Return to the arena that makes - or breaks - friendships. Boxes (2v2) is coming soon to Gears 4, FREE for all players!
We’ll have more to discuss on Boxes in this week’s What’s Up with further details on the future of 2v2 coming in the future.
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Hopefully it’s on Comp 
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Hype af. This map is the most beautiful of any in GoW4. I bet this mode will be more fun than even the version in UE.
Never really liked boxes. I just have a sinking feeling that there will be achievements strictly for it too… -_-
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Boxes on UE was awesome. Im not sure if it will be as good on GoW4 but I look forward to it nonetheless.
gonna play like crap cause its gow 4 not UE lol
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Please make this competitive tuning!
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Very happy. I hope its comp tuning
One can only hope. It will definitely play terribly on core.
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Who are you kidding? It’ll play terribly on both Core and Competitive, lol. 
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of course… the high ping players… I totally forgot! xD
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This is great to see come onto Gears 4… Wasn’t expecting it at all… Loved playing boxes on UE…
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I’ve been watching Dev Stream after Dev Stream after Dev Stream all stating the same thing in regards to questions on new maps:
… there will be no more maps added.
… maps need to be tuned and playable for all game types
Along comes Boxes… granted, a simplified version of War Machine… but rumor has it that “River” was worked on, then scrapped. Surely if Boxes can be added… so can River…
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I NEVER had the chance in UE to play boxes because I don’t see anyone playing, I want this now PLEASE 
Super excited. Lets just hope it is competitive. Core is trash.
Boxes =/= River.
Boxes took a notable amount of work to pull off even with it being a sectioned off part of War Machine. River is a 4-6 month project with a multitude of teams needing to be involved. VERY different beasts. I can categorically tell you River is not in development.
Don’t take this as an indication of more 5v5 maps. Think of it as a bonus we added to better support 2v2.
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On reddit, I remember vaguely Octus said river simply did not work in Gears 4, they would have had to change it drastically and the new one would not have the same feeling as the original.
They said River wasn’t playing well so they ceased development. Maybe they just felt you couldn’t play Escalation on it. But, boxes is a map that was already there and little work was required. I can’t see them putting serious man hours into finishing River at this point.
Edit, looks like you got an official answer.
… and on one of the Dev Streams with level design it was brought up that all maps needed to be playable with all game types (ie: Escalation… etc…). I highly doubt Boxes will be utilized to be playable with Escalation, by that same token, Boxes simply does not work as well.
As Octus stated above… Boxes took a “notable amount of work” to be pulled off. But why? For what?
It was added in because they have a plan for it’s use, I can think of no other reason.
I say again… if boxes can be added… so can River. If you get my drift.
not that it will or needs to be…
wasn’t Boxes a separate game mode in itself in Gears:UE? if that’s the case then I see no reason why the Boxes (map) has to be designed with Escalation in mind when it will never be used for that mode.
I’m guessing Boxes will come as either a permanent execution variant or a execution variant special event.