Oh yea, definitely. But, seeing how it’s to 15 and there are 5 teams, some times you don’t even get a chance to touch a power weapon. 
5 minutes is way too long to wait for a match on a game that JUST came out. I mean on COD5 I can get a match literally in seconds.
Still they’ll more than likely patch it seeing how Gears1 got patched left and right.
Me and Zoolander beasted Wingman last night. Shit was tight!
I been playing wingman a lot since gow 2 came out today I played for nearly 4 hours straight losing only 3 matches.
Just because a team spawn near boomshot, torque, nades, pr especially snipe doesn’t mean guaranteed kills in the least. If someone has boomshot I find cover or just kill them with hammerburst while they reload (undisputed best weapon in the game) or get my partner to flank him and I can roll away fro ma boomshot pretty easily now. Torque bow is only really advantageous on river and that’s not because of the torque bow but because of the way the tower is setup you can plant smokes and nades in there and have an impenetrable fortress giving you time to snipe all day and even that isn’t a guaranteed kill. I can still flush the torque guy out with mortar or shoot the smokes from outside or have my partner rush in to take the stun from smokes while I rush in after wards killing the guy who tries to kill my stunned partner.
The torque, snipe, n mortar are really good on day1 but once again only because the stairs makes for a great defensive position but even then distraction and bait tactics work pretty well.
Almost never does anyone instantly rush for boom/mulcher on hail they’re located in an exposed part of the map where you can be surrounded from all sides by other teams. Don’t forget they nerfed splash damage a lot it’s easier to roll sideways from a boomshot and kill the guy before he gets to pop off another.
So trust me the spawning near power weapons is not an excuse at all nor does it give any significant advantage except for mortar on pavilion which is straightup stupid.
Is the spawning in wingman random? I think it is and sometimes it really really sucks to spawn in the middle of a map so right from the beginning of the game you have no cover and all teams surround you:rofl:
:lol: It’s funny that you think the boom is easily dodge able. Yea, it got nerfed but the fact of the matter is that you can’t avoid it against a good player. The most you can do is take cover behind something or try to roll which is extremely ineffective against someone who constantly plays against those tactics. I always find it funny how people try to dodge by roll and getting up against a wall when I just wait till the roll is over. <—Really good tactic for shotty by the way, which I picked up from GOW1
Lets just say if I get a boom, unless I’m being shot at by 2+ teams at the same time, I’ll get 2 kills. The thing about it is that you can’t play with it thinking your invincible. You mentioned that you’ll take cover and shoot the guy but what player (good) wouldn’t take cover even if they had a boom?! Also, the only reason I can think of for getting close to a boomer is that he isn’t using active reload very well. Most of the kills come from the second shot since the active makes it extremely powerful and gives less than 1 second 1/2 to get close to him.
Oh and you rush the weapons after quickly scoping your surroundings. I learned that real quick on hail. I spawned near the boom and said “sweet” but didn’t notice the other two teams keepin an eye on it. 
The snipe isn’t as bad unless you’re playing with beginners who constantly do executions which give easy points to the sniper.
I have played more than you or anyone on my list for that matter when it comes to wingman. Check out the score and I’m a couple thousand more points higher than anyone else. (last time I checked since I haven’t been playing much). It’s still not amazingly overwhelming, you’ll always get people who don’t play real well or who are just plain dumb and don’t take cover with the boom. But, if I see a boom I don’t take any chances and just run away for the time being. Some times you can egg 'em on and make them waste their ammo (3x) but, I always assume that they’re like me. That kind of thinking makes me live longer. :bgrin:
It’s still really fun regardless and I rarely complain about it. 'Cept when maybe one team just spawns right there flippin 5x in a row.
Snipe is terrible when everyone is alive in wingman shit is just too hectic but when you get down to 1 or 2 teams then it’s good if you can find a good spot like the little bridge on the side of hail. Boom is easily the second best weapon but just because a team spawns next to it does not significantly raise their chances of winning and I get almost all my kills by camping near power weapons waiting for everyone else to get them:rofl:
Blood drive is a terrible map for wingman btw I always spawn at the bottom of the stairs where the other teams roll up on me in 2 seconds within the start of a match soooooo gay.
Yea, sniping is a little hard on that. I’m sorta glad they nerfed the active but I miss downing people with one shot.
Have you played weapon sliders yet? It makes getting a power weapon a lot easier and the odds of getting downed drop tremendously.
I get most of my kills from a shotty and meat shields but boom never hurt anyone. :bgrin: In fact that’s about the only way I can kill a power weapon, run up behind them melee and shotty. So glad this combo still works, yea, they nerfed the melee and some times they don’t get stunned but it’s still good enough for me to use more than not.
