Gears of War 2's active sniper will not insta-down

HoNgKoNgPh0oEy - 550 days 7 hours ago

Because it is impossible they could of changed anything after the beta because developers never do that.

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TheSadTruth - 550 days 5 hours ago

hitting someone with a body shot takes NO skill

headshotting takes skill

they are doing the right thing

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PureGamer - 550 days ago

nah you wouldent. It would do some damage but it would not straight off kill you.

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tudors - 549 days 23 hours ago

Yes but this isn't real life it's a game.

Puregamer he is right about in real life it would still possibly kill you, when a bullet hits a bone instead of going through it travels along it, many people who have been killed by a gun shot have been 1st hit in the leg bone and then it will travel up the leg to the arteries.

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PureGamer - 549 days 23 hours ago

yes i know that but thats not gonna happen everytime. Even if it did hit the bone theres no telling where it would go, a straight 1 shot 1 kill is unlikely.

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mastercheese179 - 549 days 16 hours ago

Yea if a .50 cal hit you you wouldnt be getting up

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liquidsnake - 549 days 12 hours ago

lol there is no "traveling along your bones" if you're hit with a .50 cal. You can shoot smaller airplanes with that thing. you hand/leg would be amputated and you would have died from shock and blood loss.

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v1c1ous - 550 days 10 hours ago

active reload is a technique in Gears where you press the reload button on a sliding bar. by timing your reload correctly, you can get a damage boost to your ammo clip. the damage boost is big enough to cause an instant knockdown with the sniper rifle. while a headshot with the sniper is always instant kill, a shot anywhere else will not knockdown. it will do a lot of damage, but that would be enough for the sniper to take out a handgun and take 3-4 pot shots to knock you down, but you still have a chance to run away/get cover. with an active reload, a shot ANYWHERE other than the head (instant'kill regardless of active or not) will automatically cause a knockdown.

depending on the game mode, you either a) have to wait for a teammate to pick you up, b) bleed to death c) have to wait x amount of seconds to get back up

in the case of c), the problem some people complain about is that in the time your character is recovering from the knockdown, the sniper can active reload again and basically knock you down as soon as you get up. in most game modes, you can only get up twice, with the 3rd knockdown being instant death for you.

so a lot of snipers will toy with you as you are getting up and can't do much. unless 1) your teammate gets you up before the sniper gets the active 2) your teammate engages the sniper causing him to move attention away from you 3) the sniper misses the active reload or misses your body.

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socomnick - 550 days 10 hours ago

Instand down in gears of war 1 is annoying because the snipers just run away when you go to fight them. They run away until they can instant down you and then boom hs. Glad there will be no active reload downs in gears of war 2. Maybe now they will actually try to be skilled and aim for the head.

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NewShadow101 - 550 days 10 hours ago

i only go for headshots, its the weapon of my choice =] if i accidentally down them then ill let them get back up and go at me again. i agree with you socomnick. they get annoying, i dont run though, i fight in close combat with the snipe. im giving you good feedback =]

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BLUR111 - 550 days 9 hours ago

true, the torque Bow is better it will kill with one good shot even if it hits the enemys foot lol

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v1c1ous - 549 days 21 hours ago

Getting stuck with a torque bow is a 99% chance of dying.

don't tell me you have never been stuck with a torque, pressed the button for cover, and come out unscathed when it blew up?

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Sayai jin - 549 days 18 hours ago

Yeah sure that happens, if you consider a glitch in the game legit. When the game is working correctly I can gaurantee a one shot kill. Come on, I welcome you, it'll be fun :)

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BLUR111 - 549 days 14 hours ago

No, when that happens its just a animation glitch

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allexx_2 - 549 days 22 hours ago

Being a sniper does not make you a coward at all. I personally enjoy being a sniper in any game that allows it, since i love taking people out from afar and seeing their head come off. It's all in player preference i suppose.....i don't mind going run & gun style either even though I personally think that takes no skill at all. Just pure luck. Oh and if u would do that, I would just come and look for you w/ my sniper and get a no scope head shot on you(love doing that). Each to his own i guess.

