Gears Ultimate Beta Access

Kajiba said:
Quick question

Can I invite friends to play together in a group? Don't see the option anywhere.
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Funny story...

So last night, my friend wanted to play with me, so we tried inviting from party, joining on each other in a game, and other things that would make sense, but to no avail. Then we decided to click on the game type at the same time to see if we would be partied up together. Nothing. We tried this several times and got no results.

Then we had an epiphany. Hitting the Y button allows you to change the servers that you play on, so we decided to try a different region - rather, a region with less people. Brazil ended up having the best ping (~55ms), so we did our little "press the button at the same time trick", and BOOM! Same game....... but on different teams.

Even in failure, we knew we were onto something, so we kept trying. And trying. And trying some more. Twenty minutes, a trip to the Japan servers (which apparently are not operational), and we were about to give up and just play on our own. But Rio called to us once more, and we did Brazil one more time. We got into the same game on different teams, but played anyway. Had loads of fun killing each other for several games..... until my controller died and my profile signed out for no apparent reason.

Undeterred, we tried again. On our third attempt in that series (probably fiftieth or sixtieth overall), we were at the Finding Players screen and we both had a good feeling... like when you shoot a basketball and it flips off of the tips of your fingers and you know that something that felt so right was going to work out the way you wanted it to. But it didn't.

Then we tried again and it worked. We played for a couple of hours and got wrecked by a couple of Brazilians who were way above our paygrade. Loved it anyway.

tl;dr Try Brazil Servers
 
Anyone else have a problem with redeeming the beta code? I registered through the website yesterday and eventually received the beta code in my messages, it downloaded something for a quick second and that was it. There is nothing in my download list or my games list.
 
Man it takes a while for Gears to click but when it does its so good.


Best part about my small playsesh last night? I ended up playing a bunch of games with 3 other completley random people.... and they all had mics. It was like I was back in 2006/2007 when people actually talked online to each other.

And when you're dead and the enemy is dead you can talk to each other. You can also talk in the post and pre game lobbies. Some friendly trash talk but mostly laughter. It was so refreshing.
 
Tawpgun said:
And when you're dead and the enemy is dead you can talk to each other. You can also talk in the post and pre game lobbies. Some friendly trash talk but mostly laughter. It was so refreshing.
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both teams chatting watching the last men standing was always my favourite part
 
Huge fan of gears 1 and 3. I played 3 nonstop until oct of last year huge huge fan of both. Played the beta yesterday and most of the stuff is already mentioned but thought I'd mention my experience.



  • Like everyone said the shotgun coming from the center is a huge change for Gears3 players.
  • Characters feel slow after coming from 3. I understand its a Gears1 remake. I changed my look and aim settings to max and aiming and turn speed is still god awful. This needs a desperate boost.
  • My biggest complaint overall is the sound. There is barely any surround sound. I run regular 5.1 surround sound speakers and gears 3 had amazing footstep noise and positioning. Every game has good sound but this. The sound dept needs to fix this asap. I have to crank up the volume to ridiculous levels to even hear any footsteps. Also other general sounds like bodies going into cover or sliding to cover, weapon pickups and grenade tosses are barely noticeable. This is huge deal breaker for me. I cannot play pvp games without good surround sound anymore.
  • Grenade timers seem too long after throwing them. I don't remember the timers for grenades being so long, maybe I'm wrong someone please verify.
  • I miss holding X right before picking up a weapon. Hate that you have to stop, hit x and then move. Ruins the flow of the game but again this is a remake of Gears 1 so I guess its normal. Still annoying though.

. After the mess that was Judgement and MCC (I know, different devs) I'm very skeptical with these kinds of releases. Although this looks pretty decent from the beta. A few fixes and it'll be a great remake for sure. Networking code is light years beyond what gears1 originally was, thanks to dedicated servers. Would I pay $60 for this? At this point in time it gets a big NO. This will be a wait for the sale game and I have a feeling it's gonna drop really quick as oct/nov rolls around. $40 maybe but $60 is too much. If the surround sound issue isn't taken care of that would really kill it for me.
 
^ hopefully the devs read GAF; great feedback in this thread!

Game looks great, I just hope it doesn't cost a full $60, considering the similar MCC included 4 remastered games for $60.
 
Just so everyone knows, you need TWO Codes. One to DOWNLOAD the Beta, and another to UNLOCK the Beta. So if you have "two" don't give them away, you need them both.
 
Grenades trigger once they come to a halt, if your grenade bounces all over the place it takes ages before it blows up, plenty of time to run away from them.

There's so many little changes they did to gears 3 which made things so much better, going back to gears 1 multiplayer is really hard.

This game is as much as an ultimate edition as someone replacing the textures and removing the gore and sound effects, but that might all be a beta issue and be fixed in the final game.
 
vort3x said:
Huge fan of gears 1 and 3. I played 3 nonstop until oct of last year huge huge fan of both. Played the beta yesterday and most of the stuff is already mentioned but thought I'd mention my experience.



