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Gears of War 4 Beta |OT| Hello Chainsaw My Old Friend, I've Come To Rev You Up Again
- Thread starter Steverulez
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Selling codes to a beta that will open up soon is lol
Anyway, some initial impressions....
Drop shot the GOAT
Dodgeball is a FANTASTIC twist on regular warzone
I think they need to up the damage required when you down someone to kill them from range. Obviously a shotgun gib will do the job but its silly how you can down someone and put in 3 lancer bullets to kill them. Makes reviving almost impossible.
Gnasher feels great but theres a probably intentional delay when you come out of a roadies run or come into/around/out of a cover where you cant fire. Not a fan.
Anyway, some initial impressions....
Drop shot the GOAT
Dodgeball is a FANTASTIC twist on regular warzone
I think they need to up the damage required when you down someone to kill them from range. Obviously a shotgun gib will do the job but its silly how you can down someone and put in 3 lancer bullets to kill them. Makes reviving almost impossible.
Gnasher feels great but theres a probably intentional delay when you come out of a roadies run or come into/around/out of a cover where you cant fire. Not a fan.
GreenMonkey
Member
My code showed up at noon today, finally! Keep an eye out!
sir_dany12
Member
Dropshot is OP
Scully Scully Scoo
Member
Here are my conclusions after playing a few games.
- vibration needs to be upped, the guns just feel crap without it
- sound design is poor, cant hear footsteps, tork bow etc.
- that dropshot weapon is op, there should be an indicator either visual or sound to let people know you are in its radius. With the digger you could see it coming but this just falls from the sky out of the blue. Maybe they can have a buzzing sound follow tbe bullet and a coloured shadow on the ground
- dont like the glass cracking affect and blood on screen after every kill, just have it like it was in gears 3
- new active system is terrible and makes every gun op. A full clip of active lancer at your disposal without even firing a bullet is bad design.
- hammerburst is useless and serves 0 purpose. It should be a long range weapon like it was in gears 3. Bring back the semi auto and iron sights
Overall the game just feels off but that could be because its a beta. Hopefully they have another beta closer to game launch so we can see how polished it is.
- vibration needs to be upped, the guns just feel crap without it
- sound design is poor, cant hear footsteps, tork bow etc.
- that dropshot weapon is op, there should be an indicator either visual or sound to let people know you are in its radius. With the digger you could see it coming but this just falls from the sky out of the blue. Maybe they can have a buzzing sound follow tbe bullet and a coloured shadow on the ground
- dont like the glass cracking affect and blood on screen after every kill, just have it like it was in gears 3
- new active system is terrible and makes every gun op. A full clip of active lancer at your disposal without even firing a bullet is bad design.
- hammerburst is useless and serves 0 purpose. It should be a long range weapon like it was in gears 3. Bring back the semi auto and iron sights
Overall the game just feels off but that could be because its a beta. Hopefully they have another beta closer to game launch so we can see how polished it is.
chronic_archaic
Member
Thanks.check your PMs
I'll be giving my code out once I get it to the first taker. Please don't PM me until I actually have a code (I'll post again later)
ATOMICJORGE
Member
I agree the sound is pretty lame, I'm using my Astro A50s and I still can't hear the enemy footsteps and the overall quality of the sound department is pretty bad
close and open the beta again
Yeah the game has a lot to improve forward
it happened to me like 3 or 4 times, everytime i wake up the xbox one from stand by mode
I played on asian servers and it was ok
Booker.DeWitt
Member
I was not getting the xp earned during my last 3 matches, had to quit. fuck
Booker.DeWitt
Member
why am I not getting the xp earned during the match? if your team loses you get no xp ? what are the cons of using bounty?
Same here. Its been laggy but playable.
I'm struggling to get AU mates to run this game. Add me if you'd like run a team: OOO Friction
Booker.DeWitt
Member
ok, why the hell I am not getting a;ll of my XP match bonus? I make 700-1000 every match by killing the oponent, but I only get a fraction of that, even if my team wins or loses. what the actual fuck?? I already reseted by xbox one, the beta and still can't get all the xp during the match.
Emperor Bohe
Member
I'm also not getting XP...
AndyMoogle
Member
1 point does not equal 1 xp afaik.
Booker.DeWitt
Member
is that new? because on all the gears it was 1:1
Booker.DeWitt
Member
play another match, made 500 points, got ZERO. FUCK
Probably the best addition to the gane
Jawmuncher
Member
Got level 20, now I can wait until launch.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Gnasher is going to kill this game if they don't nerf it.
I've never been one to complain about Gears being Gnasher dominated but this one takes it to a whole new level. It's insane that it even made it to beta being this overpowered.
I've never been one to complain about Gears being Gnasher dominated but this one takes it to a whole new level. It's insane that it even made it to beta being this overpowered.
I got to lvl 20 last night but how do I redeem my crate?
Like I've said before, this game brought it back to the gnashefest levels of the original two games. At least Gears 3 had the Retro Lancer and Sawed off to provide variety.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
HawksWinStanley
Member
Granted it's been a while but it just feels like the Gears 3 Gnasher to me. What's different?
Will do. Might not be til the weekend as I'm flat out the rest of the week.
AndyMoogle
Member
It's been different depending on the mode since some modes give out much more points than others.
Nah, it's more like the Gears 2 gnasher. You can easily down from ridiculous distances with the active power boost.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Damage is way higher, especially at range. Gib range is also further.
It's essentially stronger in every regard.
Inceptional
Member
I'm not getting motion sickness but I do get a bit dizzy from it which has never happened to me before in a GOW game. And it's not the 60 fps because it doesn't bother me in GOW UE either. They definitely need to tone down the rodey-run here no matter what though as it's a little too shaky for my tastes.
Telling ya'll GEARS 5 is gonna be locked into a constant roadie run with gnashers only. It'll be a beautiful distillation of the game.
PetulantChild
Banned
Got a bug where I would spawn with nothing but Hammerburst and Lancer the entire game. Was honestly kinda fun.
AndyMoogle
Member
That was already part of Gears of War 1. Perhaps that's why some of the hardcore players love that game the most.
PetulantChild
Banned
Nope. I checked mid game and it said I had gnasher set but I only had Hammerburst.
Diablohead
Member
I've spawned with hammerburst when the lancer was enabled, it fixed itself (for me at least) when I toggled the loadout option a few times.
Somewhat agreed, gears 3 had a much better balance and the only gears game where I remember using the rifles more than 1% of the time.
PetulantChild
Banned
hmm, I'll have to try this next time.
BuggeryBugz
Member
Have they announced what weapons will be in the game aside from the ones in the beta? Would love for the breechshot and retro lancer to make a return.
NippleViking
Banned
I finally got a positive KD in a match!!
Really liking it now. With some balancing, and more modes (especially Horde), this game could be damn fantastic.
Really liking it now. With some balancing, and more modes (especially Horde), this game could be damn fantastic.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Retro is in but being reworked. Sawed-Off is out.
That's really all we know as far as old weapons not in the beta.