OFFICIAL: Issues & Solutions thread - UPDATED 12-16-2008

[Six Okay]

UPDATED: 12-16-2008

Consolidating sticky threads. Added Xbox.com info about adjusting your firewall settings if you're having problems.
Added info about Ascension progression problems.
A Title Update was released. Details can be found here (http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=640626)
Added update to Matchmaking troubles
Added update to single-player campaign start troubles
Added information about how the Gears of War 2 rank system works
Added a link to Matchmaking info from Rod Furgesson
Added information about Canadian English-Language hardcover Limited Edition art books
Added information about Linked Achievements (Gears 1 unlockable characters)
Added clarification about "Friends with Benefits" Achievement
Added info about missing Co-op Gamerpic
Added possible work-around to matchmaking slowness
Added an IMPORTANT note about Golden Lancer Downloads
Added information about loss of Achievement progress


Hey everyone -

To help keep things organized, I'll be using this thread to address known issues and solutions for Gears of War 2. Please read through this list to see if the issue you have is below. If you don't see your issue below, please be patient. I'm sorting through the boards to grab things I see, and will include them here as we have answers for you.

NOTE: If you have an issue not on this list, you can post it in this thread, but for the most direct assistance, please visit www.xbox.com/support or call 1-800-4MYXBOX. Using either of these methods increases our ability to track known issues, so please don't hesitate.

Please help us out. If you see someone posting or asking about something on this list, direct them to this thread. Also, if your issue isn't on this list, please add it in this thread. It'll help everyone stay organized, and help us track things down MUCH faster.

Thanks for your patience and support!

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Q: Can’t find all my codes - I ordered the Limited Edition and I have some of my codes, but I am missing one/two.
A: The codes for the 48-hour LIVE trial, the Flashback Map Pack, and the Golden Lancer are all together on the same card. Peel back the cardboard where indicated, and you will expose all three codes.

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Q: Didn’t get a Golden Hammerburst Code - I went to a Midnight Mayhem event but didn’t get a code for a Golden Hammerburst.
A: Golden Hammerburst codes were sent out to stores participating in Midnight Mayhem events to be distributed while their supplies lasted. It’s possible that your local store ran out of codes.

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Q: Golden Lancer Downloads – I got a code to download the Golden Lancer, but it doesn’t seem to be working. The code is fine, but the download doesn’t finish, and I get an error code.
A: This has been resolved. Follow the steps below:

Xbox360 Dashboard 1.0:
1. Launch the Xbox Dashboard
2. Sign into your Profile
3. Go to the Marketplace blade
4. Select “Account Management”
5. Select “Download History”
6. Under the “Games” section, select “Gears of War 2 Gold-Plated Lancer Assault Rifle”
7. When the blade appears, select “Download Again”
8. Wait until the “download complete” confirmation toast appears

Xbox360 NXE:
1. Launch the Xbox 360 Dashboard
2. Sign into a Profile
3. Go to the My Xbox channel
4. Select your profile (second selection) and press A
5. Select “Account Management”
6. Select “Download History”
7. Under the “Games” section, select “Gears of War 2 Gold-Plated Lancer Assault Rifle”
8. When the blade appears, select “Download Again”
9. Wait until the “download complete” confirmation toast appears

I’ve heard reports of people having to try re-downloading it a couple of times, so if you still get an error, please wait a few minutes and try again. You can also delete the original download and then re-download. As long as the download initially started, you will be allowed to re-download the file. There won't be any code issues.

IMPORTANT: When you re-download the Lancer it takes about 10 full seconds, during which time the progress bar jumps from 1% to 100% at the very end. If you attempt to “Download Again” wait until the message says “Download Complete”. Do not give up and press the Cancel option. This is Step 8 in the list above.

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Q: Campaign start issues – When I select a new campaign, then select a difficulty, the game makes a noise like it’s being selected, but the campaign doesn’t start.
A: A Title Update was released that should resolve this problem. For more info, read here (http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=640626).

If you’re still having this issue, try setting your game to “Local” in the campaign lobby. This should fix any issues you’re experiencing. Follow these steps to set your game to Local:

1. Launch Gears of War 2
2. If you haven’t already, sign into your profile
3. Select “Co-op Campaign” (don’t worry, you can still opt for a Single Player match)
4. Select “Host Co-op Campaign”
5. Select a save slot
6. In the Campaign Lobby, set Co-op Mode to “System Link”
7. Select your Act, Chapter and Checkpoint
8. Press the START button to launch the campaign

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Q: I downed a guy, but I can’t kill him – I knocked an opponent down-but-not-out, but when I ran over and shot him, he wouldn’t die. Is this a bug?
A: Make sure you look at the gametype you’re playing before the match starts. There are some gametypes – Execution, Wingman, and King of the Hill – in which you can ONLY kill an opponent by executing them… even if they’re down-but-not-out. To kill them, you MUST perform one of the execution moves, blow them up, or chainsaw them.

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Q: I lost my Achievement progress – For some reason, I've lost any progress I made toward achievements. What happened?
A: We've seen people reporting this problem and are looking into it further. A couple of notes for everyone playing Gears of War 2:

1. Please do not shut down your console or launch the Dash in the middle of a game. Quit to the main menu. All save data is stored in the profile, and quitting prematurely can corrupt the Gears 2 data in the profile and therefore effectively reset it. There are several times that a game saves a significant amount of data. This happens after you cancel matchmaking ("Updating: Network settings are being updated") and when you hit a checkpoint in the campaign "Saving: Please do not shut down your console"). But there are also several quick saves that happen in SP and MP, such as when you pick up a collectable or earn progress towards an achievement. Quitting out or shutting off the console prematurely is bad. The safest way to exit Gears of War is to quit to the main menu first.

2. If this happens to you, especially if it happens more than once or in a consistently repeatable pattern, please write down detailed steps of what you were doing before this happened. Please include the details listed below and PM the information to me. Be as detailed as possible.


Profile that lost data

Profile location (HD, MU)
Profile type (gold, silver, local)
Location of any campaign save games associated with your profile (HD, MU, both)
Auto sign (enabled, disabled)

Game modes

What game modes you have been playing
Local, Live, SP, Co-op, and/or split screen etc for each mode
What was the last game mode you played before you noticed this issue?
Playing with other profiles locally

If you have done this, what is the profile location/type of that/those profile(s)?
What mode(s) did you play?
Did that/those profile(s) lose any data as well?
What screen were you on when you signed into the other profile(s)?
Have you been playing Gears2 with the same profile on multiple Xboxs?
Backing out to the Dashboard?

Did you back out to the Dashboard through the Guide from any area other than the main menu right before you noticed this issue?
Are you running the NXE?
If you are running the NXE, did you install the game to the hard drive?
Have you been hitting this issue multiple times?
Did you power off the Xbox from a location other than the main menu?
If applicable, were you signed into LIVE?
Did your Xbox have a network cable or wireless adapter plugged in?
As detailed of steps as you can provide of what you were doing before you discovered this issue


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Q: Where's my "Friends with Benefits" Achievement? – I completed the game with a friend on co-op, and all of the achievements showed up except for "Friends with Benefits." Why didn't I get it?
A: To unlock the "Friends with Benefits" achievement, you have to complete all of the chapters in Co-Op. This means that if you quit during the game and come back, you cannot restart from the last checkpoint. You have to start from the co-op lobby from chapter start, not last checkpoint (even if the last checkpoint is the chapter start). Otherwise it does not count the entire chapter towards the completed co-op achievement. "One Night Stand" and "Open Relationship" follow the same rules.

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Q: Gears 1 Unlockable Characters aren't there? – I got the achievements in Gears of War 1 to unlock the characters for Gears of War 2 multiplayer, but they aren't showing up. Where are they?
A: You need a Silver or Gold Xbox LIVE profile to access the unlockable characters from Gears 1. The game checks the XBox LIVE servers to determine if you have the correct Achievements to unlock the characters. If you have access to the internet, you can upgrade your local profile to a Silver or Gold profile. Silver profiles are free and only take a few minutes to set up, using the following steps:

1. Launch the Xbox 360 Dashboard
2. Sign into your profile
3. Go to the Marketplace blade
4. Select Join Xbox Live
5. Select “Yes” at the prompt to quit your current session
6. Follow the prompts
7. If your gamertag is already in use, rename it
8. Associate your gamertag with an email account (you can always create a hotmail account if you don’t have email)
9. Towards the end of the process, select “Xbox LIVE Silver Membership” (or upgrade to Gold)

The steps for NXE are similar, but in a slightly different order:

1. Go to the My Xbox channel
2. Select your profile
3. Select Join Xbox Live
4. Select “Yes” at the prompt to quit your current session
5. Follow the prompts
6. Associate your gamertag with an email account (you can always create a hotmail account if you don’t have email)
7. Select “I don’t want a Gold membership” (or upgrade to Gold)
8. If your gamertag is already in use, rename it

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Q: English Hardcover LE Art Book for Canadians – I ordered the Limited Edition of Gears of War 2 in Canada. I got the softcover English art book and the hardcover French art book. I'd like an English hardcover book. Can I get one somehow?
A: The Gears of War 2 Limited Edition product included a number of items including a bonus DVD, an exclusive Xbox LIVE code to unlock a gold-plated Lancer Assault Rifle and a 48-page art book. The Canadian version of the Limited Edition product included 2 art books, one hard cover French language art book and one soft cover English language art book. We are aware that Canadian Gears of War 2 Limited Edition owners may be interested in receiving a hard cover English language art book.

If you did purchase the Gears of War 2 Limited Edition product in Canada you may be eligible to receive a complimentary hard cover English art book. In order to request your art book you will be required to validate your ownership of the Gears of War 2 Limited Edition product via an online form. To learn more about this offer by visit www.xbox.com/en-ca/support (http://www.xbox.com/en-CA/support/games/gow2/).

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Q: I'm not ranking up - I've been playing and playing, but my rank has stopped going up. Why isn't my rank changing any more?
A: Your rank in Gears of War 2 multiplayer is based on your TrueSkill rating, which calculates the relative strength of all players on Xbox LIVE. There are five ranks total, and the first rank is achieved after you play your first multiplayer match. The more Gears 2 matches you win, the higher your rank will be, and your rank will go down when you lose matches. Rank is not affected by Horde Mode and private matches.

For more detailed information on how the ranking system in Gears of War 2 works, read here (http://gearsofwar.xbox.com/Templates/CMBlog.aspx?id=1146&blogid=47896).

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Q: I'm having trouble progressing in Ascension - I drive into the darkened cave and can't seem to progress beyond this. Why?
A: If you loaded this section from a checkpoint just before it, you'll need to drive the Centaur back to the collapsed stone arch near the broken bridge and then proceed back to the tower. At this point, when you drive through the broken gate you should be okay.

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Q: How do I disable a strict firewall?
A: This article describes situations when you may have to configure port settings in Windows Firewall or on your networking hardware so you can connect to Xbox LIVE and Games for Windows LIVE.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908874?sd=xbox

Additional discussion with other board members can be found here:
http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=636998

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[thisisepic]

Hopefully this can clear up a few problems people are having, nice work Six.

[Archah00d01]

Six have you heard any news of Epic separating the gametypes (ex: Execution, Warzone, etc)?

[13BEAST]

Q: Slow Matchmaking – Why does it take so long for matchmaking to find me a game?
A: This is an issue that’s affecting some folks, and Epic and Microsoft are both looking into it. I'll let you know more details as I have them.

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:( damn, I was really hoping they'd just throw the whole system out...

[Torn Order]

Good post answering some questions people might have.

[DMcD]

The multiplayer is ridden with bugs.

I often hear people who are dead when I'm not. And when a game is won, you can't hear the dead or the alive, obviously depending on whether you're alive or not. It's really annoying. :/

And seriously, please get rid of MatchMaking, it's awful beyond comprehension.

Bring back player hosted games!

[Archah00d01]

The multiplayer is ridden with bugs.

I often hear people who are dead when I'm not. And when a game is won, you can't hear the dead or the alive, obviously depending on whether you're alive or not. It's really annoying. :/

And seriously, please get rid of MatchMaking, it's awful beyond comprehension.

Bring back player hosted games!

Ha umm no, cause then people would go back to complaining about Host and what not. They just need to fix Matchmaking.

[WaldoRtk7]

I'll be keeping Six up to date guys so make sure if you have questions or issues to post them here.

[Skarphedin]

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Q: Campaign start issues – When I select a new campaign, then select a difficulty, the game makes a noise like it’s being selected, but the campaign doesn’t start.
A: If you’re having this issue, try setting your game to “Local” in the campaign lobby. This should fix any issues you’re experiencing.

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This may work, but I have the same problem only I can neither start a new campaign nor continue my ongoing campaign. this is incredibly annoying. Same thing happens in Multiplayer.

[DMcD]

..........

[Burndawg172]

Re: the lancer code. I tried to download the lancer and the status said 'download failed' So I retried, then got 'code invalid'.

I Called Xbox support and they said to do system maintenence from the memory menu (X X LB RB X X). Did this and retried the code, same message 'Code invalid'.

I will check the account management option later when I get home......

Thanks

Lee

Edit: PS. Nice one for doing this thread!

[DMcD]

Re: the lancer code. I tried to download the lancer and the status said 'download failed' So I retried, then got 'code invalid'.

I Called Xbox support and they said to do system maintenence from the memory menu (X X LB RB X X). Did this and retried the code, same message 'Code invalid'.

I will check the account management option later when I get home......

Thanks

Lee

Account managament, download history. Should be there mate.

[xMDKx x360x]

I would like to make this suggestion that the gametypes of the most favorite get their own playlist (warzone playlist and execution playlist) and that voices in ranked matchmaking should be set to team and party only so people can vote according to what their team wants to do and strategies can be discussed before the match begins. Too many times i hear the other team tell me what to do and i can't distinguish what my teams wants to vote on so its a problem for me.

[is not null]

That answers my down-but-not-out confusion I had! Just shooting them doesn't work any more! Thus the achievement - A Parting Gift!

[Archah00d01]

Ha, ummm no.

There is still host advantages on this game, at least we got into games with the old system.

Lol, mocking are we? In Gears 2 their is barely a difference between host advantage, Cliff has already stated that, sorry you didn't watch the video.

[Burndawg172]

Account managament, download history. Should be there mate.

Just had me bro try this, all good and thanks! :D

[DMcD]

Lol, mocking are we? In Gears 2 their is barely a difference between host advantage, Cliff has already stated that, sorry you didn't watch the video.

Cliff said the multiplayer would be more enjoyable, or something along those lines, sorry I'm not a fanboy such as yourself, BUT.

That hasn't quite happened....yet. I'm trying to be optomistic here.

And it doesn't matter. There's still a host difference.

[DMcD]

Just had me bro try this, all good and thanks! :D

No problem mang.

[Tyrant Worm]

Disc read errors!!!!! I personally am on my fourth disk.


http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=632825

[Odaniv]

Thank you so much for posting. I really really reeeeallly like it when a company communicates with its customers. Good job epic. I hope you guys fix the matchmaking issues.

SixOne- I hope you can address issues such as the chainsaw being near unstoppable, and the shotgun nerf? As well as everyones annoyance with not being able to pick the game type and map we want to play? Not to mention the great amount of lag...

I'll stop there. I think these are the most pressing issues at hand. By the way.. for those few who don't agree about the shotgun- notice I said ADDRESS the issue. I'd just like to be informed : )

Thanks sixone!

[13BEAST]

Disc read errors!!!!! I personally am on my fourth disk.


http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=632825
Time for a new xbox.

[Toddster420]

this only happened to me once so far.
playing wigman i was tai and my partner was marcus and 2 other teams were marcus and so where there characters, so there were 3 teams of marcus.
edit: forgot to mention when we won a round it say tai survived.

[Mister Switch]

Q: Can’t find all my codes - I ordered the Limited Edition and I have some of my codes, but I am missing one/two.
A: The codes for the 48-hour LIVE trial, the Flashback Map Pack, and the Golden Lancer are all together on the same card. Peel back the cardboard where indicated, and you will expose all three codes.


But what if your LE did was missing the card alltogether? (my SE had the card for the maps/48 hour ... even my LE didnt have that inside)

[Archah00d01]

Disc read errors!!!!! I personally am on my fourth disk.


http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=632825

I'd say stop playing for 10+ hours and it probably wouldn't happen. Your disc DOES get hot inside your 360.

[MASOCHIST 187]

Sometimes (seems to be about 1 out of 5 on average) when you plant a frag grenade it explodes and kills you.

EVERYONE PLEASE DON'T TURN THIS THREAD INTO ANOTHER WHINE FEST ABOUT THE SHOTGUN/CHAINSAW, I'M SURE THEY AREN'T BLIND AND CAN SEE THAT SOME PEOPLE HAVE "ISSUES" WITH THOSE WEAPONS.

