PW - A Multi-Gametype mod for Gears of War PC (Includes Guardian Playlist)

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PW

Created by CowboyLocust
Thanks to Bobfuria for helping to find bugs, you're doing a great job so far!
Thanks to Juggernut for the dropped weapons clearup console command, really helped with optimization!
Thanks to YOU, the GOW PC community for sticking by this game after all these years of it being left in the dust

Your Gears of War Installation MUST have the latest patch before installing this mod, make a backup of your Binaries folder just in case!

NOTE I RECOMMEND DELETING ANY PREVIOUS PW INSTALLATIONS BEFORE DOWNLOADING THIS!
This download has NO viruses although there has been a report of Avast being suspicious of the file (It's paranoid, probably because of the download component)

1- What is PW?
2- Optional Downloadable Content (It's free obviously!)
3- Contribute to Development!
4- Current Playlists
5- Known Issues
6- Screenshots
7- Installation instructions

[1] What is PW?
PW is a mod project developed for Gears of War PC. The idea is several different types of 'game modes' consisting of offline bot gameplay bundled into one mod. The mod is managed server-side & automatically updated so things are always kept fresh and improvements are always being made. The MOD is currently an evolving BETA which will be consistently be updated every couple of weeks and eventually evolve into a more polished and final product.
Use features to your advantage such as the overhead minimap to find enemies around corners, if you feel like taking a gamble then have a shot at the mystery box when it unlocks to see if you are rewarded. Beware though, the Box contains both good and bad things, you could end up with a useful explosives inventory pack or you could have your weapons removed completely!

PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME THINGS ARE UNFINISHED (Such as the ribbons)

Earn ribbons such as 'Bowman', where you have to headshot an enemy with the Torque Bow along the way as you play and then complete challenges to earn medals such as 'Archery Master', where you have to get 3 headshots with the torque bow in a match. Your ribbons & medals will be counted up at the end of the match and you are given the option to take a screenshot of your awards.

[1]Optional Downloadable Content (It's free obviously)
You can download optional character packs and map packs to add to your PW experience! From this BETA onwards you can download the 'War Pigs' character pack which features several characters. The characters included in this pack are:
Onyx Guard
COG Gear
Ben Carmine

Beast Rider
Flame Grenadier
Miner
Spotter
(Please note that the character materials in this pack are currently rough they will be patched at a later date)


[2] Contribute to Development!
PW is currently in BETA stage. This means there WILL be bugs. Is a weapon underpowered? Do bots have an overpowered weapon? Leave your feedback in a post on this forum and if sufficient data is evident that a change is needed then that change will be made over the air right away without you needing to do a thing. The new changes would take effect when GOW is next launched and you can then see the update notes in the Main Menu if it notifies you that new notes are there. Something not working as intended? Report it and I will immediately work on fixing the bug. Once a collection of fixes & improvements are made an update will be pushed out. PWbinaries allows me to automatically update the mod without you having to do a thing, if an update is available it will download upon launching Gears of War.

[3] Current Playlists:
- Team Deathmatch
- 'One Man'
- Guardian
- Hardcore TDM
- Hardcore 'One Man'

[6]Known Issues:


[6] Screenshots:


(These screenshots are from January 2012, more updated ones coming soon)

[7]Installation Instructions

MAKE SURE UAC (USER ACCOUNT CONTROL) IS DISABLED BEFORE CONTINUING AS IT INTERFERES WITH PWBINARIES !

1. Download the PW Installer from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?xk2hs9apycenavm
2 Launch the file and within a few seconds you should see this screen:

Navigate to your Documents folder, click it then press OK. If you don't see this window try minimising some windows as it likes to hide sometimes!
3. A few seconds later you should see this screen:

Navigate to your GOW Installation's Binaries folder and press OK. This is NOT the one that is in Documents\My Games\Gears of War for Windows, it will be where your main GOW installation is in Program Files for example!
4. After you have pressed OK a few seconds later the PW Content Manager should load up as shown below (A shortcut to PW Content Manager will be placed on your desktop too):

Click the "Download PW" button at the bottom right, it will begin the PW download & installation process which is entirely automated.
5. Once the PW install process is complete (It will tell you on the Home tab under Download Information) go ahead and click the Map Packs tab, click BETA Map Pack and then click the Download Pack button at bottom right.

6. Launch Gears of War and you should be prompted with this screen:

Enter your forum username here or your Live Gamertag. This is for helping with tracking down bugs so if the PW client experiences an error it emails me an error report and I know what client had this error. This is also used to keep track of client's version of PW and for exclusive character content in the future!
7. Once you enter your forum ID and click OK, the program may lock up for a few seconds this is normal! The window will disappear and a few seconds later your Gears of War will launch!
8. Open the console and type "open wz_warmachine_k" without the quotes and enjoy!

