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Gears of War 2 |OT| ...Maria...MARIA!!!
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Dax01 said:
The problem is if I pick up the meatshield my teamates cant kill anyone and we lose. If I let them pick up the meatshield we end up winning but I cant get the fucking achievement ughh
Playing with randoms is pissing me off. I'm about to go on a chainsaw rampage again, I hate using it but if I do I go like 20 and 2 everytime shits so stupid.
No Means Nomad
Banned
You can.kaizoku said:
Gears of War campaign thoughts:
Gears of War 2 is here right on schedule for November, but I don't think gamers could be more surprised.
While the original Gears of War was fun it's hard to say it was a well designed game. It played like it was made by a bunch of developers who were much more adjusted to making multiplayer games. The solo campaign was an excuse to throw a bunch of AI with a few gun types around for the player to work their way through. But somehow Epic has managed to move away from this model completely.
So how did they do this? Well it all comes down to variables. While Gears of War 2's core gameplay has strict rules the boundaries to which you use them are constantly being pushed throughout the entire experience. Standard combat now has excellent enemy variety, meaning adaptation is the key to overcoming the odds. You need to prioritize threat levels of enemies constantly based on proximity, new enemies entering the battlefield mid-combat, what cover you have, their relative location to you, and if they're making a push to flank you. These are all variables, and because of this the core combat never feels like a repeat. It helps that the number of ways you have to deal with these situations has been expanded. Movable temporary cover comes in the forms of downed enemies and shields you take from fallen enemies, and the weapon variety has created new ways for combat to actively evolve. Acid grenades force you out if you ever just bunker down in one spot, mortars need to be watched as they go up in the sky that push you laterally or towards indoor areas, and the additions to one-hit-kill/headshot weapons create a greater tension out of cover.
But Epic didn't stop there. They constantly play with how even normal combat works throughout the game, asking players to use their skills in imaginative ways. When the game plunks you down in dark areas you can benefit from using your gun's muzzle flashes to illuminate your enemies. If you find yourself becoming frustrated by the mixture of traps and fast enemies in one section you can try leading the enemies through the traps. The set pieces in Gears of War 2 don't just look pretty, they change the course of how the game is played in short intervals.
Gears of War 2 has successfully escaped the "generic" stigma it picked up after the first game. The gameplay is a changing landscape throughout that manages to fit nicely within the confines outlined by the series. It's a brilliant single player experience that shooter fans won't have any trouble immersing themselves in this year.
I know, and I'm with you really. I hate MP achievements for the most part, ones like getting "X" amount of kills is fine but really I'd like for games to not have them at all. Halo 3 did them pretty good because it had them but the achievements were simple for the most part and COD4 did them the best by not having any.Dax01 said:
I have 2/10 myself and I've attempted to play Submission as much as possible but like I said, everybody vetoes it. Fucking Gears community is too scared to play anything besides Execution or Warzone I swear (and I realize that you can play it in a different playlist than Players Choice but then it gets vetoed into enless KotH matches).h3ro said:
You can for most, but not all of them. A couple require you to get them in Public matches for whatever reason.kaizoku said:
This game is amazing, definitely a GotY contender. They fixed my biggest complaints about the first game that i had(length, story). But... They forgot to fix my smaller ones, the controls and terrible terrible hit detection. The visuals are amazing, especially the character models. I really said wow. The IQ is impressive in particular. That's about all i've got to say. Wait, maybe one more thing...
ATTENTION: CLIFFORD BLESZINSKI. YOU SHOULD PLAY THE GAME UNCHARTED AND STEAL SOMETHING FROM IT THAT YOUR GAME DESPERATELY NEEDS: SHOULDER SWITCHING.
ATTENTION: CLIFFORD BLESZINSKI. YOU SHOULD PLAY THE GAME UNCHARTED AND STEAL SOMETHING FROM IT THAT YOUR GAME DESPERATELY NEEDS: SHOULDER SWITCHING.
sixteen-bit
Member
Fixed?EschatonDX said:
The Librarian
Banned
I don't mind multiplayer achievements as long as they're easy an fun to do.Aladuf said:I know, and I'm with you really. I hate MP achievements for the most part, ones like getting "X" amount of kills is fine but really I'd like for games to not have them at all. Halo 3 did them pretty good because it had them but the achievements were simple for the most part and COD4 did them the best by not having any.
For example, there will be this achievement available for you do to in Halo 3 where you have to drop a tank on friend and kill him on a mythic map. :lol
Jazzy Network
Member
Starting to get better in MP. Hammerburst > Lancer IMO.
Annex on Tyro Station is one of the most painful experiences in this game. If the opposing team manages to grab the torque bow on both ends = you are done. Getting killed by the torque bow as soon as you spawn is not fun. I had two of my teammates quit on me by the end of the game. Today in a nutshell: Long waiting times, glitchers, spawn killing and quitters.
