Gears of War: Reloaded aimed to revive the famous, original title from years ago with a lot of visual rework and improvements in quality. It launched on August 26, 2025, and is available on Xbox, PC, and PS5, unlike its predecessor, which was exclusive to Xbox. The developers are also working on a new game in the franchise titled ‘Gears of War: E-Day’. It is set to release in 2026, and we can expect major graphics and gameplay mechanics improvements compared to the previous releases. That aside, we are going to focus on the latest release, Gears of War: Reloaded, in this article and address some of the issues surrounding the game.
Gears of War: Reloaded multiplayer and matchmaking not working: How to fix it?
It is customary for games to go through a public beta test to identify issues before final launch. Gears of War: Reloaded also went through the beta phase in June 2025 and had matchmaking issues then as well. To access the beta, the players needed one of the following: An active Game Pass, pre-ordering the game, or having the ownership of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition. Naturally, the developers are expected to look into the matter fully or keep its effect to a bare minimum during full release. However, this was not the case, thus drawing sharp criticisms from the players.
The problem with matchmaking and multiplayer may be attributed to the fact that this game is playable on different platforms and allows cross-platform play. This new experience could have caused trouble for the developers, who took some time to figure out a solution.
Fixes
Apparently, a user on Reddit pointed out that turning off the crossplay settings allowed him to play the game. If you are on PC & has NVIDIA graphics, you can try toggling off fluid frame gen from video settings, this has reduced input lag for many players and improved multiplayer connectivity to the game.
Conclusion
The Gears Community recently posted on their X account stating that the issue had been resolved. Tracking their posts since August 27, one can see that they took on several problems. This included frequent crashes on Steam, missing pre-order character skins, and the current issue. Although the public servers were down, the maintenance did not affect hosting on private servers or campaign mode. We can hope that there will be no further mishaps in the reloaded version. Even if things go wrong, the developers have been actively resolving one issue after the other since its release.
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