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Gears of War 3: DLC #3: Fenix Rising Next Week, Compounding Horde Reward Weekend!

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    elliotw2 wrote:
    That's mostly correct. When a human player joins, it will always put you as Marcus on COG or Drone on Locust, unless your character is open. It does it mostly to prevent loading in the middle of a match, since the characters are large enough that it would stutter everyone if it had to load in your preferred skin. It always loads Marcus/Drone though, in case this does happen.

    Whats funny is it does this even for bots. Like if you leave during a match it'll change the name of your character to the proper skin name, but show the one default one.

    And you don't have to unlock the executions in multi to see them, you can do them all in single player. And torque bow is probably the nastiest by far.

    Preacher on
  • elliotw2elliotw2 Registered User
    Nocren wrote:
    I'm not clicking that video since I wanna earn them myself, but man... Torque bow is cruel... Longshot/Gnasher are kinda meh though

    Also, wonder if the RLancer was suppose to be a beheading but then they changed it for the overseas markets.

    It's weird, but sometimes the Retro's execution beheads sometimes. I don't know what causes it, but I remember getting it more than once.

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  • DangerousDangerous Registered User regular
    Hurrgh this game is so frustrating sometimes. Feels like I'm getting pissed off way more often in versus MP than I am having fun. Which is weird because I actually really enjoyed the beta. I wonder if it has something to do with dedicated servers vs matchmaking. Just feels like I can never down people as fast as they down me (even aiming at their head).

    Also feels like it does a piss-poor job of balancing teams. The moron team (My team) constantly gets steamrolled by the jesus-with-a-shotgun team.

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  • TridentTrident Registered User
    elliotw2 wrote:
    Nocren wrote:
    I'm not clicking that video since I wanna earn them myself, but man... Torque bow is cruel... Longshot/Gnasher are kinda meh though

    Also, wonder if the RLancer was suppose to be a beheading but then they changed it for the overseas markets.

    It's weird, but sometimes the Retro's execution beheads sometimes. I don't know what causes it, but I remember getting it more than once.

    Haven't seen it but I was kinda surprised when it didn't happen the first time I executed a drone with it. Definitely seems like that is what the intended effect should have been.

    Still fucking awesome.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    The game balances well if everyone is a random schlub. But when you are playing a party of people it won't move those people to seperate teams (nor should it really).

  • OmnomnomPancakeOmnomnomPancake Registered User regular
    If you play a group of pre-planned men you will be fucked, vigorously.

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  • DangerousDangerous Registered User regular
    The worst is playing team DM when the other side has all their spawns depleted and your team has like 5 left. Then instead of sticking together to hunt them down, your team all runs in one by one and gets shotgunned in the face and you lose the match.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Dangerous wrote:
    The worst is playing team DM when the other side has all their spawns depleted and your team has like 5 left. Then instead of sticking together to hunt them down, your team all runs in one by one and gets shotgunned in the face and you lose the match.

    I got to see this as a ghost on the team with 2 people left. Two guys killed 9 fucking people on sandbar by just camping out in one of the sniper nests. This was with the digger being up on the map, they couldn't kill two fucking people WITH A DIGGER IN A TIGHT SPACE!

  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Heh, playing as Adam Fenix, I execute someone.
    "Your mom is a classy lady."
    Limited edition purchase justified, right there.

    The following sentence is true. The previous sentence was false.
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Sam has the best comments for when someone gets into her way when you are shooting. Sam is just the best. Gears of War should just be Anya and Sam and be like the bromance of Marcus and Dom, only sexier.

  • TridentTrident Registered User
    Preacher wrote:
    Sam has the best comments for when someone gets into her way when you are shooting. Sam is just the best. Gears of War should just be Anya and Sam and be like the bromance of Marcus and Dom, only sexier.

    Hear that? That's the sound of Gear-heads masturbating furiously.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Trident wrote:
    Preacher wrote:
    Sam has the best comments for when someone gets into her way when you are shooting. Sam is just the best. Gears of War should just be Anya and Sam and be like the bromance of Marcus and Dom, only sexier.

    Hear that? That's the sound of Gear-heads masturbating furiously.

    I dunno having read some youtube comments, its more about marcus and dom and their love for each other. Brothers in the End indeed.

  • DubiousAtBestDubiousAtBest Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote:
    Sam has the best comments for when someone gets into her way when you are shooting. Sam is just the best. Gears of War should just be Anya and Sam and be like the bromance of Marcus and Dom, only sexier.

    I'd buy it. It's a shame that Anya, Jace, and Sam didn't get much opportunity for character development.

    So last night I played with a group of 5 of my friends and went into public TDM. I can vouch for teamwork being more important than individual skill in this game. We only lost 1 match the whole night. I actually feel kind of bad for some the people we played against. The highlight of the night was four of us downing the last man, then letting him self revive, only to down him again. All to allow one member of our group drag the mortar across half of Drydock to execute him with it.

