After a holiday hiatus, Gears of War Wednesday with El33tonline’s friends and readers is back tonight at 20:00 on Xbox LIVE, and we’re going to ease into proceedings with a few, nice, casual rounds of brutal, curb-stomping, blood-raining action in Gears of War 3!
What fun!
As usual, if you’re keen to join in tonight, we’re going to ask you to join up on our known Gears of War 3 hosts, in order, starting with jGLZA, GarbageColector, FoFoZA and Fullmetal MDK - that is, if they’re available to host tonight. If push comes to shove, Numphie will also be able to host thanks to an improved ADSL line.
Please try joining each host in that order first, so we can fill up the lobbies. Fellows, if you’re not able to host tonight please let us know (comment, email, smoke signals etc. will do). If you’re able to host (and you’re not one of the above), also let us know, below!
See you all at 20:00 on Xbox LIVE folks!
Did we mention there are random spot prizes for participating? Great stuff.
But wait, there’s more!
El33tonline is looking for dedicated Gears of War Wednesday Community Leaders!
What is that?
An El33tonline Community Leader will help us organise and set up events (in this case, Gears of War 3 evenings) by spreading the news to the online community and keep events fresh by running differently themed evenings with different focusses (Team Deathmatch with modifiers, Horde Mode, Beast Mode, etc.)
These individuals are ideally extremely knowledgeable of Gears of War 3 and have a few hours to spare every week to organise events, liaise with us and write report-backs on these events (to be posted on El33tonline), as well as help us compile lists of participants for prizes.
If you are interested in becoming a Gears of War Wednesday Community Leader, please email oliver[@]el33tonline.com so we can further discuss the details, and ideas and feedback you may have regarding future evenings.
If you’re looking for a few Gears of War 3 friends to add to your friends list, why not consider the following fellows and fellowettes?
- GarbageColector
- FoFoZA
- Fullmetal MDK
- Lallieza
- BEANIB1LITY
- jGLZA
- L0rd0fTheFrags
- Bro October
- n0v14
- NobleKombat
- CraigViking1977
- Bull3tSaint
- GaaTY
- Rog163
- IshSpecialist
- M0mitha
- Zee JHB
- Omegazn
- Miss Bathory06
- F34R LAFr3SH
- STEVOVO89
- JUSTINCAPETOWN
- the ICON ZA
- HAMSTERJIE ZA
- LIVEangemon
- nakes7
- z00bear
- Smuroh
- v3loCiti
- Kalventer
- GreatwytY
- Raiden SA
- Nos4ra2
- okwacha
- Cleaverstone
- autostyle
- BogusHenry
- JGD007
- mattibitti
- finalBANKAI786
- SKWEH
- Ryperior
- ScorpionVPD
- SUPASONIXSEREAL
- PabloHoneyza
- NinjasCreed22
- Insomniac
- T3rM1NaToR 999
- Ze Snake
- POItjie
- FrostBite ZA
- Tourniquet
- de boss za
- F3arless F4Z3
- FrostyCloth1
- THE ONE ZA
- Numphie
- El33tOliver
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Comments:
WOW!!! look at that list of players, i can remember when we barely had enough players to fill one lobby and that was only month ago. I am going to be a little rusty haven't played Gears since the 2nd week in December, MW3 and Battlefield 3 took all my time so it's time to 'Bring It'.
I'm there!
i cant join you tonight :( tied up at work
Wayne aka Numphie here - I hope you all have been practicing GOW3 these holidays past! I'm feeling a tad rustry and looking forward to some mayhem to get me back into form. By form I mean achieving the most awesome deaths tonight.
My Gnasher has been craving some real action lately... BRING IT!
Awesome, tonight I'll do my best to join you guys. I get home at 8 so I'll try and join around 8:15. Its going to be super epicness....(no pun intended.) who is going to kill me first....mmmm I wonder. O NO I KILLED MYSELF....does that count as a Kill & a death or a Double death or Just awesomeness??? I'll add all the host to my list. well the ones I don't have on my list. See you all on the battlefield.....ummm meant on the battlground.....well you know what I mean.
