Gears 5 - out now

TonyTurbo78 · 8 Sep 2019 at 19:27

What's the crack with the blinking collectibles not saving? I've found everyone so far up to chapter 4 but it says 0% found.

fantasticCG said:
Yeah I'll play CO OP insane with you dude.
Xbox name Loverson

Nice. I've solo'd up to chapter 4.

Ghuraba · 8 Sep 2019 at 21:17

In the digital foundry video he keeps talking about an ‘insane’ graphics option. I only see ultra. Why is this?

TonyTurbo78 · 8 Sep 2019 at 21:48

Ghuraba said:
In the digital foundry video he keeps talking about an ‘insane’ graphics option. I only see ultra. Why is this?

No idea, I see Insane options on mine.

Rids · 8 Sep 2019 at 21:59

Whelp that was pretty short, even for a Gears game.

Enjoyable mindless fun though - not the sort of thing I'd ever pay retail price for though, god bless you gamepass.

Martini1991 · 8 Sep 2019 at 22:19

Rids said:
Whelp that was pretty short, even for a Gears game.

Enjoyable mindless fun though - not the sort of thing I'd ever pay retail price for though, god bless you gamepass.

That's interesting. I've just started Chapter 3 and feel like it's pretty long in comparison to the previous Gears lol.

imginy · 8 Sep 2019 at 22:41

Ghuraba said:
In the digital foundry video he keeps talking about an ‘insane’ graphics option. I only see ultra. Why is this?

There are 3 settings that if you cycle through go higher.

Off top of my head think it Volumetric fog, screenspace reflection and something else

VincentHanna · 9 Sep 2019 at 00:21

Martini1991 said:
That's interesting. I've just started Chapter 3 and feel like it's pretty long in comparison to the previous Gears lol.

It seems waaay longer than the original Gears of War, to me.

Uncle Petey · 9 Sep 2019 at 00:24

So this happened in co-op earlier

It was the same for both of us.

imginy · 9 Sep 2019 at 00:26

fantasticCG · 9 Sep 2019 at 07:41

Ghuraba said:
In the digital foundry video he keeps talking about an ‘insane’ graphics option. I only see ultra. Why is this?

It's not on all the options

dan958 · 9 Sep 2019 at 10:27

I completed Gears 4 this weekend, and have started Gears 5 (just Versus and Escape so far, not any campaign). I will be starting the campaign this week. I'm hoping it is just as good (or better) than the 4th, because I had a blast with that. It's been a long time since I played Gears, so it was fun to go back to that universe.

agnes · 9 Sep 2019 at 14:37

Anyone know what time the MS Store is unlocking it? I pre downloaded it last night, yet when I go to launch it still says I'm too early.

It's 0637 here in SF, so maybe a 2100 GMT release? Which is 1400 for me.

VincentHanna · 9 Sep 2019 at 15:03

Yeah it'll be 9 p.m UK time.

imginy · 9 Sep 2019 at 15:10

agnes said:
Anyone know what time the MS Store is unlocking it? I pre downloaded it last night, yet when I go to launch it still says I'm too early.

It's 0637 here in SF, so maybe a 2100 GMT release? Which is 1400 for me.

Change your location to new Zealand to get games off store earlier. I think it's 11 hours (uk) earlier not 100%.

I got gears 5 at 10am instead of 9pm last week.

Im still set to new Zealand now. Haven't got round to changing it back.

agnes · 9 Sep 2019 at 15:54

imginy said:
Change your location to new Zealand to get games off store earlier. I think it's 11 hours (uk) earlier not 100%.

I got gears 5 at 10am instead of 9pm last week.

Im still set to new Zealand now. Haven't got round to changing it back.

You mean, VPN or set the clocks?

VincentHanna · 9 Sep 2019 at 16:04

Windows location setting I guess

agnes · 9 Sep 2019 at 16:06

VincentHanna said:
Windows location setting I guess

Aye, set default location and region to NZ. Worked a charm, thanks!

agnes · 9 Sep 2019 at 18:58

What a blast! Loving this, not played a Gears of War since 3, this is bringing back a lot of memories. Writing is a little corny in places but it's just trying to appeal to younger audiences.

Andr3w · 9 Sep 2019 at 20:42

15 minutes to go!

enigma27 · 9 Sep 2019 at 23:21

Must say i have never played a gears game before and thought it to be an xbox thing but dang this game is very well optimized.

on my older 1080 and 6700k i didn't touch the options menu when playing the tutorial and was hitting 80-90 fps.. checked the menu after and it was all on Ultra... tweaked a couple of settings with no noticeable visual quality loss and am hitting 100fps and it feels smooth.