The Coalition has released the largest update to date for Gears of War 4. This update, titled Rise of the Horde, adds a number of new skills for each class, new difficulty modes, two new maps, and enables Crossplay in Ranked Play that brings Xbox and Windows players together in the battle to earn the highest rank possible.
Furthermore, The Coalition announced that a free trial will be launched on June 9th and running until June 15th. This free trial will offer 10 hours of free play in Gears of War 4, including the entire first Act of the Campaign plus full access to the Horde and Versus experiences.
In addition, this update comes with further improvements to multi-GPUs, removes an exploit in Horde that allowed players to kill friendly team members, updates all Zombie Characters to use standard character dialogue, and features miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
Here is the changelog for this new update.
Gears of War 4 Rise of the Horde Release Notes:
- Implemented Gnasher tuning changes tested in last month’s Test Week
- Behind the scenes improvements to the Gnasher to further improve consistency
- Updated all Zombie Characters to use standard character dialogue
- Zombie Characters will now only say “Braaaaaains!” when landing a headshot
- Fixed an issue that caused headshot character dialogue to fire more rarely than intended
- Majorly reduced ‘killstreak’ dialogue. Increased frequency of original character dialogue for 3 and 4 kills in a row.
- Resolved a rare issue where being removed from a Competitive Lobby for reasons outside player control could result in a matchmaking penalty
- Removed an exploit in Horde that allowed players to kill friendly team members
- Fixed issues with Security that could cause the lasers to be shown as permanently on
- Spectator: Added team colors to X-Ray vision in Spectator Mode
- Spectator: Reduced explosion screen-shake when spectating
- Windows 10: Resolved a bug where – in rare instances – single-shot projectiles could misfire at high framerates
- Windows 10: Further improvements to mGPU
- Miscellaneous fixes and improvements
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Does the whole game still take up around 120GB?
edit: I did some digging and this new update also compresses the game files so now the installation is 93GB. Still ridiculous though.
Insane when you think open world games are not even close to that in most cases, and have way, way more textures, and other assets.
Reutilization, of textures, this game had a big budget so they made specific per area textures and assets added that they are very high resolution, sincerely, just nuts, they should have allowed a texture pack to be added later, not obligating all of the users to download the full thing.
“they should have allowed a texture pack to be added later, not obligating all of the users to download the full thing.”
This.
Rainbow Six: Siege did this with its 4K textures & the total install size goes down from some 60GB+ to something like 35, I think.
Yep!
“now the installation is 93GB.”
F*ck me.
Is this the 4K thing? Damn……
It’s still a Windows 10 Store UWP exclusive, though.
This game, in my opinion, is worth dipping a toe into the dark side.
It’s the only game I’ve ever bought from there, and honestly, no regrets.
It downloaded at 60Mbps too, which really lessened the impact of that huge file size. Still…my SDD is still limping from that insertion.
The demo, perhaps.
Obsoletely agree, I love this game!
Is there any way to download only campgain and not those multiplayer huge updtaes? I will buy it later but i will play the free trial!
wtf
Work is Terrifically Fantastic?
I didn’t know you liked massive updates entering your tight bandwidth.
Whoop them frodos*
so ill get 10 hours free for a game that will take me around 3-4 days to download at 1.5mb? Awesome. Sign me up.
Time to go around town hunting for WIFI.
Oh wait it’s UWA, so files are locked and encrypted. FK that then.
If you want to play a cover shooter, go with either Vanquish or Red Faction Guerilla. They’re cheaper, better and don’t use UWP.
Plus they’re just better games, with far more in-depth gameplay.
Oh, & you don’t need to worry about keeping up with the lore from the four previously released entries – that is, assuming you even give a sh*t about that.
“better” at what exactly? Cause the shooting in Red Faction Guerilla isn’t all that great. Fun game though.
This game deserves way more attention than it gets. Its easily one of the best games of this generation. It has depth and more content than any game other than Halo 5. This why I mess with the Xbox One more than the Ps4I have been playing this game since launch and still go back to it just because the content and skill level keeps competition fresh. When you are good at a Gears of War game you have really accomplished something.
“When you are good at a Gears of War game you have really accomplished something.”
I’d say the same could be said for other games out there as well tbf.
Not sure about it being one of the best this generation, considering it’s still a continuation of an IP from last gen.
And I can agree that other games have their level of accomplishments as well and it will come down to the individual…. but what I find with Gears is that the skill set you develop is more imperative to your survival and thriving. The nature of Gears is a close quarter combat situation less hiding, less camping, less running away a lot more in your face situations.
Things like wall bouncing, and pop shooting with the shotgun, and the Shotgun dance (as I call it) are things that are not made by devs but created by how the players learned to play. Other games have their nuances too but I feel the nature of Gears makes the skill adaptation special.
