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· Games / Gears Tactics
Gears Tactics Gears Tactics is a completely different way to play in the same world. You're still dealing with the Locust, cover, executions, and soldiers who need to work together, but you're doing it through turn-based combat instead of c...
Read the full post· Games / Gears 5: Hivebusters
Hivebusters — all 23 collectibles and 12 ability upgrades This is the expansion, not Gears 5's main campaign. There are 35 pickups here, but two separate achievements: 23 story collectibles for Searching for Answers, and 12 ability upgrades...
Read the full post· Games / Gears 5: Hivebusters
Hivebusters — all 15 achievements Expansion achievements only; Escape mode is a different part of Gears 5. Story progression The first six are story milestones; the seventh is full-campaign completion. None needs a separate combat trick: 1....
Read the full post· Games / Gears 5: Hivebusters
Gears 5: Hivebusters Hivebusters gives another squad a chance to carry a Gears story. Lahni, Mac and Keegan aren't just three alternate faces to put in the same campaign. This is Scorpio Squad's origin, with Hoffman sending them on a missio...
Read the full post· Games / Gears 5
Gears 5 — all 98 Operation and update achievements Companion to the 68 base-game and 15 Hivebusters entries: 181 total. The important thing here is not to follow a launch-era guide blindly. Characters and PvE classes were separated. Ranked...
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Gears 5 — base-game achievement guide Updated terminology matters: PvE classes and character appearances are now separate. Equipping a Kait skin is not the same as leveling Infiltrator. This section covers the original 68; Operations, Campa...
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Gears 5: weapons and the changes from Gears 4 Gears 5 gives you three very different reasons to carry a Lancer. The standard one has the chainsaw. The Retro has the blade charge. The GL trades those close-range attachments for a grenade lau...
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Gears 5 — Jack components and ultimate upgrades 289 component units, not 289 separate containers. Packs contain 1, 3 or 5. Act totals 16 + 106 + 152 + 15 = 289. Fully upgrading Jack requires 273 plus all seven ultimate upgrades. Research-ch...
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Gears 5 — all 17 Relic weapons These campaign variants are found in Acts2–3. Look for the painted Crimson Omen near the hiding place, not a guaranteed automatic map marker. For Relics of the Past, get an actual kill with each weapon. Pickin...
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Gears 5 — all 90 campaign collectibles This is the base campaign, not Hivebusters. Names are shortened for a readable checklist. Components and Relic weapons have separate lists. Research-based directions, not a claim that I replayed these...
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Gears 5 Gears 5 moves more of the attention to Kait and the connection between her family and the Locust. That gives the story something different to work through. You're still fighting the Swarm, but Kait also needs to understand where she...
Read the full post· Games / Gears of War 4
Gears of War 4: the weapons and the changes The familiar weapons are still a big part of Gears 4, but the new ones make you pay attention to how you're firing. The Overkill reacts when you release the trigger. The Dropshot waits for you to...
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Gears of War 4 — Chest Candy ribbon checklist Not posted. This is the part I'd keep open beside the game. The achievement uses 138 launch ribbons. Ole!, Not Today and Smorgasbord are excluded; don't let those three hold up the rest of your...
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Gears of War 4 — all 89 title-update achievements Not posted. Continues the numbered base-game checklist at 76. These are achievement updates, not a claim that you need to buy six campaign DLCs. Rise of the Horde: 20 Start with upgraded cla...
Read the full post· Games / Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Part of that same quest I was just talking about led into this repentance thing. Everything I've done in the game, I'm having to repent to Johanka for, including the stuff that happened with Adela and Lady Stephanie and the bathhouses and m...
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Gears of War 4 — base-game achievement guide Not posted. This one is a whole project, not something you're knocking out because you finished the story. I'm separating campaign, Horde and Versus so you can actually keep up with what you're d...
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Gears of War 4: campaign collectible route Xbox One/Windows campaign; numbered route includes 40 other items and 10 COG tags. This is researched, not a claim of firsthand testing. Names abbreviated where the landmark is clearer. Check the W...
Read the full post· Games / Kingdom Come: Deliverance
I'm having a lot of fun with the Johanka mission on Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I think it's one of the DLCs. It was probably one of the longest quest chains that I've experienced. I started off by helping her out with all of the sick patien...
Read the full post· Games / Gears of War 4
Gears of War 4 Gears of War 4 brings the story forward to a different generation, and Marcus's dynamic with his son is one of the things I love about the series. JD Fenix is at the center of this one with Kait and Del. Marcus is still there...
Read the full post· Games / Gears of War: Judgment
Judgment: weapons, controls and what feels different Judgment changes more than the people you're playing as. You can feel the difference just switching weapons and throwing a grenade. Coming straight from the trilogy, your hands can be try...
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