Gears 5 Reveals New Enemy Type That Will Be “Your Worst Nightmare”

The Coalition reveals yet another enemy type in the game through a short GIF on Twitter.

The Swarm Flock is a swarm (surprise!) of flying “leeches”. As per the tweet, these are going to be “your worst nightmare”. Players actually caught a slight glimpse of them in the game’s reveal trailer at E3 2018. If their movement is as unpredictable and dynamic as this short snippet suggest, then they may very well be a worthy adversary indeed.

[sammarshall102]

Looks great it seems like Gears 5 will have some very varied enemy types the infected DB's look great too

[ninsigma]

Was thinking that as well. Looks like there's going to be some interesting fights dealing with varied enemies on screen at once. Game looks great from everything shown off so far!

[sammarshall102]

I agree and that bodes well for the gameplay

[Tazzy]

Looks great??? It looks every other Gears game since it started on the Xbox 360 great games except for 4 but get real the engine is outdated it doesn't look any better than Gears 4.

[Neonridr]

pretty sure this looks leaps better than the original 360 games, just saying.

[AngainorG7X]

You need your eyes checked

https://www.gamersyde.com/p...

[Tazzy]

Neonridr the engine is tweaked its going to look a little better it doesn't look much better than the 360 games that's not leaps.

[Tazzy]

AngainorG7X I don't need my eyes checked the gif showed the same graphics as Gears 4 but being you seem like an Xbox fanboy of course you're going to think it looks good. I'm sure you think the Xbox One X is selling like hot cakes when in reality it's not the Switch isn't to far behind the Xbox One/S/X in sales and it's been out 16 months compared to the 30+ million Xbox Ones that have been sold in close to 5 years.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Gears 5 looks fun

[lxeasy]

Yeah I'm actually excited for this one. Wasn't blown away by gears 4

[mcstorm]

I agree. I think gears 4 was an important step the game needed to make to kind of bring it away from the 1st 3 and it now looks like gears 5 could bring the excitement we got with the 1st 3 but build upon what 4 had to offer.

[gangsta_red]

So the robots from The Matrix?

[strayanalog]

I can't help but think of Kryll.

[Jinger]

I was thinking the same, but these latch on and infect DB's and bury inside humans and explode if that one CoG in the gif is anything to go by

[strayanalog]

True. Kryll with attitude.

[Shmeidi]

Kryll on steroids.

[Orionsangel]

Yep, It's basically the Kryll on steroids.

[Father__Merrin]

as an example this game needs to be xbox one only. it needs to be a showpiece for xbox one

[Jinger]

Well that would go against their entire play anywhere push

[Father__Merrin]

They need to abandon play anywhere. It's going to hurt them

[badz149]

but according to xbox fans, play anywhere and gamepass have helped games to sell better

[mcstorm]

Father_merrin I disagree with you. What you need to remember if people buy gears on xbox or pc it's a sale. It's also cross play and opens the up up to more people than just the xbox owners. Look at how Microsoft are pushing them self's with windows 10 and the xbox and you can see that this is a good move by them. It will bring some pc exclusives to xbox and the other way round. Also imagine halo on pc and xbox it will go onto sell as many as 3 did imo.

[Father__Merrin]

mcstorm, it possibly will sell more software but not hardware by having all games on another format it's less reason to own one.

If you think Xbox one had all its staple games on xb1 only you can't not agree it would make it a much better purchase

[Obscure_Observer]

@Father__Merrin

"They need to abandon play anywhere. It's going to hurt them"

Lol. I doubt that their studios are crying and complaing over selling more copies.

[Razzer]

“If you think Xbox one had all its staple games on xb1 only you can't not agree it would make it a much better purchase”

So somehow the game would magically become a better game if it were only sold on Xbox One and not Windows 10?

[Neonridr]

@badz149 - are you suggesting that a game available on less platforms would sell better?

[Profchaos]

Why 4 was great on pc

[Razzer]

Right cuz Microsoft shouldn’t support Windows 10, which has a larger base than Xbox? That is just brilliant. /s

[Tazzy]

You're right the play anywhere thing hurt them big time PC gamers don't need an Xbox for anything now like they did with the 360 that's what hurt the sales of the Xbox One PC gamers see the Xbox One/S/X and are like why do I need this console??

[Neonridr]

game sales still count regardless of where people buy it though. That's the point.

[Tazzy]

countchocula Where's my proof it hurt them??? compare the Xbox 360 sales of close to 90 million sold to a little over 30 million Xbox One sold there's my proof it hurt them sure Microsoft is making money in software but it's losing out in money in hardware sales. The Xbox brand can very well end up like the Windows phone and Zune where are those Microsoft things now?? BYE BYE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

[81BX]

Lol so if you don't use Twitter you cant see it.

[Tazzy]

You're not missing anything it's just a swarm of what looks to be bats flying in circles.

[81BX]

Lol. I need that in my life

[ninsigma]

Reminds me of the heartless swarm from KH. Looks like there's going to be a lot to deal with and the game is looking beautiful!

[Aceman18]

After finishing part 4 I couldn't help but feel this series needed an overhaul. Hopefully they'll have newer enemies that don't look generic this time.

They also need to change up the gameplay some as it just feels like the same old, same old. I'd give part 4 a solid 8. Hopefully 5 can make me go wow this is what I'm talking about.

[execution17]

I think they just played it safe with gears 4 to get a better understanding on where to go with the series

[Aceman18]

Well I'm hoping 5 will drastically change for the better.

[Tazzy]

Gears 4 sucked one of the worst games I played in 2016.

[Einhander1971]

Day one Xbox X enhanced:)

[bumbleforce]

Well based on the earnings its helping them

[BadElf]

Looks like the classic darkness bird things.....they're acting like its a new enemy?

[spicelicka]

Darkness bird things?

Have you played Gears 1 even? It had Kryll as a major enemy back in 2006. These are a different cousins of those species.

[BadElf]

Am I wrong in any way? Again, why are they acting like we've never seen anything like this "new, vicious beast"?

[spicelicka]

Technically you aren't wrong! But your example was just wrong.

Anyway let's keep in mind that the headline duped us. The real tweet just says the "Swarm flock will be your worst nightmare". Nowhere are they suggesting it's a brand new never before seen enemy.

[BadElf]

Fair enough. True. Yeah, the title is annoying

[michellelynn0976]

Gears 5 looks veey impressive so far.

[Omar91]

It’ll be interesting to see how Coalition studios handles loot boxes this time around. That was probably my biggest complaint of the game and im hoping they take a look at what fortnite is doing and re- vamp that aspect. They can’t use the same business plan again after battlefront opening peoples eyes and fortnites success.

[Stanjara]

This isn't new, it's from Gears one Kryll.

[krembo18]

so those enemies will be microtransactions, loot boxes and day-1 dlc

[BadElf]

It LOOKS great

[Goldby]

The new enemies are fortnite players /s

[PaleMoonDeath]

Oh god, rent is finally coming for us!!

[r3f1cul]

ehhh just looks like more gears to me :/ just another stale franchise that doesnt do it for me anymore sadly ... plus all the dlc will sadly devolve into nothing but MP shyte... and you can only be forced to shotgun stuff in mp for so many years before it gets old (which it did over 7 years ago now)

[michaelknight35]

😠

[michaelknight35]

i cant wait