[cledford3]

I appreciate the communication as well - but also ask that things be open and frank. To say something like "This is an issue that’s affecting some folks" re. the matchmaking is a bit of an understatement.

[Dark Infinity 1]

Sorry for mentioning other games. but as far as the matchmaking being slow I've noticed it is faster when you are by yourself. Same effect in halo 3. the more people you have in your group the harder it is to find a match considering most people are in groups. and when you add in the fact that it's doing the same thing for the other team It's really slow. Personally I think it is faster than waiting for 8 people to show up in a ranked match in gears 1. I'm sure when gears 1 first came out it was fairly quick. There is always room for improvement but honestly I have waited less than 30 seconds on average for a match. I think only one time it might have been a full minute. Maybe that's too long for some people but I don't mind it as long as we can invite people to public matches that is great.

[xTNKx MaNiAc]

The only problem I have is when you're not host you're either glitching like a mothaf***er or you just cant get kills.

[Six Okay]

But what if your LE did was missing the card alltogether? (my SE had the card for the maps/48 hour ... even my LE didnt have that inside)

The more details you post about issues, the better. What country are you in? What store did you get it from? Were there ANY codes in your box? Etc. Be EXPLICIT. More detail than you think might be necessary is usually best. :)

[G3TB3ATZ]

I dont care about the weapons so much they seem fine to me the roady run seems slow now everything seems a bit slow now .. and the MM is bad i want other random people to join my and my friends with map rotation just like in gears1 no more this kicking me back to the lobby to start the process all over again ... ugh

Edit add.... Thats how i met most of my good Xbox live friends is from gears1 player matches ...

[gears?]

please just bring back the smoothness and effectivness of the GoW1 shotgun, and fix the chainsaw problems. would be a perfect game for me right there

thanks

[booy44]

How about the fact that my disc wont work for more then 20 min but all my other games do. and i got my LE with a french hard cover

[Archah00d01]

please just bring back the smoothness and effectivness of the GoW1 shotgun, and fix the chainsaw problems. would be a perfect game for me right there

thanks

..... Smoothness of the Shotgun? So the Shotgun fests can continue? That's lame..and I think the Shotgun is fine. The stun needs to be tweaked.

[Fallacies of war]

The GOW 1 characters won't unlock and yet I have the required achievements.
Help?

[ShadowHunter]

Q: Slow Matchmaking – Why does it take so long for matchmaking to find me a game?
A: This is an issue that’s affecting some folks, and Epic and Microsoft are both looking into it. I'll let you know more details as I have them.

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I though you had an answer for that.
Anyways good luck with finding the problem.

[Mister Switch]

The more details you post about issues, the better. What country are you in? What store did you get it from? Were there ANY codes in your box? Etc. Be EXPLICIT. More detail than you think might be necessary is usually best. :)

Oh ok, well my GF bought it in Toronto. I'm not 100% sure it if was Best Buy or Futureshop that she got it from though. She bought it on launch day and it was all sealed properly and everything. Went to the store to exchange and they opened a new one off the shelf to prove that it had the same contents (so no exchange/refund on those grounds)

everything else was found except the book was french, of course.

no code card in the box. in my regular edition there WAs a code card for 48h plus the flashback maps.

[Dark Infinity 1]

please just bring back the smoothness and effectivness of the GoW1 shotgun, and fix the chainsaw problems. would be a perfect game for me right there

thanks

I can still two piece with an active reload shotty even on guys with chainsaws. Sure When the Horde grows stronger it takes two or more shots. That's not a problem that's a challenge.

[GrifDexter]

We can not join a friends game like Execution or Horde while its in progress anymore ? What the heck was wrong with this feature that it had to be removed ?

[gears?]

..... Smoothness of the Shotgun? So the Shotgun fests can continue? That's lame..and I think the Shotgun is fine. The stun needs to be tweaked.

better than boring ass lancer fests?

sitting behind cover with lancer = zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[oM3TALo]

I didnt recieve any codes with my limited edition..no Flash back maps or golden lancer..is there any way i could get my codes or something..?

[Benjive]

was told to post this here and my thread got closed so


Before i begin I Just wanted to say the campaign is the best in any game EVER. Its thrilling and fun.

There are a number of plus points to the multiplayer, love the new maps, love the new weapons, love the executions.
But..Seriously all Gears of war 1 fans.
This multi-player ****ed up for us. I never though i would find myself playing gears of 1 online a day after, just to feel better.

Issue 1- The LANCER is WAY too good. It cannot be stopped. Its a fun weapon but not skillful weapon. Chainsawing is fun, but everyone can do it and it goes through ANYTHING. Epic weaken it.

Issue-2Less emphasis on skillful weapons. Being a skillful player is basically obsolete. The TOURQUE BOW my favourite gears of war weapons but is now is now too easy and way too powerful. The sniper no longer downs and the headshots are not as nice as in gears 1. The SHOTGUN shoots bubbles, the shotgun was a very GOOD part of gears of war 1 and all you needed to add was stopping power. They weakened the power of the shotgun, and slowed its rate of fire. The shotgun battles WERE epic, especially if you were the better player and were outnumbered.

I now swap my shotgun for weapons as the LANCER is a more effective short range weapon. Epic seriously Fix thisI loved gears of war 1 for the fact that you could beat people if you were more skilled than them, go on a rampage or whatever. I dont feel like i can go and do some skillful damage. In GOW 1 You could have FUN by being better than your opponent, Now the only way to be better is to get your lancer in there first.

Issue-3 Matchmaking, apart from not having the freedom to play what i want, the number of rounds i want to play and the map, and having to play 5 Flipping rounds everytime after waiting 10 minuets to find a laggy game, everything is great. Please epic make some serious changes, or at least give us 6-10 rounds to play with.

Issue-4 I dont feel like i am acheiving my kill. Not to mention That they have A RIDICULOUS amount of health when they are down. I dont feel like i earned it. I wanna make them pay, but instead i am forced to do what everyone else does, lancer them down.

Issue-5 There are a number of smaller issues than this, a few to many to write but here are a few.

- Ditch Chairman prescott, hoffman rules.
- Frags go off when tagged to wall, a bit too early.
- Boomshot should have 2 ammo.
- The mortar, mulcher and man magnum are awesome. nuf said
-Stopping power should not affect side running.
- Sniper needs to feel more solid. Not an issue, just opinion.
-You should get up a tad faster when stunned from smoke and the smoke should last a little longer fro tactical advantage.
- YOU should get stuuned when revving your chainsaw but you dont. the chainsawing distance needs to be smaller also.

As i said there are many new things i love, but why couldnt they just be added. Overall the experience is less thrilling than gears of war 1. I want to be satisfied but i am not. I was skillful enough in GOW 1 to take on two average players with my pistol. Each game feels INSIGNIFICANT.

Please address these issues, because for us loyal GOW fans they ARE issues. Please EPIC i wan't to be satisfied. I came for the campaign, and wanted too stay for the Multi-player, but i just can't feel it.

Everyone, how do you feel?

[GYODXTENXIONALLY]

Q: Slow Matchmaking – Why does it take so long for matchmaking to find me a game?
A: This is an issue that’s affecting some folks, and Epic and Microsoft are both looking into it. I'll let you know more details as I have them.

Thank God!

[CBizkit]

GOW1 Chars Not Unlocking...

[timstone]

Played the entire campaign on hardcore co-op but the friends with benefits achievement didn't unlock, is there a way to check which acts were not counted for the achievement?

[Albie 001]

HELP, I can't progress beyond Act 3 scene 4 as the bloody corpser doesn't appear in the cave to let me on to the next section. THis has totally ruined the campaign for me!!!

[timstone]

HELP, I can't progress beyond Act 3 scene 4 as the bloody corpser doesn't appear in the cave to let me on to the next section. THis has totally ruined the campaign for me!!!

Reload your last checkpoint, I had a part where the game just kept spawning wretchers instead of the next wave of enemies...I reloaded and it was fixed

[Riottool]

If they dont fix this soon they are doomed when the new cod comes out tomorrow everyone i know is going to get it cuz gears matchmaking sucks real bad i am thinking about going to trade this game in and get the new cod it seams to be a better game and i hear ppl talking on gears when i do get in a match that they are going to get the new cod and forget all about this game they just need to throw the whole matchmaking out the window and start all over. and they have very little time to do it.

[Wade2193]

I can't seem to unlock Kim, Carmine and Raam even though I have the Gears 1 achievements. I think it may be because I don't have Live but I can't really see why this is a problem.

[Gamefreak]

the chainsaw is unstoppable. i've shot a full lancer clip into someone as they rush me with the chainsaw revving and they just kept coming without dropping the chainsaw and i've also had that happen after i fired a few shotgun rounds into someone running at me with a chainsaw.

[Skarphedin]

This may work, but I have the same problem only I can neither start a new campaign nor continue my ongoing campaign. this is incredibly annoying. Same thing happens in Multiplayer.
Just found a fix to this: Disconnect from xbox live before starting the game.

[fritzer123]

A lot of people are mad about Shotty, MM, and chainsawing being too cheap. Some are saying get over it EPIC isnt going to listen or care they sold 2.1 Million first day... Yah EPIC may not get too hurt, they sold their millions i agree. BUT they sold millions of GOW2 based on what we all thought of GOW1. we were tricked into buying a different type of game.

With that said out of 23 friends online last night i had 9 playing GOW1 instead of GOW2 beacause they hate how it is now. So you say epic isnt going to be hurt, well maybe nt now but if this continues and even 1/3 less people buy GOW3 there goes the amazing gears franchise suckas

[Mad Haxor]

My screen is all messed up. And NO this doesn't happen with any other game on my 360. It's not the disc either. http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n145/MaddogMonty/Snapshot_20081110.jpg

[azuntt]

Hardcover French LE Art books for Canadian's! Not a big issue, but I'd like it better if it was in English! :)

I already saw the other complaints so there's no point in complaining about the same thing twice..

[fritzer123]

OXM UK SUMS IT UP
http://www.oxm.co.uk/article.php?id=6919

[Gearhead95]

now what if it still says status code:80070570

[Durka Shots Web]

The glitch where I start a new campaign on insane and the war journal resets. I then have to go back and run through it on casual to re-unlock insane.

[°DarkVengeance°]

I would suggest getting rid of this new matchmaking and go back to the original way...and also if you guys dont change the new matchmaking, atleast make it where I can play with my guest...and where i can play unranked matches

[ridgegeneral]

wow you guys closed the download code thread

I bought the game and my flashback code didnt work at all..said invalid from the beginning.
it wasnt enough that you ruined the MP but a bunch of customers in that thread you closed had the same problem as me...dotn tell me to go to my download list..IT WAS NEVER THERE..many people in this boat

too bad you cant get refunds for opened games..id get my money back if i could. Epic you dropped the ball in more than one way without ANY help for the people in my boat...just close the thread and let it get buried in the mess of threads complaining about how you guys f*cked up the MP.

[Odaniv]

http://www.oxm.co.uk/article.php?id=6919


this has a lot of what people are concerned about.


However they forgot to mention that we like to pick what gametype,map, and number rounds we want to play.

[timstone]

the achievement "A Parting Gift" is somehow glitched for me...I just tried to do it....

i made a local warzone game with 1 bot, and i tried it the first 10 times by sticking it to him while he was down, then the 2nd time just threw the nade next to him and its not working

another glitched achievement for me FTL!!!!


if this isnt how to do it someone please let me know, but i thought it was pretty self explanatory

[MASOCHIST 187]

now what if it still says status code:80070570

Erase your signature you god damn retard!!!!

Thanks for ruining that for me.

[anonymous]

was told to post this here and my thread got closed so


Before i begin I Just wanted to say the campaign is the best in any game EVER. Its thrilling and fun.

There are a number of plus points to the multiplayer, love the new maps, love the new weapons, love the executions.
But..Seriously all Gears of war 1 fans.
This multi-player ****ed up for us. I never though i would find myself playing gears of 1 online a day after, just to feel better.

Issue 1- The LANCER is WAY too good. It cannot be stopped. Its a fun weapon but not skillful weapon. Chainsawing is fun, but everyone can do it and it goes through ANYTHING. Epic weaken it.

Issue-2Less emphasis on skillful weapons. Being a skillful player is basically obsolete. The TOURQUE BOW my favourite gears of war weapons but is now is now too easy and way too powerful. The sniper no longer downs and the headshots are not as nice as in gears 1. The SHOTGUN shoots bubbles, the shotgun was a very GOOD part of gears of war 1 and all you needed to add was stopping power. They weakened the power of the shotgun, and slowed its rate of fire. The shotgun battles WERE epic, especially if you were the better player and were outnumbered.

I now swap my shotgun for weapons as the LANCER is a more effective short range weapon. Epic seriously Fix thisI loved gears of war 1 for the fact that you could beat people if you were more skilled than them, go on a rampage or whatever. I dont feel like i can go and do some skillful damage. In GOW 1 You could have FUN by being better than your opponent, Now the only way to be better is to get your lancer in there first.

Issue-3 Matchmaking, apart from not having the freedom to play what i want, the number of rounds i want to play and the map, and having to play 5 Flipping rounds everytime after waiting 10 minuets to find a laggy game, everything is great. Please epic make some serious changes, or at least give us 6-10 rounds to play with.

Issue-4 I dont feel like i am acheiving my kill. Not to mention That they have A RIDICULOUS amount of health when they are down. I dont feel like i earned it. I wanna make them pay, but instead i am forced to do what everyone else does, lancer them down.

Issue-5 There are a number of smaller issues than this, a few to many to write but here are a few.

- Ditch Chairman prescott, hoffman rules.
- Frags go off when tagged to wall, a bit too early.
- Boomshot should have 2 ammo.
- The mortar, mulcher and man magnum are awesome. nuf said
-Stopping power should not affect side running.
- Sniper needs to feel more solid. Not an issue, just opinion.
-You should get up a tad faster when stunned from smoke and the smoke should last a little longer fro tactical advantage.
- YOU should get stuuned when revving your chainsaw but you dont. the chainsawing distance needs to be smaller also.

As i said there are many new things i love, but why couldnt they just be added. Overall the experience is less thrilling than gears of war 1. I want to be satisfied but i am not. I was skillful enough in GOW 1 to take on two average players with my pistol. Each game feels INSIGNIFICANT.

Please address these issues, because for us loyal GOW fans they ARE issues. Please EPIC i wan't to be satisfied. I came for the campaign, and wanted too stay for the Multi-player, but i just can't feel it.

Everyone, how do you feel?

I agree with you on every point you have made. And here are a couple more:

-Music when you die sounds like a broken record - slows down - sounds dumb

-Smoke Grenades - when player gets knocked to the ground, he starts flopping around and will not stand back up until he becomes still. Takes too long. Pretty lame to be knocked down by a smoke grenade and then get chainsawed as soon as you stand up.

-Frag Grenades - sticking a grenade to a wall for an instant kill, in most cases, is so gay. Everytime you walk through a doorway you are taking a 50/50 chance of dying, not cool. At least in COD4 you can see the red beams of the claymore and avoid getting killed. Most frag grenades are not visible around corners. What I would suggest is either have the grenade explode after a certain amount of time after being stuck to wall, or beep once or twice before going off. Give the player a chance to roll out of harms way, or at least survive with some damage. If the player doesn't know where the grenade is stuck they might still roll right into the blast, so it isn't like they will always survive every stuck grenade.

-Shotgun - When blind firing straight ahead while standing up, I see it hit the ground right next to the character every so often. Changes to the shotgun are gay as well, like slower rate of fire.

-Sniper - I've tested a regular reload bullet versus a perfect reload bullet and there was no difference in the amount of damage it does to the body. Not sure if it become easier to get headshot with perfect reload.

GOW1 was perfect except for host advantage. GOW1 matchmaking was better because you could pick hosts with good connections, the map you loved, the number of rounds, and join a game quickly. I would have appreciated the addition of being able to query for a certain map but varying number of rounds.

GOW2 matchmaking has become to much like HALO. HALO2 was a good game, but I quickly sold my copy of HALO3 because the matchmaking sucked. The voting thing is so lame, just let the players pick what they want to play like GOW1. I wait more than 3-5 minutes per game just to play a game type and map I hate. You could quickly fix the gametype problem by making another "Player's choice" for each separate gametype.

I don't think I like the new sounds for the shotgun,lancer, and sniper as much. The Snub pistol sounds better though. Also the spinning of grenades sounds horrible. Chairman prescott's character looked lame and the voice clips for multiplayer suck, hoffman and the queen were a much better duo.

[Archah00d01]

First the Shotgun now the music? Lol..priceless.

[Otatoptohami117]

uhhh chainsaw duels are cool and all, u get pumped and such, but its really annoying if ur enemy's teammate just comes up and chainsaws you WHILE you are dueling the enemy. I think u should be invincable while dueling, and then they can just chainsaw you when you win!

