Gears of War 4 server problems or maintenance

Gear of War 4 is the new game from The Coalition and the first Gears of War game in the series not to be developed by Epic Games who have handled all of the previous titles.

Gamers have been waiting for Gears of War 4 to arrive on Xbox One and PC for months and now the wait is over. Multiplayer will be a big part of the new series and whenever you experience Gears of War 4 server problems, this is the page where you can come to check Gears of War 4 server status.

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Is Gears of War 4 down right now on Thursday July 9, 2020 with server connection problems or maintenance? Let us know if you get any GoW4 server errors and we’ll try to help with solving those issues when Gears of War 4 is not working on Xbox One or PC.

Participate in the discussion section below as the week of launch is bound to busy with everyone hammering the servers at once.

  • Carlos Luna

    cannot connect

  • Donna Estep

    GOW 4; unable to connect to Gears Of War services message on Xbox One X today.

  • Clown College

    Cant connect? How long this been an issue lol?

    • Louis Dalton

      this is happening to me too. Can’t connect at all

  • digi7773

    gear of war 4, xbox one won’t connect to a server

  • Edgar Francisco

    Gears 4 online multiplayer crashes. I have 2 weeks ongoing issue, why? Is the coalition try to kill gears 4 so that people buy/play gesrs 5?

  • Zachary Goldberg

    Dec 20th 2019…just got the game. Wont let me play solo…why? Why do I need internet or connect to a server to play offline?

  • Chibuikem Onyebuchi

    Everytime I try to load Gears 4 co op online it goes straight to objective failed and doesnt load any gameplay Nov 20th 2019

  • Kortni Reina Roberts

    It’s been a week now and I’m losing connection to the game! The players just start running into walls and I get sent to the main menu with an error message. Please help me its very frustrating. I love this game but I’m losing interest.

  • Leonardo López

    I’m trying to play horde in every difficulty level but i’m getting kicked from the game at 6th or 7th wave. So annoying. :/

  • Brent Waller

    I start up Gears, click on versus, click on matchmaking, and it literally doesn’t give me any options once I select a playlist. It doesn’t even give me the option of selection social quick play. Just core modes, competitive modes, etc. As soon as I click one there are no options to select, and no way to continue forward. Can’t play multiplayer as of today.

  • Justin

    issues cant get into a game at all matchmakeing

  • Becca Lynn Archer

    I just installed it and got the Bigelowe
    error

  • Patrick Mathieu

    Game keeps telling me that it cant connect to xbox live. Cant play the game, reinstalled it three times. I am not happy at all, waste of money!!!

  • Katy Sims

    A friend and I are trying to play co-op campaign. Both of us are on the Xbox One. We can connect fine from multiplayer but not campaign. It will start to load us in and whoever is not host it says disconnected to server and they drop out. Does anyone know to help?

  • Kevin Farley

    Cannot play coop. I am Pc and my friend is Xbox One X. It will connect us individually but not together.

  • Charlie Brannan

    sponging and lag in escalation, majority of my shots went through the player even getting to 95% and nothing, lag prevented me from running proper and stopping me from capturing rings

  • Mark Bracey

    Time out playing horde and versus. Internet is great. But everything freezes up after a minute 8nto the game. How can I fix this?

  • Trying to play hoard! And it keeps freezing up when the wave starts! What’s going on? I uninstalled and installed to see if that was the problem? And it still was doing the same thing! Kept getting a error message like everyone else! Are the servers down !

  • frank

    I’m down can’t play team death match

  • JS243Goon

    Go figure getting cougar error message again when are they going to fix this very aggrivating

  • Michael Prather

    Error 0x00000190. Got booted from monster mash insane wave 42 ANNOYING

    • bizrankin

      Monster Mash goes to wave 25 tho.

  • ♕ รคгค ♡

    Gear of war 4 Error Xbox One:
    0X00000d1c

  • Error 0x00000190

  • Tausha Adington

    Unable to connect to GOW4 sevices. A connection to Xbox live could not be established. Please check your connection and try again.

