Gears 5 Service Update: September 15, 5:25 pm PT The team is aware of crashes and disconnects currently disrupting online play and are investigating the outages. Thank you for your patience.

This issue is now resolved. Thank you for your reports.

The full grant is complete! Players who participated should now be able to rock V-Day Marcus. 😎

Announcing our third #Gears5 Women's Tournament in partnership with Xbox, @smashgg, and ASTRO Gaming. 💰 $5,000 Prize Pool 🗓️ Saturday, October 2nd Round up your squad and register now at smash.gg/xbox-tournamen…

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Gears 5 Service Update: October 7, 11:20 am PT The team is aware of disconnects currently disrupting online play and are investigating the outages. Thank you for your patience.

This issue is now resolved. As always, thanks for your patience and your reports!

Heads up Gears, as a reminder, there will be no This Week in Gears blog on Monday, October 11 as the studio will be closed to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving. More details can be found in our latest blog post. msft.it/6013XqMbd

Heads up Gears, the forums will be offline from 2 pm - 4 pm PT today as the team will be running a routine update.

Heads up Gears, the store will go live at 12:00pm PT today. As a reminder, you can find the post-operations details on the new Seasons, Tour of Duty, events, and store refreshes here: msft.it/6017XFLpD

The Test Tuning went live today! In a few days we'll run a poll in our Gears Forums post to see which tuning you prefer. Current or new? Make sure to play the Control: Tuning Updates Event, and catch all the details here: ➡️ msft.it/6013X2dWB

The Versus: Control poll is now live. Let us know which tuning you prefer: xbx.social/6018XfUkE

PSA: All rewards for Season 8 of Competitive have now been rolled out. Please reach out to xbx.social/6019X7JU3 if you need assistance. Nice effort, all!

Poll results are in. Our tuning updates will be going live across all #Gears5 Versus modes next week on Tuesday. Thank you for participating. Time to get slaying!

PSA: The tuning updates went live today. Check out the changes: xbx.social/6016kz73k Additionally, the team have deployed a hot fix to restore ammo for the Longshot, Torque Bow, and EMBAR to their intended values. Thanks for your reports.

Heads up Gears, the forums will be read-only from 1 pm to 4 pm PT today as the team performs routine maintenance.

@Imlevelzer0 @FluffyDeathBear Gears of War The tab feature didn't fit this Season's store model, but Season 9 store items will be back for Gears Coins early in January next year. Thanks for staying tuned!

The team is rolling out an update that will prevent the stats and leaderboards service from freezing each time it restarts going forward. Stats and leaderboards will be down while maintenance lasts but will be back up around 12pm PT. Thank you for your patience.