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Vetteman94 on 03 May 2011
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TRios_Zen said:
Vetteman94 said:

Now I havent played the beta so i am going over past Gears experiences.  Would opening up the levels to include larger areas help this?   It sounds like most maps are small and confined so a shotgun of any kind would be a natural selection.  And nothing dominates like a shotgun at close range.  To dumb down the weapon strength would kind of be an insult to the weapon type,  since being powerful up close and personal is what its good at.   I think they just need to open up the maps a little more and include more open areas to discourage the rampant use of the weapon.  Its one of the things I always disliked about CoD games was how dumbed down the shotguns were.

A) if you have Gold, you should try the beta; getting in next week should be pretty easy as MS is giving a bunch beta keys away to current beta users.  I can dig it, if you're not gold though.

B) Some maps are worse than others, regarding open/closed designs, but there are plenty of open spaces in Thrashball and Oldtown.  The problem is that in KOTH and CTL, you are basically required to all gravitate towards the same areas (either the "circle" in KOTH, or where the Leader is in CTL), so there are plenty of excuses to engage in CQB where the SOS is king.

Just last night I had two teammates defending the "hill" for our last ten point and they were rushed by 4 out of 5 of the opposing team.  It was going to be a massacre, but I was just rolling up on the battle right behind that group of 4, who were all clsutered together around the "hill" to cap it.  got in behind them, one shot killed three and downed the 4th.  I meatsheilded him and capped the hill for the win.  man I got to tell ya, I even felt cheap after that.  Like I needed to bathe or something.

I have gold and I should end up getting one or 2 codes since I am pretty sure I meet the requirements for them.

As for the map designs, if people still gravitate towards those areas than it sounds like the maps should be redesigned.    There will always be areas that people flock to on a certain map, obviously,  but there can be things they do to discourage people from it.

As for your specific sneario, to have that kind of spread seems a little ridiculous, even if both barrels fire at the same time(do they?).  And in that they should look into a redesign. But given that you seemed to have the drop on them its not ridiculous to think the same wouldnt have happened if it would have required a couple more shots.