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Gears of War 3 |OT| BROTHERS TO THE END

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LeonSKennedy90

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Gouty said:
Can't other people join? I'm nearly positive that we lost someone but by the time we finished we were 5 strong.
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Yes, friends can join pubic Horde games. We lost two guys at Wave 50, invited Enzo and Bluethunder and we won
 
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ZekeThePlumber

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Mikey Jr. said:
This is my first time playing Gears multiplayer. I just have some questions, but also some comments.

Questions:

1. What is the etiquette when you see a bad guy go down but you didn't kill. Should you kill him, or wait for someone else? I think I heard someone call me a fa@@ot once because I did that. Is that considered kill stealing? The whole system feels moronic to me. You can shoot someone, but then a team member comes by and kills him, and THEY get the kill? Uhhh....what?

2. More of a comment, but they really need to add some control schemes to mp. I played just a few hours, and I could add a control option that would make my play time infinitely better.

Firstly, make the Y button switch between your two primary guns. If I have the shotgun out, pressing Y should bring out my lancer. Y is worthless in MP.

Or if they don't want to do that, make it so that if I press right or left on the d-pad, it automatically switches to the opposite gun. I have been in tight situations where I have wanted to get my shotgun out, but I forgot whether it was right or left on the d-pad. So I press right, but OOOPS, it was on the left, so I gotta press that one now.

Whats the point....... If I have my shotgun out, obviously I wouldn't be pressing left or right on the d-pad again if I didn't want to take it out my lancer. Just make it easier.
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Generally, you let who ever gets the down take the kill. There are circumstances where it would be okay for you to do it like if one of his teammates were about to get him up or if the guy who made the down is incapped and picking him up first would allow the enemy to get up while you helped him. Stuff happens but just don't be a dick and steal people's kills when no one else is around them. Just yesterday I had TDM match where I finished first with 8 kills and 8 deaths and the guy in second went 18 and 8. I'm usually not one to send hate messages but that guy had it coming.

I always thought the lack of a weapon switch button was kinda weird now that you mention it. I usually use my right thumb on the dpad to switch weapons anyway.
 
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dmg04

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Plasmid said:
Anyone done "I'm A Beast!" Yet? Didn't realize it was no dying involved :x, definitely want that savage theron.
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Did it yesterday with a couple of Gaf folks. It was awesome, being from CA and playing with folks from the UK, the connection was amazing and we beat it on the second try. Wave 12 pooped on us the first time. lol.
 
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REV 09

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I NEED SCISSORS said:
Just take the kill and move on. Ignore/mute any backlash. Too many times I have tried to be 'nice' about kill stealing, only to have the enemy get up because my team was too incompetent to finish the job.

And I support that control change. I'd also love to map sprint to left bumper as Tac/Com is also useless in the game modes I play online.
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1. How close is the game? If the game is almost over and your team is behind then take the kill.

2. Is anyone rushing to immediaty finish off the enemy? If so then let him finish his kill. If not, do it yourself.
 
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ant_

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ZekeThePlumber said:
Generally, you let who ever gets the down take the kill. There are circumstances where it would be okay for you to do it like if one of his teammates were about to get him up or if the guy who made the down is incapped and picking him up first would allow the enemy to get up while you helped him. Stuff happens but just don't be a dick and steal people's kills when no one else is around them. Just yesterday I had TDM match where I finished first with 8 kills and 8 deaths and the guy in second went 18 and 8. I'm usually not one to send hate messages but that guy had it coming..
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kill steals are serious business
 
Robot Pants

Robot Pants

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I haven't had the dedicated servers work for me since Wednesday. Which is kinda lame, luckily I've had Horde and Insane campaign to keep me busy.
When it says "no suitable matches found" that means no dedicated servers and I'm about to play on P2P right?
 
Sanic

Sanic

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To add a counter point to the SoS complaints, I really haven't had any issues dealing with it, and after an hour of using it, I myself struggled to be productive. All anecdotal, of course.
 
Mikey Jr.

Mikey Jr.

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I NEED SCISSORS said:
Just take the kill and move on. Ignore/mute any backlash. Too many times I have tried to be 'nice' about kill stealing, only to have the enemy get up because my team was too incompetent to finish the job.

And I support that control change. I'd also love to map sprint to left bumper as Tac/Com is also useless in the game modes I play online.
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Yeah, I find the lack of control schemes disappointing.

Has anyone ever mentioned my Y button, Dpad switch thing before? Is there a reason it isn't in the game? I'm assuming it was like this in Gears 1 and 2, but they still haven't added it to Gears 3?
 
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george_us

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famousmortimer said:
After loving Gears 1 and 2, im finding Gears 3 to be painfully boring. Much like Halo before it, it suffers from being too 'samey.' I can only take so many arenas with waist high cover before I want to bash my face into a wall.

