Gears Of War Fans Convince The Coalition To Add Versus To E-Day Early Access Beta

Call me cynical but I guessing this was always the plan every gears that had a beta always had pvp multiplayer included.
But if we make out like we added it for the "fans" is a win that's how I see it anyways.
Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining outside!

@HelloCraigo Hahaha 😂👍

You can really feel a huge difference in how Xbox listens to its players — especially compared to that sad blue brand next door.

Over the past few months, the change has been obvious: things like Xbox Player Voice, better handling of hacked accounts, the Game Pass price drop, the return of exclusives, new backward‑compatible titles, and more — all of which directly respond to player requests.

@Mr-Cage On the cynicism side, that’s certainly possible — especially given how fast it happened. But it’s also possible that it was a “political” decision from the start, and with some players expressing dissatisfaction, they simply decided to backtrack. Either way, I can’t wait to play it, even though I’ll probably end up spending most of my time in Horde Siege mode.

Got into the beta yesterday for 30m before it was shutdown. Lag, rubber banding aside it was pretty fun. Horde mode is the shining star, the PVP doesn't hit like it used to, alot of the balancing / changes to the weapons like the gnasher they brought to Reloaded is directly in place in E-Day and feels off, it doesn't have the same punch it used to have in the series. Animations look stiff and weightless, they toned back a lot of the screen shake effects as well, reaver and brumak rockets don't give a sense of explosions going off nearby. The sprinting is broken, you continue to sprint for a bit after you let go of the button. The "difficulty" of horde mode definitely needs tuned, bullet sponge enemies isn't the answer they need to throw more elite enemies into the mix, not make regular locusts bullet sponges. They seem to have removed using enemies as meat shield as well as chainsaw duels which sucks.

From an aesthetic point of the view the game looks good, but it's too damn bright. What happened to the dark, grittiness the series is known for? This was a complaint in Reloaded and it seems Coalition has completely ignored that feedback.

Overall I feel the foundation is there but the game needs more work with the way the game feels right now but hopefully there's time for Coalition to take our feedback and make changes.

@fatpunkslim Yeah either way we are the winners getting two modes I can't wait aswell to play the game I'll probably only play this while the beta is on I hope you enjoy it buddy 👍

Wait, I was told this wasn’t a multiplayer game!

WOW GEARS FANS you did what?! LAME! WHY did we not agree to agree that all they had to add was BIG HEAD mode

@8th_Observer sir please just stop the door is open come in

@Mr-Cage doesn’t matter what we are WINNERS THAT IS RIGHT
WE ARE WINNERS

@fatpunkslim the only politics we need in gears are chainsaws

@8th_Observer Who told you that? Every aspect of Gears is MP including the campaign. Always has been.

@ILuvGames I thought the plan was that all MP and live-service type games will be multiplatform still, but E-Day doesn’t count as multiple people here told me. It’s fine because I have a Series X, but it’s odd to see something go against a new policy so quickly

@8th_Observer Gears E-Day is multiplatform. Has there been any official policy of these things by Xbox? I haven't seen any, just that they were doing it by game by game basis.

@badboidre You are totally right my friend I'm just getting old and grumpy I think!
Hahaha 😂👍

@Mr-Cage you mean more wise Mr Cage ✌️👽

@badboidre I like your style dude what's your gamertag we should rock gears together!💪

@Mr-Cage when I go back to gaming on LIVE I shall call upon you! Currently don’t have live haven’t played online since the 40k release it was as close to a new gears at the time; which is why I ask all you gears out there to bring it to the locust! …until I join the fight