Gears of War 3 - Release Date Sept. 20

[quote name='Ryuukishi']Have you guys found that when you join a Horde match that's already in progress, you always spawn in as Marcus, no matter what character you have selected in your preferences? Or is it just me?[/QUOTE]

Yeah happens in social versus too. If you join a game in progress you start as the default character till you get into the next game. Also what is the difference between social and ranked? I heard social is p2p since the games just continue on and on and they fill them with bots and ranked is actually the one with the dedicated servers since it throws you into a lobby before starting the game. Not sure if it true.
 
just wondering is there liek a website with just some basic online stuff to help newbs?

i swear after a 12 year old cussed me out and he was mostly right that due i suck that i need some basicgameplay tips to learn on :)
 
[quote name='Kevfactor']just wondering is there liek a website with just some basic online stuff to help newbs?

i swear after a 12 year old cussed me out and he was mostly right that due i suck that i need some basicgameplay tips to learn on :)[/QUOTE]

http://www.youtube.com/user/arCtiCvBi

His channel is pretty good he has lessons starting with at number with the basics and goes all the way up on wall bouncing and how to shotgun.
 
Man big explosions + Gunkers = no where to run. But the Super Reload is instant death in the first wave. I got to wave 10 on insane and had gunkers for a few rounds. Then i got berserkers and i was down to just 1 and ended up dying because i evaded into an object and didnt get me out of the way. So i just quit, it takes too long for 1 player to try. I wonder if Instagib would have been able to take care of the berserker. But i dont mind playing with some of you tonight maybe, thats if the damn game will let people join my games! Gamer SDP tried to join earlier and it wouldnt let him.
 
Once I get done with Act 2 of Insane 7th, let's see if we can get something together to try and tackle it. Some of it, anyways.

I still need to do Beast Mode on Insane without losing. I haven't tried since learning to stop worrying and love the Wretch.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']Man big explosions + Gunkers = no where to run. But the Super Reload is instant death in the first wave. I got to wave 10 on insane and had gunkers for a few rounds. Then i got berserkers and i was down to just 1 and ended up dying because i evaded into an object and didnt get me out of the way. So i just quit, it takes too long for 1 player to try. I wonder if Instagib would have been able to take care of the berserker. But i dont mind playing with some of you tonight maybe, thats if the damn game will let people join my games! Gamer SDP tried to join earlier and it wouldnt let him.[/QUOTE]

The instagib is hilarious. You one shot zerkers, corpsers, armored kantus its fun.
 
[quote name='Ink.So.Well.']Yeah. The Lancer has always had a damage multiplier for headshots. Gears of War 2 was so f*cking laggy you'd never noticed because half of your clip wasn't registering into the target anyway.

Appreciate the Horde tips King. I'm going to try that technique out in a private later because I want the I'm Rich, BITCH! title.[/QUOTE]

Oh man thanks. This changes EVERYTHING
 
[quote name='KingBroly']Once I get done with Act 2 of Insane 7th, let's see if we can get something together to try and tackle it. Some of it, anyways.

I still need to do Beast Mode on Insane without losing. I haven't tried since learning to stop worrying and love the Wretch.[/QUOTE]

I havent done beast mode on insane either. Too bad you cant use mutators in that mode. Last night when i was playing normal beast mode on checkout, i would just pick boomer and stand by my spawn launching boomshots LOL. Worked pretty good.
 
I went up to wave 25 on Insane Horde, solo. Overpass works for me; hide in the granade room with a shield and punch everyone.

If you guys need help with Insane Beast/Horde, send me an invite. Gamertag: your evil copy
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']I havent done beast mode on insane either. Too bad you cant use mutators in that mode. Last night when i was playing normal beast mode on checkout, i would just pick boomer and stand by my spawn launching boomshots LOL. Worked pretty good.[/QUOTE]

Best method I've seen is 'use Wretches until Waves 5-7, then bring out the big guys in doses.'
 
Super Reload is the best mutator if you use single shot weapons like the Sawed Off Shotgun, the Boomshot or the Longshot. It allows you to fire 2 shots before reloading, which helps with the Sawed Off when you're rushing Maulers or Grinders at higher levels.

I was lucky enough to finish Horde with 2 randoms last night. We were abandoned by Wave 30, yet somehow only failed once the entire game, on Wave 47. Seriously, Horde is so much fun when people don't suck at it. I only have 1/3 left to finish off level 7 for the turret ugrades, and then all I have is the Silverback, which actually seems like a worthless item.
 
