Craft your totem under the new totems section in the customization menu spend 100 scrap to craft the totem of any hero or villain character you want to unlock.
Gears 5 totems. With operation 4 starting next week the coalition has announced some changes to the way unlocking new content will work in gears 5. In an effort to simplify how content is unlocked in gears 5 operation 4 the coalition is revamping the store and adding a new earnable currency while getting rid of scrap and totem progress. Players are going to equip these specific totems to cater to a particular character they re going to be after. Gears 5 is getting a character to unlock through a new system using totems.
Totems are your new way to unlock characters in gears 5 opening up a path of challenges to complete in order to add the character to your collection.