The game just hard-froze on me yet again. Either have to hold power button or wait for the PC to BSOD and auto-reboot. Even in GOW4, when it freezes for me now, it’s only a soft-freeze where I can Alt+Tab out and close the game and relaunch.
The fact this crash has carried over, when it was supposedly on the top of the to-do list of fixes for GOW4 is just astonishing. It’s quite depressing actually.
We are preparing deployment of a server side update for the Gears 5 Versus Tech Test as we continue to make progress on resolving the issues.
As a reminder, this may cause you to be sent back to the main menu. Thanks for your patience!
Despite all the issues, I’m glad to see this much communication here and on Twitter.
It’s frustrating that I can’t play the game as much as I want because of the issues, but I rather have this happen now than in September. So hopefully, all these issues will have been fixed by then.
I do agree with some of the others here, that the test should be extended. Either have a third weekend or let the next weekend be from early Friday till maybe Tuesday.
This happens every release.
They want the purchase.
Then once everyone buys it’s, communication goes on a steep decline
Who do I need to talk to about not reviving the road to gears characters ?? Have done a lot of the challenges and have not received my characters for it…?
Following our server-side deployment, we are seeing promising signs of improvement in Tech Test matchmaking.
Our team is continuing to work on remaining issues and carefully monitoring the results of the latest deployment.
Really hope you guys rebalance and redefine the whole game. Like what happened? Epic left ya with this gold mine, ya killed it with 4 cause that game was amazing and the multiplayer was wonderful. But this, this is like when Epic made GoW: Judgement. The shift in character movement, the new melee, forcing to hold reload to activate chainsaw or bayonet, certain guns feel weaker than ever before while others seemingly have a ridiculous boost in power. If it aint broke dont fix it. Like the idea of Arcade but its such unbalanced game mode. Hopefully the servers are on point by release, cause im hoping most of what im disliking is just due to poor servers. Please do better 
I’ve been playing Gears since the day the first one release and is the sole reason i stuck with Xbox all these years.
Stuck on the please wait screen after backing out of a Ranked lobby that is unstarted. Continuously happens. Ranked lobbies keep dissolving.
I think in the news section on the main menu, they mentioned to try and play Arcade (solo, since trying to join friends causes issues). Sucks cause i really wanted to play KoTH but had a 3 minute+ creating match and its just not worth it.
I appreciate what are you guys are doing and trying to fix. Unlike what anyone says i have not had a problem with getting into matches. If it takes longer than 2min i usually just back out and refresh the lobby and get back in and within under a minute im in a match. I do have a slight problem with the modes… if I want to play Escalation I would like to play Escalation same with KOTH. Also I feel like there’s alot of recoil on the Talon that can be reduced to a half at least. Sometimes the music cuts off in the main menu… also it feels a bit clunky rather than smooth idk if its because the screen constantly shakes when im just walking or what other than that Im looking forward to play some more Gears!!! Love this game
Anyone interested in seeing what Ranked King of The Hill is like can watch my stream @ mixer.com/hotbeatz85 fast forward to 15:00. So far I played 2 matches and my teams won both still feels a little rusty but I’ll adjust eventually.
Yeah I will since im at work. If youd like you can follow me too on mixer.com/b1azensoldier we probably can costream together later if your up for it.
It’s 3am Eastern Time where I am in New Jersey. I work 3:30pm to 12am but Sunday I’m available all day. Just let me know inbox me at my gamertag I have Xbox App downloaded on my phone
Im on the Eastern Standard Time too… i live in Orlando, Fl . Yeah i work from 12am to 8:00 am and usually up for a couple of hours before sleep hits me. Im off on Sunday and Monday so im good to go then I’ll hit you up bro.
I think its actually accurate if you are constantly shooting someone in the face with a lancer or anything your head should pop off like a cherry bursting at the seams.
LOL, anyone else notice Kill Cams are broken?
In the replay it seems to only record inputs up until you die, then the inputs stay stuck on what everyone was doing the moment you died, so it looks like you are lagging out. Everyone is just walking/running forward or backwards or sitting still, just like in a lag-out. Hopefully they fix that, cuz it looks so bad.
Why wouldn’t it just hold onto all the inputs recorded up until the end of the Kill Cam replay time that TC chose? LOL. They have to record the entire match anyways. 
So im watching my past streams on mixer.com/B1azensoldier and im noticing in the kill cam or the spawn camera that there is alot of character spotting such as a character that wasnt there or wasnt supposed to be there. Just a random character standing in the middle of the map not doing anything then i soon I spawn in… I look in that general direction and they are gone… i just want to point that out to you.
I’ve been able to play Ranked matches but the main issue I keep seeing is our stats being unavailable after a match. Not all the time either. Also keep seeing hollow character figures in game. Example being like where a character died possibly, their bodies still in game unable to be shot, walking into walls when no lag spikes are occurring. I see them while i’m fighting other players so I wouldn’t say its lag. Also, placement matches don’t seem to be registering.
I always get an error at match end when it calculates xp when playing versus