Submitted 6 months ago by RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
Like, I chose to play the Tutorial at the beginning. This Chainsaw seems like a pretty critical piece of the gameplay loop, but at no point has there been an explicit explanation or demonstration.
If you hold b it revs, and then you just run into an enemy without taking damage or you'll just stand there looking silly.
So on PS5, it’s the O button, and X is run. I need to press both at the same time?
Doesn’t need a run button. And, something kind of useful is that while revving, the game changes from strafe controls to tank controls, making it easier to orient at an enemy around a corner since you can’t reach your camera thumbstick.
You just hold the rev button as you walk up to an enemy. Then Marcus screams and the large body becomes many pieces
Sorry, I meant you can just walk into them. It'll stay revved and ready to chainsaw as long as you hold the button until you get hit.
Considering it is a microsoft game, just wait for the Palestinian children to appear.
But to actually answer the question. Gears was a game from the late 00s/early 10s made by Epic who had been making THE best arena shooters for almost a decade at that point. The chainsaw bayonet is just another Impact Hammer or Gauntlet. It isn’t something you are actually supposed to use outside of stunting on other players. Which lines up with Gears being a cover shooter through and through and charging out of cover being a REALLY good way to get gunned down on all but the easiest of difficulty settings.
I’m trying to avoid buying from companies on the palestinian boycott list, but I already know a Gears of War remake playable on Steam Deck is gonna be one exception.
You dont have to buy it to play it. Then you get to skip all the epic game store bs too.
I actually did play it on XBox back in the day, I just don’t remember anything. But yeah, I’m re-learning that pretty quick. Still though, the chainsaw is pretty awesome, why not explain it?
When it’s equipped, you just use your melee button, which ought to be B, if memory serves.
Hahaha here I thought I’d just missed something in the beginning of the game. Turns out the game just doesn’t bother to teach its players how to play it.
It’s so weird that players these days don’t press buttons and figure shit out on their own…do you really need a tutorial for a basic weapon?
Yes, amongst fights when I thought about it I tried and figured out the button. Then he wasn’t really locking on easily, and sometimes he just like, can’t start it after rolling or something, and then I get blasted. A few times doing that, and I got pissed and made this because everyone’s carrying the damn thing and I was just in prison. Why the holy fuck has no one daned to mention the goddamn chainsaw on everyone’s gun?
Capitalism + hyper consumerism. No time or patience to play around and discover. Gotta wrap up ASAP and move on to the next game.
That backlog isn't gonna play itself.
The game begins with a tutorial.
Why would I be remiss to be confused as to why there is a tutorial, but not include any mention of the existence, let alone the use, of a basic weapon?
Further, yes, I expect all products to tell me about their features.
I mean, I’m pretty sure. I guess maybe there may have been a pop-up message I never noticed, but Dom explaining these new guns with friggin chainsaws on them, like, with words, woulda been nice.
This may have been a game that came out at the tail end of the instructional manual era, and missing a mechanic like this in the tutorial area would have been an oversight that they could live with.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I’m not too heavy into gears of war lore but I would assume the Retro Lancer, which has a bayonet in lieu of a chainsaw and was introduced in Gears of War 3, was the precursor to the modern lancer.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Heh, thank you, but I meant how to use the thing, and why it seems to just not work sometimes.