot by a teammate.
  
• Abominable Grenadier: A minor weighting issue has been fixed on the cloth.
  
• Recon Sid: A minor weighting issue has been fixed on Sid's wrist while in high cover.
  
• Swarm Elite Hunter: When held as a meat shield, the Hunter's tassel will no longer flail out of control.
  
• Lambent characters will now have their glow appropriately applied.
  
• Jade skin: A texture seam present on the Jade Boomshot has now been fixed.
  
• Myrrah: Myrrah's Double Time voice expression no longer uses the incorrect voice line.
  
• Onyx Guard Keegan: A skin clipping issue on Keegan's left shoulder has been fixed.
  
• Museum skin: The museum material at the back of the Markza will now be wooden instead of metal.
  
• Jermad: Jermad will no longer use two fingers to point to his one eye in the 'Watching you' expression.

• Foundation: An issue with a level of detail pop on a specific window has been addressed.
  
• Nexus: Jack will no longer clip through certain segments inside in the map.
  
• Nexus: During Horde users will no longer be able to attempt to vault through the gates at both spawns.

• Players can now access the Extras menu even if they do not have the full campaign chunk installed.
  
• The Heroic Venom Gnasher will no longer have brown crystals on the weapon when playing as the Swarm.
  
• Users who have outdated graphics drivers for Gears 5 will now be advised to upgrade them to ensure they get the best gameplay experience.
  
• The Async compute graphical setting being turned on will no longer cause graphical issues.
  
• Fixed numerous crashes in-game across the game.
  
• An issue related to players not spawning in a match has been fixed.
  
• If you retro charge/attempt to chainsaw and get stunned your character will no longer automatically attempt to reload their weapon.

The Operation 6 update will launch tomorrow, Tuesday, March 2 at 4:00 AM PST/12:00 BST. See you in-game!

TC

Starting on March 2, Operation 6 will introduce some fresh multiplayer variants and we're excited to share those with you today!


With PvP, we are going to be introducing a new featured Versus game mode to kick off Operation 6, we are calling this mode Control.

Control is a new spin on classic ring-based modes but with some changes. The main goal is to capture a large objective area, but you will be required to stay inside the area to score points for your team. Unlike King of the Hill, each player will have an individual respawn timer, so you can get back into the action that much faster.

To accommodate the heightened carnage during matches, we have made the objective 2.5 times bigger than the regular KOTH ring. This makes for more contested rings and more action!

We feel that Control offers a unique approach to the area of control formula that Gears has to offer, and the individual spawning is the icing on the cake.

Alongside Control launching for Operation 6 we have an exclusive medal group for you to complete, completing the medal group will provide you 3,000 Gears Coins.


Control will stay up for two weeks but keep an eye out for rapidly changing Versus events as we'll be switching it up throughout the operation!!


With a new operation comes a new ranked season, we will be keeping our current ranked playlists, Team Deathmatch, Free for All – 8 Players, King of the Hill, 2v2 Gnashers. We will, however, be providing you a new set of weapon skins to earn for your Hammerburst, Retro Lancer, and Boomshot. Click the name of the weapon above to see a preview.

Get those ranked gains going!




With Operation 6 we'll be bringing back tracers to the Gnasher, allowing you to visually see where your pellet trails go when shooting. Check the image below for an example of it in action.

We have also improved the damage consistency when it comes to gibbing a player when they are sliding into cover, which will provide much more predictability in important fights.


We have a brand-new Horde event kicking off Operation 6 – Escape from Kadar.

Niles has been up to his old tricks again and has created unique enemies for you to take on in this 10-wave epic.

This playlist introduces Locust enemies back into Horde for the first time in Gears 5. Build up your defenses because they'll be coming with Retro Lancers and even the pipe!

Oh… and expect many, many sires.

Escape from Kadar will also provide a unique medal group. If you complete it you'll unlock a special lab drone of your own: the Locust Hybrid. Details of the group are below.


Escape from Kadar will be featured for two weeks, so make sure to get your medals done before then!


