#cog gow

[jammofsammichflip]

Thinking about how screwed we are if we get jumped by the Locusts from Gears of War

(a self indulgent rant because I'm a little (a lot) obsessed with the Mark Lancer Rifle 2 and the Hammer of Dawn, specifically its version from GoW Ult.Ed.)

Kinda crazy to think about but those fuckers came OUT OF THE GODDAMN GROUND

Like they were under there for actual decades feeding off of Immersion (energy source for people who aren'g GoW nerds)

Guys what are we actually gonna do?

After the Space Race they mandated that we weren't supposed to and cannot make space weapons.

LIKE WTF DO WE DO WHEN THOSE GIANT CRAB/TENTACLE THINGS FROM GoW ULTIMATE EDITION LAND.

Also they have better guns than us...yeah. The locusts (sometimes) have better guns than we do.

Guys what happens if we get THE FUCKING BERSERKERS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD?!?!!

Without the Hammer of Dawn (my favorite super weapon ever) we are actually cooked if we get Berserkers.

[il-gatto-fortunato]

Gears of War | Open Starter

[Intended for GoW OCs -- FCs can be thrown in for fun at your discretion. Action-adventure / horror / angst / romance / fluff / casual / social / character development all OK. Not really looking for smut but we can discuss at some point. Characters can be strangers or have an established familiarity. 21+ only, older preferred.] See also: Other RP ideas and My Other GOW Starts.

Sniping is not Sorrow's thing. It's never been her thing. For one, the Longshot is a big enough weapon to feel like she's hefting around another, ungainly version of herself. For another, it's too much fucking math.

Which direction is the wind blowing, and how hard? Where is your target, and how fast is it moving? How fast can you rack the slide, and how much recalculation is necessary between shots?

But there's good cover here on the ridge, and it's a calm night. A still night. The radio is open but quiet, and the COG field camp far below is peaceful and dark. Even the sentries at the crude barricade gate are nodding off at their posts.

It's easy to feel both a part of something, and desperately, suffocatingly alone.

[kollectorsrus]

[ukenceto]

may I offer . . Bad boi Carlos to live rent-free in your brain tonight? u.u ~♥

[bfoxanimation]

Morning Gears doodle.

[mindskullvoid]

Gary Carmine??? Maybe... . . . #gow #gow4 #gearofwar4 #gearofwar #gary #carmine #claytoncarmine #garycarmine #cosplay #microsoft #grubkiller #xboxone #cog #gears #videogame #xboxbrasil https://www.instagram.com/p/BqLfWhgBgHs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1x5u8t83y3unl

[panameurhuard]

⚜️ 🎮 #happyearthday🌎 via @xbox https://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/sustainability #xbox #videogames #life #love #gamingforlife #esportsforall #childsplay #cog #mvp #gearsofwar #halo #xboxonex #streamer #⚜️🎮 #gearsfam #tca #gow #twitch #facebookgaminglevelup (at Parc Des Princes) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcroJNbMW8U/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ruya-krasimira]

Cog tags. Gears of war. Will be selling these as earrings, necklaces, keychains, and dash dangles. #cogs #cog #tags #cogtags #Coalition #GOW #gearsofwar #gears #3dprinting #3dprinted More pics on chains etc to come soon. Also doing a Gears diorama. Edit: can make/scale these up or down as needed. https://www.instagram.com/p/CGV4UZ3HWKK/?igshid=9mqat5c78pqh

[cthulhutothep]

Gears armor WIP #gearsofwar #cog #gow #carmine #anthonycarmine #carminebros #xbox #carminebrothers #epicgames #cosplay #thedunwichcrafter https://www.instagram.com/p/B6-p8x0IWBE/?igshid=11q8zw9qgur3h

[sotbweisswolff]

Last Gears 5 video for a while, no more Chuklz

[valentinesparda]

The other day I went on a GoW lore binge and thought of you. So uh... about that insert??? 👀👀👀

HHRBRVRHHRGVDHEHHDHDNJSKCJSN

HI UH. HM. HELLO FRIEND I. I wasn't expecting anyone to come to me about this you thought about little old me?? hrjdjdnks??

