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Submitted by Jon Wilcox on January 6 2009 - 10:57

Epic's Mark Rein confirms the patch is coming; addresses a host of issues and bugs, and adds new Achievements for DLC...

Xbox 360 gamers currently taking the fight to the Locust Horde in Gears of War 2 can breath a sigh of relief today, as Epic Games confirmed that a fresh patch will be released before the end of January.

Speaking on the studio's forums, Epic's Mark Rein has released a statement outlining some of the improvements and fixes the patch will contain:

“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.”

Gears of War 2 was the fourth most popular game played on Xbox Live during 2008, despite only launching on the platform at the start of November.



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By: Anonymous

Added:Sun 22nd Aug 2010 12:03, Post No: 185

lol M$ took a risk of releasing a crap and unreliable console but that diddnt stop people buying it, and still today people beleave the 360 is the top selling console thinking its sold over 40 million world wide (out of 40 million 33% have broken, stripped down for parts, or are sitting in game stores as preowned units) the totalnumber of 360's in actual use is closer to 27 million not 42 million lol you fanboys love to exagerate things dont you.

 

and likewise thr real reason why gears 1 diddnt sell very well on pc is cause epic mad an epic mistake when they ported it accross (no mid or low end pc could run the game pretty much what almost 80% of pc's are low to mid end, a high end pc is close to £800 to build and a top end is over £1000) if gears 1 had more options for lower spec pc's it would have sold more but typical microsoft was only intrested in lining there pockets with more $$$, also another reason why it diddnt sell well is cause of piracy, the game was an easy target for hackers who hacked the DRM.

 

if you go back to when gears 2 was released cliff said the game would not be comming to pc as if it did hackers would do what they did with gears 1 and make pirate copys and likewise its the same for gears 3.

 

you can keep your boring exclusive inferiour console game and control method (the 360 pad is a toy compared to pc controlls) the pc is for adults where as the 360 is like a leapfrog, lol you can keep your leapfrog exclusives, there sh** anyway.


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By: Anonymous

Added:Sat 21st Aug 2010 19:16, Post No: 184

cliff bleszinski is a son of a [#@!?]............


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By: Anonymous

Added:Wed 14th Apr 2010 13:19, Post No: 183

id much prefer they placed gears of war 2 on pc and use the DRM of ubisoft, rather than not making one at all which is why i support ubi's uber DRM. if the DRM fails the whole PC-port games from ubi will crash and might end up like Gears of War...

and i was really looking forward for this game in pc, :(


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By: Anonymous

Added:Tue 06th Apr 2010 17:19, Post No: 182

thanks you much keep you going to become


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By: Anonymous

Added:Tue 09th Mar 2010 16:51, Post No: 181

Lol, I love how you PC fanboys keep b*itching about how Gears of War 2 is a 360 exclusive & is never coming other PC. You guys should just STFU! Gears of War 2 is a 360 exclusive & is ALWAYS going to be a 360 exclusive! You want to know why? Because when they released the first Gears of War onto the PC it didn't make them a lot of money. So why should they waste their time & money to make a port that won't make them nearly as much money as the 360 version?


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By: Anonymous

Added:Mon 08th Mar 2010 17:36, Post No: 180

WTF, this is hilarious. I've been consistently having problems finding a match. It usually takes 30 mins for me to find one. I've got great internet connection, I don't have this problem for any other one of my games. Left for Dead 2, COD, NCAA, etc. Only GOW2. I'm doing an experiment, see how long I can be in the lobby for, so far it's been 3 hours 22 minutes and 15 seconds.

This game fn blows. I'm really tempted to just take it out and snap it in half.

F U GOW2


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By: Anonymous

Added:Sun 10th Jan 2010 21:50, Post No: 179

best game ever

 


By: freeradical

Added:Thu 31st Dec 2009 12:13, Post No: 178

Of course Microsoft wants to make money - it's a business. Also, the reason Gears 2 isn't coming to PC is not because it wants to make money from Xbox 360 exclusivity, but because it doesn't want to LOSE money with a PC release. It took that risk with the first Gears and it didn't pay off then, so why should it now?


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By: Anonymous

Added:Wed 30th Dec 2009 17:57, Post No: 177

These Microsoft people just want to make money from GOW2 by keeping it exculsive to xbox360.


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By: Anonymous

Added:Fri 13th Nov 2009 12:09, Post No: 176

lol why would they release it on pc in fact why should they all you lot will do is download the pirate version anyway which is what happened with the first gears game on pc so instead of [#@!?]ing about it not comming out on pc youve only got your selfs to blame (or the idiots who diddnt pay for it in the shops/downloaded the pirate version)


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