In addition to the new event above, we've also been making small tweaks to the daily hives for Escape. Right now, you may see repeating hives for your challenges. To address this we've adjusted the rotation so that you won't see the same hive on the daily challenge for at least 14 days, which should help provide a lot more variety for your daily Escape adventures.

Additionally, we're improving the coin and skill card rewards offered during the daily Horde and Escape challenges, check out the full changes below:

• Skill Cards (Advanced) 3 -> 4
  
• Coins (Beginner) 100 -> 200
  
• Coins (Inconceivable) 300 -> 400
  
• Coins (Advanced) 150 -> 300

Here are the new PvP and PvE medals to earn with the new operation!



Completion of this medal group will grant: 5,000 coins



Completion of this medal group will grant: 5,000 coins



Completion of this medal group will grant: 3,000 coins



Completion of this medal group will grant: 3,000 coins



Completion of this medal group will grant: 3,000 coins


We'll be hosting a developer stream today! Be sure to tune in from 3:00 PM PST as we talk to you about all things Operation 6!

Operation 6 launches next Tuesday, March 2!

TC

Hello everyone!

The time has arrived to start talking about Operation 6!


Based on feedback from the community, we spent the holiday period reorganizing planned Operations to give you more content more often. This change will see the length of our operations shortened from 16 weeks to 11 weeks.

Additionally, we know that you've all loved us releasing mid-operation content such as the Carmines pack, so we're going to be shifting our Operations to two content drops per operation: one launch drop and one mid-op drop, each drop will contain at least one map and two new characters.

And with that, let's move over to the content!





A soldier to the core, Colonel Victor Hoffman was instrumental in leading the COG to victory against the UIR and Locust. To meet the Swarm threat, the retired commander founded Scorpio Squad as a return to his favored approach: to strike the enemy where they live.




Transformed after death, Queen Reyna is the prime conduit through which the Swarm hive-mind courses. Once an Outsider leader and mother of Kait Diaz, Reyna's reawakening now poses a threat of existential proportions to the humans of Sera.




The Locust Zealot is the result of Ukkon's experiments with Imulsion and Kantus physiology. These religious fanatics are unique in their ferocity and unmatched in their devotion to eradicating humanity from the planet.



Evacuated long ago, this district is a picture of the pre-Locust-war life. Its opulent interiors and quaint plazas are suited to longer-range engagements. Controlling the sanctuary requires winning close-quarters fights while teams must coordinate to dominate the sprawling academy.


We have a number of posts that'll be releasing during the week covering the other aspects of Operation 6, make sure to keep your eye out for those!

TC

Hello everyone!

With a new week comes another This Week in Gears! We know last week was a little rough – a reminder that we have a post about the Re-ups here.




Take down your opponent with every gun. Completing three kills changes your team's weapon. Get three kills with the final weapon to finish the match and defeat your enemies. Hope you know how to handle the big guns. Arms Race will be running until the end of Operation 5 as we prepare to move into Operation 6!


There will be no Horde Event this week and as we move towards Operation 6! In the meantime, please share your Boss Rush moments with us on your social platform of choice!


This week’s hive is The Warren. With many electrified juvies to deal with, this one won't be easy.


As previously mentioned last week Gears Glory continues with the focus on Black History Month.

Today, we are featuring lx_kaos_gaming's staying under pressure in his tribute to Gears of War.



Dexter Weeks' Hana Cole looking ready to take on the Wakaatu!

You can submit your community content via the hashtag #GearsGlory on Twitter and Instagram, throughout the month we'll be highlighting our favorites culminating with our selected favorites at the end of February. This is the last week to submit for February's Theme!




This week we have added the Heroic Myrrah Character Skin and the Heroic Team Crystal Weapon Set. These and other Heroic items that may be available in the store will ONLY be able to be unlocked with Gears Coins. We will also be adding them to the permanent collection for you to continue to strive for and unlock these prestigious skins when you can.

