
Otherwise you should be seeing vegetation or, as the game seems to be taking place during winter, snow and ice. With the sand blowing in and without vegetation, you’d sooner expect it to be closer to a dry/desert like area than an frozen, tropical or temperate area.
Yet with such a massive opening you’d expect nature to have had a much bigger impact on it.
The facility is definitely beyond use, perhaps for a long time.
The tanks show some damaged and rust, but you’d expect them to be in a far worse shape if they were used about 40 years ago.
It looks like rust, but that’s actually a layer of sand in the area. The facility seems to be heavily damaged and we mainly get to see the two tanks. which would be the safest bet to go.īesides the remnant of the Gorasnaya that survived up to the end of Gears 3, whatever was left of the UIR got obliterated during the HoD strikes after E-Day. Possibly against the horde during the first year of the Locust War before the HoD strikes or perhaps from the Pendulum Wars. The first impression you’d have is that the UIR scene, with Kait walking around while Del looks at a dead UIR soldier, seems to be a relict of a very old battle. The UIR seems to be getting an actual role in Gears 5 and there’s plenty to pick up and speculate. We’ve seen plenty of hints about the UIR and the Pendulum Wars during the series (heck, in hindsight you could even think about Anthony’s mention about Aspho Fields back in Gears 1) and with each instalment they received more attention. I’ve already seen some sharp observation of people passing by, but nothing yet related to the UIR reveal.