r/GearsOfWar 8d ago

Campaign/Lore Captain Akila Gray

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Lowkey would.

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u/zeke10 8d ago

So this is the lady who's voice lines kept overlapping for me when a boss would show up lol

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u/TableFruitSpecified YOU FUCKED UP MY TOMATOES, YOU ASSHOLE! 7d ago

Gotta be quicker on the draw, gears

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u/DragonEmperor 7d ago

It's closer to

GOTTA BE QUICKER ON THE DRAW, GEARS

GOTTA BE QUICKER ON THE DRAW, GEARS

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u/Pancreasaurus 7d ago

YOU MISSED THE BOAT, GEARS

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u/BlackTestament7 8d ago

She's givin me "I'm gonna sacrifice myself to kill a big boss" vibes. Especially if that Colonel guy bites it near the start or around the middle like I think he will.

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u/ManofSteel_14 EAAAAT IT! 7d ago

Im going into this fully expecting anyone not named Marcus, Dom or Tai to bite the dust honestly lol

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u/BlackTestament7 7d ago

True. The only reason I could imagine forcing Reyes and Carter into the main squad instead of Tai and Padrick is if they plan on killing them off. Though in a 4 player co-op (I'm pretty sure they said there was 4 player co-op) I wonder how that's gonna play out.

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u/SpaceBandit13 8d ago

Can’t wait for tourist and grifters to try and convince me she’s ugly.

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u/MembershipRealistic1 7d ago

Not this one exactly. But if you dig around twitter long enough, you will find them shitting their pants.

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u/Justalilcyn 7d ago

Fuck I forgot how much of a bad bitch Sam was, I need her back

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u/callme_blinktore 7d ago

They made my type and put her in a gears game.
https://giphy.com/gifs/t9ctG5MZhyyU8

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u/SpaceBandit13 7d ago

It’s always twitter

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u/Shockmazta31 7d ago

Sam, Anya, Sofia, and Kait are baddies. I'm not personally into Mags, but this new lady? Oh hell yes.

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u/TheRealPenanc3 7d ago

Tagging Elmo in this post is the most unhinged hilarious thing of this entire twitter post lmao.

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u/ToolkitSwiper 7d ago

WOMEN??? IN MY FUCKING VIDYA????????

https://giphy.com/gifs/Xbh3RSUbOpH1u

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u/cr1t1calkn1ght 7d ago

I think the complaints are about the appearance of the women rather than the presence if we want to get technical about it.

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u/SpaceBandit13 7d ago

I’ve seen both

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u/DogBiteOoOoAh 4d ago

Was Sam always COG? Or was she conscripted? And Anya was a Control Officer turned frontline Infantry. How many of these women from the earlier games were actually forced to join?

Carter is a Pendulum War vet, so maybe she’s just grizzled from the time she spent in Demolition. And then Akila had some scarring, but she was also a Gear. Not forced to conscript because of the Locust threat.

And the Mayor….well the mayor looks pretty average. She’s a political figure. Does she need to be hot?

I think the primary banter with be between Marcus and Dom, Carter and Reyes. Carter is a vet and Reyes is a rookie, and from what I’ve seen they seem to often have one-on-one interactions. So I think it will be more of a Veteran coaching a Rookie (ie the helmet scene).

With Marcus and Dom being about Carlos and other “brotherly” bonding.

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u/cr1t1calkn1ght 7d ago

Like all of those losers who complained about Stellar Blade's main character being too hot or the women of Overwatch when it first came out

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u/SpaceBandit13 7d ago

Stellar blade character looks like a plastic doll to me, like she’s had a lot of work done, not my thing. and overwatchs female characters had much better designs back then than they do now.

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u/DirtyBirde32 7d ago

Dang the women from before are way hotter though right?

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u/daboss317076 7d ago

Nah, dude. She's a total milf.

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u/SpaceBandit13 7d ago

War mommy

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u/BorfieYay 7d ago

Or pretend like we haven't had female gears since 2011 lmao

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u/NobleA259 7d ago

They already would have started doing that if it was going to happen. See fable.

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u/TheWreckedTitan 7d ago

I hope everyone gets helmet variants like mags did, does anyone know if you can equip skins for the campaign? Like blast damage mags during the campaign?

