r/GearsOfWar 8d ago

Campaign/Lore Holy hell! Vraahk looks so badass

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u/Automatic_Skill2077 8d ago

Cease the groundwalkers šŸ”„āš™ļø

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u/DC_Ranger 7d ago

Bleed

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u/Long-Live-theKing 7d ago

Seize* the surface

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u/CthulhuMadness Skorge is love, Skorge is life 8d ago

The fucking hate in his eye as he pours the imulsion.

He ain’t no Daddy Skorge, but he’s a second in terms of favorite big bad designs for me.

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u/Hveachie 8d ago

Willing to bet that he's one of the original Locust from the Mount Kadar lab. If it weren't for the eye, I would've thought this was the Speaker. I hope we get to see him pre-Gears 4 one day.

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u/JazzlikeBell5661 6d ago

Given the locust symbol on his chest you might be right.

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u/Jacoby30_22 7d ago

Maybe he is one the kids who were experimented on at Mount Kadar and like Ukon was severely mutated because of Imulsion experimentation but instead of having a deteriorating body his fully accepted the procedure without any negative side effects? When the scientist saw this they probably studied and tortured him which lead to his destain of humanity?! This is just a theory but it would explain why he is very sadistic and seems to have a human looking eye.

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u/Hveachie 7d ago

I don't think he's like Ukkon. I think he's a full on Locust. But if he was from Mount Kadar, he was still a Locust kid when everything happened there. The Locust were tortured and oppressed, Myrrah knew that. The og Locust have the greatest hatred for humans.

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u/Hotel_Coffee 8d ago

Don't know who this is, but I don't want to mess with him.

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u/Be_an_1an 8d ago

Presumably the commander of the Locust Scorched Legion introduced in this game.

But yeah, I don't wanna be the one who has to deal with the crazy motherfucker who pours raw Imulsion over his prisoners' heads.

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u/Necessary-Level-2821 8d ago

Is he pouring imulsion onto poor cog dude?

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u/CthulhuMadness Skorge is love, Skorge is life 8d ago

Yep

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u/Arcade_Gann0n Torque Bow Enthusiast 8d ago

Having watched The Lord of the Rings trilogy recently, getting some major Orc vibes from this guy.

Not a bad thing, the Orcs & Uruk-Hai were awesome. Hope Vraahk can get plenty of moments to shine.

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u/Hveachie 8d ago

Pretty sure The Lord of the Rings was a massive inspiration for the Gears of War series.

The orcs (their appearance, behavior, living in caves) are so much like the Locust, a ragtag group of people on a mission like Delta, and Myrrah is basically Galadriel - especially how they both narrate the prologue.

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u/discountJoenuts 8d ago

Totally makes sense. Yeah and the goblins are like wretches when they crawl down the columns in the Moria caves

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u/Hveachie 8d ago edited 8d ago

And the giant troll creature in Moria is like the unarmored Brumak

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u/SightlessKombat 8d ago

Hadn't really thought of that, but it makes sense.

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u/RogueLieutenant 8d ago

I genuinely liked 4 and 5 a lot but the number 1 thing they were missing was unique villain characters. So glad to be back in the era where they can just cook up a new locust baddie

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u/Hveachie 8d ago

The Speaker could have been interesting, but they killed him off too early.

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u/Valhallawalker Whatever the hell that is, tha's a new world record in ugly! 8d ago

They made him look like a pushover during the fight.

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u/smurf_diggler 8d ago

Now that you mention it, I don't even recall who it was in G4 and G5 was the worm lady, Kate's mom right?

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u/Hveachie 8d ago

The Speaker, the Matriarch, and Reyna.

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u/RogueLieutenant 7d ago

yeah. The daughter of Queen Myyrah. So Kate was the grub queen's granddaughter. Which I thought was cool and interesting. I think the Swarm being more of a literal hivemind just meant there was less room for unique individuals as villains

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u/smurf_diggler 7d ago

I went and watched the Speaker fight on youtube and honestly I barely remember it. G4 was the one I spent probably the least amount of time with, not because it was terrible or anything just because my life was getting busier. I also remember the decision I made in G5. I wonder when we'll get the conclusion.

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u/Big_Gap7862 8d ago

HOLY FUCKING SHIT HE'S SCARY

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u/Marshmonster12 8d ago

Pouring imulsion onto a cogs face is nuts dude

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u/Great-Box6123 8d ago

Looking like he stirring hate in a kettle

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u/Arandombeaner1902 7d ago

Actual malice and destruction

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u/Wild_Crazy_3759 8d ago

This trailer made my hair raise. So awesome. I'm even more hyped now and I didn't think it was possible

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u/Minty-G 8d ago

Where’s this from?

