In an interview with IGN, Gears 5 Lead Producer, Zoe Curnoe confirmed that Hivebusters will add up to four hours to the game, but it wasn’t revealed if the DLC will be free. Not much of the story was revealed, it seems that the DLC is mostly made to showcase the enhancements that can be accomplished while playing on Xbox Series X|S.
“So the things that we’re doing with global illumination and constant mapping I think are a good example, and we’ve made sure that the content is really set up to take advantage of that. The ultra-res textures are now there and we can kind of tune them and make sure that they really show up in 4K resolution with the additional memory we have on these consoles and the ability to stream them in super fast.”
Gears 5 Hivebusters Key features:
- Two new difficulty modes (Ironman and Inconceivable)
- Character Skins for Kait, Del, and JD
- Weapon Skins
- Jack upgrades carry over
- Mutators (Big head mode, etc)
- New achievements