{"id":89431,"date":"2026-10-01T20:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89431"},"modified":"2026-10-01T20:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:12:06","slug":"gears-of-war-e-day-missing-classic-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89431","title":{"rendered":"Gears of War: E-Day Missing Classic Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Classic features such as taking enemies hostage as &#8220;meat shields&#8221; and dueling with the chainsaw attachments on Lancer assault rifles won&#8217;t be in Gears of War: E-Day at launch. According to a developer blog from The Coalition, it wasn&#8217;t possible to build these features out for launch because this prequel was built from scratch, rather than on the bones of previous Gears of War titles.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;We started E-Day with an empty hard drive building our entire gameplay sandbox from scratch to ensure a more unified gameplay experience across Campaign, PVE and PVP,&#8221; The Coalition said. &#8220;This new sandbox also allowed for innovation in cover, combat and enemies. The trade-off being that including every legacy feature from Gears of War was not possible for launch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The developer said it is working hard to deliver these features, along with Private Lobbies and leaderboards, post-launch or in its next title. If The Coalition makes another one, I hope they call it Gears of War: Bidet.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-slideshow\"><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">The Complete Gears of War Timeline (So Far)<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img alt=\"Welcome to the Gears of War timeline, which includes the games, novels, and comics.&#10;&lt;br\/&gt;&lt;br\/&gt;&#10;There are some story spoilers for all Gears of War lore throughout the slideshow, so be wary of reading slides for stories you've not yet finished.\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2277167929 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"\/><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/output><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">E-Day&#8217;s first Season kicks off with the Early Access release (today at 8am PT \/ 11am ET) and runs for eight weeks until December 1. The Season includes all launch maps, modes, and cosmetics, as well as three seasonal events: Halloween, 20 Years of Gears, and Thanksgibbing. Ranked modes arrives later, on October 13. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Elsewhere, the blog talks about big changes to the Gnasher, Gears of War&#8217;s iconic shotgun that turns other players into giblets. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">In previous games, hip firing the Gnasher resulted in a blast in whatever direction your character was facing. In E-Day, this system blends camera aiming and muzzle position to give players more control over those last-minute boomstick blasts.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-video\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Last month, Xbox laid off a further 268 members of staff, with the story director of E-Day among those cut. In June 2024, Microsoft pledged to continue the story of Gears of War and wrap up the cliffhanger posed by Gears 5&#8217;s ending, despite creating a prequel first with E-Day. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Whether that still comes to fruition or not likely depends on the success of E-Day, with developers at The Coalition reportedly already concerned they&#8217;ll face cuts as soon as the upcoming game launches. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to believe anything they say anymore,&#8221; a The Coalition developer told Eurogamer.<\/p>\n<p><span data-cy=\"poll-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<section class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\"\/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/gears-of-war-e-day-missing-meat-shields\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classic features such as taking enemies hostage as &#8220;meat shields&#8221; and dueling with the chainsaw attachments on Lancer assault rifles won&#8217;t be in Gears of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1774,12687,8209,8455,504,3544],"class_list":["post-89431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-classic","tag-eday","tag-features","tag-gears","tag-missing","tag-war","wpcat-32-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}