Gears of War 3 - Release Date Sept. 20

[quote name='n4styn4t3']Are you guys going for Seriously?[/QUOTE]

I'm not. I'll try to get what I can and make progress towards ones I think are doable. Otherwise I'm going to get to Lv.50 and stop. I think I could get the amount of money spent in Beast Mode one IF I could find a game in Beast Mode nowadays.

As for now, I'm just testing something in Campaign.

EDIT: Decided to stop. 18k XP in 4 hours. That's pretty good...I guess.
 
[quote name='KingBroly'] I think I could get the amount of money spent in Beast Mode one IF I could find a game in Beast Mode nowadays.[/QUOTE]

Tell me about it, i was trying to search for a game tonight and couldnt get into one. I hope its not because of a lack of players, the medals are going to be hard to get alone.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']Tell me about it, i was trying to search for a game tonight and couldnt get into one. I hope its not because of a lack of players, the medals are going to be hard to get alone.[/QUOTE]
I keep having trouble finding players in Horde, Beast and Arcade/Campaign. I assume it's just because the lack of servers, so it takes long to get into games because of it searching for matches and players, rather than having a match already set with players just being added to it?

Whenever I host Arcade I only get one person to randomly enter, die, end my multiplier, and then they leave the match. I really wish they could bring back the Gears of War setup for Cooperative, where you could select from a listing a games and see what Act and Chapter they're in.

Also, I finally got a kill against a Nemesis bot. It was excruciating to keep running in and waiting to die until the blades showed up next to their name. The worst part being that the ribbon only works during the same round, not match. I don't understand why they didn't make it for 5 deaths during the entire game, unless you can only earn it once during the game? But having to do that 1000 is just ridiculous. They'll have to change that if they expect people to keep playing for Seriously 3.0. There's no way you can convince players to intentionally die over 5000 times just to hope to get an execution against one player.
 
[quote name='LinkinPrime']Word!

I use the sawed off and I get killed by it too. But there are methods to stopping them, keep your eyes open, watch your surroundings as much as you can, listen for footsteps...etc. It's a power weapon, but it has it's flaws just like the others.[/QUOTE]
this guy shotguned me while i was on the wall, do bullets go through walls in this game
him....O|
...........|___
me....... X

i wonder, am i the first to say this: i sawed off shotguned a guy from two feet away, instead of blowing up they DOWNED.my internet is acting up still but its still easy to see the bullS*** and thats BS im sick and tired of people 2 gnashering me from the same distance i three gnasher them.

this one guy was using the boomshot like it was a shotgun and LIVING

EDIT: if this game had a theater mode you'd be singing a different tune
 
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I didn't know they were down. I thought they just defaulted to Ranked Matches. Why anyone plays Ranked I don't know.
 
[quote name='timesplitt']this guy shotguned me while i was on the wall, do bullets go through walls in this game
him....O|
...........|___
me....... X

i wonder, am i the first to say this: i sawed off shotguned a guy from two feet away, instead of blowing up they DOWNED.my internet is acting up still but its still easy to see the bullS*** and thats BS im sick and tired of people 2 gnashering me from the same distance i three gnasher them.

this one guy was using the boomshot like it was a shotgun and LIVING

EDIT: if this game had a theater mode you'd be singing a different tune[/QUOTE]
I downed some guy in CTL who had taken my Leader earlier tonight. I run RIGHT UP to them with my Sawed-Off and fired. I freed my Leader but when I turned around after escorting my Leader up some stairs...the fucker was DOWNED and not fucking gibbed to death?! So much for those bullshit Dedicated Servers this shithole game was supposed to have.
 
[quote name='KingBroly']Best way to free a Captured Leader is a Smoke Grenade. Nearly unavoidable if you get anywhere close.[/QUOTE]

I think anyone who plays CTL for more than 5 minutes knows that. :applause:
 
[quote name='dotCody']I think anyone who plays CTL for more than 5 minutes knows that. :applause:[/QUOTE]

I think you need to play more Capture the Leader then.
 
Because half the people who play CTL think you can only break up a meat shield by rushing with a shotgun.

Im starting to hate Sandbar. If one team dominates the top its over. Also i have been spawn trapped on this map, and i just quit. There is no way to take cover around those big rocks.

Overpass can be another one where if the team gets to the top they can dominate. Shooting at you while you are just trying to get out of the spawn areas.

Oh and i saw a 100 today. LOL. At first i was like WTF? Then i realised its very similar to the Gears 2 "wings" for being a 100.
 