    My Xbox live is connected, and my internet is good. I have not played in over a year. How do I fix this?

  • Bryan

    Ghetto…….

  • Baba Ganoush

    August 7 1:17 pm can’t do anything

  • Isadore Davis

    I’m receiving an error message that states “you have lost connection to host”

  • Jonathan Terry

    Trying to play one pc and one xbox, same 220mb connection. no problems anywhere but gears, no surprise there

  • Denise Saldana

    I’m getting “server allocation failure, please try again” crap. For 2days already. I can’t play any of the horde modes. It take me straight to “Ironman yes or no”

  • Christopher Mach

    verbindung wird ständig getrennt beim spiel eintritt

  • Bebe de Fajardo

    Keep getting kicked out of matches since the update

  • Dean Watson

    Is gow4 still not working

  • palfred

    On PC,
    GOW4 don’t start, i have start screen with logo GOW4 when i launch the game, but return to windows few second after and nothing else,

  • Michael Zoran

    I installed the initial 5GB game from the disc, and then I patiently waited while and additional 95GB of upgrades installed. … I simply CANNOT BELIEVE it that even the single-player Campaign mode will NOT WORK! … It says there is no connection to Xbox Live. … But that is not correct – the correction to Xbox Live is fine. … And why should I need a online connection to start an offline single-player campaign??? … This is terrible!!!

  • Abbey Henderson

    Just got and Xbox One S yesterday and today I am unable to play Horde. It keeps saying can not connect to gears of war server. Let’s me play campaign but not horde.

  • Christmas Cypress

    My game updated yesterday, then said my xbox live account needed to be renewed(should be in april). Then i get the unable to connect to the gears of war services (0x0000193)

  • Kelvin Davies

    Game not updating at all just updates to 47% and stops downloading

  • Joshua McDonald

    We got kicked from monster mash error code 0x00000190

  • Chibuikem Onyebuchi

    Sunday Jan21 unable to connect to server, can’t co-op

  • Kcgospel

    Help! I cannot see competitive or core in versus! It is blank! Cannot play since release of Diamond Tiers!

  • Jacob Philips

    Can’t join any game since about an hour now. Waited 15 minutes in one instance. Glad to know I’m not the only one! Coalition..wasap fellas?!?

  • Marck Torres

    Today saturday 13 of jan, game cant find match at all, and im not the only one

  • Mick Mickael

    The game spits after a while and impossible to make 50 waves in horde .. it lasts for 2 weeks … Yet my PC is recent and up to date ..

  • Luke Norman

    Friday 5th Jan, 9pm, server down.
    Error code (0x00000190)

  • jim little

    It’s down for last 2 days wtf…

  • Philip Rincon

    I am having the same issues. Anyone find the answers to the issues?

  • Mr Minimooz

    Just opening the horde mode menu and doing any of the versus mode options pops up an “Unable to connect to Gears of War services” error.

  • KatGatta29

    Squad offline for weeks

  • ROBERT LARA

    Installed the disk, now its trying to install the update thats 50gigs,been at 16% for the past 3 days…?

  • Kim

    Keep getting kicked from game and finding squad is offline

  • Bryan Torres

    Are the servers currently down? 12/7/17

  • Nathan Spades

    The games hub is gone from the Xbox marketplace and i cant start the game at all… I’ve restarted my xbox and tried all other procedures

  • Les Lewis

    I have the same problem. I purchased the disk last week. It took more than 12 hours to download the “update.” Once download, when I try to run the game, I get the same message “cannot connect to server

  • lon

    I can’t play the game, it states ” unable to connect to the Gears of was services” Please help 11/22/17

  • Soupset

    Server connection I keep getting the lag symbol than wifi symbol then repeat and I can’t kill anyone because I lag so bad people just appear in my face and I don’t even see them running towards me and I just keep lagging why?!?!

  • Clevercorn358

    Match making error, cougar error. What’s going on? Game won’t match make. Restarted xbox 4 three times and same thing over and over.

