The Worst Game of My Life, Last Night!

[Harro]

I was looking forward to playing ALL DAY at work, entertaining the idea that I was going to try focusing on survival and patience. Oh man, you guys should've been there. We played execution, and I got annihilated. We played TDM, and I got torn apart. We played CTL, and if it weren't for spawn protection, I would have literally died once a minute for the entire game. I normally do very well, but either my head wasn't in the game or these guys were legit pros, or both, and I just got stomped. Headshots, shotguns, grenades, whatever weapon fell into these guys' hands, meant certain doom for myself and my team. I, personally, was the worst player on the team, by far. I know this makes me sound like a totally trash player and those of you that read this that are on my friends list are probably going to unfriend me ASAP, but I figured I might as well see if anyone else had a bad Gears day.

Have you ever had a game where you just did awful? What'd you end up doing? Leaving? Finding another match, hoping for better luck? Stay and absorb the punishment in the name of self improvement? Get angry at your own lack of self worth, and punch a zebra right in the mouth?

Let's discuss.

[TenTonDog]

I've been having a bad few days.

Can't hit a cow's arse with a banjo.

I've never been the greatest of players, and play mainly TDM and sport a positive KD ratio .... but I've been getting hammered recently. I've got the Gears equivloent of the Golfing "yips".

After punching a zebra in the mouth I went to play some beast mode.

[Pinbot]

It is not you, it is the dedicated servers. I have been experiencing the exact same thing over the last 4 days along with frequent lag and host changes in ranked. At first I thought it was me until I had 3 occasions where an entire HB clip would not down a stationary enemy, then I knew there was something wrong with the servers.

[Mighty Gear]

@ work you need to work not playing gears LOL

[XxDISCLAIM3RxX]

Hey man...i've been getting rocked pretty hard lately a little bit myself, even when trying to play what i call quietly...lol...but i strongly believe, as im sure everybody else does, that gears is a TEAM game... so it's difficult to play with people you don't know and have no chemistry with...which i find myself doing quite often. BTW harro...i think i met you in a match a few days ago..lol. Good hunting!!

[bobbyxavi]

I have days like this and I know when to stop.
I always play execution and warzone and if I'm not doing well in that - I know I'm having an off day.
No reason for me to go into KOTH or TDM where my k/d will drop like crazy.

You just need to know when to stop and you'll do fine.

PLUS; if you think you are doing bad over and over it's going to affect your gameplay. Just how life goes I guess.

[Harro]

Hey man...i've been getting rocked pretty hard lately a little bit myself, even when trying to play what i call quietly...lol...but i strongly believe, as im sure everybody else does, that gears is a TEAM game... so it's difficult to play with people you don't know and have no chemistry with...which i find myself doing quite often. BTW harro...i think i met you in a match a few days ago..lol. Good hunting!!

Ahh, ya probably did my man, I was probably the one getting killed a lot. Its easy to remember <Name> <Weapon> l Harro l when you see it 50 times a minute.

[Harro]

@ work you need to work not playing gears LOL

Haha, I know, I know. My boss plays Gears, as well, so its a little weird how I'll post on stuff, and then he'll send me an email and be like "The SOS got nerfed dude, tonights the night to take back public TDM". Haha, but we usually just play Wingman or CTL or something instead.

[Harro]

I have days like this and I know when to stop.
I always play execution and warzone and if I'm not doing well in that - I know I'm having an off day.
No reason for me to go into KOTH or TDM where my k/d will drop like crazy.

You just need to know when to stop and you'll do fine.

PLUS; if you think you are doing bad over and over it's going to affect your gameplay. Just how life goes I guess.

Yeah, I can agree with that. But, sometimes you gotta push through those off days to get better. Its when you're super frustrated and are getting angry is when you gotta walk away for a while, but I usually don't get to that point.

[endon55]

Last night was also awefull for me, i couldnt get a kill to save my life. Pop the corner shotgunned, jumped cover boltok to the face it was a long painfull day.