@ jGLZA "El33tonline is looking for dedicated Gears of War Wednesday Community Leaders!" wink wink?
Yes indeed - we're 'wink winking' at you too, Beanie ;) Sorry you can't make it tonight ;(
See everybody else in the trenches, malls and streets!
See everybody there tonight! I'll be bringing a friend along: SwiftManslayrZA :D ... Just to let everyone know my gamertag on Xbox Live is now MacDeath ZA just like on El33tonline ;)
I'd love to join you guys, but unfortunately my kung fu school also reopens today, and my classes are on Wednesday nights, so I'm back to not being able to make it. Pity we didn't re-start last week!
i'm well available when I'm not hunting Full Metal's dog tags on BF3... ek kom vir jou shauno!
Correct me if I'm woring but aren't there M-Web dedicated servers for Gears of War 3?
Ja Abz you will meet my Gnasher tonight then tomorrow i will get your tags.
not sure if i can make it toight, but its so cool being part of such a growing community, so cool to see how it started from just a few of us into that seriously nice list of SA players.........i hope we can get BF3 to something like that
NOOOOOO smuroh, why o why.....you the only person I might get to kill......my support is gone.
Well watch this space. BF3 is going big and its going to be awesome.
Smuroh you and Poitjie should me join me, Bro october, abzSUNOFMAN and friends in Battlefield for the past few nights we had almost the team ( 12 players ) full of SA players, sure we sometimes get a little emotional with our language ( If you got killed 6 times in a row with a MAV ) but nothing beats screaming to your ocks in Afrikaans ' OPPAS DAAR KOP DIE LAV of OPPAS VIR DIE KRYWA'. Afrikaans best language vir Battlefield.
nice one. Will be joining the BF3 soon, this friday is Battlefield 3 friday. its going to be awesome. wonder if Oltman and Brattex will join us again.
I'll be there. I'm not good though so you guys need to teach me some tricks.
Such lies Vegeta ZA! I've seen you play and played against you a few times. You. Were. Good. Damn Good.
hi guys....uhm....my name is Bronwin October, and im new to ge....ge...gears of wa...war..., uhm so ....i......uhm...was wondering uhm...if i can....jo ....join.
@bronwin october, yeah dude you should join so I won't be the only new player in the lobby.
Oh and GaaTY is a liar, I've never seen, heard or played with him before;)
yep GaaTy is also ne...ne...new, but i see now in my weapon layout that i only have a gun called .....i hope im spelling this right but it ....says....."SNOT OFF SNOTGUN" uhm....is...th...that ri....right Vegeta ZZZ...ZA
sad news, i might miss tonights session as i have some stuff to finish off. enjoy it and see you guys on the battlefield
Friendly warning - TU3 has been released to day, only 3MB but just to let you know that you will to prompted to download when you start up Gears 3.
Only thing I hate about these updates is that you can only do quick matches again when the servers are updated. Which is usually in a day or 2 :(
GaaTY is right, I can't connect... Should have known. :(
might have to do private matches.
Thanks for the game guys. I'll be sure to join you okes soon. I think I've learnt some tricks tonight and I hope to get better like you pros. I'll practice this game and then we can play when I'm better.
Vegeta ZA... Lies! You're better than I am... WAY better!
Haha, Vegeta! Such a fibber! My virtual brains were splattered all over the pavement so many times 'cause of your longshot skills!
Thanks for the games everybody, sorry for the lack of energy from me - it's super warm here in Durban! My concentration levels were at an all time low ;)
Sorry you couldn't make it POItjie, definitely next time!
Woohoo, what a rush! I was so busy adding friends / inviting ya'll to the fill up the game with real players I keep on finding myself being the last man standing. In these dying moments I had some fun times doing the gnasher dance with Ze Snake whilst Full Metal and Bro where cheering me on. Wicked fun tonight. Thanks all!