  • Bonnie

    Always says squad offline

  • Ivan Mejia

    I’m getting matches but I will get lag and also the symbol at the bottom right even tough I have 80 down and 8 up and 60 ping , which it doesn’t make sense very frustrating and also it will do it in private matches with bots , I’m just don’t know what to do anymore …

  • Bradley Garde

    Core and competitive modes will search for a match for over 20 minutes with no luck. .

  • James Moreno

    Having issues with connecting. My other games work fine online. Must be their server

  • Victoria Christine

    Same here. Sucks cause I literally just got my console w the bundle yesterday and have nothing else to play yet .-.

    • Jeremy Edward Williamson

      I’m stuck too. I bought it a week ago. Where I’m at it took 2 days to download the 50gb update and now I can’t play

  • Adam Zapata

    I can’t connect to the Gears of War services. I keep getting an error code (0x00000190)

  • James

    It won’t let me do solo campaign tries to connect by keep getting error message lost connection with host

  • Daniel

    Doesnt let me get a match online keep loading nothing

  • Daniel

    My gears wont let me get a match

  • SAABTuner

    Same boat – I can’t get into a horde match – its like rolling a dice – when a think I got a match, it freezes and I have to restart the game and try again… Is there an update today???

  • Bryan

    Matchmaking keeps timing out anyone else have this problem

  • Dylan

    Error: You lost connection to host ,is this related to the servers ?

  • Gary

    can’t get a game on social play keeps timing out wtf

  • Martin Macias

    servers down for anyone or just me?

    • jason

      me too cant even play single player

      • Ian Nasutowicz

        Same…, just bought the game

  • Henry Stewart

    Horde mode wont matchmake.

  • Michelle Alcee

    I am able to join horde mode, but cannot set up a solo campaign session. It keeps telling it cannot establish a connection with Xbox live.

  • ADAM spike

    try to play co-op with friend it loads up then either one of us gets booted back to main menu saying timed out error, try again later ….. past 3 days same issue

  • Kyle

    I was kicked off yesterday. Reset console was able to get back on. Now I got kicked off again and cannot get back on
    Gamer tag : DSx Ace

  • Kyle

    I was kicked off yesterday. I reset my console but kept games and apps and it worked it got me back in. Now I got kicked off again and no longer coming back

  • Layla

    Keep getting kicked on horde with error code sera.

  • Zeezo

    I cannot join any live matches!

  • NgTurbo

    Gears of War 4 servers are down! Anyone else can’t play at the moment?

  • Allan Chacon

    Online services are not working

  • Rebecca McBride

    So much lag!

  • SecretFarmer

    Social Quickplay is nolonger available. Whats going on?

  • Arthur Phillips Jr

    Lost connection to host in campaign mode.

  • Ryan Halling

    Fix co op .

  • Vladimir Kornev

    “Server allocation failed. Please try again” and can’t find any VS matches in social

  • JD Little

    i’m trying to install the update for the game but it is stuck at 148 megabytes downloaded and won’t go any higher

  • Tim Sampson

    Here in the US at 9:20pm EST I try to join a Co-Op campaign game and before the game will load, I am taken back to the main menu and an error screen appears that says, “ERROR You have been returned to the main menu. Could not connect to the server. Please check your connection and try again.”

    This is the first time I’ve seen this after playing for months. Also my internet connection seems to be fine.

    • ADAM spike

      yeah thats all im getting past 3 days

  • nicholas hendsbee

    Mine is timing out at 5 minutes cant even join a single game been like 7 hours now

  • Mojo Jojo

    I’ve been DCd from at least 3 games today and yesterday. Recently upgraded to fiber internet. After last DC I received a Squad offline and it failed to reconnect. Restarted game. Hope it works.

  • Rusty

    After an update was prompted on my box, I can’t even get into the God damn main menu. This is the second time for the year this shit is occurring. How is Microsoft gonna compensate loyal patrons? I’d really like to know. $90 for a game that works when it wants its ridiculous

  • Martin Lako

    I am trying to connect a social horde match for days now, but eventually the matchmaking will timeout with an error… It seems that I did not suffered before the July update

  • Riven Gray

    I have the same issue, when I go to sign my partner in I’m getting a message saying unable to connect to servers and a random error code.

