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Gears of War 3 |OT| BROTHERS TO THE END

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Hoya Destroyer

Hoya Destroyer

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Has Warzone and Execution gone back into their own individual playlists for anyone else?
It says 0 players worldwide for both. Maybe I lost my gears 3 update somehow? I wonder how to get the latest update back?
 
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Gr1mLock

Passing metallic gas
AndyMoogle said:
That analogy doesn't work. You still have access to dedicated servers for all modes.

If you want an electricity analogy, you should have said that you'll get electricity to everything in your house; you just don't have a choice in which object gets electricity when you enter a room. Perhaps you want to use your toaster, but unfortunately only your oven gets electricity this time. Leave the room and enter again, and perhaps your toaster gets electricity instead.

Anyway, I'd say that most Gears 3 players have the Fenix Rising map pack considering that the game hasn't been this popular since release day, and most players seem to choose playlists other than "Player's Choice".
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Thats kinda what i said. I implied that at no point would you get electricity for everything you previously did (simultaneously)..i just didnt feel like listing every appliance i own? Either way. I actually saw this mytical 'escalation' map people keep talking about. It didnt get voted on of course..but at least i know it exists.
 
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malfcn

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My bad, I jumped the gun. But I thought the whole point of the calendar was to see what upcoming events there would be. I haven't booted the game in while. But last time I did, it never had any new info.
 
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Ballistik

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malfcn said:
My bad, I jumped the gun. But I thought the whole point of the calendar was to see what upcoming events there would be. I haven't booted the game in while. But last time I did, it never had any new info.
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There are events every weekend. What they did give up on is updating the calendar, as you mentioned. It should be updated frequently because as it is, it's just ad space for their DLC from last year.
 
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sixteen-bit

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malfcn said:
marcus_winter.jpg


Wow. Winter could have made this game awesome.
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There's a snowy bit in Gears 2 that could have worked well with this.

RIP Overpass. You won't be missed.
 
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D4Danger

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Alienshogun said:
Wat?
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Rustlung is garbage. It's easy to trap people in the spawn because you start way back and the only way out is a tunnel (which is easy to control) and a small room (which is also easy to control). Give it enough time the other team will start spawning behind you and just kill everyone.

Hotel is just shit. I haven't like it since the game launched.
 
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Brolic Gaoler

formerly Alienshogun
D4Danger said:
Rustlung is garbage. It's easy to trap people in the spawn because you start way back and the only way out is a tunnel (which is easy to control) and a small room (which is also easy to control). Give it enough time the other team will start spawning behind you and just kill everyone.

Hotel is just shit. I haven't like it since the game launched.
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I've not had an issue on either map, and hotel is basically mansion which was also a great map.
 
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D4Danger

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Alienshogun said:
I've not had an issue on either map, and hotel is basically mansion which was also a great map.
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Mansion was a good map. The area round the boom out in the garden felt much tighter than the wide open area of hotel.

The inside of Hotel is pretty poor as well. People either use it to shortcut the nades or camp the sniper. Very little happens in the middle area.

I think my problem with Rustlung is more to do with the spawns than the map. I feel like Mercy has similar issues but the area you spawn in is wide open so it's easier to escape whereas rustlung is basically 2 tunnels.
 
Seth Balmore

Seth Balmore

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Mansion plays cooler than Hotel though. I don't dig the larger scale and there's less variety in the elevation levels... also lack of interesting cover structures outside whereas both versions of Mansion had plenty of that.

Goodbye and good riddance Overpass. Since Cliff said it's temporary I wonder if they'll take back what they said about not being able to/not wanting to change the layout of shipped maps?
 
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unomas

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HigherLevel said:
Overpass is gone? Awesome. Every time I play the first map that pops up is Overpass. Such a bad map.
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Never end up playing it in ranked, but in quick match I almost always quit out before it even started, such a poorly designed map for TDM. I'm on a Gears hiatus for a little while, we'll see if I ever make it from green to red, but playing against a team of 5 green level players is almost completely void of fun in ranked when you're running solo.
 
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Grisby

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Played 2 hours tonight. Overpass is still in there though. Finally played a couple of good rounds on new maps back to back.

The soft lighting on Escalation is phenomenal. I wan a whole DLC lit like that.
 
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Stat Flow

He gonna cry in the car
The need to get rid of Sandbar and Drydock.

I haven't played Gears in about a month...I've been so busy. I really can't wait to get some quality time in soon.
 
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Addnan

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Stat Flow said:
The need to get rid of Sandbar and Drydock.