  • Like everyone said the shotgun coming from the center is a huge change for Gears3 players.
  • Characters feel slow after coming from 3. I understand its a Gears1 remake. I changed my look and aim settings to max and aiming and turn speed is still god awful. This needs a desperate boost.
  • My biggest complaint overall is the sound. There is barely any surround sound. I run regular 5.1 surround sound speakers and gears 3 had amazing footstep noise and positioning. Every game has good sound but this. The sound dept needs to fix this asap. I have to crank up the volume to ridiculous levels to even hear any footsteps. Also other general sounds like bodies going into cover or sliding to cover, weapon pickups and grenade tosses are barely noticeable. This is huge deal breaker for me. I cannot play pvp games without good surround sound anymore.
  • Grenade timers seem too long after throwing them. I don't remember the timers for grenades being so long, maybe I'm wrong someone please verify.
  • I miss holding X right before picking up a weapon. Hate that you have to stop, hit x and then move. Ruins the flow of the game but again this is a remake of Gears 1 so I guess its normal. Still annoying though.

. After the mess that was Judgement and MCC (I know, different devs) I'm very skeptical with these kinds of releases. Although this looks pretty decent from the beta. A few fixes and it'll be a great remake for sure. Networking code is light years beyond what gears1 originally was, thanks to dedicated servers. Would I pay $60 for this? At this point in time it gets a big NO. This will be a wait for the sale game and I have a feeling it's gonna drop really quick as oct/nov rolls around. $40 maybe but $60 is too much. If the surround sound issue isn't taken care of that would really kill it for me.
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It's $40.
 
It's extremely difficult to play Gears 3 after playing this and vice versa.
And also the aiming, especially sniper aim sensitivity in UE is fucked, it's way too slow compared to Gears 1.
 
nOoblet16 said:
It's extremely difficult to play Gears 3 after playing this and vice versa. The aiming, especially sniper aim sensitivity in UE is fucked though, it's way too slow compared to Gears 1.
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Agreed x100. Sensitivity is definitely off. Glad to see others with the same issue.
 
vort3x said:
Huge fan of gears 1 and 3. I played 3 nonstop until oct of last year huge huge fan of both. Played the beta yesterday and most of the stuff is already mentioned but thought I'd mention my experience.



  • Like everyone said the shotgun coming from the center is a huge change for Gears3 players.
  • Characters feel slow after coming from 3. I understand its a Gears1 remake. I changed my look and aim settings to max and aiming and turn speed is still god awful. This needs a desperate boost.
  • My biggest complaint overall is the sound. There is barely any surround sound. I run regular 5.1 surround sound speakers and gears 3 had amazing footstep noise and positioning. Every game has good sound but this. The sound dept needs to fix this asap. I have to crank up the volume to ridiculous levels to even hear any footsteps. Also other general sounds like bodies going into cover or sliding to cover, weapon pickups and grenade tosses are barely noticeable. This is huge deal breaker for me. I cannot play pvp games without good surround sound anymore.
  • Grenade timers seem too long after throwing them. I don't remember the timers for grenades being so long, maybe I'm wrong someone please verify.
  • I miss holding X right before picking up a weapon. Hate that you have to stop, hit x and then move. Ruins the flow of the game but again this is a remake of Gears 1 so I guess its normal. Still annoying though.

. After the mess that was Judgement and MCC (I know, different devs) I'm very skeptical with these kinds of releases. Although this looks pretty decent from the beta. A few fixes and it'll be a great remake for sure. Networking code is light years beyond what gears1 originally was, thanks to dedicated servers. Would I pay $60 for this? At this point in time it gets a big NO. This will be a wait for the sale game and I have a feeling it's gonna drop really quick as oct/nov rolls around. $40 maybe but $60 is too much. If the surround sound issue isn't taken care of that would really kill it for me.
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You make very good points. ESPECIALLY about the sound! They NEED to fix that!
 
Ugh, they sent my like 5 separate codes. Redeemed one of the messages and I have been getting you are not authorized to play the Beta since yesterday. Fuck. Any fix for this?
 
vort3x said:
Huge fan of gears 1 and 3. I played 3 nonstop until oct of last year huge huge fan of both. Played the beta yesterday and most of the stuff is already mentioned but thought I'd mention my experience.



  • Like everyone said the shotgun coming from the center is a huge change for Gears3 players.
  • Characters feel slow after coming from 3. I understand its a Gears1 remake. I changed my look and aim settings to max and aiming and turn speed is still god awful. This needs a desperate boost.
  • My biggest complaint overall is the sound. There is barely any surround sound. I run regular 5.1 surround sound speakers and gears 3 had amazing footstep noise and positioning. Every game has good sound but this. The sound dept needs to fix this asap. I have to crank up the volume to ridiculous levels to even hear any footsteps. Also other general sounds like bodies going into cover or sliding to cover, weapon pickups and grenade tosses are barely noticeable. This is huge deal breaker for me. I cannot play pvp games without good surround sound anymore.
  • Grenade timers seem too long after throwing them. I don't remember the timers for grenades being so long, maybe I'm wrong someone please verify.
  • I miss holding X right before picking up a weapon. Hate that you have to stop, hit x and then move. Ruins the flow of the game but again this is a remake of Gears 1 so I guess its normal. Still annoying though.

