Annex, What do you think? Options

[Marrvia]

I think it's great. I think it will be my new game mode of choice. It's fun, and you don't have to wait when you die. And if forces everyone to work as a team, which is the point of the game. Good stuff!

[Tiuk]

I think it's great. I think it will be my new game mode of choice. It's fun, and you don't have to wait when you die. And if forces everyone to work as a team, which is the point of the game. Good stuff!

Yeah, I think it's awesome. Lot of fun.

[C o s m o]

It's freaking great. Totally different from what Gears has been to this point. I'll keep Execution in my rotation, but Annex has been a blast. I'm much better at it than any other gametype.

[magic_man185]

I personally don't like it. If you are in a game where the odds are slightly off-balance, it gives the better team that much more time to slaughter the newer/less experienced players in the game. It is not really that fun dying over and over again, without the round ending. Also, you get practically no opportunity to talk to the members of the opposing team, and depending on the settings the hosts use, the games last forever. I was in a ranked match last night that lasted for an hour. I needed to go to bed, but the host said no quiting and I would have received negative feedback for quitting.

[sabbath_dude]

Played it for a few hours last night when it was released but I doubt I'll be playing it again. The matches just last way too long and it gets a bit boring when a best of 3 round takes like 50min!!. Also wish the kills counted towards the 10,000 seriously achievement .

[CrakkedOut]

Also wish the kills counted towards the 10,000 seriously achievement .

Yea I'm kind of upset at that too. I'll go to Annex after I get the Serious achievement.

t's fun, and you don't have to wait when you die. And if forces everyone to work as a team, which is the point of the game. Good stuff!

EPIC said 15 sec respawns tho. Which is wierd because there were times where I spawned right back into the game. Waited 15 sec. Waited 8 sec. Wonder what it all depends on or if it's yet another glitch

I would have rather gotten the maps for free than Annex. But hey, thats just me.

[tgm4883]

Yea I'm kind of upset at that too. I'll go to Annex after I get the Serious achievement.
EPIC said 15 sec respawns tho. Which is wierd because there were times where I spawned right back into the game. Waited 15 sec. Waited 8 sec. Wonder what it all depends on or if it's yet another glitch

I would have rather gotten the maps for free than Annex. But hey, thats just me.

I haven't played it yet (no time ) but perhaps it's 15 second waves. So every 15 seconds, all dead players respawn. So if you die 28 seconds into the game then you only wait 2 seconds to respawn, but if you die 31 seconds into the game you wait 14 seconds to respawn.

[Vfreitas]

EPIC said 15 sec respawns tho. Which is wierd because there were times where I spawned right back into the game. Waited 15 sec. Waited 8 sec. Wonder what it all depends on or if it's yet another glitch

It's not a glitch, it's a wave based respawn. It's very common amongst shooters, especially on the PC. Every 15 seconds new troops are respawned. So 15 seconds into the match, if anyone died, they'd be respawned. From then on every 15 seconds after that anyone who has died will respawn. So essentially the respawns are at 30 seconds in, 45, 60, 1:15, 1:30, etc.

Hope that makes sense.

There you go, tgm4883 got it before me.

This post has been edited by Vfreitas: Apr 10 2007, 02:17 PM

[magic_man185]

Where did everybody read that it didn't count towards the seriously achievement? I haven't read that anywhere, and it wouldn't make sense for it not to count, it is just another game type. As long as you are playing in a ranked match, I would think that it should count towards the achievement.

[belke]

Annex =

[Vfreitas]

Just played a few rounds of it. Man, this is what Gears was missing. Definitely a game type for friends to get together and work as a team. I dig it.

Also..

There were a few small things included in the patch, I'm sure everyone noticed them. But has anyone caught up with any bugs or the such? Two nights ago I was playing rooftops through out the night, going for the 100 hammer of dawn kills, all was well. So I started to play rooftops after the patch, and now I'm getting stuck to every corner as I run out of spawn, and there were a few other people complaining about it in the game. Anyone else notice this? Could just be an unlucky case of lag, I'll have to play a few more games to see if it's consistent.

This post has been edited by Vfreitas: Apr 10 2007, 07:10 PM

[greenday54261]

I'm just pissed that they took out the weapon slide/Jackson curb stomp glitch.

And the exploding chainsaw.

And the shooting roadie run.

But mostly weapon slide... I only learned how to do it three days ago, and it WAS considered legit in competitions.

Ya know, I actually haven't played Annex yet... been doing too much school crap the last couple of days.

[Marrvia]

I'm just pissed that they took out the weapon slide/Jackson curb stomp glitch.

And the exploding chainsaw.

And the shooting roadie run.

But mostly weapon slide... I only learned how to do it three days ago, and it WAS considered legit in competitions.

Ya know, I actually haven't played Annex yet... been doing too much school crap the last couple of days.

I'm glad they took out those glitches. Legit or not, if it can be used to help you get an advantage, and not everyone knows how to do it, it's a cheat in my book. I'm all for fair gameplay, if you have people cheating, it ruins everything.

This post has been edited by Marrvia: Apr 10 2007, 09:36 PM

[sabbath_dude]

Where did everybody read that it didn't count towards the seriously achievement?

There's an official FAQ about the update on the Gears of War website forum that confirms Annex kills don't count.

But has anyone caught up with any bugs or the such?

I'm always getting stuck to walls since the update and it's really annoying!. Also I've seen people still doing the weapon slide glitch which isn't cool.

[greenday54261]

I guess someone found out a new way to do the slide.

But yeah, I keep getting stuck on walls too. Annoying as hell...

I wonder if it came from removing the shooting roadie run... they would have had to change some cover stuff to fix that.