Gears of War 3 - Release Date Sept. 20

I'm down.

Though Active Reload might be rough, at least when you're firing at the enemy they will pause for cover...maybe Vampire and No ammo pick ups?
 
[quote name='100xp']
Though Active Reload might be rough, at least when you're firing at the enemy they will pause for cover...maybe Vampire and No ammo pick ups?[/QUOTE]
That makes sense, I just wasn't sure if people would worry about running out of ammo. I guess if that happens it'll just be a restart point.

I'll probably start after 8 or 9 PM EST, and I think I'll just set my party setting to join-able so people can jump in and out at their leisure. Blood Drive was the map I was aiming to use because of how tight it is, but if there's a better map let me know.

I figure the Silverback would help since it has infinite ammo, so if anybody needs those rocket kills this might be worth playing. Plus, the XP modifier of Insane and 2 Hard Mutators should help you level any fortifications as you repair them. I'm halfway to the level 5 Silverback, so I'm definitely hoping to get to 75% through if this goes as planned.

And before we start the first Base, it might be prudent to keep swapping money until we each get that ribbon ($5000 given to teammates), since it'll help add slightly to the ribbon XP gained.
 
Good thing we got the game in last night, as they've pulled 2x XP. Thanks for playing Slick Steve, PrarieDOG and Ryuukishi. I got the Silverback to within ~40,000 to level 5 from all of that.
 
For whatever reason, today ive been playing quick match guardian and even TDM and after the game ends it shows a loading screen and boots me to search for a new game. It doesnt happen every game, but more times than not ive been booted.
 
Weekend event is lightning round on the Forces of Nature playlist this weekend for those who care.....1 minute execution rounds with Gnasher default weapons and a boomshot spawn.
 
Is there an advantage to using certain character skins? Like for example using the Queen instead of a Savage Grenadier when you play as the Locust? I'm wondering whether it helps minimize the hit rate done to you?
 
[quote name='Donut2922']Is there an advantage to using certain character skins? Like for example using the Queen instead of a Savage Grenadier when you play as the Locust? I'm wondering whether it helps minimize the hit rate done to you?[/QUOTE]
Supposedly the female characters have smaller hitboxes.
 
[quote name='Ryuukishi']Supposedly the female characters have smaller hitboxes.[/QUOTE]

Its been 6 months since i've been playing MP and i've just pondered this now lol.
 
If you guys are going to do an insane horde run at some point let me know. I am interested in playing.
 
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[quote name='LinkinPrime']No, they've said many times that the hitboxes are the same regardless of character skin. Unless its changed somehow after release.[/QUOTE]

That sounds fair - thanks for confirming LP
 
[quote name='Donut2922']That sounds fair - thanks for confirming LP[/QUOTE]
Please be aware that there are different sizes for hit boxes. There are numerous videos on youtube that show this.
Females have the smallest, then there are medium sized characters like Dom, Baird, Marcus, Jace, and numerous other male characters who have bigger hit boxes.

The larger characters, like Cole, Clayton, Raam, Theron, Adam Fenix and Dizzy (I can't recall if it's both Dizzy's, or one skin of his), have the largest hit boxes.

What this means is that certain spots on the large characters frames will be able to be hit where a smaller character would not get hit, both in and out of cover. Essentially, playing as a female gives you an edge because your character is smaller in frame, thus harder to hit.

If you're just playing the game, play as a female. It gives you Battle Mistress credit and makes you harder to hit. This is more of an issue for competitive players who want balance.
 
[quote name='The Ebbtide']Please be aware that there are different sizes for hit boxes. There are numerous videos on youtube that show this.
Females have the smallest, then there are medium sized characters like Dom, Baird, Marcus, Jace, and numerous other male characters who have bigger hit boxes.

The larger characters, like Cole, Clayton, Raam, Theron, Adam Fenix and Dizzy (I can't recall if it's both Dizzy's, or one skin of his), have the largest hit boxes.

What this means is that certain spots on the large characters frames will be able to be hit where a smaller character would not get hit, both in and out of cover. Essentially, playing as a female gives you an edge because your character is smaller in frame, thus harder to hit.

If you're just playing the game, play as a female. It gives you Battle Mistress credit and makes you harder to hit. This is more of an issue for competitive players who want balance.
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Thanks that's what I was beginning to wonder. A lot of the female skins I noticed are played by guys and it didn't make sense to me and I realized it probably was that. Makes sense.
 