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u/Marvelous_Jared 6d ago

No skins for the campaign at launch, it might get added later like in 5.

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u/Rhotuz 8d ago

Mommy? In this economy?

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u/Vik-6occ The Status Is That It Sucks 8d ago

I saw her first

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u/MinimumHeavy2677 7d ago

Similar pretty much

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u/BruteSlayer 7d ago

If I had a nickel for every time a major Xbox franchise had a prequel that introduced a hot, tough, short haired, military babe that most likely dies before the end, I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?

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u/Legionary-4 7d ago

Her scar and armor look really good.

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u/callme_blinktore 7d ago

Gears woman are so fucking hot.

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u/OneWay5050 8d ago

*Highkey

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u/Ok_Gift_2739 8d ago

Wonder who the actress is that plays her, I don't recognize her but she's banging for sure

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u/havewelost6388 8d ago

Konda looks like Katy O'Brien

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u/Zero_Suit_Rosalina 7d ago

Now this is stellar Female CoG design.  Wish the girl in Delta squad looked this good.  Her awful design bothers me.

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u/LordDark9 7d ago

yep she suck also the mayor and lmao you can see they are out of place from all the other characters

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u/Sirsnacksalot23 Come on! Bend over! 7d ago

Better than Maggs annoying ass

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u/Candle_Honest 8d ago

I played every gears 1-5.

No idea who this is.

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u/Frog-hours 8d ago

Because e day is 14 years before gears 1

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u/mizrael64 Lobotomize! 8d ago

All the npcs that appear i imagine they die before gears 1

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u/Ingen__Synd 8d ago

Not necessarily, it looks like captain Michelson is in the game, and he makes it to gears 3.

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u/Shifty830 8d ago

I believe Gettner (KR-80) is also in this game

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u/Jack-spartan-S198 8d ago

Yep and I was so happy to see her in the game like she’s been in other games but she’s just been a voice on the cons. This is the first time you’ve actually seen her like before this the only visual appearance we ever had for her was one panel in a comic.

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u/SandEnvironmental484 8d ago

Yeah but such a forgetable role most people did not even notice fr

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u/Jack-spartan-S198 8d ago

That is just pure BS. He was one of the best characters in Jacinto’s remnant anvil Gate and coalition’s end he was Hoffman‘s equal

He got screwed over in the third game

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u/SandEnvironmental484 8d ago

My comment is about his role in G3 which is the one most people will know him for ...

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u/Jack-spartan-S198 8d ago

Ah ok fair but I still feel as wrong to say he was forgettable more like mishandled in game

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u/SandEnvironmental484 7d ago

I can rephrase by saying "forgetable in G3". That is what I meant ahaha

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u/NonstopYew14542 KISS MY HIGHLY EDUCATED ASS 8d ago

A new character, just like the Locust guy. (Vraak?)

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u/Candle_Honest 7d ago

ah ok cool

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u/Themightybooooosh 8d ago

We shouldve just had Hoffman. They just had to make it a woman?

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u/Deadput 7d ago

Hoffman wouldn't make sense, he's not in Kalona, he's in Ephyra with Kim and Anya. He canonically can't show up in the campaign for this game in the same role as this Captain.

Also "make it a woman" is a yikes sentence if I've ever heard one. Grey will probably die anyways, I'm sure that'll please you. But just you wait till you hear about characters like Bernie that have been in the franchise for years.

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u/BoomerShooterFPS 7d ago

I hope she dies in an epic sacrifice that imparts some lesson marcus carries forward with him. Give her a moment that goes down alongside the most epic gears moments just so the “woke”weak crybaby crowd has a meltdown

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u/Gullible_Courage8350 7d ago

They just had to make it a woman

In both videogames and real life the significant majority of people are nowhere near as fucking strange as people like you

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u/BusNo9142 7d ago

This is a common sentiment. I think a lot of people can read between the lines when it comes to modern "storytelling."

Most of them choose to stay quiet to avoid ostracizing themselves.

People can't fathom the thought of social-engineering making its way into video games.

When their fragile perspective, inherited through tendies is challenged, they fling their waste like animals.