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Gears of War: E-Day has received a significant update on October 14, addressing bugs and performance issues across Campaign, Horde Siege and Versus. The patch improves stability and memory management on PC, Xbox and handhelds, fixes account linking and login problems, and resolves an issue that incorrectly assigned players to Ranked skill divisions.
The update also tackles several progression blockers, splitscreen issues and gameplay bugs across the game’s different modes. Players should be aware that missing collectibles and certain campaign rewards cannot be restored automatically, although the developers have provided workarounds for recovering missing rewards.
Gears of War: E-Day October 14 Patch Notes
Quality of Life Improvements
- Reduced the size of on-screen diagnostic text in the bottom-left corner.
- Added a setting to disable audio chimes for Campaign collectibles.
General Fixes
- Improved stability and optimisation across applicable hardware configurations on PC, Xbox and handhelds.
- Made multiple memory improvements to address crashes and performance degradation during long play sessions.
- Fixed several account linking and login issues.
- Resolved multiple problems with the Social Menu and friends list.
- Improved server-side anti-cheat protection.
- Fixed an issue causing certain colourblind settings to display incorrectly.
- Fixed multiple Weapon Mod issues in Campaign and Horde Siege that caused mods to behave differently from their descriptions.
- Resolved a Ranked placement issue that incorrectly assigned some players to the wrong skill divisions.
Campaign Fixes
- Fixed multiple issues preventing parts of War Journal and Achievement progress from tracking correctly.
- Fixed an issue causing progression to stop tracking during co-op sessions.
- Fixed a splitscreen issue preventing a second player from joining while navigating the main menu.
- Fixed an issue causing points of interest (POI) prompts to remain on-screen.
- Fixed an issue causing executions to interrupt revives.
- Fixed an issue causing cancelled Ready-Up votes to display a “Players Out of Range” error.
- Fixed a splitscreen issue causing players to lose control input after interacting with a Supply Cache.
- Fixed an issue causing the player’s reticle to display the wrong colour when aiming at a Bilefrog’s mouth.
- Fixed an issue causing Manned Turret Fortification animations to disappear when joining an ongoing session.
Chapter-Specific Fixes
- Act One, Chapter One: Fixed an issue causing unkillable enemies to spawn.
- Act Two, Chapter One: Fixed a splitscreen issue preventing progression after a player disconnected.
- Act Two, Chapter One: Fixed an issue causing combat encounters to fail to initialise.
- Act Three, Chapter Two: Fixed an issue preventing the boss from returning to the encounter area.
- Act Three, Chapter Four: Fixed an issue causing weapons to appear incorrectly during the cinematic.
- Act Three, Chapter Four: Fixed an issue causing NPCs to ignore nearby enemies.
- Act Four, Chapter One: Fixed a splitscreen issue causing Player 2 to lose their screen after the cinematic.
- Act Four, Chapter One: Fixed an issue causing a Wretch to spawn out of bounds and block progression.
- Act Five, Chapter Two: Fixed an issue causing players to become stuck in the elevator.
- Act Five, Chapter Four: Fixed an issue causing the bridge switch to become unresponsive.
Missing Collectibles and Rewards
- Missing collectibles cannot be automatically restored. Players can identify which collectibles are missing and collect them again.
- Missing campaign rewards, including characters and titles earned through Campaign completion, cannot be automatically restored.
- To recover missing campaign rewards, players can start a new campaign from a completed mission and replay that mission to earn the missing rewards again.
Horde Siege Fixes
- Fixed an issue causing the Medic’s Tactical Gear, Stim Vaporizer, to fail to revive friendly players when the Friendly Fire modifier was active.
- Fixed an issue causing enemies emerging from E-Holes to briefly become invisible.
- Fixed an issue preventing players from changing the spectator camera after dying.
- Fixed an issue causing the Corpser to become invulnerable during an Invasion Event.
- Fixed an issue allowing two squads to have the same R.I.G. objective at the same time.
- Fixed multiple issues with the Scoria Invasion Event.
- Fixed multiple issues with the match intro sequence.
- Fixed an issue allowing players to mount Mortar Sentries to Manned Turret Fortifications.
- Fixed an issue causing players to spawn with missing ammunition.
- Fixed an issue causing Boomers to become stuck in the Armadillo Factory on the Prospect Bay map.
- Fixed missing sound effects when reactivating the Supply Cache during a Secure objective.
- Fixed an issue preventing Horde Siege missions from ending when squad members left during extraction.
- Fixed an issue causing E-Holes to interfere with Secondary Objective locations.
- Fixed an issue preventing players from interacting with a damaged R.I.G. during the defence phase of Repair objectives.
- Fixed an issue causing enemies to occasionally gather at the bottom of ladders.
Versus Fixes
Demolition and Crucible
- Demolition: Fixed an issue causing the bomb to become unresponsive if dropped while planting.
- Demolition: Fixed an issue causing the bomb to become stuck on Park.
- Demolition and Crucible: Fixed an issue causing nearby weapons to take priority over objectives when players attempted to interact with them.
Maps and Game Modes
- Skyward: Fixed an issue preventing the Torque Bow’s Active Reload bar from appearing.
- Precinct, Team Deathmatch: Fixed an issue on Xbox Series S causing multiple weapons’ Active Reload bars to disappear.
- Precinct, Conquest: Fixed an issue allowing players to control zones from outside the designated area.
- Warpath: Fixed an issue causing overtime to start when the zone was neutral and one team was leading.
Combat and Gameplay Fixes
- Fixed an issue preventing the Lancer Mk1 from killing enemies with melee attacks.
- Fixed an issue allowing players to pass through the map when dying.
- Fixed an issue allowing enemies to kill players with melee attacks after being killed by those players with a Gnasher.
- Fixed an issue preventing players from receiving hit markers after landing Breechshot headshots.
- Fixed an issue causing the “Close Shave” and “Better Man” Ribbons to be awarded inconsistently when their requirements were met.
- Fixed an issue allowing friendly concussion grenades to concuss players.
- Fixed an issue allowing players to revive teammates from beyond the permitted distance.
- Fixed an issue causing players to become stuck in place when the player they were executing disconnected during the animation.
- Fixed an issue causing spawn protection to remain active while hip firing.
- Fixed an issue preventing players from firing while the scoreboard was open.
- Fixed an issue causing players to face the wrong direction when spawning.
- Fixed an issue causing the Omen to flicker when a down-but-not-out (DBNO) player was revived using a Stim Grenade.
- Fixed an issue causing players to become stuck in the profile menu during a match.
Gears of War: E-Day was released on October 6, 2026, for Windows and Xbox Series X/S. The game was developed by The Coalition and published by Xbox Game Studios.
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