Man, I am so bad at this game online. I was pretty decent at 3 but I cannot do anything in this. The gnasher even with the recent fix still feels like I'm shooting blanks at people when to me it looks like I lined them up perfectly.
super rant - apologies in advance
this times 100. been playing since launch, experienced gears 1,2,3 (not judgement) player, i cannot for the life of me work out how it wants me to play this, it feels like everyone has some magic technique that i just dont know.
im being one-shotted when im on cover, downed from 10 metres by a shotgun, turned full red and put down by 5 pistol shots, sniper headshotted in the middle of rolls, i shoot at a man in cover behind a wall clearly visible but the collision sees "wall" where its clearly not - yet i die in cover where im not visible to others
but my main bugbear, even worse than my bullets doing nothing is just how clumsy it all is, you have to memorise every single piece of cover because the rules dont apply half the time, some scenery lets you snap to it from 2 metres away while some dont at all, pressing direction + roll while snapped in some places does a beautiful pirouette onto the next piece of cover, while some just do a standard roll, and a few even do absolutely nothing, you stay locked to it because its a fountain with a tiny bit of extra geometry detail on the end that you cant move past.
the game is just clumsy, active reload sucks worse than ever, i dont trust these dedicated servers because the game feels like p2p still (ive got a great connection its not me). youre basically aiming with a system that gives you no reticle, if you pop shot it makes no difference, hard aiming makes you a walking target, youre supposed to lead your shots because your client xbox is showing you something different to the server, while others can down you from miles away with a single shotgun.
please dont say "git gud", im quite good and trying to get better, but theres no consistency in the rules to get good with, and theres no analytical data to even check for it, like how much each shotgun pellet does damage. game is still great in concept and i keep playing it but its an exercise in frustration. and wow you should read the gamefaqs forum, if you use a lancer youre a noob, active reloads youre a noob, melee or chainsaw = noob, everything except shotgun means you suck.
oh and playing ranked, your team almost always instantly quits on you, i dont because it fines you ranking points, but really, when im 2 v 4 on king of the hill, the other team inevitably smoke tags and "rapes" me for every kill. like - really? gears is a game where you really cant win on your own vs 4 people, the fire rate is so slow you just cant attack them all quickly enough - so you get molested, every time.
i would love to go along to microsoft studios or the coalition one time and say hey guys, lets see your game. fire it up on ranked KOTH, show them the magic bullets, shooting into nothing, quitters, gang smoke rapes, hateful PMs after matches. you dont see that stuff on their jump in TV ads.
