Gears of War 3 - Release Date Sept. 20

[quote name='LinkinPrime']So anyone hear if the Retro will be in Judgment yet?[/QUOTE]

No idea, but i really wish they would start talking about something OTHER than overrun. Im not even excited about that game mode. They did talk about campaign and thats all good. Now get to the good stuff, normal VS MP!
 
Yes, Overrun will be a fun little time killer, but VS is where it's at. Hell, the only thing they have to do to please me is say "no sawed off or retro."
 
Overun looks dumb as shit tbh.

On the topic of mantle kick it must be lag on my part yesterday I mantle kicked two people and I heard their character make the noise of pain and felt my controller shake but my character just went over the enemy and they killed me
 
[quote name='GUNNM']Overun looks dumb as shit tbh.

On the topic of mantle kick it must be lag on my part yesterday I mantle kicked two people and I heard their character make the noise of pain and felt my controller shake but my character just went over the enemy and they killed me[/QUOTE]


Haha yeah, the lag makes mantle kick bad. You can jump away and still get kicked because of lag. I once mantle kicked 2 guys, shot them both point blank each and didnt kill either one.
 
I use wi-fi and I've no problem with lag at all except for that mantle kick thing. I live in Texas so majority of my connections are from Mexico it sucks for anyone else who lags because of distance but we have dedicated servers, right? =/
 
I've mantle kicked, hopped over the obstacle, into the enemy, felt the controller rumble, saw them make the stumble animation, and somehow...somehow, I was the one who got stunned, and they were able to freely move and kill me. We were the last players on our teams and as soon as it went to the stats before next round that's all people were talking about.

"What the hell happened?!"

Six months of polish.
 
Hopefully Judgment is just a better version of gears 3 MP. Honestly its so smooth and nice in terms of movement, taking cover, and such. They just need to remove the bad things, and make the gnasher more consistent. It could really be a lot better. Also they need better maps. I like most of the DLC maps, but the launch maps are pretty much all rifle maps, so i dont care too much for them. Make good maps, instead of maps because it ties in with a theme, looking at you escelation/bulletmarsh.
 
played a few games yesterday. most of the players were from Italy/France with a few Germans and Spaniards.

I usually encounter Mexicans and a few Canadians/UK. Also South American countries as well. Most games have maybe 2-3 US players (though some might be Puerto Rican based on their bio) aside from me but most leave quickly.


didn't really experience lag but there were some Italians that seemed to be playing "too well" (much better than their overall records show which were below average) and they weren't host as there were 3-4 host disconnects.

all this on a 1 bar wireless connection and not sure what gears said my nat was. it's usually 2 bars but occasionally get 3.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']I love them both. Good thing God of War Ascension comes out before Judgment, so ill be able to finish the story in that before Gears MP sucks me in again. LOL.[/QUOTE]

Hah good plan I'll probably be doing the exact same thing. Both games are Day 1 purchases for me.

Lump me into the group that only cares for MP mode. Overrun sounds nice but I just don't want it to be class based for the other MP modes.
 
[quote name='GUNNM']I wish god of war was on xbox the only PS3 exclusive game I want to play is GOW 3 and GOW 4 :([/QUOTE]

Its pretty much the only reason i own a ps3. If not for God of War i would pass.
 
[quote name='dotCody']I cannot comprehend, for the life of me, why people like God Of War.[/QUOTE]
Different loves for different genres. I can't comprehend people who still play pokemon games either but its just not for me
 
I take back what I said about people boosting to get Seriously... in Gears of War. I played 5 games last night and only 2 of them counted towards my stats as too many people quit out in the other 3 games. And they were only 'first to 5' matches. They couldn't stick around for 2 or 3 more rounds to finish the match up?

And why did Epic never fix this? The issue with Seriously... was pointed out to them within a month or two of the games release.
 
They fixed it in the next game with stat tracking. :) You're sol on GOW 1 though supposedly there was a patch that wiped out kills took me a while to get mine legit just boost it.
 
[quote name='GUNNM']They fixed it in the next game with stat tracking. :) You're sol on GOW 1 though supposedly there was a patch that wiped out kills took me a while to get mine legit just boost it.[/QUOTE]
That's what's really unnerving about it. I have somewhere between 4,000-5,000 kills (this is adding up all of my kills across Warzone, Execution and Assassination, then adding and subtracting random amounts to substitute the counted/uncounted kills when players or the host quits). I'm safer assuming it's less than 4,000, but this is from years ago. I stopped playing when Halo 3 came out, with random matches played every few months.

