6 BASIC Multiplayer Tips / Free trolling material probably

[xGeArs aNoMaLy]

I just felt like posting this because I'm bored and I see so many players not do these things. There are 6 tips because I couldn't think of ten because I'm tired. Let the trollfest begin..... Feel free to add/elaborate.



1. MOVEMENT

You need to know how to move. Learn techniques like wallbouncing, quick strafing, swat turn cancelling, etc. The more ways you can move your character without being predictable, the harder you will be to shoot and the poorer position it will put your enemy in. There are ways to bend the rules of the traditional character movement. Check your corners before sliding into side cover (you should be checking them anyway). This will save you the aggravation of getting sawed off every ten seconds.

2. AIMING

This sounds obvious, but I see people all the time that have excellent movement with their character and have me in a bad spot in a shotty battle but can't aim worth a crap and end up getting killed. How many times have you seen the guy that can wallbounce like lightning but couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. You just stand there and watch him look like an idiot until you've seen enough and instagib him. Learn head angles and center mass angles. This is especially useful when sniping and with rifles, but will help exponentially with all weapons. All characters are the same height; learn the headshot tiers when standing, walking, and roadie running and you will pull off %50 more headshots guaranteed.

3. RELOADING

You will hear so many people complain about actives it will make your ears bleed but it's one of the more important things in Gears. Learn the timing of the perfect (or at least active) reloads of every weapon, they are all on even second counts. Practicing this will allow you to never have to look at the meter when reloading and be able to focus on your movement and aiming and will help enormously in clutch pressure reloading situations.

4. MAP KNOWLEDGE

Obviously know your maps... Know the hotspots, escape routes, and flanking routes at all times in relation to your location and don't be predictable. Every time I play overpass I see the last man retreat into one of the nade spawns or spawn itself. What do you think is going to happen? You will be fighting 5 people in closed quarters with at least one of them lancer/retro/hammer-ing you and you will die within five seconds even if your cleverly planted nades work. Never trap yourself, especially when you are outnumbered. Knowing the maps extensively will help you to avoid that situation.

5. GET A WINGMAN

It's simple: If you want to win more matches, no matter the gametype, you need to use teamwork. It increases your life expectancy and your team's chance of winning. When I am lone wolf in a match I stick around the best/next best player on my team and watch their back even if they don't know it. You have no idea how many clean up kills you can come across by sticking around a hard target and protecting his flank or vice versa how much easier it is to get kills when you have someone doing this.

6. WEAPON USE

This is not as easy as it sounds to most players believe it or not... Utilize your weapons by playing to their strengths and adjust your playing style when you have a pickup weapon to magnify its strength. How many times have you seen someone pick up snipe then fight CQC as if they are going to headshot multiple opponents? Or fire a boomshot ten miles and miss? Or grab frags and waste both of them trying to kill one person just because they had them in hand? Learn the range and maximum kill efficiency of your loadout (especially) and pickup weapons and you WILL get more kills.

[Gothic Saint]

So is this for all the people who never played gears before? Coz it's so obvious it offensive to gears vets...

[Sean_Lucas]

number five i realized along time ago and found it works quite well.

god i hate it when they throw away those ****ing nades like a pervert does tissues

[Sean_Lucas]

This post was a great idea for people that sometimes forget the basics.

[xGeArs aNoMaLy]

So is this for all the people who never played gears before? Coz it's so obvious it offensive to gears vets...

Hence the word BASIC in all caps in the thread title. Troll counter: 1

[xGeArs aNoMaLy]

god i hate it when they throw away those ****ing nades like a pervert does tissues

super pet peeve of mine... esp when they gaffle them from right under my face as I try to pick them up.

[Liquid Shotty]

Agree with everything you said especially no5, I do this every match i am in lone wolf.

[I CRAZE l]

Bro.. if everybody read this, there probably wouldn't be one complaint on this forum. +1 to you OP.

If I may add one thing though ?

