Title Update 3

[UnsaidME]

In the next update the game should be fixed. I was just playing and it feels sluggish. The game dosen't react fast enough. Its feels like its a few seconds behind. It feels like the game tries to compensate and just reacts.

I was playing a game, and was running at a player and he just tagged the wall in front of him with a smoke grenade just as I caught up to him. I flew by him and the smoke so I wouldn't get downed by the grenade. I heard the sound, but I was way past it before it blew up. Believe it or not, the smoke downed me. Its like the game knew the grenade got me, but couldn't react fast enough, so it downed me after I was way past the grenade and the player.

This sometimes works in my favor though. Like I would shoot a player with the shotgun and there was more than one player, but I would shoot one player and move on to the next, but the first player dies almost at the same time as the second, after I have already moved on past the first player. I think the game remembers the first player but can't react fast enough, so makes both players die almost at the same time.

I don't think the game can handle the flow of info or is not efficient at it. When too much is happening on the map the game gets behind and compensates by just reacting after the moment has already passed. Or maybe its lag. Maybe the game is not getting the info fast enough, so there are pockets of lack of info, and by the time the game gets the info the moment has passed so it just makes the action happen.

But I'm not convinced its lag, though it feels that way. I think the game needs to process the info that it receives from each player better. So it can react faster. Because in gears one, this is almost nonexistant. Its there sometimes, but almost never. Its like the game needs to be fine-tuned to handle and process all the info it recieves in a timely manner. Fine-tuned to where the game can process the players info as fast as he or she can input it into the controller.

I mean what makes one player better than the other? Its the ability to plan and execute that plan in a moment. To evaluate the situation as its happening and to perform with whatever skill you may have. Some are better at strategy and some at action. But if you can't execute the action right, the game feels cheap or laggy.

Believe it or not, some players are better at handling the lag, and can perform even in a laggy situation. Me personally, I cannot. I cannot perform well in a laggy game. This is a skill I do not posess, even though I wish I did. Players that can kill even in a laggy match are truly exeptional. These are the players that don't quit, but win with almost impossible odds. These players are few and far between.

But most players just get mad and quit. Others shut off their xboxs in anger. While others throw their controllers on the ground, or at their HDTVs, and thats not good. Not only does it break the TV, but costs money to fix it. Money that could be spent on the next gears game, or even another years prescription of xbox live. It leaves a bad taste in gamers mouths about the next gears game. Title Update 3 should fix the game.

[Hemaphobe]

Its like the game needs to be fine-tuned to handle and process all the info it recieves in a timely manner. Fine-tuned to where the game can process the players info as fast as he or she can input it into the controller.

I feel you on this. When the game does what you mentioned above, it is pretty much the definition of MP lag. I like the game a lot when it runs smooth. Its just a rediculous notion I guess for us to believe that a game can function at 100% when your tying 10 360's together sometimes from all over the globe. I would really like to LAN this game sometime just to see what it feels like when lag isn't present and the latecncy is below 50ms. BTW, I'm not trying to be sarcastic or snarky here. My opinion

[saygoodbyebrook]

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and i feel the same in a lot of ways as you do

[vind4loo]

make it like gears 1 where you can just join a game thats already happening!

[Invader Skooj]

A game should only really need 1 title update.

[muddy]

the worst part of the sluggishness of GoW2 is when you headshot someone with the longshot even if they are stading still and you are scoped at their nose in a game perfect game with no lag theres no guarenty of getting a heady

[mmm_buddah]

I could not agree more, perfet example here, me and my friend were playing online, and we happened to get each other as adversaries... so we went into game chat to test the game, now the game decided to give some random person host , so the connection was again (95 opercent of the time, i have laggy matches, 50 percent of the time i cant work with it at all and have to quit, and 45 percent of the time i get lag switched or standbyed) terrible, and me and my friend were standing next to each other shooting one another, but on my screen it said he was shooting left and right , and anywhere besides where i was, and he swore up and down he was shooting right at me, and the same thing happened when i shot at him...now, what the hell is going on? why can there not be a central server, just like EVERY OTHER GAME OUT THERE!? why is it that over 50 percent of my matches i get stand byed, or lag switched, or even worse, PEOPLE EXPLOIT A GLITCH IN WINGMAN AND THERE ARE 3 PEOPLE ON ONE TEAM!!!!!!!!! When i can count the time between when i shoot my shotgun and when the bullets come out....something is wrong...wingman is basically broken cuz of lagswitchers / host forcers/ cheaters/ standbyers... Like the poster, i can not play in lag, its just too annoying to fathom... so i quit and look for a new match, and then i get punished for leaving a super laggy match!? WTF?! u really expect me to stay for that?! god forbid there be a option like the last gears to view the connection and then improve on that and allow players to vote to give someone else host that has a beter connection!