    • Bill

      It’s on ironman mode. I had the same problem.

  • Donell Pugh

    Has the issue been resolved

  • Roman Aguilar

    Hi i have the same problem cannot connect with online servers

  • Lamanuel McIntosh

    I’m keep getting squad off line on gears 4

  • James Hebert

    Love paying $100 for a game that more often than not cannot be played……

  • Leo Connell

    Your current position in line is: 56

  • Leo Connell

    Your current position in line is: 62

  • Leo Connell

    system restore, re installed the game 99 people in cue for chat says it all really…..I love spending my day off work doing this shit…..sort it out pronto Microsoft!

  • war fighter2

    it says squad offline and unable to connect to the gears of war services and im only trying to play the campaign and it wont let me connect to host for solo i just bought this game……. fix it please all i want to do is play the campaign nothing else :/ i just dont understand wtf is going on!!!!!!!!!

  • Joseph Sanchez

    Still down as of 6:05pm EST 6-16-17

  • Leo Connell

    Is this working yet?

  • Bobby A Means

    It says unable to connect to gears of war services plus it’s been lagging very bad as of late

  • Jess Voss

    “RAGANI” error message making it unable to join any type of multiplayer game.

  • joshua

    bigelowe error-gamer tag bigbadmofozar

  • joshua

    GOT A BIGELOWE ERROR today, what’s the purpose of spending money on these games if they refuse to fix the issues. gears gets made by another company and surprise suprise epic fail.

  • David

    My game is stuck at the start screen and I just get a loading symbol. Anyone know why?

  • Angel Rosas

    June 10th it won’t connect for pc but consoles are ok

  • Angel Rosas

    Today as June 10th it just won’t connect on Pc but I see my Xbox friends plating

  • ANDY

    This game feels totally screwed up at the moment (At least for me)…. I feel like everyone elses Gnasher is 3X more powerful than mine, wheather I have an active, or not. Not to mention, the shot registration is absolutely horrendous.

    Another issue I’ve had is the Gnashers range. It seems like it has been greatly affected…. It usually takes 2 accurate shots from closer mid range to down your opponent…. Lately I’ve been getting not only Bodied, but I’ve been killed via Headshot by the Gnasher from shots I felt were in Mid range…. This isn’t a 1, or 2 time thing, this has been happening to me very consistently.. So consistently to the point where it feels like it’s just apart of the game now. Which is too bad because I feel like it not only changes the the game I’ve been playing for 8 months, but it makes it a lot less skillful, and competitive. I don’t know if there’s any significance, but I didn’t have most of these issues prior to June.

    Please fix this game.

  • Abraham Bohren

    ROCKFORD, IL. UNABLE TO CONNECT TO THE GEARS OF WAR SERVICES

  • lisa

    game start’s ok, ( well have to restart about 4 to 10 times to get regular horde and not feral)( xbox one) while playing the game there is a bit of lag- after the lag- i get an error message ” timed out” and then i get kicked back to main screen. This is playing a private horde match by myself. have not been able to get past wave 7 as this is about the time it happens sometime sooner. running a wireless set up- the wifi icon does not pop up during this time at all, so i do not believe it is a problem with my wifi. any help with this would be great- or if i can’t figure it out i will have 2 xbox ones for sale if anyone is interested, as gears is the only game i play and without a fix to this problem playing it is pointless.

  • Tibor Juhász

    I see the splash screen only, after I pushed ENTER to start… 🙁

    • Moses

      I’m getting the same issue! Is your update still updating at certain percent like for example 68% and s

  • Angel West

    Have allocation issues again cannot play anything except campaign

  • Keiristy

    Are the xBox One servers down today, 29 May 17?

  • Drew G. Best

    I get the Splash screen but nothing else and then it closes
    Frustrated

  • FMFPres

    I just got “unable to connect to gears of War services. (0x00000190).
    Can anybody tell me what this is. I play every day and have had no problem and now all of a sudden this. WTF?!