I'll probably go back soon once I get home and like. crack open aspho fields bc it gave me most of my inspiration for them, but my insert shiloh is a researcher (based in games 4 & 5, not the og games bdjjdjdj) who works with the CoG, under their mother....they were friends with del and jd when they were all in school. shiloh is older than them by about two-three years and because of the fact that their mom knew harrassed marcus for info about his dad, shiloh and jd (with del) had to only hang out during school hours.

their mom wanted to get into contact with marcus because of her own time trying to become a scientist herself and idolizing the work of adam fenix. regardless, with shiloh's mom resenting the gears and thinking so lowly of them, once jd and del joined the gears when they were old enough, that was the last shiloh ever saw of the boys. they themself ended up being forcefully enrolled into a very new coalition program to nurture young minds out of the ashes of the previous research teams. the coalition keeps their existence pretty hush-hush, because their new idea is that if theyre distracting the citizens from the horrors with entertainment, then no one will worry about a thing.

flash forward to the start of gears 4 and shiloh is a pretty big deal, but every other student hates them because of how well their family gets treated. jd and del go missing, shiloh's mom brings it up to get under their skin, and at that point, even though they're a prized asset to the coalition, they immediately grow suspicious of how the coalition handles the situation. after a bit of a scuffle and a fight with their mom, they end up running off to try and find the boys. they follow leads and end up reuniting with them about the same time they meet kait for the first time iirc. there's a reunion, everything is pretty good, except shiloh, who had grown pretty used to being clean and pampered all the time, has to now deal with being a little rough and tumble like they used to be when they were younger. they cut their hair and don civilian clothes, and while they don't exactly have as much experience on the battlefield as the other three do, they have to do something productive.

they're a bit of an informant, walking encyclopedia, and know-it-all for everything that goes on inside the coalition, probably know too much info about rustlung and niles samson, and tbh that's where my brain kinda stops producing information / memories about shiloh bc I haven't thought about them or gears to a really deep extent in like 3+ years. shiloh is really kind of soft and while everything that goes on fuckin scares them to death, they just wanna do good for the world, which wasn't really on the agenda when they were a researcher

there ya go my tired ramblings bdjjsjdjd

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Gears 5 Video Game Review

3 STARS OUT OF FIVE

Ah Gears of War, the franchise that popularized the cover-based mechanic built to regenerate health and shoot locusts from cover to cover. It’s what generated the basis of fun with its horde mode and online competitive matches and of course, the chainsaw lancer which never cease to be satisfying everytime that goes off. Those 360 games were just a blast to play from the never-ending shooting gallery of locusts to the witty and awesome banter between Marcus Fenix and his COG friends, sure there are some douchey moments, no thanks to Dom but everyone just feels like space NFL quarterbacks with their hunky space armor and chainsaw lancers - its just awesome.

However, afterwards the GoW 360 trilogy ended and games like Judgment and Gears 4 appear, it really lost its charm and appeal, its just the same old Gears game streamlining the cover-based mechanics and just basically another shooting gallery of disappointment to say it at least. I mean, having Marcus back as this “old retired” COG alongside a squad of new kids just has been done before and sadly Epic and eventually The Coalition really didn’t entice new fans but still feed into their old Gears fanbase. Now with Gears 5, it just feels like another disappointment and I feel like they really did not improve much since Gears 3 although there is a new Escape and Horde mode which seems more playable like before the 360 games.

The game picks up right after Gears 4, you start as JD, Marcus’ son as he, Del, Marcus and Kait from the previous Gears, want to launch a rocket into outer space and activate the Hammer of Dawn so the COG can be able to combat the Swarm. It is very much a controversial and risky move as it can also affect tremendous human casualties. The game starts as JD but you mostly play as Kait Diaz as she constantly gets headaches and hallucinations from her mother’s amulet and heirloom which somehow is connected to the Swarm. She and her squad goes and ventures through a perilous journey to find the root of her problem and stop it. Much like the Gears game, there will be sacrifices and climatic movie style moments,

The gameplay didn’t really change since GoW 3, it’s the same “stop and pop” action and some new additions. Again, it’s just another Gears’ shooting gallery of never ending Swarm enemies until you have reached the next checkpoint and then rinse and repeat. It’s really the same old conventions and they seemed to downplay it to death. There seems to be only a few new weapons and as well as old and new enemies with painted weaknesses that you hit before killing them. However, it is nice to have corrupted Baird’s DeeBees in the mix of Swarms, it seems to be a nice combination of facing bastions shielding Scions and huge creatures as a new way of creating intense action rather than just jump from cover to cover. It is just a nice touch to the gameplay. 

