Gears of War 3 - Multiplayer Beta

[GluedOnBeard]

Dear Customer,

Thank you for your recent preorder for Gears of War 3.

Unfortunately Microsoft have been unable to send us enough
BETA codes for the launch of the Gears of War 3 BETA.

We are currently awaiting the next shipment of codes which
is due to arrive early next week.

As soon as they arrive we will despatch them to you.

We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

The GAME Customer Service Team

If I had not bought Bulletstorm I would be extremely unimpressed.

[Robster]

More like some of the codes have been reserved for Game staff and Game are blaming M$ .

[Mayhem]

Got my GAYME code at least, I wonder if it had anything to do with when you pre-ordered, or completely random? Roll on the 25th...

[Matt]

Really interested in the feedback on this. Will be good to know what people think of it a few weeks down the line when the flaws are starting to show [if there are any, of course]. Sounds like quite a departure from Gears 2.

[Family Fry]

Think cliffyb has already stated spawns will be changed/expanded from the beta levels, so they will be taking on the feedback. Game is pretty rock solid as it stands I feel. I am liking the XP ribbons and rewards, yeah it may be ripped from cod/halo but its quite good seeing them rack up and get extra points for them.

[Synthesthesia]

I figure epic has loads of stuff taken from gears they can have some stuff from others

Trenches is up now, and for some reason me and my friend got to play 2 matches on old town. We got utterly destroyed on one of them, clearly an American host but man this is at times worse than gears 2. In that match I had 0 kills to 10 deaths I felt like putting my foot through my 360.

There's a 20 page thread on the beta forums at epic games forum about the uk servers. It felt amazing on Monday, best multiplayer ever for me and ever since Tuesday onwards its been p2p.

[nonny]

Same sort of story here in Australia. It's been yo-yo'ing since Monday but I believe they're taking servers offline at times and testing disaster recovery options? On Monday I went into matchmaking and it took about 5-6 cycles to find a match up to a point where it went to checking the best 50 matches... And sometimes it reported none were available.

By Tuesday onwards it's now going about 1-2 cycles before finding some brilliant connections, then last night it was back to original form. I just figure when more people hop online this week it will be better as the pool of local players will expand. Up until now they've had time to swap things in and out to compare differences.

[Synthesthesia]

There has to be something up with this for the UK, my mates have noticed it feels crap ever since Monday too, and no one else from any other countries is complaining apart from people from the UK.

I just wish Epic would let us know what's going on.

Yesterday a match on Old Town was worse than Gears 2 connection wise, I was going up to guys, shotgunning them like 1cm from their backs and they'd slide away and 1 shot me after I pumped 2 more shots in them.

The worst was I was at the Bell Tower, and there was three of them, I had sawed off...went next to them, shot, all 3 were on my screen so I should have had AT LEAST 2, and I didn't get 1 and got destroyed.

Status update please epic! This netcode seems terrible.

[Robster]

I seem to be on a opposite path from everyone else, I read synth post about trenches and jumped on straight away(washing the car can wait) and had a great game. Joined halfway thru the first round and racked up 8/3 k/d with alot downs so high score for me.

Trenches is a great map and when that sandstorm comes in its quite hairy !.

Still to play old town so will see how that goes.

Yesterday a match on Old Town was worse than Gears 2 connection wise, I was going up to guys, shotgunning them like 1cm from their backs and they'd slide away and 1 shot me after I pumped 2 more shots in them.

Ive had this problem from day one, even worse with the sawn off. I dont aim the sawn off anymore as I feels it shortens it spread, just point in general direction and boom, its very sketchy tho. So frustrating when the your opponent is slightly off centre and you aim + fire then he turns round and splatters you with one shot of the gnasher- wtf!.

[Synthesthesia]

I don't bother hard aiming with the gnasher or the sawed off- by the time you've aimed they're all over you and you're gone.

I've had some good games, but I've had some real stinkers, and these tend to be on ranked. My k/d ratio on public is like 1.8 on ranked it's 0.9, w/l is 0.2 on ranked, 2.4 on public and that's with wayyyy less matches on ranked.

There has to be something though, they're ignoring that thread, it's got like 30 pages now from UK people noticing the crap connection. Weird you had problems on monday, for everyone i've seen on forums etc it was smoother than any other game they'd played.

[nonny]

I am yet to even get into a ranked match. It just sits there trying to find players.

[Synthesthesia]

They claim the servers were up for australia on twitter too... I duno if that's ATM just what I saw yesterday.

[nonny]

Thanks, I'll check it later. I've only tried to get into a ranked match about three times this week and gave up as it was taking too long to find players so I just made a beeline for public instead.

[Robster]

Rank matches were too slow for me so I mostly play public now. I would still prefer a halo/cod matchmaking method for ranked to make it so much quicker.

[Synthesthesia]

Hey, guys! Got a problem with the Gears of War 3 beta?

Go post it on Epic games forum's beta thread! Epic will be sure to ignore it as it gets to 38+ pages, and then promptly delete it without so much as a peep!

That is f**king disgusting practice from Epic IMO.