    I'm pretty surprised at the difference team synergy made. When I go online alone, I get stomped. None of us are particularly skillful, but always having someone with you made all the difference. If you want to have a positive K/D in this game, basic teamwork is a necessity.

  • Dark Raven XDark Raven X Registered User regular
    klemming wrote:
    Heh, playing as Adam Fenix, I execute someone.
    "Your mom is a classy lady."
    Limited edition purchase justified, right there.

    ...is that an actual quote!?

    They referenced Penny Arcade?

    Fantastic.

    I switched to Sam as my main to grind out that Battle Vixen Onyx Medal, and I gotta say, though she's no Dizzy, she has some great lines. Especially her retro charges; Uh. AH. AAAAAAAEEEEAH!

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  • belaraphonbelaraphon michiganRegistered User regular
    multiplayer is pretty brutal. shotgun mania is back.

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote:
    elliotw2 wrote:
    That's mostly correct. When a human player joins, it will always put you as Marcus on COG or Drone on Locust, unless your character is open. It does it mostly to prevent loading in the middle of a match, since the characters are large enough that it would stutter everyone if it had to load in your preferred skin. It always loads Marcus/Drone though, in case this does happen.

    Whats funny is it does this even for bots. Like if you leave during a match it'll change the name of your character to the proper skin name, but show the one default one.

    And you don't have to unlock the executions in multi to see them, you can do them all in single player. And torque bow is probably the nastiest by far.

    yea, I did most of them while playing through the campaign. the only one I need to do is Mulcher (gonna just go back to SP for that one because it's been hilarity trying to saunter over to someone in MP to do it w/o getting KS'd.

    That said, they all seemed pretty much the same to me. Weapon + Opponent's head. I was hoping for more.

    Punchings and arm beats are where it's at!

    "a good leader can make an okay group great..."
  • BonepartBonepart Abilene, KSRegistered User regular
    Preacher wrote:
    Sam has the best comments for when someone gets into her way when you are shooting. Sam is just the best. Gears of War should just be Anya and Sam and be like the bromance of Marcus and Dom, only sexier.

    I need to unlock Civi-Anya so we can totally have a Charlie's Angels thing going on.

    Work is boring. Need more Gears3!

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote:
    Sam has the best comments for when someone gets into her way when you are shooting. Sam is just the best. Gears of War should just be Anya and Sam and be like the bromance of Marcus and Dom, only sexier.

    I'd buy it. It's a shame that Anya, Jace, and Sam didn't get much opportunity for character development.

    So last night I played with a group of 5 of my friends and went into public TDM. I can vouch for teamwork being more important than individual skill in this game. We only lost 1 match the whole night. I actually feel kind of bad for some the people we played against. The highlight of the night was four of us downing the last man, then letting him self revive, only to down him again. All to allow one member of our group drag the mortar across half of Drydock to execute him with it.

    I'm pretty surprised at the difference team synergy made. When I go online alone, I get stomped. None of us are particularly skillful, but always having someone with you made all the difference. If you want to have a positive K/D in this game, basic teamwork is a necessity.

    Just having someone calling out where enemies are, and coordination makes a huge difference. Sadly when you are playing solo its like playing with the most retarded bots. Honestly I did better in a game when I have a team of bots vs the other team with humans, it was kind of sad. Bots spotted more often.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I'm sad there isn't a civilian sam, or Burnie player model yet.

  • -Tal-Tal Truth is elusive It's nowhere to be foundRegistered User regular
    downing and redowning and group humping them and smoke tagging only to finally crush them with a mortar

    this is the true spice of life

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I dunno seems really mean and rude to those who are waiting. Like I'd probably quit a match if I saw that going on.

  • DragkoniasDragkonias Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote:
    I dunno seems really mean and rude to those who are waiting. Like I'd probably quit a match if I saw that going on.

    Dude, this is Gears, you're given tools specifically for being a douche. My favorite is to run back and forth into people as my partner does the punching execution.

    Though I understand what you mean about having to wait.

    Dragkonias on
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Dragkonias wrote:
    Preacher wrote:
    I dunno seems really mean and rude to those who are waiting. Like I'd probably quit a match if I saw that going on.

    Dude, this is Gears, you're given tools specifically for being a douche. My favorite is to run back and forth into people as my partner does the punching execution.

    Though I understand what you mean about having to wait.

    An extended execution? No biggy its the reward for finishing off the last guy in a match. Taking a human shield of a former enemy and then killing them while holding their dead body? Hilarious. But making 5 people wait before finishing a round is being a bit of a dick. Its like when I was in a round where all the regular players were dead but someone was afk so the other team didn't kill him, they sat there for a minute straight.

