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I just sent my extra to Moshe, so he should be taken care of.

alright, sent mine to blackdragon then

O.o Sweetness. Fixes my boredom issue lol. Thanks

Dum question, but do you know if the Buddy Tokens are Exclusive to the pre-order/bulletstorm codes?

Did like 14 Matches And then I got annoyed real fast. Turned back into Shotgun kills only match after awhile.. where it seemed like mine did almost no Damage. Shoot em 4 times almost point blank. Roll backwards to reload they 2 shot me.. So annoying. Saw Off is fun to use though.

Eh, I know what you mean. Ive killed people plenty of times 1 shot with Gnasher, and Ive had plenty of times they should have died from a hit, or 4, and they didnt.

If you're smart, you or someone on your team sits back with a Hammerburst (whoever has a quick trigger finger) and mows them down while they run up for their cheap sawed off kill. Quite a few times I have downed an entire rushing team with my Hammerburst, in a matter of seconds. Its a mix of Gears 1 and 2. So while you can do shotgun battles, those ranged weps do wreck some havoc.

Also marking people, Aim + push in Left Thumbstick, will help keep them from hiding behind a corner as you run up to sawed off your face.

you probably weren't on servers, i heard they were/are down. there's a noticable difference between peer2peer and dedicated. my shotgun works perfect 90% of shots when i'm on servers, but on p2p like any gears game it gets random and a little frustrating. at that point i either give up and play another game for a bit or just adjust my play to a more conservative rifle game to not put myself into position to get bullshitted as much.

they buffed the lancer which i'm a little disappointed about, i felt like it was the perfect AR and i wish they would have adjusted the HB/retro to be a little more like it instead.

Can't wait for the weekend now =D

Thanks Hito

Yea it's split between em. I have only rage quit once though and quit another at the start cuz my team all had very negative scores and the enemy team had 2 ppl with almost 10 and no deaths.. quit out before I took a bots place. Kinda sucks cuz you would think they'd fix the Bullet lag on p2p like most Modern Shooters. Feels like I'm playing Rainbow Six Vegas 2 again sometimes. My k/d is still around 2 or 3 though. It was 4.8 at the highest when I had like 146 kills. Since then it seems like I just get shat on. I still have only like 2 or 3 losses though and have fun 90% of the time. I wish the Retro would be a little steadier though in terms of bloom out to max after like 4 or 5 bullets.

Ugh. I don't know what the deal is, but it keeps putting me in matches where i am the only Non-bot on my team against a team full of players. Starting to piss me off. Half the time they get no more than 2 kills total.. Impossible to win at all anymore.. My win/loss went from 17-2 to 18-9 today. Fucking Sad.. And that Win was only cuz i got like 20+ kills. When more players join into a match, they are join the enemy team after someone leaves and not my team. What the fuck. Honestly, I have fun most of the time, but when I get bullshit on, it's ALL match long, or not at all.

Well it's only been annoying me so far. I'm sure everyone has it but I never seem to 1hit a guy from the same distant I get 1hitted from. With that sawnoff shotty >.< Stuff like that pisses me off.

Yea I have to re-add all my friends. My entire friends list got deleted...

Gears though I decided since it's Beta it's best to experiement with different gameplay strategies. My k/d was above 2 for the time I was playing it by myself, but then I let my friend play it while he was over and dropped it to 1.5. I think now it's even lower lol. Got the Gold Plated Retro skin though so I gotta get 100 kills with it for the final game.


EDIT: Umm somehow my friend was playing and the Locust and Humans were on the same team. He was a Savage and Cole Train was on his Team.

Deleting this. I am so tired of being put with 4 Bots against 5 people that are Not in a party. One person on their team leaves, next person that joins is with them. Happens 90% of the time. I get 2 shotted with Gnasher from 40 feet away. Bullshit. I down 2 enemies and they glitch res each other and kill me. Bullshit. I'm behind cover and someone is trying to get to me so I jump over it to get the stun before they can stun me, they blast me while they are stunned. Before I can regain my composure. Digger launcher no where near me and I even roll. Hits me everytime. I use it, see an explosion underneath an enemy. He lives. Someone Roadie Runs half-way across the map and I unload my entire lancer forcing a reload. Doesn't even get downed. That's while someone else was shooting him as well. Happens more than one.
I'm shooting someone with my Gnasher point blank 2twice and then melee. No Down, but they turn and one-shot me with theirs. There was even blood spurting and they were completely inside my reticle.
Bottom Line. Good Game. Full of Campy Pricks that play like a bitch hording power weapons and can't get a kill with anything other than ones hot kill weapons.
I have literally more than over twice as many deaths as I do downs. Means I get one shotted more than 50% of the time when this games Primary weapon is an automatic weapon that doesn't one shot. Final Game will be way worse and full of even more Full Party Try hard pricks. And by Try hard, I mean try hard to piss people off, not have fun.

