Gears of War 3 Dated (Official blah blah)

biron_w · 27 Mar 2012 at 23:58

dannyjo22 said:
New maps are excellent in my opinion.

I agree. I really like the new layout of Jacinto.
I just played private TDM to try them out and just like I feared Raven Down is utterly terrible for respawning games. You have enemies constantly spawning next to you :mad:

Woden · 28 Mar 2012 at 00:05

Already working on the achievements

dannyjo22 · 28 Mar 2012 at 08:17

biron_w said:
I agree. I really like the new layout of Jacinto.
I just played private TDM to try them out and just like I feared Raven Down is utterly terrible for respawning games. You have enemies constantly spawning next to you

Raven Down is awesome on horde. Defend the monument and the map is so small if you push up they spawn next to you there as well.

Woden said:
Already working on the achievements

Tried for hours last night to get the **** guardian achievement, gave up. I thought the foreshadowing achieve was annoying. That one tops it.

ic1male · 28 Mar 2012 at 09:42

I saw this achievement

Achieve the maximum level on all fortifications in Horde mode.

Have they given us some new levels for the fortifications? Or just an achievement if you maxed the existing ones out? (Too busy playing Mass Effect 3 to try Gears at the mo.)

dannyjo22 · 28 Mar 2012 at 10:04

It is maxing out all the fortifications from retail version, you will get it for loading up the game. They cannot add achievements that would require more than one set of dlc.

lordrobs · 4 Apr 2012 at 15:33

Am I right in guessing that there was no problem with getting Forces of Nature with the Season Pass when it first came out?

I only use my xbox once a week normally when I go round a friends house and after not going last week due to work I plugged it in to get the new maps only to find that the season pass won't bring up the prompt to download it leaving me with only the option to buy it for 800MP :mad:

A quick check of the googles shows a load of people on the EPIC forum with the same issue and no signs of a resolution. Rather miffed :mad:

dannyjo22 · 4 Apr 2012 at 15:42

Yeah I had no issues at all. I have not read many with the issue either. Done the usual stuff, clearing the cache?

lordrobs · 4 Apr 2012 at 15:47

Yeah tried that, just makes me re download the latest 4MB update

dannyjo22 · 4 Apr 2012 at 15:50

All you can do then is phone microsoft support. Tell them the issue and they will probably give you another code for forces of nature. They will see you haven't been able to download it and haven't already.

Or do what Wyrdo did, pay for it 800msp and then claim them back with microsoft as they know you have the pass. Say it wasn't giving you the prompt for free and charged you 800 points. Wyrdo got his back with one phonecall.

ic1male · 4 Apr 2012 at 17:53

Hmm, that's a bit worrying. I haven't downloaded it yet, either.

jamesy505 · 4 Apr 2012 at 18:18

I had no problems downloading it. Was prompted when starting up Gears

lordrobs · 5 Apr 2012 at 09:33

dannyjo22 said:
All you can do then is phone microsoft support. Tell them the issue and they will probably give you another code for forces of nature. They will see you haven't been able to download it and haven't already.

Or do what Wyrdo did, pay for it 800msp and then claim them back with microsoft as they know you have the pass. Say it wasn't giving you the prompt for free and charged you 800 points. Wyrdo got his back with one phonecall.

Well, I won't be playing GOW for another couple of weeks now so I'll see if a fix is out nearer the time.

If not I'll give them a bell.

I did try the Xbox 360 Twitter support while I was out and got a response back of "we haven't got any specifics on that" to my question of if / when a fix will be available

Drunzer · 6 Apr 2012 at 15:33

Guys this might be slightly off topic but I thought this might be a decent place to ask, if you have played through all the games...are the Gears of War novels worth reading?

dannyjo22 · 6 Apr 2012 at 16:51

I've downloaded the audio books. I will let you know once I've listened to them

biron_w · 7 Apr 2012 at 00:06

Horde with randoms is very annoying.
Played last night with a friend and some randoms. One of them unlocked the SilverBack and just hogged that the entire time. We got to wave 40 and everybody died. As soon as he lost the SilverBack he quit as did the other players :mad:

Woden · 7 Apr 2012 at 00:20

I cant play for more than a few rounds without ragequiting. Seriously who's idea was it to put the sawn-off and retro in there?

dannyjo22 · 7 Apr 2012 at 07:29

biron_w said:
Horde with randoms is very annoying.
Played last night with a friend and some randoms. One of them unlocked the SilverBack and just hogged that the entire time. We got to wave 40 and everybody died. As soon as he lost the SilverBack he quit as did the other players

It's terrible at times, if you ever need another gun chuck me an invite. I don't tend to spend anything until wave 40 anymore. Except on insane a good team can hold them off until 40 and save the cash for defences from 40-50.

I see little point of buying in the early rounds as you get a bezerk that wipes out all your spending anyway. Not playing it this weekend though as they have a rubbish retro horde playlist with no fortifications. My god it's boring.

Woden said:
I cant play for more than a few rounds without ragequiting. Seriously who's idea was it to put the sawn-off and retro in there?

I don't mind either tbh. The retro recoil makes it quite tough to use and the sawn off only gets a player one kill usually. SO they are rarely an issue in TDM as they usually at best go 1-1 KDR and in KOTH and Guardian which I prefer they are a hinderance to their team with their reload times. They cannot protect ****!

The gnasher is still the most annoying weapon, they can still run at me while I'm lancering them.

Woden · 7 Apr 2012 at 12:57

The retro is way overpowered at medium to short range, your down in just a few rounds. And the sawn off doesn't even need to be aimed, it has almost 180 firing cone.

The gnasher should be your primary. Please tell me your not one to just sit back and cross-lancer the whole game!

dannyjo22 · 7 Apr 2012 at 14:30

Woden said:
The gnasher should be your primary. Please tell me your not one to just sit back and cross-lancer the whole game!

If was supposed to be your primary then it would be equipped as you spawn. The gnasher kills the fanbase on this game to the point you only get the players with years of experience still playing it. The gnasher kills the game from ever getting new players interested.

I love the maps and I love the game and have had to adapt to the gnasher to continue to play. If you have a team that sticks together in koth there's rarely any need to get out a gnasher because you should be stopping them dead from range.

They added stopping power to the rifle to stop players from being able to run at you with the gnasher while pouring lancer fire at them, the gnasher players cry. They only have one way of playing the game. The gnasher should be for close quarters, not range.

The sawn off was added to give new players a chance, it failed. You are never going to keep people interested with the same tired old gnasher tactic game after game. The player numbers are there for all to see.

Woden · 7 Apr 2012 at 14:50

You spawn with your rifle because the gnasher is useless at long range and you dont (well shouldn't!) spawn next to the enemy. I'm not saying you should use the gnasher all the time, there are times when the lancer is the better option, but the gnasher is your primary, thats why there is so much cover and a control system designed specifically around using it.

I'm a primarily gnasher player, but I do think being hit with a lancer should stop you running towards the enemy, it adds a bit of skill to the gnasher use.