In an interview with Wired, Rod Fergusson, studio head at The Coalition, confirmed that Gears 5 (Gears of War 5) is built from the ground up for the PC. As such, Fergusson claims that PC gamers will be able to take advantage of all the types of different PC optimisation options they can have.
Truth be told, Gears of War 4 was one of the most optimized PC games of 2016, so we aren’t really surprised by this statement. Moreover, Fergusson stated that the game can run with 120fps even in its current early stage.
As Fergusson told Wired:
“Having a game that we’re building from the ground up for PC [means players] will be able to take advantage of all the types of different PC optimisation options you can have. You’ll be able to max it to quite high. It’s still reasonably early, but we can usually get to 120fps. It’s obviously going to matter what hardware you’re using to get that – but it’ll be able to scale up that high, [if] the hardware can push it.”
Gears 5 is currently planned for a 2019 release!
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Too late. The series has gotten bad enough for me to avoid it entirely.
Gears 4 was from a new dev, and actually quite great.
lol
Gears of War 4 had one of the best PC versions of recent memory so I kind of believe them. Also give us the story modes for Gears 2, 3 and Judgement on PC as well to truly make the PC only gamers happy and more invested in the Gears franchise going forward.
The only reason i’m mot buying and playing this is that i am 0 aware of what happened between gears 1 and 4 and can’t play it… if 2 and 3 would end up on pc i’d happily buy them and play the whole story for myself.
I’m not sure about this. You know, well speaking for me, what i like in a videogame is a compelling story in which i get emotionally involved (more or less) to a poit where you care about your actions and characters that you’re meeting. If you don’t play the game (be it a bad story or not, it’s about taste) i don’t believe you can truly enjoy the story. Hence why i would prefer to play instead of watch the 2,3 iterations of the GoW franchise.
What i have depicted is a problem in the videogame industry. Either deva decide to just NOT do a single player because they know they’re not going to deliver or they just drop a poor sad story just to say « we’ve got a single player ».
Makes me sad. Recently i’ve played God Of War (ps4). Has to be one of the best single player games i’ve played with The Last Of Us. Watching these game’s story recaps on youtube wouldn’t have given all the « wow » of their respective stories.
Or i could’ve just said « i prefer to play the game ».
Lol smh, TLDR.
You like video games with compelling stories but you want to play Gears of War??
Well to be fair, like i said, taste isn’t something you can discuss. To each their own. Now, i have played the first one and the story was good enough for me. The way you talk you seem to suggest the story is not good at all. I’ll never know for myself unless they bring it on pc. Which is sad because i kind of like the environment.
For a good story in a game try The Dig, Alan Wake, Silent Hill 2, Planescape: Torment, Mafia 1, Deus Ex 1.
If you liked GoW for its story, you should absolutely LOVE those games.
Oh well thank you very much for the input! I’ll be sure to look this up. Played Deus Ex, Mafia, SH2 and loved them. Alan Wake, i had to stop playing jesus the gameplay was so horrible that the interesting story couldn’t save it for me.
Thanks pal!
Gears series lore, characters, and story are pretty well written and developed, i know that the Badass design and the pretty violent gunplay says something else, but it just in appearance, it’s not The Witcher, but it’s more interesting than Uncharted for example, a game that is really poor on story side and makes us think the opposite by it presentation
I really loved the benchmark. Being able to see CPU bottleneck like that is very useful.
Gears 4 on PC is very well optimised, but the last time I wanted to play it the game was broken and I couldnt run it at all. After reading official geaes of war forum it looks like most people experience problems with this game, and each new patch cause additional problems. Maybe by now the game is fixed, I dont know, but I’m not willing to download 120GB again just to test it.
I found a fix. You have to uninstall it, reboot, then wait like ten minutes or so and reinstall the game. Kinda ridiculous when it’s 120GB but at least it works.
I’m really hoping FH4 turns out well. 3 was a mess at launch but Playground really turned it around. I have to wonder if some of the stutter issues with the Forza games aren’t related to the UWP format itself, though.
Maybe FH3 had stuttering problems at launch, but they must have fixed it. Personally I have never experience stutters in FH3 on my PC, even at 4K maxed out + MSAAx4, on top of thag game run superb 70-90 fps.
