This Week in Gears: Operation 8!

Versus Event: New Map Rumble

Featured Hive: The Clock

Weekly Store

• Ketor Vrol – 250 Iron
  
• Armored Bernie – 250 Iron
  
• Puzzle Weapon Set – 850 Iron
  
• Not Worthy Expression – 300 Iron
  
• Vrol Banner – 100 Iron
  

Feature Store

• V-Day Sam – 250 Iron, 2,000 Gear Coins
  
• Line Art Full Set – 850 Iron, 6,800 Gear Coins
  
• 360 Curbstomp Execution Pack – 500 Iron, 4,000 Gear Coins
  
• Locust Rune – Kill Bloodspray – 125 Iron, 1,000 Gear Coins
  
• More is Better Banner – 100 Iron, 800 Gear Coins
  

Operation 8 Bundle

• Banner – Prowler
  
• 30 Days Boost
  
• Bloodspray – You Missed
  
• Character – Vrol
  
• Character – Bernie
  
• Expression – Photo Op
  
• 700 Iron
  
• Mark – Knife
  
• Predator Weapon Set
  

Gears esports

Store

• Black Steel Queen Myrrah – $2.99 USD
  

Gears Glory

Patch Notes

PvP:

• The Gnasher will no longer have brighter muzzle flashes on the 2 v 2 Allfather Arena map.
  
• Players will now receive appropriate penalties for continuing to disband Competitive lobbies.
  
• We've removing the ability to see the PC Icon in Public lobbies across Gears 5, this icon will stay in for Custom matches to help maintain esports integrity.
  
• We've added an option to add a delay to the expression wheel appearing, this can be toggled from instantly to 5 seconds which should help prevent accidental openings of the wheel while in combat.
  
• You can now toggle off the option to "Yank" a player over cover, sometimes a player will accidentally try to yank while trying to revive a DBNO player against cover which will help prevent this issue from occurring.
  
• A confirmation prompt has been added to the restart round option in custom matches.
  
• Addressed an issue that resulted in Hivebuster Mac not displaying a blue team shader when viewed from distance.
  
• We have updated the Scoreboard to provide more meaningful stats across the board for viewers and players.
  • Execution/Warzone: Kill/Death/Assist, Damage Done, First Bloods, Revives.
    
  • KOTH/Control: Kill/Death/Assist, Damage Done, OBJ Kills (any player you kill inside the objective.), Caps/Breaks.
    
  • TDM/Dodgeball: Kill/Death/Assist, Damage Done, Kill Streak (this is your current kill streak but will reset at the end of each round or if you die.), Revives.
    
  • Guardian: Kill/Death/Assist, Damage Done, Leader Kills, Revives.
    
  • Escalation: Kill/Death/Assist, Damage Done, Kill Streak, Caps/Breaks.
    
  • Gridiron/Capture the Flag: Kill/Death/Assist, Damage Done, Touchdowns, Denials.
    
  
  
• We've made the following changes to competitive mode scoring:
  • Players who are playing solo will now get a 25% boost to their score at the end of a competitive match (up from 15%)
    
  • Players will now receive 5,000 points for a victory in all team-based competitive modes.
    
  
  
• A voiceline is no longer played when killing an ally held by a meatshield.
  

PvE:

• The Relic Weapons have now been moved into the "minimal" Gears 5 install; this addresses an issue with users crashing when loading Atrium.
  
• An exploit which allowed players to force all enemies to spawn in a specific location in Turbine has been fixed.
  
• Abyss no longer appears twice in the Horde Frenzy stats section.
  
• An issue with a door on the Trap Hive has now been addressed.
  
• Hoffman will now correctly call out a Warden when he marks it.
  
• Flame Grenadiers and Palace Guards will no longer fire their weapons while feared.
  
• Players will no longer continue to take damage from the poison puddles mutator at the end of a Horde wave.
  
• Lambent enemies will now have an outline when a Marksman uses their X-Ray ability.
  
• Rebuilding the Fabricator will now correctly cost 4,000 power.
  
• Sires will now move when targeting a Decoy.
  

Other:

• The Embar is now centralised in the weapon's customization screen.
  
• To address a crash, players are now unable to use Jack's abilities while in a vehicle in the Campaign.
  
• A specific cover has had its collision heightened in Training Grounds to prevent you jumping over it.
  
• The Chalkboard skin has now been restored to the correct version.
  
• The Made you Flinch expression now uses the correct Card image.
  
• Hivebuster Mac's ponytail should no longer behave oddly.
  
• A Level of Detail issue on the door inside the Cafe on Ephyra has now been addressed.
  
• An issue that resulted in the chatbox not working for some users has been addressed.
  

Operation 8 – Drop 1 launch time