WadiumArcadium
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I played Gears multiplayer religiously up to about 2013. Haven't played it since so it'll be interesting to see how I cope.
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Gears of War 4 - Launch trailer
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Jawmuncher
Member
There's less than 150 people online for Judgement MP. If I recall 3 has more active players.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
I heard bad things that happen to newcomers to Gears MP. But hey, I'll try it out and I'll definitely play the horde mode.
Btw. Can yo play online without Gold on PC?
blue_phazon
Member
Darkangel
Member
I keep forgetting that Judgement even exists.
You don't need Gold for PC.
Gears multiplayer is pretty competitive so it might take a while to learn the ropes. The gameplay style is a lot different than in the campaign.
Coalition-PezRadar
Director of Community, The Coalition
Gears 4 has vs Bots if you want to start off in MP. Also there are placement matches so we pool you with people of the correct skill and rating. Something past Gears games didn't do.
Bl@de
Member
Does the PC version have splitscreen for multiplayer or only campaign?
my advice would be try and shadow people. If you try and go one on one you'll probably get destroyed and frustrated (and that's not a knock, just some of the people who play this are savage). If you can stick with someone though and work as a team you'll do well. Teams that work together will usually win because it's very hard to break down two or three people even if you're really good.
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
I know you said you were looking into it, but was it confirmed whether cross-play for private versus was going to be in?
Mr.Fletcher
Member
I actually love the look of the new enemies. The pouncher might be favourite monster design in the entire franchise.
I'd take the juvies over the wretches as well. I think they've outdone Epic... just my opinion though.
From what I noticed, it does. Never hard to get a match of Horde mode going which has been a great way to warm up a bit.
Beat Gears 1 on PC in anticipation, still just incredibly happy about all the coop options that 4 has.
I agree, this looks like a better game than Epic's previous work. Even looking at Halo 5 (campaign), I think this is the first time MS has revamped a franchise and nailed it.
yeah juvies, are a sight to behold, much more frightening that the monkey dogs
VolticArchangel
Member
LOL. Ranked matches when the host is on your team sure were funny. There's ALWAYS one guy in a full party game, messing shit up with crabwalking, superjumps or worse, completely kung-fu flipping out of the map that you don't know where the last man standing is and it's a PITA in maps like Tyro, Mansion, Fuel Depot, Bullet Marsh etc where they specifically target wide areas with bigger maps/unused assets to jump out of, so that it's really hard for the remaining players in the opposition team to K-flip out themselves and track him down. But I digress, kung-fu flipping out of the map with a party full of friends in private player matches sure was a lot of fun and a time sucker.
In player matches, if it's a full lobby on gridlock with weapon swaps, you'd regularly see that one guy trying to skydive with one of his friends/guest-tags smoke tagging him behind that van. I mostly wait for that "bump" when he's about to go up in the air (vanish) and tag him a frag so that both the guys explode on the van while waling to the slide during glitch. It kills them and cancels the glitch which has to be done again for the next 2 minutes. Would feel so good. XD
Super jump is indeed game breaking but weapon slides are good at high level play. Of all the "glitches" as we call them, weapon slide is the only one where competitive edge is pushed, doesn't affect game balance and completely takes away all those cheap headshots/insta-gibs all because of the pickup animation. Again, adding i-frames to pickup animations are not a worthy alternative (not to mention the conundrum of figuring out how much milliseconds those last) when you have something like weapon slides, which is far superior at your disposal. The only problem is that weapon slides (as it is written in UE3 and it's currentgen revision) require "at least" a tiny bit of latency (doesn't matter if it's under even 5 ms). But it isn't rocket science to change it into a complete animation of it's own on UE4, especially for the folks at Coalition.
Gears indeed has a steep learning curve mechanically, let alone advanced gameplay. Don't let that scare you though. Gears 3 has the most newcomer friendly MP in the entire series, compared to the original having the highest skill ceiling. 4 is really close to 3 mechanically (damage+cms+camera+hitbox accuracy/spread/bloom etc), and balances things out using other things like map control and weapon placements (both symmetrical & asymmetrical) with a competitive focus. Play for a couple of weeks, tops, to get yourself in the zone (no pun intended).
And yes, you can play w/o XBL GOLD on PC, including X-Play with Xbox One in Co-op playlists and private versus with your friends. Only the Xbox One version requires XBL GOLD to play online MP/Co-op.
Why did they replace it with the Enforcer? What kind of weapon is the enforcer?