“When you are good at a Gears of War game you have really accomplished something.”
Like what, being a worthless nerd? Your trolling skills is way too obvious.
That makes you…….. a co**suckers disciple. I dont know which on is more pathetic.
But at least you touched the water a little bit so I will answer.
Gears 4 has a skill set learning curve. There are techniques strategies and nuances of the gameplay to learn. Other games have this too but Gears is more organic (like wall bouncing) and require more attention to learn thus a bigger sense of accomplishment when you get GUD.
Now get of my d**k and stop being a fa**ot.
lmao
Troll Identification 101:
“This game deserves way more attention than it gets.” (context: Gears of War 4)
Hm. Okay?
“Its easily one of the best games of this generation.”
*Alarm starts up, slowly*
“It has depth and more content than any game other than Halo 5.”
*Alarm now seriously blaring*
“This why I mess with the Xbox One more than the Ps4”
*Alarm now in full swing. ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!*
And to wrap it all up, the pinnacle of the post;
“When you are good at a Gears of War game you have really accomplished something.”
And I think I’ll just wrap this up with “no comment.”
I don’t think he’s trolling. It’s one of my favorite games too. To each there own though. I loved Gears 1, didn’t care for two or three so much. This one though, it’s my favorite in the series and definitely in my top 10.
*don’t own an Xbox.
AHHHHH shiiiit….. Looks like I made this pony throw a shoe.
You see its very telling that this co$%sucker didn’t actually refute anything I said. He truly made “No Comment”
So it appears he doesn’t like that I enjoy and think highly of the Xbox One.
This just shows you how insecure co**suckers are. He’s probably a Sony shill.
“He’s probably a Sony shill.”
On a PC Gaming website? Yeah, that’s it, that’s right. Definitely.
Actually, you know what? Since it takes some real genius to figure that one out, I’ll even confess; You got me! Sony Shill! Absolutely! Definitely! Yeap!
Refute? What’s there to refute? My post was literally the definition of commentary. I wasn’t refuting you, I was mocking the living sh*t out of you, as there is nothing to refute. Your entire post is just one long opinion piece, so the only thing I can respond with are my own opinions. You want those? Alright, fine;
“No comment”; yeah, “no comment”, moron, because what you wrote was so moronic, I figured writing “no comment” was pretty much self-explanatory, but I guess I hadn’t factored in your low IQ when I wrote that, so yeah, that’s on me. My bad.
“When you are good at a Gears of War game you have really accomplished something.”
I mean, Jesus kid, seriously? Get out from under your sheltered little rock & try spending some time playing something that you can really GIT GUD at.
“This just shows you how insecure co**suckers are. He’s probably a Sony shill.”
Because apparently this doesn’t reek of insecurity, in the least.
Does this include 4k textures or something?
I think it was mostly 4k textures already.
The game already had 4K textures. The patch is so large because it’s actually all of the previous updates + the new update listed above. They had to do this to make the game installation smaller for people
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Wow.
i feel like those should have been optional to begin with to save on space and download time for people that didn’t need or want them.
” Crossplay in Ranked Play that brings Xbox and Windows players together in the battle to earn the highest rank possible.”
is this a competitive versus gamemode? Wouldn’t console gamers get reamed?
no, because no self respecting PC gamer would play this w*nk
Honestly it doesn’t seem to matter all that much surprisingly, my xb1 mates all regularly come higher than me on the leader board, using the longshot (sniper rifle) seems easier with the mouse though. I have used k/m and xb330 pad a lot on this game to see what I prefer, I use k/m mostly out of habit now, but there doesn’t seem to be much of an difference
Jesus Christ..29gb….i don’t want that downloading on my system and using up bandwidth when I’ll never make use of it.
Unlimited bandwidth is great.
I have unlimited bandwidth thank you very much, with 150mbs download speed and 9ms ping. However whilst Gears is downloading 29gb of stuff I will never use, it will be throttling internet usage elsewhere
Microsoft is high. Battlefield 1 open world large scale 64 player shooter DLC adds 4 maps, guns, elite clasess and more = 5 GB.
Microsoft adds a bunch of tiny ****: 26 GB. Even Doom wasn’t that bad, and that game got like 10 GB updates.
How low quality standards have become, it’s astonishing.
BLACK SCREEN WHEN I START THE GAME GUCK
I have good internet and lots of disk space. I don’t care about patch sizes but I still refuse to support a UWP game.
Probably one of those things where it has to download whole sections of the game again instead of just the fixes. Pretty hamfisted way to go about it
Fantastic game! Really looking forward to playing competitively with my xb1 mates
LOL HE THINKS HE CRUSHED ME.
THIS GUY IS F*CKING HILARIOUS.
Okay seriously now, kid; sarcasm. Google it.
I am still downloading from the windows store…147 gb!!! How much more?