Know your enemy: This may seem like a wtf ?! But even the most experienced Gears players do this. If you can spot weak enemies then it can save you alot of time when ddeciding how to attack, especially in the team objective gametypes (KOTH, CTL)

What I mean but this is, look for enemies who have far fewer kills than the rest of the team. Memorize their character, and movements. Pick up on small things, like if he knows how to wall bounce. This can help you severely especially if the team are campers. Being able to rape someone who is severely less skilled than you are can help tremendously. Even if the rest of the team makes up for what person lacks.

Always try to flank from that enemies direction first, as sometimes, it my be you're only way to get inside. Most people I encounter like this wind up quitting. There's time where just Me and my brother and three bots have made whole level 100's teams quit. And in Ranked, I can't even begin to tell you how many times I got raged and spammed.

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[xGeArs aNoMaLy]

Agreed... reminds me of my favorite quote of all time:

So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.
If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose.
If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself.
- Sun Tzu; The Art of War

[The Dude]

So is this for all the people who never played gears before? Coz it's so obvious it offensive to gears vets...

The title clearly reads BASIC tips. So why are you bringing Gears vets into this?

[Miss Heidi]

lots of good info in this post....maybe i might get 1 kill now.....I did say maybe

[Scudbook XVII]

Would just like to say the OP comes across as a douche "basic tips" wallbouncing, learning character heights...

I'm sorry these are not basics, basics are nailing down your sensitivity, mantle kicking, using cover.

You are covering Late stage basic to early advanced here all to try and convey that you are awesome?

I think your a douche.

[BEagle1984]

Thanks OP, nice thread with lots of good inputs for us (the noobs). Well, some are more than "basic" tips and some are just "common sense", but thanks!

[DenyThisFlesh]

So is this for all the people who never played gears before? Coz it's so obvious it offensive to gears vets...

It's obviously not intended for Gears vets so why would you take offense to it?

[SewnMouthSecret]

I see nothing wrong with the post. I can kind of see how it might come off like a little bit of bragging, but I really don't think that was his intent. This game that we all love so much could be so much better if the random players we are teamed up with, and even against had a deeper understanding of the game. There are a ton of newcomers to the series now, and frankly, it can make for some aggravating matches. I am not new to Gears, but there was a time when I was and I had no frickin' idea how to succeed initially. I think throwing some useful suggestions out there for the less informed is great. I would have welcomed it when I was first starting out a few years back.

[DenyThisFlesh]

Would just like to say the OP comes across as a douche "basic tips" wallbouncing, learning character heights...

I'm sorry these are not basics, basics are nailing down your sensitivity, mantle kicking, using cover.

You are covering Late stage basic to early advanced here all to try and convey that you are awesome?

I think your a douche.

Not the intent of the thread at all. You're a douche for posting this. That's right. It's you're and not your.

[Scudbook XVII]

I can spell thank you man. Grammar is non-essential when the "incorrect variation" of the word gets my point across just as effective and quicker. How do you feel? Slightly silly.

[stig1989]

Bro.. if everybody read this, there probably wouldn't be one complaint on this forum. +1 to you OP.

If I may add one thing though ?

Know your enemy: This may seem like a wtf ?! But even the most experienced Gears players do this. If you can spot weak enemies then it can save you alot of time when ddeciding how to attack, especially in the team objective gametypes (KOTH, CTL)

What I mean but this is, look for enemies who have far fewer kills than the rest of the team. Memorize their character, and movements. Pick up on small things, like if he knows how to wall bounce. This can help you severely especially if the team are campers. Being able to rape someone who is severely less skilled than you are can help tremendously. Even if the rest of the team makes up for what person lacks.

Always try to flank from that enemies direction first, as sometimes, it my be you're only way to get inside. Most people I encounter like this wind up quitting. There's time where just Me and my brother and three bots have made whole level 100's teams quit. And in Ranked, I can't even begin to tell you how many times I got raged and spammed.

