Undeniable Evidence about Shotgun

Malakai · 11-18-2008, 11:09 PM

Okay, it took me some time to capture video of this as good as I could, but I was able to do it. This video that I captured shows that the shotgun, even in system link shoots to the ground blindfired. There is no lag in system link whatsoever, so the shooting to the ground is clearly a glitch.

However, another odd thing that I found out (and you'll see in the video) is that the shotgun shoots blindfired normally (unglitched) only when you get within a certain proximity of the host. So, what does this mean? This means that if you start a matchmaking game and your blindfire shotty shots hit the ground, then the host is on the other team, and whats worse is that the whole other team's shotguns work. Why? Because they spawned with the host and were in the immediate proximity of him which automatically makes their shotguns work. Guess what team has a higher chance of winning? Guess.

I also found that if you aim with LT and shoot (aimed shot) it'll shoot normally (unglitched) but if you let go of LT right before you shoot, it'll be glitched again and shoot straight down. Sometimes in the heat of battle, we don't even realize that we are letting go of LT right before shooting. So when we swore that we aimed and shot, but nothing happened its because we let go of LT right before shooting and the shot went down. This happens alot now especially since the time in between shots with the shotty has been increased. Also, this whole shooting to the ground glitch also happens with the Boomshot blindfire. I know plenty of us have shot the boomshot blindfire only to have killed ourselves and then we're like, "WTF?".

These are the vid captures below (We used two different computers to get these captures simultaneously, so they're different qualities cause one uses a usb capture device, while the other uses a capture card):

Heres my vid capture: Part 1/Part 2
I'm Nation Uprise and I connect to Acid Phase's system link match, which makes me the client.

Heres Acid Phase's vid capture: Part 1/Part 2
You'll clearly see him create a system link match (which makes him host) and I join his match. This vid capture gets a little bumby at a certain point cause the processor got lazy, or maybe the encoding went bad.

So here you go. It is clearly a glitch, and for those of you who say, "Oh stop whining, the shotgun works fine. I kill people all the time with it." Its because you are host or spawned with the host. Mystery f*cking solved.

Warlock6.66 · 11-18-2008, 11:11 PM

that should shut the fanboys up

tealeaftuck · 11-18-2008, 11:29 PM

Thanks for posting this. I now realize I am not going crazy.
I love this game, but dang, this has got to be fixed SOON!

gearskings24 · 11-19-2008, 01:02 AM

thanks i thought i was going crazy as well..i thought it was lag(or was it) but then i notice the lancers doesnt lag even when im in a uk room..so you would assume the shotgun shouldnt either..it just confirms the shotgun sucks in gears 2..epic really needs to adress this problem i cant tell weither im hitting my foe or the ground with this glitch/lag .it forces me to change up my gameplan in the middle of a shotty battle..not cool at all...i hope epic BRING BACK THE SHOTGUN GAMEPLAY FROM GEARS OF WAR 1 in the update patch.it was unique ..different from other online shooter games thats why it was the best!!.ahhh wallbouncing...19rds. ravendown ..i miss it lol.ill give them credit on the meat shields,new weapons and being able to move while your down.. nice! tho..its the gameplay and match making..because of that i find my self going back often to gears of war 1

BerserkerBurgers · 11-19-2008, 02:14 AM

NICE!! So you shoot from your knees until the host is in your proximity! I have yet to actually play online but the fact that this is in system link too really sucks. Glitches like getting out of maps is one thing because at least with friends you can all play by the rules, but this is just total ass.