Gears of War 3

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I confirm that. It is really bizarre: the first match went rather well, the next match with the same players turned into a nightamre with the oppossing team having invulnerable players. From the epic formus, apparently, dedicated servers are available only on some ranked playlists.

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http://majornelson.c...vailable-nov-1/

Horde map pack coming November 1. I'm so happy that my season pass will be used to pay for content that's already on the disc. (N) ****ing fail, Epic. Massive ****ing fail.

Where does the "content already on the disc" part comes from? Because the three new maps are referenced in the leaderboards?

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Ayepecks

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Where does the "content already on the disc" part comes from? Because the three new maps are referenced in the leaderboards?

No, because it's a fact it's already on the disc from people who have explored the contents and played the maps from on the disc. I'm not going to link to the sites that say as much and get banned (because of the nature of the sites), but do a Google and YouTube search and you can find it.

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No, because it's a fact it's already on the disc from people who have explored the contents and played the maps from on the disc. I'm not going to link to the sites that say as much and get banned (because of the nature of the sites), but do a Google and YouTube search and you can find it.

So that's how Epic took advantage of the XGD3's extra GB of space, including DLC, oh boy :/ !!

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Horde map pack coming November 1. I'm so happy that my season pass will be used to pay for content that's already on the disc. (N) ****ing fail, Epic. Massive ****ing fail.

So blood drive will only be playable in horde/beast? :( sucks

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Ayepecks

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Well I guess you dont have to download as much as if they didnt put on the disc

I wouldn't be surprised if they made it a separate download just to make it appear as if it's not on-disc to avoid backlash. But people have already proven that it is on the disc -- go take a gander at YouTube of people playing them from cracked copies of the disc.

Edit: Major Nelson is deleting any comments on his blog about this being on-disc DLC. Pathetic.

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Vykranth

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I wouldn't be surprised if they made it a separate download just to make it appear as if it's not on-disc to avoid backlash. But people have already proven that it is on the disc -- go take a gander at YouTube of people playing them from cracked copies of the disc.

Edit: Major Nelson is deleting any comments on his blog about this being on-disc DLC. Pathetic.

I saw a video on youtube. This is pretty convincing.

Am I that surprised? No, really not surprised. The physical media is something not that relevant anymore in software.

There are plenty of applications which features are enabled or not depênding on the license keys.

In terms of development, DLCs are planned months in advance and not after the game is published. Game publishers are trying not just to sell games, but to have players keep them and continue to play so they resort to slice games into paying features: DLC packs or micro-transactions to customize the game features like the weapons skins or get an early advantage

Heck, I bought a weapon unlock key in Bad Company 2 a few weeks ago because I was streamrolled by veterans. The game made me a proposal I could not refuse: "You want the F2000, Vykranth. Remember how good you are with the F2000 on Modern Warfare 2?? Well, you can wait until you get to the proper level and have your ass handed back to you or you can buy the unlock key"

This is an unspoken rule new to the gaming industry: make the players crave for even more of the game.

Am I ****ed? More at Cliff Blezinsky for some of his comments he made several months regarding 'dating your players' than anything else. Still not as much bull**** as Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling's 'we are not doing it for money'.

Lone Star Mode: We are doing it for a **** load of money!

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Razorwing

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I wouldn't be surprised if they made it a separate download just to make it appear as if it's not on-disc to avoid backlash. But people have already proven that it is on the disc -- go take a gander at YouTube of people playing them from cracked copies of the disc.

Edit: Major Nelson is deleting any comments on his blog about this being on-disc DLC. Pathetic.

Yeah the seperate download is probably to 'unlock' what is on the disk. I'm also not surprised on Nelson deleting those comments. Remember, he works for Microsoft.

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Ayepecks

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Finished the campaign. Wow! Now onto horde. :yes:

Razor and I (and perhaps Larry) are going to try it next Tuesday on Insane if you want in. (We're using mutators so it doesn't kill us, though. :laugh: ) Not sure how your connection would be since we're all in North America, though.

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DR3AMxCATCHER

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Horde Insane with Unlimited Ammo and Super Active Reload with 2 good players can run it on Trenches a die a few times.

Also note, the content is already on the disk and the only reason the maps won't be in multiplayer (ranked and quick match) is because of the Dedicated Servers not having them in a map rotation according to Rod.

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DirtyLarry Veteran

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Zero Punctuation Reviews Gears Of War 3

It does contain some spoilers. He is pretty much BRUTAL towards the game, and not in a good way.

Keep in mind, he does not play MP, only SP.

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mikebiacsi

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Razor and I (and perhaps Larry) are going to try it next Tuesday on Insane if you want in. (We're using mutators so it doesn't kill us, though. :laugh: ) Not sure how your connection would be since we're all in North America, though.

What time are you guys gonna be on? I'm about 5 hours ahead of EST and have work on a wednesday.

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SubjectDelta

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Just beat it on insane and it wasn't that difficult really, but that's probably because of my nifty little mutators I worked to get before attempting insane. I was loving the Super Reload, the infinite ammo, and instagib just to make it fun.

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Well finally got this game today, played the first act and a bit into act2, then played some Hord online, normal till my connection dropped heh. Well, the team I was on made it to level 20 for whatever that's worth.

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Razorwing

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Well finally got this game today, played the first act and a bit into act2, then played some Hord online, normal till my connection dropped heh. Well, the team I was on made it to level 20 for whatever that's worth.

Well it could be that servers went down at 2am PST because of maintenance.

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