Gears of War 3 - Release Date Sept. 20

[quote name='seanr1221']Played for an hour last night.

It's good and it's gears. That's all there is to say.[/QUOTE]

Thats how I am, ill get the game at midnight...

...then play til the first achievement then turn it off til the next day
 
Yeah, I think I prefer Hammerburst too.

Although I like the lancer for KotH because you can usually chainsaw a few guys in all the confusion.
 
Dry Docks without a doubt wins the "Shittest map in Gears of War" award by a landslide. So. F*cking. Campy. I am voting against it every chance I f*cking get because the camping can get out of hand that fast. And I'm not talking when teams control the middle thus the entire map more or less, but when you spawn camp or have bad teams DELIBERATELY spawn camp you WILL want to kill yourself. Sandbar ain't got nothing on this shit. Trust me.
 
So I got a message from Amazon telling me that my game was shipped to the wrong facility and may be delayed...... fuck. I had tonight to play it before I get pounded with work the rest of the week. Just perfect.
 
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My friend deleted my Gears beta save file. So no freaking unlocks for me. Sucks so much. I still have commando dom that I haven't even put in. Not sure if I want to trade him or not. Blah.
 
I'm disappointed that they didn't really fix Thrashball. The spawns themselves weren't a big problem as the stronger team usually camps out at the top. They should have made the spawn hallways lead all the way up to the top area.
 
Went to gamestop last night at midnight. Got home and played about 15 mins before I couldnt stay awake any longer. Now I have to work a 12 today. What a tease. Tomorrow is going to be a nonstop shotgunfest.
 
[quote name='Trakan']I'm disappointed that they didn't really fix Thrashball. The spawns themselves weren't a big problem as the stronger team usually camps out at the top. They should have made the spawn hallways lead all the way up to the top area.[/QUOTE]

Well that would kinda make the problem worse since you'd have 2 halls of people firing at them instead of 1.
 
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No sooner do I sit down to complain about UPS having not yet delivered my package which has been 'out for delivery' since 7:30am, than the driver rolls up to my house with the game. fuck yeah.

What's the deal with this 1-page "visit the URL for the whole thing" manual? I thought for sure I'd gotten an empty case, it was so light. Printing stickers is fine, but printing out the full game instructions is too much? That's almost as lame as my brother's copy of Gears1 that didn't come with any manual.
 
I doubt my game will come today as well. The UPS drivers around here aren't exactly scholars when it comes to delivering stuff to me.
 
Its a shame Gears 2 didn't have as good online as Gears 3 does. It really should have and at least with that update in Gears 2 it was a lot better, but still not as good as this. I've only played 2 games online. I knew I would love it though as much as I played the others.
 
[quote name='Pirate331']No sooner do I sit down to complain about UPS having not yet delivered my package which has been 'out for delivery' since 7:30am, than the driver rolls up to my house with the game. fuck yeah.

What's the deal with this 1-page "visit the URL for the whole thing" manual? I thought for sure I'd gotten an empty case, it was so light. Printing stickers is fine, but printing out the full game instructions is too much? That's almost as lame as my brother's copy of Gears1 that didn't come with any manual.[/QUOTE]

Pretty much all companies are doing that with games now. It makes sense for a lot of reasons. They save money not having to print them and it saves paper seeing as most people don't even read manuals anymore.
 
I'm really disappointed with Amazon, I got an email saying the game hasn't shipped and it's been delayed, I ordered it in July...............it still says estimated delivery for today's date but hasn't shipped yet.

I got my Kantus code but no game, glad I went to wal mart last night.


I'm in Act 4 already I believe, the campaign is pretty good.

I've been playing quite a bit of MP, I'm level 19 I think, the same old sawed off $$$$$$s are still around, hiding around corners the whole game and there also still seems to be remnants of "host shotgun" certain people's weapons do more damage at a faster rate occasionally in some games.


My problem is I'm still sort of in the Gears 2 frame of mind where I can gib people no problem with next to no confrontation, but really now people have the sawed off and I can't really do that and get away with it, it usually ends up we kill each other. It's aggravating but I need to change my play style, the lancer is probably the best IMO for stopping someone with a sawed off, I'm just not in the habit of using it yet.


EDIT: My Amazon order is delayed by 3 to 4 days according to Amazon, why I don't know, the guy just told me it shipped in a way it wasn't supposed to, whatever that means. He told me if I wanted to place another order and choose 1 day shipping he would waive the shipping, but that wasn't the point, what happened to my release day shipping? I was hoping for maybe a credit but the guy was kind of a dick. Oh well, I got my skin already.
 