The AI of your teammates however aren’t as smart as the developing Swarm despite having a new ability to target them, it seems countless of times, the AI will just run to the enemy without taking them down and in harder difficulties such as Experienced (Hard), it seems to be a hindrance of trying to revive them one by one as they stupidly get picked off by Swarm while you are trying to survive Wardens and Swarm drop-shotters that will blow up you instantly. Although, the first Act seems nice, when you are fighting in the settlement that you received a distress call of a Swarm invasion, you can summon Baird’s robotic reinforcements and you have the choice of picking Guardians or Sentinels which is fun, albeit only for the first Act and afterwards you mostly are facing the corrupted versions and they really don’t tell you why they are corrupted, although there are just malfunctioned. Again, it just feels like the AI, the part of the gameplay seems really outdated with the typical fixed gun sequences that seems to be aggravating due to annoying cooldowns from those sequences. Granted, it makes those moments hard with no moment to breathe but there are a lot of them and it is not due to its spiked difficulty that I’m playing. And of course, enemies like Brumak and others still the typical video game painted coloured sections where you shoot to take them down. 

One main component of the campaign is Del’s, well your trusty robotic friend, Jack as a companion in this game. Introduced by Baird, this new robot is an upgrade from Dave’s short yet untimely demise and still has the cute Wall-E charm to it. These flying robots have been in previous Gears’ games but they are part of the COG army and not playable at all. This new companion has a set of abilities whether passive, combative or defensive that will greatly benefit you against the Swarm. Ranging from Shock, Stim, Pulse and passive abilities that can camouflage, instantly revive and so on, it’s pretty much an arsenal of useful perks in your disposal. These abilities aren’t restricted to a RPG-like tier trees but will require an amount of components to unlock them which can be found during both the main and side missions in chapters. In addition to the three unlockable abilities, there is a fourth and final skill that unlocks only through main and side quests that is the ultimate perk of that specific ability (i.e Shock final unlock can freeze enemies for a period of time and such). During gameplay, you can toggle these two sets of abilities, combative and defensive which when used has a cooldown timer after you have used either of them. It really is a life saver to have these abilities, especially stim which can buff up your health and can be upgraded as an instant revive while you are down. Other useful things such as retrieving weapons/ammo from hard to reach areas or in an intense dogfight or laying shock traps/mines can really save you from those large, intimating Swarm creatures from decapitating you

Another new addition to the game is revealed in Act 2 as open world and unfortunately there is a lack of one or rather bland and boring one. They chatted a big deal of a Gears game being open world but it resulted in a couple of side quests and activities that only rewards more components, big weapons and main components for abilities/parts of them in some cases for Jack and nothing more. These quests are only there for them, nothing more, whether or not you choose to pursue them is up to you. At first, it does feel like a stripped up version of the recent God of War’s open world as these main and side missions can be identified with yellow flags by them indicating there’s something to be done as well as the banter between the squad “to go check it out.” Like God of War, you have a method of transport to reach these areas, a skiff which looks like some sort of ski sledge with a parachute in front that accelerates how fast you ride from the wind. The skiff can seat four with you controlling and driving the skiff and mostly Del who sits and navigates, although you do all of the work. The navigational seat be used in Co-op where players can only mark the map (which you yourself can do while driving). Also, you can stow two weapons (heavy weapons like RL-Salvo Rocket Launcher to the Tri-Shot Gatling Gun) on each side of the skiff that can be used in these missions, it’s like a small storage space for your guns but only can be retrieved after you dismount from the skiff. The map itself seems to be an illusion of being an open world game, but it just feels linear, in Act 2, when you reach those communications' towers in part of the main mission, you can scan for these side missions in some sort of frequency mini-game that only appears in this whole Act, sadly not afterwards. It is also attributed that the skiff can take damage and in later cases, explode and kill everyone as there are sandstorms and obsoletes you’ll need to dodge and maneuver and it feels intense much like in combat with the Swarm.   