I've never really been high on Sandbar, Overpass or Hotel myself. I love Old Town, Mercy and Drydock. I've seen Trenches, Checkout and Thrashball enough to make me sick of them. I don't seen Old Town much, but it is an awesome map. Same goes for Drydock. Lots of neat, hidden passages around the map that few know about and even fewer traverse. Control those and you win, just like Old Town. Control the choke points and you win.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']I havent really noticed, is the xp the same if you play online or vs bots?[/QUOTE]

It's more online, a lot more

- Win Bonus is VERY small
- No Consecutive Match Bonus
- Also, Ribbons may not give you XP individually (They may not give you XP anyway), but only if you get Ribbons for Medals
 
[quote name='Vulcan2422']I can free the leader 9 times out of 10 with a smoke grenade. Not that hard. Can not stand the sawed off. They need a lancer only mode[/QUOTE]
I'd like this too, but i can see me already complaining about "i popped up first and fired first and fired more bullets." and still lose


I think i fixed my warping(lagging) for now. it only happens in gears which is like wtf.
 
[quote name='popular penguin']What does Seriously 3.0 unlock besides the SERIOUSLY medal?[/QUOTE]

an achievement? Thats pretty much it i think. Yeah they should have given some really nice reward for all the work you have to put into it. Then again its epic, they dont seem to want a low number of people using skins others dont have unless you pay for it.
 
fuck. all my single player progress got erased. Also no collectibles. Thank god I got that acheivement already. But I have to play through again to be able to do insane
 
Didn't Cliff Blezinski say he really wanted to see Gears of War 3 in MLG circuit play? I thought they had mentioned something about needing a playlist where the Sawed-Off Shotgun was unavailiable to consider this. Maybe they'll add something like that in the future to add to the games popularity.

There's also a group on the Gears Forums that host games for people that want to play in Gnasher and Lancer starting games. There's no way to enforce it, so I assume they run off the honor code. They also have several hosts, it's not just one guy running it. That's an alternative if you want to play a 'Classic Gears' gametype.
 
lol. since theres no teabagging in this game players just down you and stand above you dancing.


i just had one of the most epic king of the hill matches where everyone was retro charging and a mix of random suicidal shotgunning. there was several moments of :| but there were several moment of ha oh, holysnap.
 
Are the servers down? I see more BS today than all the time since release combined. I was just in a CTL match, my leader was being held, i ran out of gnasher ammo so i picked up a SOS. I run up to the meatshield, PA POW!... oh wait i still have the same amount of bullets. What? Ive also been gnashered 3+ times today after i evade behind someone. How can they shoot me when im behind them? Also being instadowned by rifles. Yeah something is up today, i havent had this much crap since i got the game. But today for some reason its acting up.
 
[quote name='timesplitt']lol. since theres no teabagging in this game players just down you and stand above you dancing.


i just had one of the most epic king of the hill matches where everyone was retro charging and a mix of random suicidal shotgunning. there was several moments of :| but there were several moment of ha oh, holysnap.[/QUOTE]
I don't think they're doing it on purpose for me doing executions or revives is fucked. I have to move my guy around to get the Y or X icon to pop.
 
Can I blame the lack of sense demonstrated by randoms in CTL on the servers being down? I'm the leader, captured in the open, with a teammate running to me. Does he throw smoke? Nope, he runs straight in with his gnasher and gets downed. Different match, I'm captured again in the open. My entire team goes to fight the other 4 Locust players on the other side of the map instead of coming to me. :bomb: Must be my punishment for going 23-3 in my last game the night before.
 
And whats with the torque bow? It seems that you dont have to hold the trigger in long at all. Unless the sound is delayed from past gears games? Because i swear i hear the torque noise for 1 second or less and it sticks me.

Yeah CTL players dont know what they are doing, some do, but there are noobs who get downed by rifles because they just rush the captured leader with their shottys out.
 
Torque Bow doesn't do more damage the longer you hold it anymore. If you have it lined up it does the same damage every time now. Removes the Risk/Reward.
 
[quote name='Monsta Mack']Are the dedicated servers still down?[/QUOTE]

It takes forever, or more like for-never to find a beast match.

dedicated servers, com'on...

so tired of watching: checking 20 matches, trying to connect to 1, 2, 3,...nope, start over.
 
Got the first three Acts beaten on Insane today. Also spawned into the game as Bernie Mataki twice, and one time all of the players spawned outside the map of Mercy, a mile underground. :lol:
 
Man does the Lancer dominate outside of melee range. Getting headshots with the thing drops people in a second. I was in a KotH match just now where a ring spawned in a open area and I just stood in it and took down everyone that came out me with their shotguns. I ended up with 42 downs in that match.

I'm thinking I'm going to ditch the Hammerburst and move over full time to the Lancer.
 
[quote name='timesplitt']i cant even solo beast on casual[/QUOTE]

I'm in the same boat with you on that. I'm the same way with Horde mode. I thought I read that someone used bots for the team but maybe that was another mode.

