Making it the solution, thanks my man
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I’m not talking as in like that I’m talking about Tactics characters only for this operation.
What about Sid or Mikayla?
Tactics characters were cool so im okay with either these or legacy chars.
And well, potential release for prescott, ukon or the imulsion powered locust.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what do they mean by the “tutorial?” I passed the first mission, which had tutorial elements, but wasn’t officially called the tutorial. I hope that’s enough. I didn’t see a “tutorial” heading in the menu. Maybe I’m blind, lol.
The first mission is the tutorial 
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pretty sure you’re good to go after you see the late title card
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Don’t think there’s no real issues with him being a character in Gears 5, I think some are just slightly frustrated that he’s coming to Gears 5 before characters like Anya, Hoffman and the likes of Dizzy.
Turn based gears??? No thanks.
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Wish they put all their effort my on gears 5.
Might try tactics, who knows…
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Haters 
trying to expand the series into other areas is what every successful franchise attempts at some point, the unfortunate thing here is that turn based strategy games are about the most boring idea you could attempt, and then they release it on PC exclusively? Wow, its almost like they were trying to make a failure right out the gate.
With Tactics flopping (it will get much more attention with Series S/X though) and the main series games in steady decline year over year MS will pull the plug soon, probably Gears 6 will be last Gears game.
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Yeah but 5’s not successful…
As much as I enjoy pvp
Ig I’m hating.
Wouldn’t doubt 6 would be the last the way this is going…
I would be sad.
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Gears 5 easily would’ve been the most successful Gears game ever made if it was fantastic from launch, but the only Gears title I recall having a great launch was Gears of War 3, and Gears 3 was not actually that popular so the only way for Gears to rebound is for them to pull off something that no Gears game has ever done.
Gears of War was far more popular during Gears 1/2’s years, so I think you could argue every other game made after was a flop but that doesn’t equate because MS cared far more about sales back in previous generations whereas now its all about Gamepass and microtransactions.
Tactics is easily the most unsuccessful Gears game ever made… Microsoft ran out of ideas lol.
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It was released on PC first because PC players are much more familiar with XCOM and those kind of games play much better in PC and that’s a fact. Gears Tactics actually did some things much better than XCOM like having 3 action points instead of 2 to move around more and make it faster, the Overwatch system is better with directional Overwatch instead of global Overwatch and moving into certain cover actually tells you with a line above the character/cover to the enemy if you have a line of sight to target them. Also a turn based Gears of War game was in the works since 2013
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What on earth are you talking about? People bought this enough to get top of the steam charts despite it being included with gamepass on PC
Edit Also checked both user and critical reviews on a few sites and the consensus was that is was a well made game with positive reviews.
May I ask what you are basing your assertion on?
Bit of a wall of text. It’s good for awhile but shortly becomes repetitive. I have the xbox game pass so I was able to play it on my PC without buying it. If you ever played XCOM think combat like that but take out literally everything else about the game. No base management, no resource spending, no researching new tech. The game is going from one mission to the next, spend your skill points and equip the latest upgrades on your weapons.
What bothered me was there’s no reason to get attached to your soldiers outside the story characters. It takes forever to lvl them up and every mission you can recruit new soldiers. Odds are they are higher lvl then some of the ones you’ve been trying to lvl up. So your faced with the decision “Do I keep this heavy or do I disband them and hire this new one that’s already higher lvl then him?” There’s no attachment building to your troops. In XCOM I made soldiers after family/friends and I restarted games because I didn’t want them to die. In Gears Tactics you can’t even customize the solider fully. You can change their hair and hair color. Everything else is armor cosmetics. You can’t change their face, race or gender. If I wanted to name a sniper after my nephew I had to hope the game gave me one that happened to be a white guy. The kick to the nuts is the final boss fight you have to bring the story characters. So the people you’ve been training this whole time take a back seat.
There’s only like 4 mission types and after Act 1 I got sick of it. Act 2 I was like “again?”. Act 3 I just wanted to get it over with. It’s either kill all enemies, rescue 2 people from torture pods within a time limit, gather crates while being pushed forward by artillery fire, or stand in this objective and hold out till the timer runs out.
The few things they got right was the combat. Everyone has 2 actions. Doing anything costs an action. What’s nice is you can move and shoot or you can sit still and shoot twice. Executing a locust gives all other squad mates an additional action. So you wanted to run up and chainsaw someone or curb stomp a grenadier because your squad got more turns. Their version of Overwatch was also superior. You click overwatch, your given a cone and you point the direction and distance you want to cover. If anything goes in that cone during the enemies turn you fire for as many action points you have. In XCOM when you clicked overwatch your soldier shot the first thing that came into his vision. It could be a sectoid a mile away that you had no chance of hitting or a chrysallid 3 feet away heading straight to you. Gear’s overwatch gave you more control and the more action points you saved the more shots you could fire.
IMO if you want to play a strategy turn based game, look for XCOM and XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. Gears tactics for all it’s ups and downs, is a watered down version of XCOM. The modding community is very active for XCOM. I’ve put over 1k hours into XCOM: WOTC and I still go back to it. Gears Tactics I beat it once, it felt like a chore half way through and I don’t want to play it again.
Just because a game sold well does not mean it’s a success. No Man’s Sky sold a lot of copies and Steam had to reforge their refund policy because of that game. I feel this game only sold half as well because it had Gears in it’s title. How many people bought Halo Wars and didn’t realize it wasn’t a FPS?
I take your point here, but I did also post about both critical and user reivews being mostly positive, which steam and metacritic indicate.
Maybe majority of reviews are people who are getting introduced to the strategy turn based genre. My previous experiences with other games could skewer my opinion.
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It definitely doesn’t have the depth of XCOM, so I can see why someone wanting that could feel like it is a watery version, but I enjoyed the faster pace (without the base management sim side of things) and bigger skill tree
I felt the skill tree was small but then again. I modded the living hell out of my version of XCOM 
I’m waiting for Phoenix Point to come out on steam. I could play it now but I do not want the EPIC launcher on my PC. I’ve heard too many stories about that launcher secretly gathering data and sending it to Tencent.
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