• Omega Squad Dom – 250 Iron
  
• Heroic Myrrah – 40,000 Gears Coins
  
• Heroic Team Crystal Full Set – 65,000 Gears Coins
  
• Year of the Ox Full Set – FREE
  
• Swarm Pod Bloodspray – 125 Iron or 1,000 Gears Coins
  
• Rift Worm Mark – 65 Iron or 500 Gears Coins

• Ronin Karn – 1500 Iron or 10,000 Gears Coins
  
• Retro Wave Legacy Set – 425 Iron or 3,400 Gears Coins
  
• Year of the Rat Legacy Set – 300 Iron or 2,380 Gears Coins *
  
• Unicorn Mark – 65 Iron or 500 Gears Coins
  
• Unicorn Bloodspray – 125 Iron or 1,000 Gears Coins

* Store items marked with this have been given a special discount of 30% as they are already in the essentials part of the store.

• Chrome Steel Lahni – $9.99 USD
  
• Chrome Steel Mac – $9.99 USD
  
• Chrome Steel Keegan– $9.99 USD
  
• Chrome Steel Legacy Set – $9.99 USD

As a heads up, this will be the last week for new Operation 5 items in the store. We will be bringing you a whole lot of prior Gears Goodies for next week.

Stay tuned for next week as we begin to talk to you about all things Operation 6!

Take care and have yourselves a wonderful week.

TC

Hello everyone,

Yesterday we released our re-up update across Gears 5. When we released the update, we split it into two parts:

• Part 1 was to update everyone's accounts to the correct re-up and level, as well as introduce the new re-up xp requirements per level.
  
• Part 2 would then provide the retroactive awards for re-ups you'd gained previously.

As we started on part 2, we ran into a service issue which impacted the game and as a result we saw the following issues:

• Players who had yet to login had yet to be given the correct re-up and level. (Fixed)
  
• Players would be unable to use their skill cards across PvE content. (Fixed)
  
• Players would be unable to access their customization options at all. (Fixed)
  
• Players would encounter store purchasing issues.

However, we'd like to let you know that we're still aware of the following issues in-game:

• Users who were re-up 24 and 25 prior to the update will run into the following issues. If you are seeing these issues please submit a ticket to http://support.gearsofwar.com/ :
  • Their re-up will have been removed.
  • Their cards and medal progress won't work.
• Potential store issues with a purchase may still occur. If you feel like you've experienced any issues with your purchase, please submit a ticket to http://support.gearsofwar.com/.

When we published the re-up article last Thursday, we provided a re-up 1 – 50 table and the associated rewards, when the update went live yesterday some users correctly mentioned about some rewards they didn't receive. This was due to a mix-up in the rewards and to help clear up the confusion here is the revised re-up table:


We want you to have a little more visibility on what's happened since the re-up update and thank you for your patience and reports during the outage. We'll continue to monitor and if necessary, keep you all informed on any updates.

TC

Hello everyone!

With a new week comes another This Week in Gears, featuring the re-up update, a Valentine's weapon set to unlock, and more!


As previously announced, this week will see the anticipated re-up update, you can read the full details on the update here!

Note: With the update launching tomorrow, we wanted to make you aware that between 10:00 am PT and 11:00 am PT we'll be launching the change to apply the correct re-up and rewards to your accounts if you haven't received them and/or your levels restart your game and you'll eventually receive the changes.




With it being Valentine's Day this week we are bringing back our classic event, Cupid's Torque Bow!

Wield Cupid's Torque Bow in this Valentine's day twist on Torque Bow tag. Melee is disabled. And the objective is simple, eliminate the opposing team to win.



This event has a special legendary Riftworm Heart weapon set for you to unlock; this can be done by completing the following Medal group.


Oh, and expect the special Heart heads to make an appearance on your character…

Enjoy!




Staying for another week is our special Horde event, Boss Rush.

Boss Rush is summarised simply like this, for every wave you play, you will encounter a boss. There are ten waves to complete with each wave escalating in intensity and difficulty.

Alongside this event, we have a special medal group for you to complete, completion of the medal group grants you 3,000 coins with each individual medal completion granting you progress towards your Tour of Duty, medal details below.


Enjoy the carnage, and we will see you in-game!


As previously mentioned last week Gears Glory continues with the focus on Black History Month.

Today, we are pleased to present shelbynicolecosplay's take on COG armor.

