So far, I haven’t seen Jack or these Deviant enemies. It’s a new game mode.īlinking through my sadness about Hot Dog’s unfair and untimely demise, I decided to get swole and start a new Jacked campaign - not for nothing, my third Gears Tactics save to date. In other words, Jacked isn’t a difficulty setting. On top of that, you can also turn on Ironman, a brutally difficult setting that forbids you from restarting missions. You can play Jacked games on any of the difficulty settings, from Beginner up through Insane. Your Jacked save files and your normal save files will show up together under the “load” menu, but each file is indicated as either a “Jacked” or “Classic” game. You have to choose Jacked at the start of a playthrough you can’t just hop into your old save file and tweak things. These additions are available in a new game mode that boasts the most Gears name possible: “Jacked.” Meanwhile, Jack, the flying, health-dispensing multitool from Gears 5, joins the fight with a level-up tree of more than 20 skills. To deal with them, there’s a new “supreme” gear tier of class-specific items that are more powerful than anything else. Deviant enemies are, apparently, super-powerful versions of rank-and-file enemies. The game’s console release comes alongside an update, for all platforms, that throws new enemies, new weapons, and a new playable character into the mix. That’s what matters most to my (extremely vision-corrected) eyes. Gears Tactics looks fantastic and runs with consistent smoothness no matter the platform. I don’t need a sky-high framerate to know whether or not Hot Dog, my erstwhile sniper, may he rest in peace, will nail a 64.01 m headshot. In a methodical strategy game? Take it or leave it. And even if the framerate is better on a purely calculable scale, I’m not sold on the importance. Cutscenes look the same as they did on PC. I’m told that my roommate’s PC is top-of-the-line - he’ll often shout out phrases like “144 frames per second” or “V-sync” - so, maybe it’s just my eyes, but I didn’t pick up any notable visual differences. On Xbox Series X, it can hit 60 frames per second at 4K resolution. Gears Tactics has also received an ostensible graphical boost. It surely won’t surprise you to hear that I’ve chosen to play with a controller.) Conversely, you can play on console with a mouse and keyboard. I didn’t play that way, opting instead to play as I assumed many PC players would. (It’s true that you can use a controller to play the game on PC. It’s all a matter of preference, I suppose. You might find that such games play better with a mouse-and-keyboard. Same goes for using the right and left triggers to flick through menu tabs. Clicking “A” and “X” to perform actions is second-nature, way more than tapping away at a mouse is. Rotating the view feels more natural, to me, with a thumbstick than with the arrow keys. Personally, I’m more comfortable with my hands on a controller than a keyboard. Simple: exactly how it plays on PC! The main difference comes down to what tools you use to play. I’m sad to report that all of my troops are dead. I’m happy to report that cross-save functionality works seamlessly between PC and Xbox Series X. Sure enough, that latest save file was immediately accessible - no hoops to jump through or settings to mess with or anything. I played through the first level again on PC. Whatever the case, it was high time to move on. Maybe he’s mad at me for that one time, back in May, when I forgot to put away the dishes and, as vengeance, decided to condemn my poor, innocent Gears to the dustbin of history. Maybe we just encountered a garden variety quirk that comes with things of this nature. Microsoft says save data syncs automatically between PC and Xbox, but neither of us could find mine anywhere, even after redownloading the game to his computer. Get this: He deleted the game from his computer! While I was near the end! Of the game! FINAL! BOSS! AHHH “New Game” sat there, taunting me with the digitally evaporated bones of my hard-earned, well-trained troops. My save file wasn’t there! The “Continue” option was grayed out. When I booted up Gears Tactics on my Xbox Series X, I panicked.
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