BananasWithGuns
Member
I'm not banking on it anytime soon personally. The system is there to push people into buying Gear Packs and I expect that to continue to be their primary focus.
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Gears of War 4 |OT| Still Epic
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I'm not banking on it anytime soon personally. The system is there to push people into buying Gear Packs and I expect that to continue to be their primary focus.
yankeehater
Member
343 clearly wants people to buy packs as well but they dont make it so that you have to win more then 100 matches to get a free pack. It is such a stupid system in this game it makes me not want to even try to unlock packs.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Oh yeah, I absolutely agree with you. TC definitely knew what they were doing when they launched the game, making the credit drip as slow as possible. They had to do something though because of all the backlash, but while the credits earned per match is still insultingly low, I expect them to hold out as long as possible before they're forced into making more adjustments.
psychotron
Member
I'm on chapter 3 and the campaign has been excellent so far. Coalition have really done a fantastic job.
stop the hyperboles, if you win 100 matches you can buy 1 elite pack and 2 operational packs, or 6 operational packs, and thats just for winning, not even counting the credits given for your performance.
i mean i still think they should increase it further, but 100 matches for 1 pack? thats just hyperbole
The Walmart site requires two codes, so in order to get all 5 unlocks using only 4 codes, you put the first two codes on the main site, and the other two codes on the walmart site.
Gears 3 had a lot of skins that were only buyable, and Judgment had crates, so not "everything" was locked on level progression
yankeehater
Member
I meant 100 matches against bots. I have no idea what you get from player matches since I have only played a few and I dont remember what I got.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Yeah, this is also very disappointing. The skins that are there (Color Blast, Zombie, Day of the Dead) are absolutely hideous. It wouldn't be an issue if there were a ton of them to choose from but to just have those three is crappy.
you really need a premade for it...
Got to 40 and by then it was me and another dude left and stood no chance at the boss :3
Expensive and bad.
Characters are pretty meh. Especially since some of them just have minor changes to them.
Yup, 343 actually got their REQ cadence right because I play a couple games of Warzone Firefight and I always have something waiting for me to open before long. Plus they have daily packs and other random special packs that you get just for logging on sometimes. Gears needs to pick up the pace and get on Halo 5's level with this.
Here's a good example of the problem with these packs too:
I actually bought 15 Horde Booster packs last night for $10. I want to get my Engineer's two equipped skills (I'm level 3) up to level 5 and I need 10 cards for each skill. That's 20 cards just to get my TWO out of FIVE (equippable at the same time) skills for just one of the five classes. In that pack of 15 boosters, I got like 6 cards for my Engineer class. The rest were literally skills for other classes that I had to scrap in order to create another few cards for my desired skills. So basically I spent $10 to get like 9 cards for my Engineer, which isn't enough to get even one of my two skills up to level 5 since I needed 10 cards for each one. So yeah, 9 cards after I received 75 and had to burn the great majority of them for scrap.
And remember, I will eventually reach level 10 (in like a fucking year at this rate) and at that point I'll be able to equip 5 skills for each match. So I got all the remaining skills in my ONE class where each one will need like 20+ cards in total to get to level 5.
What.
A.
Grind.
Seriously, its madness. So that's why they need to pick up the pace. Or at least redesign the packs in a way that allows you to focus on just one class at a time. Put out an Engineer pack so I can be certain to only get cards for that class! Something!
Also, you know they're going to put out extra weapons, character skins, and maybe classes over time (I hope) so the pool of random stuff you could potentially get in these card packs is only going to grow.
PS- What's Discord? Is that a voice chat thing?
Here's a good example of the problem with these packs too:
I actually bought 15 Horde Booster packs last night for $10. I want to get my Engineer's two equipped skills (I'm level 3) up to level 5 and I need 10 cards for each skill. That's 20 cards just to get my TWO out of FIVE (equippable at the same time) skills for just one of the five classes. In that pack of 15 boosters, I got like 6 cards for my Engineer class. The rest were literally skills for other classes that I had to scrap in order to create another few cards for my desired skills. So basically I spent $10 to get like 9 cards for my Engineer, which isn't enough to get even one of my two skills up to level 5 since I needed 10 cards for each one. So yeah, 9 cards after I received 75 and had to burn the great majority of them for scrap.
And remember, I will eventually reach level 10 (in like a fucking year at this rate) and at that point I'll be able to equip 5 skills for each match. So I got all the remaining skills in my ONE class where each one will need like 20+ cards in total to get to level 5.
What.
A.
Grind.
Seriously, its madness. So that's why they need to pick up the pace. Or at least redesign the packs in a way that allows you to focus on just one class at a time. Put out an Engineer pack so I can be certain to only get cards for that class! Something!