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Ah, online multiplayer is still kinda lame. People just sitting there in a corner, camping and waiting with their sawed off shotgun. They need to tone down the damage it does. I've shot several people first and point blank with the gnasher and they still manage to kill me while they survive and run away.
 
Found a glitch. Started playing horde, and the host bailed before match 16. When it made the new host we were in wave 6, but seemed like we were still on wave 16 difficulty. And I agree, the shotgun is unbalanced. Also if u and another try to melee and one has retro lancer, the retro always wins
 
[quote name='6er']Found a glitch. Started playing horde, and the host bailed before match 16. When it made the new host we were in wave 6, but seemed like we were still on wave 16 difficulty. And I agree, the shotgun is unbalanced. Also if u and another try to melee and one has retro lancer, the retro always wins[/QUOTE]

That's because it has that big blade at the end.............


[quote name='intoxicated662']Ah, online multiplayer is still kinda lame. People just sitting there in a corner, camping and waiting with their sawed off shotgun. They need to tone down the damage it does. I've shot several people first and point blank with the gnasher and they still manage to kill me while they survive and run away.[/QUOTE]


I can agree with the gnasher for whatever reason not registering STILL. Shoot people point blank in the face multiple times and they roll or run away.

As far as the sawed off goes, it seems like if an enemy is standing to your left right up close to you, they still get hit by the blast like they showed in the weapon video from AmazYn. BUT if you're standing on the right, NOTHING. I found this out the hard way today. Maybe it was lag? I don't know but my gun was pointing at him, he was really close, and he didn't die then I was sad.
 
[quote name='BREVITY']Is there a quick way to mute ppl while in game in Gears 3? This is a must for online games![/QUOTE]

I don't know as I haven't played the game yet, but I just have my voice chat limited to friends only. So much better that way. Well, mostly I'm just going to play Horde mode and the campaign coop with friends anyway, so I suppose it's moot.
 
Disappointed with the multiplayer so far. Seems like Epic didn't make any changes from the beta. The spawns are the worst I've seen in any game. They seem worse than the beta. It goes both ways - people spawn directly behind me or I'll spawn into gunfire. I'm getting stuck on things constantly. The maps are mediocre. I haven't found one I think compares to War Machine or any of the other classics yet.

Beast mode is pretty fun, even though 12 rounds is way too short.
 
I played some Horde Mode. They kinda made it into a Tower Defense mode. Not being able to upgrade things until 10 rounds are done is stupid. If I have the cash I should be able to upgrade. It's still fun, but I find that having "fortifications" and setting them up really slows the game down. 50 Waves of Horde takes forever. Adding in Fortifications is only going to slow it down even more.

I like that for everything you do, you get Experience. It seems like they thought the whole Experience System thing through.

And then there's Campaign. I've done Act 1, and it started off kinda weird and ended sort of auspiciously.
At one point, the 4 characters get split up then are put right back together again with nothing to do. It's a nitpick, but I expected at least SOMETHING out of that. And then there's the whole 'talk to bum Queen' thing. They talk up how he's the Cole Train and how he can smooth talk her, but when the finally meet there's no indication that she even knows who the fuck he is. Of course, the Cole Train sequence right before that was pretty hysterical. I also don't like that you play 2 sides of the same story. It really slows things down for me.

Also, I think 4-player co-op kinda breaks the Campaign.
 
[quote name='Trakan']Disappointed with the multiplayer so far. Seems like Epic didn't make any changes from the beta. The spawns are the worst I've seen in any game. They seem worse than the beta. It goes both ways - people spawn directly behind me or I'll spawn into gunfire. I'm getting stuck on things constantly. The maps are mediocre. I haven't found one I think compares to War Machine or any of the other classics yet.

Beast mode is pretty fun, even though 12 rounds is way too short.[/QUOTE]



I have to agree :( I've been getting stuck on a lot of stuff too and been getting screwed by spawns, having whole teams spawn behind me, etc etc.
 
[quote name='Trakan']Disappointed with the multiplayer so far. Seems like Epic didn't make any changes from the beta. The spawns are the worst I've seen in any game. They seem worse than the beta. It goes both ways - people spawn directly behind me or I'll spawn into gunfire. I'm getting stuck on things constantly. The maps are mediocre. I haven't found one I think compares to War Machine or any of the other classics yet.

Beast mode is pretty fun, even though 12 rounds is way too short.[/QUOTE]

I'll have to agree with you with the maps issue and Beast mode as well. It seems like there aren't that many maps and honestly makes me wish they would release a map pack or two already, or perhaps the maps that were/are already on disk. Gears 1 had it's share of memorable maps (many, actually) and Gears 2 had Blood Drive, Security and perhaps River (which I have a love/hate relationship with). Gears 3 just doesn't have any yet. Hotel seemed to have potential but it reminds me of a CoD map. Not in a bad way, but I find the outside portion to be dull.

