Tips for Gears of War on Xbox Live

Expert, I doubt it. Pretty good, I would say so. Ok so some quick tips.

Active Reload is the best tip I can give you. I think it’s like 5x the damage when you are using it.

Machine Gun:
Machine Gun is good for long range obviously. If you catch a guy out in the open with no immediate cover available you can take him down pretty easily with head/upper body shots. And with active reload this can make for a very deadly weapon.

Chainsaw:
Now the chainsaw is a good and a bad thing. The pros of the thing are a one hit kill, has what seems like an 8 foot wing span that can grab people around corners and even when they dive away from you, and of course the bloodiest way to kill somebody. The cons are that in online play the chainsaw takes waaayyy to long to kill somebody if he has teammates around him. Since you can't die while chainsawing somebody, they just wait with a shotgun next to you and blow you into pieces after you are done. Or they chainsaw you right back. So the chainsaw is a perfect weapon for flanking and catching people by surprise.
All that said, you can still win a battle verse a shotgun up close. What you don't want to do is just run in a hold down b. You want to be blind firing at him (not using the left trigger to bring up the cross hairs), you won't very accurate but you aren't actually trying to kill him that way. You want to get close enough where the chainsaw will lock onto him but the danger is the shotgun can deliver a fatal blow in 1 or 2 hits at that range. So you want to time pressing B in between shotgun firing. As long as you weren't stunned or chainsaw de-revved by the shotgun you should grab him with the saw leaving him screaming, "WHAT THE F**K I SHOT HIM"(I know from experience on both ends). So the moral is chainsaw the unsuspecting and between shots in a one on one.

Shotgun:
Once again active reload is pretty key. With active reload you can do a lot of damage to your enemy from a good distance away. But where it is really deadly is up close. There are two methods of fighting up close: blind firing and quick aiming. Blind Firing is what I prefer and that is where you are in third person just moving your guy to aim the best you can at the opponent. Quick aiming, which promo does sometimes, is where you quickly pull the left trigger to get the half second of aiming towards your target. Both allow you to fire as fast as the shotgun does but quick aiming slows your character down.

Ok, so you are in a shotgun fight, what do you do? Well you want to use a combination of circle fighting and jumping to get your opponent. What I mean by circle fighting is you and your opponents are basically running around in a circle trying to get the one lucky fatal shot in. The diving technique is also helpful to avoid your opponent’s shots and to sneak up on him quickly. On method is to role right up to him and blow him away in 1 shot. This is a good method if you catch the guy off guard a little. However, the opponent has the advantage in this situation because he can take the first shot, which if it lands will kill you.

The shotguns melee attack is also pretty useful. If you land a clean shotgun hit from close range but don’t kill your opponent, he will be very weak and this is where melee comes in. One shot and a quick melee will bring the enemy to his knees before he can pull the trigger again. But be careful though, if you miss it will take you some time to reorient yourself to the enemy. And if you enemy has continued to move in a circle he will no be at your back leaving you in pieces very soon.

That is all I have time to write now. I will keep posting on things such as, Sniper tips, Pistol tips, Grenade tips, knowing when to run, and finishing a downed enemy, and the advantages of being the host. Yeah, I wrote like a page in Word, whatevs I was bored.

To be continued….

Gears owns.

And apparently I own at gears.

Scruffy's got some good tips here, especially from his way of playing, as we both play slightly differently. While he prefers to use the shotgun in close range combat, I prefer the Lancer (the chainsaw gun). The shotgun is only really useful at melee range, as it's a one or two hit kill. The machine gun is most useful at mid to long range. If your enemy is attempting to close with the shotgun to kill me, my usual plan is to back up and keep him at mid range and blindfire with the machine gun. With practice, you'll hit him much more than he'll hit you, and half a clip of active-reload machine gun will down him faster than he can down you with his shotgun. The key is keeping him at a range though, rolling backwards and simply turning and running if he gets too close. This works best against single opponents, if they gang up on you with shotguns, your best bet will be to whip out your own and say a prayer to Jesus, because the odds are youre going down.

