i have the same issue sometimes and i live in the USA. the matchmaking system is better than Gears 2, but still not even close to perfect. then again, i have tried everything and still cannot get my NAT type to anything but Moderate... so yeah.
[QUOTE="AWolfoftheCalla"]peronally, i think the sawed off shotgun is a major issue...yes. but i think the even bigger issue is the fact that the rifles in the game are borderline worthless. YES, in very specific situations, you can get kills with them.... like when the person stands completely still and lets you unload an entire clip into them, or when you get an active reload on the retro lancer and the person just isnt paying attention. HOWEVER, it is far.... FAR easier to just pull out one of the two shotguns, and run right up to your opponent and blow them up. the mobility in this game is nice, but it makes non-instant kill weapons far less efficient and useful than they should be. honestly there should be a greater slowing effect when taking lancer or retro fire than there is. i have had multiple times where i have been unloading on someone running straight at me and they STILL manage to make it to me and blow me up before i down them with the lancer i have also suffered from, and witnessed the absurd range of the gnasher shotgun. it is practically MORE effective at range than either of the rifles. you can down an oppenent from 20+ft away with the gnasher in 3 shots.... that is less time than it takes to down someone with the lancer at the same range. i have seen it happen countless times now. MAJOR ISSUE.Gen007
we must not be playing the same game as rifles have actually received a major buff in gears 3. The normal lancer does absurd amounts of damage now and can bring somebody down with like 1/4 of a clip if you have active. Same with the retro although they added way more recoil to it than there was in the beta. The slowing effect is plenty as well. If someone straight charges at you and you start nailing them with a lancer they will be dead in the water. Gnasher while a strong will almost always lose to a lancer in mid to long range combat (hint) They are great for shutting down sawed offs. The mistake i see so many making is that they pull out their shotgun to go do battle with a sawed off which is not a good move unless your forced into that situation .So no rifles aernt useless and ignoring them is only gonna make your life hearder..
Of course all of this depends on your ability to aim. I see many people dissing lancers because the cant hit things with them.
we must not be then, because i have played over 100 games now and i have seen dozens of examples of people going 1v1 lancer v gnasher at range (20+ft) and the gnasher wins probably 80%. i have experienced it myself atleast a dozen times. i have also experienced the sawed off gibbing people from 10ft away which is NOT how it was designed. i have personally, many times, been firing a lancer at someone rolling at me, or running at me, and not been able to down them before they get within 10ft and instantly kill me with their choice of shotgun. the rifles should have a slowing effect whether you are roadie running, normal running, dodging.... anything. but they dont. they only slow the roadie run, or the slow on everything else is so insignificant you cant notice it. and besides, its not like it is hard, if someone is firing a lancer at you, to dodge sideways, dodge forward, and then you are within 5ft of the person with a shotgun in their face, while they are still probably either switching weapons or backpedaling because it happens so fast.
peronally, i think the sawed off shotgun is a major issue...yes. but i think the even bigger issue is the fact that the rifles in the game are borderline worthless. YES, in very specific situations, you can get kills with them.... like when the person stands completely still and lets you unload an entire clip into them, or when you get an active reload on the retro lancer and the person just isnt paying attention. HOWEVER, it is far.... FAR easier to just pull out one of the two shotguns, and run right up to your opponent and blow them up. the mobility in this game is nice, but it makes non-instant kill weapons far less efficient and useful than they should be. honestly there should be a greater slowing effect when taking lancer or retro fire than there is. i have had multiple times where i have been unloading on someone running straight at me and they STILL manage to make it to me and blow me up before i down them with the lancer i have also suffered from, and witnessed the absurd range of the gnasher shotgun. it is practically MORE effective at range than either of the rifles. you can down an oppenent from 20+ft away with the gnasher in 3 shots.... that is less time than it takes to down someone with the lancer at the same range. i have seen it happen countless times now. MAJOR ISSUE.
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