[EliteGrenadier]

I have unlocked All the achievements in Gears 1 needed to unlock all the multiplayer characters in Gears 2.

(RAAM, Carmine, Kihm.)

However, Gears 2 has not unlocked the characters for me. I have the necessary Gears 1 achievements needed for them, and I did it on the same account and storage device.

Any ideas?

[G O W Swoosh]

epic please fix these bugs
-chainsaw is unstopable, you cant stun a guy when he is trying to chainsaw you like in GOW 1, he gets you no matter what.
-shotgun is less powerfull and is to slow,
-big time lag, plays walking around with no gun and cant do anything at all,
-matchmaking is so slow and can only find team members if you have 3 people, but when you have 4 you can never find the 5th
-lack of custom games, cant chose what to play, i.e make a game of execution and the general public join with all your custom settings/weapons, have to have friends to join always,
-cant leave a game if its laggy or just idiots playing, have to go dashboard to quit witch is so anoing
im a GOW vet and was really looking forward to this with my friends, been playing GOW 1 since release and loved it, but now its all gone wrong with these horrible issues, please please address these issues so we can enjoy it like the first, its not just me its three quarters of the people playing GOW 2, everyone is complaining about the same issues online, hate to moan but really want to keep playing this game and dont want to go back to GOW 1 like everyone is saying there going to do, please hear me out..

[Stickman Clark]

I don't suffer from lag in any other game when i play people across the world, but on Gears 2 i suffer really bad at times with people from the states tends to be fine with UK and Europe. This is a problem some of my mates suffer as well, which also may be the cause of why some people spawn have infinite ammo that does no damage and can't pick anything up, but when anyone else looks at you or is spectating you don't have a weapon in your hands once you die your fine the next round???

[G O W Swoosh]

just so anoing how this game is multiplayer, want it to play like GOW 1 but with everyting new in GOW 2

[azuntt]

At least in COD4 you can see the red beams of the claymore and avoid getting killed.

Uh...no, if someone puts a claymore in the right spot then you don't see the lines at all.

[Archah00d01]

Anonymous why are you even comparing Gears 2 to COD4. Gears 2's planet isn't Earth it's Sera and two they have different technology. And COD4 is MODERN you don't see it saying Call of Duty: Gears Warfare.

[HerbalJoker]

i'm having an issue where i completed act 2 and it said "new character unlocked: kantus" now i go to play multiplayer and whenever i'm the locusts he's not there. i unlocked Dizzy and he's there but Kantus is not.

[SirPoonga]

I found a problem with the mortar. Sometimes it animate like it fires but doesn't fire. Then, also, the distance gauge will not move. Every time I try to fire it after wards will do the same. It will animate as if it fires but the distance gauge won't move. If this happens the only way around it I found is to drop it and pick it back up.

[Geof]

how about crappy shotgun? you can't stun ppl when shooting them and they chainsaw you? sniper isn't worth anything now. 10 snipers, 7 torque bows, 3 boom shots on every map?

Wanna address any of those??

[lostmonster]

The problems I, and fellow Gears of War 2 players, are the following:

I live in a dormitory at university on the west side of chicago. I can play gears of war 1 and many other xbox live games just dandy.

however, I cannot find a match to play with gears of war 2. I press "find a match" or whatever it is, and I consistently am told that "the player has restarted the matchmaking process."

Not only do I get this message, but my neighbor has the SAME EXACT problem.

I spoke to my school's IT department, and after his researching of the problem, he has found that there should not be a problem connecting to the matchmaking process, and that it must be a Gears of War 2 issue.

However, the kinds of issues I'm reading about in these here forums are not the same as the problems my neighbor and I are having.

So, either this issue is quite localized and pertains directly to the wiring situation of my dormitory, or this is simply the first time the problems of Gears of War 2's matchmaking process caused this kind of problem to occur.

Suggestions, thoughts, sharing pain?

[lostmonster]

[QUOTE=Geof;25675502]how about crappy shotgun? you can't stun ppl when shooting them and they chainsaw you? QUOTE]

learn to avoid the chainsaw. i understand that there are issues with stunning people revving their chainsaw, but it isn't that hard to avoid a chainsaw.

[chilly rainbow]

thanks for acknowledging the problems six. I can't get into matchmaking in less than 10 mins. I have DSL and live in USA. I also went to gamestop at midnight and didn't get a gold hammer. I was about number 10 in line. I think they just didnt give em out.

[seasloth]

well i would like to comment more on gameplay but since the game freezes every ten minutes, even after exchanging it for a new copy and clearing my cache, i dont know much about how it plays. by the way, every other game works fine without any freezing....

wtf epic fix this mess

[AP LMAO]

so in terms of the execution game types when a player is downed is the only way of killing them by accually walking up to them and stamping on their head?

[ht88]

Still no word on what will (or not) be done for people who bought LE and only have code for the 48hrs trial & the map pack, but no Lancer?

-ht

[Game Freak 1O1]

The main problems i have with gears 2 are the following.

#1 Matchmaking is broken takes to long to search,matches are too short,modes cannot be searched separately. (EPIC SHOULD OF HAD A GEARS OF WAR 2 PUBLIC BETA TO SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS BEFORE THE REALEASE DATE.)

#2 chainsaw is unstopable. stun is no longer in gow2. why did u take this out? put it back in dummy. talk to ur fan base before u change stupid **** like this.

thats it just those 2 things bug me about gears 2 im glad there isn't as much host advantage,bullet lag. but you guys need to beta test a game like gears 2. take a lesson from cod4,halo3,r2 make a pubic beta so people can show you the error of ur ways....before the games in their hands.

URL LINK TO MY MATCHMAKING VIDEO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLZxPWE4MyI

[ytilanigiroon]

there's been a couple times when I'm in a narrow corridor covered against a wall and one of the AI companions (Dom is the most notorious) will box me in and refuse to move, I have to reload from the previous checkpoint to get out of said corridor. Any way you can get them to move with a friendly nudge (read: melee)?

[monkeyrfc1690]

good thread should cleae up some issues

[dmc2992]

Why am I unable to play online with a guest. I have two brothers and we are always competing to play on the xbox, the inability to bring on a guest for ONLINE PUBLIC play, not horde or campaign is really a problem. One playlist, ranked or unranked where you can use a guest (like the first Gears) makes more sense. Why would you take a very useful option out of the second game? What happened to BIGGER, better, more badass?

[Dark Infinity 1]

the achievement "A Parting Gift" is somehow glitched for me...I just tried to do it....

i made a local warzone game with 1 bot, and i tried it the first 10 times by sticking it to him while he was down, then the 2nd time just threw the nade next to him and its not working

another glitched achievement for me FTL!!!!


if this isnt how to do it someone please let me know, but i thought it was pretty self explanatory

You have to have grenades equipped then YOU have to get downed and press RT to set off a grenade while YOU are down.

[bluerev]

It's good to see that Epic is working on it instead of people getting mad we all need to work with them to get this sloved not cry about it. Don't get me wrong I hate how the game is now to but It's not the end of the world! it will get better

[Dark Infinity 1]

-Sniper - I've tested a regular reload bullet versus a perfect reload bullet and there was no difference in the amount of damage it does to the body. Not sure if it become easier to get headshot with perfect reload.

I don't know how many times they (mainly Cliff in several interviews he had) said the active reload for sniper would not be extra damage anymore it only reloads faster that's it.

And there is a nice post that has had all the changes listed for a while now it's the sticky topic called ~*The Definitive Gears of War 2 Thread*~ you can't miss it.

As for the rest of the comments I thought this was a Issues & Solutions thread not a complaint box. Most if not all of the gameplay aspects I doubt will change no matter how much you complain.

[Zero HD]

Here is a major issue for me and a few of my friends:

-We use Legacy Thumbsticks
-Legacy Sticks allow us to turn our character with the Left Stick
-When Roadie Running, we have to use the Right Thumbstick + "A" to RR, even though our control scheme was already "correct" for Roadie Running
-So our control scheme was already fine, but was gimped to help "Default" Stick users, who SHOULD have to use the Right Stick + "A" crap, that's the stick they use to turn
- Why gimp our "correct" scheme? Why not AT LEAST allow the multi-purpose "A" to be mapped to the left bumper? (which is your TAC-COM, and could be mapped to a face button, as it is not dependent on using in conjunction with a stick at the same time.)

Our Legacy control scheme is how you WANT us to RR, but you guys still make us use our Left Thumb on the Right Stick + "A" to accommodate other schemes? Two games in a row? AND YOU GUYS FOR SOME REASON SWAPPED THE CROUCH/ZOOM CLICKS TOO FOR LEGACY, BUT NOT IN GEARS 1? Why? Two issues that no other game has.

Such an easy fix, Legacy only changes the horizontal axis' (which is perfect for RR'ing AS IS)

Please fix it, I've bought 7 Epic games brand new in the last 5 years, but this may be my last.

[GeordiLaforge]

I was playing king of the hill on canals, and a smoke grenade went off next to me under center bridge, and it threw me through the bridge and I ended up top?

[XxXx 350 xXxX]

there are issues with the comms, apart from the whole you cant talk to dead/alive/other teams between rounds there is also a bug that in some cases does not allow poeple to communicate with other people in their team. some can hear them others cant. its random.

[lostmonster]

Here is a major issue for me and a few of my friends:

-We use Legacy Thumbsticks
-Legacy Sticks allow us to turn our character with the Left Stick
-When Roadie Running, we have to use the Right Thumbstick + "A" to RR, even though our control scheme was already "correct" for Roadie Running
-So our control scheme was already fine, but was gimped to help "Default" Stick users, who SHOULD have to use the Right Stick + "A" crap, that's the stick they use to turn
- Why gimp our "correct" scheme? Why not AT LEAST allow the multi-purpose "A" to be mapped to the left bumper? (which is your TAC-COM, and could be mapped to a face button, as it is not dependent on using in conjunction with a stick at the same time.)

Our Legacy control scheme is how you WANT us to RR, but you guys still make us use our Left Thumb on the Right Stick + "A" to accommodate other schemes? Two games in a row? AND YOU GUYS FOR SOME REASON SWAPPED THE CROUCH/ZOOM CLICKS TOO FOR LEGACY, BUT NOT IN GEARS 1? Why? Two issues that no other game has.

Such an easy fix, Legacy only changes the horizontal axis' (which is perfect for RR'ing AS IS)

Please fix it, I've bought 7 Epic games brand new in the last 5 years, but this may be my last.


...because not everyone has two thumbs on their right hand.

[OverKill]

1) The chainsaw needs to be toned way down; it's nearly impossible to stun someone or cause their chainsaw to lower even when they are right in your face and you are shooting them

2) Grenades are much harder to avoid (smoke, frag, ink); they seem to go off so quickly, especially when tagged to walls, that you have no time whatsoever to react before you are sent flying or blown up

3) Sliding into cover and then mantling up over it is not as smooth as Gears 1; for example in Tyro Station, you have to pause briefly after sliding into cover to get back up from the train tracks or else the mantle seems to have problem registering

4) Blindfiring is very inaccurate; i know, i know it's 'blindfiring', by definition it's supposed to not be accurate, but shots seem to always go directly into the ground when you fire from your hip - which is very frustrating, especially when using the Boom; i've seen many people killing themselves as a result of this...the shotgun is also messed up because of this

5) Shotgun spread and power; i don't know if i'm alone on this because i have heard people having similar problems, but sometimes i've seen someone get shot three or four times and never seem to accumulate damage and then one shot will either blow you up or make you full red....i thought the shotty in Gears 2 was supposed to have a more consistent spread and not be as random...i'd like to see the shotgun returned to its former glory, but i doubt everyone feels the same....at the very least it needs an upgrade in the strength and consistency department (just like the Lancer got in Gears 1)

6) Matchmaking can be painfully slow sometimes

7) Wingman definitely has balance issues - some teams spawn directly on power weapons, while others couldn't spawn further away from them....my solution to this would be to have all the power weapons spawn on a timer for this gametype instead of being there when the map starts

8) i'd like the ability to set map cycles like we had in Gears 1 rather than go back to the lobby every time

9) cover bug i've noticed is when sliding into cover, you sometimes vault over it when you did not intend to, or get stuck on top of it

10) tone down the splash damage that the Mortar and grenades create because they are pretty huge right now

[Y0ug0tmail]

1. Matchmaking's cool but needs to be much quicker

2. There is still some big lag in matches, sometimes teleporting

3. When playing warzone it can actually be very difficult to kill a downed enemy.

[XPsychoKlownX]

I have only noticed two problems thats not really major but the whole fact when someone melees someone down with the shotgun they can be like 5 feet away and it just seems weird when I see it happen. The other thing I've noticed but I have not seen happen on live but against bots was to plant a grenade at a respawn and they will die instantly when respawned which im sure will cause frustration. Gears 2 still kicks much ass though. Hope Runs Way Deep :D

[Zero HD]

...because not everyone has two thumbs on their right hand.

Yes, my point exactly. Legacy Sticks already are set up to allow you to roadie run with the Left Stick + "A". Shouldn't force people who already are using the "proper" way to RR to play the gimped way "default" users should.

Does it make sense to punish people who ALWAYS use sticks that are ALREADY perfect for RR'ing?

And don't forget, it isn't just RR'ing, all the cover moves, etc we now have to do with the RS + A, so stupid.

Epic screwed Legacy users, basically saying "Ya, only your Control Scheme works for Roadie Running, so we'll give it to everyone else but you

[lostmonster]

Yes, my point exactly. Legacy Sticks already are set up to allow you to roadie run with the Left Stick + "A". Shouldn't force people who already are using the "proper" way to RR to play the gimped way "default" users should.

Does it make sense to punish people who ALWAYS use sticks that are ALREADY perfect for RR'ing?

Epic screwed Legacy users, basically saying "Ya, only your Control Scheme works for Roadie Running, so we'll give it to everyone else but you

I don't see your point. You use Legacy, and other people use Default. Both controller maps force people to use the left stick and A because humanbeing do not have two thumbs on their right hand, thus they decided to make the left stick turn while roadie running.

Do you want to have to turn with the right stick while using A, or not?

[Brittin2511]

OK i got all the codes i was suppose to but my golden lancer so im kinda upset so plz get back with me

[crudesunman]

god i hope they fix matchmaking :(

[Dem 22z]

How about this....

I am in a party of 4 of my other friends. We are getting ready to go into a game says its looking for a team with similar player levels. Game starts to load normal but I notice that NONE of my teammates I was partied with was actually in the game I loaded. I was playing that game with one killa one the number 12 guy right now on the leaderboards. He invited me back and we weren't in the second game together. All 5 of us where in different games.

[thor94]

hey guys well i am now playing the level where you go into the giant fishes mouth and "kill" it. but i cant kill the thing, cant you guys help at all? thamks

[Zero HD]

I don't see your point. You use Legacy, and other people use Default. Both controller maps force people to use the left stick and A because humanbeing do not have two thumbs on their right hand, thus they decided to make the left stick turn while roadie running.

Do you want to have to turn with the right stick while using A, or not?

No, they don't

You don't get it? I don't want default users gimped, I want the Roadie Run turning on my Left Stick like it normally is (when not RR'ing). As it stands:

-When walking with Legacy, Left Stick turns me
-When RR'ing, RIGHT STICK turns me, even though it shouldn't, and doesn't in any other game that has sprint.

Why not put the "A" button functions on a bumper so nobody gets screwed?

That way, Default Stick users could STILL use the RS to turn like they always have, and Legacy Stick users could always turn with the LS like they always have.

I mean, you could look at it as being dumb that Default users turning goes from RS to LS depending on if they are RR'ing or walking. It's not just my problem. Why would you switch which stick turns your character throughout the game to begin with? Pure garbage for a 12,000,000 unit franchise.

[JayC1012]

The shotguns are ridiculously horrible, i point blank a guy twice he dosent die, they shoot me once i die. I understand this is supposed to be a lancer/hammerburst based game but you can make the shotgun like the one in the first one and it can still be like a lancer/HB games because of the stopping power, please fix this, and in Match making is it possible to make it so you can play what game type you like, I really dont wanna play warzone and I dont have a choice sometimes.

[thor94]

hey guys well i am now playing the level where you go into the giant fishes mouth and "kill" it. but i cant kill the thing, cant you guys help at all? thanks

[Spybreak]

Q: Campaign start issues – When I select a new campaign, then select a difficulty, the game makes a noise like it’s being selected, but the campaign doesn’t start.
A: If you’re having this issue, try setting your game to “Local” in the campaign lobby. This should fix any issues you’re experiencing. Follow these steps to set your game to Local:

1. Launch Gears of War 2
2. If you haven’t already, sign into your profile
3. Select “Co-op Campaign” (don’t worry, you can still opt for a Single Player match)
4. Select “Host Co-op Campaign”
5. Select a save slot
6. In the Campaign Lobby, set Co-op Mode to “System Link”
7. Select your Act, Chapter and Checkpoint
8. Press the START button to launch the campaign

Nope that does not work either as I can't even host a co-op campaign, same thing press a hear sound and nothing. Ordered my LE from Amazon because I live out in the boonies, and am getting a replacement but the LE is out of stock. I just want to dig deeper into the Gears universe, at least I can read my art book, ok done. Was able to unlock the gears 1 characters, did the tutorials and can do a bot match.

