Gears of War Forum Coming, Good Community Helps Black Tusk Make Better Games, Listening to Feedback

There are some good news for Gears of War fans. After recent news of Microsoft buying Gears of War IP and handing it over to Black Tusk, it’s been confirmed that launch of Gears of War Community Forum is coming this week.

Worker at Black Tusk confirmed they're listening to feedback about Gears of War: Judgement and he said positive and constructive community helps Black Tusk make better games.

[Lawboy2]

Wow thanks guys...this is good news...I REMEBER researching gears before it was even annouced to be coming to xbox one...this will help make the experience so much better...

I think they should take a page from gears 2
More wall bouncing maps (like blood drive)
Smaller maps (like checkout from gears 3)
I know ppl will disagree but bring back two piecing
I like the original ranking system better than number based (made it feel like u achieved something)
Emphasis on private lobbies for clans (and 1 v 1 for the ppl who think they are bad a**es)
More clan support
Get rid of the sawed off shotgun (and maybe even the retro lancer)
Keep sniping the same (u actually need skill to snipe in gears)
Get rid of casual matches....I hate gears of war bots

I really can't wait to get into some gears of war MP....I love halo/COD/titanfall but nothing compares to gears of war MP

@ mic x

I don't think it will be cancelled...just may take more time....if gears off war is great then ppl will jump on the black tusk bandwagon and expect great things from the developer

[micx]

I think Gears of War is in good hands now, this E3 will be interesting. I expect to see something from Black Tusk.

I just hope their other IP isn't canceled.

[kaiserfranz]

You mean the short demo they showed at E3 last year? That was just a tech demo apparently. I doubt they'll ever make a game out of it.

[micx]

Yeah, I thought about that.

[shivvy24]

so what were these guys working on between e3 till the buyout of gears

[randomass171]

It will all be fine, I think. Gears of War is still pretty popular and a next generation one will probably get a lot of attention.

[GameNameFame]

Literally all the games this studios has worked on has been cancled till date.

[Kayant]

Mostly agree with this expect a few things...

If two piecing is along the same lines as in Judgement than that's fine as it wasn't OP and was something that acted like a last defense like it should. Gears 2's was just annoying and unskillful the majority of times.

Sawed off is fine IMO as long as it acts like the one in Judgement again because of the revamped damage/range system it went from OP in Gears 3 to ok.

Yh retro lancer should go and never see the light of day again. Man I hate that gun.

Edit -

Yh everything rifle in Gears 3 is OP in some way.

Oh yh just remembered a big reason weapons are more balanced in Judgement is because of the removal of stopping power. That would be great if that's not in the next gears also.

[Lawboy2]

I to hate retro lancer...I hate original lancer in clan matches...because that's all we used

@ kaiser

They will do sequels and DLC...but they are a large studio..they will make more iIPs trust

[kaiserfranz]

Well, there's also the option that if Gears of War is great, Microsoft will ask them to make more Gears of War (DLC, sequels)... ;)

[GarrusVakarian]

"I hate gears of war bots "

Oh man, me too. They were so bad that me and my friends would just laugh at them due to how bad they were.

Here's hoping it will be as good as the first 3 games were. They have big shoes to fill! Gears 3 easily has one of my favourite MP's of last gen. I didn't use the Gears forums much, but my friend did and he said the community was great, so this is good news.

[Lawboy2]

Exactly...man u have to join the forums....all true gears fans...and I'm talking fans from gears of war 1 through judgment need to take to the forums to make sure the next gears installment is the best we have ever seen...gears 2 is my favorite but I enjoyed 3 and judgment to a certain extent

Here's to us playing gears in the future

@ scare factor below

Ahhhh...I wasted my bubbles got to excited...would have loved to comment on your post...exactly what I'm thinking...gears of war 1-2...no casual matches all ranked

I disagree though....king of the hill...was one of the best game modes there was...especially with a team....I forgot guardian..man I love that game mode....I think the clan wars idea ghost had would be epic in gears...making ppl play all the modes would be so good....clans getting special characters would be awesome

[Alexious]

I agree, it definitely won't be that easy for a new studio to pickup such a huge franchise. I've heard good things about them, though.

[Metallox]

Anything different from Judgment will be better.

[Gotcha5]

@Metallox

If they take any thing from Gears Judgment, should be Over Run it was the best mode in Judgment.

[kaiserfranz]

I'm sure they're aiming far higher than that.

[Mikefizzled]

@Kaiserfranz it was leaked by Ntkrnl, whose original info has so far proved all true, that there was a full game called Shangheist which name is kind of self explanatory.

[kewlkat007]

Black Tusk, get to work with that DX12 and make that Gears of War game shine..

I'm waiting..

[andrewsqual]

All I remember was everybody hyping up this stunning new IP from Black Tusk that would shut everybody up dissing Xbone. Then they cease production to play it safe with yet another Gears game that nobody asked for.
But yeah totally listening to the fans there.

