Yea it's an issue that will persist due to the nature of how centre screen projectiles work.
Gears Ultimate Beta Access
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Yea it's an issue that will persist due to the nature of how centre screen projectiles work.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Played 4 games won them all.
Man I missed this fucking game!
Shit is buttery smooth on these servers.
Everyone playing is so bad though lol.
Man I missed this fucking game!
Shit is buttery smooth on these servers.
Everyone playing is so bad though lol.
I'm done. Fucking done. Almost threw my goddamn controller. I'm about to have a stroke and delete this shit off my Xbox One.
How on Earth did the developers at The Colation think, even for one second, that having active reloads and not allowing you to party up with friends was a good idea for a public beta test? Please, tell me. Someone explain this shit to me.
Nothing but active downs with snipe, one and two shot kills with the Gnasher from 20 feet away. Oh, and of course, awful, brain dead, completely, utterly stupid and god awful teammates. What is this? 98% of the game is brilliant and totally awesome, but the 2% that sucks, REALLY REALLY REALLY fucking sucks and could be easily fixed. It's so infuriating.
Gonna take a break and get some food. But holy shit am I fuming. Never has a game got me so mad, and I've played Gears since 2006.
How on Earth did the developers at The Colation think, even for one second, that having active reloads and not allowing you to party up with friends was a good idea for a public beta test? Please, tell me. Someone explain this shit to me.
Nothing but active downs with snipe, one and two shot kills with the Gnasher from 20 feet away. Oh, and of course, awful, brain dead, completely, utterly stupid and god awful teammates. What is this? 98% of the game is brilliant and totally awesome, but the 2% that sucks, REALLY REALLY REALLY fucking sucks and could be easily fixed. It's so infuriating.
Gonna take a break and get some food. But holy shit am I fuming. Never has a game got me so mad, and I've played Gears since 2006.
lol the shotgun rage is back!
Active reload is fine, it brings about some interesting mechanics for other weapons like Torque Bow (active reload meant faster rev and some AoE), Boomshot (larger blast area), Boltok (faster shooting)...etc etc. I disliked that they took it out of Gears Judgement (but that was a crap game anyway); however, one shot downing due to active reload isn't especially with the sniper.
If you have played Gears since 2006 then you know active reload = instant downs with the Sniper. It isn't new to this game.
Sure. I'll watch a bit.
Breathe in...breathe out...breathe in...breathe out.
Yes let the hate flow through you! I haven't gotten this amped about MP in years
A bug I keep seeing is the enemy teleporting when you down them. I think it happens when you down someone at the moment they're about to roll or run (not sure which it is, haven't seen it enough), they get downed a couple of feet of where they actually were when you were shooting them.
OdysseusVA
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Diablohead
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in a 3rd person shooter you would presume the bullets are spawning at the tip of the gun and then shooting off, instead in this version of gears the bullets spawn where the crosshair it like a first person game.
This ruins very close shotgun battles because even though your character is in their face you are really shooting over them.
The purists would rage if the game changed!
Yes, but then you have the fact that this game isn't really pure in the first place as it has TDM, omnidirectional input, player marking, glowing players (when at distance) etc etc.
OdysseusVA
Banned
Two codes
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Both state they're for "Full Access" so send complaints to MS if it doesn't work.
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Both state they're for "Full Access" so send complaints to MS if it doesn't work.
Is it ever. It isn't Gears without something totally dumb or stupid going on.
Actives make no sense. You shouldn't be rewarded with extra damage just for reloading. Even worse when people pre active from spawn. The idea that purposefully wasting ammo in order to do more damage is absurd. People have wanted it out of the game for ages.
Of course I know. It doesn't make it any less frustrating. I, and many people had hoped that in a remastered, refined and improved version of our beloved Gears 1 would have them taken out.
If I was a smoker I'd probably year through a pack right now
I'm usually really calm but this crap this afternoon put me over the edge
JimiNutz
Banned
Didn't some players tape a makeshift crosshair on their tv screens back in the day to help with the very close quarters shotgun battles?
I played about 5 hours today and I still think Gears 1 is easily the best Gears multilayer. Hope Gears 4 MP is more like this and less like 2 or 3.
Streaming the beta now: http://www.twitch.tv/directfeedgames/
TurtleSnatcher
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Pretty sure they said active reload is something you can turn on and off in the modes but currently it is on for the past two days testing. I may be wrong though.
Gears is back!
Go on XBL right now. Go in a lobby and ask Gears 1 fans what they think about actives. You'll get some clown well love to abuse the snipe or pre active out of spawn, but the vast majority will say they are dumb
This is true. It was confirmed. But right now...maaaaaan.....:/
Hibiki Kurosawa
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I got my first and second code rapid fire style just before work. When I get home? Gears time!
The pre active thing was more or less countered with the low ammo count for shotguns in Gears 3, it really felt alright in Gears 3. Active downing is the only thing that bugs me on top of the damage boost shotgun gets in Gears 1, I was ok with it in sequels.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Lmao
This.
Sounds like your not cut out for hardcore gears 1 buddy.
