Gears of War 4 Uses NVIDIA PhysX for Wind Flares; Dev Teases Exciting Twist Near the Campaign's End

Gears of War 4 is surely one of the biggest game releases in 2022. Set 25 years subsequently the original trilogy, it features Marcus Fenix's son JD as the protagonist who has to face a new threat to humankind.

During Gamescom 2022, The Coalition appear all the specifications of the PC version; y'all can take a wait at them in our previous report. Creative Director Chuck Osieja so talked nigh NVIDIA PhysX, which is used in Gears of War four for the game'due south wind flares, in a video interview with NGN (Nvidia Gaming Network).

One of our large features with the game is wind flares, which are basically giant wind storms that tin happen at any time during the game, and manifestly PhysX helps us realize that inside the game. Typically those things are scripted, just with PhysX and NVIDIA's engineering we tin can make those systems that we tin can have anywhere in the game.

It actually has a huge impact on gameplay in that information technology tin can impact the way the actor moves through the surroundings, but also the projectiles and it brings encompass in and out at any one time, so it helped us realize stuff that we probably wouldn't have been able to practise otherwise.

In some other video interview with German YouTube channel Rocket Beans, Osieja teased something of a twist near the end of the game'due south campaign.

Yes! Simply I can't tell you nearly it. It's near the finish of the campaign and I'1000 super excited for people to encounter it. I retrieve people are going to love it because information technology feels similar Gears but it is something that'due south very interesting and I recall very exciting. I dear it, I think it'south fantastic.

In a presentation at Gamescom 2022, Osieja confirmed to usa that Gears of War 4'due south campaign should terminal effectually ten hours of gameplay - though in that location's plenty more to do with Horde Mode and the competitive modes.

Gears of War iv will be out for Windows 10 PC and Xbox Ane on October eleven.