Gears & Beers Fridays

Are we doing Multip tonight or what? It's like a ghostown online.

I'll be there... My PC is on hiatus at the moment. I'm running everything off of an Ubuntu Live disc. I'm afraid my hard drive is on the verge of tearing itself to pieces.

nsmike wrote:

I'll be there... My PC is on hiatus at the moment. I'm running everything off of an Ubuntu Live disc. I'm afraid my hard drive is on the verge of tearing itself to pieces.

I dont know about you, but I play Gears 2 on my 360...

Goodjers - Just join me, we're doing a private gears match

Looks like it is going to be Gears and Riesling for me tonight.

Shoal07 wrote:
nsmike wrote:

I'll be there... My PC is on hiatus at the moment. I'm running everything off of an Ubuntu Live disc. I'm afraid my hard drive is on the verge of tearing itself to pieces.

I dont know about you, but I play Gears 2 on my 360... :)

That... was my point. I can't do anything on my PC, so I'll be doing Gears 2.

I'll be on if my live cooperates but live is not letting me sign in so I don't know but be on soon hopefully

I look forward to playing with you all.

I'm out for the night, peace yall

(Due to yet another xbox Live crash)

Seems like LIVE is down right now.

EDIT:

It's back up but for how long?

Wow, Live is just not cooperating tonight. I give up until tomorrow night or next week. Left 4 Dead demo on the PC anyone?

heavyfeul wrote:

Got Gears on Monday, was supposed to get here on release day, but oh well, Amazon and/or UPS messed up. What can you do.

FWIW, Amazon release date delivery worked for me.

Mystic Violet wrote:

STFU STUPID.

Oh it's so on.

Please don't win again.

That would explain why Live isn't working for me, if it's up and down but ill keep trying, hope to be on soon

I had some great fun tonight, it was unfortunate that Live wasn't co-operating. GRRRRRR.

The team I was on, was in the middle of the most intense comeback on a first to win 3 rounds King of the Hill battle. Bullets were spraying, gibs were flying. I was sitting on the point facing down three Horde who were rushing a team mate and I, and just as they got to within one shot kill territory Live went down! It was so intense we were just about to win the round! NOOOOOOOOO!

Oh well some other night.

I also agree that the shotgun is pretty unreliable as is. If I am right on top of a guy and I pull that trigger, I should only see a pile of blood and guts left.

Gaald wrote:

I also agree that the shotgun is pretty unreliable as is. If I am right on top of a guy and I pull that trigger, I should only see a pile of blood and guts left.

Oh I dunno. I pointed my shotgun in your direction several times last night and got exactly that. Muhahaha!

Excellent games though.

I had a blast, I'll be back for more tonight after we record the podcast. I really like the new game modes, they all bring something new and interesting to the table and change the flow of the game. That said, I still think classic Warzone is the best of the bunch. It feels the most unpredictable and tense because the goal is to kill everyone else and there's no goal area (or person) that keeps all the action focused on one area. And no respawns, of course.

Adding those slots for two extra players has made a real positive difference I think.

It took an unusually long time to get a second room going last night. We ran with 5 people from about 10 til midnight EST. Thanks Atlas, NSMike, Mornida and Jaser for stickin' around until we got a full game going (and Xbox Live subsequently fell apart). We tore those Bots up didn't we?

I'll probably pop my head in, again, tonight. So if you see me invite me.

And on a side note, I really wish that they would bring back the "invite only" game type. There are people on my friends list who aren't quite as refined as GWJers and I don't want to delete these people, I just don't want to Gear and Beer with them, either.

skeletonframes wrote:

It took an unusually long time to get a second room going last night. We ran with 5 people from about 10 til midnight EST. Thanks Atlas, NSMike, Mornida and Jaser for stickin' around until we got a full game going (and Xbox Live subsequently fell apart). We tore those Bots up didn't we?

Sorry I didn't take you up on that invite -- we had a full Horde game going. If it's an consolation, I had to drop out about 30 minutes later, and Live wouldn't let me back on once I got back. Ah well

Live is still being a pain here (I just can't sign in at all), but if I can get on later, I'll be around.

That was alot of fun last night Skeleton. I might be around late tonight.

That one King of the Hill match on Blood Drive was ridiculous. Nothing but smoke and chainsaws.

Certis wrote:

I had a blast, I'll be back for more tonight after we record the podcast. I really like the new game modes, they all bring something new and interesting to the table and change the flow of the game. That said, I still think classic Warzone is the best of the bunch. It feels the most unpredictable and tense because the goal is to kill everyone else and there's no goal area (or person) that keeps all the action focused on one area. And no respawns, of course.

I love Warzone for this reason. As you say, very tense. It kind or reminds me of a horror movie.

I'm planning on playing tonight, but not for a while. Say, 10pm Centralish. Whenever Sigsbee finishes watching The Lake House.

Mystic Violet wrote:

That one King of the Hill match on Blood Drive was ridiculous. Nothing but smoke and chainsaws. :D

Yeah, we were talking about how screwed the next person who joined would be, since they would be on an all-Bot team. To our dismay Mystic, Inigo, and Gumbie all joined at the same time. So it was 2 Insane Bots and 3 'Ringers' versus us poor fools.

Me from the XBrick 360 thread wrote:

I'm back! My wife came home yesterday with a new Elite. I'll either keep the no-disc-reading 360 for an XBLA only game or spend the $20 and try one of the laser assemblies off eBay.

I'll most likely go grab GoW2 today. I'm ready to be a target drone again.

I wish I could have played with you guys this weekend but my live connection was fubar. Hopefully by next week they'll have it stable for me.

I tried all day yesterday to get back on Live, but I just had no luck -- attempting to sign in timed out every time. So, in lieu of playing with real people, I did some achievement whoring against bots Those achievements will automatically sync up with the big MS server in the sky the next time I sign in, right?

pneuman wrote:

Those achievements will automatically sync up with the big MS server in the sky the next time I sign in, right?

Yup. Right after I originally got a 360 I took it to my parents' house and had no way to get it on the Internet. All the stuff my brother and I did over Christmas got posted to our accounts when I set it back up at home. If I recall it's just high scores in games that don't get uploaded after the fact.

I was all ready to play with you guys and looking forward to some chainsaw action, joined your fine website, send a friend request to the Gears Clan here and then guess what happened on Saturday night?
RED RING OF DEATH
I thought i was in the clear. I had my elite 360 for over a year now and no problems. Then out of nowhere I got red ringed. I guess i'm just a statistic now.
Hopefully in a few weeks I'll be back on. Sending my 360 out tomorrow for repairs.

Hope to chainsaw you guys and get chainsawed by you soon!

sounds like you guys are playing gow2 pretty consistently...mind if i friend up a few of you?

Was in a game with Inigo and some other last night, and it was a blast. Unfortunately I'd never seen the map before, so I died pretty quickly. After the game ended I couldn't reconnect to the host, but I got to spend a couple of hours in Horde mode with some other GWJers instead.

Did we have to start on wave 27, though? Seriously!

Kurrelgyre wrote:

Did we have to start on wave 27, though? Seriously!

Ha, Slytin was working on an achievement. That was a great time, too.

Subway is pure fried awesome for Horde mode.

I tried to get back into the GWJ Gears Clan list but no luck. I'm guessing the clan list is full. I don't see a pending friend request. Do we have a back-up list or another way to jump in on Friday night? I now have Gears 2 and am ready to get back to my usual role as cannon fodder. Or in this case, chainsaw fodder.