The chainsaw is probably my favorite weapon to a fault, Scruffy can tell you stories of times I've blown my chance to win the match simply because of my fondness for the bloodiest kill in the game. Much of Scruffys chainsaw strategy is good, but theres a few little tricks you can do. My favorite is to find a piece of cover where you can hide behind it and the enemy cant see your gun poking out. Wait for one of them to come towards you, then when its too late for them to turn back use the forward-A "cover slip" move so you round the corner real fast and hold down B. Odds are more than likely the enemy will run straight into you and impale himself on your chainsaw. Timing is key. Also dont forget you can hit right trigger to make a revving noise while you have the saw going, just to let your victim know whats about to happen :D

My other favorite weapon is probably the torque bow. Scruffy hates it, but I enjoy it as a one-hit-killer. The way to master the bow is knowing just how long to hold down the trigger before firing. You make a very distinct "charging up" noise and your gun glows orange when you are prepping to fire it, and players worth their salt will hide from you once they hear it. Holding it down just long enough so it will fly in a straight line is the key, hold it too little and the arrow will bounce back and could blow you up. Timing and good aim are the only ways to master this gun, but it is ridiculously good once youve got the hang of it.

I'll let Scruffy write the next part.

I'll bet you had this written just waiting for some unsuspecting noob like me to ask for some tips. Have you considered a job a Prima Games? I'll try these out and I'm looking forward to any more you have. Thanks.

Sniper Tips:
Like every other gun, active reload will help you out a lot. With the sniper, hitting an enemy with an active reload shot will down him with one hit. Often times you will see people firing at the wall in a fire fight just to get that active reload shot ready. With good accuracy and a good reload you can with a medium range fight pretty easily.
Other quick tips, if a guy is running away from you in a sprint you can still get the headshot kill fairly easily. It’s easiest if his back is towards you. All though you can’t see his head, you can actually shot right threw his upper back and it will hit his head. Bam, one shot one kill.
Sniper melee is pretty good as well. Two punches will down and enemy and you can definitely get those hits in pretty quickly. A good combo if a guy is rushing you is a shot to the body (without active reload) and a quick punch. Just watch out for his short range shot gun blast.

Wrote this during a class so more will come later on.

So yeah, gears is sweet.

Scruffy is right about the sniper rifle, a perfect active reload shot will take you down in one hit, no matter where you get shot. In warzone, this basically means the end of the line (though in the other (gay) game modes like execution, you can just get right up). Also, if you are facing a sniper, and think you can get him to back down by blindfiring your weapon, think again. If you blindfire from cover, your head still pokes out enough to make you a target for a skilled sniper. Ive made that mistake more than a few times.

Scruffy started talking about it above, but I figured I'd talk some more about melee attacks. The pistol melee is one of the gayer aspects of gears in my opinion. While generally not used, Ive seen players who use the pistols melee attack as their primary weapon. As wimpy as the pistol looks, the melee attack has a remarkable range, and will down you in two hits. Also, for insult to injury, one hit will stun you for more than long enough for the enemy to land a second blow. I think its a pretty cheap tactic and avoid it myself, but if you see someone charging into a shotgun battle with the pistol held high, watch your dome for pistol whips.
Also, the choice between melee and chainsaw can be an important one. If someone is trying to chainsaw you (or vice versa), using your own chainsaw to counter-attack is a poor decision. I have no idea how the game calculates who chainsaws who, but its sheer luck and a 50/50 chance of you eating the blade instead of your foe. In this situation, any melee attack will work better. The melee of any non-Lancer weapon seems to have been designed to counter the chainsaw. Melee attacks have a longer reach than the chainsaw, and will stun them long enough to deliver the second (and downing) hit.

And, in most situations in Gears, a Leroy charge is generally not the best solution, no matter how tempting it may be.

Also, maybe we should start doing map specific stuff Scruffy, once weve run out of things to say to make ourselves look clever.

i like this formation of a meta-guide here.

I like the idea of tips for each map. The maps seem so diverse that you really need a different strategy for each.

i guess im pretty good at gears of war but not an expert. Here my be some tips that might tweek your skills a little bit.

