Gears of War 2 Thread: FIGHT THROUGH THE PAIN!

[KYO84]

stopping power?

Bullets now have Stopping Power effects, Roadie Running can now be stopped completely with a couple bullets (seen at the 4:10 mark in the “Exclusive Multiplayer Gameplay”) making Roadie Running+Shotgun/Frag Tag much harder which is good thing.

In the live feed you could see how effective it was, pretty dope feature.

[anon26555290]

ok the stopping power of shots sounds like its a well thought out addition

… but arent you guys going to miss The Shotty Madness Circles of Death???

I know I will. Alot of my multikills were rampages with the shotgun.

[mcginnis]

Scapegoat?

Ok, let me say this again. Top. Players. Not n00bs that make excuses when they lose. Not billy from down the sidewalk. Not Fraggurl187 from xbox live. TOP PLAYERS agreed that the host needs to be marked in competitive play. In MLG, teams have constructed anti-host strategies. Host advantage was real. To many people acknowledged it and played regardless of it.

Also, all the glitches that you just saw are post patching. Cliffy b didn 't really make any mistakes, I mean, before the first patch he ADMITTED in a GI interview that he did not design GoW to be competitive. And it was only patched because of how quickly it took off.

That and playing a game and agreeing not to do broken stuff doesn’t make the game unbroken. These problems are there regardless. Also, Gow also suffered from completely fucking random glitches that sometimes happened without the player doing anything to trigger it. I helped host a few tournaments here in nashville/middle Tennessee. We had to restart matches sometimes because the match would begin and some players would not be able to roadie run for a few seconds. Or grenades becoming fused within a character model once it touches the ground. (no, that’s not supposed to happen) A few times, I’ve seen matches start and somebody can’t equip their secondary weapon. Or my personal favorite, getting revived, standing up, and getting stuck in the spot you were downed in. there’s even more random crap than that, but you should get the idea. running tournaments for this game is a pain in the ass because of all that.

And that’s mostly why GoW doesn’t have a big competitive circuit as alot of other games. Many people just outright hated the multiplayer. I’ve seen a few really good players, who win tournaments and get the money, say THEY hate the game because it’s broken.

And outside form the glitches, many say that the basic design just doesn’t work. The list of things I’ve seen people complain about contain the following:

How melee’s leave you stunned.

How the shotgun often degenerates strategy into seeing who can roll the best…

…but then also how the game NEEDS the shotgun, otherwise melees would rule the game.

How the grenade stun animation gets you downed for free.

I could go on.

But take note, that I’m not expressing my opinion on the game. All this is just the truth. and yeah, the chainsaw sucked.

That host stuff was pretty ridiculous. The fact of the matter was that players eventually only wanted to be on the host’s team for the free win. :lol: I actually tried playing host a few times and found it pretty boring; I was wayyy too powerful and in every encounter I had the advantage. I think I would rather get owned by the host than be host but, that was just me and I’ve played lots of people who wanted to be host ALL the time.

I haven’t heard or read that they fixed it to be random yet. I really hope they did though but, either way I’ll be playing this next month regardless.

[KYO84]

A poster on the GameFAQs forums has a copy of the game and is posting a bunch of high quality direct feed multiplayer videos of the game on his filefront page here >>> http://hosted.filefront.com/mpina27/, check’em out.

[KYO84]

Wow, you can see and HEAR(listen to all the Lancers) how effective range gunfights are going to be in this game from watching those videos, good shit. :tup: The new Left Bumper-Team Location UI is much better than the previous game, the matchmaking lobby is also much improved. Although they were playing vs. bots I can see the potential of crawling while downed, game is looking really good.

[Tigerboi]

ok the stopping power of shots sounds like its a well thought out addition

… but arent you guys going to miss The Shotty Madness Circles of Death???

I know I will. Alot of my multikills were rampages with the shotgun.

Yeah, one guy with a full shotgun active can kill an entire if nobody is paying attention. But The shotgun was the reason alot of matches took forever to. Most teams played defensively because they were afraid of one another’s shotguns. So hopefully this game will be more than “get HB, Get Boom, Hide.”.

[MrArcadePerfect]

i decided to get a new xbox just for this game
i don’t think i can live without a 360 lol

[donaldducktm]

Game looks decent…I’ll prolly play the single player and that’s it.

[Tigerboi]

Your avatar SUCKS.

But speaking of said single player, are most of th emissions going to be underground?

[KYO84]

So the game leaked already, wtf? How are so many people getting the game this early?

[orochizoolander]

Someone in the industry must have gotten a copy from the factory or a promo copy from a higher up or maybe someone just stole it lol.

In a few days I’ll be adding everyone who’s getting this in my OP so we can get an srk gears clan going so just say if you want to be added.

[SNAAAAKE]

<< playing right nowz!! YOU MAD??

controls is still whack though(same as first one). I dunno…the game just feels real slow to me. I probably wont be playing this online as I am easily annoyed. maybe co-op.

army of two and clubs has better controls than gears. maybe I will get used to it if I just keep playing or something…

[orochizoolander]

What kinda competition could you have:rofl:

[RLP]

Scratch one grub! =d

[crimzonflame]

…just finished the first chapter. Feels like more of the same, but again it was only the first chapter.

[donaldducktm]

Your avatar SUCKS.

Oh you mad? :woot:

You mad :woot:

[TheSix]

My friend just downloaded it (apparently, the torrent is going “quick den a mofucka”).

Going to go try it out…

[Pained_Auron]

i just bought a new hdtv to prepare for gears 2

[_hogun_A_a_in]

Cough…leaked…Definitely a MUST BUY…campaign is ridiculous

[DeathReaper47]

Fuck, how are you guys playing this shit early? PM please.