Gears of War Team Tourney Announced

Re: Gears of War Team Tourney Announced

12/06/06 6:42 pm | #46

Quote by halo2master101:

Anyone have a team that needs another player for the tourney. preferably like 14 or so old people
P.S Im 14

Hey young fella, I'll have you know once I take my arthritis pills, and wait around an hour or so for them to take effect, I can play against anyone of you whippersnappers!

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Re: Gears of War Team Tourney Announced

12/06/06 6:47 pm | #47

Quote by RetsaM:

Hey young fella, I'll have you know once I take my arthritis pills, and wait around an hour or so for them to take effect, I can play against anyone of you whippersnappers!

- RetsaM

Lol

I don't think he was inferring anything about skill. I know I can sometimes be uncomfortable playing with a group of older guys, and vice versa. I got kicked out of an informal tournament once because I am 15, and everyone else was 20+. A few people complained saying they felt uncomfortable playing with someone who is under 18.

I don't think age matters whatsoever, as long as everyone acts mature.

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Re: Gears of War Team Tourney Announced

12/06/06 6:50 pm | #48

Quote by FrothyOmen:

Well, is the tourney 3v3 or 4v4? If it's 3v3, just give host to a "ref" so that way all players have the lag. Now, make sure the ref has a certain skin and everyone knows that skin. Replace a gun, say, the hammerburst, with frag grenades. The ref will just sprint to the grenades and commit suicide, thus evening the teams. Plus, be sure that everyone knows that nobody is allowed to pick up that swapped weapon except for the suicide ref. That way, the match stays an even 3v3, and everyone experiences that same lag... Just a thought though.

This won't work because not everyone will have the same connection to that 'host', say you may have a much better connection to the 'host' then you will have less lag, and better game response than someone who doesn't have a good connection with the host. For that, lets just take our chances and have someone on one of the two teams host.

As in another post, I recommend, alternating on which team hosts for the first two rounds, and thereafter awarding host to the team with the player who scored the most points in the previous round. Make host something people can earn by playing well.

My .02

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Re: Gears of War Team Tourney Announced

12/06/06 6:58 pm | #49

Quote by Pastafarianism:

Lol

I don't think he was inferring anything about skill. I know I can sometimes be uncomfortable playing with a group of older guys, and vice versa. I got kicked out of an informal tournament once because I am 15, and everyone else was 20+. A few people complained saying they felt uncomfortable playing with someone who is under 18.

I don't think age matters whatsoever, as long as everyone acts mature.

You and halo2master101 don't have one of them pre-puberty high pitched voices do you? 'Coz if so, I ain't playing with ya... my ears can't take them high pitched squeaks and skrieks. hehe

I think most times, players who are older, are just afraid of being beaten by someone much younger than them, I could care less, I'll whip you young rascalians arses into shape with my Gnasher skills.

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Re: Gears of War Team Tourney Announced

12/06/06 7:03 pm | #50

my voice is lower than zoboa's and he is like 60

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Re: Gears of War Team Tourney Announced

12/06/06 7:07 pm | #51

Quote by RetsaM:

You and halo2master101 don't have one of them pre-puberty high pitched voices do you? 'Coz if so, I ain't playing with ya... my ears can't take them high pitched squeaks and skrieks. hehe

I think most times, players who are older, are just afraid of being beaten by someone much younger than them, I could care less, I whipp you, err... young rascalians into shape with my Gnasher skills.

- RetsaM

Heh, no I don't. I think my voice has a nasaly / geeky sound when I hear it. Maybe that's just because it's my voice...

I didn't use my headset at all in the tournament, but they knew my age from their site... and for some reason felt uncomfortable.

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Re: Gears of War Team Tourney Announced

12/06/06 7:36 pm | #52

Quote by Hockeypuck55:

my voice is lower than zoboa's and he is like 60

Haha yeah, just take a listen to the podcasts and compare the voices

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Re: Gears of War Team Tourney Announced

12/06/06 7:47 pm | #53

Quote by Pastafarianism:

Heh, no I don't. I think my voice has a nasaly / geeky sound when I hear it. Maybe that's just because it's my voice...

I didn't use my headset at all in the tournament, but they knew my age from their site... and for some reason felt uncomfortable.

Maybe it's some other factor that made them uncomfortable, say like your smell. <shrugs> We may never know. :baffled:

God knows I can make people sick to their stomachs when one of my Depend leaks, there was this one time I was walking and I was leaving this streak of shi... err.... never mind.

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Re: Gears of War Team Tourney Announced

12/07/06 12:41 am | #54

Quote by zoboa:

Not exactly sure what the advantage is, but the rules stipulate that any use of in-game cheats or exploits will earn a team a disqualification.

What are you refering to?

Z

well its been addressed already on what i was referring to but we havent figured this problem out...some1 suggested if u play well u can earn the host...but that doesnt make sense cause that wuld totally unbalance it..a mediocre/average player with host can make him a above par excellent player..but a excellent player with host makes him literally god-like...soo if we get the 7th person to kill him self and just observe that wuld be the best idea YET...anyone else wanna input?

