Seth Balmore
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You're kidding me. :|Alienshogun said:
All those words sounding so deceptively similar had to be done on purpose.
EDIT: Ticker Tuesday ribbon didn't pop for me either btw.
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Gears of War 3 |OT| BROTHERS TO THE END
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All those words sounding so deceptively similar had to be done on purpose.
EDIT: Ticker Tuesday ribbon didn't pop for me either btw.
Quick TDM yesterday on Checkout, random teammate of mine is fighting an enemy and gets downed. I rush and down the enemy right next to my teammate because it looks like he was about to execute him. I then make the mistake of picking him up first because the moment he gets up, he fires his shotgun straight at the downed guy and runs away.
Later that game, I'm chasing the last guy before we win and I down him across a piece of cover. Before I even have a chance to reload, same guy comes and blasts my down. Didn't even contribute one bullet to that down.
Next game, he goes 0-10.
I got used to playing with a full team.
Later that game, I'm chasing the last guy before we win and I down him across a piece of cover. Before I even have a chance to reload, same guy comes and blasts my down. Didn't even contribute one bullet to that down.
Next game, he goes 0-10.
I got used to playing with a full team.
AndyMoogle
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You should probably check your hearing or something. English isn't even my native language and I can hear just fine what he says.Seth Balmore said:
LeonSKennedy90
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see5harp said:
All them pistachios, me thinks
Brolic Gaoler
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Not when the other shit doesn't bother you that much. I mean at least armor lol isn't in this gameRamirez said:
oddworld18
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Cliff just confirmed on Twitter that Ticker Tuesday won't tick War Supporter.
Sadface!
https://twitter.com/#!/therealcliffyb/status/126386838914088960
Sadface!
https://twitter.com/#!/therealcliffyb/status/126386838914088960
sixteen-bit
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That's lameoddworld18 said:
oddworld18
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Montresor said:
they're clearly using that achievement as bait to keep everyone playing for six months. right now we're getting effectively one tick per week, and we need 30 to get onyx.
epic hates achievement whores, confirmed.
Robot Pants
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zlatko said:
Dude I'm so curious. Did you really snap the Gears 2 disc in half? Because I did that, too and I thought I might have been a really really rare case. I still have the picture of the aftermath.
Also reading the rage going on in this thread currently (which I mostly agree with) makes me say, "YES! YES! NOW THEY BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND!"
Robot Pants said:
Yes I did snap my disc of Gears of War 2 in half about a month and a half after it came out.
I've never broken any other game, and I had never thrown a controller until today. Gears just knows what to do to set me off...
One of queen Myrrah's quote by the way is just boner inducing. I don't know it word by word, but she says pitiful in it and it sounds like she's about to spit when she says it. Pure disgust.
My favorite Gears quote still goes to Anthony Carmine in Gears 1 when you curb stomp someone and he says, " COME ON BABY! DIE FOR PAPAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Robot Pants
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zlatko said:
*High Five*
That's so awesome. I'm not sure when I did it, but I know it was the day of the "latest" TU update. Whichever of the pathetic attempts it was to make that game playable. I played about 2 games, then in the middle of the third I had absolutely had it, took the game out in the middle of the match, broke it, and put it in the garbage where that game belonged (after I took the picture 8D ).
Then I swore to myself, just as you were doing, I would never buy EPIC's bullshit again. I would never buy a single product from them, and really REALLY hoped they went out of business. Literally those 3 things. Then, just like you, I bought into their bullshit again. I played the beta. Kinda liked it, kinda didn't. Thought the SOS and RETRO were useless additions just like everything else they added to the game since 2, but I was a little optimistic about the idea of dedicated servers. Well lol we know how that turned out. And that is the big thing. They've straight up lied to use twice now.
"Great MP experience right out of the box" - Gears 2
"Dedicated servers!!!!!!!" - Gears 3
I really won't buy another EPIC product unless I rent it first.
I love Hoffman's headshot quotes, "Had to happen!" and, "OOOO"
God I miss Gears 1.
