While many have already been enjoying Gears Of War: E-Day thanks to the premium upgrade, the rest of the world are getting ready for the game’s official release tomorrow. Ahead of tomorrow’s release The Coalition has released a new patch will fix various issues.

As far as patches go this one is a relatively small patch. The patch mostly focuses on some minor performance issues and bugs. The biggest bugs here would be when certain side objectives would get stuck or not show up, as well as the versus bomb getting stuck in Demolition if a player is killed while defusing it.

The size of this patch just goes to show the quality of E-Day as far too often we see day 1 patch notes a mile long. Gears of War: E-Day has been receiving high praise from critics and players alike during its early access release.

In fact Gears Of War: E-Day is doing so well with critics it may be the first time we’ve been an Xbox published game be nominated for Game of the Year at The Game Awards. There’s still some time, but it is one of the highest rated games of the year.

In our review we agreed giving it a 9.5 saying “E-Day succeeds in telling the story of Emergence Day in a gripping, desperate, and most importantly, fun way. The culmination of 20 years as a franchise, refining everything the series is into a must-play XBOX title that takes you on a gloriously brutal, emotionally-satisfying, and epic, cinematic adventure.”

You can see the full patch notes below. See you out there Gears.

October 5th Patch Notes

Stability and Performance

• Made various stability, performance, hardware compatibility, and reporting improvements across the game

Online and multiplayer services

• Addressed an issue causing some Versus Social matches to remain on the “Waiting for players” screen
• Improved XBOX authentication handling when the system clock differs significantly from the correct time
• Addressed “Bilefrog-Kalona” error, where a split-screen player could be signed out after suspending and resuming the game
• Improved online-session stability when accessing session information

Campaign

• Addressed an issue where players joining an existing Campaign could receive War Journal progress and Forge rewards earned before they joined
• Addressed an issue where players could remain attached to turrets when a cinematic or gameplay moment began
• Addressed an issue where some join-in-progress players might not receive the expected Forge Discovery War Journal progress
• Act 2 Chapter 2: Addressed an issue where the objective could fail to update when entering Allfather’s Plaza after completing activities elsewhere in the mission
• Act 2 Chapter 2: Addressed an issue where the Heavy Gear in the Black Raven Down side objective could appear without a Vulcan
• Act 4 Chapter 1: Addressed an issue where certain side objectives could fail to start if players entered the objective area while introductory dialogue was playing
• Act 4 Chapter 2: Addressed one cause of the Power Station defense objective failing to complete after all visible enemies were defeated

Horde Siege

• Addressed an issue that could prevent certain Siege Blitz Secure objectives from being completed
• Addressed an issue where the extraction helicopter could fail to appear during a Downtown West Blitz mission

Versus

• Addressed an issue in Demolition where a bomb could become stuck in a defusing state if a player was eliminated while beginning the defuse interaction

UI

• Adjusted the size and appearance of Online Diagnostic text
• Addressed one possible cause of the UI repeatedly attempting to claim the same Challenge Mail reward