I'm potentially half-way there, but from all of this information about stats being reset more than once (there was apparently another update that supposedly reset player stats a second time, although players have reported that it did not affect everyone) I just can't rationalize playing through countless games to get to 10,000 kills and not have it unlock...or worse, playing even more to get a grand amount and still not unlocking it.

I was fine grinding Brumak kills to get to my 100,000 in Gears of War 2, and having matches idle to finish off Gears of War 3, but I just can't accept glitching or boosting for this achievement. If only kills in Campaign or Social Matches, or even Annex counted. Or if they had at least updated to have a setting that if people don't join your match after 5 minutes of waiting to host a lobby, 5-7 bots would be added to let you play.

I want to earn the achievement, but I can't even do that since people quit matches. It's like I have to host to ensure the host doesn't quit, while also making the matches 1 round only, hoping the other players don't quit as the match should be as short as possible with only 1 round to win.

I do recall Rod Fergusson saying in one of his streams that he and several Epic employees lacked most of the online achievements for Gears of War. If only I could somehow get the employees of Epic to have to play this game every Saturday night, so that people like myself can earn the achievement...

And I'm such an idiot that I plan to try and get Seriously and Not So Serious in Gears of War PC, just to try and have everything for the series. I just don't learn.
 
They really need to dial back the achievement hunting in Gears. It sucked in Gears 1, it was mildly annoying in Gears 2, and outright terrible in Gears 3.
 
[quote name='GUNNM']I wish god of war was on xbox the only PS3 exclusive game I want to play is GOW 3 and GOW 4 :([/QUOTE]

Funny thing... The only reason I keep my 360 is for Gears. If Gears was on PS3 I would have sold the 360.

I do like Gears a lot. Its the only 360 exclusive I care a lot for.
 
[quote name='Lost_In_Shadows']Funny thing... The only reason I keep my 360 is for Gears. If Gears was on PS3 I would have sold the 360.

I do like Gears a lot. Its the only 360 exclusive I care a lot for.[/QUOTE]
I bought an xbox after seeing mad world gears of war trailer.:bouncy: So I'm pretty much in the same boat as you there really aren't exclusives anymore.
 
[quote name='GUNNM']I bought an xbox after seeing mad world gears of war trailer.:bouncy: So I'm pretty much in the same boat as you there really aren't exclusives anymore.[/QUOTE]

Far as online goes and this gen goes. Gears 2 was my most played game. I played Gears 3 some but after putting so many hours into Gears 2 I couldn't do the same to Gears 3.
 
Has the GOW 3 community died so badly that they needed to combine almost every playlist into one. I don't mind the old school playlist though no more retros, SOS or hammerburst. YAY.
 
I may be late to the party in saying this, but even a two-man hitsquad can carry the team and dominate matches in KOTH and CTL. Fantastic fun, as I rarely play but anything other then randoms but did just that over the weekend.

Went two days without losing a single KOTH match, just me and one other guy along with randoms. :shock:
 
[quote name='GUNNM']Has the GOW 3 community died so badly that they needed to combine almost every playlist into one. I don't mind the old school playlist though no more retros, SOS or hammerburst. YAY.[/QUOTE]

Just certain playlists that they want to populate. Which I don't really care for because now I have to play game types I don't like.
 
[quote name='Lost_In_Shadows']Funny thing... The only reason I keep my 360 is for Gears. If Gears was on PS3 I would have sold the 360.

I do like Gears a lot. Its the only 360 exclusive I care a lot for.[/QUOTE]

+1

The few Xbox exclusives just aren't for me. Aside from some I really enjoyed like L4D, the titles made me yawn. Gears was what pulled me into getting an Xbox. Damn you Epic.
 
thought it might be worth mentioning, but there's an un-named 'female?' MP Locust character that looks similar to Cole Train's counterpart if a COG vs Locust league was set up.

Besides Myrrah, this might be the only other Locust female MP character; not counting Berserker in Beast Mode, of course.
 
[quote name='Mospeada_21']thought it might be worth mentioning, but there's an un-named 'female?' MP Locust character that looks similar to Cole Train's counterpart if a COG vs Locust league was set up.

Besides Myrrah, this might be the only other Locust female MP character; not counting Berserker in Beast Mode, of course.[/QUOTE]


I think you mean the thrashball drone. I don't think its female it just has a mohawk on its helmet.
Like this.
Mohawk+Helmet+800.jpg
 
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Anyone know of any deals upcoming or what not on season pass? I've really got into gears a few weeks ago and was upset they basically did some false advertising about dedicated servers. If I can't find a deal on season pass what dlcs would you reccomend?
 