[thor94]

enney help???????

[xBuTcHeRx]

Hopefully more than just matchmaking is fixed

[USRangerJohn]

Im still having issues downloading the lancer. I keep getting the error message no matter how many times I download it. Is there any other way to download it or just keep trying.

[coletrain7]

I was really hyped to play Gears 2 multiplayer so its sad to say this but Gears 1 is actually a better multiplayer experience thus far. The gameplay in 2 is better but the matchmaking and the overhaul is strange to me. I get it about the host issue and wanting to match up similarly ranked players but at what cost.

Biggest Issues:

1) Matchmaking takes way too long. Unbelievably slow and constant re-finding of teammates and competing teams. I'm surprised for a game of this quality or expected polish to have this problem.

2) Single Gametype selection: there is none. everybody is forced to play or vote on something. It is better for players who want to play and compete in a single mode of their choice for the whole time. private party doesn't count b/c its just basically the same ppl playing over and over again.

3) Reshuffling of teams: why the constant shuffle of teams after just one game? and even in private party mode, why do the teams shuffle again??

What made Gears 1 multiplayer so special and unique was not only the gameplay but the teams playing other teams through a cycle and seeing who is better in single game type. If a player or team doesn't want to continue, they could always just leave which is fine. I'm not sure why the overhaul in the experience was needed. I really hope EPIC does the right things here and makes some wise fixes and fast. Otherwise, ppl are going to go back to Gears 1 or just go back to COD4 or even COD5.

[OverKill]

Another issue:

Destroying planted grenades takes far too long, as they seem to have more 'health' than most players do

[Cap]

Well I did not see the problem I am having on the front page, so I will post it. I will try to explain the best I can.

I am enjoying using the hammerburst rifle, it seems like a fantastic gun, but it seems as though the sensitivity settings are messing it up for me. My settings are as follows.

look: high
target: medium
scope: medium

So, when I move and just freely look around, it is fast, and when I aim or scope it is a little slower. The problem is if I scope with the gun, and then stop aiming, it remains in scope sensitivity, so I start running and looking around in medium.

It is not a huge thing, because I can just aim and click the right stick again, in order to get movement back to high speed, but as you know a few seconds can make a big difference. Just thought I would throw that out there, maybe something can be done so that the different sensitivity settings do not effect each other, or that whenever you stop aiming the scope ability is disabled.

Thanks, I hope I explained it well enough.

[Visualz]

The Lancer - Chainsaw.

It's way to strong. I don't know the concept behind why you guys decided to make it impossible to lower the chainsaw as it nears in on you. It's way to easy to get killed with. People literaly just walk for about 30seconds with their chainsaw up. I never complain about games, especially one that's just been released because I know in due time you guys(EPIC) would learn the about the issues and try your best to fix them. That's pretty much my only issue with the game. Please take it into consideration, I didn't read any of the other posts in the thread so not sure if I'm repeating someone's elses post but I guess it'll raise the awareness of the issue.

=)

[plaguey]

Can anyone estimate when a patch to fix certain issues may be out? If there is an answer to that already, can someone direct me to it please?! Thanks. If they were to fix issues that have been discussed this game would be even sweeter than it already is!!!

[Turk McGurk]

WOOT! I'm glad you guys at Epic are looking into matchmaking problems!

[Mr. Jihad]

I've got a pretty big problem...

I beat the campaign on hardcore in co-op two days ago, but now half of the levels are locked as if I have not beaten them. It seems to be that I've only beaten the game up to act 3, scene 2, even though I still have the achievements for beating the game.
I've lost insane mode and all the collectibles and characters you get passed act 3, scene 2. It might be due to me migrating my account twice yesterday, but I didn't notice any problems then... HELP!

[nn454]

Q: Can’t find all my codes - I ordered the Limited Edition and I have some of my codes, but I am missing one/two.
A: The codes for the 48-hour LIVE trial, the Flashback Map Pack, and the Golden Lancer are all together on the same card. Peel back the cardboard where indicated, and you will expose all three codes.


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i was given no lancer code, i got the LE and it came with 2 cards containing 3 codes: the 48 hr free trial and flashback map pack on 1, and a theme for the new xbox live experience on the other... i was told that what i have is what was supposed to be for the normal version, but i have the LE (LE box, bonus disc, postcard, etc.) but no golden lancer code. is there a fix for this?

[The_Big_TickeTT]

Smoke Grenades - The rag doll effect is EXTREMELY INCONSISTENT. Sometimes I will be rag-dolled for 3 seconds, other times (like when I am falling down stairs, near a piece of cover, near a ledge) the effect will last 5-6 seconds. I have once been stunned for nearly 7 seconds. I find this to be extremely annoying as the only thing players do at the beginning of a match is throw their smokes out to where they believe you are headed or are heading, wait for you to be stunned, and then finish you off. Yes I know you can tell me "Oh just wait for the grenades to explode, but it is kind of hard when you have 4-5 smoke grenades being tossed in your direction.

Also, when I have rag-dolled opponents they seem to slide around the floor, making it extremely difficult to hit them (especially with the new *dis-improved* shotgun), they will get up and either run away or I will die because somebody else rag-dolled me or another absurd reason. I find this whole smoke grenade thing to be a nice idea, but also a very poorly executed idea as well. This needs to be fixed asap, MP matches are nowhere near as fun as they used to be, too many weapons, too many smoke grenades, an unstoppable chainsaw, an inconsistent shotgun, people camping in corners with grenades tagged everywhere, playing in what feels like slow-motion (MP), and the list goes on.

[!ntraxz]

Sometimes I see people spawn without any weapons and they cant shoot. It has happened to me a few times too. You can just wait and die until you respawn again and hope its over.

[F8L Fool]

1.) Smoke Stun Immunity - When a player is rag-dolled by a smoke grenade they don't take damage while on the ground, most of the time. They also can't be chainsawed until they are off of the ground. Huge irritation since they often just stand up and chainsaw me, or run. Having to wait til they are upright, or in the process of getting up to actually hurt them defeats the purpose of the stun.

2.) Taking a meatshield is buggy - Half the time I jump over the person entirely, rather than taking them as a meatshield. Even when the execution instruction appears on my screen and I'm standing still it frequently fails.

3.) Weapon swapping isn't accurate - I often swap to a weapon I absolutely did not press. This is most common when trying to select your nades. This was NEVER the case in Gears of War 1, which is how I know it's not error on my part.

4.) Stacked Grenade Detonation Error - If you put two grenades (especially of different types, i.e. smoke and ink) near one another, only one detonates roughly 90% of the time. Quite irritating since double nading has its uses.

5.) Boomshield vs. Chainsaw - When attempting to chainsaw a player with a boomshield, half of the time it does nothing, and the other half it warps you behind them and chainsaws them from the back. Pretty damn strange if you ask me.

6.) Inconsistant Torque Explosions - The damage on this is mitigated depending on what type of surface it was stuck upon. If you stick the ground near someone it does vastly more damage than if you stuck a horizontal wall near them. This makes no sense, especially since sticking the ground is like a kill every time, even without an active. OP IMO.

There's some serious buggy issues that I've encountered. I'll list more as I find them.

[UGot0wned]

FAILS... bring back player match searching... nerf chainsaw... climbing wall glitches... did you guys even test this before releasing? jesus...

[Ninja Dude Rob]

I noticed a few problems with multiplayer


Starting game with no gun
You start the game and when you shoot, no bullets come out and you cant switch weapons. To every other player you have no gun out. Very fustrating.

Inconsistency with frag proximity mines
Sometimes you see someone walk right past a frag planted on a wall and only get hurt. While other times you see roadie running past frag proximity mines getting blown up. Probably due to lag but still its fustrating.

Inconsistent Shotgun
Eh.. Everyone has complained about this so no need to say anymore.
Definately caused by lag.

Chainsaw getting stunned... Sometimes?
Ive seen people revving their chainsaws getting stunned sometimes while other times a full shotgun blast to the chest did nothing. Not sure why.

Getting stuck on lampost by stairs in gridlock
As you walk down the stairs where the boltock pistol spawns you can get stuck on the ledge by the lampost and have to jump down, Is annoying when someone is right in your face with a shotgun. =/

[Colossus888]

1.)

5.) Boomshield vs. Chainsaw - When attempting to chainsaw a player with a boomshield, half of the time it does nothing, and the other half it warps you behind them and chainsaws them from the back. Pretty damn strange if you ask me.

There's some serious buggy issues that I've encountered. I'll list more as I find them.


I concurr with this complaint.. it happened to me on horde i had a boom shield up and one locust tried to chainsaw me.. once he touched my boomshield he warped and chainsawed me at my back which is really absurd.. and i was standing between the laser columns so there was no way he coul have passed me..

[Colossus888]

Also my golden lancer download is still not working.. all i hear from the guys in charge is basically to download it again and again until your finger hurts.. and if your finger is incapable of pushing buttons already they recommend you to try and call support until your ear hurts and support will just direct you to the thing that they said that would make your fingers hurt again.. as Marcus would say "this is b*llsh*t!".. my EENT doctor does not recommend this EPIC guys..

[BCD Tytan]

What was the need in makin the shotgun so damn WEAK? My motto is "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" & now it is broke, so can u fix it please? GOW2 has gone from bein an all out fight to the death to a hide round smoke-tagged corners with a lancer game, why? The chainsaw is jus pathetic, people who play gears for the first time can easily beat a seasoned veteran jus by holdin B & runnin randomly round the map, why doesn't the chainsaw stop revvin when u get shot? Matchmaking is a good idea but it's too slow.

Cliffy B sed "Gears of War turned out to be a roll & shotgun game, that isn't the game we designed. Gears of War 2 is more tactical so u can't jus roll & shotgun". IMO Epic designed the game but the players made it, that's the game people grew to love, by all means add stopping power but to change the game to such an extent is quite disrespectful to the GOW fans. Everythin that's been added to the game is awesome (Maps, Game types, weapons, executions, etc) but there's really no need to remove anythin from the first game (except sniper actives).

Please read your forums & look at the amount of people complainin about the same problems, so far i give it a 9/10, please release a patch to correct it & without a doubt it'll get a 10/10.

[gears?]

aah yes, thats another thing.

please smoothen out the sliding behind cover.

[WoolyPower]

I might be the only one here, but does anyone else feel like these "400 tweaks" to the cover system have made it worse?

Getting into and out of cover feels really slow in MP. After blindfiring at a guy closing in on me, I failed and decided it was time to get out of cover and move. On Gears 1 all I had to do was hold down and press A to roll away instantly, but in Gears 2, while you can still do that it just feels so slow. I then got sawed in half.......again.

Mantling and getting to higher cover spots is also a huge annoyance for me, if I want to do it quickly it wont let me. A perfect example is on Hail or during the campaign when the razorhail starts. When I have to get into the trams, I push A to slide in, then hold up and press A to get into the tram, BUT, if I do it to fast or the camera angle isn't right, I'll roll to the side and get owned by the hail. This never happened on Gears 1 for me.

[Jambi Bum]

What was the need in makin the shotgun so damn WEAK? My motto is "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" & now it is broke, so can u fix it please? GOW2 has gone from bein an all out fight to the death to a hide round smoke-tagged corners with a lancer game, why? The chainsaw is jus pathetic, people who play gears for the first time can easily beat a seasoned veteran jus by holdin B & runnin randomly round the map, why doesn't the chainsaw stop revvin when u get shot? Matchmaking is a good idea but it's too slow.

Cliffy B sed "Gears of War turned out to be a roll & shotgun game, that isn't the game we designed. Gears of War 2 is more tactical so u can't jus roll & shotgun". IMO Epic designed the game but the players made it, that's the game people grew to love, by all means add stopping power but to change the game to such an extent is quite disrespectful to the GOW fans. Everythin that's been added to the game is awesome (Maps, Game types, weapons, executions, etc) but there's really no need to remove anythin from the first game (except sniper actives).

Please read your forums & look at the amount of people complainin about the same problems, so far i give it a 9/10, please release a patch to correct it & without a doubt it'll get a 10/10.

There isn't anything wrong with the shotgun. It works perfectly fine. Just learn how to adapt to it. You can't shoot anyone from far away with it because it's a close ranged weapon. It works perfectly fine at close range just like its supposed to.

[Flipskillz]

Every hot game has issues in the beginning on MP. Only exception is Halo 3 since they knew wtf happened in Halo 2 and made the proper adjustments. Since Gears 2 has been totally revamped and with no beta obviously problems are going to happen. No doubt a patch will come fixing the MP searching speeds + other bugs it just needs time. The game did feel a tad rushed on only some areas of campaign and obviously multiplayer. If you're in a party of 4 or 5 the speed of searching is really decreased to a minute or two at most most of the time.

And the reason stopping power was created was because you retards complained in the first game. Epic wanted to stop that because they listened to their fanbase. now you're complaining that you want it back? What a kick in the balls for them. This is one hell of a crappy fanbase IMO.

[WoolyPower]

This is one hell of a crappy fanbase IMO.

Couldn't agree more.

There are more people who love the game than hate it. There are just more people on these forums complaining because the people in favour of the game are online having fun. So it's the minority that get heard here.
While people are having a blast, one day they'll get an update, play some MP and say to themselves "WTF just happened?".

Enter over powered shotguns and zero smoke grenades etc.

Now, matchmaking needs addressed, everyone can agree with that, it takes too long on occasions even with a party of friends and not being able to pick what gametype you want to play on public matches is lame.

[jdanzz299]

there are several issues you diddnt adress such as the piece of crap shotgun. and the ridicoulus amounts of chainsawing going on.

[BlkBullet23]

Still don't have Kim, Carmine and Raam.
Even with the achievements.

[Flipskillz]

there are several issues you diddnt adress such as the piece of crap shotgun. and the ridicoulus amounts of chainsawing going on.

Lolwut? The WHOLE EFFING THREAD was about chainsaw/shotty. Idk wtf you're reading but hell is that being adressed.

[achatly]

I bought limited edition Gears of War 2 from Bestbuy and it only had two codes one for 48 hour and another one for maps, it did not had any code for golden lancer. I exchanged and got another copy but same thing no code. I paid extra just for golden lancer. If you don't believe me call Bestbuy in Fairfax, VA 703-631-3332 employees knows that issue. Plz fix this I have the receipt for proof I need my code.

[rec0n 83]

i got collectors edition and gold lancer probs. tryed previous redownload and erasing still comes up afer 1 % and says cant download. i need this pwnable weapon .

[rec0n 83]

i need help!!!

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i got collectors edition and gold lancer probs. tryed previous redownload and erasing still comes up afer 1 % and says cant download. i need this pwnable weapon .

[She Is Phoenix]

What is with the 20 seconds between rounds...its 20 seconds of kids screaming at each other. Its really annoying.

[Dodheimsgard]

What about the Disc Unreadable Errors me,and alot of people are getting on the main menu? That should most certainly be on the front page..because it is an issue,and all my other games work fine,and dvd's work fine..im done with microsoft's tech support..seems they're braindead,and should go back to working at mcdonalds..but who knew they'd mess this up..seeing as they admitted to screwing up on the xbox too..im not repairing my xbox for 105$ because it refuses to play Gears2,ya its a good game,but not worth that price.

[Colossus888]

Couldn't agree more.

There are more people who love the game than hate it. There are just more people on these forums complaining because the people in favour of the game are online having fun. So it's the minority that get heard here.
While people are having a blast, one day they'll get an update, play some MP and say to themselves "WTF just happened?".

Enter over powered shotguns and zero smoke grenades etc.

Now, matchmaking needs addressed, everyone can agree with that, it takes too long on occasions even with a party of friends and not being able to pick what gametype you want to play on public matches is lame.

Then what is this forums for?.. just for hailing the game to its effing glory?.. this forums are for discussions of issues.. and people here are discussing issues.. if all the people just shutup and take the crap in then you would not have a great game at your hands right now.. We are just voicing to epic our problems.. its up to them which is good and not good..

[Flipskillz]

Then what is this forums for?.. just for hailing the game to its effing glory?.. this forums are for discussions of issues.. and people here are discussing issues.. if all the people just shutup and take the crap in then you would not have a great game at your hands right now.. We are just voicing to epic our problems.. its up to them which is good and not good..

Discussions? No. Complaining every few minutes over the same topic using no examples to help? Yes.

It's called reading. I hear it's good for you.

[Colossus888]

Discussions? No. Complaining every few minutes over the same topic using no examples to help? Yes.

