The Coalition has released a new update for Gears of War: E-Day ahead of its global release. Thanking those who spent time with the cover shooter during its advanced access period, the studio has said that the update brings a host of performance improvements to the title and also gives players better options to report any issues they might be facing in the game.
When it comes to multiplayer, Gears of War: E-Day’s update has fixed issues that players could face on the “Waiting for players” screen in Versus Social matches. Xbox authentication has been improved as well, fixing an issue that might pop up if the system clock is too different from the real time.
Fans of the single-player also have plenty to look forward to, with various missions across Acts 2 and 4 getting fixed. A potential issue where some players could be stuck to turrets during the beginning of a cinematic or a gameplay moment has been fixed, and the studio has addressed a progression-related issue where some co-op players could end up getting War Journal progress and Forge rewards before even joining a session.
Gears of War: E-Day is available on PC and Xbox Series X/S later today. For more, check out our review. Also take a look at the impressive techniques used by the studio to ensure that the Xbox Series S version of the game doesn’t fall behind the Series X version.
Gears of War: E-Day October 5th Update patch notes:
Stability and Performance
- Made various stability, performance, hardware compatibility, and reporting improvements across the game
Online and multiplayer services
- Addressed an issue causing some Versus Social matches to remain on the “Waiting for players” screen
- Improved XBOX authentication handling when the system clock differs significantly from the correct time
- Addressed “Bilefrog-Kalona” error, where a split-screen player could be signed out after suspending and resuming the game
- Improved online-session stability when accessing session information
Campaign
- Addressed an issue where players joining an existing Campaign could receive War Journal progress and Forge rewards earned before they joined
- Addressed an issue where players could remain attached to turrets when a cinematic or gameplay moment began
- Addressed an issue where some join-in-progress players might not receive the expected Forge Discovery War Journal progress
- Act 2 Chapter 2: Addressed an issue where the objective could fail to update when entering Allfather’s Plaza after completing activities elsewhere in the mission
- Act 2 Chapter 2: Addressed an issue where the Heavy Gear in the Black Raven Down side objective could appear without a Vulcan
- Act 4 Chapter 1: Addressed an issue where certain side objectives could fail to start if players entered the objective area while introductory dialogue was playing
- Act 4 Chapter 2: Addressed one cause of the Power Station defense objective failing to complete after all visible enemies were defeated
Horde Siege
- Addressed an issue that could prevent certain Siege Blitz Secure objectives from being completed
- Addressed an issue where the extraction helicopter could fail to appear during a Plaza Ruins Blitz mission
Versus
- Addressed an issue in Demolition where a bomb could become stuck in a defusing state if a player was eliminated while beginning the defuse interaction
UI
- Adjusted the size and appearance of Online Diagnostic text
- Addressed one possible cause of the UI repeatedly attempting to claim the same Challenge Mail reward
