Gears 5 Hotfix Resolves Gnasher Issues and Map Bugs

The Coalition has a new hotfix for Gears 5. Resolving issues regarding Gnasher hipfire, cover canceling, and more.

<>GAMEPLAY

Gnasher: Improvements to hipfire Gnasher consistency in situations where two enemies were close together. Magnetism should now be more consistently applied to the enemy most closely aligned with your muzzle position.

Gnasher: Fixed an issue causing players to lose pellet magnetism on enemies performing a mantle at certain angles

Cover: Fixed an issue that could cause cover cancelling to happen unintentionally more often under certain circumstances

Tour of Duty: Ring Master Medal now correctly tracks in Quickplay

<>HORDE & ESCAPE

Horde Frenzy: Progressing too quickly will no longer causes 4 bosses to spawn at once

Canals: Enemies should no longer frequently spawn very close to the fabricator

Baird: The Precision Repairs card will now correctly activate when killing a DBNO enemy

<>MAPS

Pahanu: VFX and SFX will now be shown / played when the Gnasher pellets hit the deep water on the map

<>USER INTERFACE

The ‘!’ notification will now appear consistently in the Quick Menu over News whenever a new post is added

Map selection will no longer revert to the first map in the list when returning back from a match

Fixed an issue causing weapon skins to revert back to the previously selected one after entering/exiting the Expressions screen.

Tour of Duty Medal Group headers can now be clicked with a mouse

Fixed an issue that could cause venom countdown timers to not appear when restarting an act after failing a run in Escape

Fixed an issue causing the selector in the scoreboard to sometimes disappear and teleport

The Next Rank button callout will now function properly with a mouse in Tour of Duty

<>AUDIO

Versus music will now consistently play after the end of a round

COG team will now be able to hear the round lost music

Locust Drone now plays the correct dialogue when throwing a smoke grenade

Gears 5 is now available PC and Xbox One.

Adam Siddiqui,
Senior Editor, NoobFeed
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