Gears 5 multiplayer test now live, 'Versus' mechanics detailed

What you need to know

Gears 5 launches in September on Xbox One and PC.
The game eliminates the flavour laissez passer and loot crates.
You can play the technical test right now.
Yous can preorder the game for $fifty on Amazon.

Gears five launches in September and The Coalition keeps on providing the states with new details about the upcoming game. Recently, Gears 5 Multiplayer Design Director Ryan Cleven discussed servers and balance tuning. The franchise will feature 60 Hz servers for the get-go time with Gears 5 and there is one tuning setup across core and competitive multiplayer modes.

If yous've preordered the game or are an Xbox Game Laissez passer subscriber, you can play a technical test right at present to test out all of these multiplayer features. You lot can download the file here through the Microsoft Store. It's quite a substantial download and then make sure you lot give information technology enough time.

The video details the mechanics of "Versus" mode. There are quite a few handy tips and tricks in there so be sure to take a look. If you're already playing the Gears five test, tell u.s. what you call back of information technology.

Gears v shines with Unreal Engine 4. The game looks stunning and should run at 4K resolution and lx frames per second (FPS) on Xbox One X. Gears of War iv ran at 4K thirty FPS during the campaign and 4K 60 FPS during multiplayer. This time around, both modes are the aforementioned frame rate.

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