[Official] Gears of War 2

[+Mystic MVC]

I don't see the problem you people have with MP, get 4 friends in your party and you'll find a game in seconds.

I'm sorry but that isn't always possible and shouldn't be necessary just to quickly get into a game.

[Guest]

Jesus, after Maria dies Dom becomes twice the man he ever was. He's all kinds of crazy now :woot:

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Crazy is good!

[Ayepecks]

Man, I'm so disappointed in Gears 2's multiplayer system.

Not only does it take forever to find matches, but the people I end up playing with are nowhere near my skill -- normally they're WAY too good. I played a group of guys that had already played over 300 rounds in my very first online match. Plus I think it entirely ignores the player zones (Pro, Recreation, Family, etc).

So annoying.

[Brad.]

Man, I'm so disappointed in Gears 2's multiplayer system.

Not only does it take forever to find matches, but the people I end up playing with are nowhere near my skill -- normally they're WAY too good. I played a group of guys that had already played over 300 rounds in my very first online match. Plus I think it entirely ignores the player zones (Pro, Recreation, Family, etc).

So annoying.

Yeah, I think i'm just gonna skip the Gears 2 online and stick with World at War.

[GameOverRob]

yay won 4 more wingmans on the trot tonight, have to say wingman is pure luck against wether the room is laggy, ifyour first spawn is near a power weapon and the skill and team work of the other players I think I have about 18 wins and 31 losses now and 10 of those wins have come in the last 2 days!

[Ayepecks]

I have yet to get a good Wingman partner. I won my first game, but my partner died in the first minute (literally) of every round. I had to get creative with grenades and realize when people were flanking me to pull that win out of my rear.

Forgot my headset at my dorm, unfortunately... really wish I could communicate with my teammates right now.

[Ayepecks]

Ugh, yet another horrible MP experience.

Because the game determines the host based on the connection (and how it's best for the most amount of people), I played a clan from South American and got royally gang-raped because no one on our team could even shoot them correctly because the connection was so horrible. Everyone quit but me because I didn't want the bad rep.

GOSH DAMN EPIC. FIX THIS @!(#

[Guest]

Did anyone else encounter issues with the save system during the campaign? I was nearing the end of Act 4 Chapter 3 when the game randomly decided to put me back at the beginning of the chapter after I died.

Very frustrating.

[Brad.]

Maybe on friday/saturday we should try and get 5 people from the UK (to minimize lag), or just 5 people in general to play online. I really want to try out online play but can't get a damn game :/

[+Mystic MVC]

Did anyone else encounter issues with the save system during the campaign? I was nearing the end of Act 4 Chapter 3 when the game randomly decided to put me back at the beginning of the chapter after I died.

Very frustrating.

Well the only thing similar that happened to myself and a friend while co-oping was that part after we killed the Brumak that comes out of the tunnel. We had beat that part and were watching the video after and then out of nowhere it said we failed some objective and got put back so we had to kill the Brumak again.

[Razorwing]

Ugh. This is really annoying the heck out of me. You guys know in the campagin where you have to defend those Com Satalites against the Reavers using the Troikas? Well apparently I"m playing by myself and it's soo damn hard on Hardcore. Dom and Hoffman just stay in the back and do nothing, while I have to take out each Reaver by myself (which is hard to do already), and I fail each time... :s... Epic should really fix Dom, especially as your partner to take the other Trioka, instead of telling me to go to the Trioka, why don't he go himself? He bloody just stands behind me and looks around.

[addc182]

Maybe on friday/saturday we should try and get 5 people from the UK (to minimize lag), or just 5 people in general to play online. I really want to try out online play but can't get a damn game :/

yeh im definately up for that

[Ayepecks]

Ugh. This is really annoying the heck out of me. You guys know in the campagin where you have to defend those Com Satalites against the Reavers using the Troikas? Well apparently I"m playing by myself and it's soo damn hard on Hardcore. Dom and Hoffman just stay in the back and do nothing, while I have to take out each Reaver by myself (which is hard to do already), and I fail each time... :s... Epic should really fix Dom, especially as your partner to take the other Trioka, instead of telling me to go to the Trioka, why don't he go himself? He bloody just stands behind me and looks around.

