I always get massive lag on the shotgun. You can always see if there is lag with the shotgun by shooting at a wall and see how long it takes for the decal to appear on the wall. It should be instant and is when you are host. I can't believe they haven't sorted that out...
Gears of War 2 MP Game Arranging Thread
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Join in tonight, I like it so wouldn't mind doing it a few times. Helps the kill stats, plus you get to keep reviving madfruit. It's like working at accident and emergency. Some people carry lancers, some sniper rifles. With the fruit on the team you need a defib as secondary weapon.
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I finished off level 50 last night, although i did all the levels in a totally random order. I think i did 1-19. Then last night teamed up with some guys doing 36 got up to 50. then went back and started at lvl9 up to 35 so we some of the guys could complete some other rounds. Its awesome, you have to really work as a unit, especially when the blood mounts come, although a shield and the 'cowboy' pistol seem a pretty good method to hold them off aswell as planted shields to block boomers. Shame the shields go unless you pick them back up after each round.
I do find headshots are difficult and dont always get the oneshot kill, not sure if thats a latency issue that plagues me on COD4. The Kantus need about 3 headshots to die:S and boomers seem pretty uneffected by them.
I do find headshots are difficult and dont always get the oneshot kill, not sure if thats a latency issue that plagues me on COD4. The Kantus need about 3 headshots to die:S and boomers seem pretty uneffected by them.
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I noticed a fair bit of lag last night
On one occasion There was a chap to my left I turned shot, he shot back I shot again and my bullets hit air. Then he teleported to my right and filled me full of buckshot.
I had a fight on canals with Alrik. I couldn't get a shot on him so I kept dodging. From my perspective he hit me twice and missed me twice. (hit, miss, hit, miss) after the final missed shot I died.
I also had a lancer battle with someone where I put 2 perfect active reload clips into him and I was downed by about 9/10 a clip of his. Not so happy about that.
I've also noticed (as I was dead a lot) that Alrik can sustain a higher level of damage than the rest of us (well maybe not gord but gords the host)
On one occasion There was a chap to my left I turned shot, he shot back I shot again and my bullets hit air. Then he teleported to my right and filled me full of buckshot.
I had a fight on canals with Alrik. I couldn't get a shot on him so I kept dodging. From my perspective he hit me twice and missed me twice. (hit, miss, hit, miss) after the final missed shot I died.
I also had a lancer battle with someone where I put 2 perfect active reload clips into him and I was downed by about 9/10 a clip of his. Not so happy about that.
I've also noticed (as I was dead a lot) that Alrik can sustain a higher level of damage than the rest of us (well maybe not gord but gords the host)
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Pro tip: make xbl names short or easy to abbreviate. Saves me spending 5 seconds trying to pronounce names when I should be screaming that there's an enemy behind you 
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Pro tip: make xbl names short or easy to abbreviate. Saves me spending 5 seconds trying to pronounce names when I should be screaming that there's an enemy behind you
Pro tip 2: in the situation above give them another name Wingzero124 is now Caboose.
Pro tip 3: don't set voice comms to friends only when playing party games. It really makse things bad when you are playing Wingman with someone not on your FL. Especially when you want to ask if they are any good with the mortar. Running past it and shooting at it doesn't seem to convey the same message. - And when I realised my team mate was not going to pick it up so I should, Alrik rolled up and killed me then my team mate
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Can you explain what advantages the host gets? I have fast upload. Will it stop the Rain killing me?
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i hate it when you run up behind sum1 to chainsaw them into tiny pieces and they turn around at perfect time and take your head off with one shot with shotty,some guy kept doing that to me last night
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I'm finding the chainsaw to be risky business in Gears 2, so I'm forcing myself to use the shotty, but then I go and get chainsawed by other people 
I know who all the voices are by now so I never noticed it wasn't doing that.
Can you explain what advantages the host gets? I have fast upload. Will it stop the Rain killing me?
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You'll not get the bullet lag that i described above. If your host and shoot at a wall with a shotgun the bullet decal is instant, if your not, try and shoot the wall again and it'll have bullet lag. It may not seem like much but it effects hgow hard it is to kill someone in a firefight.
That's why g0rd is so good online with his sniper as he doesn't have any lag on it.
I'll be host next time!
I have a up to 8MB BT business connection. The contention ratio is good and doesn't lag. And a big plus is that i won't get any lag! Weehay!
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So the head of the lobby is game host by default?
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I'm finding the chainsaw to be risky business in Gears 2, so I'm forcing myself to use the shotty, but then I go and get chainsawed by other people
I feel your plight. In the submission game that never ended. I saw you running down the stairs towards me, I pretended to have not seen you and kept running, with the plan to 180 and chainsaw/shotty you (cant quite remember which) but you had the other one and mowed me down.
So I stand by my belief that whether I'm using the Saw or Shotty if my enemy uses the other. I'm dead.
I wish that were true. Gord was good with the SR, TB and HoD in GoW1 and I was hosting most of those games. Ok being host probably is exaggerating his prowess with these weapons, but not by much
Its a deal.I'll be host next time!
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You'll not get the bullet lag that i described above. If your host and shoot at a wall with a shotgun the bullet decal is instant, if your not, try and shoot the wall again and it'll have bullet lag. It may not seem like much but it effects hgow hard it is to kill someone in a firefight.
That's why g0rd is so good online with his sniper as he doesn't have any lag on it.
I'll be host next time!
I was half joking, but is the bullet lag with all weapons (I only hear people mention shotguns, which I don't use that much tbh). I did mention on voice comms last week when I saw you/kalanium headshot someone with a shotgun from quite a distance, although for the life of me I can't recall who was hosting.
If the host gets full advantage does it really matter what the upload speed is (assuming that lag is not an issue, when g0rd, kalanium etc host)?
I have ADSL2+ so lower latency and possibly higher upload (1.5mbit) than upto 8MB ADSL1 connections
rp2000
They can't even say a relatively easy one like mine right.
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Most people call me thumbs though, which makes me feel a little mafia-esque.
I was half joking, but is the bullet lag with all weapons (I only hear people mention shotguns, which I don't use that much tbh). I did mention on voice comms last week when I saw you/kalanium headshot someone with a shotgun from quite a distance, although for the life of me I can't recall who was hosting.
If the host gets full advantage does it really matter what the upload speed is (assuming that lag is not an issue, when g0rd, kalanium etc host)?
I have ADSL2+ so lower latency and possibly higher upload (1.5mbit) than upto 8MB ADSL1 connections
rp2000
That was me that got that shot in horde on mansion. He was standing still so it was easy to get the shot.
The lag is more apparent on the shottie as it's a single shot so you have to make those shots count, whereas with the lancer you can pretty much spray and pray, it does help though if the latency is down with all weapons.
I was joking at my internet as it's slow. But it's a business connection on a road that is full of over 60's that don't use the internet so it's a pretty stable connection.
They can't even say a relatively easy one like mine right.
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Most people call me thumbs though, which makes me feel a little mafia-esque.
Lol, surprised how many people call me Si to be honest, Madfruit likes to call me Rog though - maybe he is dreaming about what he wants to do?