It's called reading. I hear it's good for you.

I think not reading is better for you because you get frustrated with other peoples thoughts it seem to affect your intelligence..

[drsteve69]

Hi,

I am in Japan. Still cannot download gold-plated lancer. Tried everything clearing cache, redownloading from download history. Nothing works. On the first page it says that the problem has been fixed, do x, y & z. I have done this, believe the problem is not fixed for everyone. Please sort it out.

Thanks
Steve

[dzuser]

Is anyone else experiencing an audio issue / bug that occasionally causes the subwoofer on a 5.1 setup to emit a very loud low thud?

I've experienced it on several occasions during multiplayer matches (usually when a boomshot explodes some distance behind my character), but I've also been informed by friends that it does occur in the single player game!

Anyone? Is this a known issue?

Thanks.

[Cactusguy]

Crabwalk/No gun glitch
I have had this glitch occur to myself, my roommates, and a few opponents as well. When split screening, it occurs to both players. When on the same connection but with different xboxes, it can occur to all players but normally only to one.

Sometimes, when you spawn at the start of a round, you have no gun and are constantly crabwalking(thats roadie run without holding A and being able to move laterally/stop).

This can sometimes be fixed by switching weapons, but at other times weapon switching does nothing. On your own screen, you have a gun in hand and can pull the trigger, see tool tips for X, and go through animations like punching, but no matter how many times you fire your weapon your ammo counter doesn't go down nor do you need to reload. You also can't do any of the actions on the tool tips, such as picking up weapons or executions. On the screens of others you're just in a roadie run animation holding nothing. You CAN still trip proximity mines, and you CAN still be shot. I'm unsure about being meleed, but I know you can be chainsawed as well.

This basically makes you completely useless until the end of the round in any game type without respawns, because a respawn seems to fix the problem. You can't participate in the fight in any way at all, at most serving as a distraction. It's a serious glitch that needs to be addressed immediately.

[Flipskillz]

I think not reading is better for you because you get frustrated with other peoples thoughts it seem to affect your intelligence..

Rofl. Horrible comeback. Yeah I get pissed because the whole forums are going ballistic over petty reasons which I find annoying. Then you come say people are "discussing" about how the game should be fixed. Only a few people are actually doing that while the rest complain. If you actually look at the posts and other threads you'd see that.

[KakimotoRift]

When will the Blue Color issue be solved for ACT3?
The ACT3 Ch4 Cave part is totally blue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Darkness is BLACK not BLUE!!! It is not slight blue it is BLUE, having this blue color instead of black!!! It doesn't happen in ACT1 Roadblocks, it is so perfect totally black! Don't tell me that Blue is NORMAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Because it is replacing the BLACK with the BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Remember that it is not Black that lean towards blue. It is BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Strong Saturated BLUE. All this ACT3 is making me angry.

Act 1 Roadblocks is perfectly deep pitch black!!!!! Don't tell me that BLUE is the dark color because it is NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is displaying in this color BLUE

Do you even know when did I pre-order this game? After I completed this GOW1 for a few days after I bought it, when no one even mentioned Gears of War 2. I hope EPIC Game will look into this issue seriously. I want my GOW2 Limited Edition to be perfect just like GOW1 Limited Edition.

Oh and please don't tell me it's my HDTV issue because I do calibration and there is no problem with Dead Space and BioShock!

If you think BLUE is the color for black, then good for you. The blue is exactly this BLUE There must be something wrong with the GOW2 ACT3 software color coding. Having Blue instead of Black!

[Xiedo]

Hi, I'm reporting two issues.

1. All guns except shotgun are subject to CSHD.

Is this a bug or did Epic really program it this way? I'm sure everyone is familiar with opening a Gears 1 match by shooting a wall to get a feel for the match latency.

Try this in Gears 2. In every match, guns like pistols, lancer, hammerburst all contact a target instantly.

BUT the shotgun sometimes doesn't. Sometimes, the shotgun has a half-second or so delay, just like in Gears 1.

???? Makes no sense to me. Should be fixed, whether it's intentional or not. The shotgun has been nerfed enough, it doesn't need an extra delay.



2. Controller sensitivity problem.

My sensitivity settings are as follows:

Look sensitivity: High
Target sensitivity: Medium
Zoom sensitivity: Low

This is the buggy part. Pretty often during a match, my look sensitivity will change to either Low or Medium. Under the options screen, it still says "High", but I'm positive it's too sluggish for that. Later in the match, it returns to "High" by itself. It's as if the game can't keep track of what aiming mode I'm in, and so can't maintain the correct sensitivity I'm asking for.

Thanks.

[WoolyPower]

Then what is this forums for?.. just for hailing the game to its effing glory?.. this forums are for discussions of issues.. and people here are discussing issues.. if all the people just shutup and take the crap in then you would not have a great game at your hands right now.. We are just voicing to epic our problems.. its up to them which is good and not good..

I agree the forums are for telling Epic what we aren't happy with, but when the entire forum is littered with threads from people who can't stand the MP side of the game, it really overshadows everything else and eventually, some things will get changed that a LOT of people liked.

[supernova3141]

WTF i cant connect to a single match. also i can not connect to some friends but i can to others its really pissing me off.:mad: can any one help

also i think if they have matchmaking they should have made it like COD4

[*OP*]

I am putting this under both weapons and issues because its annoying me to no end, chainsaw will not drop on occasion from almost direct shotgun fire.

[EZ054098]

What do the rankings mean ( ^) by my gamertag and how do you rank up?

[drsteve69]

Any new info on how to download the gold-lancer, apart from the old redownload from history which still isn't working for me?


Tried everything, but still no golden lancer

Please Help!!!!!!!!!!!:(:mad:

[WoolyPower]

What do the rankings mean ( ^) by my gamertag and how do you rank up?

They just determine your skill, how many matches you've won etc.

I'm not sure but I think you can only obtain them through Public matches, however I've had people tell me they earned their first stripe in a private match.

They don't work btw, pretty much like every other ranking system out there.

[MASS Xtortion]

It would be great if the next patch added an option to disable auto-reloading(automatically reloading when you empty your clip). I often find myself jamming my Hammerburst or Snub after I try to manually reload a split-second after the auto-reload triggers. It would only benefit those that choose to disable it, and wouldn't affect gameplay in the slightest.

[mallard]

I bought limited edition Gears of War 2 from Bestbuy and it only had two codes one for 48 hour and another one for maps, it did not had any code for golden lancer. I exchanged and got another copy but same thing no code. I paid extra just for golden lancer. If you don't believe me call Bestbuy in Fairfax, VA 703-631-3332 employees knows that issue. Plz fix this I have the receipt for proof I need my code.

I have the exact same problem. It is at Best Buy in Chicago, IL 773-486-0142. Yes I know all the codes are suppose to be in one card. But it looks like what happened was that the card for the Regular Edition was included in the LE. My friend who bought a copy at the same place is experiencing the same woe... Plz fix this!

[digitalfuji2]

i only have 2 problem

1.slow matchmaking

2.when ppl come at me with chainsaw and i shot them but they don't get stunned

[KKingStyle]

What happens when a code says invalid? I got my Lancer, and Map Pack, but the Hammer Burst says invalid. Is there a way for MS/Epic to check to see if a code was used, because this is slightly annoying.

[Visualz]

You guys do realize that this thread was creating to bring attention to the issues of the game, not your opinion, a universal issue(ie: the code issue, chainsaw, etc).

It's not to ***** and moan like pregnant women.

[Gutts]

I bought limited edition Gears of War 2 from Bestbuy and it only had two codes one for 48 hour and another one for maps, it did not had any code for golden lancer. I exchanged and got another copy but same thing no code. I paid extra just for golden lancer. If you don't believe me call Bestbuy in Fairfax, VA 703-631-3332 employees knows that issue. Plz fix this I have the receipt for proof I need my code.

same here. sounded like they have had several returns for this reason

[Saume]

for the slow matchmaking... they should just remove those rank things, i mean let the icon to make ppl look cool or claim they are better, but im pretty sure most of ppl dont care about playing with ppl that are 'supposed' to be skill-matching, or rank-matching, if they gotta wait 10 mins to find a game

another idea... make it so games can be 4v4 too, not only 5v5... often gotta wait about 5 mins to find 1 member to complete the party, but thats prolly cos of the rank things too, just make it that when theres a 4 player party ready, make it so as soon as another party reaches 4 players it matches them

[pawn65]

Hey epic can you fix the roadie run so when you pull the trigger it at least pulls you out of the run so your not a sitting targer for the other team.

[Psych7111]

PLEASE add classic mode to Gears 2! Something like old player match. I hate joining a good room winning/losing and then after 5 rounds, bye! LAME! Please put in some sort of search for types of custom games. Matchmaking is for people who play Halo and COD, not GEARS!

[Psych7111]

YES YES and YES! this guy is a true gears fan as am i and i relate to almost everything he said! pick a room is WAY better than matchmaking. my opinion and probably everyone that has played gears 1 religiously online as well! ISSUE-3! PLEASE FIX! I want to play Gears 2 more, not have to go back to 1!

[MÆST]

Glad to see the matchmaking issues acknowledged and being addressed. My Live trial has expired and I'm going to wait till this issue is resolved to renew it.

[Vader80]

Disc Error issue needs to be the first thing fixed because there are 1000 of people who aren't even able to play the game. There is no way that there is problem with most of our consoles because all of my other games work. I have tried the disc in both of my consoles and get the same result. I don't understand how a game could ship with a major issue as not being able to play a game along with 4 of your friends and after dropping $60 for this game. So far I think the game is excellent and the people whinning about the shotguns and matchmaking should just go back to playing Gears 1. The multiplayer on that game was flawed with an invincible shotgun, which the game did not ship that way there was an update that did it.

In short please fix the disc read error so thousands of us can actually play.

[pkarolyi]

In responce to the Official Missing Codes Post, I would like to pose the following question: What do you do when the card in the Limited Edition Gears of War 2 is missing the third code to unlock the Golden Lancer when you peel back where indicated to reveal the codes?! :eek:

[The Dark Champ]

What's with the gamerpic I unlocked. Is there one for beating the campaign on hardcore or for beating all 50 waves of horde? Because I haven't beat it on Insane yet and I have a gamerpic. However, it's very weird the gamerpic is messed up, it's blank when I choose it, but then it shows on my dashboard. But then when I sign on my second profile and look at my main in my friends list the gamerpic on my main is a gamerpic from a random person on my friends list. Like even pictures taken with the Vision Cam were coming up it was so weird. Explanation?

Also, I beat the last mission on Insane to see if there was a secret ending for Insane, but there wasn't so maybe the code got messed up or something??

[TexTripleX]

hey, I have the achievements needed for carmine, kim and ramm. but they are not unlocking. Same on my friend's profile. Neither of us have live and don't really want to make new live profiles just to get them. A fix would be greatly appreciated.

[Sam Stride]

Q: Slow Matchmaking – Why does it take so long for matchmaking to find me a game?
A: This is an issue that’s affecting some folks, and Epic and Microsoft are both looking into it. I'll let you know more details as I have them.


Really... "This is an issue that’s affecting some folks" ??? some??? more like most are being affected by it and some are not.

plz bring back non ranked player matches where i could play for hours...

[Dodheimsgard]

Disc Error issue needs to be the first thing fixed because there are 1000 of people who aren't even able to play the game. There is no way that there is problem with most of our consoles because all of my other games work. I have tried the disc in both of my consoles and get the same result. I don't understand how a game could ship with a major issue as not being able to play a game along with 4 of your friends and after dropping $60 for this game. So far I think the game is excellent and the people whinning about the shotguns and matchmaking should just go back to playing Gears 1. The multiplayer on that game was flawed with an invincible shotgun, which the game did not ship that way there was an update that did it.

In short please fix the disc read error so thousands of us can actually play.

Ya it does..as much as i would actually love to play this game again..which i couldnt even enjoy the ****ing campaign,cuz i was fearing the "Unreconized Disc" error to slide out from the right side of my TV..took me 6 hours to actually get the game to work for a bit before i got the disc read error..its bull**** that some discs work,and some dont..and theres no ****ing way its my 360 because all other games work..why must gears2 be so damn anal about a console,regardless of how old,or new it is..if the console works,and plays games/dvd's fine..then it should do the same for Gears2..this needs to be top priority so the thousands of people who get these errors,can actually play the damn game,and for once,enjoy it..microsoft fails again..surprise, surprise

im still awaiting a response from microsofts braindead tech support..just to tell me **** i already know,and not give me any form of help whatsoever..prob tell me i need to spend 105$ to repair my console so i can play Gears 2..yep..**** that..not worth it

[Four Wude]

1. Shot delays. Sometimes when you're behind cover and you get out of it and shoot at the same time, the shot gets delayed a second and does not come out on time. This is a huge glitch that needs fixing ASAP. I'm not sure how to faithfully reproduce it but I KNOW it's happened to a lot of people by now. I don't even think you need to get out of cover to do it, but that's the most common one I've had. I know the button registered because I was behind cover with a Boomshot one time, moved out of cover slightly to the right to fire, didn't come out, by then I had moved back to the cover and the shot came out, blowing myself up.

2. Random crabwalk-style glitch. For anyone who's done a GOW1 crabwalk, you know how on your screen it shows your character walking fast but in a jerky way? That sometimes happens in this game randomly. However, it's for the worst. While you're walking like that, you cannot roadie run properly, you have infinite ammo for your shotgun and other weapons however you CANNOT register your shots, all you can do is fire them. You cannot chainsaw either, however you can still rev it up. You are still vulnerable to all kinds of damage as well.

Please fix these issues, as theses are legitimate game-breaking issues completely unrelated to any form of game balance. I wish I could go into more detail as to how to pull them off, but I can't. I know others have had it though.

[SonicNebula]

Q: Can’t find all my codes - I ordered the Limited Edition and I have some of my codes, but I am missing one/two.
A: The codes for the 48-hour LIVE trial, the Flashback Map Pack, and the Golden Lancer are all together on the same card. Peel back the cardboard where indicated, and you will expose all three codes.



I never got any codes in my Limited Edition Gears 2 box! Sadly, when they said limited, they did not lie...

[GamingDevil]

Well I did not see the problem I am having on the front page, so I will post it. I will try to explain the best I can.

I am enjoying using the hammerburst rifle, it seems like a fantastic gun, but it seems as though the sensitivity settings are messing it up for me. My settings are as follows.

look: high
target: medium
scope: medium

So, when I move and just freely look around, it is fast, and when I aim or scope it is a little slower. The problem is if I scope with the gun, and then stop aiming, it remains in scope sensitivity, so I start running and looking around in medium.

It is not a huge thing, because I can just aim and click the right stick again, in order to get movement back to high speed, but as you know a few seconds can make a big difference. Just thought I would throw that out there, maybe something can be done so that the different sensitivity settings do not effect each other, or that whenever you stop aiming the scope ability is disabled.

Thanks, I hope I explained it well enough.

i also have this issue but it is a big deal to me because it continues to happen after you have switched weapons. for example, i have the boltok pistol zoomed, then i switch to the shotgun, my look sensitivity goes down to medium because that's what i have the zoom set to, and i cant turn as fast to see whats around me or fight effectively in sudden close combat (i fire from the hip a lot, so it really hinders me when it comes into sudden close combat). to fix it i have to switch back to the boltok and unzoom it (while this glitch is occurring the boltok will be already zoomed when i aim it again), and then switch back to shotgun. i think this is probably something that would be easily fixed in a patch as it's probably just a coding issue.

look: high
aim: high
zoom: medium

if this helps to know, you do not have to switch back to the original weapon and unzoom it. say with me and the boltok scenario above i could also switch to a hammerburst, zoom it, unzoom it, and then switch back to the shotgun and the issue will be resolved. this is happening to me about 90% of the time that i zoom a weapon and do not unzoom it before i stop aiming it.

[GRAE SKYZ]

Everyone complaining is absolutely right!!!

1. The movement and reaction time of the characters are a tad too slow. But......

2. it doesn't matter, because the Gnasher doesn't do much......actually anything in a close up, do or die type situation.

3. The Smoke grenade spam is just annoying. There's nothing I can say about that one except you dropped the ball.


As much as I've proudly praised this game, right is right. EPIC, I beg you, just a simple tweak of the shotgun would do wonders for this game and experience. And, would absolutely make it a 10. Please, EPIC, Cliff, do it for the sake of the game. The weakened Gnasher sticks out so much in this otherwise epic MP experience. We beg you.


From your loyal Gearheads.

[azuntt]

They need to fix the Downed glitch, i'm downed on my screen but i'm walking around for everyone else so all i can do is wait for me to bleed out

[digitalfuji2]

Everyone complaining is absolutely right!!!

1. The movement and reaction time of the characters are a tad too slow. But......

2. it doesn't matter, because the Gnasher doesn't do much......actually anything in a close up, do or die type situation.

