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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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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)
Added:Fri 13th Nov 2009 06:19, Post No: 175
I got a hang of Gears 2 when my friend lent me his xBox 360 and the Graphics seem to be better than Gears 1 .I tried using the xBox controller on my laptop to play Gears 1 and later I used the same to play Gears 2 on xBox.But didn't quite seem to enjoy the gameplay with xbox controller. I wonder if we could attach a mouse and keyboard to xBox so that I can play better as Mouse and Keyboard are far more better while playing shooter games.Even though the game Gears 2 looks great I am still convinced that I should go ahead to buy xBox just for the sake of playing this game.I will definately buy a Licensed version of Gears 2 if ported on PC or if the xBox 360 game Dvd can be run on Pcs or Laptops using some simulator or attaching an xBox DVD Drive.A PC version of this game will do wonders and justice to this game but the ending Boss fight is not so good.I enjoyed the Last Boss viz. General Raam . They should make final Boss Fight more challenging just like we had as General Raam. Anyways, I just hope Epic wakes up in time and release Gears 2 for Pc with a standard Specfication to run on PC viz. RAM , Graphices and CPU Requirements quoted on the released PC version of Gears 2 so that people cannot complain that Gears 2 is also glitchy.Gears 1 ran fine on my Laptop and I thank EPIC for providing such a wonderful game.
Added:Sat 17th Oct 2009 22:44, Post No: 174
..[#@!?][#@!?]hope u lose money for not letting it out for pc[#@!?]wipe ur mother sucks [#@!?] bich
Added:Fri 02nd Oct 2009 15:00, Post No: 173
sorry but how long did it take for the first gears game to be ported to the pc, and yet pc players have been moaning about cliff even before the games release on the 360.
just get used to it gears 2 isnt comming out on pc, your more likly to see mario galaxy on the 360 than seeing gears 2 on the pc.
Added:Fri 02nd Oct 2009 07:23, Post No: 172
[#@!?] you Cliff.
Added:Mon 21st Sep 2009 23:55, Post No: 171
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Added:Mon 21st Sep 2009 23:52, Post No: 170
How this Cliff guy catches Swine flu for not allowing Gears 2 on PC!
Added:Mon 21st Sep 2009 23:50, Post No: 169
Cliff, your a real Ahole for not bring it over for PC.
Added:Thu 30th Jul 2009 15:16, Post No: 168
What do they mean buying retail? Is this available for purchase in a store (ie. Best Buy)?
Added:Fri 24th Jul 2009 01:11, Post No: 167
lol if you playing on a pirated/chipped/modded 360 its no wonder you cant play on live not only that but anyone with a modded xbox playing pirated game cant play multiplayer matches on live as microsoft instantly bans any account found playing on modded hardware which im in full support to them as the scum that pirate games/software cost the industry millions every year and you wonder why games cost so much, it all down to cheap scates not paying like all the other decent honest people out there (no piracy would mean cheaper games plus if the pirates haddnt made illeagl versions of the first gears you would have gears 2 on pc) so stop blaming Cliff Bleszinski its you fu.ck.ing pirates that need to rot in hell