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Post reserved for future Awards list (Ribbons & Medals)

[XxXbObXxX]

Error connecting to PW server

Did not saw Onyx guard pic nor the mumbo jumbo from pic.

Avast is possibly in the way? Evrything else is good so far.

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Possibly avast, it is strict as hell these days I will test on laptop later and try to clear up any last minute issues! Either that or just a small hiccup and it would load upon restarting

[Drone *]

There will be an update out by next Friday which will contain several bug fixes and improvements. It will fix the teammates not spawning when on Locust on TDM playlist, The issue where the weapons and Mystery Box row of ribbons don't show has been fixed, removed the star from leader on Guardian when playing as Locust, Teammate leaders & player leader's health will be less with a longer health recharge time whilst enemy leaders will have significantly more Health on Guardian, Team-mate leaders & player leaders no longer go DBNO on Guardian. There will be a few more fixes here and there, and the mod will be continually updated...

[Drone *]

EDIT: Issue Fixed.

[Drone *]

An update will be released either tonight or tomorrow which contains several bug fixes and improvements.

[Drone *]

Update was released today, bobfuria and some RoddyRodd dude is up to date yay

[XxXbObXxX]

Update was released today, bobfuria and some RoddyRodd dude is up to date yay

Hehe, all you said was fixed was actually fixed,Your word is law. Good job son.

And... a question, any plans on making you able to activate or deactivate mystery box? It will be more boring off, but some may like it more serious or turn it off for moar difficulty.

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Hehe, all you said was fixed was actually fixed,Your word is law. Good job son.

And... a question, any plans on making you able to activate or deactivate mystery box? It will be more boring off, but some may like it more serious or turn it off for moar difficulty.

I may consider this, but then again if they don't want to use it then they don't need to go up and press it hehe What I may experiment with though is a "round system".

[DaNCeSWiTHBuLLeTS]

Greetings, everyone! I'm a new member to these forums but have been keeping up to date with all the mods you dedicated individuals have been pumping out since a year or two ago. I just wanted to drop a post saying how much I appreciate all your efforts, keeping the game alive even with a diminished community and all. It's surely an inspiration to not only me, but many of my friends, even those who don't play Gears of War on the PC. Keep on doing what you're doing and if I can contribute in any way possible, please let me know!

[Drone *]

Thanks dude

[JUGGERNUT]

Ha, well, that's a nice surprise! Yeah, it's amazing what an editor does for a game.

[DaNCeSWiTHBuLLeTS]

Because of you two, JUGGERNUT and CowboyLocust (and the recently retired Katham), I've begun fiddling with the UDK in hopes of creating maps and mods too. I'm curious to know how long it took for each of you to become proficient enough to make quality maps and mods with the tool.

[Drone *]

Because of you two, JUGGERNUT and CowboyLocust (and the recently retired Katham), I've begun fiddling with the UDK in hopes of creating maps and mods too. I'm curious to know how long it took for each of you to become proficient enough to make quality maps and mods with the tool.

It's hard to say really, you learn more as you go along, even more so when you experiment! It took me around a year to get at least half decent stuff out there then I just kept sticking at it with this PW project

[DaNCeSWiTHBuLLeTS]

*Shudders* Looks like a long journey ahead! Hopefully by the time I've learned to make decent content, you guys will still be at it!

[XxXbObXxX]

*Shudders* Looks like a long journey ahead! Hopefully by the time I've learned to make decent content, you guys will still be at it!

You can start here if you have time and interest: http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/...itor-tutorials

[DaNCeSWiTHBuLLeTS]

You can start here if you have time and interest: http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/...itor-tutorials

That link will definitely prove useful. Thanks!

[DaNCeSWiTHBuLLeTS]

So I finally had the chance to try this mod and even before starting up the game, I am simply blown away. The download/install interface looks extremely professional and it worked near flawlessly (I was unable to connect to the server earlier, but I'm assuming it's because it was going under updates). I have to ask, how many of the modders here work for the gaming industry professionally? This is quality stuff!

PS: Got a few rounds in and I have to say, it should be a crime that you guys aren't getting paid for this. Perhaps my biased love towards Gears of War has obscured my judgment, but I'm willing to say that this is one of the best mods I've ever had the pleasure of playing for any game. Have you guys ever thought about doing a Kickstarter of sorts? For tackling such a huge project despite the small community, the entire PW team seriously needs some sort of compensation.

[Drone *]

So I finally had the chance to try this mod and even before starting up the game, I am simply blown away. The download/install interface looks extremely professional and it worked near flawlessly (I was unable to connect to the server earlier, but I'm assuming it's because it was going under updates). I have to ask, how many of the modders here work for the gaming industry professionally? This is quality stuff!