I still get some odd issues with it. Like there is this controller latency that sort of comes and goes (it never feels very great). And very occasional stutter now, but the frame pacing is still very off. I have a 4690K and 1070, they run it great in terms of framerate but it still never feels quite as smooth as it should to me.
I don’t think stuttering in Forza Horizon 3 is related to UWP.
Because lowering the graphics from ultra to High + dynamics optimization “on” made the game smooth like it should be.
MSI Afterburner showed a +5GB VRAM usage on ultra (almost 6GB sometimes)
Also ultra settings preset turns MSAA to x4 by default.
PS: The game also has been patched I guess, but I only bought it this months so I don’t how bad it was before.
Yeah I actually found that the dynamic settings seemed to run better than setting them manually. Which I guess shouldn’t be surprising, the game is kinda built around working that way on console. And it’s possible the dynamic setting is tweaking stuff you can’t actually access in the manual settings. Too bad you the MSAA setting isn’t separate since even on Dynamic it’s just getting locked to one setting.
for the “PC”
i don’t think they meant personal computer
I don’t think they chose a female protagonist for Gears 5 because of pressure from SJWs but because Microsoft needed a competitor to Sony’s Horizon: Zero Dawn which also has a female protagonist.
“I don’t think they chose a female protagonist for Gears 5 because of pressure from SJWs”
oh yeah?
Vaginafield 5=female protag
the last of a$$=lesbian protag
Cuckerstien youngblood=female protag
(not to mention Dishonored dindu of the outsider=female protag, black, bisexual aswell)
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I totally agree with you on all the games you mentioned but Gears 5 reasoning might be different.
nah man, the diversity industry forces company’s HR department to accept/push political correctness and then studio A is forced to make a game that is anti-white or anti-male
they did it with movies and music, and now vidya is on the horizon (it has been for years but only recently they cranked the SJW to 11)
trust nobody, esp MICROSOFT.
How is having a woman or black dude “anti-white” or “anti-male”? White dudes are still the most common protagonists in games. It’s like if they throw anyone else a bone the neckbeards have a freakout.
“White dudes are still the most common protagonists in games”
WERE was the key word
look around you, franchises are getting BLACKED and hijacked by political usurpers (I.E women and POC)
they are pushing homosexuality in vidya, just as much they’re pushing feminism and blackwashing cultures and people
(look up egyptian people and then look at AC origins, total propaganda, now they’re doing it to Greece aswell)
i guess you’re either bluepilled as f**k, or you’re jewing for shekels.
because everyone with at least a 100IQ can see (the developers literally say they want to be the (((right))) side of history)
and if you don’t want vidya to end up like MTV
you should be against the cultural communism that’s being injected in every single piece of entertainment
edit: nevermind, you’re an SJW
my words are wasted on a communist
You’re really like a threatened little boy. There are tons of women and poc who play videogames, why shouldn’t they be represented in the protagonists?
Like I seriously don’t see what you are worried about. These are our fellow gamers. Be happy that they get to see themselves represented in our games. And that includes people who are gay. They’re just people.
they’re in the minority, most of the customers are straight white males
and who gives a f**k about gay people? i don’t, so force it?
same goes to Feminism, it’s FORCED diversity
when was the last time you played a game that’s completely devoid of concepts like “racism” or “women being victims”?
And they’re still the minority of protagonists. And there are waaaaayyy more women that play games than you think. The women I know usually hide their gender online because they get harassed otherwise.
And like seriously how many gay people have there been in games? I can only think of a handful of characters, not counting games that let you choose.
>single player games
>hide their identity
cool story bro.
Nah I mean people seem to judge how many female gamers there are based on how many they run into in multiplayer games. And you actually bring up a great point – if women tend more toward single player games, how could you possibly know there are that many more male players? You’re just assuming. I know a lot of female gamers, my friend even did modding for Fallout.
most of female gamers play a particular genre, mostly role playing games because nowadays every RPG has to have a female option
when they add women into f**king SHOOTERS (A genre which is dominated by males)
then you’re literally just lying through your teeth, E3 2018 was nothing short than “war on men”
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I’m trying to figure out where all these dead men are. Your reaction to a few women in a few games is kind of hysterical. Which is pretty funny if you know the etymology of that word.
these “dead men” are the suckers who fought in a bankers war and instead of getting praise, now they’re being called “bigots, racists, misogynists” while their historical depictions erased from history
and replaced with women and minorities
your kind will not survive, people are finally awakening to the JQ
and your jewish influence in the media will wane
weather you’ll be kicked out of the country or stabbed by “peaceful” migrants remains to be seen, but hey
at least lesbos and f a g g o t s have a say in a video game
so all is peachy…
Yeah okay you’re just a fringe nutjob got it.