  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote:
    I dunno seems really mean and rude to those who are waiting. Like I'd probably quit a match if I saw that going on.

    Agreed, and seconded. Even more-so if I'm on the team with players doing it.
    Dragkonias wrote:
    Dude, this is Gears, you're given tools specifically for being a douche. My favorite is to run back and forth into people as my partner does the punching execution.

    Though I understand what you mean about having to wait.

    What does running into people while they're doing the punching execution do?

    "a good leader can make an okay group great..."
  • DragkoniasDragkonias Registered User regular
    Looks like you're kicking them. It isn't an in-game thing, just something I do for the lulz.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Dragkonias wrote:
    Looks like you're kicking them. It isn't an in-game thing, just something I do for the lulz.

    And thats perfectly fine, because it turns a regular beating into a gang beating. And again makes a player wait only as long as the execution itself.

  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Puts his name on his helicoptor.. ..so everyone knows it's his.Registered User regular
    klemming wrote:
    i've come to the conclusion that i love sam.

    Because you're really imagining Chloe.

    Screw you, you youngin'. When I hear Sam, I hear the smooth, sensual voice of Aeryn Sun, dammit.

    Also, IIRC, Arcade eats cutscenes. So if you're playing it for the story, you'll be missing out on shit.

    It doesn't skip cutscenes.

    It skips some of them. Or at least it did for me. (Biggest one I noticed is the one right after you crash the truck at Anvil Gate, there's a cutscene of
    Spoiler:
    Did not play on my arcade run. Like, the cut scene didn't even start (so it wasn't a manual skip as far as I can tell.)

    EDIT: Though I suppose that could just be a coop thing.

    You had a host who knew his cutscenes and when to skip them, as they all play on Arcade co-op otherwise.

    You're not listening to me. The cutscene didn't play at all. It didn't start playing and then get skipped after half a second once it became skippable, it didn't play at all.
    Scottsman, I'm so sorry.

    You're a nerd.
    Wait, why are you apologizing?

    Undead Scottsman on
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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote:
    Dragkonias wrote:
    Looks like you're kicking them. It isn't an in-game thing, just something I do for the lulz.

    And thats perfectly fine, because it turns a regular beating into a gang beating. And again makes a player wait only as long as the execution itself.

    lol, true. I needed to get the Arm Beat execution for the achievement and I downed the last person. I felt like such a douche beating the guy to death at the end of the round, so I stopped. You know you've been playing multiplayer too long when you feel sympathy for your opponents. :(

    "a good leader can make an okay group great..."
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote:
    Dragkonias wrote:
    Looks like you're kicking them. It isn't an in-game thing, just something I do for the lulz.

    And thats perfectly fine, because it turns a regular beating into a gang beating. And again makes a player wait only as long as the execution itself.

    lol, true. I needed to get the Arm Beat execution for the achievement and I downed the last person. I felt like such a douche beating the guy to death at the end of the round, so I stopped. You know you've been playing multiplayer too long when you feel sympathy for your opponents. :(

    No way thats some execution bonus points for each unwanted swing! Your enemy should feel your rage!

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    And if its some DB using DB than the execution is like me saying "USE A DIFFERENT WEAPON OR TACTIC!"

  • NocrenNocren Still AwesomeRegistered User regular


    Anyway, if we get another canon immigrant I want Pad. We need more Irishmen with facial tribal tattoos blowing people's heads off.

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Puts his name on his helicoptor.. ..so everyone knows it's his.Registered User regular
    I'd prefer Alex Brand first, more chicks is a plus, especially if they're red-heads.

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  • NocrenNocren Still AwesomeRegistered User regular
    But, Pad's a red-head too...

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Nocren wrote:
    But, Pad's a red-head too...

    Ginger's don't count unless he becomes the new default cog model, so I can literally beat him like a red headed step child.

  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    klemming wrote:
    Heh, playing as Adam Fenix, I execute someone.
    "Your mom is a classy lady."
    Limited edition purchase justified, right there.

    ...is that an actual quote!?

    They referenced Penny Arcade?

    Fantastic.

    It came from PA? Was it a webcomic or a forum meme?

  • TridentTrident Registered User
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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Reading up on Alex Brand, the gears comic sounds... horrible.

  • SirUltimosSirUltimos Don't talk, Rusty. Just paint. Registered User regular
    I remember I played one game and I was the last person alive, and I had the other team execute me by ripping my arm off then beating me with it far longer than he should have, and another guy came up and started kicking me too. I thought it was hilarious.

  • NocrenNocren Still AwesomeRegistered User regular
    For the beat-down/arm-rip executions, you can keep tapping Y to get extra hits. Each hit also nets you more XP. You can get A LOT of extra hits too.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Yeah 9+ for each additional hit and I think another 25 for "finishing".

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