From a graphical standpoint, the game still delivers. Forgoing the brown and gruel colours of the Gears’ trilogy on the 360, it feels very vibrant and impressive much like the previous game. Each Act really delivers distinct areas to explore in this “open-world” game and it really looks pretty as you ride your skiff throughout the snowy terrain of Act 2 to feeling like Doom or Total Recall in Act 4 with its red sandy desert. It’s too bad that they didn’t make it more open-world to fully realized its graphical potential as it is resulted in a lack of activities to do. Nevertheless, each locale looks great even though it has been done in other better games. It’s also nice that they put nice touches to the characters during these Acts whether having Kait, Del and others wear winter jackets to Act 3 where they wear goggles and less clothing for the hot red sandy desert. The dynamic lightning only looks nice in main missions as the sudden change of effects change when you enter them and it feels weird with a short cut scene to substitute a loading screen in the mix. It does not hinder the visuals at all, the game looks pretty as it is and characters and enemies’ design with the Kait and his team as well as the opposing Swarm just looks menacing as hell. 

Unfortunately for the powerhouse of a game, it falls short on its technical problems. There are always problems with Early Access games, sure and the developers are fixing the bugs/glitches and problems with aspects like the online multiplayer matches whether its Horde, Escape or versus mode but it really is aggravating that I still experience these problems two days after the release. Things like the game freezing at spots reverting back to a save checkpoint, some bad audio clicks and the worst of all, seeing the “fail to load save” pop-up and doing the whole chapter again. The “always online” component of the game is a nice trend to prevent illegal privacy but sometimes people like me have a spotty internet connection and I sometimes get disconnected at parts of the game where I finished a brutal firefight and have to do it all over again which is annoying. 

Speaking of online, I didn’t really play it, after ten hours of finishing the campaign, I'm really not inclined to pursue Horde or Escape mode as I have a spotty internet connection. As part of a pre-order, you get Sarah Connor and a T-800 Terminator to play online alongside a roster of characters from the main campaign and surprisingly, Spartans from Halo Reach. You can customize them, their banner and taunts for the online aspect and thankfully, I will never touch them. Everyday, when you log in, you can also receive a daily cache of points and other perks, maybe cosmetic items for your character. However, Horde and Versus mode feels like they finally brought back the fun part of those 360 games and implement it with better features as what was said from them. Escape mode is basically an intense firefight where you and other players have to kill waves of enemies in some sort of Swarm hive mind while green gas is approaching behind you in a race to the finish. It seems like a challenging effort but requires a set of friends to really make it in this mode. Also, you and two other players can play the main campaign as Co-op where one of the players can even control Jack and his abilities, making it gameplay interesting. 

Other than that, Gears 5 is really a disappointment. The same, derivative combat that has made popular with its cover-based, has done better in other games since then. The game also promises open world which doesn’t have up its expectations with a bland and boring yet beautiful landscape to ride in and from a few side missions. It’s just sad that the Coalition didn’t really implement new features and only maintain it for Gears’ fans and not new players, well only Jack as a Co-op option but again it still suffers from the old “stop and pop” action even in harder difficulties, it just feels last-gen to me with the AI as well. Should it be recommended, only to Gears fan who are really interested in its online multiplayer and the ten hours of the main campaign just feels repetitive and boring to say it at least. 

[ukenceto]

the winds are whispering a name and tears fall from the sky the devil's on my shoulder singin' haunted lullabies a walk along the road reveals a story full of pain

now it's a slow farewell my love, I sing to you this lonely road runs straight to hell ______________________

Another day, another redesign of Carlos. I’m as always, just sitting here with my Gears feels and headcanons.

[psycofairy]

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[gearspop]

im gonna be real with you cheif i hate the gow books but coalition's end is probably the only one i'd recommend if just because of how many braincells everyone in the cog and beyond are losing and at such a fast rate

[panameurhuard]

⚜️ 🎮 Looking forward to the future of @gearsofwar, @gearsesportsofficial and @gearsarmory etc. Love this franchise!!! For the COG!!!! ⚙️ #gearsofwar #gears #xbox #xboxone #gamer #gaming #gow #twitch #halo #videogames #gearspop #apexlegends #microsoft #xboxonex #streamer #⚜️🎮 #gearsfam #tca #gow (at Parc Des Princes) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbL7DwIsFc_/?utm_medium=tumblr