3. The Smoke grenade spam is just annoying. There's nothing I can say about that one except you dropped the ball.


As much as I've proudly praised this game, right is right. EPIC, I beg you, just a simple tweak of the shotgun would do wonders for this game and experience. And, would absolutely make it a 10. Please, EPIC, Cliff, do it for the sake of the game. The weakened Gnasher sticks out so much in this otherwise epic MP experience. We beg you.


From your loyal Gearheads.

yea i agree with you grae

[mdj2010]

Ok, so this hurts. I don't want to agree with what I am reading but it is true. There are issues which need to be sorted. However all along Epic were promising a different game: 'the multiplayer gears 1 was meant to be' - and in terms of the weapon balancing I believe they have achieved this. Anyway, join date aside (yeah I joined today but I'm sure if ou saw my gears collection and the time spent on Gears 1 you wouldn't doubt that I LOVE IT!) these are my opinions and experiences with the major issues.

- Matchmaking/ Lack of multiplayer choice - didnt like it at first but now I love it, it forces me to change the way I play more often depending on the maps. In gears 1 I would say that half the maps dominated about 90 % of my online play and I gpot stuck in the way of playing that suited those maps. So this change suits me, after all Variety is the spice of death.

- Slow matchmaking times/ Lag - I havnt had to wait longer than 30 seconds from about 50 hrs game play time to get involved in a game. Im from the Uk and luckily am having a great time getting into games. It sucks that others arent enjoying this experience as Im sure it adds to the other frustrations when you have to wait 10 mins to get strated. As for lag - it has happened to me, and when it does it is BAD BAD BAD, but for me it's rare and ussually games are lag free.

Chainsaw lowering - NEEDS TO BE FIXED!!!!! There is an issue here which I cant believe has come about, in gears 1 the chainsaw lowered fine, I have no doubt that this will be fixed though.

Shotgun power - well its a new game, its more tactical. They didnt want to hear the 'shotgun dance' argument and didnt want to see the weapon have the prevelance it did in Gears 1, however I do agree it almost feels redundant. However I do seem to use it more in Wingman so it still has its place. I also dont whip it out when I see someone across the map, i use the lancer, so in this way the weapon balancing has lead to more realistic use of weapon. Just a shame that the chainsaw issue makes the shotgun seem useless at times even in close proximity.

Quick Grenade tag explosions - Havnt experienced it, I think they work great. They only go off early if shot at by someone else, which I have done myself as ive noticed someone taggnig the wall, and BANG right in their kisser. Its gotta hurt when it happens to you, but im not sure that this is any kind of bug.

Smoke grenades down time too long - Tapping 'a' seems to get you up a LOT quicker.

Cant quit without drpping out to dashboard - I dont have lag issues so GOOD GOOD GOOD, and Im sure when they fix that issue others will think the same. Nothing worse than people dropping out in Gears 1 because they could with such ease. PLEASE DONT CHANGE THIS EPIC.

Boomshot has too much ammo - True it seems strange that it doesnt just have the two hits but its damage range seems to have been closed in a bit. If you are accurate then it is as deadly as ever but with the reduced damage range i think it warrants more ammo now.

Dont feel like I achieved my kill - I know it isnt as in your face as the shotgun fights of gears 1, and without the hopping about and popping up with the perfectly timed shotgun aim you dont always feel like THE MAN with your kills now, but just because you are getting kills with long range lancer fights doesnt mean the kill wasnt earned. You fought better than the guy you killed, enjoy it. Down himwith the lancer, get over there and pick his ass up and use him as a meat shield to kill the next sucker foolish enough to get in your way. IT FEELS GOOD!!!!

New weapons:

Hammerburst - Meaty, damaging, GOLDEN, I love it.
Heavy duty weapons (mulcher and mortar)- In the wrong hands makes me want to kill people, in my hands so much fun!
New pistol (gorgon) - Great idea, good back up when the ammo runs low in Horde.
Poison Grenade (ink) - Good idea, and it works well
Scorcher - Brutal and effective, this weapon DEFINATELY lowers the shotgun and makes toast just like the fiance makes it - BURNT!

Overall I love the new weapons and thgink they help balance out the others

Ok so overall these are my opinions, Ive played a silly amount since getting the game and I think minus a few MAJOR issues it is good. I think alot of the other minor issues people have will be subdued once the bigger ones such as taking an eternity to get into a game go. For example I dont care if a greande seems to go off a bit early, but then again it would probably drive me crazy if I had to wait forever for it to happen.

Cant believe I have only just signed up to these forums after so long loving Gears. I remember reading an article about it about a year before the 360 came out, ever since then the world has been a better place. Hopefully with a few fixes it will be truly Epic!

[A fo0L]

Ya... anyone know anything about the resetting of everything on the game...

[Nickle n Dimin]

when i play split screen i can never hear people that have died

[manofwar]

Freedom of choice from gears 1? WTH. Where is it? Battlefield bad company uses matchmaking but it still lets people choose gametypes and maps. WTH. Gaming is politics now? Voting? WTH.

[Rampage Hamster]

was told to post this here and my thread got closed so


Before i begin I Just wanted to say the campaign is the best in any game EVER. Its thrilling and fun.

There are a number of plus points to the multiplayer, love the new maps, love the new weapons, love the executions.
But..Seriously all Gears of war 1 fans.
This multi-player ****ed up for us. I never though i would find myself playing gears of 1 online a day after, just to feel better.

Issue 1- The LANCER is WAY too good. It cannot be stopped. Its a fun weapon but not skillful weapon. Chainsawing is fun, but everyone can do it and it goes through ANYTHING. Epic weaken it.

Issue-2Less emphasis on skillful weapons. Being a skillful player is basically obsolete. The TOURQUE BOW my favourite gears of war weapons but is now is now too easy and way too powerful. The sniper no longer downs and the headshots are not as nice as in gears 1. The SHOTGUN shoots bubbles, the shotgun was a very GOOD part of gears of war 1 and all you needed to add was stopping power. They weakened the power of the shotgun, and slowed its rate of fire. The shotgun battles WERE epic, especially if you were the better player and were outnumbered.

I now swap my shotgun for weapons as the LANCER is a more effective short range weapon. Epic seriously Fix thisI loved gears of war 1 for the fact that you could beat people if you were more skilled than them, go on a rampage or whatever. I dont feel like i can go and do some skillful damage. In GOW 1 You could have FUN by being better than your opponent, Now the only way to be better is to get your lancer in there first.

Issue-3 Matchmaking, apart from not having the freedom to play what i want, the number of rounds i want to play and the map, and having to play 5 Flipping rounds everytime after waiting 10 minuets to find a laggy game, everything is great. Please epic make some serious changes, or at least give us 6-10 rounds to play with.

Issue-4 I dont feel like i am acheiving my kill. Not to mention That they have A RIDICULOUS amount of health when they are down. I dont feel like i earned it. I wanna make them pay, but instead i am forced to do what everyone else does, lancer them down.

Issue-5 There are a number of smaller issues than this, a few to many to write but here are a few.

- Ditch Chairman prescott, hoffman rules.
- Frags go off when tagged to wall, a bit too early.
- Boomshot should have 2 ammo.
- The mortar, mulcher and man magnum are awesome. nuf said
-Stopping power should not affect side running.
- Sniper needs to feel more solid. Not an issue, just opinion.
-You should get up a tad faster when stunned from smoke and the smoke should last a little longer fro tactical advantage.
- YOU should get stuuned when revving your chainsaw but you dont. the chainsawing distance needs to be smaller also.

As i said there are many new things i love, but why couldnt they just be added. Overall the experience is less thrilling than gears of war 1. I want to be satisfied but i am not. I was skillful enough in GOW 1 to take on two average players with my pistol. Each game feels INSIGNIFICANT.

Please address these issues, because for us loyal GOW fans they ARE issues. Please EPIC i wan't to be satisfied. I came for the campaign, and wanted too stay for the Multi-player, but i just can't feel it.

Everyone, how do you feel?

I feel that you are one whiny retard. "Ditch" Chairman Prescott?? Okay, I'm not a fan of this new character but-- seriously, what the **** would you like Epic to do? Come into your home with a CD-erasing laser and burn Chairman Prescott out of your game? Look you dumb ****ing ***got, if you're going to make a list of gripes, at least make them reasonable and well thought-out and then maybe Epic WILL listen to you.

Instead you go on about I don't like this, change it. This thing is just a tad annoying to me, fix it. This thing here is fine, but not up to MY standards. Get rid of it.

SHUT THE **** UP YOU ANNOYING LITTLE *****.

[GRAE SKYZ]

Why are there red and blue sights on the guns and stuff? All of the distinguishing stuff seems kind of cheesy for GOW. It's not as rugged as it should be. And TBH, I actually miss the shorter muzzles on the guns.

C'mon, EPIC, give us back the shakier Roadie Run camera. And the Boomshot has 1 too many bullets in it.

And the Smoke grenades....c'mon, who in the hell came up with this sh*t?!!! The blast radius is way too much, and they do way too much damage. There's no real way to counter them.

Oh, and it would be nice to have a different angled camera for the cool new executions, because as they are right now, we can't even see them. The camera needs to be lower. They don't look as cool as they did months ago.

C'mon!!!! You guys just did way too much.

[T360UK MACHISMO]

LMAO @ all the run & gun Noobs in here *****ing about being "Gears Vets" and getting Chainsawed and crying like babies about the Gnasher.

The real problem at the moment is the

DELAY IN HIT DETECTION!

If EPIC fix that quickly then all will be hunky dory!

[T360UK MACHISMO]

Oh and the whole idea behind a proximity grenade is that it explodes when an enemy is in CLOSE PROXIMITY to it!

Not, wait...... wait......wait......oh the enemy has gone now explode.

[dichutdi]

1. in wingman when people quit or get disconnected before the match starts. the teams would have two different characters when they are suppose to be the same.

2.random matchmaking host is so laggy most of the time but not for host and players living in same country or because host has sh*ty connection

3. submision the meatflag lagged and teleported out of map on day one

4. sometime spawn with no weapon and appear to be crabwalking but cannot afflict any damage like chainsawing shooting the enemy or switch weapons

5. when 4 in a party lookin for 1 to play public matches takes about 15min or more matchmaking is very time consuming

6. climbing over ledges like canals where the frozen water is you try to climb up fast to low side but cant when you take cover then press up a to go up fast you jump to the side instead of climbing up the dam thing (climb over sandbags fast no problem)

7. the time knockdown by smoke grenades is very inconsistent and glitchy ranging from 3 to 10 sec sometimes you start to float up 15 feet and sometime you stay stuck knock down by the smoke grenade.

8. cannot instantly kill an opponent who has just been stunned by smoke grenade by shotgun or chainsaw when they get up from being stunned they sometimes teleport 3-5 feet from where they were down on ground

this has happened to me my opponents and friends frequently hurry and fix these this game is so dang glitchy

[gabrielino_98]

The problem with the multiplayer system is that people will always vote for the more popular game modes, and not let some people play the less popular modes like submission.
I want to be able to choose what game modes I want to play. Also, after a game ends it shouldn't take the party back to the main lobby. Why can't they just let us continue playing with the same people???
And when a team is short one person, a bot should be added to the team to balance them out.

[Villegas]

The multiplayer is ridden with bugs.

I often hear people who are dead when I'm not. And when a game is won, you can't hear the dead or the alive, obviously depending on whether you're alive or not. It's really annoying. :/

And seriously, please get rid of MatchMaking, it's awful beyond comprehension.

Bring back player hosted games!


The way they've split the audio is, for me, a huge step backwards. It's so annoying. I hope they can fix this, it's taken away a load of the fun of multiplayer.

[Lantern King]

i think people complain far too much. i think epic has done a great job. those who complain about having a smoke throw them to the ground are scrubs. i think the smoke stunning you to the ground is a great feature. i do have a couple of complaints. the shotgun has been worked to perfection.(almost)the shotgun needed to be slowed down a bit. though i believe it's been slowed down just a hair too much. i suppose my second deal isn't really a complaint. the option to put smoke, ink, or frags on the wall has caused MAJOR CAMPING. when the round is over i'm forced to hear things like, YOU GUYS ARE NOOBS, YOU'RE SCRUBS, YOU'RE ALL GARBAGE, GET RAPED, GET OWNED

get raped and i'm garbage because dudes have no skill except camping trash...i feel like i'm back in black arrow all over again

some would call camping a strategy. i could see camping if the opposing team has the number and you're the last one or two men left on your team. not when it's 5v5 EVERY ROUND...and some maps there is nothing you can do about the camping because the frags and ink spawn back so quickly the walls just keep getting rigged in the spawn etc

MAJOR SPAWN MAPS INCLUDE...

Bloodrive-the best new map in gears 2 when you aren't playing campers
Ruins-this is probably my least favorite of all the new maps and there is major camp fest ish going on here
Security-this map gets right up there with Ruins...people just get the frags or ink and camp the area where you pick them up

[SHOGUN 47]

Don't worry everyone, Epic already knows all the problems, trust me they have been on these forums reading most of this. They are more and likely discussing all the issues and talking to eachother about tweaking.

Lets just make the best of what we have, and do a ton load of Horde

[freaq]

Q: Can’t find all my codes - I ordered the Limited Edition and I have some of my codes, but I am missing one/two.
A: The codes for the 48-hour LIVE trial, the Flashback Map Pack, and the Golden Lancer are all together on the same card. Peel back the cardboard where indicated, and you will expose all three codes.


I can't find ANY codes. I'm really disapointed because I also bought the Limited Edition especially for the Golden Lancer. Note that I'm from South Africa and it seems like all other South African gamers got shafted on this one.

[Skinnybobb]

Nice one SIX, that's just what we needed - to be told that your looking into it.
Now hopefully people will stop just slagging everything off and report in a decent way.

[timstone]

Having an issue unlocking the "Kick em When They're Down" achievement

I've done all the executions as per this youtube video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik7N2JRxq98

But it still says I've got 10/11

If anyone has a solution or maybe some other weapon I could try let me know by PM please.

[Lekgolo]

4. sometime spawn with no weapon and appear to be crabwalking but cannot afflict any damage like chainsawing shooting the enemy or switch weapons

This is by far the biggest issue I have seen up to now. Almost every round at least one person in the room will get this glitch. I once even got it part way through a round instead of at the start. On your screen it still looks like you can shoot and stuff, but you can't sprint properly, your ammo never goes down, you can start crab walking, and you basically can't do anything to anyone. You may as well not be in the round.

On other people's screens you're actually not holding a weapon in your hand and you are occasionally crab walking.

Big issues for me aside from this include not being stunned while revving the chainsaw all the time but it happening sometimes (I wouldn't mind which one happens too much, as long as it happens all the time). Randomness in competetive play is not fun. The shotgun definitely has some issues, sometimes you can down people in two shots from quite a distance, sometimes you can shoot them 6 times point blank and nothing happens.

Occasionally in Horde mode you may all die, and it will say one of you was still alive and counts as you winning the round - I have no idea what causes this though.

Sometimes in campaign on insane difficulty I have chainsawed a locust, only to have him melee me half way through the chainsaw animation and kill me outright.

*possible spoilers ahead*













In the dark tunnel with the tickers in campaign once on online co-op it was still daylight in the tunnel for me and the derrick wasn't even there, I could see all the way down the tunnel.

Later, when you split up where there are mortars shooting at you and you take out a Brumak at the end of the area, it didn't acknowledge that we had killed it and we had to start the area again to progress.

[Sonos]

Epic, Matchmaking is fantastic, welldone!
I've had no problems with speed at all.
Weapons are fastastic, dont change them.
Rodie running is fantastic, i dont get motion sick looking at it anymore!
All the changes are for the better. people just deal with it.


Try joining a game with a party, or get a better internet provider, that'll fix your connectivity issues.

Oh, the Disc is undreadable issues are far more important than peoples wineing.
Fix that.

[fryzee_gun12345]

Hey...
i'm having problems with the linked achievements, as i have all the achievements from gears 1 that it says i need to unlock RAAM and Carmine and that, but they are not unlocking. I read that many other people are also having this problem. plz help. thx

[fryzee_gun12345]

Hey...
i'm having problems with the linked achievements, as i have all the achievements from gears 1 that it says i need to unlock RAAM and Carmine and that, but they are not unlocking. I read that many other people are also having this problem. plz help. thx

[c SPARTAN117 c]

The Co-op gamerpic is glitched. I unlocked it, but it is an empty square.

[BLACK JACK]

Multiplayer is a blast but i am pretty baffled how a developer as big as Epic could get the interface so wrong.

1. Play-lists: Why are the different play-lists lumped together? I should be able to choose what game mode i want to play.

2. Matchmaking: In theory sounds good (Click a button and you get put into a game) but in practice you and your party are left looking at a "searching for similarly skilled players" icon without knowing what is going on in the background. Then you get matched to an unbalanced team anyway or you get thrown into a game where the teams are uneven. Why can't i just select from a list of open games that are using the settings i want, like in gears 1?