Took me a while to do that part on hardcore on my own, too. You'll get it. Just make sure to shoot the Reavers as they're flying towards you (from a distance, as soon as you can start shooting them) and definitely kill the ones that land.

[Ayepecks]

Gears of War 2 update released... just downloaded it from Xbox Live. No clue what it is yet... checking Epic forums now.

One thing's for sure: it's not helping me find anyone any quicker for online games.

Edit: Update supposed to help with matchmaking:

http://forums.epicgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=356

It's not doing much for me, though. Same time it took before.

Edited November 27, 2008 by Ayepecks

[GameOverRob]

Urgh fix the sodding game already don't release part patches!

[Ayepecks]

Check the edit :)

[.KICK]

Gears of War 2 update released... just downloaded it from Xbox Live. No clue what it is yet... checking Epic forums now.

One thing's for sure: it's not helping me find anyone any quicker for online games.

Edit: Update supposed to help with matchmaking:

http://forums.epicgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=356

It's not doing much for me, though. Same time it took before.

http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=640626

Is the official word and apparently match-making has not improved at all :s I find it odd that Epic actually reduced the amount of servers for match-making.

[Ayepecks]

Oops, thought that was the thread I linked too. But yeah, it's not doing anything for me. In fact, it's slower for the most part. I've got one game in so far with this new update. Everything else takes 5+ minutes, and then the other user(s) cancel.

[.KICK]

Oops, thought that was the thread I linked too. But yeah, it's not doing anything for me. In fact, it's slower for the most part. I've got one game in so far with this new update. Everything else takes 5+ minutes, and then the other user(s) cancel.

Might take a couple of days to kick in so that everyone gets the update because from what I am reading, not everyone is getting prompted to update unless they clear their cache!

[-Nic-]

Ugh. This is really annoying the heck out of me. You guys know in the campagin where you have to defend those Com Satalites against the Reavers using the Troikas? Well apparently I"m playing by myself and it's soo damn hard on Hardcore. Dom and Hoffman just stay in the back and do nothing, while I have to take out each Reaver by myself (which is hard to do already), and I fail each time... :s... Epic should really fix Dom, especially as your partner to take the other Trioka, instead of telling me to go to the Trioka, why don't he go himself? He bloody just stands behind me and looks around.

Yes, this was the hardest part for me in the entire game, yet I had a friend playing as Dom....He was worse than the AI, so consider yourself lucky. :p

[addc182]

the new update helps... but not a great deal

now all they need to fix is the ****** chainsaw

[Razorwing]

Took me a while to do that part on hardcore on my own, too. You'll get it. Just make sure to shoot the Reavers as they're flying towards you (from a distance, as soon as you can start shooting them) and definitely kill the ones that land.

ah.. want to help me on co-op? lol. I've done it several times on Casual and Normal, and it's just peeving me. I'll be online on Sunday night though.

[+Mystic MVC]

Gears of War 2 update released... just downloaded it from Xbox Live. No clue what it is yet... checking Epic forums now.

One thing's for sure: it's not helping me find anyone any quicker for online games.

Edit: Update supposed to help with matchmaking:

http://forums.epicgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=356

It's not doing much for me, though. Same time it took before.

Glad to hear that we finally got a patch. Too bad I won't be able to try it out for a while with how busy the next couple of days are for me.

[Ayepecks]

It's slightly faster for me now, but there are still plenty of issues.

The choosing the host based on how good it is for most people in the game match being number one. I'm getting tired of playing clans all from Siberia or wherever the hell they're from, and one of them being the host because it's best for the most number of people. Everyone always ends up quitting and it's extremely annoying.

I still wish they'd bring the server browser back for player matches and make ranked matches available. Because I have yet to get a fair representation of my "rank" in the game -- I get stuck with people very highly ranked. And I wish they'd use the zones (Rec, Pro, Underground, Family) in some way to determine who to play against. That way we could still get guest accounts in player games.

And if they're not going to do that they REALLY need to put a setting for each gametype -- no "Elimination", but "Warzone," "Execution" and "Guardian" all separate. I'm tired of people quitting because they don't want to play the gametype voted for. And I really can't stand Annex above King of the Hill, personally. Seems redundant.