Regardless of that issue, the multiplayer is still very entertaining. The shotgun seems to be a bit stronger and the Retro Lancer sucks when hip firing (at least, it isn't as good as it was in the beta), which I personally enjoy. The regular lancer seems a bit stronger as well. Oh! Going back to the retro lancer - Is it just me or does it seem way too strong at times? There have been times where I peek out of cover and within two seconds I'm almost completely red. Mind you, this is from a fairly long distance.

I have yet to really run into that many spawning issues really. Trenches and Thrashball are better with the new paths and it seems that not as many people go to the grinder/mortar area to just camp. Checkout... Well, I can see the spawning problem here. Thing with that map is that there aren't many locations that they could have a team spawn at without completely redesigning the map. Actually, when you visit the store in the campaign, they could have ripped it from there. Lots of cover and hiding spots would have been fun.
 
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[quote name='LinkinPrime']There was a flame skin for the retro lancer that was obtained from the beta...right?[/QUOTE]

That only unlocked it for the beta, although I'm sure you can earn it in the full game. I think the only unlocks are Thrashball Cole and the gold plated retro Lancer.
 
Yeah, I unlocked everything in the beta, it's the only gun that won't unlock on my game. I thought I was going crazy and maybe it wasn't part of the beta. Hopefully it updates with the next patch or something.
 
[quote name='intoxicated662']Ah, online multiplayer is still kinda lame. People just sitting there in a corner, camping and waiting with their sawed off shotgun. They need to tone down the damage it does. I've shot several people first and point blank with the gnasher and they still manage to kill me while they survive and run away.[/QUOTE]

Don't let them. Work as a team, flank them. I use the sawed off and I run and gun a lot. I don't like to camp, even though I do every now and then.

Also, the spotting system is one of the best new features of the game that none is fucking using!!!!
 
Damn ebay removed my kantus skin code listing. I have to do it under classified ad. I was gunna do that but at the bottom it says fees so far 9.95 WTF? Im not going to pay 10 bucks to list something that i might sell for 15. LOL.
 
Maybe I'm rusty from the beta but I guess I was expecting some more stopping power from the gnasher, I don't know if it's lag or rather the game hiding lag well but goddamn do people eat up gnasher sometimes and of course when they do, it's always the person that's using a sawed off so I have no chance even though it was a point blank shot from gibbing range.

I feel like eventually they may make a gnasher only playlist the way the game is being played now. If they thought "casuals" hated the last 2 games they are going to hate this one the most because of the sawed off.

I'm not saying don't use the sawed off because I use it sometimes, but in order to use it productively, you have to do a lot of running away from enemies and hiding around corners and I just don't find that very fun.............
 
[quote name='BREVITY']Is there a quick way to mute ppl while in game in Gears 3? This is a must for online games![/QUOTE]
Self imposed party chat.

[quote name='KingBroly']Also, I think 4-player co-op kinda breaks the Campaign.[/quote]
I agree. It is the only mode I have really played. I have two complaints with it.
1) So you will let me pick the Act but not the Chapter when joining public...
2) Host drops and game ends. It's 2011... just let the game continue with a new host...
 
[quote name='Matt Young']That only unlocked it for the beta, although I'm sure you can earn it in the full game. I think the only unlocks are Thrashball Cole and the gold plated retro Lancer.[/QUOTE]The flame unlocks for playing a game in each week of the beta were supposed to carry over to the retail game. Only one I didn't get was the first week's since I didn't have bulletstorm and hence a key for the start of the beta.
 
What the crap is wrong with the matchmaking system. By FAR the worst I've ever seen. I just spent 15 minutes in horde and the other modes trying to find a match. It seems like they are running b rate servers that can only handle 14 or 20 matches at a time considering that is all there ever is. It's sad when homefront has a better matchmaking system.

And i just started seeing the enemy won't die issue. Shot the guy point blank with a shotgun TWICE and he hits me once and takes me down and goes on to take out a teammate that was also shooting him.
 
[quote name='DOMINATOR912']Maybe I'm going nuts, but........the voice actress for Sam is the same person who did Chloe's voice in Uncharted 2, right?[/QUOTE]

Yes, but another fun fact.

The 2 leaders in that level? Both voiced by Jennifer Hale.

Also, I'm not really a fan of the hair in Gears 3. It just doesn't seem to fit.
 
Yes, matchmaking is really slow and it's launch day. I had an error message earlier "connection to host lost" so much for 'dedicated servers'. By the way, the retro lancer does heavy damage. Game seems noob friendly. I liked it better in the beta, but guess i'll give it more time and see how it goes.
 
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