. After the mess that was Judgement and MCC (I know, different devs) I'm very skeptical with these kinds of releases. Although this looks pretty decent from the beta. A few fixes and it'll be a great remake for sure. Networking code is light years beyond what gears1 originally was, thanks to dedicated servers. Would I pay $60 for this? At this point in time it gets a big NO. This will be a wait for the sale game and I have a feeling it's gonna drop really quick as oct/nov rolls around. $40 maybe but $60 is too much. If the surround sound issue isn't taken care of that would really kill it for me.
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seriously i definitely agree with these 2 points.

i was playing wondering what was off the characters move slow compared to gears 3 and stopping to pick up weapons leave you extremely open.
 
Ballistik said:
War Machine has been added to the beta, and active reloads have been turned off.
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This confirms, they are trying out new combinations.
We need higher aim speed, bullets from guns, no 2Piecing, some delay between melee, more visual and audio feedback from shots and shorter grenade detonation time.
Removal of perfect active reloads would mean no one hot downing which is great but I hope Epic does not take it as removal of the entire perfect active reload feature itself.

I'll actually confess something, I like the perfect active reload entirely because of the very beefy and explosive sound effect you get rather than the actual damage boost (it's nice to rev up torque bow faster and shoot boltok faster though), the sound effect you get from merely doing a normal active reload for a speed reload is very unsatisfactory and sounds like a muffled fart !
 
Ballistik said:
War Machine has been added to the beta, and active reloads have been turned off.
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YESSSSS
 
nOoblet16 said:
This confirms, they are trying out new combinations.
We need higher aim speed, bullets from guns, no 2Piecing, some delay between melee, more visual and audio feedback from shots and shorter grenade detonation time.
Removal of perfect active reloads would mean no one hot downing which is great but I hope Epic does not take it as removal of the entire perfect active reload feature itself.

I'll actually confess something, I like the perfect active reload entirely because of the very beefy and explosive sound effect you get rather than the actual damage boost (it's nice to rev up torque bow faster and shoot boltok faster though), the sound effect you get from merely doing a normal active reload for a speed reload is very unsatisfactory and sounds like a muffled fart !
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They need only remove Perfect Active Downing from the Longshot and keep the rest. Just make the bullet larger for the Longshot like in 2 & 3 when nailing a Perfect Active Reload.
 
Is KOH borked for anyone, keeps throwing me into TDM even when the scoreboard clearly says king of the hill. (hate TDM, just becomes a hide with torque bow/longshot game)

hope the make movement less stiff, people shit on 3 but the player movement was fluid and you didn't get stuck on walls.
 
jailbird20022 said:
Is KOH borked for anyone, keeps throwing me into TDM even when the scoreboard clearly says king of the hill. (hate TDM, just becomes a hide with torque bow/longshot game)

hope the make movement less stiff, people shit on 3 but the player movement was fluid and you didn't get stuck on walls.
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It should be fixed now. Should...
 
Not liking War Machine for some reason. Feels too congested and closed off now. I know the layout is identical but something about the design feels off.
 
So I get four codes, redeem one through the console, download this beta and what am I greeted with?

MWpe0WO.png


Seriously? Fuck you, MS. Stupid asshats whoever came up with this method to run a beta. Making me waste time downloading this piece of shit and then you pull this assery?
 
Miles Quaritch said:
So I get four codes, redeem one through the console, download this beta and what am I greeted with?

MWpe0WO.png


Seriously? Fuck you, MS. Stupid asshats whoever came up with this method to run a beta. Making me waste time downloading this piece of shit and then you pull this assery?
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Theres two codes from what I noticed.

One allows you to download the beta and then the other gives you the Beta pass.

Check your other codes Miles to see if one of them says its the Beta Pass.

Fucking weird way of doing it.
 
LQX said:
Ugh, they sent my like 5 separate codes. Redeemed one of the messages and I have been getting you are not authorized to play the Beta since yesterday. Fuck. Any fix for this?
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Hey LQX,
try navigating to the game in your games list, pressing menu, then viewing all your installed items (forget what the exact command is called). Look for your access key, delete it, re-install (you may have to exit then re-enter after deleting for it to show up), and possibly rebooting your kit.

It worked fine for me after I did that.
 
i miss active reloads!! haha never thought id say it. active downing can fuck off but active reload are useful in a 3 vs 1 scenario.

honestly i think they should keep true to the original as much as possible but remove glitches and stupid stuff like active downing. gears 4 is coming out next year anyway
 
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