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Gears of War 2 |OT| ...Maria...MARIA!!!
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aparisi2274
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Just finished the game on normal...
I like the radio transmission at the end from Marcus's father Adam. Basically saying that what we just did was a terrible mistake and setups GoW3 nicely
SwitchBladeKneegrow
Banned
jdub03 said:
Yep, and this pretty much ruins elimination game types. The enemy team just ghost cams around telling their living counterparts where your team mates are, where grenades are planted, if the power weapons have respawned, etc...Makes it REALLY lame. I'll be playing Territories alot more now. Epic will have to disable the camera just like what happened in Gears 1.
ThirdEngine
Member
Yes! :lolh3ro said:You predicted correctly...
The avatar parties will be a nightly thing from now on. Being in the new chat is awesome as well because now we can hear the other team's reactions while playing. Nice.
Rapping Granny
Banned
I given up on the MP, it's broken, I zoom in and shoot a guy that was down with a shotgun, a feet away from him and I zoomed as well, he doesn't die. I put the controller down after that.
SP and Horde is still fucking amazing, and this is the best shooter this gen, and definitly GOTY contender. LOVE IT but HATE online.
Will try to beat this on insane on the weekend though.
My 2 cents.
SP and Horde is still fucking amazing, and this is the best shooter this gen, and definitly GOTY contender. LOVE IT but HATE online.
Will try to beat this on insane on the weekend though.
My 2 cents.
JimiNutz
Banned
h3ro said:You predicted correctly...
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Whose avatar is that on the far left? (in the black monkey t shirt) because he has pretty much the exact same avatar as me :lol
I still don't think I've managed to play with any Gaffers
I've got a guy called teh 1337 h4x on my list who I've played with a few times, but I'm not sure if he's from GAF or not, I should probably ask him :lol
Anyone else underwhelmed by the campaign mode? I've just gotten past the worm section, which I assume is somewhere on the tail end of act 2.
When I'm playing Gears I expect very well done shooter design first and foremost so the other gripes people seem to have, I don't really care about. But what I'm seeing so far is very basic layouts and encounters. In the first Gears game the level design was such that you could advance from cover to cover, moving the line of fire closer and closer until you had the locust in a corner. Here it seems more like you have your cover on one side and they have theirs, most of your movement is lateral and locust are spawning out of one or two points to take the same places where their buddies died. From there it's just about eliminating them and then moving forward after the area is cleared. This also eliminates a lot of the flanking that was done well in the first Gears. There's a few mini boss like creatures but that simply means taking out the big boomer's gun you've been saving up and clearing those out.
The "defend the base" parts are also not nearly as good... atleast not yet. Instead of having a nicely designed encounter(the fight around the fountain area or defending the mansion from the first Gears) you have almost randomly placed cover with limited options. What I ended up doing is just trying to find a piece of cover where I was least exposed to locust flanking me and surviving for a period of time. :/
On top of that I'm fighting the exact same bad guys with the same weapons. Am I gonna have to rediscover the torque bow in Act 3 again? At what point do new situations and design ideas start? Cutting through some arteries and shooting down a reaver with the grenade launcher aren't it. Also, at what point do I start using the sniper rifle for more than just the long distance combat bits?
It's still Gears of War and it's still fun, but if you had to rank Gears 1 design at a 9... this would be an 8 at best, not a 10.
When I'm playing Gears I expect very well done shooter design first and foremost so the other gripes people seem to have, I don't really care about. But what I'm seeing so far is very basic layouts and encounters. In the first Gears game the level design was such that you could advance from cover to cover, moving the line of fire closer and closer until you had the locust in a corner. Here it seems more like you have your cover on one side and they have theirs, most of your movement is lateral and locust are spawning out of one or two points to take the same places where their buddies died. From there it's just about eliminating them and then moving forward after the area is cleared. This also eliminates a lot of the flanking that was done well in the first Gears. There's a few mini boss like creatures but that simply means taking out the big boomer's gun you've been saving up and clearing those out.
The "defend the base" parts are also not nearly as good... atleast not yet. Instead of having a nicely designed encounter(the fight around the fountain area or defending the mansion from the first Gears) you have almost randomly placed cover with limited options. What I ended up doing is just trying to find a piece of cover where I was least exposed to locust flanking me and surviving for a period of time. :/
On top of that I'm fighting the exact same bad guys with the same weapons. Am I gonna have to rediscover the torque bow in Act 3 again? At what point do new situations and design ideas start? Cutting through some arteries and shooting down a reaver with the grenade launcher aren't it. Also, at what point do I start using the sniper rifle for more than just the long distance combat bits?
It's still Gears of War and it's still fun, but if you had to rank Gears 1 design at a 9... this would be an 8 at best, not a 10.
Had only one gaffer on my list around 2 years ago I think but had to remove him because he hadn't be on for months and I needed the spot. Sorry! Anyway, matchmaking takes way too long when you got a team of 4 in your party. I need more people on my list that play this game often online.