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allexx_2 - 549 days 22 hours ago

I do agree on those noobs though, wasting a good round which could of been used to get a head shot or at least hit the person and then put some pistol rounds after to down the guy.

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allexx_2 - 549 days 22 hours ago

It's all about a gamer's play style. I LOVE sniping someone in any game since it makes them get mad and feel vulnerable from any angle with them having no clue to where it came from. Well sniping does involve being patient and using one's enviroment, so there is nothing wrong with hiding when you are a sniper. Maybe you should be better at locating and taking those snipers out, since it seems that is what you lack in those games they have ruined for you.

Also, I try out other weapon classes too.

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Darrius Cole - 549 days 18 hours ago

What you said is exactly the point. You said.....

"I LOVE sniping someone in any game since it makes them get mad and feel VULNERABLE from any angle with them having no clue to where it came from."

They don't just FEEL vulnerable, they ARE vulnerable, while at the same time you, or any other sniper, it perfectly safe and out of range.

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allexx_2 - 549 days 4 hours ago

about a player being vulnerable to a sniper but thats what a sniper is supposed to do. This includes providing cover for your own teammates and picking off the opposition to better help out your team's objective. Also, most sniper rifle rounds are heavier and have BIG stopping power so it SHOULD have greater damage. If they take away the 1 shot active reload in gears, they will have to implement something else to make up for it like change the bolt-action style to a magazine-fed style(with say 3-4 bullets). Since, 1 bullet hitting someone in gears was pretty weak and sometimes shoots didn't register when it was a head shot too. We will see in the finished product.

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ISA_Scum - 550 days 13 hours ago

lol, Baboons.

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thor - 550 days 13 hours ago

You forgot Gears 2 has 5 ON 5 MULTIPLAYER!!!1`1212`grave

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Joe2911 - 550 days 11 hours ago

5 on 5 thats weak compared to R2 and its 30 on 30.

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Shaka2K6 - 550 days 11 hours ago

Will suck just like halo 3.

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KBDuB - 550 days 11 hours ago

What is wrong with you guys? Seriously? A game so unimportant to you guys is involved in so much of your life. Wow.

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Joe2911 - 550 days 11 hours ago

What wrong with you? Seriously? You have to comment back at a harmless comment in the OPEN ZONE, ITS CALLED OPEN FOR A REASON, you can say anything.

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t-0_ot- - 550 days 10 hours ago

@Bill Gates - ahah You're so stupid.. You wish you were Bill Gates, that's why you are impersonating him. ahah

@Joe2911 - Uhm.. listen here moron, 5v5 in Gears 2 maps is great. Just like 30vs30 in R2 maps is great.

If you had 30vs30 in Gears 2 maps, it would be stupid. If you had 5v5 in R2 maps, it would be stupid. So, it works for the maps, in other words.

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KBDuB - 550 days 10 hours ago

Oh, so you mean, since it's the OPEN ZONE I can say..

You are a dumbass for wasting so much of your time on something that means nothing to you, that you will never use or own? Nice. What an idiot..

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Joe2911 - 550 days 10 hours ago

How contradictory.... If you don't understand what it means, which is possible since your pretty much a tard to have done in the first place, you just wasted your time commenting back, and besides, im not wasting my time i'm filling up my time, i'm on ps3 and i comment when the game is over on MGO.

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Jason 360 - 550 days 9 hours ago

The Droids are pissed because they have tiny penises.

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dem0n - 550 days 5 hours ago

@Joe
Filling up time? So, you really think badmouthing a game that you'll never play is a good way to fill up time? If you ask me, I think you're jealous. You use the weakest argument about Gears. 5 on 5 is perfect for Gears, and if you actually played Gears, you would know that. 30 on 30 is fine and everything, but if they did that to Gears, it just wouldn't work. Gears of War is a team versus team killing game..not a goal focused clash of teams. Learn the difference.