And im not trolling or trying to be an ass. But active downs with the longshot were a main feature of the game, like it or lump it.
It would be like the Magnum in Halo CE in MCC being changed to a 7 headshot kill.
It's the way it was, it's the way it should be.
Or how about not at all
blue_phazon
Member
Wait...wasn't active reload in every gears game?? (I only played the first 2)
DeadlyParasite
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A good chuckle at all the people who never played Gears 1 multiplayer raging. I'm glad they didn't screw with the base gameplay, even if I'm getting destroyed it's a blast and feels just like yesterday. I missed Colonel Hoffman yelling at me after every match.
Gears has always had a very large skill gap, it's why I consider it to be Unreal Tournament of TPS. You don't become good without failing for a long time haha
Yes it was in 1, 2, and 3, but Gears 1 had the problem where if you nailed the active reload with your sniper, you can down someone (and practically guarantee the kill) by just landing a body shot.
Main feature? What...
Overwhelming majority of people would agree. GAF isn't really full of that many Gears fans, let alone Gears 1 fans. Active downs are stupid and plain cheap. So are double melees and two piecing. There ate folks who even hate Lancers and hated aiming. I don't go that far. It's "in the game" but that doesn't excuse it from being shitty and utterly obnoxious.
I deal with most of the time bit in this much excess drives me up a wall. It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't getting downed from half a mile away and had a squad that had some idea as to how to play.
I hate losing games of king of the hill because my teammates run as far away from the circle as possible and never protect the special weapons. I'm only 1 person. I can kill enough in TDM to make up for the garbage, but I'm sick of playing MP games where people can't follow the simplest objective (stand in a circle and keep others out). It's a game you play in elementary school during lunch time. Hopefully the party system is fixed in time for the release in August. If not MCC #2.
In terms of gameplay most of the stuff felt like old again today. Still getting used to the old spiderman walls and I always have to hit X a second time picking up weapons because of bad habits from new games. I wish the recording stuff was working for when I did back to back no scopes with the sniper on these 2 bums.
Playing this game makes me hope they put gears 3 on BC soon since the disk is sitting on my shelf. I hope they figure out a way to get legacy dlc onto the xbox one as well.
In terms of gameplay most of the stuff felt like old again today. Still getting used to the old spiderman walls and I always have to hit X a second time picking up weapons because of bad habits from new games. I wish the recording stuff was working for when I did back to back no scopes with the sniper on these 2 bums.
Playing this game makes me hope they put gears 3 on BC soon since the disk is sitting on my shelf. I hope they figure out a way to get legacy dlc onto the xbox one as well.
I was raging last night, but still had fun. Half my gnasher shots didn't hit (to me) and my team mates were awful. Negative kdr and winning percentage. But it was Gears and I loved it. We all loved it back in the day.
Scully Scully Scoo
Member
im done with the game, ill play a few matches here and there but its just too hard to go back to this after gears3. way too clunky
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I got my email after the Xbox Conference and couldn't redeem my code. Now I've done that it's saying I can't play because I'm not authorized.
What?
Edit: Just looked at first post. I'm fucking dumb.
What?
Edit: Just looked at first post. I'm fucking dumb.
They changed the Gnasher spread so that now it's really narrow, so if you manage to hit someone, more bullets are likely to make contact, thus it does ridiculous damage. The narrow spread is much smaller than the reticle and the general area the spread was in Gears 1. After playing that game for 9 years, you have an engrained habit and idea as to how and where to shoot. It's totally different now. Still center screen but different. So you either miss horribly, or down or kill fools from long distances and fewer shots than in the original. It's fucked
Go online now and ask. Both friends, randoms and people on the Gears forums are going nuts about this. It needs to be fixed. Just spread out each bullet a bit more. That's it
Go online now and ask. Both friends, randoms and people on the Gears forums are going nuts about this. It needs to be fixed. Just spread out each bullet a bit more. That's it
Diablohead
Member
Oh another thing I noticed, you can't use the snub pistol to headshot a downed enemy or get a headshot in general, the snub should be blowing their heads off.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Active reloads were a relatively new idea back then. It was one of the "word of mouth" things people mentioned when talking about the game.
People are going to complain about everything eventually. Active downs were part of Gears 1 and therefore I believe they should stay in the game.
It does suck getting downed by a Sniper, but so does getting your head blown off from what seems like miles away due to a shotgun shot.
The intensity and huge skill gap are what made me and judging by a few posters in this thread love Gears of War.
I think you're supposed to have 2 codes. OP has more on this.
Iced Arcade
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Actually forgot how good gears was.
DarthWalden
Banned
Did the buff the Lancer damage for this game?
I don't remember being able to down anyone with the Lancer in gears 1 back in the day but it's pretty decent now.
I fucking hate the gnasherror.
I don't remember being able to down anyone with the Lancer in gears 1 back in the day but it's pretty decent now.
I fucking hate the gnasherror.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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I think this may be because the game now rubs on dedicated servers and that larger spread was to compensate for lag on p2p servers back when.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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I think this may be another side effect of dedicated servers.
Remember how beastly the lancer was when you were host back in the day?