[quote name='The 7th Number']Are the servers down? I see more BS today than all the time since release combined. I was just in a CTL match, my leader was being held, i ran out of gnasher ammo so i picked up a SOS. I run up to the meatshield, PA POW!... oh wait i still have the same amount of bullets. What? Ive also been gnashered 3+ times today after i evade behind someone. How can they shoot me when im behind them? Also being instadowned by rifles. Yeah something is up today, i havent had this much crap since i got the game. But today for some reason its acting up.[/QUOTE]

I had issues in every game yesterday. When I would get into a game I would be against a wall and then some how out in the open. Also would get what looked like were going to be head shots with the SOS or the Gnasher only for it to do nothing and me dead.

[quote name='Mospeada_21']It takes forever, or more like for-never to find a beast match.

dedicated servers, com'on...

so tired of watching: checking 20 matches, trying to connect to 1, 2, 3,...nope, start over.[/QUOTE]

I had that yesterday for every mode I tried. I was getting sick of it. I be willing to run Beast and Horde mode with anyone however I have no clue as to what I'm doing in it and am not that good.
 
Grenade blast radius is in need of some serious tweaking. As it stands a single frag has the potency, range and width of two of its GoW 2 brethren. Thrown or planted you can kill a entire group of people reasonably spaced out. The lightning fast detonation worsens the ordeal because even if you have the foresight to roll out of the way or skill necessary for a deliberate pop it's too late.

Bots in TDM are another issue. They are beyond horrible. Walking meat bags of pure fail capable of ruining comebacks or guaranteed victories in an instant. I have yet to finish a game where a bot wasn't 10+ negative running full steam ahead into a volley of bullets. GoW 2 bots ranged from clinically brain dead to I'M THE JUGGERNAUT, BITCH! in five seconds flat. These guys however apparently have no alternate setting past moron. They die repeated until you rush the opposition down or become targeted until your respawns are toast. I wish they would improve the AI somehow or get rid of them.

[quote name='Mospeada_21']It takes forever, or more like for-never to find a beast match.

dedicated servers, com'on...

so tired of watching: checking 20 matches, trying to connect to 1, 2, 3,...nope, start over.[/QUOTE]

Beast Mode is P2P.
 
1) Is there any way to drop the leader at will? I hate having to stand my ground against 4 enemies rushing me with the SOS.

2) When Team Epic went against a MLG team a few weeks ago, the final kill was an arm rip/face punch while the rest of the team joined in by kicking the enemy. How do you kick someone who is being executed?
 
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1) None that I can recall. Once you've captured the enemy leader you are locked in until freed by their teammates. Neither you nor your team can knock them from your grasp. Pretty stupid considering the leader offers you no protection what so ever from enemy fire. I think in the beta you could drop them at will as you would a regular meat shield by switching to any weapon, but I could be mistaken.

2) Simply melee ('B' button) within range for your character to kick downed or executed opponents.
 
[quote name='Ink.So.Well.']Grenade blast radius is in need of some serious tweaking. As it stands a single frag has the potency, range and width of two of its GoW 2 brethren. Thrown or planted you can kill a entire group of people reasonably spaced out. The lightning fast detonation worsens the ordeal because even if you have the foresight to roll out of the way or skill necessary for a deliberate pop it's too late.

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[quote name='popular penguin']1) Is there any way to drop the leader at will? I hate having to stand my ground against 4 enemies rushing me with the SOS.

2) When Team Epic went against a MLG team a few weeks ago, the final kill was an arm rip/face punch while the rest of the team joined in by kicking the enemy. How do you kick someone who is being executed?[/QUOTE]

I havent had any problems with frags. Their detonation time is slower than gears 2. Remember in Gears 2, wall planted frags would kill instantly. You had to run in a door and quickly evade back out not to die, and im mean seriously quickly. But i cant even remember thinking anything bad about frags since i started playing.

1. I dont think you can drop the leader, i one time tried and pressed every button cos i wanted to get the hell out of there and i couldnt.

2. I think by pressing B? Thats how you normally kick someone when they are DBNO.
 
i'm curious, wasn't there a thing where if you were able to get the Hazed skin (or any purchased skin DLC) that the omen skins unlocked for you as well?
 
[quote name='100xp']i'm curious, wasn't there a thing where if you were able to get the Hazed skin (or any purchased skin DLC) that the omen skins unlocked for you as well?[/QUOTE]

i thought it was the crimson omen on the lancer that you got as a bonus. did you buy a skin pack and not get the lancer omen?
 
7th: The problem is the blast radius. It's too wide and covers too much range. Lag might have something to do with it, but I doubt it. I've died rolling away into what should have been save distances. In GoW 2 when you heard that beep and rolled back you stood a reasonable chance of survival. Now it doesn't seem to matter when you hear the beep. Even if you run AND roll away from it the odds are in the owners favor because the tail end of the radius is strong enough to flat out kill you.