GT: Belix2b4k
I will go and play anything you want! ANYTHING! I just want to spend more time playing than searching for a match.
GT: Belix2b4k
I will go and play anything you want! ANYTHING! I just want to spend more time playing than searching for a match.
last night was weird for me playing with the gaf crew. did you all go into a party chat or something and leave me alone cos no one was talking and it felt like no could hear me.
also none of my shots would hit unless I used boomshot or chainsaw, so annoying. I'd be getting head shots with the sniper, see blood come out but not get any points or kills. I did get annoyed by that (some of you may have heard!)
I'll just put it down to having to catch up with everyone else for now. I am abit rusty after not playing gears 1 or having an xbox for a full year before this
also none of my shots would hit unless I used boomshot or chainsaw, so annoying. I'd be getting head shots with the sniper, see blood come out but not get any points or kills. I did get annoyed by that (some of you may have heard!)
I'll just put it down to having to catch up with everyone else for now. I am abit rusty after not playing gears 1 or having an xbox for a full year before this
Okay, Horde mode needs its own ranking system. I've barely touched versus so I'm matched with the same type of idiots over and over again. Just because running and gunning like headless chickens worked for the first five waves doesn't mean it will work for the next five. But it seems like these morons never learn.
DoomGyver
Member
Two very informative videos on the broken shotgun, and it is a glitch.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=E5ZXkzDZJY0
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7kLaYhwpGso
Apparently, if you are not on the hosts team your shotgun and Boomshot bullets hit the ground at your feet (during a blindfire), even on system link. But if you come in a close proximity to the host your shotgun bullets shoot perfectly fine.
The only way to correct this is to hold the L trigger and zoom, this fixes your bullet spread.
How the hell this could have ever made it through bug testing is beyond me.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=E5ZXkzDZJY0
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7kLaYhwpGso
Apparently, if you are not on the hosts team your shotgun and Boomshot bullets hit the ground at your feet (during a blindfire), even on system link. But if you come in a close proximity to the host your shotgun bullets shoot perfectly fine.
The only way to correct this is to hold the L trigger and zoom, this fixes your bullet spread.
How the hell this could have ever made it through bug testing is beyond me.
And why on earth am I searching youtube with the UK extension? I'm in the US.
F#A#Oo said:
Well, I rather play public matches with random idiots than alone. But I would prefer to have Horde matchmaking being actually related to Horde mode instead of versus.
I have been matched with a good crew two or three times though. Got to around wave 18 or 19, but always got overrun due to dropouts/disconnects by at least two people.
F#A#Oo said:Your on my friends list...your one of the few that when I send out an invite to join a game of MP you never even reply...
Hmmm, you're Mr Affluenza, right? I'm pretty sure I sent you a reply last time I got an invite. I tried to join after the public match was finished, but I got a "Could not connect to host" error message.
I have missed several invites when I've been in matchmaking though. But that's because I've been browsing GAF (and other sites) while waiting for the matchmaking to complete.
The Librarian
Banned
Glad to see you liked it.StoOgE said:
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
Yeah, I don't think I like the fact that it's possible to enable parties during Gears of War 2, especially in Ranked Matches. Could potentially ruin the match types where you only have one life per round, so I hope Epic will or can patch this soon so that you can't compete in Ranked Matches until you disband your current (dashboard) party.
Try playing with friends (from the same country preferably) in Private Matches or join a room with a good host. What you described sounds more like lag related issues instead of buggy gameplay / hitboxes.Rapping Granny said:
Odd, never happened to me before.Full Recovery said:
Full Recovery said:
When they fix the hip fire I wonder how long it's going to take for all the "the shotgun is so much better now" people to start complaining all over again? After knowing it's been a broken weapon this whole time, and how the hell does something like that get past testing? People have known about this since day 1, well people except those hosting
sixteen-bit
Member
This is fucking inexcusable.Full Recovery said:
_dementia said:
It was known about since the first day since most people that used the shotty in Gears 1 in CQC like to hip fire the weapon and those bullets go right into the ground. The online multi in this game is decent, but they need to fix a ton of things. Let's not even get into grenade mines and being albe to blow people up with them when they can't see them. I've put myself in the building with stairs in River quite a few times tagging the door and the beam on the stairs and gotten 2 easy frag kills in one round a few times. It's like they didn't think out the gameplay mechanics before implementing them. In Gears 1 it actually took skill to get a kill with a nade if you weren't tagging people with them, and don't get me started on smoke nades. They should be used for nothing but cover like they were before.
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Deleted member 1235
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I've only played online with hoarde
(because it's great and because it eats all the time I have for any other gaming) but what is the huge problem with smoke grenades? Also that shotgun thing, does it advantage or disadvantage the host? If it's a host disadvantage, perhaps it was purposeful?