I'm happy you guys had fun, sorry i could join you guys tonight, I'm going to make sure I join you all next week. i need to die a bit. see you all on the battlefield friday.
and i agree with Oliver, its hectic hot here in durbs tonight. i got like 3 fans on me,
Looks like you guys had an awesome time, i had work that needed to be done so sadly i could not jump in but i will be thier for BF3. Would be awesome if we could record these matches.
The matches are only half the awesomeness. Hearing Fullmetal MDK, SKWEH and Bro Snot-Offtober talking is the other half XD
hah all you guys have to thank me cause i have been covering your backs all the way,....ask SKWEF....i mean SKWEH. ;) i missed Oliver with my Torque bow and he somehow manage to CORRECT that lol thanks Oliver your my Hero ;)
I'm good like that - I didn't want you to think you had failed, so I jumped into it for you. ;)
GaaTY was the man,... and that character he was playing with was so IRRESISTIBLE GRRRAAAAARRRR ;) lol hehehehehe and Wayne was always the last man standing....mmmmmm wonder why ;/
The matches i played was fun Gaaty made some unbelievable kills, he was carrying to whole team that just shows how we sucked. Oliver was dancing so much with the enemy but when i get to the dance floor everyone was gone only some flesh and bones was lying on the floor where they were dancing. I was also do the jiggy, jiggy picked up a few kills and then was doing the impersonation of dogmeat. To bad i had to leave so early but next week i am there for the longhaul.
gaaty, your days are numbered
Haibo Beani what are you meaning?
just saying that should stop being a bully on gears. otherwise i might have to come out of retirement to put you in line.
I'll take you both on one on two. go over there and practice Dying, I'll be there shortly.......ok, people are now thinking I'm out of my mind.......but I AM.....because I'm a CRAZY POI........see what i did there......
omw, only see now my profile pic changed after 2 months of waiting
HAHAHAHA BEANI for you I'll take out my special sponging armor called the Spongebob armor XD
You can thank Wayne (and partially ME :P) for the pics.
dudw, why the smile with tongue? :0 bring it! minus the power weapons
Smile with the tongue because I don't know if I'm directly responsible for having setting the events in motion for having the pictures fixed. Maybe some other members also helped.
I got the medal "Lives of the land" and you know I love my Hammer of Gaat :D
hahahahaha, if only you were as good with you gnasher
Very happy to see the Gravatars are working now and thanks for GaaTY for helping me test my changes. You guys have some legend pics!
To those who played in the lobby that I hosted can you please let me know if you guys lagged, Just curious to know. Thanks.
I didn't lag noticeably, no. There were a few instances when I unloaded a shotgun shot and the hit only registered on my 'customer' after he had scurried away by a few metres, but nothing hectic, no.
I had 1 or 2 moments. But I think that was more my internet connection. Other than that it was pretty smooth games.
lol beani I'm beginning to get better with the Gnasher. Just ask the guys who played with my last night, I pulled some serious wall-bouncing headshots which I still don't know how I did it!
My Gnasher medal already has a number 2 underneath it.
It's an absolute pleasure Wayne. Its just my way of contributing to our growing online community.
lol, my gnasher medal has 3, going for 4 nw and remember that this is my second profile that im playing on now, 1st 1 got banned for hacking gow3, epic is so unreasonble... and if you wondering i havnt got a silver medal for any other gun
lol, my gnasher medal has 3, going for 4 nw and remember that this is my second profile that im playing on now, 1st 1 got banned for hacking gow3, epic is so unreasonble... and if you wondering i havnt got a silver medal for any other gun
Hacking? What did they think you did?
lets just say i had onyx guard before he came out, and weapon skins, and all characters that waas on the disk
But wasn't that their fault? Like they made with the RAAM's Shadow DLC where it was available for -1 MS points?
lol, dude, the thing is, it wasnt a mistake... i really hacked the game
yoyo! the games were AWESOME last night guys, pity the servers were down and the lag was crazy, but otherwise.... lotsa fun, next time i wanna be in a party so i can hear bro october mocking us when he uses his snot off lol!!!!!
Very strange hacking business