In one particular instance, the game wouldn't move on at all despite us doing exactly as asked.Īt one point early in Gears 5, you’re required to upgrade Jack through the menu system we did it, yet we were still told to do it by the mission prompt. Sometimes, even the first person going through a blocked passageway seems to only work for one player. And then, of course, it would occasionally decide to boot one of us from the game.Īs a very co-op focused issue, there are several instances where the game informs you of something you can do, but if the wrong person does it, the task remains incomplete. Sometimes, when they managed to get to the location, the game took a minute or two to realize we were ready. Until then, there was no way to complete the objective. During three different firefights, AI-controlled Cole and series newcomer Fahz just ran on the spot or got stuck behind cover, forcing us to run the opposite direction to snap them out of it, or “displace” them with a frag grenade. While server issues seem to be the core problem affecting base progression, confused AI can regularly hold things back.

It’s not just co-op, either players are regularly finding themselves losing progress and collectibles, or locking up their consoles entirely and leading to a hard restart. Minutes later, I’d be booted again and unable to rejoin without him also jumping out of, and back into, the action.Ĭheckpoints in 'Gears 5' are frequent but have the habit of locking up the game entirely.

Upon return, one of us missed the story and had to rely on the other for a briefing.Īt other points, I found myself stranded with just the “checkpoint reached” cursor rotating the rest of the game had frozen while my friend continued playing.

Routinely, one of us would be pushed into the video while the other was dumped out to a blue cog loading screen– Gears 5’s equivalent of the Blue Screen of Death–for minutes at a time before being told we’d timed out. On a few occasions, we found ourselves being split up by FMVs and autosaves. If you’re planning on starting it soon, you might face the following five bumps in the road, and fingers crossed for them being patched soon.Įvery game has server issues, but I’ve never experienced them on a co-op campaign. At its worst, a multitude of issues make the campaign almost unapproachable.

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