A brief status report on the next Gears2 title update

[oOausarOo]

I'm no longer buying any multi-player game from any company on release day unless they have beta-testing. I'll wait until patches come out then decide.

[shivan025]

Yeah, for the next game Epic, if you wnat you can get me to test it all for you first of all, and tell you wht works and what does not, because whoever you ahve doing that now, is not good enough/ or not a representation of the people who made GOW1 a flagship game on 360 i.e. us.

You would never have got the chance to make Gears 2 if it was not for the people who adored Gears 1 as the best game ever, me included.

We were the ones in the stores at midnight buying Gears 2 and have Gold Hammerbursts.

We are the ones you should listen to on what maketh a good game.

As I have said, you release a broken game and I am not going to be gushing thank yous when you tell us after 2 months that you are going to be fixing some of the probelms, when I see the evidence I'll be back playing.

Of course I will be on when it comes on to test it thoroughly, but if its rubbish or still problematic, I will be back here to liust whats still required and just stop playing till the next patch.

Oh man, if only Epic had had you on the payroll before they released Gears 2. This game would be much better if only you had layed your all knowing hands upon their game.

Hehe, I'd like to play the game that was designed solely on your opinions of what EVERYONE wants (me included HA). I bet it would be the BEST GAME EVER!!!

[alstargamer123]

if it is possible you guys should try to make the game fnd the best connection in the room to be host so theres not as much lag..... and you guys should try having it switch hosts once the host quits.....ive had the host quit so many times and they can quit even after the match is done and it will still end the game...... or at least put the hosts name in colored letters or something so everyone knows who the host is to leave feedback if they quit.... dont get me wrong i love this game i just dont like when one guy quits and it ruins the game for everyone....i thought only 5 rounds to win would reduce the quitters but i guess theres always going to be quitters and glitchers that just want to ruin it for everyone else...... o and y dont you guys ever take out the weapon slide glitch thats annoying... its suppose to be hard to grab the main weapons, it should take strategy not a glitch......

[alstargamer123]

i loved gears 1 and i love this one too.....the people that liked gears 1 dont like gears 2 because its harder and takes more strategy you just cant run around like a monkey and fire 10 shotgun bullets in 4 seconds stop complaining about the game and get better at it..... o and whats with the flashback map pack how can you put subway and tyro station but not fuel depot or war machine or raven down....

[jon dohe]

Oh and to those who say GOW 2 is still really popular I read that it had slipped below GTA4 recently, thats bad, because its not a popular MP compared to COD4, 5 and Halo, which bear in mind after release, Gears 1 was still competing well against.



"Fix Gears 2"

Last I checked it actually moved up to the top 4.

[j_w_2010]

Happy New Year!

First of all I hope all of you had a safe and happy holiday season.

As I mentioned before the break we’ve been working on a major title update for Gears of War 2. This update will address bugs and exploits as well as add some new achievements related to downloadable content. We don’t have an exact date for it but all indicators are it will go live within January. If that changes we’ll let you know.

We’re fixing a whole bunch of online exploits. For example we’ve fixed the ability to wield an invisible shield, melee through some walls, gain infinite Lancer ammo and equip a shield and a two-handed weapon simultaneously plus many more.

We’re also making several small changes to improve the overall online gameplay experience. A few of the ones that might interest you are; increased penalties for quitting matches early, adding additional spawn protection against planted grenades and chainsaw attacks, and adding the ability to see the Submission flag carrier destination by using Tac/Com.

We know you folks love achievements so on the achievement side we’re adding achievement progress numbers to the War Journal, increasing the frequency of in-game Achievement progression notifications and adding some new Achievements for DLC.

This is just a very small list of some of the things that will be in the next title update but one more item which has been talked about a lot in our forums deserves a special call out...

About that shotgun...

We fixed the client side hit detection on the shotgun so that in a high-latency (i.e. “laggy”) match, the shotgun will be more reliable. We’ve also fixed another bug whereby shotgun and boomshot rounds could strike the ground when firing from the hip.

So there’s a brief status report on the next title update. At some point I expect we’ll post a more detailed list but I assure you we’re working hard to get this out the door and once it’s done we’ll start working on the next update. We’ll try to do a better job keeping you informed of our progress on future updates and we’ll try to be a little more active in the forums once this update is released.

Do you know when this update will come out?

[theduke4]

Increase the respawn time on grenades please.

[j_w_2010]

I agree the grenades respawn way to fast and so many people camp them just to get a kill

[II EV0L 0NE II]

HOST MIGRATION AND REGION FILTERS ARE NECESSITIES!
Im tired of the LAG with these third world host...Please help...I just want to play with my FELLOW AMERICANS!!!!!

[xDeathDealingx]

Things that need to be sorted in Gears 2.....

The "fall down" grenades need to go...make it so that they blur your vision or make you have a ringing in your ears so it dissorientates you for a few seconds, not this really annoying collapsing on the floor...its ridiculous, these guys are well built, heavy marines not 10 year old kiddies who fall over and skin their knee.

How about a "fuel meter" for your chainsaw...you modyfied the hammer dawn this way so why not the frustrating chainsaw??


When I pick up a weapon I dont want it to change to it straight away, this is probably just my own preference but thought id mention how annoying it is anyhoo.

Lag....Matchmaking....Host advantage....Shotgun...all these need addressing. Especially the shotgun!!...There was nowt wrong with the Gears 1 shotty so why change it?! There was nowt wrong with alot of things from Gears 1 so why change most of it?!

Anyway...im not here for a rant just constructive criticism coz I really want to love this game but at the mo its not possible...

A regional filter would be nice...
Dedicated servers should be mandatory...this game is supposed to be Microsofts big flagship title and yet they cant spend the money on making it the best on its machine...that simply reeks of penny pinching, cmon Microsoft you can afford it, even Bill gates could afford it out of 2% of his daily interest in his bank account ffs!!

The ability to choose what game type you want to play and weapon placements would be nice (hint hint Gears 1 lobby)!!

Party chat should be disabled for games coz its killing the old skool "jump in and chat" regime we had in Gears 1, no one talks any more, plus its just plain wrong that people can cheat this way.

Thats it for now...if I think of anything else i'll be back....but hopefully I wont have to be.

Party Chat is awesome what are you talking about, all they need to do to stop the cheating is take away the ghost cam and lock it to your team mates camera as they did for GoW1. I don’t understand why they would add such a feature for public MP when it was removed from GoW1 for the same reason and only allowed in private matches. This game needed a public beta test much like Halo3. All the issues were whining about now could of been addressed during such a time and could of been fixed maybe not before the game launched, but a patch could of been in the works before the new Map pack was released, something that shouldn't have been release till the issues with multiplayer were addressed.