Man this game is really getting annoying lately. I dont know if its just a new trend or maybe its just in guardian mostly. But its like every game, 90% of people use retro, and can down you with it in 0.5 seconds. The stopping power on that gun is insane, although there were times when i used it and people seemed to just rush right through it and gnasher me one shot.

Also the constant ink stun, over and over and over every round. Im not going to lie, i use it sometimes, but its fucking cheap, and wish they would remove it. There are times where i throw an ink right on someone and he rolls and somehow avoids the stun. I hate any type of move that you get free shots on a defenseless person, thats just cheap. Like Mantle kick. That move is the biggest piece of shit in the game. Its just so random, sometimes it works, most of the time you get fucked trying to do it. Last night someone was rushing me and im pounding A over and over and over trying to mantle kick as he rushed and slid into the other side of the barrier, and guess what, he mantle kicks me. Nice.

If its not the constant retro or ink stun its the sponging of the gnasher. Im so sick of shooting guys over and over as they run off. Or i shoot them twice, they turn around and we trade one shot and either he kills me or we trade kills. So thats 3 shots for me and 1 for him and we get the same results. Nice. Sometimes i shoot people enough that should put them down and i get like 10-40 assist points. I mean WTF? I constantly get downed with one shot from 10+ feet away with the gnasher, but i seem to have to put 2 to 5 shots into someone to put them down. My gnasher just feels so weak lately.

If thats not enough, lately the sawed off has been killing me from 5-10 feet away. Sometimes its not bad and its easy to kill someone who uses it as long as my gnasher isnt shooting blanks and there is no lag.

Ive just gotten so fed up with this game lately. You dont have to have any skill to get kills in the game. Just use the sawed off, ink stun, scorcher,, retro, or sit back and lancer like you are playing Call of Duty. And the servers are shit. Anyone can do really good one match, then get fucked the next match. One guy will be easy to kill, another guy will sponge all your shots and be unstoppable. I love when i get shot down right when i go around the corner. Or how i get killed with an incendiary because he through it where i used to be, because i actually evade left or right when he throws it at me, but i get fucked anyway. Its just annoying when the game constantly is so random. Its just like, whats the fucking point anymore.

Only real reason i keep playing is im so close to Seriously 3.0, that and my love for gears. I just pray if they make another gears game, that they make it more like Gears 2 and not like this noob friendly COD version that is Gears 3.

oh yeah i hate the digger too. It always goes right past my enemies, and it always kills me even if im 10 feet away.

IDK maybe its my shitty internet, i mean speedtest.net says its slower than 89% of the US, so that might be my biggest problem.
 
^Honestly dude, I really think it is mostly your internet that is at fault here. I agree with that the ink nades are cheap and sometimes it feels like people are gnashering me from way too far away, but mostly the fault is my own when I get killed. I'm not sure who your ISP is, but I would look into upgrading or switching.

If there's one thing I've learned though, it's that playing this game online pisses me off a lot of the time. It's awesome when I'm doing okay, but boy can it get frustrating.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']Man this game is really getting annoying lately....IDK maybe its my shitty internet, i mean speedtest.net says its slower than 89% of the US, so that might be my biggest problem.[/QUOTE]What is your internet speed? 89%? I have DSL 6.0d/.5up and I'm worse than 69% of the US and 57% of the world. To think I thought I'd be all caught up when I upgraded from 1.5dl DSL a year ago. Alot of your complaints sound like frustrations I've always had with my slow net, it's mostly your lag. The worst is emptying a full clip in a CoD match and then watching the killcam and I barely got off a shot on their side of the server.

[quote name='PrarieD0G']^Honestly dude, I really think it is mostly your internet that is at fault here. I agree with that the ink nades are cheap and sometimes it feels like people are gnashering me from way too far away, but mostly the fault is my own when I get killed. I'm not sure who your ISP is, but I would look into upgrading or switching.

If there's one thing I've learned though, it's that playing this game online pisses me off a lot of the time. It's awesome when I'm doing okay, but boy can it get frustrating.[/QUOTE]Agreed.
 
[quote name='PrarieD0G']
If there's one thing I've learned though, it's that playing this game online pisses me off a lot of the time. It's awesome when I'm doing okay, but boy can it get frustrating.[/QUOTE]
That's why I really like how they setup offline play. It's just the best way for me to play.
 
