Huge chainsaw issue...

[danman8511]

I never once thought in my life that I would be registering for an online game forum. I'm a casual gamer. I play them when I have free time because they are super fun. I usually don't put much thought into them and I certainly try not to get mad at games I suck at. However, with Gears I've almost broken my controller in half and my neighbor complained of noise. Yeah, true story. With Gears it's different. It's not that I suck at the game, it's that the game has several flaws (which are being fixed I'm sure) that MAKE me suck. I don't like that. Usually I just throw my little fit, angrily turn off my television, and go do something else. But earlier something took place that killed a tiny piece of my soul that I will never recover. Part of my being is now missing and dead because of this game. Someone has to know, which brings me here.

A PERSON WAS RUNNING ALL THE WAY FROM ACROSS THE UPSTAIRS ROOM IN STASIS STRAIGHT TOWARDS ME, CHAINSAW REVVED, AND CUT ME IN HALF AFTER I EMPTIED LITERALLY AN ENTIRE CLIP OF BULLETS FROM THE HAMMERBURST INTO HIS BRAIN.

I physically saw my bullets go into his dome and blood spray everywhere with his little stupid chainsaw and he never went down. Not once did he flinch or slow down in the least. He simply waltzed up to me and I died making my team in Guardian lose because we were 2-2 and it was the deciding match and I was the leader.

Why did that happen? Can anyone answer that so I can sleep tonight please. If anyone that has any influence with Epic or game making please (please!) make sure that never happens again. I would pay high dollars for an update that would fix that one thing. My lil' heart and my brain cannot handle another traumatic event like that. I will lose it, and my job, and my house, and my friends as I will go into an everlasting coma induced by video game anger. That was totally uncalled for. It's like the multiplayer matches are left to chance. It's a roll of the dice if you'll win or not. It makes me so sad in ways I've never felt before. I'm not the greatest player but I know he should have went down. Please someone do something.

Just saying...

Thanks for reading everyone if anyone did in fact read this. I just had to vent. I'll see you all online.

Gamertag: danman8511

And Epic, thanks for the games. As mad as I can get at you I realize that not every game developer is perfect, but you're damn close. Gears is amazingly fun and there are more great times than bad. Thanks for the fun. I can't wait to see the changes know you're making. I just sincerely hope a chainsaw revision is one of them.

[QUiTuRcRyIn]

Danman.....as in landscaping?

[Monkey Ninj4]

It seems that Epic didn't describe the "If you're hit when revving your chainsaw it will lower" properly.

The correct phrasing would be "if you are take a damaging enough hit when revving the chainsaw it will lower"

From my experience if you damage them slowly i.e. Lancer rounds it isn't enough in one go to 'stagger' them which causes it to drop. This means they can just run at a wall of low damaging rounds and still keep it revved.

The only way Ive managed to get people to lower the bayonet is to melee them although I suggest you then roll backwards after to get out of the chainsaws vacuum radius.

[danman8511]

Danman.....as in landscaping?
What about landscaping?

[danman8511]

It seems that Epic didn't describe the "If you're hit when revving your chainsaw it will lower" properly.

The correct phrasing would be "if you are take a damaging enough hit when revving the chainsaw it will lower"

From my experience if you damage them slowly i.e. Lancer rounds it isn't enough in one go to 'stagger' them which causes it to drop. This means they can just run at a wall of low damaging rounds and still keep it revved.

The only way Ive managed to get people to lower the bayonet is to melee them although I suggest you then roll backwards after to get out of the chainsaws vacuum radius.
Ughh...

I'll see how that works out for me. That's still horribly depressing though. My guy took plenty of damage I assure you, or at least he should have. I could have had someone in my room who has never seen an XBox or a television in their life and they would've agreed that he should be dead or at least hurting. But alas, he was not. He killed me by making the great effort of simply hitting the "B" button and walking towards me from 12 miles away. Congratulations sir, you won.