Grenade Tags:
Grenade Tags I think are very sneaky and even more risky. You probably need to tag somebody when they don't know your there and them let'em have it. Say you see a 1 on 1 battle and the other guy is using everything to kill your teammate, go up and tag him (if you got grenades) don't just try to shotgun him unless you are right up next to him, then blow him away. But you can tag him also and then RUN as fast as you can. Make sure when you tag people to run away or you will be blown away.

Sniper Tips:
Snipering is my favorite and still is as it just takes one pull of the trigger and they are done. Well what I try to do is to shoot them in the head at long range and shoot them in the stomach or chest at medium range (with active reload). You can also hit them with a 2 hit combo. Either melee twice or shoot them then hit them. Only do this when up close.

War Machine:
This is my favorite place and will always be as i have mastered this place very well. You can do 3 things here. Go for sniper, for the torque bow, or go upstairs (but don't use the troika). Well if you wan't to (if they are rushing you with no mercy) go upstairs and flank them, then tag them and make them feel stupid. Or you can make it tough and hide behind the vending machine and chainsaw or shotgun them and then run back to your side of the sandbags.

Well thats all the info for now as i have other things to do. Well i hope this helps you and i will have more info later, like the torque, the chainsaw, and the boomshot and other maps. Later.

Chainsaw- scruffy and promo gave out some pretty good tips and id like to add on. when someone has a chainsaw and u have urs out its not a 50/50 chance of who gets the kill all you have to do is rev the chainsaw right before u get to them ( the right trigger while B is held ). You can also kill someone with a chainsaw if they are on the same cover as you but the opposite side. All you have to do is get the chainsaw rev it and ull chainsaw them over cover ( this does not work on an obstacle that is too thick and youll learn from experience which ones are or which ones arnt )

Grenade tag- when u are tagged with a grenade get into cover and sometimes u will survive the explosion likewise with the torque bow and instead of sneaking up and tagging someone the safe way is throwing them right on top of them then when they are stunned go for the kill with a quick chainsaw or pointblank shotty ( shotgun ) or easier just throw another and while there stunned the second grenade should finish the job.

Well for starters Im not that good, but I have my moments. Scruffy said you cant die while chainsawing thats not true. If you have a weapon that will cause a headshot (longshot,pistol,shotgun) you can get a headshot in the middle of a chainsaw. The same goes for a curb stomp. But you must be quick.

u guys sound like complete nubs
on ur shotgun advice, if u ever tried rollin into me, id blow ur fuckin brains out
u gotta learn how to work with 1/2 bullet lag
ur enemy runs into ur bullets, ur bullets dont run into them
EXECUTION is the best game mode by far
warzone, u get sniped all the way cross map and u just sit ther for minutes as they anal rape ur kneeling body

I don't understand how 1/2 bullet lag would make you better...it's completely different. If you learn to lead your target then when you play full speed you'll just be shooting ahead of them the entire time (read: NOT hitting them)

whats your live name Gow-execution. we should play sometime. see who's bullets run into who's.

And to clarify, you aim ahead of them cause of lag. you pull the trigger but the shots don't come out until a little bit later. Unless you are the host of course.

bring it Gow.

Also, execution sucks. It makes sniping pointless, and takes the strategy out of the game. If youre stupid and run out of cover to get grenades or something and I mow you down, sucks to be you, better have a team mate to pick your ass up.

Warzone is better.

how bad is the lag in multiplayer? sounds kinda lame

Wow that was a fast reply.

The lag is usually not too bad, but is easily noticeable (especially using the shotgun). Might have to aim about another player-length in the direction your targets moving to be sure to hit him.

The host of the game alsos got an advantage, depending how bad the lag is.

its not that bad at all. sometimes you get noticeably bad lag. but most of the time is is reasonable and you don't really notice it much.

my gamertag is Pyro911
in Warzone, if its a 1 sniper map, like Gridlock, its completely based on that 1 wep becuz of 1 shot kill
Execution all weps are fair
or if u wanna be gay, u can down a person 3 times wit snipe active reload

oh btw, if we play my mic broke today

im not exactly sure on the amount of time the bullets lag, but if u shoot were they are at, ull miss every time. unless ur host

My school's network just blows so lag is a big problem for me. It's never a problem when I play at home though.

