Gears 5 Boss shares tons of campaign details and more; Clarify how the film is "alternative reality"

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At a panel organized by PAX West, Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb of Xbox Live in Seattle, Rod Fergusson, director of The Coalition, spoke about Gears 5.

Published on August 31, 2019 Giuseppe Nelva

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Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb, Director of Xbox Live Programming, hosted a panel discussion at PAX West in Seattle. Rod Fergusson, director of the Coalition studio, spoke about Gears 5.

Fergusson explained to the audience many details focusing on the campaign mode and more, including a relevant clarification of the upcoming film Gears of War.

Below you can read the details that he shared.

• Gears 5 has the largest campaign the Coalition has ever built.
• The Act 3 level (on which is a map below, with points of interest) is "fifty times larger than a normal level".
• The game includes the deepest Horde mode ever created.
• Versus has 11 different competitive mode.

• The card creator will have the ability to create cards for Horde mode and Versus mode added after launch.
• The Coalition wants to publish new content every week, so it created Map Builder. After creating it, they thought it would be cool to let the players use it.
• The goal of Gears 5 was to challenge expectations by allowing player choice.
• Gears was recognized as a very hardcore franchise and the team wanted to make it more accessible. The Game Pass is good for that.
• Jack is one of the elements that embodies the player's choice. It provides RPG elements to the game to change combat. It can cover you, heal you, throw traps nearby and more. He has seven combat abilities and four passive abilities. You unlock them through the campaign and you can also find components to install. Below you can see his menu.

• Another important thing about the player's choice is to let the players initiate a fight instead of being forced to fight. You can plan your fight instead of having to take cover and start firing. Jack's cloak helps that.
• Jack's ultimate abilities are unlocked through a secondary mission.
• Jack is controlled simply by the Y button if no player controls it.
• The Skiff is the other side of the player's choice equation. It's about giving players control of the pace and deciding if they want to fight or explore at any time.

• Relic weapons are "Easter" versions of the weapons you can find. The Crimson Omen says that there is a relic weapon nearby.
• The Gears 5 campaign is considerably larger than Gears of War 4, and even larger depending on your degree of completion.

• Below you can see some points that make the game more accessible.

• The achievement of the Boot Camp is the object "Reggie Achievement", "My body is ready".
• Jack can be used by novices, but even veterans will want to have Jack at their side whenever possible.
• The developers made an inclusive design sprint early in the development to look for different disabilities and how to adapt the game to fix it.
• You can remap all controls that support the Adaptive Controller.
• Gears Allies is a reward for playing with your friends. When you play with someone a lot, your "affinity" grows and it increases your rewards.
• Play at beginner level in Gears 5 rounds on the aids, including locking the target.
• The campaign is a two-sided story. It's Kate's story that started with the information she learned at the end of Gears of War 4 and she continues her journey to understand what it means for her.
• The other side is a war story. The war returns in Sera and the Swarm is a growing threat. Heroes are looking for a way to rebuild the Hammer of Dawn and bring it back to the swarm.
• The secondary missions are all tailor-made experiences. They are not the same.

• There will be quarterly "operations" with a lot of added content, and this will also include new tiles for the Card Creator with different styles. They could have other achievements "seriously".
• Multiplayer achievements are designed to not spoil the game for other players. Achievements in general try to incite new things.
• The film Gears of War advances and Fergusson meets with the studio on Tuesday.
• Fergusson explained that the film is an "alternative reality" because "the canon and the tradition of the games have no impact on the film and the canon and the tradition of the film has no impact on the games But that does not mean that the iconic characters of the franchise will not appear. This can always be a story about the original characters, but some things can sometimes happen differently and regardless of how they happened in the games.
• Fergusson had a request from the film studio: "make a good film first and then a movie of Gears". If they're just making a Gears movie, it will not be what it needs to be. Fergusson wants it to be "a good story that happens to be a Gears movie".

Gears 5 arrives on September 10 on Xbox One and PC. Those who have subscribed to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate will be able to play the game four days earlier.

If you want to see Jack in action, you can check out my complete Gamescom gameplay.