A small preview from Gameinformer.

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/gears_of_war_4/b/xboxone/archive/2016/03/16/the-weapons-and-enemies-of-gears-of-war-4.aspx?PostPageIndex=2

I wonder if any of the Locust weapons will remain in the game.

Last article showed an image of a Swarm soldier using a Hammerburst. I really hope the Swarm have an interesting origin other than, oh, they're the next step in evolution of the Locust. Maybe something like life evolves very quickly on Sera, and a new species filled the niche the Locusts previously did and are slowly gaining intelligence.

Plus, I think there'd be a ton of Locust surplus weapons lying around for the new COG to use also.

It was never proven that Locust were former humans, where are you getting this from?

It was never proven that Locust were former humans, where are you getting this from?

I'll see if I can find it, but there's a thread that compiles all the bits of Locust and Imulsion lore together to explain it all.

Basically though, why were the Locust taking so many prisoners in GoW2? Or why were so many humans missing after E-Day? It's because the Locust don't breed. They took all those humans on E-Day and in GoW2 to get more troops to combat the Lambent.

Delicious Lore

What about Beserkers?

Those were all female and it's implied or straight up stated that the locust restrained them and raped them for whatever reasons.

It's certainly not out of the realm of possibility, but getting infected by Imulsion increases infertility.

Let's also not forget that there was the in-game theory that the Locust came from Sera's moon. That obviously turned out to be incorrect, so the Locust breeding by tying down and raping Beserkers may have just been Gear speculation and imagination based on unconnected facts.

There's a collectible in Gears 2 that refutes that too. It's a Locust item found in the Nexus that states the Queen creates the Drones, the Drones protect the Nexus, and the Nexus protects the Queen. Something to that effect.