Gears of War 3

[Jaynestown]

Good reasons really, i love it because it makes a mess and nothing beats sneaking up behind someone and turning them into a shower of insides.

My sentiments exactly! 

How is everyone doing with the mutators BTW, I've unlocked the Super reload, Flower Blood and the Laugh Track (which is f***ing annoying). I've finally got to 100 of 200 wretch kills, seems to be taking me forever, and taking even longer to get the Hail Marys and the Combat Engineers. The next one I'm closest to is Vampire, but that's 'cos I still can't get enpugh of chainsawing people!!! 

[Failed]

I've got Friendly Fire too. Beast is good for Hail Mary's.

[GamerMan316]

Good reasons really, i love it because it makes a mess and nothing beats sneaking up behind someone and turning them into a shower of insides.

My sentiments exactly! 

How is everyone doing with the mutators BTW, I've unlocked the Super reload, Flower Blood and the Laugh Track (which is f***ing annoying). I've finally got to 100 of 200 wretch kills, seems to be taking me forever, and taking even longer to get the Hail Marys and the Combat Engineers. The next one I'm closest to is Vampire, but that's 'cos I still can't get enpugh of chainsawing people!!! 

I've got 105 wretch kills so far, just keep blasting Beast on Casual and only use the Wretch, you'll get to 200 pretty quickly.

I've got the 100 Hail Mary ribbons, I had a few from quick MP matches, a sneaky way of doing it would be to play on Gridlock, either Local TDM with 35 respawns or Local KOTH, change all the weapon spawns to Boomshot, grab two boom's (6 ammo) and stay where the boltok, hammerburst spawns and fire at the enemie as they come round the corner from spawn, easily get 20/30 Hail Mary ribbons in each match, maybe more!   

[GamerMan316]

Just seen this on Twitter from @HammerOfWynn

Just got some good news on the Liquid Green skins - they will be available on XBox LIVE Marketplace starting Jan. 3rd.

Seeing as they are animated skins i'm guessing they'll be 320MSP like the others, sucks for those retards that payed $40/50/60 on Ebay, hahahahahahahahaha   

I got mine for free so it's all good.   

[GamerMan316]

Gears of War 3's Sawed-Off Range Reduced

Does getting turned into a collection of giblets by the Sawed-Off boil your blood? Do you wish that it just had a little less range on it? Well, your wish is Epic's command, as the gib range of the Sawed-Off shotgun has been reduced in response to player feedback, meaning that it doesn't gib farther than the Gnasher any longer.

If you want to bag those kills with the Sawed-Off shotgun, you'll have to get really up close and personal then, although we figured that was pretty much the case anyway.

Epic has also posted a video examining some of the weapon stats from Gears of War 3's multiplayer matches, and apparently, we're not converting Gnasher shots into kills. We should have way more Gnasher kills then Lancer kills according to the man with the stats, Senior Gameplay Programmer, Pete Knepley.

Check out the video for an explanation of some of the latest Gears of War 3 statistics, then think about upping your game with the Gnasher.

[GamerMan316]

For those of you wondering why you're not getting as much XP as usual, it's because Epic have reduced it.

Current XP ratios (as of 10th October 2011)

    TDM (Quick): 0.825
    TDM (Ranked): 1.675
    Warzone (Quick): 1.273
    Warzone (Ranked): 1.53
    Execution (Quick): 1.275
    Execution (Ranked): 1.53
    CTL (Quick): ~0.662
    CTL (Ranked): 0.795
    KoTH (Quick): 0.375
    KoTH (Ranked): 0.45
    Wingman (Quick): 1.15
    Wingman (Ranked): 1.38

Retail XP ratios (20th September 2011)

    TDM (Quick): 1.675
    TDM (Ranked): 2.01
    Warzone (Quick): 1.675
    Warzone (Ranked): 2.01
    Execution (Quick): 1.675
    Execution (Ranked): 2.01
    CTL (Quick): 1.00
    CTL (Ranked): 1.2
    KoTH (Quick): 0.7625
    KoTH (Ranked): 0.9148
    Wingman (Quick): 1.575
    Wingman (Ranked): 1.89


Quite a drop in Quick TDM but not too bad in the other game types.

