Fans are reporting long wait times and a huge queue when attempting to play the Gears of War 5 Tech Test.
From IGN: "While Gears of War has always been connected to the Xbox brand, the series was created by Epic Games as an exclusive. And though the series eventually found its way to Microsoft's first-party portfolio, lead designer Cliff Bleszinski shared his thoughts on the sale.
IGN sat down with Bleszinski for a new episode of Unfiltered and found out how the game director felt when it was announced that Epic Games would sell the franchise to Microsoft in 2014. This was two years after Bleszinski left Epic Games in 2012."
I remember playing the original Gears of War for the first time and being blown away by the graphics and art style and thinking how is this even possible on the Xbox 360 lol. Great job by Epic!
In the article he said Phil Spenser was the only person to call him and nobody else. Just found that interesting, because no one at Epic or his ex co-game developers tried to contact him.
Franchises need to constantly and successfully reinvent themselves to keep entries from getting stale.
Look at GOW (PS) and Zelda. Those are examples of franchises that successfully evolve yet keep their core DNA.
That’s what the Gears franchise needs right now.
Never much cared for the look of gears. The over used steroid buff look. Ive heard good things about them. I will say i really need to play the gear of war tactics game. I love games like that. I just forget about it.
The Gears of War franchise's influence has remained to this day with cover systems becoming as ubiquitous as regenerating health. With a new console generation upon us, it's time to list the series from worst to best.
My ranking list
1 .Gears 2
2. Gears 3
3. Gears 1
4. Gears Judgement
5. Gears 4
6. Gears 5
1. Gears 2
2. Gears 3
3. Gears 5
4. Gears 1/UE
5. Gears 4
6. Gears Judgement
Close to my rankings but some differences. My rankings:
1. Gears 3
2. Gears 5
3. Gears 4
4. Judgement
5. Gears 2
6. Gears 1
People will hate on me putting Gears 2 so low but I always felt the graphics were too busy to the point of confusion and the combat/movement hadn't really improved over 1. Lot of cool ideas but execution wasn't the best as far as I'm concerned.
GameOnDaily does a deep technical dive into the excellent looking Gears of War 5: Hivebusters and compares the performance between not just two but the four Xbox consoles.
Well, they did say the technical test is to stress test the servers, along with testing out the versus mode etc.
'WHY A TECHNICAL TEST?
This Technical Test allows us to stress test our servers over two focused Test Periods to ensure the best possible experience when large volumes of players rush in at launch.' - from gears5 webpage.
https://www.gears5.com/tech...
It played pretty good once i got in a game. I didnt have lag or anything so far just long wait times for matches. When i first started it up i had to wait 20 mins, got off tried to play later ended up with a 6 hr wait. Tried again about 10 hrs later and everything was working pretty well except the long wait for matches.
I was getting in a game after like 2 min last night. Great so far but there were definitely some things they have to fix
They can stress test all they want. No developer is or should be ready for the traffic that a launch generates.
The week after your concurrent players will drop by %50 and you spent a fortune on empty servers. It's better just to be insulted for a few days
The game is mortalisimo