3. Voting system: Why do we only get to choose from two game modes and two maps and why is the map decided for me if the votes are tied? As i said before, we should be able to play whatever game mode we want and if the voting for maps is tied, give us two more maps to choose from.

4. Party system: Why do we have to play with a full team of five? If i am in a party of 3 we should be able to search for another party of 3 to play against, not have to wait while the game searches for 2 random douches to join our party and then search for another five minutes for a game.

5. Kicked to lobby after game: this was a problem in gears 1 and it's annoying that it's still in gears 2. If i have a good game against someone, I'll probably want to play against them again. Add a rematch option or simply don't kick everyone from the game, just like it was in Call of Duty 4.

6. weapons not working: Sometimes my weapons will have no effect - bullets come out of the gun but don't damage anyone and i can't throw grenades.

[RomeoSatyr]

Any news on the linked achievements?

[Nastrazel]

a few other people have had this issue i've got a thread elsewhere on the site but i get the impression it might not get looked at by anyone who can do anything about it unless i repost in here.

Basically the issue ONLY arises in gears of war 2, therefore it is not a controller wiring issue inside, it is not the console. I cannot stress this enough. Other people have similiar issues but get it with other games or when they twist the controller or when it vibrates etc. My issue is purely when I melee an enemy in Gears of War 2. Not just when i press the melee button. I can melee all over the place, BUT the second it hits someone it disconnects the controller lol.

Its a freaking wierd issue, and yes the battery's are fine, the controller is brand new the 360 is brand new.

regards

[xlRagnarlx]

Hey EPIC, please READ THIS!

MY very big problem is, there's a lot of country (for example) in EU, where there is no Xbox Live official - we can use the Live, but WE DONT HAVE A FLASBACK MAPPACK CODE AND THE GOLD LANCER CODE - beacuse they just put off these codes out of the package - We made a lot of phone calls, and the answer was just a blablabla...

WE PAYED FOR IT, i'm a huge gears fan, i need that golden lancer and the flashback map p. code - PLEASE Epic and MS do something - we can proove our original copies (with photo, or serial, or anything else) Please look out for this

Another
we need to nerf a bit the chainsaw - everybody is a ****in chainsaw noob, and the shotgun doesnt stop the chainsawing (btw shotgun is good)

[xI Toast Ix]

Ok i got a problem with some of the games ive joined lately. The matches are so laggy that you really cant even move, you just glitch back and forth, and it totally impossible to shoot anyone. Its not only me either, its everyone in the match. Maybe its a standby'er but i cant be certain. Just needs to be fixed, whether that means booting kids with a bad connection, or allowing a leave game option when the lag gets bad, something needs to be done...

[R3XMUND1]

What is up with the 'True Skill' ranking system, I win no rank up, I lose no rank down...
I won by a huge margin and still nothing... can we get a progress bar or something?


Cheers for a great game tho.

[X-sign3G n4hK-GoW2]

I have done what you said about the gold Lancer, This time i was able to download it, but i Could'nt use it or see when i went on the Multiplayer, I tryed all the Diffrent types of Matchmaking games, Horde, private and public types... Could'nt get it to Appear in my hand, which is lame when i after all was in a Line for 5 hours to get the Limited Edition.

[Sycomunkee]

Issue 1: Sometimes in Single Player and in Multiplayer, my charecter will not stop firing his weapon. It seem like if I'm in starting out in cover and I'm firing my weapon as well as getting shot while jumping out of cover. When I get up my gun just starts firing automatically.

Issue 2: When I am setting someone ablaze with the flame thrower, I realized when I was downed, I could still fire my flame thrower. All I did was hold the trigger while I was getting shot at. In return I was able to down the other guy in the process. I dont think this was very fair and this problem should be corrected.

[wiliiammorrison08@]

should have kept the old multiplayer interface and made it so you can invite in ranked they have killed the shotgun and took all the fun out of the game played gears 1 solid for 1year cant be bothered with the multiplayer on 2 epic should forget what other games were using but then I think microsoft had a big hand in the multiplayer "Halo" realy disappointed with the multiplayer in 2 and I cant see me playin it in 6 months time

pitty waited 6 months and I am totally dissapointed EPIC you F*&*ed up

[jiggajayp]

should have kept the old multiplayer interface and made it so you can invite in ranked they have killed the shotgun and took all the fun out of the game played gears 1 solid for 1year cant be bothered with the multiplayer on 2 epic should forget what other games were using but then I think microsoft had a big hand in the multiplayer "Halo" realy disappointed with the multiplayer in 2 and I cant see me playin it in 6 months time

pitty waited 6 months and I am totally dissapointed EPIC you F*&*ed up
I totally agree with this guy on the issue with the shotgun!!! Epic, you have taken all of the fun out of the game by taking the beautiful shotgun from gears 1 and then dipping it in molasses! PLEASE patch the shotgun back to what it used to be! You all have made Gears 2 a Lancer based game that now feels like Halo 3's online gameplay! Gears 1 had it's OWN IDENTITY! Now it feels like Halo 3's online gameplay and I hate Halo 3! PLEASE bring my shotgun back!!! You can keep the new sound but the way it shoots over sand bags and how SLOW it shoots is gonna make make trade it in and stick to gears 1!

[ixi DBush ixi]

These Have Made Me Completely Stop Playing The Game!!
1. I Start Playing In Matchmaking And My Guy Seem To Be Walking Kind Of Fast And Every Time I Shoot I Dont Lose Any Bullet And They Dont Register But On Everybody Elses Screen I Dont Have A Gun. And In One Match There Were About Three Of Use With No Gun!
2. Lag
3. Shotgun vs Lancer? Why Do I Have To Run Away From Some When There Chainsaw Is Out Now! Its Been So Many Time People Just Run At You With There Chainsaw And You Shoot Them Two Or Three Time With The Shotgun And They Keep Coming, It Wont Stun Them! And I Down People Quicker At Close Range With My Pistol Rather Than My Shot Gun.
4. Proxi Grenades.... I See The Grenade From Around The Corner, I Get As Far Away From It As I Can And Still See It To Shot It, Then I Shoot It And It Still Blows Me Up.. Not A Big Problem I Just Wish The Smoke Grenade Would Activate It Also!
5. Trash Talking. In Matchmaking I Really Dont Want To Hear The Other Team Until The Beginning And The End Of The Match! For Example At The Beginnig Of The Game I Speak And Now Im A Ni**er, I Die Then More Ni**ers, Game Ends More Ni**ers
6. Matchmaking Host Quits Im Back In The Main Menu And I Have To Make Another Room.
7.Matchmaking Takes Forever!:(

[Wii60 KiD]

PLEASE add classic mode to Gears 2! Something like old player match. I hate joining a good room winning/losing and then after 5 rounds, bye! LAME! Please put in some sort of search for types of custom games. Matchmaking is for people who play Halo and COD, not GEARS!

This would be the best idea, nothing worse than having a blast with people for a few rounds then BAM! your out of the game and in with a load of new peeps. You want to be able to have rematches with people if you've just been beat or just had a real good time.

I love what I've played of the game so far but I really think the multiplayer on Gears 1 was virtually perfect (well maybe not perfect but it's why we loved it)and only needed things added to it not overhauled.

The way to search for games needs to go back to how it was so your playing the type of game you want to play. If nothing else there needs to be a seperate option like there is for Horde ie. just click on Execution, Warzone etc and you go right into that game type.

I would also like to see you stay in the room you were in when the rounds etc ended. For example when you've had a good game in Horde you should go back into a lobby with the people you were playing with, that way you could all go back in a try a beat what round you got to.

In my eyes the fact you could pick all the maps, rounds, weapon types etc on Gears 1 before you started was awesome. We play what we call 'Battle 8' on Gears 1, basically the Host picks 8 maps (we kept the same 8) and certain weapons then we pick teams and get amongst it, even people we didn't know loved it and would stay in our games for a proper laugh.

Basically I think just add an option for 'Classic Gears multiplayer', then if people like the new way of things they can do that OR they can pick games like they did on the 1st one.

Not sure what can be done as the game is offically out but I hope atleast they make the seperate option to go right into the game type you want to play and that you stay in the lobby with the people you've just played with so you can go back in with them.

[Firecold]

I live in Russia, and it seems like everybody who bought the game in local stores don't have ANY of those freakin codes... WTF??? Russian players are f**ked up!! Please tell me the reason why...

[l MeTaL_MuLLeT l]

Issue
Some people do not deserve to host. In Gears 2 the host is, this is an assumption, chosen randomly. That would mean on an average I have a 1/10 chance of hosting the laggiest game anyone has ever seen. Now, my connection is adequate to play, but not to host. This prevented me from getting the Series of Tubes achievement in Gears 1. I would like to see a way to prevent me from hosting a match. An option to disallow hosting for yourself would be nice. Or, if you want to go this path, allow the person with the best connection to host. Me hosting was not a problem in Gears 1, and I am under the impression that the same applies if I am in a party. I don't deserve to host people. Don't let my poor connection bring down my, and nine other's games.

[Dark Infinity 1]

I think someone has mentioned this but I will mention it to say I have the same problem.

I have noticed sometimes between rounds I can not hear anyone on my team at all. Its not just when I am dead, or just when I am alive. It seems to be random. The odd thing is my wife sitting beside me playing on the same machine (split screen) can hear everyone. When the next round starts everything is back to normal.

[Xerxes52]

In the Chapter "Dirty Little Secret", there will be no dialog for Niles, Command, or your own characters on occasion.

For example, Marcus would have a conversation with Command, and Command will never say anything (just a few seconds of silence, even Command's subtitles are gone), or Niles will never say anything.

Happens 1/3 of the time in Single Player, but happens 100% of the time in local and system link co-op (haven't done online co-op).

This may intentional (I sincerely hope not), but in Horde I notice players automatically die instead of being downed after being revived for a second time. Having limited/unlimited revives needs to be a host option.

[jdcorrons]

1.the matchmaking is really slow

2 shotgun is tweaked down way to much


3.and wen someones charging at you with the chainsaw and you shoot themin the face with the shotgun he walks right through without being stun and chainsaws me

[URPREY]

Later, when you split up where there are mortars shooting at you and you take out a Brumak at the end of the area, it didn't acknowledge that we had killed it and we had to start the area again to progress.
I've played this same level 3 times on Insane and defeated the Brumak. I get to the cut scene where I get on the transporter, and then I get "Objective Failed". Ugh. This isn't much fun since I can't move forward in the game.

[Dark Infinity 1]

3.and wen someones charging at you with the chainsaw and you shoot themin the face with the shotgun he walks right through without being stun and chainsaws me

Maybe I am playing a different game but it seems like almost any weapon can stop my chainsaw (even punching which I don't know why punching a chainsaw would not seal your fate). This is including the shotgun. Maybe you are shooting to early? Usually if you have an active(perfect) reload you can two piece someone with a chainsaw quite nicely with the shotty. :)

[DontSayNuth1n]

thanks epic for making gears 2 so much bigger and more un-badass than ever.

[ZoomPooky]

The only issue I've had is in matchmaking if we're a party of 4. It seems that it takes forever to try and find that solo player to make it 5.

[ElDominio]

To everyone complaining about the shotty:
Learn to 2-piece and wallbounce. I still trade my Hammerburst (the weapon I choose to spawn with) for other power weapons, because wallbouncing into a guy with the Lancer is basically unstoppable. As long as you dont rush straight into them like a tard, you'll get close enough to melee them and blast them to pieces.

And, if someone has their chainsaw turned on, just melee them in the face, because the mighty vacuum effect doesnt work if you melee in time. Or, just jump a little back and shoot them, and they'll get stunned.

I love the shotgun in Gears 2, and I think the only thing that needs to be fixed is the freaking slow as crap matchmaking, and the way the matchmaking chooses the host, because I'm always jumpy as crap.

[DontSayNuth1n]

And, if someone has their chainsaw turned on, just melee them in the face, because the mighty vacuum effect doesnt work if you melee in time. Or, just jump a little back and shoot them, and they'll get stunned.


I wish I coult post a video of me playing. half the time I dont even have a gun. Half the time my shotgun shells dont even come out, or they hit the ground in front of me....no one gets stunned btw when they are revving their shotgun and I shoot them.

[anonymous]

Anonymous why are you even comparing Gears 2 to COD4. Gears 2's planet isn't Earth it's Sera and two they have different technology. And COD4 is MODERN you don't see it saying Call of Duty: Gears Warfare.

Are you serious about that post? Why would I give two ****s about what world the game is set in. These games are both played online in the 'real world', LOL. I was simply pointing out a multiplayer feature of the game. It just happens that Cod4 has good online multiplayer elements.

[ElDominio]

I wish I coult post a video of me playing. half the time I dont even have a gun. Half the time my shotgun shells dont even come out, or they hit the ground in front of me....no one gets stunned btw when they are revving their shotgun and I shoot them.

Sadface for you.
Yes there are the crabwalk glitches and whatnot, but im pretty sure that when you aim at a chainsawer (up close) and shoot, they'll either get stunned or downed

[MCSS Aerocoupe]

I can't search public games based on the game type, map, round length, or number of rounds. It is as if the public games are really ranked games. The only way to pick and choose between type, map, etc. is to do a private game; but that does not allow me to play with random people. So if I want to play a specific game type or map with random people, I may as well not even put my Gears 2 disk in.

And for some reason I can't play more than one match in a room before getting dropped out and forced to spend about 10 minutes "searching" for the next match. Weird how I have a good enough connection to host matches in other games for 2-3 hours straight and no one gets lag, but it takes me 10 minutes of letting the system search for it to find a game for me to play.

I am hoping my game is screwed up. The matchmaking for "public" games looks like it should be for ranked. But then that means there are no real public matches.

Please tell me my game disk is fubar'ed, and it is not the actual game system that is fubar'ed.

[AliveAngel]

the chainsaw is maybe a little bit to stronge, on modes where very focus on one spott
its too much chainsaw ****s xD

[Aveelo]

Co-op Gamerpic is only a blank tile!

I completed Co-op and unlocked the Marcus and Dom gamerpic. Unfortunately it turned out to be an empty square which I presume is due to a glitch? help and fix bug plz:mad:

[Ben The Machine]

I seem to have an isssue on long pieces of cover found maps like Tyro Station( The Train track) and Canals, where i will take cover on them and try to vault up them and i just do side rolls. You have to stand there for a long time and be slow about it, but thats hard to do if someone is shooting your ass.

Also i have had a weird glitch when you try to grab a weapon whilst holding back and tapping A to roll backwards and i roll forwards alot, it happens at Boomshot on canals ALL THE TIME.

These need to be looked into and tweaked imo.

[JeremFFAF]

Gear Of War 2 will last long. Just because you dont like the style of part 2 does not mean u should bash it, just because you cant kill n00bs the same way you did in gears 1 doesnt mean its bad, it just means we are all noobs all over again and have to learn the new mechanics of the game, if ppl stopped *****ing about the shotgun and learned to actually use it u would find that its easier to kill people with it then in gears 1, chainsaw noobs? whip out yours and give em a good duel, if u have enough time to see them running at u be smart and switch ur damn gun, its a new game people if u wanted everything to stay the same why the hell buy a part two? just go play gears of war 1

[iSchenker]

I posted a thread titled: No "Seriously 2.0 Gamerpic" why?! (http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?p=25680130#post25680130)

In the first Gears, one of the big motivations to get the "Seriously ..." Achievement, besides bragging rights, was to get a special Gamerpic. Sadly, I never even played close to enough Ranked matches to get it in the first Gears. But everyone I know who has the Seriously Achievement uses the Gamerpic with huge pride.

It is even such a widely known Achievement that it got copied twice; in "The Club" and in "BF: Bad Company" there where Achievement's where you had to get 10,001 and 10,002 kills in multiplayer respectively. (Seriously in GoW being 10,000 kills in Ranked Matches.)


When I first heard heard that the second (real) iteration of Seriously was going to be 100,000 kills, dubbed "Seriously 2.0", I was getting evermore curious and excited to see how the Achievement/Gamerpic would look like. But then, a couple of days before the release of Gears of War 2, I read that there is no Gamerpic reward for getting Seriously 2.0. Even though it turns out that the second Seriously is easier than the first, I don't think you're doing the Achievement justice; getting 100,000 kills is still very time consuming!