My internet is AT&T DSL, i have 1.3 Mbps download, 0.3 Mbps upload and my ping is like 130. I know those are terrible numbers for internet. Its just annoying, like i have to lancer a guy for 3 seconds to down them while they hit me with any rifle and im down in 0.5 seconds some games. Twice today i shoot someone with a gnasher right on them and they sponge. One i downed the leader, then i shot her as someone was picking her up hip fire and sponge, and she got away. Sometime i think my problem is i hip fire my gnasher too much, and need to aim more. But even when i aim and even hard aim with an active it can be weak.

Sorry about my rant, i REALLY hate to be negative, and i dont usually like posting when im frustrated. But i had to let it out. lol.
 
DSL is pretty subpar when it comes to games. Any reason you can't upgrade to cable? It can't be that much more expensive. I'm in the upper 20% of internet speeds with Cox's mid-range cable connection and it's only like $40 a month.
 
7th, I have Verizon dsl and my 360 (slim but use old non g wireless adapter most of the time) is on the second floor while the router (non-N) is in the basement. I usually do well (top 3 most of the time) but there are times when I know something is up and get stuck with a bad host (no dedicated servers for me).

How are other mp games like mw3 etc for you? COD games (mw2/3) are pretty bad for me imo.
 
I think i have the same probs when playing COD. Which is why i usually only play in hardcore TDM, because it doesnt take long to kill someone in that.

Man i just played a game and this guy shot me with the sawed off like 3 times so i was pretty pissed. So i downed him and was humping him, then i tagged him with a smoke to down him again, then i went to jump back and he shot me with his sawed off and he wasnt even up yet. LOL WTF. Must be lag.

I had road runner before, but switched to AT&T because the RR prices would have been jacked up after the year special offer. Plus road runner would sometimes go out at night for periods of time. I almost never lose my DSL connection, but i still think its shitty.
 
Does anybody need help with Horde or Beast mode? I might be getting rid of my game this weekend, so I'm just offering to help anyone before I let it go.
 
[quote name='The Ebbtide']Does anybody need help with Horde or Beast mode? I might be getting rid of my game this weekend, so I'm just offering to help anyone before I let it go.[/QUOTE]
I have a couple of Beast ribbons I need to boost if we want to get a group together for that.
 
Same here. I still haven't gotten the timing of the mantle kick down. Its annoying when you're getting rushed behind cover and get mantle kicked still what the hell? Still loving Gears overall though. When you're still playing MP 7 months after release it tells me the game is pretty great.
 
[quote name='Donut2922']Same here. I still haven't gotten the timing of the mantle kick down. Its annoying when you're getting rushed behind cover and get mantle kicked still what the hell? Still loving Gears overall though. When you're still playing MP 7 months after release it tells me the game is pretty great.[/QUOTE]

Epic was just smart to continue to release DLC in a timely fashion for an already good game.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']I had road runner before, but switched to AT&T because the RR prices would have been jacked up after the year special offer. Plus road runner would sometimes go out at night for periods of time. I almost never lose my DSL connection, but i still think its shitty.[/QUOTE]

A lot of the time you can call and negotiate the price so that they continue to give you the lower price. Worth a shot anyway.
 
[quote name='PrarieD0G']A lot of the time you can call and negotiate the price so that they continue to give you the lower price. Worth a shot anyway.[/QUOTE]

yeah, unfortunately i signed up for AT&T before i quit road runner so they did offer me the same price, but i had already committed to AT&T so i turned it down. oh well.
 
[quote name='Ryuukishi']I have a couple of Beast ribbons I need to boost if we want to get a group together for that.[/QUOTE]
Which ones do you need? I have a spare controller, so if a group isn't available I can still try to help you.

Also, I'm still trying to do Raam's Shadow on Insane. If anybody else needs to do Sections 1, 3 and/or 4, those are the 3 I need, too. I hate playing through it alone because Tai's awful AI always has him fall into an E-hole when I play.
No lie, this has always happened when AI controls Tai for me.
 
I still need some beast/horde/raam's shadow ribbons/cheves so count me in now that I'm done with the EA games whose servers were closing.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']I think i have the same probs when playing COD. Which is why i usually only play in hardcore TDM, because it doesnt take long to kill someone in that.


I almost never lose my DSL connection, but i still think its shitty.[/QUOTE]

I might give that a try. I try to stay in barebones but there's still tons of campers (saw several 20+ ks today and even a moab) and get quickscoped out of nowhere way too often. it shows 3 bars for me most of the time but I know not to trust in-game connection measures as I get kicked out mid game a lot (half the time it's when I'm actually doing "well".