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Sometimes not true lol ..... i let my misses take over in some matches while im getting a beer/taking a dump/getting another beer/getting moaned at because the washing isnt hung up. so when i come bk and im 0 kills 10 deaths i cn bring it back, and its easy to becasue every1 will rush me cause im that crap one, lol

[DenyThisFlesh]

I can spell thank you man. Grammar is non-essential when the "incorrect variation" of the word gets my point across just as effective and quicker. How do you feel? Slightly silly.

Nope. I feel great and your grammar still sucks. U mad?

[Scudbook XVII]

About as mad as you are mate. Not at all.

Pissing contest ended, my lunch hour is over so I don't have time for it.

[DenyThisFlesh]

About as mad as you are mate. Not at all.

Pissing contest ended, my lunch hour is over so I don't have time for it.

It's ok. Nothing personal. I just like messing with people sometimes. Enjoy the rest of your day.

[Scudbook XVII]

Likewise. Take it easy man.

[xfonze]

Great post OP.

I am a Gears Vet and have played since release in '06.
I am very insterested in #2 AIMING. I wall bounce constantly but I have a tuff time landing some of my shots and come up on the short end of the stick in some shotty battles .

I never really thought about the height and headshot teirs you mentioned:

"Learn head angles and center mass angles. This is especially useful when sniping and with rifles, but will help exponentially with all weapons. All characters are the same height; learn the headshot tiers when standing, walking, and roadie running and you will pull off %50 more headshots guaranteed."

Could you please elaborate more on this or know of a youtube video or something because I would definately love to learn this.

Thanks and great post bro.

Cheers.

[xGeArs aNoMaLy]

Great post OP.

I am a Gears Vet and have played since release in '06.
I am very insterested in #2 AIMING. I wall bounce constantly but I have a tuff time landing some of my shots and come up on the short end of the stick in some shotty battles .

I never really thought about the height and headshot teirs you mentioned:

"Learn head angles and center mass angles. This is especially useful when sniping and with rifles, but will help exponentially with all weapons. All characters are the same height; learn the headshot tiers when standing, walking, and roadie running and you will pull off %50 more headshots guaranteed."

Could you please elaborate more on this or know of a youtube video or something because I would definately love to learn this.

Thanks and great post bro.

Cheers.

xfonze: Check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV-3Q...feature=relmfu

This is a sniper tutorial, but goes over a lot of the things I was talking about with good visual examples and good explanations. He goes over head levels and, I think the most important thing when it comes to accuracy with wallbouncing, the blindfire hotspot, which is just down and to the left of center screen. I was pretty tired when I made the thread but definitely forgot to mention the importance of right side advantage as well (extremely important in shotty battles). After you watch the sniping tutorial watch the gnasher tutorial as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV-3Q...feature=relmfu

hope this helps man.

[I CRAZE l]

The title clearly reads BASIC tips. So why are you bringing Gears vets into this?

It helps beginners/inexperienced players become vets..

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[I CRAZE l]

Would just like to say the OP comes across as a douche "basic tips" wallbouncing, learning character heights...

I'm sorry these are not basics, basics are nailing down your sensitivity, mantle kicking, using cover.

You are covering Late stage basic to early advanced here all to try and convey that you are awesome?

I think your a douche.

Actually, the OP has a point. Mantle Kicking would not be a basic move, because its only been in one game. Most of the time, with most battles, youwont even be on a wall. The basics would be aiming, wall bouncing, learning character heights, head precision as they come out of a roll..

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[Jeffy Gears]

You mention a wingman but refuse to call me by name.

Tears of a clown.

Nice post P

[GlassMarie]

Don't forget Sponging.
That wins more matches than any of the tips you listed.

[CanadianGnasher]

You forgot 1 that can help your list get to 10

Sensitivity. (Don't go 30-30-30 because "Fast is Best"...find your comfort zone)

[xGeArs aNoMaLy]

Yeah I threw this together pretty quickly about 4 months ago but now I could probably add about 20 more.... Sensitivity is huge for sure. For me, I just don't like all 30's it's just not comfortable for me I stick to mid 20's....