Gears of War Reloaded developer The Coalition has extended the second weekend of the game’s beta, which along with more time will also include more modes and more maps for participants to check out.
The upcoming weekend’s beta will now run between 20th June 8pm UK time until 23rd June 5am UK time, and feature five maps for both Social Team Deathmatch and Competitive King of the Hill and Execution. Initially, things were planned to be wrapped up within 48 hours and with less variety.
As to why the team has decided to do this? Well, “we heard you,” is what it wrote in a post on social media.
You see, the first Gears of War Reloaded beta weekend didn’t exactly go all that smoothly for the developer, and there were multiple reports from players of server instability as well as technical issues. Many were quite vocal about their experiences.
“Most of the Twitch stream thumbnails are of people sitting trying to find a match. When you eventually can get into a match, everybody is laggy and when you start shooting somebody they just disappear and then randomly you die or they stutter back and forth taking multiple full clips and not dying,” read one such post on social media following the first beta. “I knew the beta was probably gonna be bad but this is just terrible and unacceptable.”
Hopefully things will go a bit better this weekend.
Gears of War Reloaded – which is a revamped edition of the original Gears of War game – will be making its full arrival on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on 26th August.
It will feature faster frame rates and “deeper visual fidelity”, with the studio promising “clarity, smoothness, and immersion that matches the power of today’s hardware”.