And if you don’t want to be called a racist or misogynist maybe don’t be one?
i don’t care if people call me a racist, “racism” did not exist before the communist revolution
if anything, “racism” is the natural response to an outside threat.
mr whitey cannot advocate for his own interest so everything pro-white=racism
clearly /s
Race is mostly an illusion, we’re all just humans. And how many people out there are not just one “race” anyway?
“we’re all just humans”
does a group of orangutans can co-exist with a group of gorillas?
what about baboons?
sorry to break your bubble, but humans,
much like animals
are different from each other, both in a genetically structure and mental one as well
why is that Europeans must sacrifice their land and money for African/middle eastern migrants? who in turn commit crime upon their people, rape their women and kill their children in “peaceful” ways?
you sound like you actually believe the nonsense you’re peddling, which is an impressive strategy
but ultimately you know that’s just comfortable lies told to you
would you marry a black woman and have black children? would you contaminate your DNA for the sake of “diversity”?
Dude my girlfriend is biracial. So go f*ck yourself.
wow, a jew who burns the coal
my condolences.
The power level in this comments thread is too high.
You’re gonna destroy the whole universe in a giant singularity of pure autism you idiot.
W E A P O N I Z E D
Gears of war 5 is just focusing on a character that was in the last game. I hate Last of Us anyways, ridiculously overrated. Assassins creed is just about killing. Who cares what gender you are whilst doing so? You could play as a female character in a couple other Assassins Creeds, too. Tomb Raider is actually pretty fun, and I don’t see her complaining about being a victim or whatever, and she even seems very distraught over what happens to her male companion. And I don’t know enough about battlefield V to comment, but I think you can choose the gender.
Hmm its not the first time female protagonist are in games…lara croft tomb raider 1996,no one lives forever 1 and 2,perfect dark…but they were sexy and objectified back then,today well they got personalities i guess
but old school lara croft was a cool chick who was an adventurous sort
not this British sniveling, whiny, victimized mankiller of the modern age Lara Croft
not to mention that sexy women are getting censored like in DoA6
anyone remembers the days of Xana Princess warrior?
ahhh those were the days
Your example is a show with a thinly veiled lesbian romance lol
i was talking about the game, not the show
and you’d rather have THIS degeneracy instead?
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I’m not sure what the big deal is have you never seen girls kiss before?
-underage
-the new girl looks jewy
-literally an underage romance for the sake of a lesbian romance
you jews are a nasty lot, what next you’re gonna say pedophillia is good?
(oh wait you already have haven’t you?)
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“the new girl looks jewy”
Okay so you’re racist.
“you’re a racist”
not an argument
No need for an argument, you’ve shown yourself for what you are.
i’ed rather be called a racist than a dirty, good for nothing jew.
Hes a dumb racist and blind, that girl is 100% Armenian.
jews are a nasty lot?
i agreed with you on many point but going against millions of people just because of stereotypes is pathetic.
you know many jews are against sjw agendas…but yea keep living in your own hatred
you’re right bro, there IS a minority of jews who are against the globalists and their marxism, one of the major redpillers that i’m a huge fan of is infact a jew, his channel is Frame Game Radio
but lets be honest here, the percentage of “Based Jews” is quite small compared to the percentage of brainwashed, evil ZOG minions
but i’m not one of “kill all the X” type
there are plenty of redpilled blacks and women in our movement
it’s just the majority of those minorities are on the Marxist side because it’s the easy path.
yeah, it’s not a big deal. that’s why they chose to show it off at E3.
(((fellow gamers)))
ahhh the empathy trap, nice try jude
kindly take a hike and go back to PoliticallyCorrect gamer
Why should you not feel empathy for the people you game with? Or, for that matter, for women or poc to begin with? Why do you think it’s some weird “us vs them” thing going on?