[Harro]

Last night was also awefull for me, i couldnt get a kill to save my life. Pop the corner shotgunned, jumped cover boltok to the face it was a long painfull day.

Me too man, I got headshot with a boltok, while rolling. These guys were insane.

[Lostnumber]

I've been having a bad few days.

Can't hit a cow's arse with a banjo.

Which game mode is this?

[ENEMYinTHEmist21]

Its the dedicated servers their on a great big bottle of suicide pills(your awesome if you know where i got this line)

ive just played horde and had lag the whole game couldnt even pick my buddies up...... and with multiplayer i get frequent lag as well.... it aint my connection i have the best around here.
the dedicated servers need a tweak and hopefully it will fix the laggy issues......

[T1dal]

I used to have that every once and a while in Black Ops but in Gears.... I just stay away from public VS. It's just better for me.

[Harro]

Well, my connection is pretty good as well, and I did notice some lag. So, what you guys are saying is.. I'm actually really awesome, and lag / dedicated servers is/are holding me back?

[Major_Warrior]

I've had one off day since release, other than that I'm able to take on entire teams.

On my off day though I couldn't do anything without sucking. It was like I was half asleep and was half trying when I was trying.

I don't know... either way, off days suck... for you anyway while the other teams are loling at you.

[ImperialGuard39]

I have shoddy internet, and when it affects the games I go into a rage. For example, diving away from cover because a guy is going to mantle kick me. I dive away, and he STILL mantle kicks me, and I die.

Or when I down someone, and they still jump over cover and go down on the other side like two seconds later.

The worst is the Longshot pros, they can headshot 15 people a match and it baffles me as to how.

[Harro]

I've had one off day since release, other than that I'm able to take on entire teams.

On my off day though I couldn't do anything without sucking. It was like I was half asleep and was half trying when I was trying.

I don't know... either way, off days suck... for you anyway while the other teams are loling at you.

I know man. That was me last night.. I felt clearheaded but everytime I went in there and bit it, I was like "Dang it, why did I do that? Why do I suuuccckkk!"

I have shoddy internet, and when it affects the games I go into a rage. For example, diving away from cover because a guy is going to mantle kick me. I dive away, and he STILL mantle kicks me, and I die.

Or when I down someone, and they still jump over cover and go down on the other side like two seconds later.

The worst is the Longshot pros, they can headshot 15 people a match and it baffles me as to how.

I don't know how those longshot dudes do it, 15 kills with 8 bullets, now that's intense.

[Supreme Beast78]

man don't worry it happens to everyone [happens to me more often than I would like to admit]

some days it seems like if they other team are reading my thoughts

remember the game is barely a month old it happens

[Kazama Blood]

Everyone has these days. I don't know what it is, sometimes you just do bad even if you're good. Once I do bad in a game, I get angry and do even worse in the second game. I lose concentration and just spiral downward. I take a break and come back later, or play something that isn't competitive like campaign or horde.

[Gnasher Masher]

Haha, I know, I know. My boss plays Gears, as well, so its a little weird how I'll post on stuff, and then he'll send me an email and be like "The SOS got nerfed dude, tonights the night to take back public TDM". Haha, but we usually just play Wingman or CTL or something instead.

your boss is...well hes a boss

[Laser]

Same thing happened to me and my friends few days ago, we go owned so badly by just one level 100 guy! i can tell you, this dude was legit as it gets, i don't know how he did it but he managed to spawn trap us with his Gnasher, but i have to say his Gnasher did very good damage, it could down people from a long distance away, i have never seen such a crazy player in Gears 3 before, maybe he got host or something like that i don't know.

[Mighty Gear]

Haha, I know, I know. My boss plays Gears, as well, so its a little weird how I'll post on stuff, and then he'll send me an email and be like "The SOS got nerfed dude, tonights the night to take back public TDM". Haha, but we usually just play Wingman or CTL or something instead.

hahahaha you have an good relationship with your boss LOL LOL i want a boss like that