Also, you know they're going to put out extra weapons, character skins, and maybe classes over time (I hope) so the pool of random stuff you could potentially get in these card packs is only going to grow.
PS- What's Discord? Is that a voice chat thing?
It's a group chat and you can set up group...both text and voice based if you want. You can go to voice channel if you want voice chat or use the difference text channel for LFG, cop, general discussion.
It even has a mobile app so it's pretty much video game WhatsApp.
The way online co-op works has definitely changed compared to previous games right? In older games I could start a game that anyone could join, but now there's only the 'join game' option. That would be fine if it didn't just pick a random chapter from an act instead of the one you selected! I only have a few chapters left to do in co-op (prologue and 3-4 and 5), and I'll have to see if someone wants to do these with me, because the system keeps dropping me in later or earlier chapters. No I don't want to play 1-4, I want to do the prologue.
It's weird that you explicitly select a chapter you want to do in co-op, yet the game drops you into something else anyway. Shame I have to quit out of games because of this.
It's weird that you explicitly select a chapter you want to do in co-op, yet the game drops you into something else anyway. Shame I have to quit out of games because of this.
What difficulty?
Leyasu
Banned
Yeah I have completed gears 3 horde a few times with randoms where no one quit. But gear 4 horde is definitely harder and does require a pre-made group with mics
They're not great. I can't wait to see what they release every month though. Ideally for me, my combo would be a kantus and an onyx guard.... I hope that theyy get some locust on there
Leyasu
Banned
Pretty much. I should have said "classic locust"
give me Theron Guards or give me death
Clint Beastwood
Banned
I've played 41 matches and have enough credits to buy 2 elite packs, idk where you're getting this 100 for 1
he is playing against bots, go figure
Considering how much it costs to buy some skins, how little scraps you get....41 match is still a bit too much. That's nearly half of 100 so it isn't really that much better.
Surprised everyone dislikes fighting the robots so much. I thought they were great.
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
Is it just me or has the horde community turned into a kill hungry hive of pricks who'll ignore anyone who's been downed? I remember randoms in Gears 3 being much more considerate about helping up downed players, but in this game, even with a "Press Y" notification to see exactly WHERE the downed player is, they never help.
It's mind boggling.
It's mind boggling.
Finished the campaign. First two acts are a bit meh. 3-4 are great. The last act is goty (I want more xD).
Overall a fantastic campaign. The new characters are great and I hope TC develops the relationship between them with more cutscenes and stuff in the next chapter.
The graphics are very good (especially on act 3-4-5), but overall I think U4 and The Order are on another level.
Good job TC.
Overall a fantastic campaign. The new characters are great and I hope TC develops the relationship between them with more cutscenes and stuff in the next chapter.
The graphics are very good (especially on act 3-4-5), but overall I think U4 and The Order are on another level.
Good job TC.
It's frustrating when you jet to the total opposite side of the map to help someone out, then when you get downed yourself... you bleed out. Luckily when I reached 50 with a crew of randoms those people started to get it as we went along. Reviving asap is vital. Luckily there are cogs to be picked up, so sometimes you get a second chance.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Uh, how do you repair defenses with the fabricator in single player?
If you name one Geralt, you have to name the other Yen(nefer).
KeyboardThug
Member
Start up 4 different games other than gears and then go back into gears. Stuttering will be gone. Fixed it for me and it was suggested on the gears forums.
just once? or everytime i want to play? maybe is something with the cache of the game or something? haha
Goodacre0081
Member
the color blast skin are pure garbage. amazed this is all they came up with for the
just bring back the Epic made maps and skins and we're all good.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
yeah lag is so bad that I lost connection to my own private server of just 5 bots...
KeyboardThug
Member
Just once it seems to be a cache issue. By starting 4 other games you remove all gears data from the cache. Then when you start it after the 4 other games it will cache the newer code.
you don't. at least, i couldn't find a way to. i just added new ones.
Goodacre0081
Member
i remember doing for Gears3, but all we had to do is this. is there no way do do this on XB1 and if there isnt what if we only platy gears on the console with no 4 other games to rotate?
VE3TRO
Formerly Gizmowned
Normal I think. I didn't jump in until level 10. We'll be playing tomorrow night and we'll need a fifth player so if your around and see me or the guys from Division days online send us a message.
if you have gold, i think you have 4 games, i think you can redownload or reinstall it too
maybe demos work too?
Using colour blast is such a stupid idea, I can see your brighter than the sun ass from across the map
same with all those bright pink guns. every time they get killed I just think "congrats, you played yourself"