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Gears of War 2 |OT| ...Maria...MARIA!!!
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Kill Your Masters
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Oh, well that's the one that I'm missing for the Achievement then.Aladuf said:
Alright, how the FUCK do you beat the "Destroy the Locust Outpost" during the
Centaur tank part on Insane? I'm doing a coop insane playthrough and I'm the driver. As SOON as Marcus says "Dom, take out that tower", I get fucked up by what seems like 200000 troikas. Anyone have a clue on what I should do?
You can't actually damage it until they tell you so. If you want to do it the cheap/easy way, kill all the groud troops and reavers from the top first. Then reverse down and when they tell you to target it, immediately hit the gas forward and boost back up to the top. From there you can target at your leisure.Hootie said:
This is pretty much the way you have to do it on Insane.
ThirdEngine
Member
For a couple rounds there it felt like you knew exactly where I was when you shot that fucker. :lolRSTEIN said:
Hootie said:
What you need to do is this.
As you go around the turn, you got to stop and start shooting the guys on the ground. Make sure they are all dead. The reavers will not be enough to kill you but if you are on fire just go back up the bend away from danger. There is one troika guy you can kill from this distance. He is on the base of the tower. With all guys dead, the only thing that should be hitting you are the constantly spawning reavers. Now this is the tricky part. As the driver, you must proceed slowly down the hill to trigger the troika's to shoot you. As soon as you hear marcus or dom speak, immediately reverse and attempt to get back to bend at the top of the hill. As you attempt to trigger the troika's, have your gunner focus on the two windows on the top floor of the building next to the tower. Hopefully he can get one of them and you can make it up the bend where the rest of the guys can be taken out from a distance.
Z_Y
Member
Z_Y said:
I have to give Gamestop some credit here...they actually called me this morning and told me they gave me the wrong discs. I went out and exchanged them. Got the Flashback DLC card but it doesn't mention the gold lancer. Somebody said that both codes were on the same card. Is that the case? Didn't appear that way.
Looking forward to finally playing this tonight.
Tieno said:
yeah, it little touches like that absorbes you into Gears world. They say what you think.
When you revive someone, when your gun jams, when you get a headshot. They just say stuff that you think but within the context of the character. One of the reasons i think this game is one of the best examples of a polished western game.
They think outside of the box at every level
Okay, I need help.
Any ideas, or do I just need to practice this for a fucking day to progress in the game?
In the reaver escape scene, I cannot shoot the fucking rockets coming at me to save my life. The stupid reaver is moving all over the place and I can't hit those rockets. I know it's the "middle" rocket that I need to shoot, and I STILL can't hit it. I haven't had much trouble with the game so far, but this is driving me batshit insane. I've been stuck on this for two freaking hours (hardcore diff)
Kill Your Masters
Member
Had the same problem yesterday, turns out you can move out of the way with the left stick.pete914 said:
bumpkin
Member
So my buddy and I finally finished the game on coop last night -- "Friends with Benefits" achievement FTW -- and I have to say that I enjoyed Gears 2 quite a bit. Moreso than the original if only for the fact that it was white knuckle action at nearly every turn; it *felt* like you were in the middle of a desperate war. In the first game it just felt like you were leisurely going from place to place and dispatching the locusts that had invaded.
Still, there's some bits of the game that, I dunno, didn't sit quite right.
I know this exposes me as a fanboy, but I'd give this game a 10/10, A+, 5/5, 100%. Whatever the scale dictates as the best of the best. GOTY by far.
Still, there's some bits of the game that, I dunno, didn't sit quite right.
First and foremost, Skorge died like a bitch. There was no epic battle to the death where Marcus tore him a new asshole with his bare hands (or his Lancer). It was a fiery crash and being skewered on top of his downed Reaver. I mean seriously, the "big bad" went out like that? Come on!
I also thought that the stuff involving Dom and Maria was fine. Not as cheesy or out of place as I had kind of feared they'd be. Though I still don't get why Maria looked fine when the tube first opened and didn't appear all tortured and wasted away until after Dom caught her. Was it basically playing out what Dom had hoped he'd see fading away into reality? Still, when Marcus was like, "if you want to go in guns blazing, I don't blame you," the characters felt human for once.
And last but certainly not least... Why was the locust queen very humanoid? What the FUCK were the Sires? And why was Adam Fenix's voice in the locust computers, and moreover, what did he mean in his comments after the credits? Hmm... I smell Gears 3 and it hopefully will be every bit as awesome.