I know, I know - 'that's gears!!!" I think 2 was enough for me.


Horde mode and competitive MP are still fantastic, however.
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The single biggest problem with campaign for me is that, unlike Gears 2, they never introduce any new elements to combat to keep things fresh while still. Gears 2 had you fighting on those rigs, the razor rain, escorting the bomb with Dom (a brilliant gameplay moment), the rockworms, cutting the arteries of the giant rockworm not to mention other kick ass moments like the Centaur level, the dog fight with Skorge, the Leviathan fight and riding the Brumak. The amazing ingenuity from Gears 2 isn't present at all in Gears 3 giving the campaign a feeling of "been there, done that". Act III has been the only time the game has been consistently outstanding, with Acts I and II being merely "ok". Act IV was terrible and, had it not been for the godawful submarine sequence, Act V would be right there with it from what I've played of it.

Feels like Epic put most of their effort into the MP like they did in Gears 1.
 
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cackhyena

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So do most of you have the controls dialed up to pretty high like crazy CoD players? I dialed it up a few notches from normal myself.
 
Sanic

Sanic

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george_us said:
The single biggest problem with campaign for me is that, unlike Gears 2, they never introduce any new elements to combat to keep things fresh while still. Gears 2 had you fighting on those rigs, the razor rain, escorting the bomb with Dom (a brilliant gameplay moment), the rockworms, cutting the arteries of the giant rockworm not to mention other kick ass moments like the Centaur level, the dog fight with Skorge, the Leviathan fight and riding the Brumak. The amazing ingenuity from Gears 2 isn't present at all in Gears 3 giving the campaign a feeling of "been there, done that". Act III has been the only time the game has been consistently outstanding, with Acts I and II being merely "ok". Act IV was terrible and, had it not been for the godawful submarine sequence, Act V would be right there with it from what I've played of it.

Feels like Epic put most of their effort into the MP like they did in Gears 1.
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I totally agree, but from reading on Gaf and elsewhere, it seemed like a lot of people felt that those gameplay elements were gimicky.

Like, I had no idea people didn't like the worm segment.
 
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-PXG-

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All day baby.

EDIT

I believe the servers are down. I ended up being host for a bunch of Quick KOTH matches. No one complained about lag though. It was smooth as butter for my team.

EDIT 2

Cliff, if you're reading this, ya'll gotta fix the character skin issue. Everytime I join a match that's in progress, I end up as a Drone, or Marcus. Hell, sometimes even after playing a few matches, I end up with a default skin. I hope you guys are aware of the issue and fix it before people start using purchased skins.
 
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dmg04

#DEADWRONG
Anyone else think the Savage kantus kind of sucks? I've been using it since day 1 and i must say, i'm displeased with the fact that it looks nothing like a normal kantus, as well as it being nowhere in campaign. lol



btw, horde mode players,
you can stun berserkers by retro rushing them.
I found this out when doing my 1-50 the other day. it 'bumps' them, as if they're running into a wall.
 
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-PXG-

Member
dmg04 said:
Anyone else think the Savage kantus kind of sucks? I've been using it since day 1 and i must say, i'm displeased with the fact that it looks nothing like a normal kantus, as well as it being nowhere in campaign. lol
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He's cool. Don't hate. Get 600 revives for the normal Kantus or beat Beast on Insane, without failing to get the Savage Theron.
 
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dmg04

#DEADWRONG
-PXG- said:
He's cool. Don't hate. Get 600 revives for the normal Kantus or beat Beast on Insane, without failing to get the Savage Theron.
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So much hate! :p
I'll continue using him till i get the normal kantus.

Random thought; Whatever happened to the Kryll?
 
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sixteen-bit

Member
dmg04 said:
Anyone else think the Savage kantus kind of sucks? I've been using it since day 1 and i must say, i'm displeased with the fact that it looks nothing like a normal kantus, as well as it being nowhere in campaign. lol
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Yeah, I'm not liking it as much as I had hoped.

I'll probably end up buying that Raam DLC :(

dmg04 said:
Random thought; Whatever happened to the Kryll?
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The resonator.
 
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vodka-bull

Member
-PXG- said:
I believe the servers are down. I ended up being host for a bunch of Quick KOTH matches. No one complained about lag though. It was smooth as butter for my team.
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I don't think they're down rather than too many people playing the game today. Seems like Epic didn't proper calculate how many servers they need. Every game I've played today felt like a Gears 2 game, with lag, hostpower etc.
 
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Ken

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Full Recovery said:
I want to get a group together to do all 50 levels of horde and then possibly beast mode on insane.

Who's with me?
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I'd love to try but I can't get on until maybe 2 hours from now. Never tried Horde mode yet so I'd probably be a bad party member anyways.
 
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