The mantle kick is more broken than it was in the beta

[Professor Chaos]

So I have been playing a lot of Gears 3 over the past week, and the mantle kick just plain doesn't work. 9 times out of 10 I will run up to someone in cover, jump over to mantle kick them...and all I will do is jump over and give them a free kill. RARELY does the mantle kick animation ever go off, and it doesn't work more than it does work. It has a much smaller hitbox than it did during the beta which is good, but other than that it is so much worse. Has anyone else had these issues? Does anyone know if it is being addressed?

[A CANADIAN]

I haven't had this issue too much. It works 70 percent of the time for me. Or there abouts. Usually if it doesn't work it's cause I wasn't in the spot that the person on the other side was in. My bad.

[Professor Chaos]

I haven't had this issue too much. It works 70 percent of the time for me. Or there abouts. Usually if it doesn't work it's cause I wasn't in the spot that the person on the other side was in. My bad.

At first I thought the same thing, but whenever I do it its in small areas. Like yesterday I tried doing it on that small piece of cover on sandbar next to the stairs by the boomshot/digger spawn. There is only room for 1 person on each side and it still does nothing.

[renis]

Yup - I always just end up next to the person or go over them with nothing happening too.

[Patholog1K4L]

Seems to be about 50/50 for me. But when it works its so satisfying. I think its a great mechanic overall, beats having to wait for your opponent to pop up...

[Professor Chaos]

Yup - I always just end up next to the person or go over them with nothing happening too.

Yeah it needs some sort of fix

[AHal]

I've never had an issue with it not working. It always works as long as I jump over exactly where they are in cover, and as long as they don't move out of cover. It's best to do it when they either don't see you or don't suspect you because when you're running towards it chances are they'll slightly move as you're starting to jump over the cover.

Anyway, like I said, I haven't experience any issues with it in my games and I've done it quite a few times.

Cheers

[Toronto Titan]

They decreased the width of impact, you need to be spot on target. seems fine to me.

[AHal]

They decreased the width of impact, you need to be spot on target. seems fine to me.

This is the best way to describe it. You must jump over cover exactly where they are in cover and they can't move - if they move slightly you won't get them.

[AlphaLieutenant]

I've had problems with the mantle kick too. Sometimes when I try to do it, my camera starts to move as if I'm about to mantle over, but then it just resets and I stay in place. Other times when I do manage to mantle kick someone, the camera flips out on me. It's do disorienting that it makes me lose track of the person I kicked :/

[IMPEND1NG DOOM]

I have issues with just jumping over the cover with a guy on the other side more times than not. Instead of jumping the cover my guy just stands up

[AHal]

I have issues with just jumping over the cover with a guy on the other side more times than not. Instead of jumping the cover my guy just stands up

This may sound like a dumb question, but you are pushing forward when you press A to jump over cover, right?

[NoMaD DiSTuRBeD]

I think the mantle kick should only work if the guys in cover and not standing by cover. I was a considerable distance from the cover yesterday and someone jumped over and knocked me back. They literally just managed to graze me with the animation. Also if you play a match with botswatch them,they seem to do the stand up rather than jump over mantle kick alot. It doesn't seem to work on Leaders either.

[BlackBeanX]

I've been hit by a mantle kick when I was 4 feet away from the cover and about 1 foot off to my opponents left. Soooo I'm really surprised ppl havent had issues with the mantle kick.