PS: Got a few rounds in and I have to say, it should be a crime that you guys aren't getting paid for this. Perhaps my biased love towards Gears of War has obscured my judgment, but I'm willing to say that this is one of the best mods I've ever had the pleasure of playing for any game. Have you guys ever thought about doing a Kickstarter of sorts? For tackling such a huge project despite the small community, the entire PW team seriously needs some sort of compensation.

Thanks for the feedback dude, I noticed you had downloaded when I checked my stats manager this morning

Which reminds me actually, I am late in putting out the fun event playlist, it is a Bowman playlist which you start with a torque bow in, will be lots of fun

None of us that I know of work in the game industry, just doing this out of pure passion for the game


EDIT: Bowman Event is now live!

[DaNCeSWiTHBuLLeTS]

The Bow Man event sounds extremely fun and I'll definitely be checking it out tonight! Is this going to be a permanent addition or is it a weekly thing?

A few things I noticed while playing last night (both of which may be issues you're probably already aware of):

Exiting to the Gear's main menu from PW's main menu isn't working for me. I had to exit the mod by starting a game and selecting the option from the pause menu there. I'm not sure if this is due to a faulty installation on my behalf or if this is a bug you're already working on rectifying in the future.

There also seems to be no way to keep track of how many frags each team has in the TDM and One Man modes. Judging by your work in the similarly astounding Beast Mode Alpha mode and its creative "money" counter, I'm sure you already have a system to keep track of kills. H.I.V.E. has a similar feature where "Select" (I'm using an XBox controller) would display current objectives, although I'm not sure how easily this feat was accomplished. It'd be fantastic if you could combine those two features so that pressing "Select" would bring up a score sheet, just like in multiplayer.

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The "Exit" button issue is just me forgetting to link the button up to the exit event. I can fix this server-side so will do it later tonight
Yeah currently I haven't implemented a way to keep track of kills and what not. There used to be a thing letting you know that there was 10 kills left but I forgot to re-implement it. Might try the select showing kills thing as it would be more helpful. Will probably set TDM's goal limit to 50 from 75 for the time being tonight and see how it goes.

[The Nice Guy]

I don't PC game but I think I have been swayed.... *currently searching for a graphics card*

[DaNCeSWiTHBuLLeTS]

The "Exit" button issue is just me forgetting to link the button up to the exit event. I can fix this server-side so will do it later tonight
Yeah currently I haven't implemented a way to keep track of kills and what not. There used to be a thing letting you know that there was 10 kills left but I forgot to re-implement it. Might try the select showing kills thing as it would be more helpful. Will probably set TDM's goal limit to 50 from 75 for the time being tonight and see how it goes.

If I recall correctly, I think you mentioned in one of your previous posts that you'll be on vacation until the end of August. I definitely don't want to interfere with your free time by requesting fixes and such!

I don't PC game but I think I have been swayed.... *currently searching for a graphics card*

What's your budget? Maybe I can help!

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If I recall correctly, I think you mentioned in one of your previous posts that you'll be on vacation until the end of August. I definitely don't want to interfere with your free time by requesting fixes and such!

No I'm not on vacation its all good Working on a PW update that will be out in a couple of weeks time as we speak! As for the Bowman playlist it is available until next Wednesday, I have fun events on this mod every couple of weeks or so

[DaNCeSWiTHBuLLeTS]

No I'm not on vacation its all good Working on a PW update that will be out in a couple of weeks time as we speak! As for the Bowman playlist it is available until next Wednesday, I have fun events on this mod every couple of weeks or so

Do you do stats tracking on how many people and who participates in the event? Is it possible to keep track of how many bots are killed during an event? I'm not sure if you're familiar with Mass Effect 3 and its multiplayer component, but they do biweekly events which ask all players accumulate several thousands of kills over a weekend. If the "mission" was successful, Bioware would reward the community with a free item pack.

If you can do detailed stats tracking, would you consider making the events more competitive? See who can get the most kills before the event ends and the winner receives a prize (which I'd personally take care of if the idea comes to life). I definitely want this mod to gain more exposure.

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Do you do stats tracking on how many people and who participates in the event? Is it possible to keep track of how many bots are killed during an event? I'm not sure if you're familiar with Mass Effect 3 and its multiplayer component, but they do biweekly events which ask all players accumulate several thousands of kills over a weekend. If the "mission" was successful, Bioware would reward the community with a free item pack.

If you can do detailed stats tracking, would you consider making the events more competitive? See who can get the most kills before the event ends and the winner receives a prize (which I'd personally take care of if the idea comes to life). I definitely want this mod to gain more exposure.

I can't log stats of the actual gameplay, just PW client stats like total map packs downloads, total character pack downloads and total PW downloads and how many people are online playing gears with PWBinaries. If there was any way to track in game stats I would Current statistics set up is still useful for keeping track of what version a certain client is on and what not from my end.

