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Gears 5 |OT| "That's FIVE, motherfuckers!"
- Thread starter Dyashen
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I'd skip four as well and jump directly into 5. There's a recap video in G5 to get you up to speed.
It's pretty clear that there is some underlying issues with the servers and/or how the game is interfacing with it, as Microsoft has released numerous server side and client side updates since the beta . Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. I'm not trying to diagnose what the specific issue is (and therefore am being broad in my articulation of what I see as the problem), all I'm saying is that these types of issues have been frequent across Xbox One 1st party titles. At this point in the Xbox One's life cycle, I just don't understand why Microsoft isn't more prepared to deal with them. Again, these server issues were a massive problem over a month ago during the Gears 5 beta.
Again, my point is that it does affect everyone. Whether it affects the particular service you are using at any given point in time is the only pending factor. For instance, I can play solo single player and not experience any problems, but as soon as I try to update the list of public custom servers it fails. This is all I mean, my point is that the issues now are affecting everyone, some people are just not using them. This is why I find the earlier tweet so frustrating, because again there is no magical subset of users that doesn't have the client-side issues that everyone is experiencing, otherwise they wouldn't be releasing client-side updates. Again, the problem is with the game itself and the servers. That's all I'm saying.
If I sound frustrated, it's because I'm just tired of dealing with this stuff on Xbox One. Especially when all of these 1st party games have betas that are supposedly used for ironing out these issues.
I had to do it. I was honestly blown away that no matter what I did, it didn't reset and my drawings didn't just disappear. Shit is crazy, I'm excited to try it in Vasgar next!!
If you're worried about burning out, it would be OK to go to Gears 5.
In the menu's there is another video called "state of the game" where they recap the entire series". The "previously in Gears" recaps what happened in 4. So you can watch both of these and be up to speed.
2 mins to search for a game and then it doesn't even start because not enough players are in the lobby.
This is in the EU
This is in the EU
Almost 3 hours now without an update...come on Coalition.
If you go into the Versus menu and choose Quickplay there's a button prompt at the bottom to "select characters."
If you go into the Versus menu and choose Quickplay there's a button prompt at the bottom to "select characters."
The healthbars and hitmarks do wonders.
Gears games historically have had issues of bullet sponge enemies and this alleviated a lot of that.
Felt good to know I was actually aiming at the right area of a monster because the hit markers would go red/orange and the health would go down dramatically
Yeah, stuck on loading map. Was really excited to play right now :/
The reason I bring up MCC is because that game hit early in the Xbox One's life cycle and was also a 1st party title. If you recall, in 2014 MCC was supposed to launch with dedicated servers powered by Azure (when Azure powered Xbox was also relatively new 2013/2014). Microsoft ended up stripping the game of dedicated servers and falling back on peer connections in order to improve stability.
A lot of these same issues were prevalent at various points during Microsoft's Sea of Thieves launch too (more recently). Issues with connecting to the servers, getting kicked from sessions, rewards not unlocking.
I know that it's not uncommon for multiplayer games to have issues at launch, but it's just frustrating how common it is especially on the Xbox ecosystem. I am also growing increasingly frustrated by Microsoft's corporate speak, and the way that they are purposely obtuse in describing existing issues/bugs to users.
Anyway, I want to like this game. The graphics look great, and from what I've played of the campaign it seems much more enjoyable than the last Gears, but their tweets from earlier today set me off (and sound way too similar to what Microsoft said in 2014 with MCC).
The story seems OK, but I can't wait to play this beauty :D
Finally was able to complete 50 waves of horde and then it disconnects at the rewards screen and I got absolutely nothing for my efforts. Fuck this game until they fix it.
Well, I managed to play one whole game of ranked TDM, had fun, couldn't find another match. I'll give the servers another day to settle down and start working.
That sucks. However, one small possible ray of hope: when you are playing Horde, you can actually see yourself level up (your level number on the scoreboard I mean). I think the game rewards you as you go. So it's possible you did get the rewards, but didn't get shown the notifications. It's also possible you got XP but nothing else. Who knows...
LOL. You've posted multiple times about how you're done with this until its fixed and you keep coming back. Just wait, pal
I would be super pissed. I thought this happened to me last night, but after a while my rewards showed up for my character.
Coalition just went and made the best Gears of War game and one of the best TPS of all time like it was nothing. God fucking damn.
Anyone experiencing random (and constant) "lost connection to server" pop-ups during Campaign though? I'm playing offline solo but I get that notification every few minutes despite still being connected to Live.
Anyone experiencing random (and constant) "lost connection to server" pop-ups during Campaign though? I'm playing offline solo but I get that notification every few minutes despite still being connected to Live.
I know I know, I was excited to finally complete a session, see the achievement pop which is currently only at 0.50% and then it happened 😭
this launch feels like peak Xbox 360 gen to anyone else? I mean i've had several versions of Xbox One since launch but i don't think i've even beaten a game on it yet, but now i have friends playing this, i will be spending most of my weekend playing coop with a friend too, it's so nice to get this kind of Xbox experiences again, remember this is my personal experience.
I logged off immediately after it happened but maybe once I'm home I'll be welcomed by some gifts upon logging on.
Possibly, I know at the end it does the whole ranking up progress bar along with all the random items you get which none of that happened.