LeonSKennedy90
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"OOH THE SPLATTER FACTOR!"
Hoffman, too funny
Hoffman, too funny
Evil Benius
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Things like Ticker Tuesday not counting just makes me wish I would have abused the every match counting bug at release. I mean when your system is already broken due to that bug what does it hurt to count events like this?
mickcenary
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Going on this thread, it seems like I'm the only person in the universe to be having a relatively smooth GoW3 experience. I actually can not tell you the last time I was subjected to game-affecting lag and I've been playing almost every night. Go Australia... ?
Brolic Gaoler
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mickcenary said:
Nope, I said before I love it, Gears 3 is damn near flawless and I find tremendous humor in much of the rage in this thread. I could give two shits about any other game coming out this fall. I've never been so focused and so happy with a game since Quake 1. The next game I get is going to be Ghost Recon future soldier and that's mostly for coop.
GOW3 will be my adversarial game and Ghost Recon will be my coop game.
mickcenary
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Alienshogun said:
Ditto on dis. GoW3 will always hold a special place in my heart. As it stands now, I'd happily call it my favourite game ever, purely for its adversarial MP. I haven't really turned my mind to Ghost Recon, but Arkham City does call my name these days (and so, too, will Battlefield 3).
Two hilarious, awesome things about Gears 3 multiplayer that, among other things, make this one of the most fun games ever made for me:
1) Hiding behind cover and looking in the opposite direction (instead of looking over the cover). I love doing this. Because sometimes some guy will slowly walk up to you with a shotgun thinking you're looking the other way, thinking they're sneaking up on your from behind, when really I'm staring straight at them. I see them inch their way towards me and then BAM, shotgun to the face.
2) Pretending like you're AFK at the spawn with your shotgun pulled out (I have only done this once or twice, so don't freak out guys). I always get punks who walk towards me slowly trying to feast on an easy shotgun kill. I wait till they're close and then BAM. :lol
1) Hiding behind cover and looking in the opposite direction (instead of looking over the cover). I love doing this. Because sometimes some guy will slowly walk up to you with a shotgun thinking you're looking the other way, thinking they're sneaking up on your from behind, when really I'm staring straight at them. I see them inch their way towards me and then BAM, shotgun to the face.
2) Pretending like you're AFK at the spawn with your shotgun pulled out (I have only done this once or twice, so don't freak out guys). I always get punks who walk towards me slowly trying to feast on an easy shotgun kill. I wait till they're close and then BAM. :lol
I'm really having a great time with this game as well. Lag hasn't been much of a problem for me although I do run into it occasionally. Spawns can be a problem and the map rotation is kind of disappointing sometimes. Remove the SOS and you'd have the best(or tied with the best) multiplayer on current consoles.
Evil Benius
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Montresor said:
You are the reason I always kill AFK people from range with the Lancer!
mickcenary
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Ballistik said:
Probably one of the best things about the MP in this game. There can be maybe 35 people online and I'll still be placed in a good game within 5 seconds. It encourages my rage-quitting something shocking
.A27 Tawpgun said:
I think people get mad since you can only unlock certain things if you get kills with a specific weapon.
Anyone having trouble with the Y execution prompt not activating as soon as you press the button? I thought it was press to stomp, press and hold for special execution...but sometimes you'll press Y and nothing happens or the prompt will disappear then come back.
Here's a tip for you guys, (well maybe common sense to a lot of you) but when you're behind cover and an enemy is rushing you with their Gnasher, you can pretty much bet that he will come from your left side. I've been doing this since Gears 2, that I just sit in cover and I aim out to my left and wait for them to pop up, thus avoiding any crazy shotty wallbouncing battle. Also helps to crouch before peeking out. I'm not saying it works every time, because sometimes they will roll to your right instead
I do this one ALL the time. If I see someone while in cover behind me, I just stay put and wait for them to get close and blast them before they even get to shoot.