[HacSawJimThugin]

I'm agree with you on just about everything. Gears is by far my favorite shooter. No other shooter compares to it...to me. Everyone may not share my views but that is their right.

Welcome back King, you court has missed you dearly.

[Festano]

I hope you do see something at E3.

[Kayant]

A trailer like Battlefront 3, Halo 5, etc sure. They only just got the license a couple of months ago so it's unlikely they will be showing any footage anytime soon.

[AutoCad]

Gears of fucking Wars..
cant wait.

[ScareFactor]

Things I want:
1. Amazing diverse maps (Gears always had these so I am not worried)
2. Gears 3 sniping
3. Gears 3 movement
4. No cheap Power weapons (Make the boomshot how it was in Gears of War 1)
5. Gears 3 smoke grenades
6. No leveling system or make it better some how(Make you unlock characters through challenges, horde, or by playing the story)
7. DEDICATED SERVERS (Cloud, Azure, whatever you have to do make it F*****g happen)
8. Amazing story
9. Harder and more innovative horde mode
10. Fix Trading off with shotgun
11. Fix sticky walls
12. Keep the mantle kick
13. Bring back the original game modes (Execution, Annex (King of the Hill), Warzone, Assassination (Guardian)
14. Host Migration
15. Nerf grenades a bit

Things I don't want:
1. Retro or Sawed off or anytime of broken starting weapons if they make new ones
2. No reticule when not aiming in like Judgement\
3. No bots
4. No quick match only Ranked, Public, and private (Gears 1 style)
5. More balance (gears 3 was decently balanced but could use some improvements)
6. Don't make it appeal to people who only like FPS make it the gears of old
7. No BS game modes (Team Deathmatch, Free for all, Domination, etc..)
8. Take nothing from Judgement

Suggestion for the story:

Make it maybe 30 years after Gears 3. Delta Squad run the CoG with Marcus at the head. Make another enemy emerge or make the locust make a comeback with help of another enemy. Make a new Squad and you come across Delta Squad in the story and get overrun or something and you switch to Delta Squad for a part of the story (well and older version of Delta Squad). Make the Queen comeback or a higher up leader that we never saw before (Maybe Raam wasn't the main leader).

I don't think the should do a Prequel unless they do Dom and Marcus when they just started in the military and lead up Gears 1 or do before E day or something to that effect. There is a lot to build upon in the story.
Let me know what you guys think below

[micx]

I don't think they'll go the prequel route, especially after Judgement.

[chris_x2k3]

I can't agree with you on Team Deathmatch. That is definitely my favorite game mode. They need to get rid of center screen aiming and make sure that bullets come out of the barrel. They need to make sure that it's not human on human in the versus mode. They need to improve and focus upon Horde mode. The maps need to be symmetrical. The power weapons have to be fought for and in Judgement it's available without any type of struggle. It better not be a prequel. The maps cannot focus or be based around free for all modes. Free for all should probably be done away with. Overrun took away too many resources from the other game modes. Offer it as DLC or don't offer it at all. Executions needs to be available in all game modes. frags need to be pick ups. I wouldn't mind the grenade plant returning. It was a very tactical way off outsmarting a better player. do away with all of this silly circus clown skins and offer us some real customization options on the characters. The campaign needs to forget about the whole star rating system. It broke immersion. The campaign needs to have deeper characters a better story. They need support the game for more than 4 months. They need to show some enthusiasm for supporting the game and I hope that black tusk will be able to provide that. The most important thing they need to do is listen to the community while this game is in development. For the most part Gears players know how to make a Gears game. We just don't know how to develop it.

[chris_x2k3]

Additionally:

I like the mantle kick in theory. Fix it, or get rid of it guys. Sawed Off is kinda cheap. Think about just doing away with it. Don't you dare get rid of wall-bouncing for the sake of "accessibility"...I think that YOU SHOULD BRING BACK THE ACTIVE RELOAD DAMAGE. Make sure that TDM uses a pool of lives, instead of a rush to score. This allows for clutches (Epic, you were fools in your Judgment TDM implementation).

[Kayant]

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[Iamnemesis4880]

Most of it is great but i love the retro lancer.

Now what should happen is either Gears of war the pendulum wars were you have Marcus and Dom or were it starts a year after Gears 3 were Delta gets a massege from Dom he has escaped just long enough to tell that the Locus have survived and are with a new enemy. The game starts were delta goes after Dom the find him it is then up to them to kick some ass.

[brich233]

Team death match was good in gears 3 but garbage in judgment.

[cyhm3112]

Gears of War is a mediocre franchise, Killzone beats it by far. And I have played both.

[chris_x2k3]

Absolutely one of the dumbest comments I've seen on this site by far..... And, you're not even trolling are you?

[GarrusVakarian]

Lol, no.

[xX1NORM1Xx]

I disagreed as you are just trying to start fights

[Metallox]

Gears it's more frenetic, and I love that.

[headwing45]

I never liked Gears, I was always a fan of Killzone, but even I disagree with this comment. Maybe Killzone 2 can compare to the Gears franchise, but Gears is generally the better game.

