Gears of War 3

[ProjectPat2280]

I've tried to play Gears 1 and 2 mp in the past but I could never get the hang out it. Apparently all you had to do was roll around with the shotgun, the rifles were useless. Gears 3 however the rifles are awesome, rolling around with the shotgun will still get you kills but you'll have a tougher time now. Everything about the beta felt tight and very well polished.

Yea i agree 110%. That new retro lancer is like an anti 'roll and blast' weapon. I love it.

 

[Iceman]

They're going to weaken the retro lancer for the retail though. It's going to have a much bigger kick for hipfiring so you struggle to hit anything unless it's right on top of you.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

They're going to weaken the retro lancer for the retail though. It's going to have a much bigger kick for hipfiring so you struggle to hit anything unless it's right on top of you.

Really!? Thats lame as f**k. That rifle already had crazy recoil and to reduce its power makes NO sense. I mean its power was the only reason it was worth using as the accuracy on it was ass.

 

[Team Andino]

That's pretty stupid to reduce the power behind that weapon with the recoil being as ridiculous as it was. I guess I'll just have to lay off that weapon unless I see an easy running spear kill.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Where did you read that? They said in an interview with IGN post beta that they WEREN'T going to change the rifle balances. It was a pretty good interview. They said everyone complaining about the rifles being too powerful were pretty much rolling shotgunners who weren't used to being stopped by anything. Too many people who learnt to exploit Gears 2 feeling out of place in a balanced game.

 

[Iceman]

It was from Cliff B on a forum where game developers post & then someone posted it on the Epic Games forums. I'll try and find the link when I get home. They made a lot of changes to Gears 2 after listening to the hardcore multiplayer players on the forum and looks like they might be doing the same again. Every day during the beta there were about 15 threads complaining about the DBS & retro.

I don't use the retro myself anyway as I like having at least one medium/long range weapon & the retro is completely useless for that!

 

[BLACK-SPIDEY]

they are only tweaking the hipfire damage since you could take more than 3 players down with it very quickly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v564CdgMGQk

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Ah good. Because people complaining about DBS and Retro being 'unbalanced' are full of ****. People just equate to 'Ah, that killed me. It's overpowered!'. No, it's a gun. It kills people.

Seriously, sure the DBS can one shot you, but it is SO easy to freaking counter. Pretty much the only people who get consistently ****ed over by the DBS are people rolling into players with the gnasher so they can learn to deal with it. And people only think rifles are overpowered now because they got used to them being pretty much useless in Gears 1 and 2.

 

[Iceman]

Haha, there was at least one thread on every single weapon & grenade in the beta (except maybe inks) complaining that they were overpowered. Anytime someone dies the weapon used is overpowered, the kill is cheap or 'noob' & the other guy has host (even on dedicated servers).

 

[jacobed]

So only hipfire is being decreased, oofta that is good. I never hipfire with the retro lancer anyways. I never once felt any gun was too overpowered, the double barrel shotgun can get a bit annoying but for the most part when I die by that its my own fault for running into an area without thinking or missing my shots as a guy comes up to me. If I were to make any changes to the real game besides the spawn points it would be first you can select ribbons as your title since they show off much more impressive things that you have done and secondly I would change that the double barrel shotgun can't down you, hurt you yes but not down you. It should be an all or nothing gun.

 

[Iceman]

OK I found the thread on Epic forums. I can't remember if posting other forum links is allowed or not. If someone lets me know on that I'll post it. But for info this is the exact quote:

Hipfire kick on the retro has been changed to kick an insane amount now. Good luck hitting anything not right on top of you with it in the retail.

So only hipfire is being decreased, oofta that is good. I never hipfire with the retro lancer anyways. I never once felt any gun was too overpowered, the double barrel shotgun can get a bit annoying but for the most part when I die by that its my own fault for running into an area without thinking or missing my shots as a guy comes up to me. If I were to make any changes to the real game besides the spawn points it would be first you can select ribbons as your title since they show off much more impressive things that you have done and secondly I would change that the double barrel shotgun can't down you, hurt you yes but not down you. It should be an all or nothing gun.

But it's got a huge spread so surely it should make a difference if you're caught by the whole thing rather than just say 60% of it. If you evade a chunk of it you should be down rather than dead.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Ah good. Because people complaining about DBS and Retro being 'unbalanced' are full of ****. People just equate to 'Ah, that killed me. It's overpowered!'. No, it's a gun. It kills people.

Seriously, sure the DBS can one shot you, but it is SO easy to freaking counter. Pretty much the only people who get consistently ****ed over by the DBS are people rolling into players with the gnasher so they can learn to deal with it. And people only think rifles are overpowered now because they got used to them being pretty much useless in Gears 1 and 2.

Yea i agree dude. My buddy was one of those hardcore guys who would complain about the DBS. I thought the gun was perfect, i mean if ya missed you were screwed due to the long ass reload time.

Its like you said, if ya get killed with a weapon, its over powered.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Yeah, my mate Cappwood (the guy we played battlefield with the other day) was blaming lag within the first 3 games when he got owned with the DBS, then he blamed the gun itself, then by the second week he was using it himself and swearing by it, even being very proud about it being his most kills. People are so funny.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Yeah, my mate Cappwood (the guy we played battlefield with the other day) was blaming lag within the first 3 games when he got owned with the DBS, then he blamed the gun itself, then by the second week he was using it himself and swearing by it, even being very proud about it being his most kills. People are so funny.

LOL.

Yep i know what ya mean.

On a side note tho, dude it was hella fun playing BF the other night. So much more entertaining playing with solid teammates. You need to get up on that hardcore mode tho man, haha i cant deal with that standard stuff.

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

gosh...i cant believe i sat there playing GoW 2 the whole time beta was out...I am an idiot...I should start paying to video game release dates more often...
The new weapons sound amazing and hopefully balances the game out a lil more...GoW 2 is so iffy compared to the first multiplayer wise

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Holy s**t the new Horde mode sounds incredible.


http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/117/1174084p1.html

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Dude.... That is amazing. This game is already my most anticipated, which we all know is saying something with the incredible games coming out.... I loved the beta, but that Horde mode.... I would almost buy a game with just that. Jesus, so crazy!

 

[Iceman]

It's Horde on steroids! Reavers, Berserkers, Brumak & Lambent! Just need RAAM & Skorge thrown into the mix now

 

[TX85]

This was already going to be a f'n great B-day gift,Now pretty much it could end up being THE best b-day gift I've ever had in my 25 years.....And I've had tons of f'n great gifts!!!

 

[Iceman]

My birthday's not till August but I might have to shell out for that Gears console & Epic Edition of the game as an early present for myself t:

 

[TX85]

I hate"limited edition console designs",Only cause I think it's a burden having to go out and buy the same system again and change the HD or transfer all for an awesome skin&controller!!

I wish they just made more skins stickers for the consoles like PS3 does sometimes!

 

[Iceman]

Well transferring the content is a burden for sure (already did it for my 2nd Xbox) but in this case it will be a labour of love lol.

 

[Gotham Knight]

Someone hacked into the Bullet Storm demo and released footage from the game. Including the opening scene. Wow, people need to find something more productive to do with their time.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Wait, they got footage from Gears 3 through the Bulletstorm demo??? How does that work?

 

[Gotham Knight]

Wait, they got footage from Gears 3 through the Bulletstorm demo??? How does that work?

I don't understand that stuff at all. But apparently in the code, was an early version of Gears 3. It's the entire game, just unpolished. But I have no idea how they actually hacked into the demo.