Along with that, check out our spotlight streamers today and tomorrow at noon PDT on the Gears Channel! Then, we have Outlaw_Mishi over on the Gears Twitch today and DRIX tomorrow!

Watch the streams on http://live.gearsofwar.com/!

You can submit your community content via the hashtag #GearsGlory on Twitter and Instagram, throughout the month we'll be highlighting our favorites culminating with our selected favorites at the end of February.


Recently we added some new TCA partners, so be sure to say hi, follow and support:

• DRIX
  
• Rise Avexys
  
• UYU Violet

As a reminder, we are always on the hunt for more TCA members to join, and if you haven't enlisted yet you can do so here!

• Omega Squad Marcus – 250 Iron
  
• Civilian Anya – 250 Iron
  
• Bare your Teeth Banner – 200 Iron

• Winter Armor Baird, 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins
  
• V-day Sam, 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins
  
• Maria Legacy Set, 300 Iron, 2,380 Gear Coins*
  
• Maria Mark, 65 Iron, 500 Gear Coins
  
• Maria's Angel Mark, 45 Iron, 350 Gear Coins*

* Store items marked with this have been given a special discount of 30% as they are already in the essentials part of the store.

• Chrome Steel Kait – $9.99 USD
  
• Chrome Steel Fahz – $9.99 USD

Kait and Fahz return for another week but remember this is not the last of the older Chrome Steel re-releases be sure to keep an eye out for more of these next week!


We are continuing to investigate the issues behind the recent server latency issues, from our investigations last week we have now taken some initial steps on Versus servers first to start to rectify this, if this is successful, we will look to propagate it to the PvE servers.

We will continue to monitor as the week progresses and keep you updated as to our next steps.


We were recently made aware of an issue when attempting to play Gears 5 on PC with Windows Insider, this is the result of an update to the "Gaming Services" app for Windows, an update should be available for you to download from here, so make sure you get it so you can continue playing!


This Friday is Lunar New Year, and with it comes The Year of The Ox! This Friday we'll be adding the Year of the Ox Weapon set to the store for free. This will be available until March 2.

Here's a small preview of the weapon skin!




Finally, a reminder that we will be having a HUGE 4x ALL XP (yes, this includes Character XP!) weekend which takes place from the 10:00 AM PT on the 12th of February and finishes at 10:00 AM PT on the 15th. This should give you all a hefty jump to start grinding on the new rewards!

And as always, please take care of yourselves and have a wonderful week.

TC

Last year we made clear our intentions to investigate the re-up system. we're happy to announce that on Tuesday, February 9th we'll be doing the following changes!

• Reducing XP significantly per re-up
  
• Making the re-up rewards much more valued, including two Heroic character skins, and a Heroic weapon set!

And we are not quite finished just yet, to celebrate the re-up update we have some pretty important events that we're announcing.

Hit this for more information!

Hello everyone!

It's time for another edition of This Week in Gears, featuring a minor title update and more!




As you probably figured out from the numbering, 12.0.1 is a minor title update, mostly focused on fixing issues with the install manager feature, alongside giving Gabe's in-game model a facelift!

Note: This steam update will go live tomorrow (2nd Feb) at 10:00AM EST.

Install manager:

Note: The Install manager is currently a feature on Xbox/WinStore, but we're including it for completion purposes.

– Ranked players are no longer removed from a match when loading into a game with a player who does not have the multiplayer content installed.

– While in new game plus, a host with just the campaign content install will now see other players skins.

– Users without the multiplayer content installed can no longer access multiplayer lobbies via invites.

- Players will no longer have their entry GP removed if a squad member doesn't have the multiplayer content installed and gets kicked from the match.

– The installer manager UI will no longer appear while on xCloud.

PC:

– Water will no longer flicker on PC.

General:

- With today's title update we disabled the in-game text chat by default, we've done this to create a safer and more comfortable environment for all of our players. If you wish to re-enable text chat, you can do so by going to Options > Game > Text Chat.

– Playlists that are 4v4 will no longer fill to 5v5 with bots when bot backfilling is enabled.

– Gabe's textures have been improved!