[Dicorpo]

one damaging shot form the hammerburst causes someone to drop a revved chainsaw i'm sure.
maybe you just had lag mate.

edit:- and also, don't be so theatrical mate lol. Good read tho :P

[danman8511]

Nah I promise I wasn't lagging. I didn't lag the entire match and it would be a strange coincidence if I lagged for the few seconds that guy was walking towards me. My only explanation is that the guy just spawned and something wasn't working right. That explanation is flawed though because I shot him a few times right after he spawned and it made that "invincible" noise it makes when you can't hurt someone. After a few seconds it went away. That is when I began shooting his brains out which had little to no effect despite the 400 gallons of blood he lost in the 3 hours I was shooting him in the head. In "Guardian" the spawns are all goofy and I think Gears just pooped it's pants. Man it was annoying and the worst possible time that could have happened though.

[Invader Skooj]

I surprise EPIC hasn't handled the chainsaw. It's not fun for a skilled player to lose a fight he was winning because the other guy just holds B down. I enjoyed Gears 1 chainsaw because it required skill and patience. You had to be ready to jump players before they saw you. Now it's simply "Oh I'm losing, let me win now!"

Honestly, the chainsaw is unbalanced. Completely unbalanced.


Also fun little fact
-Chainsaw duels are won by who pressed B first not by who is pressing it faster.

[Ballz Travolta]

I'm with you on this one dan. The chainsaw does need some balancing,it's the cheesies t weapon in the game. It requires no skill and makes mutiplayer unexciting, uninteresting,and frustrating as hell. I'm getting tired of these chainsaw bandits running through my bullets and killing me. It gets old quick and a lot of ppl i know have already traded in there copies for something else........

[R3v0lv3r777]

I agree too, im so sick of playing a match of annex and emptying a whole clip of shotgun shells in some noob who literally does nothing but run around in a circle with a lancer in objective based games. There are times when it does come in handy and it makes a nice surprise, but most of the time it is flat out annoying. Couldn't epic do something like make only perfect reload shots lower the chainsaw? That would at least help somewhat.

[Invader Skooj]

I would have traded in this trash a long time ago if it wasn't for horde. I do have a lot of fun on Horde.

[PappyPwernton]

one damaging shot form the hammerburst causes someone to drop a revved chainsaw i'm sure.
maybe you just had lag mate.

edit:- and also, don't be so theatrical mate lol. Good read tho :P

Has this guy played GOW2 and the Tractor Beam Lancer?

[Invader Skooj]

Has this guy played GOW2 and the Tractor Beam Lancer?

Haha, Tractor Beam Lancer...

But yeah, The chainsaw takes too many shots to bring down and you can bring it right back up.

Gears 1 chainsaw was fine. If you had the drop, he's a goner. If not, you better hope you can pull of some Jesus style stuff because now you're in trouble.

[II D3NiiED]

Yes! ur probaly not the only one in gears 2 that hates chainsaws so muuch that u end up breaking something. i understand how annoying it is, its just no skill at all running around holding (b) with the lancer, if ur gna play the game... then play it propally. Epic fix the god damn problem with the chainsawing.

Gamertag - II D3NiiED

Dale

[Invader Skooj]

It's a real "screw you" to people who are good at the game. I hate it when I'm kicking ass and then the noob gets upset and just chainsaws me from around a corner, down a hallway, and around another corner.

[PappyPwernton]

No way man if you can use the chainsaw well your a pwner IMO. I mean my 9 year old that has played the game a few times chainsawed 3 of us vetrans in a private match. Its a real LEET weapon IMO.

If your gunna allow ppl to instant kill me with a NoobSaw than allow me to pop there coconut off with 3 well aimed shots to his Doome with a HammerBurst. Deal, than we even the playing field. Ever notice the shotgun not even slowing down a Tractor Beam Charged Lancer. Only if you get that perfect shot do you stop him and only with a splatter. I think half of the buckshot hitting him should bring down the Saw to give you time to finish him off for being stupid and charging you with a running saw.

I never equip the Lancer anymore, I like its stopping power to keep roadie rolling noobs still but the saw is cheap. I roll with the HB. So why does it even zoom if we cant pop off someones grape with well aimed burst of fire, ie 3 or 4 shots. Oh but wait you can with the standard pistol, makes a whole hell lot of sense dont it.

[Invader Skooj]

The chainsaw in Gears 1 was fine. If you got a shot in, his down. Only a smart player could really get a load of chainsaw kills.