Cool story bruh (insecure manchild confirmed).
And here I thought this site was about games and stuff…
it’s still is
problem is, we gotta point out on the games who are pushing propaganda and bad practices (I.E lootboxes, day-1 DLC,Denovu)
and we call out on them harshly.
if you have a problem with that then you go elsewhere to shill for your (((masters)))
Disagree about TLOU, Ellie was already lesbian. I doubt Sony is forcing Naughty Dog to do anything they don’t want, honestly.
Battlefield 5 ? Yes, it’s obvious there’s a lot of pandering going on. Game about WW2 and they choose to put a woman as the front cover image… yeah, I don’t think anyone can deny they’re doing it for the sake of inclusivity. Not to mention, we know that they got called ‘sexist’ for not including women in the WW1 game (which is dumb), and we know a lot of idiots latched on to that, including press.
tbh Ellie wasn’t a lesbian until that DLC made her so
and the new Ellie isn’t based on Ellen page so it’s obvious pandering to make her as ugly as possible
as for BF1, they actually DID add women to it in the Russian DLC
so EA from the very started wanted this, because they don’t make games anymore
they just make propaganda that happens to be a game…
Well put…its sad how forced and obvious it all feels! 🙁
Where does it say that battlefield 5 will have female protagonist? as for last of us we dont care since we cant play because it is not coming to pc. As for wolfestein it dont matter because it is fps so we see onlyher hands. same for dishonored 3
But they need to make it very long too and without multiplayer if they want to compete with horizon zero dawn.
“ground up” LMAO..
Why the “lmao”? Gears of War 4 was very well optimized and I doubt this will be any different. Unreal Engine 4 can be heavily optimized because of it’s baked lightmaps.
It’s natural to expect a game to be optimized though.
The forced parity is the main issue here in regards to it being “built from the ground up for the PC”.
What forced parity are you referring to? Because they literally state in this article that they are taking advantage of PC with features that are specific to PC (like 120 fps). IIRC consoles cant even come close to that.
I’m taking a guess at console parity with other games? “shrug”
“What forced parity are you referring to?”
I’ll follow that up with “do you think there is zero parity involved this gen with PC?”.
120fps is the default by now. I couldn’t care less if 90% of people are too poor to afford a free-sync or G-sync monitor, as soon a s that tech exists, it effectively overrides the previous technology that was once the default factor.
Consoles can’t even do 60fps, that’s become a thing for years, and with their never changing specs per gen, it’s the bog standard.
They know that 60fps isn’t going to be a thing forever, but they still have to support up to and beyond 60fps first.
I’ll still be sitting back with my G-sync monitor though, as it’s been serving me well.
All they really need to do is push for TV manufacturers to fully adopt AS, while also turning down some taxing settings, this way they can obtain 60fps and do away with horrid frame hitching.
Ignore his comment..
I couldn’t agree more on UE4’s capabilities.
As much as I dislike using MS’s “Windows Store”, GOW 4 was a really fantastic Game, well optimized for the PC, and the graphics also do the justice.
But this whole UWP stuff/agenda is slowly killing the PC gaming though, in my opinion.
Microsoft should release their titles on STEAM as well, giving proper support for Windows 7 and 8.1 OS as well.
DX12 and VULKAN APIs do make some difference, but it makes little sense for MS to force, and tie their game exclusively for Windows 10 OS.
There are still many peeps who don’t have the proper Hardware to reap the full benefits of DX12/Vulkan, though this might change in future.
F off with that lie …….. And than after a 80Gb game you will dowliad a 40GB hotfix with 20 GB of audio file …..
Yea they sould release Gears of War: MC aka Marcus Collection. Would love actually to get all the story.
“political propaganda”
Explain…?
Female lead in all males game.
“War” remove from title
Guys just wait for Digital Foundry, Candyland PC vs Conslow graphics comparison. You will only see difference at 400% zoom. ?
That’s the sad part, having to zoom in to spot any differences. It’s obvious that there will be forced parity involved.
The X being a thing encourages MS’s studios to give us better quality textures at least.