[True_Samurai]

I hope you're kidding

[Gotcha5]

they always said that Killzone was a Halo killer and they couldn't do that(now look how the ponies jump the Destiny bandwagon).Please don't compare Killzone to Gears.

[esemce]

I love both and own all the gears and killzones, that was a stupid statement plus you can't really compare the two.

Anyway MS may temp me to get the Xbone IF gears is 1080p@60fps and is 100% dedicated servers. All gears veterans will know how important dedicated servers will be, we can't suffer any more of the host advantage BS from the past.

[WilDRangeRrfc]

Haha your drunk,I have KZSF on PS4 Gears 1 a game a lot older is 1000 x better,go play Knack fanboy and slap your self in the face for being so deluded lmao KZ better than Gears!!!!!

[Mikefizzled]

Going on Metascore alone.
Gears 94, Gears 2 93, Gears 3 91.
Doesn't sound mediocre to me :S

[HacSawJimThugin]

You're wrong on so many levels...

[FalloutWanderer2077]

I do not see how you can even compare the two games at all. One is a 3rd person shooter and the other,a 1st person shooter. Story wise they are completely different as well.

To each their own I guess.

[brich233]

Keep dreaming!

[xX1NORM1Xx]

Good judgement was a let down IMO I liked the TDM mode cause I suck at gears and it was cool to just kill people but I like locust vs gears and they should make the story part of the game one of the novels I'll be pissed off if they make the next gears set after 3 cause it would be stupid

[iistuii]

Geasr 3 coop SP & the excellent Horde mode was my favorite all time online gaming experience of last gen, well still is actually as nothing I've played yet this gen has come close. My only hope for the new Gears is to keep Horde in.

[finito82]

its good to see the game and community still alive.

[DVS-Zev]

Can't wait.

[DEATHxTHExKIDx]

Make it similar to Gears 3. But put in all the Gears2 dlc. Gears3 is the only multiplayer game I come back to every other day.

[LightDiego]

Listening to fans? They will ruin the series.
I trust only the developers and publishers.

[Midgus]

god, its getting me excited all this gears talk. ill defo be on them forums on a regular basis again, just give me gears 1 chainsawing animation, gears 2 maps and everything on 3 then ill be "good to go"

[hulkamania78]

Get rid if judgements 2 weapon bollocks. Bring executions back basically everything Judgement did bar the Y for weapon switch change. How Y would work with 4 weapons I don't know but judgment was a disgrace.

[WilDRangeRrfc]

Got ps4 day one and got X1 TF bundle for £400,TF and Gears are worth the money,Gears is MY game,I feel its a massive part of my life I have grown with the franchise characters story and MP,going from 0.4 kd up to 1.6 as I practised for days weeks years,my fav series ever,I can't wait for the new one I hope it's done right,dark scary gripping emotional campaign like Gears 1,a new story setting maybe on Earth?? New characters are needed though the old ones will always be in memory,MP has too be right,planted frags back,balanced weapons,no sawed off shotgun,make Gnasher awesome one hit kill close two at med three far away,no retro lancer new automatic weapons and weapons in general apart from Gnasher,minimum of 15 maps at launch and balanced matchmaking and dedicated servers with no stopping power,Blacktusk do it right and make the millions of us proud,see you all in MP WilD RangeR RFC

[Funantic1]

Gears of War will sell like crazy. People will still camp outside in long lines, waiting for the release. If Black Tusk listens to the people it'll work out. And bring back horde please.

[Skate-AK]

Interested to see how this turns out.

[HacSawJimThugin]

MS did the right thing by buying this franchise from Epic. If there devs are as excited as some of us then we are in for a treat. Now let's hit the forums and help steer this ship back into friendly waters. #MyGnashyAss

[FalloutWanderer2077]

Personally,I am more interested in the single player and it's story. Not to say I am against MP all together but for me, Single player comes first and foremost.

I prefer narrative over competitive MP.CO-OP is a welcome addition if it is implemented well.

IMO they need to go back to what made GOW great & unique in the first place. GOW 1 had that mysterious allure of what a brand new IP can bring,if done right.

I think they need to evaluate what made the first two games successful and not ignore the valid fan complaints of 3 & Judgement. That way they do not repeat the same mistakes.

[MasterD919]

The new GOW game should expand the environments entirely. That would also allow for the addition of vehicles...

I can't wait to see what they come up with either way.

[oIITSBIIo]

MEH .
this game died after GOW2 and they can't fix it unless they make it classic again without the noobs weapons idea .

if you want to revive it make it competitive hardcore game again .

[Deadpool101]

Though I know a lot of hardcore players hated their inclusion, I hope the new Gears still has bots. To be honest I sucked at Gears multi player and the bots gave me the chance to learn the maps, still unlock stuff and above all improve my skills until I actually had a chance against real people. It worked too, I went from whipping boy to mid to top table finishing.

[Evil_Ryu]

Microsoft bring Gears of war next gen too PC in all it's 1080p/4k glory. and i will heil Hitler(Phil Spencer)