It doesn't explain why the hell the Outsiders are a thing, though. Unless you want to die. Nothing short of that would make it a good idea to be out there no matter what the COG is or isn't doing.
Yikes, the ranked PvP you better hope you get Swarm for your team, it's basically just 5 stacks of Terminators endlessly running at you on Cog side. And even if the hit boxes are the same, it feels like they are harder to hit than maybe they are. A little frustrating.
I'm enjoying the gameplay but some people are waaaay too good at this already
It doesn't explain why the hell the Outsiders are a thing, though. Unless you want to die. Nothing short of that would make it a good idea to be out there no matter what the COG is or isn't doing.
The COG were historically a totalitarian, annex-happy government which in any other game not involving wartime against literal monsters, would be the antagonists, supported by 'true believers' like Fahz willing to live-fire into civilian crowds.
"Give me liberty or give me death" is still a thing
Were they throwing fire bombs or not? Did we see that happening? They kind of gloss over that and it would make sense for JD to give the order if they weren't peaceful protesters.
Were they throwing fire bombs or not? Did we see that happening? They kind of gloss over that and it would make sense for JD to give the order if they weren't peaceful protesters.
I'm assuming at some point the protesters probably got violent. I do wonder if there's a lore throughline between the incident and the development of the DeeBees, which appear to be explicitly designed for depersonalized riot control, or if they already had those in place by the time it happened (which would make the situation odd because... why wouldn't they just send in DeeBees)
Having a tremendous amount of problems running the game on my PC for Act 4. Not sure if it's just this one specific mission or what, but it is crashing my PC. I switch back and forth between Xbox One and PC so curious if that has something to do with it but it's a bit of a bummer. Lowering settings doesn't seem to matter I just crash on the first mission in Act 4.
Act 3 is locking up my entire PC at the start of it when you get control. It slows to a stop quickly then is chocking on something it seems. Two in a row so far, about to try 3...
And try 3 recovered after chocking. So far....aaaand, it seems to have crashed switching windows to edit this, hahaha. Window is just gone. And then back to locking up PC. Better fix this tomorrow!
This is exactly how it was behaving for me, couldn’t progress at all and even after I force closed the game it would crash windows a minute or two later.
Curious if I start a new save I’ll experience the same thing or not.
I ended up finishing the game on my Xbox One which was mostly fine but I doubt a lot of people have that option available.
In case anyone else is getting this and is on AMD: The new 're-release' of 19.9.1 on the 10th (vs the 4th) seems to have fixed act 3 for me. It seemed to choke for a second then recover. May just be a coincidence it stopped now. I got to the first checkpoint and quit. Will see what happens when I resume later... edit: Well, it worked on the first resume, but now it's back to locking up. Hope they fix the game soon...
Ah, the X character is redundant/worthless conversation has already begun. Remember, The Coalition chose this route to pin characters to classes when there was a working system that allowed you to chose any character with any class previously. I suspect this weird change has something to do with their beloved escape mode.
Hardly. The DLC characters are objectively worse than the standard characters at least in terms of skill variety. Sarah Connor at least seems the more fleshed out of the group and does have some interesting skill cards but Emile and especially Kat are clearly "weaker" versions of their counterparts (JD and Del).
Were they throwing fire bombs or not? Did we see that happening? They kind of gloss over that and it would make sense for JD to give the order if they weren't peaceful protesters.
I'm assuming at some point the protesters probably got violent. I do wonder if there's a lore throughline between the incident and the development of the DeeBees, which appear to be explicitly designed for depersonalized riot control, or if they already had those in place by the time it happened (which would make the situation odd because... why wouldn't they just send in DeeBees)
Book explanation of the deebees is that
They do almost literally anything that could even remotely injure a human. Even thrashball is played by deebees and not people. While they do enforce "peace" I guess we can call it, they do serve in other capacities
Into act 4 now. Far enough that I'm really curious how this is going to end. Not that I wasn't before, but I'm close enough that it's frustrating that I need to put it down for the night
So I saw someone with the name "The Coalition" the other day and thought that was pretty ballsy of whoever snagged that name (I was assuming the l is actually a captial i.) but apparently it's verified on Xbox, so I guess it was the official account? Weird.
For some reason all my textures are blurry as hell no matter how I tweak the settings. It looks worse than Gears 4 did.
