Downloaded it first thing this morning and played a few matches. It's sweeeeeeet.

Some things though:

-Retro Lancer and Hammerburst have WAAAAAAY too much recoil.

-I like that the Retro Lancer does not have a chainsaw, and holding down the B button makes you charge at people and skewer them with the massive bayonet on the front of it.

-Short range shotgun is overpowered. Granted it only has 4 or 5 shots and is a single shot weapon, it's beast and almost guaranteed instakill.

Anyone else playing it yet? I'll be on later tonight probably once I get some errands done.

I dont get in till the 25th, then I will be on.

That sucks. I played a few rounds this morning before work. Definitely is going to kick some arse.

Started at 5:30 am pacific before work... worked only half day today, and i'm off tomorrow... sooooo yeah me in my gears mode now ... my friend said it became active around 2:30 this morning pacific.

I tried it and got pwned. It's a lot of fun though.

I will be on tonight if anyone wants to play.

hope to see you there bud.

Just shoot me a message/invite whenever!

I love the fact that EPIC got dedicated servers, there is little to no lag, (I haven't experienced any.) It makes for such an enjoyable experience. Some of my favorite new features:

Digger Weapon

Weapon Skins

Sawed Off Shotty

Retro Charge

Mantle Kick (So fun to vault over cover and kick someone.)

New Executions

I'm having a blast, but with Mortal Kombat coming out tomorrow, its going to be hard to balance the two. Also, quick question: On the map Checkout, when you pull the fire alarm its supposed to open up a secret weapon spawn, but I can't find it, any ideas?

• Retro Lancer too powerful from blind fire/hip range
• Hammerburst shoots too fast (too strong?)
• Double Barrel needs to be a a pick up weapon and not a camp and just shoot and kill an enemy weapon
• Dedicated servers are the best

Actually takes skill to be good with shotty. Almost no range, one shot reload, and not every shot is an instakill. Lots of ways to ward off a shotty too. If anything the range of the gnasher and the power of the retro lancer are too much.

25th for me

Gnasher is perfectly fine, it's just like it was in Gears 1.

lol, then you haven't been hit by it from 1/4 of the map away. Like standing in the doorway of the concession area of thrashball from behind the concrete barrier. At the most it should reach from only halfway down the stairs.

lol, then you haven't been hit by it from 1/4 of the map away. Like standing in the doorway of the concession area of thrashball from behind the concrete barrier. At the most it should reach from only halfway down the stairs.

It's more consistent than ever. I've played enough Gears of War (5 years and counting) to call some bs. I've had some crappy downs long range by the Gnasher, but that's fine I got used to it in Gears 2. I'm sure it will be lowered but the fact it can actually one shot kill people and down them in 2/3 hits in great. I've only been "skunked" 2/3 times and that was because of the retro lancers taking over games. I actually destroyed Skyllus zyn last night in ranked if you watch the MLG portion of Gears.

This game will show who the Gears 2 noobies are and who the Gears 1 newbies are. Luckily, I was fairly good (way above average) in both Gears 1 and Gears 2 that this game took all the aspects I like and added more, such as spotting.

To be good at this game so far in the beta is to use saw-off/retro..although, I can counter with Hammerburst (claw method) and Gnasher/spotting. I wish I could upload one video of me playing just so you can see how it is to destroy those Gears 2 newbie hard-aiming guys.

<3

Trust me, I know what you mean. Ive been taken down with four hits by a retro lancer. I really dig the spotting too. Incindiary grenades need s little adjusting too. Their either too strong or do almost no damage.

Just face some of the Get Bronco MLG team. We were losing 5 lives to 9 and we ended up losing by 3...not bad for the first round. 2nd round, we ended up losing by 6. Although, I put up a respectful 9-8-2-9 stat-line which isn't too bad for a TDM match where you lose both rounds. Should I be bragging? No. I'm just happy we took them to little to none lives without a completely "stacked" team.

Downloading tomorrow, probably will do some commentary on it as well once I record some gameplay.

I'll post my thoughts and/or video here sometime this week.

Downloading tomorrow, probably will do some commentary on it as well once I record some gameplay.

I'll post my thoughts and/or video here sometime this week.

OMG! Yesterday, no joke, EVERYONE HAD BUNNYHEADS! It was HELLA creepy. Creepy, and disoreinting because since everyone had the same giant bunny heads it was super hard to tell who was on your team and who wasn't. LoL

LOL @ Bunny heads, but seriously folks, this game is deliciously epic. The sad part is I will be reduced to playing Queers of Whore Jew for some time after the beta period is over, just to satiate my hunger for gnasher gibbings.

Been doing ok in the beta, I dont care much for the retro lancer, like the regular one and hammer better.

I roll with the Retro Lancer and the SawedOff. I like the Retro Lancer. It doesn't have as many bullets but it really downs people quickly (especially active reload) and fires decently from the hip at shorter ranges.

I need to try this sometime. I didn't even take advantage of my early access with Bulletstorm Epic Edition lol. The Gears of War series I usually end up not getting excited about at all but getting not too long after release because they are very well put together games lol. Mostly for the single player campaign as I find the online community in it to be terrible for the most part, and dislike the imbalance like random shotty deaths from long range, while being unable to kill someone with a dozen bullets to their face point blank.

LOL @ Bunny heads, but seriously folks, this game is deliciously epic. The sad part is I will be reduced to playing Queers of Whore Jew for some time after the beta period is over, just to satiate my hunger for gnasher gibbings.

True all across the board.

Been doing ok in the beta, I dont care much for the retro lancer, like the regular one and hammer better.

Agreed, retro is for noobs.

I roll with the Retro Lancer and the SawedOff. I like the Retro Lancer. It doesn't have as many bullets but it really downs people quickly (especially active reload) and fires decently from the hip at shorter ranges.

Both are "newb" weapons and Retro needs to be fixed and Sawedoff needs to be a pick-up weapon.

I need to try this sometime. I didn't even take advantage of my early access with Bulletstorm Epic Edition lol. The Gears of War series I usually end up not getting excited about at all but getting not too long after release because they are very well put together games lol. Mostly for the single player campaign as I find the online community in it to be terrible for the most part, and dislike the imbalance like random shotty deaths from long range, while being unable to kill someone with a dozen bullets to their face point blank.

Not sure if serious? Gears of War 1 is one of the best titles still to date on the Xbox 360 console, it's like the Halo 2 of the Gears of War series right now. Random Shotty deaths/host shot deaths are mainly Gears 2 not really Gears 1/3. I 1 shot people alot in all 3 games anyways.