Even though I'm still going to get Seriously 2.0 (I'm at 50,000+ kills already ;)), I think EPIC should include a Gamerpic for everyone who got Seriously 2.0 in DLC or a inevetible (I think the Gears 2 is perfect though) Title Update. It may not seem like a big deal to most people and I'm sure the guys at EPIC are busy on much more important stuff, but many were expecting and looking forwards to that one Gamerpic which would make Seriously 2.0, seriously, just a bit more epic! :D

[Pistolero17]

You still haven't created solutions for so many other issues that exist in multiplayer, which is the origin for most complaints. The multiplayer was what made Gears of War the game it is today.
The problems that haven't yet been resolved are:

1.) The overpowered chainsaw that vacuums you in, and there is absolutely no way to counter it.
2.)The lag is ridiculous.
3.)I understand that in Gears of War 1 the shotgun was overpowered, and it was over abused, but now it deals no damage in Gears 2 which is ridiculous. You cannot create a game that is "tactical" with unbalance weapons. A tactical game includes both a medium to long range weapons (Lancer, Hammerburst), and a close range weapon (Gnasher shotgune), but yet you tweaked the shotgun so much where it deals very little damage close range. It needs to be tweaked so that if someone were to get shot in the chest with a shotgun, they are destroyed immediately just like the first game.
4.)The party/ranking system. Hardly anyone knows how the ranking system works and there win to loss ratio is amazing, this needs to be addressed. The party system was a great addition, but it seems like it was just thrown together without detail. If developers are to create a party system almost like halo, they cant go half a**, as it currently is. You need to make it so that players can say, "hey guys we played great together as a team lets party up and continue dominating."
If these problems get fixed the game will be truly balanced, and all players would love the sequel as they did the original.

[xhambonex]

i am mildly frustrated with this game at many points, but i had the same experience with gears1. I got better and stopped getting frustrated. Learning to adapt to the new gameplay is fine. To say there is no skill involved in this new game is stupid. The shotgun works, its just not as godly as it was in gears1. I think the MM plays pretty smoothly. Tweaks to speed up the process is welcomed. And getting up off the tracks on Tyro Station, take a look at that, its frustrating how impossible it is sometimes.

[xhambonex]

i get shotgun kills all the time, learn to use the shotgun effectively. The chainsaw can be countered...with a chainsaw. You can still point blank shotgun people, it does do damage. The problem with the shotgun is gears1 was how you could one shot people from anywhere it seemed.

[Eternalnow]

I posted a thread titled: No "Seriously 2.0 Gamerpic" why?! (http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?p=25680130#post25680130)

Why would you want to brag about Seriously 2.0? You can get it in any mode...its not like in Gears 1 where only your Ranked kills would count, and even then it was up in the air.

[cookerton]

Q: Can’t find all my codes - I ordered the Limited Edition and I have some of my codes, but I am missing one/two.
A: The codes for the 48-hour LIVE trial, the Flashback Map Pack, and the Golden Lancer are all together on the same card. Peel back the cardboard where indicated, and you will expose all three codes.

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I bought the limited edition but i only received codes for the 48 hour trial, and the flashback maps but no code for the golden lancer

[Pengu1n]

Many people, myself included, are having a Disk is Unreadable problem with our copies of the game:

http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=631837
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread410169/pg1

[SHOGUN_1]

No problems so far....X Its good to see that things are being reCOGnized (lol) and fixed.

[minns]

Problem - People camping with grenades stuck in the walls and just sitting there waiting for them to spawn again.

Solution - Make the spawn time ALOT longer than 30 seconds, and make the grenades stuck on the wall give you 3 warning beeps before they blow up.

Also the chainsaw needs to be fixed like gears 1 so that people actually get stunned but enough people have already addressed that.

[xanius]

for some reason running while rolling is faster than just running. I was playing with someone who would get ahead of me by doing that. I know i can do the same thing and i ended up having to but this will end up cathing on and looking ridiculous when people are tring to get to weapons.

[SBrooks360]

Played a lot of multiplayer the other night for the first time since I was out of town. Some initial impressions.....

1. The time it takes to setup a game to finally actually playing is way too long. Reminds me of the matchmaking Halo 3 has and going from Gears 1 to this is disappointing.

2. I love the new modes....Wingman is excellent! Instead of trying to coordinate with 3-4 other people on a strategy you can now work with 1 guy and I really enjoyed having to watch each other's back. King of the Hill is nice too. I actually found myself not wanting to play Warzone after playing these other modes.

3. Executions.......After playing multiplayer for a while last night watching some of the executions is just painfully hard. Sometimes I would roll someone over for the punches to the face and they wouldn't even be under me when the punches rained down. I would be punching bloody ground with the body laying 5 feet away. Also, the execution with the shield looks really lame. It looks like all he does it run over and bounce it off their body to execute. The same thing happens with other executions too and while it doesn't take anything away from the gameplay it's just unfortunate to see. I expected this game to be flawless especially after seeing all the execution videos look amazing before launch. It seems as though each character has a free roaming ability now when performing these executions instead of locking both characters in place to display the animations properly.

Also I've encountered glitches where I'm trying to jump over a rock wall and then it shows an animation of me trying to jump back and then he finally goes over it. Very weird and unfortunately especially if someone is chasing you.

Overall it's a nice upgrade from '1' but I'm just surprised at the lack of polish and glitches I've encountered.

Played a lot more multiplayer last night and it's unreal how chock full of glitches this game has. I never thought I would be disappointed in any aspect of this game but I am. I was talking to other friends of mine while playing last night and they could see it too.

The executions are sloppy and half the time don't look right at all. I'm still seeing the problem occasionally where I'll jump over something and the game will try and send me back the way I came and then finally go over the way I want.

Someone mentioned this earlier and I encountered it last night. I also noticed on Canals that when you're on the ice and trying to jump up on the level above you it's harder now. I was jumping to the left and right when I was pushing towards the wall. It's f'ing frustrating....

Also, If I die during a round, and you die during a round, we can talk to each other in the dead room. But if I die during a round, and you survive the round, in that 10 second span before the next round starts, we can't talk to each other (whereas in Gears 1 we could). If you had a 1v1 or 1v2 or 1v3 or even 1v4 or something in Gears 1 and got the victory, it immediately put all players into the same chat at the end of the round so you hear everyone laughing and talking about what just happened. In Gears 2, since you're the only one that survived, you can't talk to anyone until the next round starts, at which point you can only talk to your team. You take down 4 guys to win the round and what do you hear? Crickets. Not cool.....

[Mr Greensleeves]

First of all i want to say single player is amazing do not change it, it is truly EPIC, best 3rd person shoot-em up in the universe EVER!. But multiplayer is a entirely different thing, so heres my gripes and complaints.

1. Once the chainsaw is revved on the Lancer you become invincible, god knows how many times I blast someone point blank in the face "while aiming" and there still revving the chainsaw and I get killed (where’s the stopping power?). I shouldn’t have to get my chainsaw out to counter the chainsaw in a button bashing battle, and which the outcome is still totally random (tried and tested).

To solve this issue IMO I would either introduce a game type where there is no chainsaw but you can still bash with it like the shotgun, or there is a fuel gauge/charge for the chainsaw so that the chainsaw becomes a tactical weapon not just hold down B, or the most extreme get rid of it but I wouldn’t do that as its what made gears in the first place.

2. Matchmaking is very slow and sluggish, but I expect it’s just because it’s the first few days it’s been online and isn’t fully optimised but I did experience a glitch or something when I was partied up with 5, we joined a match and came in , we sat there for 2 mins and eventually we won a 5 round match in 3 seconds (impossible you say, not when the other team actually never was there in the first place)

To solve this issue IMO I would want the old system back it was fast, effective and it worked. I could choose what game I wanted, what map I wanted and what game type I wanted but now its just becomes a vote war and always the most popular game type gets chosen, but what if I wanted to play the latter I cant do that anymore, and here comes that age old saying “if it aint broke don’t fix it”.

3. Shotgun has been totally destroyed in my opinion, it just doesn’t feel like a gears shotgun anymore, so now I have been forced to become a chainsaw noob as that gun now is the best for close range battles. (matches feel more like a chainsaw fest now than the crazy, lengthy shotgun battles in the last, it takes 2-6 shots at point blank range while aiming to get a kill now other than the point blank range 1 shot kill which used to stop the chainsaw noobs in there track, not anymore apparently)

To solve this issue IMO I would rack the power of the shotgun just a little more so that it would cut it down to 1-4 shots at point blank range while aiming (or maybe I just haven’t got used to it yet, only time will tell)

4. There is no mute function in-game (its standard now I thought) seeming as the matchmaking system looks like a total rip off of halo 3 I thought at least I could mute people in game, but no I cant, I have to go through a lengthy list just to mute that one trash talking chainsaw noob, which leaves me open in game for a full A** raping from the opposing team. ( yes I know LIVE is full of “A**holes and idiots so get used to it”, but what I do not want to hear is the racist and disgusting comments made by stupid egocentric bigots that do not understand even the meaning of the hurtful things are saying.)

To solve this issue IMO I would introduce the system at a later date as I know this would take a lot of time and effort to do, but it would be so worth it in the end, so far I haven’t been to 1 match without someone talking trash down the mike or spewing racist slurs all over the place.

5. The smoke grenades don’t really produce much smoke more of a bang and when you’re down on the ground it varies on how long you get up about 2-10 seconds and in multiplayer every second counts, I hate it when I get downed by a grenade to find 10 seconds later I get up and instantly receive a chainsaw up the A**. Also the double grenade tagging which results in you killing or stunning yourself.

All in all the main ones i would want to fix mostly if i had a choice is the chainsaw, shotgun and the matchmaking i can live with trash talking an i suppose i could let myself get killed just so i could mute a person, if all these isuues were fixed this would be a multiplayer to rival halo 3 and COD4.

The good fixes are making the superior weapons a little easier and the lonshot active noob reload has been taken away which is excellent.

[iTz Irie]

What about the constant freezing up or DRE's that 10's to 100's of thousands are going through right now with their 360? This doesn't seem like an EPIC problem, more of a MS problem. Have you heard anything about this? It's very very frustrating. I keep my 360 in perfect condition and it's MFG date is in 2006. I'm at a lost of what should be done, the game is unplayable for me and others. Only game that has been doing this to other people, games like halo work flawlessly. What gives, MS's cheap DVD drives need updating????

[fritzer123]

my biggest gripe is the shotgun lag. from pressing trigger to actual bullet leaving gun and nhitting someone. i press wait 1 sec then the guy dies... this is not good

[Searingspace]

On the slow matchmaking thing , not only is it slow for me , it also says theres something with my firewall , what do i do??

[Villegas]

Also, If I die during a round, and you die during a round, we can talk to each other in the dead room. But if I die during a round, and you survive the round, in that 10 second span before the next round starts, we can't talk to each other (whereas in Gears 1 we could). If you had a 1v1 or 1v2 or 1v3 or even 1v4 or something in Gears 1 and got the victory, it immediately put all players into the same chat at the end of the round so you hear everyone laughing and talking about what just happened. In Gears 2, since you're the only one that survived, you can't talk to anyone until the next round starts, at which point you can only talk to your team. You take down 4 guys to win the round and what do you hear? Crickets. Not cool.....



I've posted about this a couple of times and I can't believe how many people AREN'T complaining about it. Most of them appear to be too busy moaning about the fact they can't "roll and shotgun" anymore. People fear change. They can always revert back to Gears 1? As you say, one of THE best parts of multiplayer was the post-round banter. That's now gone completely. If you're the last man standing you wait in complete silence for the next round to start which is ridiculous.

I also agree that the public multiplayer has taken a massive step backwards, there was absolutely nothing wrong with the way it was done in Gears 1. I (and two friends) waited around 20 minutes on Saturday night to join a public session. It still didn't work and we ended up on Horde which, in fairness, I think is excellent.

[Siik x N4STY]

First off i think Gears Of War 2 is a disappointment. The match making needs to be set back to the original style. you also need to put quick shot back into the game. Shotgun literally sucks now that quick shot is out of the game. The sniper is awesome though, I love it. You really need to put the old matchmaking in Gears Of War 2 that you had in Gears Of War and bring quick shot with the shot gun back in. I think a lot more people will like the game whole lot better if you make those improvements.


Thank You,
Siik x N4STY :):):):):):):)

[TROOPERoUK]

Matchmaking is bs u still get host advantage..get rid of matchmaking bring back hosted games and 5 rounds is pathetic as it takes so long to get into a game n its even worse if u want to play alone u cnt seem to find a game

[Boba Mandalore]

I have been waiting 3 days for Epic Or Microsoft to explain why thousands of us cant even play the game because it keeps freezing or it says the disk is unreadable even though they are brand new disks, I am growing impatiant because All of my other games work just fine and I payed $64.27 to play Gears of War 2 and I expect to ****ing play Gears of War 2

[Mr Greensleeves]

On the slow matchmaking thing , not only is it slow for me , it also says theres something with my firewall , what do i do??

try reconfiguring youre router if you have one, search up on port forwarding for the 360 this should solve youre issue, an also search up on configuring ports for your firewall as well.

heres some links that may help
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908874
http://tommccann.net/live/

[harybd]

Matchmacking is really slow. yesterday I was trying to get ppl to play horde, and the system just restarted it several times trying to find ppl. But it never found anyone. I live in Peru (southamerica) and was expecting more work on this.

Cod WaW beta multiplayer is almost free of lag, and super fast to connect to a battle.

I hope they fix this soon.

[MachinegunBANG]

DISC LOADING ISSUES:

Ok, I also want to bring up the 'Unplayable Disc' error message. LOTS of people are having this problem, including me. the NXE doesn't help it apparently. I have one of the newer 360's after having it repaired 3 months ago, it is in great condition, all the other games i own work fine, even scratched discs...

As soon as i put the brand new GOW2 game into the drive, it came up as unreadable. If i take it out and put it back in 4 or 5 times, it loads, and seems to run fine. The disc is visually flawless, which makes me think this is a hardware/software glitch. I can still play, but this is

a) Annoying
b) wearing on my drive mechanism
c) worring as to my game/360 not working in the future
d) something i have never encountered with a new game

all the posts i have read online also say they have exchanged their game for a new one, 2, 3 times, and it makes NO DIFFERENCE.

Is this a disc manufacturing issue? If so you MUST offer your fans a free disc exchange program to resolve this, its the least we deserve after paying our $60.

MATCHMAKING ISSUES:

I sometimes get stuck in the multiplayer section waiting endlessly for players to connect and the whole matchmaker just keeps refeshing and never connecting. the ONLY way i have been able to fix this is if i then go to the dashboard, test the connection (which says everything is fine) and THEN reload gears and go to the multiplayer. each time it has glitched, this work-around seemed to fix the problem. it would then connect to a game in 1-2 minutes. perhaps this is refreshing a cache or resetting something when i test it? Anyway, please fix the glitch. Pretty annoying.

GAMEPLAY ISSUES:

I also feel the chainsaw seems a little too strong now to the point it is affecting fun gameplay- Wingman in particular is ruined by endless quick chainsaw kills to win a match. yawn.

I have also read suggestions of a special Shotgun game mode which could be similar to GOW1 shotgun battles with more power, rolling shots, Ect. This might be a good way to appease the GOW1 shotgun fans... Just an idea.

I'm also finding the war journal useful for my achievements but it doesn't list the weapons I have used or a number for the kills, just a VERY vague black progress bar- this is making it very difficult to keep track or work on certain achievements. I have to use one more weapon for 'spice of life' but i cannot work out which one it is! Please add a little more detail to the journal, it would help ALOT!

Also no one seems to know how the ranking works... everyone i talk to has their own little theory- perhaps a little more info or a guide?!

Anyway, i love, love, love the game apart from that, i wish i could do 19 round execution gridlock ranked, but hey, 15 rounds in private is pretty good ;)

Please look into this Epic, I know crap happens, but there are some pretty bad issues for such as great game.

[Mr Greensleeves]

DISC LOADING ISSUES:

Is this a disc manufacturing issue?[/B] If so you MUST offer your fans a free disc exchange program to resolve this, its the least we deserve after paying our $60.


pretty bad issues for such as great game.
Afraid this is an age old issue with the DVD/CD drive microsft had a bad batch of these and there still out there, my frend on xbox live has the same problem as most of his CD's dont read anymore as it got progressively worse.

[XxWamonxX]

I have beenn a GoW hardcore fan, but the problem is that the changes in the matchmaking games is a great addition to the multiplayer spice. But the problem is at the moment at of finding games and IMO more people are going to agree it takes forever to find a match and the matches take less than 8 minutes to finish. I am not saying that matchmaking sucks, I`m just saying the the system to find matches is not that efficient to compare to the one of gears of war 1. I hope that you can fix this this is the only problem that i have every hing else is ****ing awesome

[Dark Infinity 1]

So I am assuming the online leader boards only show results from public matches. However the horde board is not accurate. It show my highest wave for any map at 8, but I've made it to 17 on one map and 27 on another (in a public match.) I have not looked at the others but I will start looking.

[SSCshadow]

something iv notaced...when your trying to get up a ledge...you preform a sideways roll instead of climbing up, and the chances seem to be 50/50 depending if u try to climb the wall 1-2 seconds after mounting it (i counted)