Act III OOB Explanation by Brassmaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9FrJCCk9FA

Change the Field of View (FOV) (PC ONLY)

1. Change settings files.
- Go to <path-to-game>\WarGame\Config
- Open WarCamera.ini
- Find [WarfareGame.WarCameraMode_Default]
- You'll find "FOVAngle=<#>". Change the # to your desired Value of the FOV you want.

2. Through the console
- Open the console "~"
- Enter this code: (set WarfareGame.WarCameraMode FOVAngle <#>) without the (). Change the # to your desired Value of the FOV you want.

3. The FOV for zooming can be changed in the "WarWeapon.ini" file, and denotes the "WarWeapon[Casual/Hardcore/Insane].ini", Each gun must be changed individually.

All these informations were taking from the PCGamingWiki page.

Console Commands

- Capital Letters don't matter

### Change FOV
set WarfareGame.WarCameraMode FOVAngle <#>

### Show FPS
stat FPS

### Uncap FPS
set Engine.GameEngine bSmoothFrameRate FALSE

How to configure AutoSplitter (PC ONLY)

- The AutoSplitter can be downloaded from the resources or in LiveSplit itself by writing one of these names in the "Edit Splits" tab
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- **Gears of War**
- **Gears of War for Windows**
- **Gears of War GFWL**
- **Gears of War Game For Windows Live**
- **Gears of War 2006**
- **Gears of War (2006)**
- **Gears of War 1**
- **Gears of War: 1**
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- Then Press activate and Edit the AutoSplitter however you want

- The AutoSplitter has some issues tho:

1. In the "Burnt Rubber" part (The part where you drive a car with a lot of Krylls chasing you) the timer won't stop if you pause the game so Don't pause there at all to avoid Time-loss? the reason why it doesn't stop there specifically is because the AutoSplitter is configured to pause when it doesn't read the character's position but at that part you play as a car and the character doesn't exist so it doesn't read the players position so I had to remove the option from that part specifically.

- *These Problems Below Have Been Solved:*

2. The Last split on killing RAAM sometimes works perfectly, sometimes splits if you die in that part, sometimes doesn't work entirely. Just keep your Global Hotkeys activated
3. The "After Restarting Checkpoint" Option used for Coop runs allow you to wait for the 2nd player to join without having to reset the timer manually but it only works for the 1st level because I originally designed it for full-game runs so you can only use for Full-game or ACT-1 IL **Only**

Skip intro videos (PC ONLY)

- So this game on PC has some annoying/unskippable intro videos at startup, this guide will allow you to get rid of them

1. Go to <path-to-game>\WarGame\Movies
2. Delete or rename these files:
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- **EpicLogo.bik**
- **ESRB.bik**
- **ESRB_chi.bik**
- **ESRB_kor.bik**
- **MGSLogo.bik**
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- That's it

- Yeah after you Rename/Delete the video file the game won't find them and therefore skip them
- faster startup = faster play = faster speedrun

Skips, Glitches, Oob's Guide

### Console 30FPS.

1. ACT 1 Hammer Skip:

- Discovered by "23c" on Youtube on "26 Aug 2008".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBLmFqdyihI

- Better video quality from flurby's World Record [Flurby](https://www.speedrun.com/users/Flurby) .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09G39Ug1nRw?t=921
2. ACT 3 Skip.

- 1st discovered by "sh0tgunjunky35" on youtube on "25 Jan 2008".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pN6K-mGvos

- Better video quality by [brassmaster](https://www.speedrun.com/users/Brassmaster).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9FrJCCk9FA

### PC

- On PC the ACT 1 Skip doesn't work (or at least I couldn't replicate it) you can try it for yourself
- For ACT 3 Skip if you want to do it on PC you need to cap your FPS to 30 because the game runs at 62FPS on PC and the skip is only possible on 30FPs
- There's another Skip on ACT 5 where you grab a Troika/Turret gun to shoot a seeder you can turn you back against the edge and fall through Skipping the (Killing the seeder, Long talk with anya, All enemies that spawn above the parking lot and the wretches that spawn downstarts)

- I'll soon be updating this guide with videos from myself on PC and making another probably on " How to cap your FPS easily"

Toggle aim down sights (PC ONLY)

### Scroll down to the last sentence before reading anything
1. Launch the game at least once and configure the controls.
2. Go to "\Documents\My Games\Gears of War for Windows\WarGame\Config"
3. Open "WarInput.ini"
4. Go to [WarfareGame.WarPlayerInput] section.
5. Find this line:
Bindings=(Name="Game_Target",Command="ButtonPress L2 | OnRelease ButtonRelease L2",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)
6. Replace it with this:
Bindings=(Name="Game_Target",Command="ButtonPress L2 | SetBind RightMouseButton Game_TargetOff",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)
7. now add/write this under the line you replaced.
Bindings=(Name="Game_TargetOff",Command="ButtonRelease L2 | SetBind RightMouseButton Game_Target",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)
8. Save the file.

### Optional:

- If intending to use a different button, replace **RightMouseButton** with an alternative keybind.

### Optional If You're Lazy
- Alternatively you can download my file in the resources tab

Name	Author
Act III OOB Explanation by Brassmaster	Slevanas 7 years ago
Change the Field of View (FOV) (PC ONLY)	LeonSReckon 12 days ago
Console Commands	LeonSReckon 12 days ago
How to configure AutoSplitter (PC ONLY)	LeonSReckon 12 days ago
Skip intro videos (PC ONLY)	LeonSReckon 12 days ago
Skips, Glitches, Oob's Guide	LeonSReckon 12 days ago
Toggle aim down sights (PC ONLY)	LeonSReckon 12 days ago