Gears of War 2’s multiplayer is a drag. The particularly vocal Internet crowd said they have abandoned Epic’s glitch-ridden frag fest entirely. (These are the same folks who said they would never buy another EA published game or purchase a magazine because it gave their favorite game a low score). A few weeks ago, Epic’s Marc Rein promised a fix for the exploits that has deterred many legitimate players. That title update is now available for download.
And it fixes an amazing amount of stuff. Check it out:
- Exploit Fixes: Crabwalking, invisibility, weapon-slide, melee through walls, unlimited ammo.
- General Fixes: Shotgun and Boomshot updates, meatshield chainsawing updates, team communication, Insane gamer pic award.
- Balancing: Planted proximity grenade updates, increased quitting penalties, spawn protection, flamethrower stopping power.
- Improvements: Annex uses execution rules, achievement progression in the War Journal, added 7 DLC-based achievements worth 175 gamerscore.
Anyone else excited about the prospect of a clean multiplayer match now that this is out?
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5:40 PM on 01.21.2009
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Don't compare this to Halo 1 & 2. After Halo 1, 98% of the dev team left. Gears 2 has more or less the same team.
What's up with more quitting penalties? I don't play versus online but it's still stupid. Maybe someone has something else to do than play a damned game.
You people and your Halo bashing....what did halo ever do to you? Some of my fondest LAN memories are playing Halo 2 with tons of people, tvs and xboxes.....and late night runs to 7/11.
Halo is awesome.
That was fixed, it's in the forum post with the full patch notes.
Also, Halo (the entire series) is awesome.
The story in the Halo games are at the very least passable. I would even go so far as to call them decent. The story is epic enough in scope to be considered intriguing. The protagonist is an interesting mix of Greco-Roman legend and modern-day super hero.
That host advantage was the bullshit of all bullshits.
Gears 2 is way more finely tuned.
Oh, and please stop using the < button. It's right up there with "no offense, but" and "uuhmmmm....." in the list of ways to look like a dick, IMO. Wait, did I just write IMO? Now I am a dick. Fuck.
How about some system so the person with the best connection gets the host? Not the kid who lives in a swamp somewhere running XBL off a 56k modem?
How about making the shotgun a weapon that does ONE specific thing and not this insanely random thing? Will it gib that guy? Will it down me in 2 shots? Will it down me in 5? Will I manage to get that chainsawer down BEFORE he hits me?
Oh well, I sold my copy already, not like I care anymore but its interesting to see all the lies and bullshit Epic spewed prior to Gears 2 release, never buying from them again, that's for damn sure.
@Dan
Uhh, what? Proof please that the 98% of the people left.
@Cotton
Oh man, Halo story is sci-fi drivel, never heard that one before.
As for Gears 2. Haven't noticed much difference. If it wasn't for the update notice I would have never known.
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