Gears Ultimate Beta Access

Played quite a few matches yesterday. Need to get back into the swing of Gears but I'm in love witht he game again. Can't wait for the full release.
 
Iced_Eagle said:
It is on dedicated servers.

You'll know when it ran into issues and had to fall back to P2P connection. When you're in the pre-game lobby you'll get an error message and let you know XP isn't being recorded for the match.
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Is this true? I hope that p2p fallback is just for the beta. Because I find it hard to believe that Microsofts azure network has lots of problems!

A couple of weeks ago I was looking on the net. It said that 2014, azure had 99.4 % availibility for the whole year!!
 
Leyasu said:
Is this true? I hope that p2p fallback is just for the beta. Because I find it hard to believe that Microsofts azure network has lots of problems!

A couple of weeks ago I was looking on the net. It said that 2014, azure had 99.4 % availibility for the whole year!!
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I think its more live fucking up not azure
 
Good news and bad news. The bad news is I'm still awful at Gridlock, good news is I'm still pretty good at Canals.

Love the beta so far, but does seem a little buggy.
 
Gears at 1080/60 is god like, I loved the hours I put into the beta last night.

Gets some getting used to with the Gnasher shooting from center rather than barrel, but hot damn, I love gears.
 
d0genZaka said:
The game is hardly slow. Sensitivity and strafing could use a slight boost, but everything else is fine.

Gears 3 has corrupted so many people
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Not how slow you move, but the fact you get stuck on walls a little. I want to get off walls faster. If you get what I mean.
 
rrc1594 said:
Not how slow you move, but the fact you get stuck on walls a little. I want to get off walls faster. If you get what I mean.
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Go back and play Gears 1 off host and then tell me what it's like.

That game had sticky cover. This does not. It's perfectly, buttery smooth. You're probably used to Gears 2 or 3 where you can cancel your wall bounce entirely before even touching cover.

Use the thumb stick to get off cover. No need to press A or B. It works just as it should, or as it does on host or campaign from the original
 
Man, I was on this game's multiplayer almost every night for 2 years the first time around, I thought it what be just what the doctor ordered.

But playing the beta, all I can think now is how much I'd rather be playing The Last of Us's multiplayer. :\
 
Not positive .. there is too much coming out this fall to recommend this. I LOVED Gears of War when it was first released.


- graphics decent 1080p/60 feels superb
- shotgun aim/shooting feels lite and a bit off
- no weight to characters..may be noticing after gears 3
- gridlock. ..okay they can animate the water but still dead trees?
- I could be wrong but less sound effects.. foot stepss...
- biggest turn off is the xbx1 controller. The right stick is so loose take the fun out of playing.
- the added physics affect sucks...the one where the body parts rotate in circles...
- character models looks funny .. faces so clean ...
- the environment textures r weak.


I will pick it up for 20 to play single player/coop story.
 
Played 2 quick matches last night and man I am rusty. Haven't played Gears multiplayer since Gears 3 in 2012 and it shows, I was trying to play like Destiny by clicking the LS to run and hitting Y to change weapons for almost the whole first match.

Game looks great and I can't wait to buy this and play the campaign again.
 
Max_Po said:
Not positive .. there is too much coming out this fall to recommend this. I LOVED Gears of War when it was first released.


- graphics decent 1080p/60 feels superb
- shotgun aim/shooting feels lite and a bit off
- no weight to characters..may be noticing after gears 3
- gridlock. ..okay they can animate the water but still dead trees?
- I could be wrong but less sound effects.. foot stepss...
- biggest turn off is the xbx1 controller. The right stick is so loose take the fun out of playing.
- the added physics affect sucks...the one where the body parts rotate in circles...
- character models looks funny .. faces so clean ...
- the environment textures r weak.


I will pick it up for 20 to play single player/coop story.
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Speaking of the sticks, I find that the deadzone on the left stick is so tiny that my game keeps pulling me slowly to the left when I try to stand still, it makes aiming a gun annoying because it ruins the aim cone.

B3N1 said:
Footsteps are definitely there, got a handful of kills because of them. Headshot pops sound good too imo.

(Using MS Stereo Headset)
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I have my tv sound going through my pc / wireless headset and I can't hear footsteps at all apart from my own, it's a problem for sure.
 
I remember being able to hear enemies coming up behind me in Gears before, but now I feel like I can't hear them at all. Did they tone down the sound effects or something?

Edit: just started it up this morning again and my rank is 0 and I can't find matches. A problem for everyone?

Edit 2: Nevermind it's all working again and my rank is there.
 
Can someone explain where to be aiming when using the Gnasher to me please. I've always been fairly good with it but sometimes I am going up behind an enemy point blank and missing! Is it down the barrel or just left of it?
 
Aaaaah gotta love Gears! Just Torque tagged my teammate while he was in a gnasher battle from across the map and it killed the enemy and gave my teammate the kill. I love it! Felt like a weird form of teamwork and comeradery lol
 
Zeus7 said:
Can someone explain where to be aiming when using the Gnasher to me please. I've always been fairly good with it but sometimes I am going up behind an enemy point blank and missing! Is it down the barrel or just left of it?
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u want to get the target in the middle of the red circle. the bullets will not come out of the barrell like in gears 3, they come to the centre of screen.

also just a tip, when u are behind someone there is no need to risk a blindfire just pop shot, tap ur left trigger to steady the aim and then fire.
 
allan-bh said:
I'm liking the beta but I need to used to. Bullets coming from the center of the screen is strange with the gnasher.
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yeah it's really weird and need some tweaking I think.
It definitely feels different from Gears 1 when it comes to gnasher. Spread from shotgun is tight and you need to be much more acurate to gib.
Sometimes it feels like you are shooting right through your target. Especially noticable when you are trying to finish off downed player.
Maybe it was only way to bring back longer shotgun fights because without Gears 1 lag and shotgun that strong it would be one shot and over.
I would definitely like to test shotgun that is stronger but with some bigger damage drop over distance and bigger spread.

I also hate the fact that I can't smash heads of downed player with B button like in Gears 1 and that when I shoot dbno players there is no gib.
Also I am really not a fan of the loud stomping. I would like to see armor noices and locusts rustling back from Gears 1.
 
OrangeOak said:
around 50 to Europe on my shitty country connection in poland
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Iv'e got 75 in Europe from southern Spain other games like Titanfall have been much better. I still haven't got in a match on Gears so have no idea how much of a problem it will be. I miss my UK connection, I have it set to offer really low ping. ;[

One thing I'll say the host advantage and hit detection delay on the original Gears 1 drove me fucking nuts.
 
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