[quote name='Dthib87']Anyone know of any deals upcoming or what not on season pass? I've really got into gears a few weeks ago and was upset they basically did some false advertising about dedicated servers. If I can't find a deal on season pass what dlcs would you reccomend?[/QUOTE]
The scratch and play had sales on two of the four DLC twice and the season pass was lowered a couple of months ago and majority of the DLC was part of DOTW a couple of times. Either wait for another sale or just look for people to trade with on here thats how I got mine.
 
[quote name='bombtrack66']Any1 here got gold lancer and gold hammy ill trade[/QUOTE]
If you played during the first week of release, you got those and a Flaming Retro Lancer.

If you desperately need a Gold Lancer, you can still buy copies of Gears of War 2: Limited Edition. The code transfers over. You might still be able to buy it individually from sellers on Ebay or Amazon.

The Gold Hammerburst code is less common, and may be available on Ebay, but is more of the elite weapon skin.

But, and this is the most important thing to know about weapon and character skins;
no one else cares about them.

Seriously, no one cared that I have a Gold Hammerburst in Gears of War 2. Or the Flaming skins in 3. Or the pre-order skins. Or the Silver Sawed-Off Shotgun. I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just letting you know that the quest for them isn't really of value, as they don't aid in the notoriety of a player. They just lightly take up space on your hard drive.
 
The Bday skins werent really that cool. The dallas cowboy gnasher skins were better. Ive been playing this a lot lately. I have like 12 million XP since i got my red wings. lol. Had a TDM round where i went 12-2, but ended the game with 15 kills. lol.

I really hate going against teams who use female COG/Savage Kantus characters, with Retro/sawed off combo. Its so damn cheap because those characters hitboxes are so small, i often end up missing them because of it. Retro and sawed off are so cheap, no respect for anyone who gets a kill with them. Also ink stun is still annoying as all hell. Im better at rolling while they throw it. Ive even rolled a couple times where they stun themselves and i get the free kill. LOL. But its still a cheap tactic. Also i roll sometimes but lag ends up making me get stunned anyway.
 
While you're right about the lame variation in hit-boxes, you sometimes have to wonder if people are genuinely playing as female character because they're trying to get Battle Mistress done, or done again for the XP. Or if they're female. Or if they actually like the character.

I played as Valera near the end of my gaming in Gears of War 3 because I hated the new designs of the armor models (the lame wife-beater armor), and the classic characters mouths didn't move, which actually annoyed me when I'd play. Their mouths moved in 1 and 2, yet they screwed that up in 3. I liked Valera's pale armor, and that it was a full, classic styled armor that seemed unique in it's design. So I'm definitely guilty of using a female character, but it was because I preferred her over the new variations.

I wonder if the hit-boxes will change in Gears of War: Judgement. It is running off of Gears of War 3's engine, right? So I guess they won't change?
 
I use the female skins to get Battle Mistress...it'd be nice if there were more Locust characters that counted toward that; I played a lot of CTL/guardian and it always sucked getting stuck as a drone and having the match not count when I didn't get Myrrah at least one round. Or the dreaded "character available next match" error...
 
Originally Myrrah wasn't even an unlocked character. Rod mentioned in one of his streams from several months ago that she was going to be a character you'd have to earn. They later changed this when they realized it limited the ability to get Battle Mistress for Locust players, so they added her to give an option to players to use her.

You'd figure at that point they'd have thought Battle Mistress might not be a worthwhile medal...but no...adding only one Locust female seemed like the best solution.

I really don't think I've ever seen anyone else play as Jace in versus. I played as him a few times and actually had people make comments about it. He's probably the rarest skin.
 
[quote name='The Ebbtide']
I really don't think I've ever seen anyone else play as Jace in versus. I played as him a few times and actually had people make comments about it. He's probably the rarest skin.[/QUOTE]

I was just playing as jace today. He has been one of my main characters. Him, Kim/carmine/old school baird, griffen, sometimes barrick, and of course dizzy. Those are my main guys i like to use. The only female i use sometimes is Bernie. The rest i cant stand to use. As for the locust, i hate being the locust because i dont really feel comfortable using any of the skins. Most of them are too damn big, considering you will end up fighting at least 3 COG females on the enemy team. I probably use Kantus the most, or savage hunter, or the one in beast mode who has a gnasher/nade from the start.

Adam Fenix is kind of fun to use, ive gotten headshots with him and he says JACKPOT! lol. or i got a digger kill with him and he says A LITTLE OFF THE TOP. Plus he has a funny groan when he dies.
 
All I know is thrashball drone is back and I'm using him until Epic takes him away from me again. :(

I wish epic went back to updating the game types every week instead of every two weeks. I'm sitting at 21/30
 
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