PSA: Gears of War 4 beta available to all gold members

"On a couple of occasions my weapon has completely failed to fire leaving me a sitting duck, but that's why it's only beta stage and needs testing."

Yeah, I hope it gets fixed. It is really random for me.

Another thing that need fixed, and I am sure this is why they are testing, is to make the game level for different connections. At least I hope it is that. I get in matches where a player is invincible or close to it. Can eat a ton of bullets from anything.
Then there is also some glitches that are typical Gears. A friend of mine was showing me one. Pretty much breaks the game really and allowed him to totally dominate. And he is not very good and he will admit it.

What is odd is the game will play fine. Until you hit a player in the lobby that has that all important spongebob body. Then I get tons of issues, but only with that player, and it totally throws off the match. Player dominates the whole round. 12-0,
14-0 and you can boom shot, grenade, multiple gnasher up close with teammate help, and the player just runs around like it is nothing. Sliding around like they are going to the wall but never hitting the wall either. Getting around these players can cause
framerate issues for myself and some friends who have played. Then they seem to go back to normal. You get close, like that side is out of re-spawns and your side still have 6 or 8 and the player becomes invincible. Taking boom shots and stuff again, doing
odd movements when shot, and generally surviving and wiping everyone out. Have seen this a number of times.

Overall, I generally can do pretty well. But it is hard to do well consistently with these things happening.

I really love Gears. I have a ton of collectibles, have and read the books, and even pre-ordered both collector's editions. But if they do not announce horde mode I will probably cancel and wait. Most games, even with testing, have launched with problems
that linger well into the month+ range and sometimes longer. With the way Gears is that would put a huge dent in the games population of players and that would ruin the game for myself. Hate being stuck constantly hitting matches with players who for whatever
reason can sponge up the shots and generally have an advantage. And I am worried this Gears may just turn out that way. Almost feels like, even with the ground up build they said they did, that this game is heavily reliant on past Gears code.

"Gears of War certainly does bring out the "serious" in people! "

Oh much serious at that. I would go into it here, pretty funny and typical of some other Gears players I have ran into in the past, but that is another topics post.

It's team deathmatch, you got one life but when you (or team mates kills an enemy,an allie respawn (and vice versa)

Cool,game mode.

Just download it, may as well give it ago, i suck at gears mp but will pick the game up for the campaign, anything extra is a bonus for me.

@Guerro, I hear ya! had plenty of hate when I rolled with a "stacked" team in GOW2. LOL!!

I'll give it a go tonight. It's so hard to pull myself away from The Following expansion for Dying Light.