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That being said, one thing I don’t like in wingman is the fact that it is execution. I start with the hammerburst, which is far as I can tell is incapable of finishing someone off. I hate having to try and run into the danger zone to finish them, up close the damn lancers are everywhere and man are they broken. Oh and does anyone else find frags a little too powerful? I mean first off, the radius is ridiculous, then you can plant them anywhere, and if that’s not enough you get 2 of them for some reason. Oh yeah, and the respawn is really quick too. If I spawn near frags on pavilion, I will usually pick them up, plant them, wait 5 seconds and get 2 more. In wingman, planted grenades are awesome b/c it is too hectic for most people to check every wall.
Let’s play now. Yeah chainsaw is broken because stopping power doesn’t work on it and no frags aren’t too good they’re just better then they were in gow1 and you can shoot them if they’re planted.
One wingman game me n my boy were planting them on the ground and getting mad kills:rofl:
…so I played Horde mode last night for the first time with a couple of friends. All I can say is that its the most fun I’ve ever had online shooting shit.
Zero lag, excellent connection and we suck…but it was fun. We could only get through 7 waves together.
Game is sick.
Chainsaw isn’t broken…as long as you have one too :rock:
beat campaign mode tonight…with a fractured right hand.
FIGHT THROUGH THE PAIN indeed
co fuck’n signed… I got tired of waiting for matches this weekend and ended up pop’n in GOW1 got in a match in about 45 seconds… ahh, the good o’l days of picking ur preferences and find’n a room with 7 pl on the map u desire.:sad:
i dunno what game ur play’n but, the wait time for gow2 is equal to the speed of a special Olympic hurdler… Seriously, that, shit, is, a huge, turn, off! I wake up in the morning, turn on the xbox, go to match making and click on find a team. I get my clothes ready, take a shower, dry off, go back into my room, and the match making screen is at “found players” with’n 2 minutes after that, i can finally play a game… Kinda bs is that??
They definitely need to patch that shit because currently (unless you have a team of friends) u spend more time waiting for a match than actually playing the game. GOW never ever had that problem. The only big thing i remember them patching when the game first came out is that you couldn’t hear ppl just joined a match after the game started until the game was over and everyone went back into the lobby… sorry 4 the rant but seriously this shit isn’t kool.
Thats just what i was gonna say. All you have when you got a boom or tourque in ur hands is aim it at them like ur about to fire, wait for the " oh shit i gotta dodge that roll" then blast them when the land
u can plant them on the ground?
I gotta try that 2nite.
Yeah I saw you playing GoW1 and was thinking “wtf is he doing?”
And yeah man you can plant them shits on the ground haha, shit is too good. We had some horrible Matchmaking times when we played last week, like 10-12 minutes right?
Ya man completely unbearable. The funny thing is i saw one of my other friends jump on gow1 the weekend gow2 came out and sent him a message like, dude :wtf:? Told me he was tried of waiting and missed the run and gun action of the first one… A week later, there i am doing the same shit.
It would be nice if you can shoot them just once and they explode. You have to shoot at it like downing a character or something and by the time it pops the guy who planted it knows you’re there.
A larger area or a couple more seconds before they pop would probably make them more even in those areas. That way I can at least jump the second I hear the beep.
On the hallway where the frags/ink are in blood drive there’s always someone who plants them on both entrances and camps the whole match so instead of shooting the nades and flushing him out I found out you can roll through them. You’ll still take a lot of damage but it’s a very useful tactic.
I’m beasting on wingman winning most of my matches but everyone always drops halfway through the match when my team has like 12 points because they’re too far behind to catchup this whole dropping thing is a huge problem in any multiplayer xbl game I really really wish someone would have the balls to severely punish droppers:bluu:
This is true but i think its different if the player is still planting the grenade. I somehow committed suicide white i was planting a grenade on the wall while being shot from a pretty far distance with a shotgun… I tried this a few times on ppl while thier planting and its worked. Another trick i learned is shooting power weapons near ppl with their tagged grenades, it multiply’s the regular boom or torque splash by like 5, its ridiculous, and it counts as ur kill.
A funny thing i tried this morning was planting a smoke and poison grenade right next to each other:rofl: its awesome. I baited 2 ppl to the area i planted them and they trigged and exploded at the same time. both of them guys were already getting poisoned when the smoke put them on their ass. They didn’t even get a chance to stand back up before they died, it was like… poetry:badboy:
Anyone sign up on the gears2 forum on my OP? lots of um interesting info there.
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Nice, I was thinking about doing something like that but never got a chance to do it. I think the poison’s strength should increase some because tossing them is rather pointless. EVERYONE always just moves out of range which is why I stick with the other nades in fact I don’t think I’ve ever gotten killed by a poison nade before. I just move away from the mist and that’s it. A flame nade like in COD5 would be tight though.
Practice up kidddddies!