Anybody else experience control glitches? Twice I've had my buttons and triggers freeze up. Couldn't go into cover, couldn't roll, couldn't fire or aim down my sights, nothing except walk. Clears up the next round.
 
Oh plenty... especially in campaign and horde. The next respawn/reload I can count on the game freezing me into hard aim and not being able to fire for a couple of seconds. Very annoying.
 
fuck this stupid fucking little s*** stop freezing on the load screen you pansy piece of s***

i havent even played the game for more than 10 hours and it is showing scratches WTFbox
 
[quote name='Pirate331']Anybody else experience control glitches? Twice I've had my buttons and triggers freeze up. Couldn't go into cover, couldn't roll, couldn't fire or aim down my sights, nothing except walk. Clears up the next round.[/QUOTE]

I've been stuck running a couple times. Pretty exciting when it causes me to sprint out of cover.
 
The only glitch I've experienced is rolling backwards and my character actually rolled forward, has happened at least twice...which I guess is not bad.
 
Finished the campaign last night after struggling to get our third man online enough to do so since launch. Won't spoil anything but definitely an amazing story.
 
Insane Horde Mode Down! :)

Good thing 7th Number and I got 3 other people to help out along the way. Melee'ing Beserkers FTW!

I'm at 3 Onyx Medals now.
 
[quote name='KingBroly']Insane Horde Mode Down! :)

Good thing 7th Number and I got 3 other people to help out along the way. Melee'ing Beserkers FTW!

I'm at 3 Onyx Medals now.[/QUOTE]

Yeah that was pretty fun. Next thing we need to do is get 3 others and do beast mode on insane! :bouncy:
 
they really need to add some sort of horde host migration. Host keeps quitting on me -_- when we're even doing fine! I don't mind going 3 people still! I just want to keep going!!
 
Does anyone want to try Insane Beast Mode tomorrow night?

And I tried to melee the final boss with instagib active, but nothing happened. I guess that kills that Insane Arcade idea.
 
[quote name='Lightning War']Finished the campaign last night after struggling to get our third man online enough to do so since launch. Won't spoil anything but definitely an amazing story.[/QUOTE]
really amazing. really

dom suicided with a car he coulda grenaded

the ending area was surrounded by a storm but now the locusts get through

markus stabs the bitch for dom, she didn't even kill dom he suicided, and why the hell did she walk towards marcus in the first place

there were many time where i thought, the locusts evolved, couldn't they evolve to not allow us to use their equipment (catapults/ships)
 
[quote name='timesplitt']really amazing. really

dom suicided with a car he coulda grenaded

the ending area was surrounded by a storm but now the locusts get through

markus stabs the bitch for dom, she didn't even kill dom he suicided, and why the hell did she walk towards marcus in the first place

there were many time where i thought, the locusts evolved, couldn't they evolve to not allow us to use their equipment (catapults/ships)
[/QUOTE]

You're thinking too much.
 
Did 20 more "number 1" chapters (the prologue), so tomorrow ill probably rap that achievement up after doing the last 20 to get to the total of 60. 20 times took me about 30 minutes i think.

Im at level 41 or 42 i forget. So im close to level 50 achievement.

The problem with Serious 3.0 is the onyx medal for doing special events that epic does, (Socialite, war supporter ribbon/medal whatever). IGN wiki page said it takes 30 epic events to get onyx. Im guessing that even if you do every special event they have, its going to be another year and a half, or longer to get all those. I already have one, thought it was from the beta, but turns out it was just for playing during week 1. But my point is, its going to be a loooooong time before anyone can get seriously 3.0 even if they have everything else but the Socialite achievement.
 
I think I'm 25 or 26 away from Number 1 myself. I think at some point I'll just end up playing Arcade Mode on Normal online constantly in order to get a lot of money and points (which is also an Onyx Medal).

I don't understand how Seriously 3.0 got past certification since I thought there was a 'No Insane Achievements' rule. It should really be changed though. It's just too much.

I also had an interesting thought. Boosting KotH in Private Matches.
 
Went back to MP for a quick game because I want Prescott (300 completed matches for ALL Versus game modes is f*cking ridiculous btw) and of COURSE the first match I get is on a shitty P2P connection. I'm about to just say f*ck it and put all my free time into RAGE and Skyrim for the rest of the year.
 