Heres some tips for sniping..oh yea by the way annex and execution are the best game modes right now. in warzone its not that hard to snipe somebody with actives, pull out ur pistol and shoot them a couple of times.people that want to get better at sniping use (im not spelling it right) techniques such as lag.
Using lag is very hard with the sniper and hard to get used to, if i see a guy running around im not going to shoot directly on their head, unless their running at u (its a pretty easy shot then but u aim in front of them and shoot and theres ur easy kill. another tip is if u use ur shotty in a close range fight.. and not ur sniper, try switching your shotty for the sniper insted. it will force u to use your sniper for close range and within maybe a month youll see and also your friends will think your the best.. (not really) but yea u cant get much better at shotty unless you work on lag shots and sideways rolling.

the lag shots were explained before but now im going to tell u the strategie i call sideways rolling.

ok lets say your on fuel depot, and theirs a guy "rolling distants away. be on the right of him look left roll right and youll roll right in to him but on his side. and boom there he goes without even knowing what happend. the trick is that wen u rollin to him he wont be able to turn faster than u and if he tries to by the time he shoots heill be in pieces.

Chainsaw- i dont use the chainsaw very much because it is noobish and people dont get many kills with it.. but flanking with it is wat i do. wen im sniping and attached to a wall and someone comes up to me with a shotty. he shoots me once but doesnt kill me cause if he comes right up to me then ill see him (because of 3rd person view) all i do is detach off the wall, roll backwards then side ways then hit him and im sure it makes u feel really stupid because u had a chainsaw but no u thought u could kill me with a shotty.. hehe

oh and by the way, heres another tip for pistol whipping or whacking them with your shotty. when u pistol whip press B once and then press back and roll shoot at their head 1-3 times and then u get a head shot. or if ur by a wall press B then A to attach to a wall then A again then B... its a faster hit than regularly.

shotty hitting.. i love this its so awesome first u hit them then shoot =O amazing so simple but it works so well

all of you are crazy noobs
sword of a thousand truths is the only weapon to use
ill own you- dont bother stopping the rapeage
(but valentine, i still love and respect you as a woman)

-poop- http://udel.edu/~kmcgrath

conner gesbocker whats your live name? we should play together some time. mine is scruffykid34

I heard from a friend that revving your chainsaw with right trigger when in a chainsaw faceoff will cause you to win. I also heard that you can chainsaw through cover. Are these things true?

Um about revving the chainsaw, I am not sure if it causes you to start the process of sawing somebody any fast but I would assume so. I mean I would think it served a purpose if it was in the game. And you can chainsaw people over cover. For example on the middle bridge in canals you can get somebody over the little cement barriers.

hey guys, you guys have tips more tips for using the shotty, like where is the best place to aim, and u guys got any tips for torque?

Alright i dont mean to brag and all but i'm not bad at gears. So i thought i might give you the shotgun strategie i use. Basically i quick aim, when your in a battle with someone pull the left trigger for a friggin milasecond just so you know where your guy is aiming and then you can adjust it to the pattern that your opponent is moving and blow his guts all over the wall!

Hey Scruffy we should Play again soon.

shotgun tips:
the two schools of shottying: quick aim and blind fire as described above.
what nubes should know is that there is a difference in how to use them. quick aim allows for more accurate shots, but blind firing allows faster movement. duh. the trick is in if you blind fire, you make advances to get in close in a battle to exploit your quickness (the closer you are the more turning required) and eliminate the accuracy difference (if you can't hit them from point blank play career a few more times), with quick aim you just juke/circle from a little farther away and eliminate the quickness difference. you juke/circle with both, but blind firing's effectiveness increases if you time a juke/step forward and a finish shot well with their pauses, this is what i do and i pwn. quick aim should win every time otherwise.

hard lesson to learn: when beating people like they stole something, with the sniper or whatever, if youre gonna bash twice to down them instead of shooting them afterwards, make sure you circle them as much as possible, maybe juke back and forth a little to throw them, because they will have about a half second between being stunned and your next hit to operate, and a skilled shotty guy like myself can burn people regularly if they stay ~in front of me~. one decent shot at that range will blow you to pieces every time.

anybody know with the shotgun, is it best to aim at the head or the mid chest? mid chest gets more total area and the spread will hit the head too, but heads are sooooo vonerable maybe just put it in the middle of the scope and let some shot fly past em. i dunno cause i can one shot people in the legs if they get close enough

Screwa youa SatinsProto

Hey scruffy i was SatinsPrototype's guest the one day he played you, u friggin pwn. my gamer tag is SatansDisease but i need to pay $$ to get it on live

even though hosts have a lag advantage, normal players do have one thing. Weapon Sliding.

