Gears of War 5 - Gears 5

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In case you missed the news, over three million of you have played Gears 5 so far making it the BIGGEST launch week of any Xbox Game Studios titles this generation.

Log in to Gears 5 before October 28th and you’ll get Batista FREE. To play as Batista, head to Customization and find him under the Marcus Character. Despite being a character skin, Batista has over 700 lines recorded for Gears 5 so he’ll look AND sound the part when using him in Gears 5 MP.

This Saturday, we’re launching our first Boost Bonus day with Double Star Day!
For those of you who don’t know, Boost provides accelerated progression for Player XP, Character XP and Supply Drops for as long as it lasts.
Occasionally, we’ll run Boost Bonus events to give you even more from your Boost, such as higher XP multipliers, Character XP weekends and more. This Saturday, we’ll be running our first Boost Bonus event granting on Double Stars for Active Tour Objectives!
Any Tour Objectives you complete during the Boost Bonus window will be worth double their usual value. Don’t forget to use that free re-roll to get a 4th Objective and maximize your Double Star earnings!
Double Star Day will be active from September 21st at 10am PT until September 22nd at 10am PT.

Our Online services team are continuing to work on a number of improvements and fixes for Gears 5.

Resolving Missing Leaderboard Entries

Our Stats service was not consistently uploading results or difficulty completed progression for Escape and Horde. Over the weekend, we rolled out a deployment for this issue which looks to have successfully resolved the issue for impacted users.
If you believe you are still missing entries, please submit a ticket on support.gearsofwar.com

Horde Progression Catch-Up

During our hold on progression updates on the Sunday of Early Access, we captured all player progress in order to roll it out at a later date. We have since rolled out missing progression for all multiplayer modes except Horde.
The catch-up rollout has proved more complex for Horde, but we have begun to roll out the catch up. We expect this to be fully complete by the end of this week.

Campaign Collectibles / Progression / Achievements

Last week, we rolled out an initial update to unblock collectibles or registered campaign progress that were not correctly registering within the game if they occurred during a stats service hiccup.
In the case of registered campaign progress, this could also prevent achievements like those for completing the Campaign to not register all your progress in the Achievement Tracking.
We have a further update on the way to unblock users in this state. Stay tuned for more information at @CoalitionGears on Twitter or Gears5.com/Status

Matchmaking Ping and Long Matchmaking Times

Following our last small Title Update and tweaks to matchmaking, we are seeing improved average pings for players in matchmaking – however, we are still investigating further improvements based on player reports of this not always being the case.
In addition, mostly for our players in South Africa and Brazil, we are also investigating much higher than expected matchmaking times for players in certain regions. Thank you for your patience while the team dives into the data and works on a resolution for those regions.

Gears 5 | What’s Up – September 16th 2019