As it stands now the only safe distances are behind cover or across the map. Everything else is a dice roll.

XP: It didn't pan out. Apparently the Infected Omen glitch was exclusive to the $45 weapon skin set.
 
[quote name='paz9x']i thought it was the crimson omen on the lancer that you got as a bonus. did you buy a skin pack and not get the lancer omen?[/QUOTE]

not sure, I thought it was the omen dlc code that comes w/the gears controller. i'll check when I get home...with all the hype and posts leading up to the release etc, i wasn't clear on exactly what triggered the additional unlocking of other skins.

I was able to grab the haze skin dlc when it was free.

thanks.
 
This game will be way more solid once Epic squares the lag away. I've seen enemies run away when my whole team is shooting him with gnasher/lancer/retro on more tha one occasion.

I've emptied my gnasher at people before from downing range only for them to run away after my team mate starts shooting at them while I'm reloading.

I can shoot someone in the face with the sawed off and see blood come out but I get nothing, the enemy will turn around and 1 shot gib me with either shotgun, then when that enemy dies I'll see I get something pathetic like a 36 point assist and I just don't understand.

That's really my only issue since playing over 270 matches, I do well, I have good stats, it's just really annoying.
 
Yeah i barely use the sawed off, only when i run out of ammo and pick one up, and half the time i blast someone point blank with it, it doesnt do shit. yet i can be obliterated from 5 feet away. It makes no sense.
 
i actually shot(lancer) a guy for a whole minute while he was retro lancering my teammate. only for him to finish and run away. anyone else get retro lancered WHILE retro lancering? it happened to me in that one match i talk about above, we were running at each other and i lost somehow.


i need some advice on quick corner shotgun kills, when i try to latch onto a corner and shotgun the guy on the other side they usually live, but in my experience on the other side, i get killed the instant the guy hugs the wall (sometimes trade) do you just quick shoot or do you aim. which is better for corner sawed/gnasher?
 
[quote name='timesplitt']i actually shot(lancer) a guy for a whole minute while he was retro lancering my teammate. only for him to finish and run away. anyone else get retro lancered WHILE retro lancering? it happened to me in that one match i talk about above, we were running at each other and i lost somehow.


i need some advice on quick corner shotgun kills, when i try to latch onto a corner and shotgun the guy on the other side they usually live, but in my experience on the other side, i get killed the instant the guy hugs the wall (sometimes trade) do you just quick shoot or do you aim. which is better for corner sawed/gnasher?[/QUOTE]


Regarding your question, there's such a thing as "Right Side Advantage" with the shotguns. When you are facing a well and your enemy is on your right side on the opposite end of you, which would mean he has you on his left side.

That being said, right side advantage is just that, an advantage, due to the game's mechanics and the camera and if you ask me, the way the Sawed off is as well. Use it, take ADVANTAGE of it, but don't assume it's your ticket to easy kills because that's when you get obliterated by a sawed off noob who's hiding in a corner.

If you're using the sawed off there's no reason why you should be hard aiming at all. If you're using the left trigger with the sawed off out for any thing OTHER than spotting, you're doing it wrong.

With the gnasher, you want to hard aim enemies from a distance, how far that distance should be is something you learn to gauge by using the gnasher. In no circumestances should you be hard aiming at someone at "sawed off" range, you will lose.

If you ask me the key to the shotguns is learning where the killzone is on the screen when you're hip firing. Luckily this is also the key to clutching multiple opponents that are less skilled/using the sawed off and miss their shot/close range hammberburst tards/etc.

The gnasher is also capable of headshots, if you have someone rushing you with ANY weapon, unload from range with the gnasher, if it doesn't body them when they're close they should be downed, if they're already close, try and aim for the head because it will kill them.

I would use cover + blindfire sparringly if at all and only as necessary(getting rushed, taking cover from ranged fire)as in my experience with Gears 3, it's spotty and will leave you disappointed until you're more experienced with hip firing the shotguns. If you face a corner you retain the capability of one shotting victims AS WELL AS your mobility, while if you were taking cover on the corner you may sacrifice mobility by getting stuck on that cover or other adjacent cover if you miss your window of killing your victim.

All this is with the assumption that you don't get screwed over by lag.

I know this is kind of a lot of general info, but if you combine the right side advantage with knowing where your killzone is at without having to hard aim you can get easy corner kills without playing like a loser, though I can't guarantee the people you kill will agree.

There's no real easy way to explain it in my opinion, it just takes practice, I hope I helped at least, I'd be willing to play with you or get in some private matches or something.
 
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