As for this article, active snipe is a very cheap way of killing people. I completely agree that the one shot down should be removed. Headshots are where it's at, and once you start playing the game more, headshots become easier.

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Joe2911 - 550 days 3 hours ago

It pretty funny to think that I'd be jealous of gears of war, you guys must be all jealous of resistance 2 because i have every xbot in the open zone up in arms about it. "O resistance 2 sales sucked compared gears"
"I f*ck my 360 everynight just let it know I love it still" Your all a bunch of dumbasses with your heads so far up your asses, im surprised you can still breathe. You all a bunch of contradictory morons, that have less than a brain cell each. My comment was harmless and valid, ok maybe a 30 vs 30 match of gears wouldn't work, people say when theres an arguement you have to take both sides of the equation into account, well me talking about R2 is fine because its Gears competition, so stop being a bunch of up tight n*b jockeys and lighten up.

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dem0n - 550 days ago

No, don't act like your comment was harmless. You stated that 5 vs 5 is weak compared to 30 vs 30. I never badmouthed Resistance. I loved the game, I just hold Gears of War closer.

Each game is different, and like you said, you must take both sides into account. Using that logic, 5 vs 5 is NOT weak when used in a game like Gears of War. Halo, COD4 and Resistance are good examples of the type of games that SHOULD have 30 vs 30.

Some of the 360 only fanboys may only take their argument into account, but unlike them, I give every game a chance. I don't care about which console I play which game on, I just prefer the 360 over the PS3 right now. Xbox LIVE is a great service, and I'll stick to playing my favorite online games on it until Home is finished. Then, maybe I'll play my PS3 more.

The reason I think you're jealous...is because you decide to come to a Gears of War 2 article, you join in on your Droid buddies(by the way, look who had the first comment, a Sony fanboy), and downgrade a game that you won't even play. If you don't like Gears of War, that's fine, people have different tastes..but don't waste your time commenting about it.

If you ask me, any fanboy that starts posting negative comments on an article about a rival console exclusive, is scared of it.

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The Wood - 550 days 12 hours ago

?? well what is active sniper, the other bit kinda explains itself

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Icewake - 550 days 11 hours ago

It gets a damage boost. That's the active sniper.

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KBDuB - 550 days 11 hours ago

What does it really mean? Is insta-down when you hit the floor, but are still alive? Or does it mean it kills instantly?

I thought that a sniper shot instantly kills you..? I don't really know. I don't play Gears online too much.

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v1c1ous - 550 days 10 hours ago

the damage boost is big enough to cause an instant knockdown where you can't do anything.

you either a) have to wait for a teammate to pick you up, b) bleed to death c) have to wait x amount of seconds to get back up

in the case of c), the problem some people complain about is that in the time your character is recovering from the knockdown, the sniper can active reload again and basically knock you down as soon as you get up. in most game modes, you can only get up twice, with the 3rd knockdown being instant death for you.

so a lot of snipers will toy with you as you are getting up and can't do much. unless 1) your teammate gets you up before the sniper gets the active 2) your teammate engages the sniper causing him to move attention away from you 3) the sniper misses the active reload or misses your body.

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The Wood - 550 days 10 hours ago

cheers

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KBDuB - 550 days 10 hours ago

Thanks, for the info.

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alakazzam - 549 days 22 hours ago

i bet you've never played resistance its good fun. ive never played gears so im in no place to diss it. same with XBL and PSN, most of you say the psn is sh1t but i bet you've never even used it, but you think you know it all just cause you've read something about it, how do you know! you cant knock it until you've tried it

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why do droids cry - 549 days 13 hours ago

thwe epic gears of war will tea bag RESISTANCE IN THE ANAL: 60 PLAYER DROID ORGASAM WARS.

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alakazzam - 549 days 22 hours ago

thanks. I SURE WILL lol

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why do droids cry - 549 days 13 hours ago

GEOW2>CONSTIPATION INSTILLATION WARS: A DROIDS ORGASM ANY DAY

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why do droids cry - 549 days 13 hours ago

YES resistance 1 was well resistance 1: fall of sh1t

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