[mmm_buddah]

another thing, what is with this host powers crap!?!? Why is it not that every shot has a standardized amount of damage that is done to each player?! Why is it that the host needs 2 shots from a distance to down someone, when i need from 3-4 shots to down someone (with a shot gun ) and versus the leader i need 6 or even 7 shots sometime! Its So unfair its rediculous, and im about to stop playing this game, there will be no way in hell i get gears 3 if everythng is still so unbalanced, and un tested.

[basol]

when is the date?

[Vaylenn]

I think it's the destructible environments. They put in all these walls that blow up realistically, and it makes the game lag. I know Bungie says they can't put flame grenades in MP without causing crazy lag, so I can only imagine what realistic wall breaks, 14 awesome looking proximity mines, and a bad connection can do.

[UnsaidME]

Vaylenn that is a good point. You know I think your right. I mean all that info from every player shooting at walls. You've got to have an awsome connection to handle all that info well. I think Epic bit off more than they can chew with this one. It probably would take 50 forevers for them to get this thing right. If I was them I would take the walls and grenades out. Do what ever it takes to make the game work. Then they can play with it forever it they want to.

[TENN TITAN7]

I am fed up with all the cheaters out there on Gears 2 !
I am constantly trying to win legaly and following the rules of the game set by Epic and Gears 2 inregards to ranking system and i am getting screwed here every night !!

I get on a multiplayer team challenge and you got 3 or 4, level 5's together against me level 2 team trying to win to get to level 3 and these players are freezing the game some how ? or glitching it, you can not kill them, nothing works and they kill the hell out of our whole legal playing team and bump their rank up here illegally ....what the !!!!
Play the game legal and earn your rank legal....cheaters!!...you know who you are !!

I wish epic or Gears would contact me !...I'll tell them all your Game Tag's to watch and investigate ...contact me i challenge you and to the real winners out there i have played
you guys ROCK !!! and your very good to get to level 5 or (stars & bars) legally !!!!

TENN TITAN7

[TENN TITAN7]

I love gears 2 it rocks !!

But stop the illegal system hackers and cheaters
they are robbing points and rank from good legal players that do not cheat !

I want a legal level playing field here not me against your glitching computer hooked up to your xbox 360 gears 2 game.

TENN TITAN7

[Invader Skooj]

I love gears 2 it rocks !!

But stop the illegal system hackers and cheaters
they are robbing points and rank from good legal players that do not cheat !

I want a legal level playing field here not me against your glitching computer hooked up to your xbox 360 gears 2 game.

TENN TITAN7

They just use lag switches, I don't think they have it hooked up in their.

[xxTR41NWR3CKxx]

so when will the TU3 be coming on cuz as of right now im sick still being a 2 rank and iv had the game since day one! all of my game types are all over .50 in wins and loses! EPIC HURRY THE F***CK UP!!!

[Rman0806]

i agree with you completely. the game just isn't as smooth as gears 1. i also think there is more wrong than just that though. they need to fix a few of the weapons, starting with the shotgun. they shouldn't have changed it from the gears 1 shotty to begin with. they need to put the rate of fire on it back to gears 1 style. also why don't the bullets come out of the middle of the screen when you blind fire anymore. i know some people would use a dot on their screen before but it made the shotgun so much easier to use. it was also fun trying to get good blind firing other weapons too, such as the torque bow and sniper. the chainsaw also needs tweaking, why is the vacuum on it like 4 feet. that was just dumb planning. also please please please fix the gay standby that seems like everyone is doing now. just put the "B" button thing back in like in gears 1. I have actually been playing gears 1 lately because gears 2 has been making me so mad. they need to fix these problems soon before they loose more players than they already have.