Montresor said:
I do this one ALL the time. If I see someone while in cover behind me, I just stay put and wait for them to get close and blast them before they even get to shoot.
zlatko said:
Sega doesnt make shovelware
Also I dont think i've had a laggy match or match where strange things happen yet. I've been cursed out once or twice, and someone going "Oh my god" every time they got killed, but thats about it. Nothing that seemed like host advantage...dont think I could ever snap a 60 dollar game in two either
Personally I use the Retro and Gnasher and havent had a problem with people camping insane amounts of time. SOS rushes? Sure, but alot of the time I had enough time to react, and just didnt make the right evasive choice (run away, dont stay and fight).
Brolic Gaoler
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malfcn said:
I would believe it to be honest. The game runs fantastic most of the time.
The thing is people don't want to admit they lose because they suck, or because someone is better than them or the just played like shit that round. So it's either "lag/dedis being off," "Host," "Broken weapons," or what have you. People just WON'T admit it was their fault.
Smooth games are far more common than laggy ones, but it's amazing how many times the other team will claim some outside force that seems to have effected their performance.
I would bet the same holds true here with most people complaining. Whether it's their failure to adapt to new weapons, their skills not holding up on dedicated server, them having a bad day, or whatever, the complaining here is absurd, at least IMO.
Alienshogun said:
I'd actually love to have some kind of ISP / geographic location location poll along with people's K/D to look for trends. Now I'm NOT suggesting that connections = skill, HAHA, I am completely willing to acknowledge when I'm outplayed, but I think it would be interesting information to sift through.
Last couple of times I ran into someone who I had a ton of trouble downing (ie, in my mind they were bullet sponges who took a metric ton of shots just to down) I would check their stats post game, and almost invariably these were 2+ or 3+ K/D ratios. Hell I found a 95 with a 4+ K/D ratio. So while I definitely think some of those kids were very skilled, I also think if I could take the kinds of shots they took without going down, I'd have a higher K/D too.
Apparently, there are gaffers here who aren't having any trouble though (as noted in yours and others posts above, not singling you out) so I wonder if there are some connections that are more prone to experiencing lag than others.
Believe me when I say this is NOT about me trying to prove I'm an elite player, I am not, I will readily admit that. I play cause I have fun with it, and generally can compete in the game. So I'm on no witch hunt to prove "it's only connections" or "I'm better than my K/D shows". Nah, I'm simply a dedicated player who loves the shit out of this game and just want to understand the ambiguities that the tech side adds to the game.
Brolic Gaoler
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TRios Zen said:
I've also noticed a lot of people who think the other guy is "sponging" are actually missing their shots. Should add that to your equation.
Alienshogun said:I've also noticed a lot of people who think the other guy is "sponging" are actually missing their shots. Should add that to your equation.
Thats true. If I can down someone from really far with some well placed retro lancer shots, and with a pretty average connection, I dont think network issues are that much of a problem with Gears 3.
Alienshogun said:I've also noticed a lot of people who think the other guy is "sponging" are actually missing their shots. Should add that to your equation.
In CQB, that's totally possible too - things are frenetic, you think you should have hit the guy so assume you did - sure - I hear you.
Nah, I'm talking about the guy that rushes through your lancer fire like there's no stopping power what-so-ever to one shot you. You know when you are missing those or not. Or the guy who you see his character react to your gnasher shots twice, from close range, but still doesn't go down.
Every time I play? Hell no, I've had some great matches on Gears 3 both where my team has won AND lost. But it has happened. Last night similar experiences or lag happened in my first three games, so I put MP down and played Horde.
vodka-bull
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QFT.Alienshogun said:
I've had my problems with SOS users in the first weeks as well. But I adapted faster than I thought I would and since then I've not even once doubted that it was my own fault for dieing. It's totally different than it was in Gears 2, where it was in fact connection issues most of the time.
But I have always accepted when someone else was better than me, instead of crying for host advantage (even though someone wasn't host anyway), cheaters and connection issues like many of my friends tend to.
Evil Benius
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Montresor said:
It is actually kind of annoying since it is not just Tickers and the explosions radius is increased. You can kick a Ticker away, shoot it, and still take damage.
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