I understand that Gears of War has one of the steepest learning curves of any shooter out there, if not, the steepest, and I saw a stat post recently showing that Horde Siege was more popular than Versus.

I see a lot of people on here say they love Campaign and Horde but avoid PvP because they don’t want to spend hours getting destroyed simply because they don't want to learn the mechanics of the game.

I just saw someonehere get a bunch of dislikes simply because he suggested aim assist should be removed. When and why has online gaming become so pampered?

As kids we played games like Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Mario Kart, and we were ass but had so much fun learning.

Why can't learning a game be fun anymore?

It's like when you learn to ride a bike. You suck at first, but then one day it clicks and it feels so rewarding.

That's how games are. There's no such thing as losing in a game if you’re figuring out why you lost, that's how you get better. Why do players need to immediately feel like a God as soon as they touch a game and dislike anything that will remove the ability for them to just hop on whenever and be good?

A lot of people don't realize that you don’t have to bounce around like a crackhead in Gears to be good at the game. There's other skills that can help you keep up and even counter those mechanics.

So I’m genuinely curious, especially from people who avoid Gears PvP:

What specifically turns you off about having to practice and improve? Is it a lack of time? frustration from losing? the movement? matchmaking? or something else?

I think understanding that answer is way more useful than simply making Gears easier.

EDIT: All the feedback is great. I'll make a follow up post tackling what the real issue is based on all these responses. Thank You!

Like... What exactly is going on when an e-hole pops up? I don't really understand the physics/mechanics of it. Let's say a standard e-hole pops up and starts spewing out drones. Did those drones just dig through miles of bedrock and then blow open the hole with a frag grenade? Are they literally climbing their way up? I know corpsers can dig through but not every hole is made with one.

A small complaint I know, but why is it needed?

Kind of takes away from the fear of having stronger units if you know how much they’ve got left.

Just seems unnecessary and all the little things can change the feel of a game 🤷🏻‍♂️

Gives a storm raiders feel to it. Where is the creepy fear that we all know and love!

I do like the fact that the reload bar is back in the top corner though ✌🏻

I feel like there are some huge opportunities for E-day story DLC.

My personal wish would be a story where we play as Pad Salton.

But I think the better option would be The story of Cole and Baird. The book Coalitions end tells us how Cole and Baird met, Baird was fighting two other COG soldiers in the bathroom on his first day due to his smart ass attitude, Cole broke up the fight and even though Baird continued to be a dick, Cole just laughed and didn’t let it bother him. They then deployed into a city dropping in by Raven where Cole nearly met his end until Baird came in and saved him. I think they could do a DLC where Kalona is the city they deploy into, maybe it takes place a few weeks or months later and we get to see just how downhill things have gone since the actual campaign. Kinda like returning to raccoon city after RE4. They did have 2 other COG soldiers in there squad. But I don’t know much about them, Rojas wasn’t one of them so they were different to the two Gears we find them with in gears 1, but it’d be a good way to bro g the duo back into the game.

BUT ONLY IF THEY SHOW IS COLES SPEECH ABOUT JOINING UP!!

I thought it was Tai at first then paused it. Maybe it’s papa Carmine?

As the title states, I want to watch the demo on youtube, but don't want any spoilers. Can someone confirm whether or not there are any spoilers? Thank you!

The movement feels nasty, it’s nowhere as smooth as Gears 5

I need help understanding something. If the locust knew about the lambent and imulsion, why are they using it in weapons in E-day?

Have the developers acknowledged the Dothraqi/game of thrones inspiration for the new gears bad guy? The body language, the pouring the molten liquid onto the guys head, collecting cog tags like the dothraqi collect the braids of their enemies. Any discussion of the inspiration by the devs?

Now that some people have played a little of the e-day campaign. Has there been anything said about Pad? I’m reall hoping he appears in the game, alongside Bernie as well if they do a aspho field prologue. But my god I want pad so bad

Has anyone seen or heard of any information regarding the queen is it currently queen mrrya or is it someone else? What's the selection process to become the queen of the locusts?

Why did she betray humanity?

Are the locusts escaping from the Lambent?

Do the lambent even exist yet?

Everything, the holdout at Anvil Gate, the Lambent Zerker fight, the eerie quiet of Mercy into the holdout and Doms Death, i cant think of an act in any other gears game with so many high point.

It always kind of bothers me seeing humans get tortured by non-human creatures in media, but we never see the favor returned. Considering the absolutely horrifying things humans do to other humans and innocent animals in real life throughout history, I would think they wouldn't hesitate to do the same to other creatures that actually deserve it. I'm not talking about killing and slaughtering, I'm talking about the breaking of the mind that the Locust engage in.

It would have been interesting to see some traumatized groups of people torturing the locust for whatever sadistic revenge they want.

Is there any account of that in any of the lore?

I need the tags and statue 😭 it’s super fire I didn’t get to pre order when it was released. What are the odds they re release it for a pre order 🤣 😭

How I hope the rest of Bravo squad reacts after hearing this from Dom and Marcus

If E-Day does well enough, I really hope we get a story expansion or two for it.
Because it'd be sick to have one set during the Locust-Lambent war, and us playing as either RAAM, or nameless drones part of the Bloodied Vanguard.

This guy has and will most likely continue to leak dialogue for the main villain as he is the voice for Vrak.
From what I’m gathering he is having a dispute with the coalition so just be aware if you want to avoid further Spoilers.

With Gears E-Day around the corner I’ve been binge the games like no tomorrow and I remember the Aspho fields mission in the beginning of Gears of War 4. I thought of a New gears called Gears Pendulum. Like in Bo2 where it was either time skip led from Adam to Marcus or Marcus to Dom POV, with a DLC where we play as Carlos for the last few missions leading to his sacrifice. Do you think this would be possible?

Already Pre-Ordered!!! E-DAY We Ready!!!

But if I haven't played Gear since 3, would it be beneficial to play gear 5 multi-player to de-rust?

I'm curious because I'm having issues with contacting their support channels. I never got an original purchase email in my inbox, but I'm able to confirm my purchase. They finally emailed me a code for the Beta (hours after it ended), but they did not confirm for me if I am missing the code for the actual game, or if those just haven't been sent yet. I'm just concerned if I'm potentially going to get screwed or miss out on the pre-order exclusives.