[GamerMan316]

[Jaynestown]

Gears of War 3's Sawed-Off Range Reduced

Does getting turned into a collection of giblets by the Sawed-Off boil your blood? Do you wish that it just had a little less range on it? Well, your wish is Epic's command, as the gib range of the Sawed-Off shotgun has been reduced in response to player feedback, meaning that it doesn't gib farther than the Gnasher any longer.

If you want to bag those kills with the Sawed-Off shotgun, you'll have to get really up close and personal then, although we figured that was pretty much the case anyway.

Epic has also posted a video examining some of the weapon stats from Gears of War 3's multiplayer matches, and apparently, we're not converting Gnasher shots into kills. We should have way more Gnasher kills then Lancer kills according to the man with the stats, Senior Gameplay Programmer, Pete Knepley.

Check out the video for an explanation of some of the latest Gears of War 3 statistics, then think about upping your game with the Gnasher.

Oh no, EPIC, how could you? Why couldn't you have left the Sawed Off as it was? 

[NinjaBBehrens]

For those of you wondering why you're not getting as much XP as usual, it's because Epic have reduced it.

Current XP ratios (as of 10th October 2011)

    TDM (Quick): 0.825
    TDM (Ranked): 1.675
    Warzone (Quick): 1.273
    Warzone (Ranked): 1.53
    Execution (Quick): 1.275
    Execution (Ranked): 1.53
    CTL (Quick): ~0.662
    CTL (Ranked): 0.795
    KoTH (Quick): 0.375
    KoTH (Ranked): 0.45
    Wingman (Quick): 1.15
    Wingman (Ranked): 1.38

Retail XP ratios (20th September 2011)

    TDM (Quick): 1.675
    TDM (Ranked): 2.01
    Warzone (Quick): 1.675
    Warzone (Ranked): 2.01
    Execution (Quick): 1.675
    Execution (Ranked): 2.01
    CTL (Quick): 1.00
    CTL (Ranked): 1.2
    KoTH (Quick): 0.7625
    KoTH (Ranked): 0.9148
    Wingman (Quick): 1.575
    Wingman (Ranked): 1.89


Quite a drop in Quick TDM but not too bad in the other game types.

I dont know. A 40 percent drop seems pretty substantial to me. That's almost half the XP on some of those lists. Just trying to curb people reaching Lvl 100 probably. Annoying as far as I am concerned.

[nCogNeato]

Last night was the first time I ever bothered to figure out how to unlock Mutators.  I played some private TDM to work on weapon kills, and the matches seemed to take forever to load.  20 second countdown clock PLUS a 10+ second wait for the clock to start counting down.

[GamerMan316]

Epic should reset everyone's levels with a new update and go back to the XP levels from Gears 2, make us earn our wings again, though they should also reduce some of the Onyx medals too as a trade off!   

Oh no, EPIC, how could you? Why couldn't you have left the Sawed Off as it was? 

Far too many people moaning about it mate, it was bound to happen, doesn't bother me as I rarely use it. 

[Autarch Kade]

I've unlocked Infinite Ammo, Super Reload, Friendly Fire, Laugh Track, Flower Blood, Enemy Regeneration, and Big Head for mutators, so I guess that's 7 of them.  I'm real close to the Pinata.  The instagib melee seems completely dumb as it works on the enemies that melee you as well.

I'm close to my 8th onyx medal as well.  I'm about to get Loot Courtesan to Onyx level 2, just need 18 more challenges to hit 100 again there.  Field Engineer is less than 150 away from Onyx level 4 lol.

[GamerMan316]

I've unlocked Infinite Ammo, Super Reload, Friendly Fire, Laugh Track, Flower Blood, Enemy Regeneration, and Big Head for mutators, so I guess that's 7 of them.  I'm real close to the Pinata.  The instagib melee seems completely dumb as it works on the enemies that melee you as well.

I'm close to my 8th onyx medal as well.  I'm about to get Loot Courtesan to Onyx level 2, just need 18 more challenges to hit 100 again there.  Field Engineer is less than 150 away from Onyx level 4 lol.

You can instagib the Brumak though   

[mackem73]

I'm planning on getting back into the campaign again later today, anyone fancy a little co-op? I've not got very far yet.

[GamerMan316]

I'm planning on getting back into the campaign again later today, anyone fancy a little co-op? I've not got very far yet.

Gonna try Insane solo later I think but once i've dusted that off i'll gladly blast co-op.