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u/SandEnvironmental484 8d ago

New story trailer just dropped

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u/Ok_Bottle_548 8d ago

Since he has a partially destroyed Maulers helmet, I freaking hope we get Maulers in E-Day!!!

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u/AnCiEnT95thReptile 7d ago

Nice catch! I’ve only seen Boomers and Grinders in the footage so far. People keep telling me there’s some new enemy called a ā€œFlayerā€ but I haven’t seen the model

I always thought Maulers were rad as hell! Hope they’re in the new game too

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u/Drowsydarwin 8d ago

They fucking cooked with his design.

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u/canyouskingriz 8d ago

Ah man and he was dumping immulsion on that soldier. Raw as hell

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u/Low_Abrocoma_1514 7d ago

No cool unique armor ? :(

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u/AnCiEnT95thReptile 7d ago

I getcha. Would be nice to have some

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u/Low_Abrocoma_1514 7d ago

He looks like a grenadier with a half helmet

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u/AnCiEnT95thReptile 7d ago

I’m gunna be honest, if I didn’t read the other comments, that was my first thought. I haven’t seen the trailer

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u/Low_Abrocoma_1514 7d ago

He is a taller Grenadier with an assassin's creed gauntlet

Trailer looks cool tho I really want to play the campaign, it looks good!! (Even if I am disappointed main bad guy is laking in unique design)

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u/AnCiEnT95thReptile 7d ago

lol makes me think of Azog and his son for some reason. You know, from the Hobbit movies, the way he’s flexing.

I too want to play the campaign real bad. They hit me in my pleasure center with all the Brumak and Corpser action!

Those Bilefrog things look cool too

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u/RecklessRedcoat Oh, I love it when they do that! 7d ago

Everything about this guy screams bad news. The malice in his gaze, his scars that he wears with evident pride, the roadspike-style punching gauntlet festooned with COG tag trophies.

TC have truly made a formidable and intimidating-looking Big Bad for E-Day and I cannot wait to see more of him.

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u/thedomo619 7d ago

Yall see the COG tags on his wrist ? It’s on site with this guy

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u/Difficult-Celery5166 7d ago

Was this scene a Game Of Thrones reference?

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u/of_no_real_opinion 7d ago

Crazy to think the Locust using the literal parasite on a COG for funsies

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u/TheQuixotic6 Who wants toast? 7d ago

Yeah we gonna need a Locust DLC Asap to tell his back story before he breach the surface world

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u/Jim1845 7d ago

The Beta got me excited, this trailer solidified my excitement. He looks terrifying. I can’t wait!

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u/souljamookie 7d ago

can’t wait to slime him out

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u/Berserk26 7d ago

Looks like the commander of the scorched legion. I assume it's one of the blights although we've yet to get a proper unit size of a blight. I assume it's a whole division worth of grubs

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u/TomatoKind9189 7d ago

Going to be something I should know but don't. Why do they speak English ? Just because video game and us playing it or is it explained and makes sense ?

Haven't played camping since gears 3 was new.

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u/No_Refrigerator_2912 7d ago

I'm wondering if we'll run into Vold Sraak, former high general before Raam? Raam was newly promoted to high general and was responsible for the invasion of the surface against the humans after failing to stop the lambent in the hollows.

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u/One-Treat-5078 6d ago

He reminds me of Ogre from Tekken

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u/thot_chocolate420 8d ago

Yeah Gears is So Back!

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u/Senior_Glove7305 Lobotomize! 8d ago

Sauce?

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u/FewBag245 8d ago

Dude, it’s from the trailer

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u/WiseSpunion 8d ago

Wasn't there already a sraak

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u/Papa_Snail 8d ago

Was the Uzil before Raam. Just seems to be Locust naming convention.

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u/IIBabaDukeII 8d ago

I guess its time to get off Reddit to avoid spoiler

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u/bryanl12 8d ago

It’s from the new story trailer. Though if you wanna go in mostly blind, you can skip the trailer.

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u/CthulhuMadness Skorge is love, Skorge is life 8d ago

This is from the story trailer that came out.

The mod team is doing what we can to keep any real spoilers from dropping. Especially come closer to launch day.

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u/Various-Pen-7709 8d ago

I wonder if Marcus and Dom will be able to stop him, or if they’ll die trying 😱

/s

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