Gears & Beers Fridays

Don’t worry — Xbox Live seems to be down anyway.

EDIT:

“No big deal, I’ll just play the campaign for awhile...oh.”

(Figured out how to do offline play, but it took some googling.)

Welp... Restarted my Xbox after getting the whole "game isn't out yet". Can't even log in now...

Xbox Live Core Services are down, preventing logins at the moment...

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-...

Ok guys, I just got back from dinner with my kids! Time to play some Gea.... oh.

Saw that it was live last night, so I played through the tutorial. I think you need the Game Pass Ultimate for early access. At least if you are playing the Game Pass version.

Father-in-law is here and dinner is cooking, so I doubt I get a chance to jump in tonight. But I'm pretty anxious to..

This is.....not off to a good start. Hahaha. Well, I’m in. I think. I mean, the game is playing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are some people able to get in to Xbox Live? The entire service is down for me.

Yes. SirPrize and I are playing (and getting booted from online matches) as we speak.

It's down for me (on PC, though I don't think it matters). I'm playing a game on Steam while I wait.

I'll see you all tomorrow night or next Friday (if they don't fix the sign-in servers). Happy chainsawing!

I'll be on tonight if anyone wants to try again tonight.

Anyone up for some COGs and Coffees in a little while?

Ok, I've added everyone that I wasn't already friends with that has a gamertag in their sig.

Hopefully I'll see some of y'all on tonight.

Mic echo issues... Will try to fix that this week and be back for next weekend's Gears and Beers.

*rubs sleep from eyes*

Oh hey everyone. New Gears eh?

To those of you who can't play because you just have Gamepass. I asked about it in the Gamepass thread...here is what I learned

merphle wrote:
farley3k wrote:

What am I doing wrong? I have GamePass, I have installed Gears 5 but when I try to start it is says "Gears 5 isn't unlocked yet visit the store to see when you can play it."

Grr...

I think it only unlocked early for holders of Game Pass "Ultimate" (the one that covers both PC and XBox One).

Gears 5 Friday! Who’s in?

InigoMantoya wrote:

Gears 5 Friday! Who’s in?

Me! I was crushed that XBL was down last week. I was also wondering why there wasn't more chatter in the Gears 5 thread - glad I found this one!

So let me ask what I was asking over there - do we still play Warzone? Seems like the devs have shoved it in a corner.

I'm in for NEXT week, but I'm going camping this weekend.

Hey Fed,

It looks like they are trying to push arcade as the new war zone. I figure we’ll be playing through the options to find what works for our group. Good to see you back.

InigoMantoya wrote:

Gears and Beers

Join us on Friday nights starting around 9pm EST.

Be sure to join the GWJ Gears Clan (make sure you mention you are a goodger in your request) to see who is online for our Friday night spectacular!

Following the link I found a GWJ Gears n Beers club and I requested an invitation. I als see GWJ Gears Clan as a person I can add as a friend so I did that too.

Hopefully between those two I will be able to join up tonight.

InigoMantoya wrote:

Hey Fed,

It looks like they are trying to push arcade as the new war zone. I figure we’ll be playing through the options to find what works for our group. Good to see you back.

I'm down for whatever. I think to get Warzone you have to make a custom lobby for it, and not use Arcade Mode.

Warzone is a best X out of X now. So, it’s pretty cool. I think it’s first 4 out of 7? We played some ranked last week when everyone was in Xbox Jail.

Something we discovered last week, you cannot play casual playlist with more than 3 people. Only ranked and arcade. That is stupid. That is very very stupid. Stupid stupid stupid.

skeletonframes wrote:

Warzone is a best X out of X now. So, it’s pretty cool. I think it’s first 4 out of 7? We played some ranked last week when everyone was in Xbox Jail.

Something we discovered last week, you cannot play casual playlist with more than 3 people. Only ranked and arcade. That is stupid. That is very very stupid. Stupid stupid stupid.

Wasn't Warzone always best X out of Y? I thought it was.

I'll be around tonight, maybe 9:30est or later.

Personally, I like Wingman mode.

PWAlessi wrote:

Personally, I like Wingman mode.

What's Wingman?

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Gears n Beers XBOX Club up to date. If you don't see it listed in your clubs please join and I'll get to adding you ASAP. 5 hours to go.

Added request would like to play tonight!

Oops! Not wingman...that was the teams of 2 mode. I meant Guardian. The one where there is 1 LEADER on a team and the team can respawn while the leader is alive but once the leader is dead, there are no more respawns.