Indeed. And for almost 5 months straight and counting. Not sure what malfcn had been smoking...
Edit: malfcn, why would they announce this far ahead in time? You know there's an event every weekend.
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Indeed. And for almost 5 months straight and counting. Not sure what malfcn had been smoking...
Edit: malfcn, why would they announce this far ahead in time? You know there's an event every weekend.
Hoya Destroyer
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Has Warzone and Execution gone back into their own individual playlists for anyone else?
It says 0 players worldwide for both. Maybe I lost my gears 3 update somehow? I wonder how to get the latest update back?
It says 0 players worldwide for both. Maybe I lost my gears 3 update somehow? I wonder how to get the latest update back?
Hoya Destroyer
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Ok. Now WZ and Exec are back under the same playlist. They were separate for a few hours IIRC. How odd.
Thats kinda what i said. I implied that at no point would you get electricity for everything you previously did (simultaneously)..i just didnt feel like listing every appliance i own? Either way. I actually saw this mytical 'escalation' map people keep talking about. It didnt get voted on of course..but at least i know it exists.
ToyMachine228
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There is no spoon either.
There are events every weekend. What they did give up on is updating the calendar, as you mentioned. It should be updated frequently because as it is, it's just ad space for their DLC from last year.
sixteen-bit
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Wow. Winter could have made this game awesome.
There's a snowy bit in Gears 2 that could have worked well with this.
RIP Overpass. You won't be missed.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Rustlung is garbage. It's easy to trap people in the spawn because you start way back and the only way out is a tunnel (which is easy to control) and a small room (which is also easy to control). Give it enough time the other team will start spawning behind you and just kill everyone.
Hotel is just shit. I haven't like it since the game launched.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
I've not had an issue on either map, and hotel is basically mansion which was also a great map.
Same here. I've never had one single issue on either map. Rustlung is actually my favorite dlc map so far.
Mansion was a good map. The area round the boom out in the garden felt much tighter than the wide open area of hotel.
The inside of Hotel is pretty poor as well. People either use it to shortcut the nades or camp the sniper. Very little happens in the middle area.
I think my problem with Rustlung is more to do with the spawns than the map. I feel like Mercy has similar issues but the area you spawn in is wide open so it's easier to escape whereas rustlung is basically 2 tunnels.
Seth Balmore
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Mansion plays cooler than Hotel though. I don't dig the larger scale and there's less variety in the elevation levels... also lack of interesting cover structures outside whereas both versions of Mansion had plenty of that.
Goodbye and good riddance Overpass. Since Cliff said it's temporary I wonder if they'll take back what they said about not being able to/not wanting to change the layout of shipped maps?
Goodbye and good riddance Overpass. Since Cliff said it's temporary I wonder if they'll take back what they said about not being able to/not wanting to change the layout of shipped maps?
sixteen-bit
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I love hotel
Barrow Roll
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Hotel is cool but spawns are really terrible.
HigherLevel
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Overpass is gone? Awesome. Every time I play the first map that pops up is Overpass. Such a bad map.
Never end up playing it in ranked, but in quick match I almost always quit out before it even started, such a poorly designed map for TDM. I'm on a Gears hiatus for a little while, we'll see if I ever make it from green to red, but playing against a team of 5 green level players is almost completely void of fun in ranked when you're running solo.
j0hnny_385
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the whole Season Pass is "worth it" if you're a regular Gears 3 player. Better get that.
abracadaver
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Bit of DLC4 info:
these are the weapon skins that are supposed to come with DLC4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYElUy4suhI
these are the weapon skins that are supposed to come with DLC4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYElUy4suhI
I can understand Sandbar, but its not so bad now that power weapon is at the bottom. And Drydock is probably the best map in the game!
Genesis Knight
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What the hell? I'm gone for two months (account was FIFA'd, been locked) and return to find that I can't play on dedis anymore unless I buy DLC content? Holy freaking hell, Epic.
Hoya Destroyer
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I love weapon skins as much as anyone but I wish Epic would focus on giving us new maps. Even old maps imported directly from Gears 2 would be nice.
I'll be really disappointed if DLC 4 is Beast-centric.
I think Overpass was the only real culprit here that could be a pain in the ass. Sandbar just reminds me of one of those Gears 2 DLC maps that nobody cared for, they're not broken necessarily... just extremely boring.
AndyMoogle
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"Player's Choice" is dedicated servers for people without the DLC.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Yes you can, use the players choice playlist.
Genesis Knight
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Except Player's Choice is a variety of modes, right? So if I want to play exclusively KOTH and Warzone, I'll need to shell out.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Yep. Although, you can't get warzone exclusively at all anymore.
I wouldn't pay too much attention to that tweet, since all DLC packs have had new weapon skin(s).
Genesis Knight
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Oh yeah, I saw that. Warzone/Execution now. A lot has changed in two months, it seems! Anything else I should know?
I guess it's time to shell for the Season Pass. I was planning on getting RAAM b/c of the campaign content, but if I have to get Fenix Rising for dedis then I might as well go all in, I think.
Removing SP from the lancer will make this game better because the lancer is OP. it does a lot of damage and with stopping power, its just annoying. They've already removed SP from the HB and Retro, I wont be surprised if they take it away from the lancer too.
The lancer stops you from any direction you're getting hit at. Maybe if it was only from the front, I can live with SP on the lancer, sadly it isn't though.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
It is only the front. If you're getting hit in the back it doesn't stop your progress.
Also, no, stopping power needs to remain, especially with the power of the active gnasher.
My problem with the Lancer is less about the stopping power, and more with the power of the active.
Spend a match holding a pre-active hipfire Lancer and you'll see what I'm talking about. It's a little too effective for my tastes, and I love the Lancer.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Actives need to be toned down or gotten rid of period. IMO.
Definitely. I could see a slight damage increase, but as it is it's just ridiculous.
Even an active Retro isn't that bad.
are the severs down this weekend?
I've joined a number of games where I can't pick up weapons or shoot people, lots of lag (like jumping over something and then going back to where you were) and in 4 different games the bot allocation has failed and we've ended up with 7 players on our team at the start of a match.
I've joined a number of games where I can't pick up weapons or shoot people, lots of lag (like jumping over something and then going back to where you were) and in 4 different games the bot allocation has failed and we've ended up with 7 players on our team at the start of a match.
That's been happening for a few weeks now, we haven't been told exactly what causes it.
Pink and Green plasma is dope? Is Quinn trolling?
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
lol, they just take the same skins they already made, change the color and sell the shit back to us.
I thought they removed Overpass? This map is so ass it is ridiculous. And I loooooove putting a full Lancer clip into someone head on and they just oneshot me with Gnasher. What?? just now he got a headshot from 50 feet away with a Gnasher? C'mmmmon. Had the pleasure of going 1-9 on that shit map.
Getting killed by mortal when you're inside the tunnel?
Invisible frags with no bounce sound too?
Getting killed by mortal when you're inside the tunnel?
Invisible frags with no bounce sound too?
Yeah, they brought it back when they launched TU 3.1
The removal was a "Test to see the validity of stopping power as a mechanic"
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