Skill tree: Mikayla Dorn's Marksman and Hunter branches

About this game

Developer: Splash Damage / The Coalition · Publisher: Xbox Game Studios · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Focus / Tech Trees

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What to study

Each Gears class grows as a four-armed skill web, and this screen lays the whole decision out at once: two specialisations per side (for the Sniper, Marksman/Assassin against Hunter/Stalker), 18 nodes joined in a symmetric lattice, points available and points spent counted in the header, and the highlighted node's effect written out in full sentences in the side column, range thresholds and all. The design lesson is legibility of a build: because the tree, the roster and the unit's own skill list share one screen, a player can see who a point changes, what it buys and what it costs (including the 1-point full respec) without leaving the Barracks. Disclosure: this montage is only ever shown under the trailer's counting caption, a large “79 SKILLS TO UNLOCK” burn-in covers the bottom-right corner of this frame, over the character model's legs and the skills panel's lower edge; the tree, roster and Sharpshooter card are completely unobscured. Frame at about 1:17 in the Gears Tactics Launch Trailer - ENESRB (Steam; manual extraction, the scene-change survivor of this montage, v0_0045 at 76.29s, is crossed by the same caption at its largest, “0 SKILLS TO UNLOCK”; this frame is a later unit in the same montage, caption shrunk to the corner).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

skill-tree node-graph roster-list

Components

Parts on screen.

Card List Tree / web Gauge

Screen inventory

• the same Barracks shell, drilled in: a ROSTER ▸ MIKAYLA ▸ SKILLS breadcrumb, the roster column still at left (GEARS [6/14], heroes marked AVAILABLE, TROOPS [1/9] below) so a tree is never edited without the rest of the squad in view
• the centre SKILL TREE panel is a symmetric four-branch web, Marksman and Assassin to the left, Hunter and Stalker to the right, built from hexagonal icon nodes joined by thin lines, each node carrying a small rank number (1/2/3); unlocked nodes glow teal, the selected node burns white, and the header prices the build plainly: 2 POINTS AVAILABLE, 1 / 18 UNLOCKED
• the right SKILLS column names what the web means: LEVEL 2 SNIPER MIKAYLA DORN with her XP line, then the selected node's full card, SHARPSHOOTER, Passive Skill, “this unit gets a reduced Accuracy penalty with its primary weapon when targeting enemies that are 8 or more meters away. This unit gets increased Critical Hit Damage.”, prose rules, not just an icon
• the footer keeps the experiment cheap: [ESC] BACK and [F2] RESET SKILLS with a respec cost of 1, so a tree is a draft, not a commitment

Top 3 colors

#0b1215 28%#000203 26%#010406 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Splash Damage / The Coalition / Xbox Game Studios, Gears Tactics screenshot: Steam trailer (Gears Tactics Launch Trailer - ENESRB), Splash Damage / The Coalition, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Xbox Game Studios.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-26. verified 2026-10-26: manual extraction manual-77-0.png @ ~77.0s in the Gears Tactics Launch Trailer - ENESRB, 1,183,123 B, MD5 8a0f1a944bdda7ddb279ddc53ded00c7, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (95,839,944 B, MD5 86f794f211a4ad3e9cc590934246dbdf; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, decode-steam-1184050-Gears-Tactics-Launch-Trailer-ENESRB.mp4.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the full four-branch tree, the roster column and the SHARPSHOOTER skill card all legible; trailer burn-in “79 SKILLS TO UNLOCK” present across the bottom-right corner and disclosed in the study note, no clean, caption-free frame of any skill tree exists in this trailer (checked at 2 fps across 76–79s)

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