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empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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I'm really enjoying the game I really don't know what people want or are expecting.

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empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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ChickenHeart posted:

Having a nice time on the pc with a bud so far.At the moment I love how the COG conveniently replaced all their forces with robots so the protagonists don't have to deal with any pesky issues of morality in regards to killing soldiers.

The population has been decimated following the Locust War as well. It's definitely convenient to fight robots and monsters but there's a decent reason for it in the story.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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Matchmaking quality will always depend on player population. Game just actually released today.

Hoping it will improve as more people dip into multi.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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Had a game of Guardian on Gridlock that was stalemated for like 6 minutes.

Just trading kills and no one getting near the leader. I break off, grab frags and go on a suicide mission for their leader.

Find him in their tower (by Boltok) and manage to stick him for a double kill. Leader dead.

Run back to my spawn which is where our leader is and they are getting pushed by two enemies. Shotgun them both in the back and we clean up the rest.

God I love Gears.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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http://imgur.com/iFysoTU
http://imgur.com/adR0CiV
http://imgur.com/WGasoR1

GuardianOfAsgaard posted:

How do you actually get them? I figured they'd just automatically be added to my account.

I got 2 messages with 2 codes each sent to my Xbox account.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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This freezing/hitching is annoying me a lot:
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/HungryForApples/video/22369698#t=18

Anyone else getting this at the beginning of each round?

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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Finster Dexter posted:

Whoa not seeing that at all on PC.

I found their forum post. It's a known issue.
https://gearsofwar.com/en-us/forums...612c1e337/posts

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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yeah idk, my guess is something in the cache and XBO keeps 4 games worth of cache at any time so this effectively clears the cache? who knows i can't believe they didn't catch this.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

That sucks but I guess there is good reasoning, I mean you would just get a lot of people buying the game, using the pc code and then returning the disc for a full refund.

They could just put a code in the box to unlock PC, but I'm guessing Play Anywhere is Digital Only because the cost of goods sold on digital is much lower than boxed. Margins are a bitch.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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Sultan Tarquin posted:

Played a bunch more rounds of MP and my opinion has gotten a lot better. Arms race is a fantastic game mode but I only got to play it once before people voted for gridlock warzone twice in a loving row.

Arms Race is so much fun and I also love Dodgeball, a lot.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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Sultan Tarquin posted:

What's it play like? I never saw it come up in the vote and it's literally impossible to find a match outside of the social playlist.

Dodgeball is AWESOME.

It's like Prisonball.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisonball

If you die, you're out unless someone on your team gets a kill, which puts you on a respawn timer. As long as you have at least 1 surviving teammate when the time expires, you respawn. Enemy team is on the same rules. You go until one team is eliminated.

You end up getting a lot of natural swings between 2 v 5 and 5 v 2 usually. It's very fun and really gives you that last man out savior feeling if you pull off a crazy comeback, which isn't really possible anymore in TDM since you are usually 1 vs. 5 (with 3 respawns) or whatever.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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SeANMcBAY posted:

All the core modes are pretty fun except for KOTH. People rag on Gears being a mindless shotgun fest but KOTH is really the epitome of that.

KOTH is good for two things (which are really the same thing).
Grinding points and grinding kills for bounties.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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Skills slowly coming back!
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/HungryForApples/video/22425584

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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Agoat posted:

It works out for the Counter-Strike guys.

A good, balanced map is timeless. I'd rather have Gridlock in over a new map that might not play well. I'm glad it was the only old map brought back so far, though, and I generally like all 9 new maps.

Though The Dam lags terribly for me now on Xbox One since the last title update :(

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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RBX posted:

Played on Xbox with yayo today it was great but I'm playing on PC currently and with the increased for and overall speed being faster it's perfect but holy poo poo PC loves the lancer.

Mouse aiming will definitely favor Lancer.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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Azhais posted:

Anyone playing the single player on PC? And does it, you know, work? I got this for free with my video card, and about 15 minutes into the first real mission in the first combat with the little tracker balls, the combat just doesn't end. I kill everything, all my companions cluster by the gate like they're expecting something to happen, but combat doesn't end and the cutscene dialogue (I watched an LP thinking I was just doing something wrong) doesn't play, so I can't continue. I've restarted the mission a couple times, quit and restarted the game, nothing. Simply can't progress.