But not by 100 GB. If Gears 5 is build from ground up for PC they must use megascans or photogrammetry. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is just 10 GB.
They can use 100 GB textures for XBOX and fill BDXL discs.
Yeah, that benefit the X more than a 1080ti or anything else close to it.
I’ve seen parity between MS and XBox, as well as the other consoles for years. Ultra settings are no longer what they used to represent years ago.
Gears of war 4 ran very smoothly and looked very good.
But it was above 100gb for no reason whatsoever and of course the fact the ionly way to get it is on the pos cancerous windows store
So MSFT is calling Xbox PC’s now?
First off I have a lot of doubts about being built from the ground up for PC. Second it would be more truthful to say it is built from the ground up for Windows 10 not PC, as if it follows Gears 4 behavior, it will not have a version for Windows 8, 7, Linux or Mac. So out of all of the platforms on PC they will only support one of them and only be available on one of the many stores that sell PC games (Windows Store).
I really dislike Windows Store, but the game is Direct X 12 so it’s not going to run on old versions of Windows anyway. And I think we should be encouraging devs to use DX12 and Vulkan when it makes sense. Though whether DX12 needed to be 10 exclusive is another good question.
If it’s going to run on DX 12 only, then I fully expect a loss in performance.
Did you play 4? I hate Windows Store, and as a game I didn’t like it much. But it was a fantastic PC port. Very well optimized with tons of graphics options and a great benchmark tool. (I bought it on sale just for the benchmark)
I can’t even download from windows store. Always errors toward the end. No clue why…
ugh that stinks. I hate this whole situation. Like I’m really happy that MS games are coming to PC, if only for Forza Horizon games. But they have to do something about that freaking store.
I bought horizon 3 and was very excited to play becasue I love racing games, and it wouldn’t install. So I had to download a pirated version just to play the game I paid for on the actual legal store.
Ugh awful 🙁
I watched eprformance results for when it came out vs a few months later.
No, I don’t ever want to use that god awful store, not until it’s on Steam’s level at least.
When you’ve only got 12 as the benchmark, that says something.
+1. I couldn’t agree more.
As much as I hate MS’s “Windows Store”, GOW 4 was a really fantastic Game, well optimized for the PC, and the graphics also do the justice.
This whole UWP stuff/agenda is slowly killing the PC gaming community though.
Microsoft should release their titles on STEAM as well, giving support for Windows 7 and 8.1 OS as well.
DX12 and VULKAN APIs do make some difference, but it makes little sense for MS to force and tie their game exclusively for Windows 10 OS.
There are still many peeps who don’t have the proper Hardware to reap the full benefits of DX12/Vulkan.
Jesus you people are delusional
Wait, what do you mean “you people”?
I mean people who, because of a other unrelated incidents of SJW’s in games, start claiming everything to be “political propaganda”.
I don’t know man, that sounded pretty racist to me.
Lmao well played
+10 roxor points for reference.
“built from the ground up for the PC”
Yes, we hear this a lot, but it still doesn’t show that these games were truly “built from the ground up for the PC”.
If they were built for PC, they would basically show up the other consoles very easily and the differences would be noticeable upon seeing both versions within moments. Instead we have to watch ever so carefully to spot any differences at all, which just tells us that they had to dial things back, so that current gen systems don’t look so bad.
I’m sick and tired of that sentence being thrown around these days, as well as forced parity. It’s like one platform has to be choked and held down, so the other one doesn’t become visibly upset.
too bad 4 was utter trash story wise and this looks worse somehow….
HAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
Yeah just like the rest of MS games, they built by 4 devs who don’t know s**t about PC from ground up.
“Truth be told, Gears of War 4 was one of the most optimized PC ” lol they will still make the PC version look like the xbox and that’s sad as a PC gamer https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a1566e145c660cb1863f88a0f3c955c6fec2c7a4b710a7240d86a9ebc5d6da34.png
Why do all female protagonists in games look like Suicide Girl rejects now?
DAY ONE BUY…ON PC!
that soy is pretty (((good))) isn’t it?
Gears of war 4 runs max settings 1440p 55 fps on my ryzen 1700 gtx 970 16 gb 3200mhz. Iam wondering how much fps will 5 run. 60 maybe if it is more optimized?