New Gears 5 Multiplayer Characters Enter the Fray

New Characters Join Gears 5’s Multiplayer Roster

Six new Gears 5 multiplayer characters became available in an update that went live Wednesday. Most of these new characters can only be played in Versus Arcade mode.

Aside from four new Gears universe characters, the update also comes with two new Terminator characters, Grace and the literal killing machine Rev-9. The new Gears characters can be earned either through gameplay or from purchasing them for 500 Iron each but the Terminator characters must be purchased in a $19.99 USD character pack, according to Xbox Wire.

Here’s a list of all the new characters, per Xbox Wire:

COG Soldier (Hero)

• Horde & Escape Abilities (Support Role)
  • Ultimate – ‘Team Revive’ Instantly revive yourself and any ally in your team which are down, but not out
  • Passive – Enemies that die with your mark reduce the cooldown on your Ultimate
• Versus Arcade Abilities
  • Loadout – Lancer, Auto Pistol, Smoke Grenade
  • Passive – Kills reward supply of Active Reload ammo to current weapon (0.5 multiplied by the clip size of the weapon)
  • Bounty – Multi-kills reward +1 skull (six-second window frame)

DeeBee (Hero, Robot)

• Versus Arcade Abilities
  • Loadout – Lancer, Auto Pistol, Smoke Grenade
  • Passive – Short range X-Ray vision through walls
  • Bounty – Execution kills award +1 skulls

General RAAM (Villain, Locust)

• Versus Arcade Abilities
  • Loadout – Lancer, Auto Pistol, Smoke Grenade
  • Passive Ability – Kills reward supply of Active Reload ammo to current weapon (0.5 multiplied by the clip size of the weapon)
  • Bounty – Multi-kills reward +1 skull (six-second window frame)

Warden (Villain, Scion)

• Versus Arcade Abilities
  • Loadout: Lancer, Auto Pistol, Smoke Grenade
  • Passive: X-Ray vision through walls (1500 Unreal units/49 feet)
  • Bounty: Execution kill rewards +1 skulls

Grace

• Horde & Escape Abilities (Tank Role)
  • Ultimate – ‘Enhanced Melee’ – All melee hits will knockback and stun enemies
  • Passive – Taking damage reduces Ultimate cooldown time
• Versus Arcade Abilities
  • Loadout – Enforcer, Snub, Flashbang
  • Passive – 75% Explosive resistance
  • Bounty – Explosive Kills +1 skull

Rev- 9

• Bounty – Multi Kills +1 skull

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