  • CLS

    My character keeps getting warped around on horde. At first I thought it was due to me playing with the disc in, but the issue still persists with a downloaded version. It’s getting to the point where the game is almost unplayable.

  • Carter May

    After the update on May 1st, 2017 my app shows a different image, the title is gone and it no longer opens. I get a pop-up saying “Your game will be starting soon!” then nothing. What the hell?

  • Glen Elkins

    Got the matchmaking issue today, yesterday as well, it sits there connecting to a match for 5 mins then just stops with saying an error occurred. Can’t even host a local match!

  • Trinidad

    This is a fricking joke…several days of mostly being unable to play Gears of War 4 online. What the hell did I pay 60 dollars for, plus the cost of Xbox Live Gold? Unacceptable–completely unacceptable.

  • Michaela Hillwertz Miller

    Anyone experiencing matchmaking connection issues this morning? After 5 minutes in que it then times out. Haven’t been able to get into a match for 30 minutes now.

  • Amanda Hejkal

    Same, services are connecting and game has been lagging bad. 🙁

  • Brandon Vargas

    Came back to gears after a break, first 10 minutes trying to find a match. Found a match and got kick before it even started. Now I can’t que for 15 minutes? I’ll just play another game. Thanks coalition for your great updates.

  • Joseph

    My game keeps lagging or freezing. Can’t even enjoy the game now

  • PleaseFix

    Ever since the update gears is super laggy and now says servers down ugh i wanna play lol

  • Mark J

    Good morning guy’s n gal’s, Is anyone else having issuses where horde crashes at anything over Lvl46 as my last four games that i play alone have crashed at Lvl44 Lvl47, lvl49 & Lvl50. I have a screen shot of the Lvl 49 crash and the dvr has recorded 4hr 30mins of game play and recorded the crash. Any help or info would be appreicaited.

  • Erik Weatherwax

    I keep lagging. I don’t know if it’s just me but I’ve not had this problem before.

  • Oso

    I tried for 2 hours and couldn’t get a single game to either last or start in Gears 4. This is so frustrating and there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with my connection. I would love to know why this is happening.

    • TBONE 40

      I agree

  • Justin Harris

    Gears of war 4 is up and running, but I do not have my aim icon or my upper score icon and weapon reload icon. Is anybody else experiencing this, and how can I fix this if you have?

  • They were down about 2 hours ago. Hoping they will be available again shortly.

  • Gerrald

    Servers down need help

  • zAbsolute Royx

    Servers are down game needs maintenance bad

  • Michael Hoey

    Ever since gow on xbox was compatible with pc all problems started to happen.

  • Michael Hoey

    Unable to connect to the gow services

  • Meme

    It’s down

  • Ashley Thomas

    it’s down…

  • Harsh Dadhania

    after the march update installation gow 4 is not even launching on windows 10

  • Norio

    Still down smh

  • Omar Almodovar

    Did you ever figure that out cause im having the same issue???

  • Malcolm Brown

    Everything works fine for me but everytime i play a game and finish it. My kills and deaths arent registering to my K/D, and my wins arent registering to my war journel

    • TBONE 40

      That is what’s happening to me

  • Josh Kocaj

    Cant connect all day it just says squad offline

  • ll KoRnBreD ll

    I haven’t been able to play online for about 3 days!!! HELP

  • ll KoRnBreD ll

    Servers down! Come on this makes me unhappy:/

  • Stevie

    Cant get on. Even in a private match.

  • Patricia Silva

    Cant even play campaign solo mode, keeps returning me to lobby saying erros could not connect to server!so frustating..miss the good old days when you would just put the cd and play the basics…

  • Rin Satsu

    Can’t do campaign co-op, keeps timing out.

  • Priscilla Lavea

    The servers down right now again I can’t play multiplayer

  • رياض عطية

    Connecting to online services…. Keep like this all day….