Were you playing Ranked? Sounds like Public where they dont fill the game to play. Yea, its a beta. You're gonna have imbalanced things in the game. I dont have many problems dodging the digger, if im aware of it coming and dont get caught off guard of course.

I can one hit pretty often with the Gnasher, possibly Im just used to using it. It doesnt shock me you have so many deaths over downs, when a primary option is a sawed off. Thats all many people use.

Guess its good you can know now not to buy the game.

I personally throughly enjoyed the beta, even with how cheap the sawed off and urban lancer could be at times. Even when I should have killed someone with a gnasher multiple times by doing severally direct hits. Even when my digger explosion wouldnt kill someone they direct hit. Its a beta, and the point is for them to gather info on the game and tweak it.

I also don't get the whole "try hard" label people throw around lately. If Im doing well while playing, and having fun i can only assume the person on the other end of my barrel several times through the game would be pissed. And the people who tried to kill me but didnt because I killed them would be pissed. Im having fun, while they get pissed being on the other end of it. How do you on the other team help the people against you have fun. If they arent doing well, should i put my gun down at the spawn and run out to try and hug the enemy while they shoot me? And that way they can feel good and have fun too?

Anywho, now that its over, ill take some time putting together some more videos of gameplay for people to checkout who didnt get to play. And those who did that miss it

i enjoyed the beta overall. weeks 1-3 especially were pretty much amazing to me. on p2p, like any other gears game, things can get a bit odd and spongy but a good player with good movement doesn't get affected near as much in my opinion.

by week 4 i was pretty tired of the retro lancer hipfire and the sawed off to say the least however. having played all the maps and gametypes the beta had to offer, i played very sparingly only with friends and stuck to nba 2k11 and gears of war 2 with any other free time i may have had. to me, the sawed off isn't overpowered, it just ruins what close quarters gears of war has ALWAYS been about and what has made the game successful in the past and makes for boring/frustrating gameplay.

the logic behind the weapon has been said by rod himself to be "for the new players to gears of war" and to me that's beyond flawed. i could probably go on a tangent 20 paragraphs long about these weapons but anyone who played a decent amount of games of the beta and appreciated gears 1 and 2 for what they were knows what's up.

what worries me a little is epic seems to have a huge ego about these sort of things, so i'm not sure if the weapons will be as balanced as they could be when the game comes out but i'm pretty certain both will be receiving tweaks of some sort. sadly, if they don't get overhauled i will be forced to play competitive customs almost exclusively to have fun with this game. gnasher + lancer = total <3

really though, that negative part aside, i love a lot of what they've done. the main thing being the increased character movement speed and just the general feel of the movement now is really smooth and makes for addictive gameplay.

overall i'm glad they didn't release the game in april as planned and instead put out a beta. hopefully they will take what the community has to say and the final product won't need 6 title updates.

if there's an old school playlist in the final game and they don't make too many drastic tweaks, gears of war 3 won't be leaving my xbox for a looong time.

I'm a Dumb ass noob. As much as I've played Gears, I didn't know Active increased your damage for a short time.. WTF. lol I felt like a complete Idiot. I never played Gears 2 on my own gt though cuz I just got live last year for myself, but my brother had it awhile.

Sawed off is Too Easy to get a kill close quarters hip fire. I miss 1/10 of the time only with hip. That's too Nooby. You get those people that are just out of Gnasher oneshot range and they roll and Sawed off blast you.

Last day I played with some pretty cool people in a full party for like 6 hours. Made a huge difference in the gameplay when you have coordination and teamwork, especially in Gears.

Retro is awesome for me, cuz I get a huge ego boost when I impale someone. It just looks so Epic lol. Although many times I have hit someone standing pretty much still and I just downed em. Idk why that happened.

Overall, Great Game! But just not my best shooter by a long shot. That's my fault, not the games lol.

My new video, put some more work in the editing this time around. I also had some really great footage to add in as well which always helps. Piecing it together really made me miss the beta already though. September is a long way away

The beta ended? :/ Damn

Yep. Those codes were to let any friends play the last week of it.

It seemed soooo short. I am fer sure gonna have to get this now though. Last day of Beta = Win for me.

Thought id mention, anyone waiting on this game and dieing to play, seems like a decent amount of people play Gears 1 still. Been pretty fun, and its fast paced like 3 will be.

Dude, you are sick.

I dont know if thats sarcasm or not lol, but thanks? Not sure what i did

what? D: I was serious, I love the way you play, it's awesome

lol oh the videos haha. I was lost, and very sleep deprived from just getting done wrapping up a couple big projects for class this week. Well thanks, I really appreciate it

I noticed I have 75gb or so of videos from the Beta, so Im putting them up on my new channel on youtube. Currently just playthroughs of full matches, will be doing commentary over them very soon.