What you do is when you pick up a weapon press LB really quicks and you should be able to slide. It works on grenades and ammo too.
It's useful for when a sniper is pointed right at you for the easy headshot.

and scruffy we should play sometime, you sound like the cool kid on the block.
I'm shadow6463

EDIT: nevermind the new patch got rid of weapon sliding :(
try flanking then

hey shadow6463 do you any other ways to perform the weapon slide now that they patched it?

this works with the newest patch, as long as they didnt patch it within like 5 days ago since ive played. just remember that you cant be the host and do any glitches.

they patched the weapon slide on about friday and today is sunday, and i learned a pretty gay glitch thing, if u pull out a smoke and push RT then half way through your throw push LT you will not have any more smokes left and you will have not even thrown your smoke...

well I saw one guy weapon slide but my mic broke before I could ask him (it does that alot)

lancer is ALOT more powerful I saw a guy get 6 kills and 19 downs with just lancer (7 round execution)

yeah the lancer is maxed to the shit now, and the boom shot has been degraded

sup guys. im not new to GoW but i always see ppl on COG rolling over barriers instead of stepping over them. can anyone tell me how to do that?

most ppl dont know they are doing it
they just do, and then ppl always ask how'd you do that, but the person who did it doesnt even know they did it cuz they cant see themselves doing it only you can

well that is pretty gay

yeah you see it normally but sometimes to save resources or something that happens

any one have any tips on getting head shots??

with the sniper?

if the player you're sniping is moving, you have to time the shot(if you're not the host). aim a little bit in front of their head and fire, and they'll walk into the bullet. if you're the host, it's a lot easier to get a headshot because there's no lag on the bullets. also, when somebody is blindfiring at you, you can get a headshot. if you can see the enemies head, but the target on your gun isn't red, you can still hit them. when you pick up the sniper, instead of firing a bullet out of it everytime your active runs out, shoot a bullet, and then just switch to another gun, then when you see someone on the other team, pull out your sniper and it'll be ready for an active. however, an active shot into the lower body of a drone won't down them, but it will with the guards and raam. you can also down a guard by shooting it in the cape with an active, however this doesn't work on raam. carmine cant be downed with an active in the lower body either, and im not sure if any of the other cogs can.

and while i can be bothered to type...
the lag on the shotgun is pretty annoying, especially when you're in a shotgun battle with the host. so, when going round in circles shooting each other with the shotty, aim a little to the side of your enemy, and they'll walk right in to the bullets.

hey what up

i think people underestimate the shotgun now i understand that it is not a reapeting fireing weapon since u have to recok it everytime u shoot and i agree with the blind fireing with it and the running to ur enemy hoping to catch them off gaurd... to a sertant exstent most of the time they don't let up and when ur face to face with them its usally there shotgun barrel down ur throut. Also about the sniper it makes it pointless in exsiqution because if not dirrectly killed they can get back up so i agree on that and i don't understand why u would need to melee with sniper because a active realode only takes 2 secounds wich is just enough time for u to dive back and blind fire and likely they will fallow u so u don't even have to aim becuase when they are rite at u ur barrel of ur gun is aalready in there face...

oh by the way warzone kicks ass yeah baby woooot

it's not pointless to down someone with a sniper in execution. while they're down, you have enough time to reload your gun and have a head shot lined up for the second they get back on their feet.
sometimes you have to melee with the sniper because by the time you've "dived back", someone who is only half decent with a shot gun could down you. and there's also a chance that blind firing with a sniper wont hit them.

hey does everyone but the host have a lag in their shot? I always think Im the only one that has a lag in a shotty battle. Cuz when I spectate none of the players have a lag in their shot.