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Gears Of War: Annex

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:28 pm
by ninja modder
Annex for Gears of War came out today. I personally LOVE it. The respawns are awesome and i personally love territory type games.

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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:30 pm
by GametagAeonFlux
I hope this makes them realize that, even if in the form of these waves (which they stole off of the UT2004 mod FragOps :P), respawns can work in this game.

I'm not a fan of territories, especially in low health/realistic games because things tend to become "omg camp tiem"...but kudos to them.

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:41 pm
by 1nevitablEnd
yeah i was skeptical about spawns as well. but ive heard they integrated it pretty well

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:40 pm
by galvination
I hate it. I'd rather have respawns in an execution gametype than in some failed attempt at KOTH (King of the hill). I found it to frustrating because all the hills are at weapon spawns which people switch weapons for boomshot so first one to the hill basically can pwn anyone coming there after them. Also the re-spawns are so far away from some hill spawns that they can gain 20 pts before your team gets close to where they are. Also it makes normal weapon spawns away from the hill useless because by the time you pick up a weapon they're ahead 10-15 pts.

The gametype in my oppinion fails miserably. It makes gears more like a halo killfest (note gears is a strategy game to some extent) than it's original intended fast paced strategic combat.


The only use I will find out of this gametype is playing with friends to kill and respawn but ignore the hills to keep the game going.

CTF would be better than KOTH. In my opinion.

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:55 pm
by Vaati
Annex = Awesome.

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:35 pm
by fishface617
Man why did my 360 have to break....

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:45 pm
by ninja modder
EDIT: WAIT! not you above me! the one below me..

Your 360 broke because my envy of you and guitar hero 2 went through the cables and killed it.....>_>

But ya i have been playing annex....one thing i don't like is that rounds are massive!

30 minutes=3 rounds or so for me

But i do like the massive kill count you get. Over 50 Killz for 2 rounds.

Annex is my new favorite gametype =P

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:33 pm
by 1nevitablEnd
fishface617 wrote:Man why did my 360 have to break....
yeah im going to cry if halo 3 beta comes out before my xbox is fixed. because this is the worst time for it to break all this new stuff is coming out

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:03 am
by avp DR@AGON
Ya i love its just that it takes so long, my longest execution is 19 rounds 43 minutes, 4 rounds of annex- 32 minutes

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:42 am
by MrBalll
I really like it. Played it for a couple of hours last night with BlueRedFire and we "owned" as they say these days.

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:41 pm
by FReAK
OFUX

MrBalll, I just played Gears with you the other day. Remember me; FrothyOmen?

ONTOPIC:
The Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta will go live on May 16th at 12:00 AM PDT and run through June 6 th at 11:59 PM PDT.
You will get your Xbox back before the Beta comes out.

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:33 pm
by MrBalll
Hey I do remember you. I think we were on the same team and I assume we kicked bum.

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:34 am
by ninja modder
after playing this last night i found some downsides to it...not the games fault. People act like its warzone or any other mode and say "oh em gee im gonna goes for teh snipes lolz." when we are suppose to go to the boomshot spawn or some other spawn away from the sniper. They don't really help they just camp liek before.

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:32 am
by galvination
I found that too hence me typing
Also it makes normal weapon spawns away from the hill useless because by the time you pick up a weapon they're ahead 10-15 pts.
above.

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:37 pm
by ninja modder
ya i know..i find it annoying....they are useless...people don't realize it though. They always go for something else and i end up having to kill off 4 people by myself.

EDIT!: ALSO! GRRRRRR i have attempted to play some games of Annex today and i have played maybe 20 matches or more probably. I finished 1. The host ALWAYS quits. Thus i lose my points/kills....i had over 50 and he quit....ERRRRRR :evil:

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:09 pm
by FReAK
Ninja, you know that your kills in Annex do NOT count towards achievements, right?

[quote]Q: How does Annex affect gaining achievements?

A: Due to the addition of infinite respawns, any kills in Annex won

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:41 am
by ninja modder
ya i know. But still....i like to killz and i also want to finish matches.

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:31 am
by 1nevitablEnd
FReAK wrote:OFUX

MrBalll, I just played Gears with you the other day. Remember me; FrothyOmen?

ONTOPIC:
The Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta will go live on May 16th at 12:00 AM PDT and run through June 6 th at 11:59 PM PDT.
You will get your Xbox back before the Beta comes out.
THANK YOU JESUS!!!