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No thread yet, surprisingly.

The bad news: Originally set for a spring release, it's been pushed back to fall of next year.

The good news: There's a beta coming, and with all the new additions that have been announced, this looks like it'll almost be worth the delay.

Gears of War 3 Versus Multiplayer MEGA Hands-On Preview - Tonight, We TDM In Hell!

There's too much stuff to list here, so I'll just post what interests me most
- Four player co-op in campaign, with the addition of three new female characters (Samantha Byrne, Anya Stroud, and Bernadette Matak), one male (Jace Stratton), and the ability to swap weapons with teammates.
- Multiple new weapons, including the One-Shot (one-hit-kill sniper rifle, as you'd guess), a Pendulum-Era Lancer with a regular bayonet, a sawed off shotgun, a flame grenade, and the Digger Launcher.
- Revamped King of the Kill, Team Deathmatch (kills deplete a set pool of lives for each team), Capture the Leader (think Guardian meets Submission) and Beast mode, which is Horde in reverse. A preview of Beast shows you start playing as something like a Ticker or Wretch, eventually earning a Berserker if you do really well.

There's still going to be a ranking system, and hopefully there's no achievements for hitting an absurd rank again, cause then you're basically telling people to boost if they care about it.

I loved the original, and although #2's campaign wasn't quite as good, the additions there helped make up for it. Hopefully this wraps up the trilogy well.

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Haha, does the sawed-off have to be touching the guy in front of you to hit him?

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Lol, in a sense, yes:

To balance its power though, the Sawed-Off can only hold one shot per clip; has really slow reload times; only carries less than a handful of bullets; and is only effective at ridiculously short distances. In truth, I found myself sticking with the Gnasher as per usual, although the veteran Epic players were all about the Sawed-Off... the fact that it can kill multiple targets at once if they’re close enough may have something to do with it. It’s a practice makes perfect scenario with the Sawed-Off; that much is clear.