Mastering The Hammerburst in Gears of War 2

by LockDown on Jun.17, 2009, under Gears of War Guides

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This in my opinion is the overall strongest weapon in the game, and can not be overlooked at all. It has power at all ranges if used correctly. Its sheer ability to down is astounding.

So the Details

Ammo Capacity – 35 Bullets
Trigger Pulls – 17 (Some trigger pulls are 2 bullets)
Effective Range – 5m – 60m
Accurate Range – 5m – (no none limit)
Active Reload – 20% damage boost, Decreased Recoil

This weapon is just ridiculous, its downing pour alone is amazing, and a good person can fire it extremely fast making the down time even better. If you just hold the trigger and auto fire its around 5 seconds of firing, if you tap as fast as you can its around 2.5 seconds, I’d say turbo controls achieve 2 seconds of firing time. That’s fast, plus an active reload at 1.5 second, so you could basically dump your entire store in about 22 seconds. With a turbo control and done perfectly 20 seconds or so. On top of all that, close range defense is pretty impressive. With a quick beat down and some quick firing, or a ninja like double beat down. If you can wall bounce around, no shotgunner will keep you down.

Techniques

The Super Trigger

Simply aim at your targets knees, and pull the trigger as fast as possible. This only works if they are standing still your running to you or from you in a straight line, not many people can do this at a person running sidewise.

The Spray and Pray

Aim at your target and fire fast, keep it trained on your target but when they start to move start to jump around them, it’s a hard technique to learn but you’ll get the hang of keeping a lock on your opponent, even though your aim looks completely random.

The Safe Bet

Trying to simply do damage? Hold the right trigger, the hammer is slower but the recoil is a lot less vicious. However in turn the power itself is a lot less vicious, still higher damage than the lancer though. Since it’s the hammer keeping fire open people will stay in cover in fear.

1-2-Skip a Few

Melee, then aim and fire as fast as you can. It actually works!!! Now don’t try and do this against a shotgun, unless your surprised. However for a ambushee kind of thing it works great. It works a lot better if you can put a little distance after the melee, using either a wall bounce or a well placed roll. Once you get the feel for this technique its pretty brutal.

The Shadow Strike

Given the fancy name its really simple, it’s the art of double melee, but however to truly be the shadow strike you need to know how to wall bounce. Wall bouncing is a must in general, but especially for this skill.

Half Cocked

The act of leaving your gun close to empty after a fight, then when you approach an enemy and have the opportunity to fire you active reload immediately. This allows for the most accurate and the most powerful attacks to rain down upon your foes.

When your going toe to toe with power weapons using the hammer burst there are a few tips. The Ali effect works well, which is simply firing fast and rolling and wall bouncing after about a ¼ of a clip, to avoid taking a powerful hit. Again wall bouncing is the best, but rolling works decently.

Firing at a long range, when firing at a long range don’t fire to rapidly, you wont hit your target, especially with such a small mark, slower attacks are better, if you don’t hit you don’t do damage.

The GIANT downside of this weapon is its default ammo, it simply runs out way to fast, I go through my entire store in two or three fire fights.

I’ll be happy to explain any of this further if you want to message me, my tag is Gizmoh and my email is superjunkmail71@gmail.com

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