I played with nothing but the Lancer last night and was doing pretty well overrall, I was doing everything right the only problem is for whatever fucking reason, stopping power only works SOMETIMES.

People run in a straight line with the sawed off while I hammer them with regular and active Lancer, they still manage to close the distance and gib me, then other times they get downed and aren't even close to me. I'll charge an active and be shooting at someone with the only thing exposed is their head, but I still get downed. Or I'll have an active and be hammering someone, I'll take what looks like 4 shots with the retro and go down.

I went 1 game where I had like 8 kills and 12 downs on overpass, yet I chalk up all the bullshit to shitty connections and the fact that it's hidden very well.
 
[quote name='hustletron']I chalk up all the bullshit to shitty connections and the fact that it's hidden very well.[/QUOTE]
I believe you've answered your own question. I feel your pain; it's even happened to me in Horde! A grinder clipped through a wall and tore me apart.
 
I decided to try some versus last night. While I wasn't 0 kills, 15 deaths every round, I didn't do fantastic either - the first game, the enemy always seemed to get their shot off before mine. Perhaps it's that host bias everyone's been talking about, perhaps I'm just not all that good at the game.

All i know is when I left THAT game for another, I did a lot better, then I shifted games again and sucked it up. If there's hidden latency that just isn't showing up, perhaps I'm going to just stop playing the versus stuff - it's frustrating when you shoot someone with a hammerburst a dozen times and they don't fall down... I also missed with the sawed off far too many times when the person appeared to be directly in front of me; It wasn't a distance problem, as I've played enough horde to know the proper distance for a kill with the weapon.

My experience makes me understand some of the frustrations people have spoken about regarding the versus modes in the thread. Even with the problems, though, I had an incredible amount of fun playing deathmatch.
 
If anyone is interested in getting the Season Pass, 4000 point cards are only $35 on Buy.com:

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=304727

Ordinarily, the Season Pass would cost you $30 (2400 points) if paying retail price for point cards. With this deal, it's $21 for the Season Pass. Obviously, this applies to all Xbox Live prices, but considering this one is so expensive to begin with, it really makes for a nice discount.
 
Ouch. I got my headpopped by a Gnasher from a Mulcher concession stand camper in Trashball a couple of minutes ago. Literally watched his shotgun phase through cover while he aimed top down the same wall I was standing on. Pretty amazing how Epic still can't seem to hire someone who knows how to actually mitigate host advantage in their games. Keyword here is mitigate not mask. There's a f*cking difference you know.

LOL. Now the typical signs of host bridging are starting to show in matches. People are lagging out before the game starts. This is great.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
How many games have you played? I've played around 40 and have yet to encounter any P2P issues. There's been MAYBE one game where I felt like my Shotgun wasn't connecting, but I think it was more related to my playing the game for several hours already and losing my concentration.
 
[quote name='A Happy Panda']How many games have you played? I've played around 40 and have yet to encounter any P2P issues. There's been MAYBE one game where I felt like my Shotgun wasn't connecting, but I think it was more related to my playing the game for several hours already and losing my concentration.[/QUOTE]

Ive seen it a couple times. My experiences arent as extreme as inksowell's but it happens.
 
[quote name='Vulcan2422']Got up to Wave 40 before the host quit. Keep getting so damn close to 50![/QUOTE]

You don't have to do them all in a row - you could start a game at 40 and invite some friends to help to finish up the last 10 for the achievement.

I'm pretty sure, at any rate.. i got the "all 50 completed" when I jumped in a game at round 25 and finished it through 50.

Unless, of course, you can't choose the starting wave like you could in Gears 2. I haven't actually looked.
 
[quote name='BattleChicken']You don't have to do them all in a row - you could start a game at 40 and invite some friends to help to finish up the last 10 for the achievement.

I'm pretty sure, at any rate.. i got the "all 50 completed" when I jumped in a game at round 25 and finished it through 50.

Unless, of course, you can't choose the starting wave like you could in Gears 2. I haven't actually looked.[/QUOTE]

You can.
 