I know this exposes me as a fanboy, but I'd give this game a 10/10, A+, 5/5, 100%. Whatever the scale dictates as the best of the best. GOTY by far.
It is SO important to know the location of the grenades on every single map! This is the biggest change over Gears 1, IMO. If you have grenades you can turn the entire war to your favour. I just got out of Execution on Hail with some randoms. My team isn't very good and they get picked off right away. It's me vs 3 of the remaining dudes on their team. I run up to the catwalk that joins the two indoor structures. I pick up the frags and plant them on either side of the catwalk. I bait all two of them to chase me to the catwalk, each one going down every time they pass the grenades. Then the last one is chasing me with a torque, I run up, get a new supply of frags, and let him chase me. I plant one and the rest is history.
One thing I'm confused about: when an enemy goes down after being hit by a smoke grenade, can he take damage on the ground? I've blasted a stunned guy with my shotty and it doesn't really seem to have any impact.
One thing I'm confused about: when an enemy goes down after being hit by a smoke grenade, can he take damage on the ground? I've blasted a stunned guy with my shotty and it doesn't really seem to have any impact.
NarcissisticJay
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Amir0x said:
Was a good run we had on Security, nice to get wave 50 done.
See you guys on later tonight..
The Librarian
Banned
Wish I could join you guys, but I downloaded the update yesterday.
Three days, though!
Three days, though!
NarcissisticJay
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Penguin said:
Fuck... that was me too..
Facism
Member
RSTEIN said:
It's actually worse for me. Only managed to play 2 whole rounds today, both had 1/3rd of the players leave during. I like it when i have time for gaming, but hate it when that time is swallowed up by SEARCHING FOR PLAYERS > RESTART BY REMOTE > SEARCHING FOR PLAYERS for 25 minutes.
The real bad news is that a couple of my friends are trading it in already, citing piss-poor matchmaking (truth) and lack of Guest/Unranked playlists for our LANs. Although the former is easily remedied with 5 people's worth of friendslists. Lazy fooks just want to party up, look for a game and join in.
Ecto311
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I just beat it and it was fuckin awesome.
I played it through with my wife and she had her settings to casual and mine were on hardcore. I guess I was stupid and assumed she would just be set to hardcore when I hosted (and I did every game) but when we beat it she didn't get the hardcore achievement. Did the game handicap her settings to make her weapons better or something along those lines?
We are going to be starting it again on insane later tonight together.
I played it through with my wife and she had her settings to casual and mine were on hardcore. I guess I was stupid and assumed she would just be set to hardcore when I hosted (and I did every game) but when we beat it she didn't get the hardcore achievement. Did the game handicap her settings to make her weapons better or something along those lines?
We are going to be starting it again on insane later tonight together.
So today I played some Horde for the first time with a friend via system link and we reached wave 28 on River (Normal)...things are getting challenging and really intense after the 24th wave, I guess to beat Horde on higher difficulties 5 players are required as we have found several waves maybe too much for only 2 players...anyway Horde is a freakin' amazing mode IMO, really fun and really addicting...more Horde tomorrow!
@ RSTEIN matchmaking is still the same crap for me.
@ RSTEIN matchmaking is still the same crap for me.
Damn guys... sorry to hear. I was optimistic that some solution had been found. I don't know what's going on today with my matches. I start the process and my team is found within a minute or two. Then another minute or two the opposing team is found. This is a HUGE improvement for me. I've never had so many matches!
Lol, at the guitar playing. Yeah, I had the newspaper beside me this weekend while looking for matches My average time to find a match was 10 minutes or so before today.
Lol, at the guitar playing. Yeah, I had the newspaper beside me this weekend while looking for matches
My average time to find a match was 10 minutes or so before today.Klocker said:
Ouch. Yeah, I've pretty much given up on public versus matches. Slow matchmaking, uneven teams (who at Epic thought it would be a good idea to team up "lone wolfs" against a party?), and almost always some dropouts. Doesn't help that I mainly want to play Guardian and Submission either.
Edit: Horde is pure sex though.
FutureZombie
Banned
I'm officially pissed at the matchmaking. Co-op campaign was fun, horde was great, but now that my friends aren't online, I have nothing to do because I can't get into a single game. It's a disgrace. They basically shipped the game with only 70% of the content playable.