Today was not a good day for me It's getting really tough to enjoy the game when more and more of your friends are heading to something different. Now with the introduction of party chat, team communication is almost nonexistent if you're not with a group of friends. Sigh...
Here gaf, have three 48 hour XBL codes so that you can enjoy more of this wonderful multiplayer:
GRRQB-QHKMJ-QKQRW-XXTHK-66JRY
F2MDJ-K3G29-8P26B-CG3CM-Q76FD
H46C8-87B46-MPF8K-WQ9FY-WXJXT
I'd like to make at least someone out there happy.
Today was not a good day for me
It's getting really tough to enjoy the game when more and more of your friends are heading to something different. Now with the introduction of party chat, team communication is almost nonexistent if you're not with a group of friends. Sigh... Here gaf, have three 48 hour XBL codes so that you can enjoy more of this wonderful multiplayer:
GRRQB-QHKMJ-QKQRW-XXTHK-66JRY
F2MDJ-K3G29-8P26B-CG3CM-Q76FD
H46C8-87B46-MPF8K-WQ9FY-WXJXT
I'd like to make at least someone out there happy.
NarcissisticJay
Member
EschatonDX said:
wtf.. GRAW2?
sixteen-bit
Member
Don't forget the slap a high five to your bro and say fuck yeah button.Scarecrow said:
A Human Becoming
More than a Member
Holy fuck, I just played a round of Submission that lasted 33 minutes and 13 seconds. :lol Just ONE round! The funny thing is the second rounded lasted 1 minute and 3 seconds.
ICallItFutile said:
Yeah Submission can be like that...the first round always seems to be the Epic one and the following shoter...maybe due to fatigue...
I remember one match in particular on Hail took close to an hour for one round as the designated area's would spawn quite far away and Hail is a rather large map to play in Submission so if the area re-spawns you have absolute ridiculous distance to make up...
ToyMachine228
Member
Went back to school and I honestly can't play in a game online with my roommate at the same time. It's so terrible. The game ALWAYS picks one of the two of us as host, and nobody on either team besides the two of us can move. It sucks. I want to play legit games dammit.
bumpkin
Member
I finally got the patch, and you know, the matchmaking is infinitely better now. I didn't really encounter any of the lag some of you guys have been citing since getting the update. I did encounter something kind of funny/weird though.
I played some elimination-type matches last night where I just seemed to have the unfortunate luck of playing people who would camp with the torque bow and longshot all match long. Suffice it to say I got blown to bits or lost my head quite a bit. Some matches I didn't even get a single kill. After one of the last matches I played, I got a message on XBL from someone who was on the opposing team of a match I didn't score a single kill in. The messages read:
Chances are he probably saw my achievements for the game (and the original), but I thought it was kind of funny, so I responded to them. Basically, I said that I'd probably be doing better if people didn't rush the power weapons and camp. Moreover, I said that I just play for fun; I don't care if I win or not. The guy/girl never responded.
At least their message was better than one I got a few weeks ago that simply read, "pussy." :lol
I played some elimination-type matches last night where I just seemed to have the unfortunate luck of playing people who would camp with the torque bow and longshot all match long. Suffice it to say I got blown to bits or lost my head quite a bit. Some matches I didn't even get a single kill. After one of the last matches I played, I got a message on XBL from someone who was on the opposing team of a match I didn't score a single kill in. The messages read:
Chances are he probably saw my achievements for the game (and the original), but I thought it was kind of funny, so I responded to them. Basically, I said that I'd probably be doing better if people didn't rush the power weapons and camp. Moreover, I said that I just play for fun; I don't care if I win or not. The guy/girl never responded.
At least their message was better than one I got a few weeks ago that simply read, "pussy." :lol
Umm, I could use a little campaign help:
Any hints/tipps/tactics?
Act4, when you close in on the hive. I´m on this floating raft/lift thingy, when at first four reavers attack, then another raft comes you change over to, then another two reavers come.
I´ve got a mulcher, so the first reavers and the drones on the other raft are no problem. But then I´m out of ammo and the last two reavers seem not overly impressed with my lancer and rip the float off, game over.
I´ve got a mulcher, so the first reavers and the drones on the other raft are no problem. But then I´m out of ammo and the last two reavers seem not overly impressed with my lancer and rip the float off, game over.
Any hints/tipps/tactics?
You've got some shit luck then. I actually tried matchmaking with only myself last night for the first time post-patch and the longest time it ever took was ~2 minutes.BioHazard said:I've had the game 2 days and I still have not been able to get in to a SINGLE FREAKING MP GAME. This is absolutely ridiculous.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
So is there any trick to taking down reavers quickly, like some sort of weak spot or something? Or are they just bullet sponges? I'm getting sick of them popping up every 5 minutes in the campaign, I can deal with them easily enough, but they're just boring to fight.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
ShinAmano said:
Oooooh.... nice!