– The Spirit Walk achievement will now reliably unlock.




This week we are bringing back Gridiron to our weekly versus event and with this event we will be introducing the following changes:

• The endzone can now be contested, allowing longer fights to take place within the zone.
  
• The initial flag spawn timer will be delayed by 15 seconds.

We spoke to the team who worked on this who were happy to share with us why they made these changes:

"For battles in the endzone we wanted to provide more opportunities for the defensive team to contest a capture and actually force a fight inside of the zone if they react quickly enough. We found this addition helps create more interesting clutch moments in endzone fights.

With the flag delay change we wanted players to fight for dominance and position before the flag spawns with this we should see some interesting team setups as they approach each round."

As always, we welcome your feedback on this event.

Enjoy!




Alongside the Versus event we have a special Horde event for you this week, Boss Rush.

Boss Rush is summarised simply like this, for every wave you play, you will encounter a boss. There are ten waves to complete with each wave escalating in intensity and difficulty.

Alongside this event, we have a special medal group for you to complete, granting you 3,000 coins with each individual medal granting you progress towards yourTour of Duty, medal details below.

• Carrier Hunter - Get 5 Carriers Eliminations in the Boss Rush Horde Event
  
• Snatcher Hunter - Get 5 Snatchers Eliminations in the Boss Rush Horde Event
  
• Predator Hunter - Get 5 Predator Eliminations in the Boss Rush Horde Event
  
• Matriarch Hunter - Get 5 Matriarch Eliminations in the Boss Rush Horde Event
  
• Kestrel Hunter - Get 5 Kestrels Eliminations in the Boss Rush Horde Event

Enjoy the carnage, and we will see you in-game!


After an exciting first month, Gears Glory continues with the focus on Black History Month.

We would like to celebrate the Black creators in our #GearsFam. Nominate yourself or, better yet, another content creator, streamer, or YouTuber who deserves a bit of love. And if you've got a Del piece that gives love to the Gears 5 Techie, a Cole family portrait, or anything else? Share it! You can submit your community content via the hashtag #GearsGlory on Twitter and Instagram, throughout the month we'll be highlighting our favorites culminating with our selected favorites at the end of February.

• Desert Armor Cole – 250 Iron
  
• First Minister Stroud – 250 Iron
  
• Overgrown Full Set – 850 Iron
  
• Lancer: Decapitation Execution – 300 Iron
  
• Mech vs Swarmak Banner – 100 Iron

• Collector's Thrashball Cole – 250 Iron or 2,000 Gears Coins
  
• Thrashball Full Set – 595 Iron or 4,760 Gears Coins (30% off)*
  
• Gnasher: Punt Execution – 210 Iron or 1,680 Gears Coins (30% off)*
  
• Lancer: Spike Execution – 210 Iron or 1,680 Gears Coins (30% off)*
  
• Thrashball Cole – 175 Iron or 1,400 Gears Coins (30% off)*
  
• Thrashball Kait – 175 Iron or 1,400 Gears Coins (30% off)*

* Store items marked with this have been given a special discount of 30% as they are already in the essentials part of the store.


As we previously mentioned, we will be looking to re-release some older Chrome Steel skins, here's what we have for you this week.

• Chrome Steel Kait – $9.99 USD
  
• Chrome Steel Fahz – $9.99 USD

And as a reminder, this is not the last of the older Chrome Steel re-releases be sure to keep an eye out for more of these as the weeks go by!


We have no doubt that you were expecting the re-up update this week, however we needed to release 12.0.1 first in order to get there, now this is done we're now in the process of doing the final pass for the update.

Stay tuned for a dedicated news post this Thursday which will dive into the full details of what you can expect.


With Gears Pop! closing on April 26, 2021 we promised to look into making the adventure towards the game's conclusion that much more enjoyable. We’re happy to announce that we’ll be sharing more details at some point this week about events, first win of the day Gear Packs as well as information on Pin upgrade costs/xp, stay tuned!


As a final note, a special hello to anyone joining us for this month from Games with Gold, we can't wait to see you in-game!

Take care and have yourselves a wonderful week.

TC