Gears of War: E-Day VR mod shows manual reloads across the full campaign

A Gears of War: E-Day VR mod is in development with support for the entire single-player campaign. Its creator has shown an early build featuring manual reloads, two-handed aiming and combat from cover.

The mod creator’s work-in-progress demonstration. This is an unofficial project. Image: rockonthehill

The modder, rockonthehill, says the finished project will be free. The developer's trailer description makes clear that the footage is work in progress, with bugs and visual issues still being addressed.

The current build adds tracked interactions to the campaign

The creator lists stereo rendering, full-body inverse kinematics, manual weapon switching and a King Raven gunner position among the features already working. These changes go beyond simply displaying the original game on a large virtual screen.

Official base-game screenshot from The Coalition, not a capture of the VR mod. Image: The Coalition

Manual reloading and two-handed aiming are particularly relevant to how the combat translates into VR, because they give the player's hands direct roles in handling weapons. The trailer is evidence of the current implementation, not a finished-release performance test.

The project is intended for the single-player campaign only. It does not promise online cooperative play, so players should not plan a VR co-op run on the strength of this announcement.

The Coalition’s base-game promotional screenshot; VR support comes from the separate community mod. Image: The Coalition

A free release is planned but no launch date is given

The creator says optional donations support development but do not provide early access or exclusive content. No release date is supplied in the trailer description.

The project is independent and is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft. It uses Gears of War: E-Day content under the company's stated game-content rules, according to the creator.

MIXED previously covered the base game's demanding graphics requirements and always-on ray tracing. The mod announcement does not provide VR hardware requirements or benchmark results, so those remain questions for the eventual release.

For now, the concrete progress is a working early campaign build with tracked weapon interactions, rather than a downloadable finished mod.