Links on First comment or you can go here.

thanking my lucky stars i'm not excited for this game as much as i should be. i was wondering what i'd do with my life for the 4 months i had to wait after playing the beta, even with its flaws.

i'm sure it will hit me like everything else a few days before. only problem is my friend wants to get into wingman.. :| it's fun every once in a while but to me it's not and never will be true gears. so i guess i have 2 months to convince him otherwise.

on another note, have they released any changes they made to the gameplay post-beta? or any large number of statistics regarding the beta? i haven't been lurking the forums much since may, but it'd be pretty disappointing if i had to wait until launch to figure out what they changed. it'd be even more disappointing if i then found out the retro lancer is still an overpowered disgrace to the game.

ps. hito, love the sunny gif. makes me want to go watch that episode.

haha yea, I just love the show and Charlie specifically. Thought id show it.

I havent heard exact tweaks yet so I cant say what. They have gone over how Horde will be and stuff like that, all the new shit which sounds amazing.

I have faith they'll change the retro some. It will still be a deadly mid-close range wep im sure, but its so ugly in blind fire around a corner it would down me faster then a shotgun sometimes lol. I hope they do sometin with sawed off, maybe lower the distance it shoots. It was an auto down or it would blow through 3 people in front of you lol.

I worked strategies to deal with it, had plenty of matches with 4 of 5 people on a team usin sawed off and retro. Hammerburst them from a distance drops them like a sack of shit. I have to go through all my gameplay but I dont think I have this one clip. You'd think I had a mulcher the way I dropped an entire team to their knees as they run at me with my hammerburst and actives. it was crazy. as for sawed off, avoid running against corners, and just be more cautious. Just tricky when they run away as it reloads if they miss. Get used to the time it takes to reload for them, or you get a nasty surprise when they stop running.

yeah its blind fire is what got me. the weapon to aim in and burst shoot or even aim in at someone running at you was actually really fun to use. but blindfire strafing shotgun users down from just outside of sawed off range and just inside of gnasher one hit down/gib range was ludicrously easy.

the sawed off, that's a tricky situation. i don't think it's overpowered - just annoying. once you got in the game and got a feel for how many/who was using it you could adjust play slightly accordingly. which makes sense, i also adjust my play based on what assault rifle they were using as well. i still wish it was a pickup weapon only like the different kinds of pistols but i know that won't happen. a playlist with lancer and gnasher only would be pretty cool. i remember back in may there was a vote for it on the forums and it had over a thousand supporters to only a hundred or so nay-sayers. but overall i think the sawed off not having a downing ability would make it near perfect.

one thing i was thinking about, which i hope they wouldn't do this since they didn't in gears 2 but. in non-respawn gametypes like execution/warzone/wingman, if they allow you to change your weapon(s) between rounds the game will be broken. it'd be like rock paper scissors rushing the weapons on execution and warzone specifically.

Sawed off Distance is fine. I have been so close I could melee someone and it didn't kill them, but I almost always get 1 shot from ppl that do the same. It's a matter of Aiming before firing, or firing from the hip really. It makes a bigger difference than you'd realize. I actually got the most enjoyment with it from ppl rolling into me trying to blast me and I got them first. Great feeling.

I hated going against Retro's, but I loved using it solely because of the bayonet. That thing was fun to get kills with. Retro + actives = Brutal as well. I wouldn't have em change a thing about it because it's so fun to use.

the distance on the sawed off gib is fine, but the distance on a down is.. well you shouldn't even be able to down with it since it was made as a "one and done" weapon. you're supposed to have to take a chance when you use it, if you're so far away you can down someone you can either a. run away if his teammates get there before you can get to him. or b. get to him first and have a nice lil meatshield.

a player with good movement/wallbounces can abuse the above all day every day.



^this guy sort of shows what i'm trying to put into words. his movement needs a little work, but he plays smart enough so it almost doesn't even really matter.. no effort involved which makes it not okay.

the problem with both weapons is that they're both so extremely easy to use effectively, and have such a small skill gap between the bottom and the top. then when the majority of the game starts using them it just becomes extremely stale, and even more annoying.

i mean worst case scenario they don't fix anything (which given the amount of negative feedback on the retro lancer i'd be borderline shocked if they didn't tweak the blindfire on that thing.) and i get to enjoy the beautiful game with lancers and gnashers in custom games with friends. the bayonet is cool though. i thought i'd mind it upon first seeing it, but it's really not bad. off servers you can get hooked when you're out of the way on your screen but that's lag for you.

btw; if anyone wants to get some games in me and a friend are *hopefully* going to be playing nothing but execution the first week at least to try to get high and the leaderboards. we're more of the competitive type, but with the game and the opponnents. we're not going to yell at/blame you for anything regardless. communication is a +