Are you on PC? On Steam at least there's an 'Ultra-HD Texture Pack' DLC. I ignored it because I assumed it was for 4k stuff and my monitor doesn't go that high anyway, but I think it does make a difference even on lower res setups.
No, I thought I was talking to you guys just in game w/o an xbox party. I'm on pc and so cobbling together a setup to pptalk on keyboard and use a controller... I'm probably buying rewasd because it actually lets me bind my keyboard to my controller
No, I thought I was talking to you guys just in game w/o an xbox party. I'm on pc and so cobbling together a setup to pptalk on keyboard and use a controller... I'm probably buying rewasd because it actually lets me bind my keyboard to my controller
since i may be moving my gears setup to my pc in the near future what's you configuration right now out of curiousity? you can't just use a normal xbox headset with the controller or what's the issue?
Maxxed out an escape skill at level 5.. doesn't seem to be anything you can do with those cards after that point; I figured they'd turn into scrap. (Maybe they'll make like Gears 4 and introduce level 6 skills at a later point.)
Also got into the top 5% percentile for this weeks challenge map. (Had a VERY good run on Advanced)
Finished up my placements for Ranked, ended up in Silver 2. Going off Overwatch ranks, that's not great. I'm not sure if I'll bother playing much more ranked, Quickmatch is infinitely more approachable and fun. That being said doing those 5 games really forced me to 'git gud' at Gears again at an accelerated rate. Had a few really close matches that felt pretty good. Gears just has such a unique playstyle where you want to shotgun rush because it's fun, but usually not the smartest move against a good team. So found myself once again falling in love with the Boltok, which just slaps so hard in PvP
Is it just me, or does it feel like anything horde or escape related that go above advanced are impossible. At least with randoms. I can wreck and have a good time on lower difficulties but advanced and on is a nightmare.
Is it just me, or does it feel like anything horde or escape related that go above advanced are impossible. At least with randoms. I can wreck and have a good time on lower difficulties but advanced and on is a nightmare.
Once you go above experienced, I'd highly recommend having a higher level character.
Well maybe this patch slightly fixed things because now it eventually loads the textures. But then they unload a few seconds later and look blurry again. So now instead of it constantly looking like shit it wobbles between looking fine and looking like shit, which is even more annoying.
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I'm enjoying the gameplay but some people are waaaay too good at this already
The COG were historically a totalitarian, annex-happy government which in any other game not involving wartime against literal monsters, would be the antagonists, supported by 'true believers' like Fahz willing to live-fire into civilian crowds.
"Give me liberty or give me death" is still a thing
I breezed through the game in a couple hours on casual difficulty as a plot refresher and collectable hunt.
If you're a decent ways in you might as well finish.
I'm assuming at some point the protesters probably got violent. I do wonder if there's a lore throughline between the incident and the development of the DeeBees, which appear to be explicitly designed for depersonalized riot control, or if they already had those in place by the time it happened (which would make the situation odd because... why wouldn't they just send in DeeBees)
In case anyone else is getting this and is on AMD: The new 're-release' of 19.9.1 on the 10th (vs the 4th) seems to have fixed act 3 for me. It seemed to choke for a second then recover. May just be a coincidence it stopped now. I got to the first checkpoint and quit. Will see what happens when I resume later... edit: Well, it worked on the first resume, but now it's back to locking up. Hope they fix the game soon...
Hardly. The DLC characters are objectively worse than the standard characters at least in terms of skill variety. Sarah Connor at least seems the more fleshed out of the group and does have some interesting skill cards but Emile and especially Kat are clearly "weaker" versions of their counterparts (JD and Del).
Book explanation of the deebees is that
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No, they mention the Settlement 2 incident in Gears 4. It's why JD and Del deserted the COG.
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I just put up a game with 20 kills first game I played as her
Did you guys hear me talking on my Mic when we ran escape on wednesday?
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We were in a party. I invited you to it but you didn't join.
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since i may be moving my gears setup to my pc in the near future what's you configuration right now out of curiousity? you can't just use a normal xbox headset with the controller or what's the issue?
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Also got into the top 5% percentile for this weeks challenge map. (Had a VERY good run on Advanced)
Once you go above experienced, I'd highly recommend having a higher level character.
That's odd. It looks gorgeous on my PC, but I switched to playing on Xbone because I needed to free up HDD real estate on the PC for Borderlands 3.
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Then it crashed after I launched the rocket.
E: This is what i'm dealing with.