Upcoming Gears of War 4 Update To Address Multiplayer Community Feedback Including Weapon Adjustments, Quit Penalties & More

The Coalition has provided an update on an upcoming Gears of War four update that volition address a large number of multiplayer bug that the customs has been reporting since the game'due south launch last week.

In a new post on the Gears of War 4 forums, customs manager TC PezRadar detailed the upcoming changes and fixes coming to Gears of War iv trough either futurity updates or via a smaller back stop services update.

Most of the community feedback will be addressed in a big upcoming championship update, which will release alongside the first map drop for Gears 4.

"We wanted to give you all an update on some items nosotros have been tracking based off of community feedback and issues reports sent in by you. Nosotros appreciate all the comments over the by week and a half and we have been trying to consume as much of it as possible", PezRader writes. "Nosotros may not comment on each item simply we practice read through everything. I should note that there are many more updates beyond the listing below simply I wanted to highlight some of the ones that larger discussions have been focused effectually over the past calendar week. Expect update notes tied with larger Title Updates to cover off more of those other topics. Those update notes will be released as nosotros get closer to the release of each Title Update."

Check out the upcoming changes and fixes coming with the Gears of State of war 4 update down below:

Hammerburst Balancing
This ane has been a big pain betoken amongst those in Core and Social. Gameplay has been dominated with long range gainsay and we do have some tuning coming up that volition address this. Nosotros expect this in the next big Title Update.

Competitive Lancer/Gnasher adjustments
We have some additional changes nosotros are planning for the competitive Lancer and Gnasher. We will accept more details on this in the time to come. Nosotros expect this in the adjacent big Championship Update.

Matches not starting with full amount of players
We have a team looking into this immediately equally this one is pretty apropos. There may exist a quick set up that we can do on the backend to address this but it may require some additional piece of work that would come in a later Title Update. We will do what we tin to mitigate and correct this one as soon equally possible.

Harsher Quit Penalties
We are looking to implement some harsher quit penalties to players in an upcoming update. Unfortunately this requires a fleck more legwork but we are seeing if we tin can prioritize and have this come out sooner rather than later. Nosotros await this in a future Championship Update just not the next large one.

Competitive/Cadre Lobbies
This requires an extensive amount of piece of work but we have it on our roadmap and are hoping to have this out in a future large Championship Update.

General Pack feedback items
We have received a mountain of feedback regarding our Gears Pack system. We are looking into ways of improving the experience for all users and we are also looking at additional opportunities to help players obtain packs. Nosotros will keep you posted on these notes in the near futurity.

Footsteps of teammates much louder than opponents
We believe DeeBee pace audio seems to be in a good place based off of feedback from y'all all. We are looking at increasing human and swarm footstep audio. This will exist in a future title update.

PC Crossplay Request / Inability to find matches in Core & Competitive
We will be experimenting with Social crossplay weekends. During this time nosotros will be looking at backend telemetry on the functioning of players. Afterward we gather some information, we volition look into what nosotros tin can potentially do for further crossplay opportunities. We will too be looking into offering Bonus XP in specific modes that will be constantly rotating either each day or on a weekly basis to assistance incentivize people to try out each of our dissimilar game modes. This would be for both platforms XB1 and PC. Nosotros will keep yous posted on when these updates hit.

Gnasher shots firing simply ammo non depleting and registering
We take a set up for this in our next large Championship Update

0% / 100% UI notifications
This is tied to Unreal rounding numbers up and down and thus confusing people with the numbers they are displaying. We are going to see if we tin can address this then it comes beyond a fleck more clear on what your true damage and damage taken is. This will occur in a future update.

Backfilling in Horde Matchmaking
Nosotros desire to remind people here that you tin invite people from your friends list if someone drops off. Nosotros volition continue looking into this but wanted to remind that this feature exists and also allows for the user who is existence invited to empathise what scenario they are about to enter.

KOTH/Execution Fourth dimension Adjustments
Execution I believe is currently set for x minutes. That's long! Nosotros are going to readjust this so players aren't stalemating for long periods of time. KOTH will be reduced to 1 round in social and we will listen to additional dialogue from Core players if this needs to be reduced downwards or non. We expect these changes in the side by side Title Update if not sooner.

Windows Insiders not being able to play
There is now a new Insider Build that corrects this effect. (Build 14951). You can read more about it here: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/x/19/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-14951-for-mobile-and-pc/

Ranks non displaying for other users in Squad
We are aware of this. We want to display ranks for other users in the team. This will be in a future Title Update, but will non exist present in the next i.

Horde Grade Icons in Scoreboard
We are likewise aware of this i. We want people to be enlightened of other classes they are working with in-game. This will be in a future Title Update, but will not exist present in the next one.

PC Mics not working correctly at all times
We are looking into this one and have a time to come Title Update that will accost this issue.

Horde Score corruption bug
We have received a few reports on this and have fixes coming related to this. We will probably also look into wiping leaderboards after this is done to ensure players can compete to attain legitimate scores.

Grenade spawning upshot
Nosotros have this issue logged and volition have a gear up for this in a hereafter Title Update.

Players sometimes leaving maps
Nosotros accept this issue logged and will have a ready for this in a future Championship Update. Players caught abusing this volition be subject to disciplinary action including suspensions and bans.

Some of y'all may ask, "Why are these landing in Championship Updates and why aren't they beingness addressed tomorrow?" Sometimes changing things requires a Title Update and sometimes we can do smaller scale updates through our back end services construction. Information technology's the nature of the system. We tin sometimes do quick Championship Updates to tackle blockers, such as the updates we released at launch and concluding Friday, but those are singular fixes that we tin speed through the certification process due to how small they are.

We have plenty planned for upcoming community events, additional game content, maps and more to share in the near future. You tin can expect news on some of those pieces very before long. Again, we profoundly appreciate all the feedback. We have a great internal live team working through all of these and our mission is to ensure we can tackle as many of these feedback items equally possible. Nosotros will keep you guys posted on whatsoever changes to the above list along with any additions. Thanks!