[DaNCeSWiTHBuLLeTS]

My next idea would be to do screenshot submissions, but I don't know how easy those are to fake. Sadly, this forum seems kind of quiet for the most part. Do you think I'd still be able to reach out to a good amount of people to set up weekly events through here? If someone isn't already doing that, of course.

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My next idea would be to do screenshot submissions, but I don't know how easy those are to fake. Sadly, this forum seems kind of quiet for the most part. Do you think I'd still be able to reach out to a good amount of people to set up weekly events through here? If someone isn't already doing that, of course.

The mod did have a "Take Screenshot" button at one point but it didn't come across as something that was used, may implement it in the next update though. Yeah this forum is very very quiet

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My next idea would be to do screenshot submissions, but I don't know how easy those are to fake. Sadly, this forum seems kind of quiet for the most part. Do you think I'd still be able to reach out to a good amount of people to set up weekly events through here? If someone isn't already doing that, of course.

The mod did have a "Take Screenshot" button at one point but it didn't come across as something that was used, may implement it in the next update though. Yeah this forum is very very quiet

[bmbr1990]

hehe would I be a troll if i tell that "F10" or "F11" takes screenshot xd

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hehe would I be a troll if i tell that "F10" or "F11" takes screenshot xd

Haha :P I don't know if players would be aware of that, then again they would use fraps or something anyway xd

[DaNCeSWiTHBuLLeTS]

I'm having issues installing this mod on my Vista machine. Worked great on Win7 though. Upon booting up the Content Manager (after I've correctly appointed My Documents and the Gears' Binaries), it just crashes and attempts to look for a solution online.

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That's Vista for you :P In all seriousness I'm not sure what it could be, does it install the PW Content Manager?

EDIT: My PW Content Manager is getting a crashing issue aswell at the moment, after saying Error Connecting to Server a few seconds later it says PW Content Manager has stopped working. This could be due to a typo in the config on my end I will check it out just now!

EDIT 2: It was due to updating the PWContentManager's configuration last night then my computer BSOD'd and corrupted the server stored configuration file, restoring the backup now!

EDIT 3: Fixed the problem, it should no longer crash now and thanks for letting me know

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I take it you got the problem solved then ? I noticed a 2nd client with your name but he's still marked as 1.0000 instead of 1.1000 version for some reason so I wouldn't be surprised if the game asked you to update the next time you launch :P

[DaNCeSWiTHBuLLeTS]

I take it you got the problem solved then ? I noticed a 2nd client with your name but he's still marked as 1.0000 instead of 1.1000 version for some reason so I wouldn't be surprised if the game asked you to update the next time you launch :P

Yeah, the install went down swimmingly. I think the 1.0 version is the one on my laptop which I haven't played on since the Bow Man update. I really enjoyed the event as it gave me a chance to use a weapon I normally never would. Unfortunately, the "Quit to Main Menu" button is still broken

I can definitely see myself playing this mod at least once every day, so if you need feedback or a tested, I'm more than willing to help!

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Unfortunately, the "Quit to Main Menu" button is still broken

I can definitely see myself playing this mod at least once every day, so if you need feedback or a tested, I'm more than willing to help!

The first DaNCeSWiTHBuLLeTS is on version 1.1 it was the one that was added today that is marked as 1.0000 for some reason, maybe something happened because on first time run it usually parses the latest version to your configuration but never done it for some reason, it shouldn''t affect you though

Yeah sorry I yet again forgot to hook up the exit event, just open console and type "disconnect" in the mean time!

Thanks dude If you run into any bugs or anything you may suspect is a bug just let me know

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Unfortunately, the "Quit to Main Menu" button is still broken

I can definitely see myself playing this mod at least once every day, so if you need feedback or a tested, I'm more than willing to help!

The first DaNCeSWiTHBuLLeTS is on version 1.1 it was the one that was added today that is marked as 1.0000 for some reason, maybe something happened because on first time run it usually parses the latest version to your configuration but never done it for some reason, it shouldn''t affect you though

Yeah sorry I yet again forgot to hook up the exit event, just open console and type "disconnect" in the mean time!

Thanks dude If you run into any bugs or anything you may suspect is a bug just let me know

[DaNCeSWiTHBuLLeTS]

The first DaNCeSWiTHBuLLeTS is on version 1.1 it was the one that was added today that is marked as 1.0000 for some reason, maybe something happened because on first time run it usually parses the latest version to your configuration but never done it for some reason, it shouldn''t affect you though

Yeah sorry I yet again forgot to hook up the exit event, just open console and type "disconnect" in the mean time!

Thanks dude If you run into any bugs or anything you may suspect is a bug just let me know

How long does it take to port a map into PW?

[Drone *]

I will be porting maps myself due to the nature of PW's update process.