I lose connection at least once every "gaming session" (2+ hours) and sometimes my system will actually just freeze. this has happened with several games but online when I am connected to live so I'm guessing it most be connection based.


ON TOPIC:
Is there any news of dlc beyond the season pass? I'd like to get the first 4 for less than 1600 msp ;)
 
There is going to be a new campaign, cliffy B said, and it involves everyones favorite. He didnt specifically say who it was. Someone on gears 3 said it was skorge but you really cant trust what people say over gears 3. I remember someone said i needed 50 onyx medals to get embry star lolol. Plus i thought they said it had to do with someone from campaign that didnt get a lot of time. IDK, he could have meant gears 2. But there is going to be some campaign added sometime for sure. Just not sure about details.
 
just got this game back after selling it shortly after launch. anyone have an opinion on the single player dlc? worth it at full price? sale? not at all? not really into the vs. multiplayer (because i flat out suck at it XD ) so i dont think i should get the "season pass" or w/e it is.
 
campaign is about 3 hours long and feels more like gears of war 1. The raam parts are kind of fun but being locust they move slow. If you think 3 hours of gears 1 type campaign is worth the price then id say go for it.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']campaign is about 3 hours long and feels more like gears of war 1. The raam parts are kind of fun but being locust they move slow. If you think 3 hours of gears 1 type campaign is worth the price then id say go for it.[/QUOTE]
id suppose i could live with $5 an hour... but $3.xx an hour sounds better, so i think ill wait for a sale. thanks for the reply. i know i wasnt happy with the single player dlc "segment" in gears 2, glad to hear this has some length to it.
 
[quote name='crzyjoeguy']id suppose i could live with $5 an hour... but $3.xx an hour sounds better, so i think ill wait for a sale. thanks for the reply. i know i wasnt happy with the single player dlc "segment" in gears 2, glad to hear this has some length to it.[/QUOTE]

I enjoyed the single player dlc with gears 3 but at this point you may as well wait for a sale or a GOTY addition and grab that.
 
[quote name='The Ebbtide']Which ones do you need? I have a spare controller, so if a group isn't available I can still try to help you.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure I need Monkey-Dog, and I think at least one other, maybe Indigestion.
 
[quote name='Ryuukishi']Pretty sure I need Monkey-Dog, and I think at least one other, maybe Indigestion.[/QUOTE]
I'm done with everything in the Campaign(s), so if I'm on I'll probably be playing Horde or Beast.

If you, or anyone, needs help with other stuff, just send me a message. I'm not sure when I'll ship it off, but if people are looking to do things Friday night I'd help.
 
Today in guardian on jacinto, i rushed from my spawn over to the opponents frag area. So i was trying to shoot them with my gnasher when one of them planted a frag on me, right then their leader started to chainsaw me. Well the frag blew up, the leader died, and it gave me the kill. So he ended up killing his own leader. LOL.
 
[quote name='The Ebbtide']I'm done with everything in the Campaign(s), so if I'm on I'll probably be playing Horde or Beast.

If you, or anyone, needs help with other stuff, just send me a message. I'm not sure when I'll ship it off, but if people are looking to do things Friday night I'd help.[/QUOTE]
Cool, I'll be on tonight.
 
[quote name='Pirate331']Gonna guess loads of polyps, serapedes, formers, drudges, and gunkers. Can anyone confirm/deny?[/QUOTE]

Not sure a gunker would qualify as a creepy crawler... im thinking small enemies like wild tickers, tickers, polyps, serapedes...... maybe beast riders since they crawl in a way?

I love lancering a ton of formers at once though lol
 
I'd be expecting a lot of Savage Corpsers, too. I've heard that you can actually chainsaw a Corpsers face when it rears their limbs back. I've never tried it, but I wonder if that would count as an execution.

Internet exchange source only...if you're crushed by a Corpser due to inability to actually do this, I take no responsibility for injury, loss of life, or loss of round/game. If this does work, then I'm awesome.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']
I love lancering a ton of formers at once though lol[/QUOTE]
Retro charge; you'd get several pig sticker ribbons.
 
[quote name='100xp']so it's 5x XP for executions only?[/QUOTE]

According to Pete Nub's twitter, that seems to be the case. I thought it was 5XP for the Execution playlist :/
 
3xp in red dead, 2xp in cod, 5xp in gears for executions, super jackpot in reach, Diablo 3 beta weekend, ghost recon beta just started and I'm on a roll in dirt 3. Jeez. What to play?
 
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