I haven't played Gears in about a month...I've been so busy. I really can't wait to get some quality time in soon.
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I can understand Sandbar, but its not so bad now that power weapon is at the bottom. And Drydock is probably the best map in the game!
 
Genesis Knight

Genesis Knight

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What the hell? I'm gone for two months (account was FIFA'd, been locked) and return to find that I can't play on dedis anymore unless I buy DLC content? Holy freaking hell, Epic.
 
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Ballistik

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Stat Flow said:
The need to get rid of Sandbar and Drydock.

I haven't played Gears in about a month...I've been so busy. I really can't wait to get some quality time in soon.
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I think Overpass was the only real culprit here that could be a pain in the ass. Sandbar just reminds me of one of those Gears 2 DLC maps that nobody cared for, they're not broken necessarily... just extremely boring.
 
Genesis Knight

Genesis Knight

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Alienshogun said:
Yep. Although, you can't get warzone exclusively at all anymore.
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Oh yeah, I saw that. Warzone/Execution now. A lot has changed in two months, it seems! Anything else I should know? :p

I guess it's time to shell for the Season Pass. I was planning on getting RAAM b/c of the campaign content, but if I have to get Fenix Rising for dedis then I might as well go all in, I think.
 
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Sigmaah

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AndyMoogle said:
They will never remove the SP from the lancer. It would completely ruin the weapon (and to some extent the whole game) if they did. What's the point in having rifles if they are worthless?

I really don't understand why so many want to use nothing but gnashers.

Also, stop rushing straight ahead. That's the only reason you would have problems with the lancer stopping you.
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Removing SP from the lancer will make this game better because the lancer is OP. it does a lot of damage and with stopping power, its just annoying. They've already removed SP from the HB and Retro, I wont be surprised if they take it away from the lancer too.

The lancer stops you from any direction you're getting hit at. Maybe if it was only from the front, I can live with SP on the lancer, sadly it isn't though.
 
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Brolic Gaoler

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Sigmaah said:
Removing SP from the lancer will make this game better because the lancer is OP. it does a lot of damage and with stopping power, its just annoying. They've already removed SP from the HB and Retro, I wont be surprised if they take it away from the lancer too.

The lancer stops you from any direction you're getting hit at. Maybe if it was only from the front, I can live with SP on the lancer, sadly it isn't though.
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It is only the front. If you're getting hit in the back it doesn't stop your progress.

Also, no, stopping power needs to remain, especially with the power of the active gnasher.
 
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Gnashes

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Alienshogun said:
It is only the front. If you're getting hit in the back it doesn't stop your progress.

Also, no, stopping power needs to remain, especially with the power of the active gnasher.
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Sigmaah said:
Removing SP from the lancer will make this game better because the lancer is OP. it does a lot of damage and with stopping power, its just annoying. They've already removed SP from the HB and Retro, I wont be surprised if they take it away from the lancer too.

That was just a test to see the effects of Stopping Power, the HB and Retro have it back now.

The lancer stops you from any direction you're getting hit at. Maybe if it was only from the front, I can live with SP on the lancer, sadly it isn't though.
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My problem with the Lancer is less about the stopping power, and more with the power of the active.

Spend a match holding a pre-active hipfire Lancer and you'll see what I'm talking about. It's a little too effective for my tastes, and I love the Lancer.
 
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Brolic Gaoler

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Gnashes said:
My problem with the Lancer is less about the stopping power, and more with the power of the active.

Spend a match holding a pre-active hipfire Lancer and you'll see what I'm talking about. It's a little too effective for my tastes, and I love the Lancer.
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Actives need to be toned down or gotten rid of period. IMO.
 
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D4Danger

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are the severs down this weekend?

I've joined a number of games where I can't pick up weapons or shoot people, lots of lag (like jumping over something and then going back to where you were) and in 4 different games the bot allocation has failed and we've ended up with 7 players on our team at the start of a match.
 
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Gnashes

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D4Danger said:
are the severs down this weekend?

I've joined a number of games where I can't pick up weapons or shoot people, lots lag (like jumping over something and then going back to where you were) and in 4 different games the bot allocation has failed and we've ended up with 7 players on our team at the start of a match.
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That's been happening for a few weeks now, we haven't been told exactly what causes it.
 
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malfcn

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I thought they removed Overpass? This map is so ass it is ridiculous. And I loooooove putting a full Lancer clip into someone head on and they just oneshot me with Gnasher. What?? just now he got a headshot from 50 feet away with a Gnasher? C'mmmmon. Had the pleasure of going 1-9 on that shit map.

Getting killed by mortal when you're inside the tunnel?
Invisible frags with no bounce sound too?
 
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