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Re: Gears of War Team Tourney Announced

12/07/06 3:37 pm | #55

Quote by A F 1 G 3:

well its been addressed already on what i was referring to but we havent figured this problem out...some1 suggested if u play well u can earn the host...but that doesnt make sense cause that wuld totally unbalance it..a mediocre/average player with host can make him a above par excellent player..but a excellent player with host makes him literally god-like...soo if we get the 7th person to kill him self and just observe that wuld be the best idea YET...anyone else wanna input?

I was the person who suggested the idea of awarding Host to the team whose player accumulated the most points in their previous match.

I don't think giving host to the team with the best player from the previous round 'unbalances' the game. I think it provides additional incentives for a team to help each other out and for the best player in each team to play their best, to try and earn host for the next match.

A mediocre/average player even hosting the match wouldn't be able to best a good/great player who is not hosting. There may be occasional lag hiccups, but a better player is a better player regardless of who's hosting.

My friends and I have proven this time and time again, joining other people's games and schooling them; to the point where they kick us because we are beating them too handedly. Gears is not Halo 2, where the host has a HUGE advantage, in Gears the host advantage is definitely there, but it is not so bad that it makes the host invincible.

As for the 7th man idea, plainly put, I don't like it, simply because:

1. Every player's connection would have to communicate with the host then with their opponent, then with the host, then back to them, then back to the host, and back to your opponent again, it adds a completely unnecessary middle man to the latency issue.

2. Secondly the host would have to have a good enough connection to host the game, what if he doesn't? What if you have a bad connection to the host for one reason or another, then what? Do you forfeit? I'd much rather take my chances communicating directly with the other team's hosting player; it's one less communication layer to worry about.

3. As Z pointed out having a 'ref' in eight different matches in the first round is not feasible. It would take too long, waiting for each match to finish so the ref can host the next match, and the next, and so on.

Neither solution is fool-proof, but I'd rather play a game where the host and I have direct communication as opposed to having to stream everything through a middle man. Unless the host has a really, really good connection, where none or hardly any of the players even notice any latency.

Good luck to all in the Tournament.

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Re: Gears of War Team Tourney Announced

12/08/06 10:40 am | #56

ur point is valid and all but one last arguement id like to throw into the debate and i know its full proof.......lets say im host....i decide to pull out my shotgun and use it against u.... THE END lol kidding...i dont want to be a jackass and let u assume what the results are in that situation so ill just go ahead and speak for most of the people on here that play regularly on GoW...when some1 has host...

u all have noticed the significant amount of damage the shotgun does even from the longest distances, right? i mean thats not all...lets say i pick up the sniper...active reload+host...1shot down...so for you to only point out the "occasional lag hiccuping" and not how the weapons (and accuracy might i add) aren't as toned down as a non-hosting player....thats the point im trying to point out

hopefully im not coming off as an ass..thats the last thing i want to do around here :sorry:

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Re: Gears of War Team Tourney Announced

12/08/06 11:05 am | #57

My feeling on the issue is that we all deal with it every time we play online, yet we still manage to win (or at least say we do

) our fair share of matches. The only difference is there is a little something at stake here besides pride.

To me, it is just as part of the game as a Halo 2 lucky spawn site near the sniper and Banshee in Waterworks.

For the good teams, it will not matter either way. The deeper we get into the tourney, the less an advantage it will be. Just my $.02.

Z

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12/08/06 11:24 am | #58

Quote by A F 1 G 3:

ur point is valid and all but one last arguement id like to throw into the debate and i know its full proof.......lets say im host....i decide to pull out my shotgun and use it against u.... THE END lol kidding...i dont want to be a jackass and let u assume what the results are in that situation so ill just go ahead and speak for most of the people on here that play regularly on GoW...when some1 has host...

u all have noticed the significant amount of damage the shotgun does even from the longest distances, right? i mean thats not all...lets say i pick up the sniper...active reload+host...1shot down...so for you to only point out the "occasional lag hiccuping" and not how the weapons (and accuracy might i add) aren't as toned down as a non-hosting player....thats the point im trying to point out

hopefully im not coming off as an ass..thats the last thing i want to do around here :sorry:

Nah, not at all. You are not sounding like an ass.

I did forget to elaborate on what I meant by "lag hiccups," which certainly includes issues with the shotgun (amongst other weapons, but especially the shotty) range, accuracy and damage.

As for what would happen if we had a shotgun to shotgun battle, don't be so sure you'll win, you don't know my shotgun skills, I'm like Denzel's character Alonzo in Training Day, "I'm surgical with this bitch." hehe

Kidding aside, you are correct in that a host has many advantages, and a good player with host is very difficult to overcome, but that's where strategy, and teamwork I believe come into play. If this Tournament was a 1 on 1 tourney, then I believe we'd have to have someone who's not playing host to even out the odds a little bit better. As a 3 on 3, I don't care if someone on the other team has host. Bring it. (That's IF I make it into the Tournament, waiting on a friend to get up in here, argh).

Good luck to all in the Tournament.

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