(because it's great and because it eats all the time I have for any other gaming) but what is the huge problem with smoke grenades? Also that shotgun thing, does it advantage or disadvantage the host? If it's a host disadvantage, perhaps it was purposeful?
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
That guy is clearly lagging. You can already tell it by his running.unomas said:
And this is new, how? His first shot was genuinely unlucky. I've gotten kills at that distance. Its pretty obivous what happens next and you can see it happening. He shoots from the hip and all the shots hit the ground.unomas said:
We all know its needs patching. Videos about it have already been posted about it. Epic fixed alot of gameplay balance issues and bugs in Gears 1 and its only a matter of time untill the patch comes out fixing the chainsaw and and shotgun glitch.
Its works to the advantage of the host because the glitch only affects the cilents. People are complaining about the grenades because the stun and detonation radius are far too big. Grenades also respawn too frequently so people take advantage of this and camp.dogfish said:
Chinner said:
Unlucky? :lol That should be a kill no matter what, luck should have nothing to do with it. The same exact thing has happened to me before. Every shot he took connected except for his second shot which was hip fire and we all know what happens when you do that off host.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Remind me to stop hip-firing then. Chances are I just suck at it but if that's what's causing my suckage, well, damn. :lol
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
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and the game
just continues to blow my mind. It is by far the best looking console game currently. I spend just as much
time playing as I do gawking at all the scenery around me. Also I am loving the story so far and the part
where you meet up with
was surprisingly disturbing and intense. I absolutely
love this game.
inside the giant worm
just continues to blow my mind. It is by far the best looking console game currently. I spend just as much
time playing as I do gawking at all the scenery around me. Also I am loving the story so far and the part
where you meet up with
Tai again
love this game.
ToyMachine228
Member
Pai Pai Master said:
That's not at all what it's like. I was in a game when I did a lot of hip firing last night and I gibbed multiple people. Hip fire IS inconsistent, as it should be, but it's not like you can't hit people with it.
Oh and here's a pro-tip to everyone...AIM YOUR WEAPONS.
Yes. UNLUCKY.unomas said:
You do realise that he doesn't shoot at the same guy throughout the video? You may have realised, I dunno, but your posts indicate otherwise. He shoots and hits the guy at close distance, he moves up and rolls away and the other guy climbs over. Whle this is happening Second shot doesn't appear to register, probably because of the lag. Third shot hits the floor because of the glitch. The next 3 shots all do hit but they're fired at a distance and the guy has full health. He shouldn't of been chainsawed though.
This is true. Sometimes hip firing can be utterly shit like in the video above, while sometimes it can be bad but still usable.toymaster said:
sixteen-bit
Member
shouldn't haveChinner said:
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
Doesn't matter, we can't tell in that video if ALL the shotgun pellets actually connected because there was lag involved. If the majority of them did connect, then the first guy would've been gibbed or almost down with that first shot of his. Which didn't happen obviously.unomas said:
On a sidenote: I'm sure Epic will make the shotgun more reliable in due time (not necessarily by making it stronger), because there have been a lot of games (like Halo 2 and 3 for instance) where the shotgun was originally iffy at best solely because of latency issues.
Chinner said:Yes. UNLUCKY.. Unlucky was a fill in word. As MicVlaD said, the match is pretty laggy and that wasn't the guys fault.
You do realise that he doesn't shoot at the same guy throughout the video? You may have realised, I dunno, but your posts indicate otherwise. He shoots and hits the guy at close distance, he moves up and rolls away and the other guy climbs over. Whle this is happening Second shot doesn't appear to register, probably because of the lag. Third shot hits the floor because of the glitch. The next 3 shots all do hit but they're fired at a distance and the guy has full health. He shouldn't of been chainsawed though.
This is true. Sometimes hip firing can be utterly shit like in the video above, while sometimes it can be bad but still usable.
I noticed that, he did however connect 3 times on the guy that ended up chainsawing him. Either way, some people are gonna defend the mess that is Gears 2 no matter what, for what reason I really don't know. Maybe Cliffy has GAF on payroll. I'll enjoy it much more after a patch.
Chinner said:
Do you take pride in being an ass? If so you're full of win :lol
Edit
Ahhh yes the good ole days on Raven down
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=517rECRo0mQ&feature=related
And before everyone starts crying overpowered shotty Raven down had no power weapons on it so you were forced to get into shotty battles. That was the beauty of the map, all the other maps in gears had power weapons to use to keep shotty guys at bay, and if someone in the original flanked you and shredded you maybe you should have been watching your back?
Annihilator
Member
Brakara said:
Oh god yes people on public horde are stupid. That's why I have adopted the lead by example playstyle. I will get a shield as soon as I can and then the rest of my team will eventually be wiped out on like wave 6-7 with me left and my shield. Then I wipe out the last 5-10 locust with just a shield and pistol or a shield setup in a defensive position. It never fails the next wave after that I have at least 2 other people using shields for defense instead of just me. Basically on public you have to lead by example.