Gears & Beers Fridays

skeletonframes wrote:

Who wants to get some Recruit Clayton/Marauder achievements today? Who wants to go through some Beast mode in the new maps today? Who wNts to play some Horde? Who wants to touch me?

I'm good for 3 out of 4 of these

Do I get to pick which ones? I'll be on all night, so I'll look for you once Atras pops on.

I might be on in a bit for everything but the touching.

I will see if I can take some time to jump on. Work is kicking my butt and chain sawing and shotgunning things tends to help out quite well. Gears also helps

I just got Internet at my new apartment so I might be down.

So that was crazy...

Good game guys. That was, in fact, crazy. How many times did we do Wave 50? I'd say at least 10. It felt good to win without any Mutators.

I don't want to see another Savage Corpser.

Ok, I'm either too lazy or too thick to figure this out for myself. Which DLC do I need to have? (In general, not just as an answer to my specific problem.) I hadn't had any problems before since it seemed that only the host was required to have the new map(s). However, I tried to join someone's Hoard game last weekend, and it told me I didn't have required DLC. (Which is stupid. If I don't have something and you want to sell it to me, TELL ME WHICH ONE I NEED TO BUY!) I tried trawling through the DLC list on Live, but there were 92 of them, and no option to sort by type. As in, the map packs were mixed in with the trailers, demos, weapon packs and everything else.

Have you purchased anything yet?

If not, you could consider the Season Pass (2400 pts / $30).

You can see all the Gears 3 actual-content add-on's here.

Individually, they are (in order of release):
Horde Command Pack - 800 pts / $10, Released Nov 1st, 2011
RAAM’s Shadow: Pack 2 - 1200 pts / $15, Released Dec 13th, 2011
Fenix Rising Map Pack - 800 pts / $10, Released Jan 17th, 2012

And further, if you only care about being able to play with everybody, get Fenix Rising. It's the 5 new MP maps.

Ok, fine. It would appear that I need the season pass.

But I shouldn't have to go to the computer to get a relevant list of download items. I really hate the newest XBL interface. It seems that with every revision, they are pushing to have less information on the screen at at any given time.

It doesn't help that Epic decided to release 14 million weapon skins, all separate options in the DLC category.

Friday and no posts?

I will be there. I assume I should finally spring for some DLC before playing tonight.

Get that DLC. We only got to play a few on the new maps last week. I'd like to see them.

Also, you guys gonna get wrecked.

I don't care if you guys get the DLC. In this economic climate...

I'm gonna play. But, first I'm gonna drink. Watch for the Thrashball Drone stumbling toward you firing shotgun blasts into the ground. That'll be me. Beautiful, drunken me. Flaws and all.

skeletonframes wrote:

I don't care if you guys get the DLC. In this economic climate...

I'm gonna play. But, first I'm gonna drink. Watch for the Thrashball Drone stumbling toward you firing shotgun blasts into the ground. That'll be me. Beautiful, drunken me. Flaws and all.

Wouldn't have it any other way.

Updated the GWJ Gears Clan. Get your updates and meet us at 9! I need to shoot something!

Hoping to be on tonight. Really need to shotgun something....

Oh sh*t...I'm a something.

skeletonframes wrote:

Oh sh*t...I'm a something.

I think that in this case, 'something' is roughly equivalent to 'sawed-off shotgun target'.

H to the ickle wrote:

Get that DLC. We only got to play a few on the new maps last week. I'd like to see them.

Also, you guys gonna get wrecked.

Aww Hickle, you saw the sweetest things.

Looking forward to drunken shotguns tonight. It's been too long.

Good games tonight.

Someone check Trueheart's sawed-off. That one match where he got 30 kills doesn't make mathelogical sense when you add up that his shotgun only carries 4 shells. Unless you believe he was killing with things other than his pink apocolypse-gun. Its horsefeathers! You hear me? Horsefeathers! And Hickleback songs are the worst. But, it was nice being on a team of 3 Jolly's.

Only in gears can you go 13-5 on one map and then go 3-10 on the next. See ya next week, sucka-ducks.

Oh yeah, I'm still in to grab some Achievements.

I need 2 more ribbons for playing Kantus in Beast, need to complete Beast on 3 of the new maps, and about 100 rocket-kills away from What Does This Button Do?. After I get that one, I've got the Silverback with rockets for anyone who wants to work on getting their 500 kills with it.

Had a blast last night, really enjoyed it. I'm up for shooting people in the face anytime

We need to get a second group running sometime. I was forced to play with pubbies all night.

Lots of Hammerburst executions last night. Dig it.

SuperDave wrote:

We need to get a second group running sometime. I was forced to play with pubbies all night.

There were 4 or 5 extra last night. I think next time we try and inform the people looking to play of the other extras so they know who to group with.

Also, be diligent in checking the clans friend list and looking for the ones that aren't playing a the same game type or map. That's the best way to check.

SuperDave wrote:

We need to get a second group running sometime. I was forced to play with pubbies all night.

There is a simple fix to this problem. Hit everybody on the GWJ Gears Clan with an invite. Those of us already playing with fellow goodgers aren't really gonna notice it and those in pubbie rooms should come running! I am also noticing a lot of the newer requested folks on the clan list not playing a lot on Friday nights. Be sure to mob the whole clan at least once of twice. And if your on my friends list feel free to hit everybody there as well (most of my friends are there cause they play Gears and Beers).

Also if you can't get a full party together there is nothing better than getting a few goodgers together for some horde, beast or even some arcade campaign. You will have a better time that way vs playing with pubbies.