Have any of you seen that problem/know of a solution?

Had no issues on PC campaign through the entire thing. Try restarting? There might also be a combat ball (lol) stuck somewhere and all the enemies aren't actually dead. That's been known to happen in Gears.

Did you hear the all clear guitar riff?

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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Arcsquad12 posted:

What exactly should I be doing to counter enemies who vault into my cover? I try to melee them but they always get a gnasher shot off that drops me before my melee goes off.

In campaign or multi?

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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Arcsquad12 posted:

Campaign right now but I'll take some multiplayer tips if you've got them.

Campaign, try to lancer the enemy down before it gets to your cover. They will slow down as they run to you when you're putting shots into them.

If you can't, just back off the cover and move side to side. Switch to your shotgun or other closer range weapon if you have it.

In multiplayer, if someone is charging you without cover, just put them down with lancer fire. If they are moving on you using cover, switch to your shotgun.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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96 spacejam posted:

Is there an LFG site similar to the ones out there for Destiny? It would be great to get a Horde team or whatever that actually you know, communicates.

edit: Can you play in non-ranked matches? I don't want my placement matches to be my first 5 games in multi.

Social Quickplay is unranked.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

If you get a duplicate bounty is it just lost? Don't see any indication that I any more than 1 of each.

Bottom right of the card has the quantity.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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SpaceMonkey posted:

I got two more codes for Gear Pack 5+ left.
Get 'em before they're gone!

Pls?

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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Holy poo poo the Run the Jewels pack is $20

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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I took:

QMDPW-X3KJK-7Q76F-9FM44-24QCZ

Thanks!

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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SpaceMonkey posted:


33HWM-Q2377-3DFXY-W6FV2-RCPVZ

I saved 3 if these get lurked, send me pm if you didn't get one.

I grabbed the 4th above.

empathe fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Nov 28, 2016

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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I enjoy the MP just fine but it will get more wall bouncey over time as the people sticking around are gonna be more try hard.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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RBX posted:

and loving sawn off shotgun.

Oh god I forgot about that... it did give scrubs a chance to luck into a kill with a huge penalty on reload, but yeah fuuuuuck that gun.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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That's exciting but they need to increase the scrap and credits you get more.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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I'm having a loving blast in versus.

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/HungryForApples/video/25972937
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/HungryForApples/video/25973290

Servers appear to be hosed though... just had two games where most players disconnected right after starting?

empathe fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Jan 22, 2017

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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RBX posted:

I put some gifs, tips, and more gamertags in the OP. I'm on almost everyday with my friend if anybody ever wants to play. Right now the game really needs one damage model and not two, stop rotating out maps, fix the positional audio in Multiplayer, and stop the Region Hopping going on.

Add me: HungryForApples

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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RBX posted:

This video just inspired me. Stuff like this is what elevates Gears over every other game. The skill ceiling feels limitless at times and everything is so satisfying to pull off.

https://youtu.be/fp3B2Jy8-xk

That was insane.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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I think i'm running into way more PC players now cause they are terrrrible

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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tehinternet posted:

Yeah, it's a lot harder to move with KB/M and rifles are mostly trash in this so the aiming advantage you get with a mouse is largely negated. It's a bitch.

But it's so purdy!

Yeah, if I play on PC I just use my Xbox controller.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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I decided to just max out my sensitivity it's helping.

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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Feb. Update Details

1 New Map + 1 Remix (ugh)
War Machine!
Impact but Dark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quu1vSnmuHI

http://news.xbox.com/2017/02/07/gears-4-celebrates-valentines-day/

There will be a Valentine's Day event and they are changing Guardian so that players spawn on their Leader (good change).

Pre-Game Lobbies for Core and Competitive Matchmaking in March.

Legacy Characters being worked on.

edit: War Machine's spawns are terrible. If you dive immediately on spawn to get into a roadie run, you run directly into something.

empathe fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Feb 8, 2017

empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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Does that happen to people that frequently?
I think I've only had a few of these happen and nothing that blatant.

Didn't they imply they had a fix coming for this?

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empathe
Nov 9, 2003

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https://gearsofwar.com/en-us/community/gears4-gnasher-march-update

The Gnasher Update

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