Also the online multiplayer running on dedicated servers?
Yup, they confirmed it the day the launch trailer came out.
Which one is the pouncher?
Primethius
Banned
I'm hoping the single player is good (and similar to 1's feel and atmosphere). I'm considering picking this up but mainly for the SP. I have too many MP titles that I'm juggling as it is that that aspect is a bit of a wash for me.
Unknown Soldier
Banned
They're making it look like Marcus dies...
...which means he probably won't.
Also only 1 second of the Cole Train is not nearly enough.
...which means he probably won't.
Also only 1 second of the Cole Train is not nearly enough.
Primethius
Banned
I haven't really been keeping up with the discussion around the story of the game but...
I can't seem them reintroducing Marcus only to kill him off.
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
Don't want to show off too much of the fanservice before release!
Jup, Dedi servers. All MS games have that now i believe.
Mr.Fletcher
Member
https://cdn.gamerant.com/wp-content/uploads/gears-of-war-4-pouncers-concept-art.jpg.optimal.jpg
Rod Fergusson interview with some new campaign footage.
https://youtu.be/vX6aLZZRNqg
True.
Cole Train gonna die instead, they won't kill Marcus until the next one or the one after that probably.
No one stops the Cole Train!11
Nah. Cole train has always been there for the comic relief. I mean they could kill him and people are not gonna like it. But if you kill a character there must be some emotional bond to it. Dont think Cole is the character for that. Dont think they will kill Marcus also. That will piss off alot of people. If they want to get slowly get rid of him in the future and focus on JD there are alot of other ways to do that. Think Marcus will get injured in GoW 4. Creates that bonding moment between him and JD.
OrbitalBeard
Member
I can't thank you and your team enough for including this feature.
I'm assuming if you play with bots, you can do so offline?
Mr.Fletcher
Member
While it might feel like we have seen a fair bit of the game, I don't think we've seen much of the campaign at all.
We've only been shown the abandoned village (and flashes of a couple of other locations).
I wonder how diverse it'll be?
We've only got 24 hours to work with, so I can't imagine it'll be Uncharted 2-levels of environmental variety, but I'm sure there's plenty of other locations.
We've only been shown the abandoned village (and flashes of a couple of other locations).
I wonder how diverse it'll be?
We've only got 24 hours to work with, so I can't imagine it'll be Uncharted 2-levels of environmental variety, but I'm sure there's plenty of other locations.
Yeah curious also.
VolticArchangel
Member
You can. Splitscreen, LAN with 4 other X1's and LAN with PC in private versus X-Play (don't quote me on this as I'm just assuming LAN X1/PC is supported because private versus X-Play is).
Going by Gears tradition, the campaign will be split into 5 ACTS with around 5+ chapters in each ACT unless they've changed it this time. Also, the games dont just abruptly end an area just because an ACT's over. They slowly transition to newer locations through chapters, as it gives more depth to the campaign by travelling with the characters, even if it is in the succeeding ACTS.
Since the total timeframe of events happening is closer to 1 than, 2 or 3, I'd think probably 5 diverse areas at least.
We've seen two of those in trailers already. The starting area (the COG stronghold and outsiders camp which get attacked by swarm and Kait's mom killed) and Marcus' farm being attacked by DB's. I wouldn't be surprised if they have a throwback level like what Metal Gear 4 did with Shadow Moses (revisiting some GeOW 1 landmarks or probably Jacinto? Maybe). Finishing off with a completely new area not even hinted in the trailers (like what Azura was to GeOW 3) and the Swarm fortress/stronghold where we take out the final boss or that dude who looks like a grenadier elite, if he is this game's RAAM.
Yeah, sure. Just like Master Chief earned his rest in Halo 4. Hint: Marcus is the poster child (no pun intended) of Gears of War. He's going nowhere.
jediyoshi
Member
By virtue of him not being the main playable character, it's already plenty of steps removed from a comparison to Halo. It wouldn't make a huge marketing change to not have had him in. Hell, pretty sure one of those first trailers just implied he was dead.
Eeh. He's arguably the poster child of Gears of War 1-3, but J.D. is the poster child of Gears 4.
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
WadiumArcadium
Member
Marcus is the Han Solo of Gears 4. He comes back to help the new characters out and gets chainsawed by JD.
i really love the lissie cover of nothing else matters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Jq5ABwhCg
Gears trailers are the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Jq5ABwhCg
Gears trailers are the best