  • Walter Gusmão

    Can’t play Gears of war 4 online in any mode. Error message

    • Alexvrb

      Yeah the servers are either borked or they’re getting hammered. DDOS? Hope they get it sorted soon… gonna wait a couple hours and try again.

  • mummatron

    Can’t join a multiplayer game of Horde. Error message keeps coming up.
    Can’t host a private match of Horde. Error message keeps coming up.
    Keep getting returned to the main menu. What’s going on and when is this going to be dealt with. I am not alone. There are thousands of us out there all experiencing this problem.

  • lyrical 300

    lately i cant get my results from my matches i don’t get no ex or credits and it just takes me to the main menu

  • Andrew

    Can’t get match points! And keeps freezing and kicking me out

  • Jerren ogle

    Getting server error ox801901f4 not happy at all when will it be fixed just wondering.

    Gamer tag
    Deathdealer jco

  • Rob

    Fri 13 2017 -sat 14 2017 jan servers down on a weekend really?cant play horde 2xp weekend waisted?holiday weekend and no gears.they gave us the new packs with a no chance to play.very upset.@gears

  • Esi

    Squad offline! Please help with this

  • Derek Bartlett

    You have been returned to main menu. You have lost connection to the host…I wanna play offline co op isn’t that possible???

  • Mark

    Gears of war 4 server down will not connect to online mode date is 14th December

  • Ben

    Cannot play anything as you need to be online, and online servers are down, meaning the game is currently completely useless

  • Daniel

    I Haven’t been able to play online on gears of war 4 on my xbox 1 in 3 days it keep saying offline.

  • haley romarine

    Gears of war won’t connect, it’s been loading the last 20 minutes. The date is December 6th, help how do I fix this?!

  • Robert B

    Just got my Xbox one and error lost connection to host keeps popping up and I can not even start to play GOW4 please help

  • Daniel

    Nov. 23. Spent 54 hours leveling in Gears and now I haven’t been able to connect to servers for over 24 hours. No news or updates on this issue. I’m about to demand a refund. No reputable business should default on its promises and then leave its customers in the dark.

  • Shahid Stratfor

    I have not been able to connect to bears of war services for over three days and all my friends are playing sonserverd aren’t down what’s going on I’ve done every troubleshooting tip in the book.

  • Jason

    Same i havnt been able to play online for the past 3 days it only lets me play local

  • Fastfingers

    Bought game today cannot play anything campaign or horde just saying cant connect check network nothing wrong with internet is this a joke took 8 hours to download it

    • Sheena

      I haven’t been able to play online for 2 days now. Says unable to connect to Gears of War servers, but anyone else with an account on my Xbox can play with no issues.

      • Mike

        Same here Sheena. I just played to 50 with some friends Friday night. Woke up yesterday morning wanting to get a quick match in and bam… “unable to connect to gears of war services”. I hate this online only crap. At least on Gears 3 if I wanted to play horde badly enough I could at least get by butt kicked offline and alone ya know. Ugh. So I feel your pain. 2 days and counting now.

  • Coen

    Just bought and installed gears of war 4 but can’t play anaything! It keeps saying: “unable to connect to the gears of war services”
    When i want to start a campaign it says: you have returned to the main menu. You have lost connection to the host…
    There is nothing wrong with my internet connection because i can play other games perfectly, both on and offline…

    What can i do?

  • dave h

    Just got G of W 4 today. Won’t connect to servers October 23, 2016.

  • Christopher

    Unable to play campaign co-op with a friend in the same town. October 21, 2016

  • Rick MacG

    Yep.. unable to connect here in Australia. Tuesday 18 October at 11am local time

  • Jacob

    Squad is off line trying to conect to server. Server is down.

  • Alan Ng

    Gears of War 4 servers are having issues today, October 11. Seeing errors and keep getting kicked out of games.

  • Jesus A Jimenez

    Won’t let me play the campaign with my girlfriend also have problems connecting to gears of war servers.

  • Alan Ng

    Can’t wait for Gears of War 4 to launch! Let’s hope there’s no server problems day one. Who’s excited?

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