Yeah 20 times of playing the prologue for "number 1" didnt take me 30 minutes like i thought, it takes about an hour. But i have my Number 1 achievement. Now the only achievable ones i have left are level 50, and consecutive match bonus. (because serious 3.0 and Socialite arent doable at the moment) I know KingBroly told me how to do the consecutive match bonus, but can someone tell me what i need to do in more specifics? Like can i play warzone private 8 times with 1 round win, then go public warzone and it will keep the bonus going?
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']I know KingBroly told me how to do the consecutive match bonus, but can someone tell me what i need to do in more specifics? Like can i play warzone private 8 times with 1 round win, then go public warzone and it will keep the bonus going?[/QUOTE]
I just played 10 matches of Team Deathmatch in a row without quitting to the menus... Not much to it. Winning or losing doesn't matter as far as I'm aware.
 
[quote name='A Happy Panda']How many games have you played? I've played around 40 and have yet to encounter any P2P issues. There's been MAYBE one game where I felt like my Shotgun wasn't connecting, but I think it was more related to my playing the game for several hours already and losing my concentration.[/QUOTE]

I've played over 250 total matches since launch. Rarely joined or were assigned to a P2P connection until the servers were offline last weekend. Now I can count on subtle lag e.g. sluggish character response (extra half second attached to everything), occasional teleporting, people shooting through cover and landing on thin air whilst rolling, camouflaged bullet lag, slightly increased Sawed-off range, typical host 1 - 2 shot down/instant headshot ridiculousness every 5 - 8 matches out of 10 on both Ranked and Social. Sad thing is Ranked is supposed to have server priority and I'm STILL placed in laggy games.

Now that I'm taking mental note of the warning signs I've noticed on P2P I'm switching to Retro and Sawed-off immediately or playing something else. I've already had my fill of the bullshit. If you haven't ran into it consider yourself lucky. But many have and once again the net code is going to ruin a pretty good game.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']Anyone else think the Golden Gears MP character looks retarded? It would have been nice if his whole outfit had gold on it but just a gold helmet? No thanks.[/QUOTE]
Should be the Onyx Guard instead.
 
[quote name='Ink.So.Well.'] slightly increased Sawed-off range, typical host 1 - 2 shot down/instant headshot ridiculousness[/QUOTE]

Thats what ive seen. the issues arent as bad as previous gears, its not as severe as host seemingly on god mode at least.
 
This doesnt make sense. Im playing Act 2 Chapter 7: Touchdown on Arcade, Hardcore, with mutators, No Ammo Pickups, Must Active Reload, and Friendly Fire on. When i complete the mission i have either 9 ot 10 times score, around 170,000 arcade points total. It always says my previous high is around 42,000 but it doesnt save my new high score. Also it doesnt give me credit towards Survivalist "complete a chapter without dying". Yet it does credit me for Aficionado "play a chapter of arcade". So i dunno if im doing something that doesnt qualify, or its a glitch.

Hmm seems like the high score has to be done online, and not a private arcade campaign. But it still doesnt make sense why the survivalist doesnt count.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
im done with multiplayer for good, i have internet that in the top 90%, still get screwed every game every match every player. this guy gnashered me from twice the distance and with less shots fired, makes perfect sense. the game allowes you to WARP to corners and people insta gnasher me, it takes me two close up gnasher shots but others 1. its not connection because im hitting them. AND i even get killed in rolls while others seem to void damage in rolls.
gearsk.png

im one step away form ebaying this travesty of a multiplayer game
 
[quote name='timesplitt']im done with multiplayer for good, i have internet that in the top 90%, still get screwed every game every match every player. this guy gnashered me from twice the distance and with less shots fired, makes perfect sense. the game allowes you to WARP to corners and people insta gnasher me, it takes me two close up gnasher shots but others 1. its not connection because im hitting them. AND i even get killed in rolls while others seem to void damage in rolls.

im one step away form ebaying this travesty of a multiplayer game[/QUOTE]


Check that your router has UPNP enabled. If not, warping is more common I found. I was having some unrelated network issues (my cable modem was dying) at the time I started doing the gears multi, and I noticed the warping after I upgraded my router to a new firmware during my testing process.

UPNP was turned off after the update, resulting in the warping around. If it's off, turn it on and see if your performance improves. if when you try to join games in Gears it says your NAT type is anything other than OPEN, there could be routing-related reasons for your slowness that aren't the fault of the game.
 
According to the events calendar they're having a Ticker event for Horde coming up. If you're looking to get to Wave 50 with randoms, that might be the time to play.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
bread's done
Back
Top