Gears Tactics @2020-04-28, @2020-11-10 [PC, XO, XBSX|S, XGP]

[BRiT]

Gears Tactics has Gone Gold for Xbox Consoles – New Achievements Boost Gamerscore to 1400

• Gears Tactics will be released for Xbox consoles November 10 alongside the launch of Xbox Series X|S and is now available for pre-download (Size: 28.26GB)
• Gears Tactics has gone gold for Xbox consoles – celebrate with the new Achievements list worth 1400 total Gamerscore
• Pre-order Gears Tactics for console or play with Xbox Game Pass before December 4, 2020 and receive the Thrashball Cole Character Pack

https://twitter.com/x/status/1313872353479127041

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/10/07/gears-tactics-gone-gold-new-achievements/

 

[Jay]

Wonder if they bothered or felt there was a benefit to implementing VRS tier 2 for this game from tier 1.

 

[BRiT]

Verge has an interview article on Gears Tactics @ https://www.theverge.com/21528481/gears-tactics-xbox-series-x-s-vs-one-pc-coalition-interview

Series X: 4K 60fps (choice of 60 or 30 fps for cinematics for personal tastes)
Series S: 1440p 60fps
One X: 4K 30fps or 1440p 60fps
One S: 1080p 30 fps

Gears Tactics will run at 4K / 60fps on the Xbox Series X with a choice of 60 or 30fps for the cinematics — “not for any performance reason but more for just personal taste,” McRae says. The Series S will run the game at 1440p / 60fps, while the One X will have the option for 4K / 30fps or 1440p / 60fps, and the One S is at 1080p / 30fps. McRae says each version is tuned individually for each console beyond simple parameters like resolution. “I look at the hardware, look at all the different settings I have available under the hood in the engine, which is hundreds of things I can tweak and tune or optimize, and then it’s just balancing them all to get the best picture quality and hit a performance target.”

The Series X will obviously run Gears Tactics better than the other consoles, but one big question I had was the relationship between the Xbox One X and Series S versions. The Series S is a next-gen console with similar CPU and SSD advances as the Series X, but unlike the One X, it doesn’t target 4K resolution, despite a GPU that’s roughly comparable in raw power. Given that both consoles can run the game at 1440p / 60fps, with an extra 4K / 30fps option on the One X, which is the better version?

“That’s a good question — it is better on the Series S,” says McRae. “It’s visually better — same resolution, same frame rate, but the CPU is so much better in the Series S and the Series X that we have a lot more ability to just draw more stuff. Even though the GPU is responsible for drawing, we still have to get it there off the CPU, and on the Xbox One X you’ll see that the visual quality is not quite as high as it is on the Series S in the performance mode.”

 

[Cyan]

this is my favourite Gears game to date. It doesn't have the impact the first game had back in the day, graphics wise, but immersion and fun wise it's the best of the series for me.

I'm combining it with Xcom 2 -a game which I plan to complete in the upcoming months- and I hope that this time I can finally manage to beat the final boss of Gears Tactics.

I almost completed Gears Tactics like 3 years ago but the final boss battle was my bane, I always died there.

 

[Riddlewire]

this is my favourite Gears game to date. It doesn't have the impact the first game had back in the day, graphics wise, but immersion and fun wise it's the best of the series for me.

I'm combining it with Xcom 2 -a game which I plan to complete in the upcoming months- and I hope that this time I can finally manage to beat the final boss of Gears Tactics.

I almost completed Gears Tactics like 3 years ago but the final boss battle was my bane, I always died there.

The final boss took me a little over two hours.
The most important skill for me was the one where you can give other squad members extra movement points. And making sure Reyna had the highest grenade upgrade. And grenades work very well against the Boss.
Tactics is my second favorite Gears game. I with they'd make another one.

 

[Cyan]

The final boss took me a little over two hours.
The most important skill for me was the one where you can give other squad members extra movement points. And making sure Reyna had the highest grenade upgrade. And grenades work very well against the Boss.
Tactics is my second favorite Gears game. I with they'd make another one.

many thanks for the tips. The game is really enjoyable, I had 52 hours in it before I stopped playing 'cos I couldn't beat the final boss. And now I am back into it slowly, playing like half an hour every day, combining it with Xcom 2.

After playing Xcom 2 I don't feel rusty while playing Gears Tactics, but I make mistakes and got flanked when I played it today. I still remember some of the most memorable levels of the game though.

Tactics is my second favorite Gears game. I with they'd make another one.

Which is your favourite Gears game? Just curious....

I am sure they will make a new one, Gears Tactics is such a great game. I just hope they add new enemies and so on in the next Gears of War game, so they can use those units in a future Gears Tactics.

Additionally, for a tactical game, the graphics are top notch. What I miss is the progressive zoom like in Xcom 2 where you can gradually zoom in and zoom out. In Gears Tactics you have to hold a button to zoom in the game allows you, which is pretty close to the action, but it can be still improved.

 

[Johnny Awesome]

It's one of my favorite games of the generation. 93% for me.

 

[Cyan]

It's one of my favorite games of the generation. 93% for me.

90 something is a very fair score for this game, deservedly so. I can't stop recommending Gears Tactics.

This is a VERY well made game. Really well thought-out.

What I noticed is that my mind changed since the last time I played it, after 52 hours in it, I could never beat the final boss. But I kinda remember which skill tree route I went with Gabe and Sid, etc, and now I find certain paths you take in their skillsets a bit more interesting than others I took in the past.

Now I'm playing it again in short intervals and it feels like the wonderful game it is. It has some memorable maps, which you don't forget over time, especially because of the situations that arise.