Gears of War 2

[strawdog]

gears of war2,anyone feeling rich?? gold lancer price just went up !

mr nick pavey spotted the mistake on M$ live site,
until a few hours you could get the gold lancer for free.

they found the mistake,check the new price....

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024d53082d/?did=0ccf0001-0000-4000-8000-00004d53082d&gu=66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024d53082d&sb=1&mt=4&p=1&of=6

-hmmmmm i want a real working gold plated rifle delivered to my house for that price !

[TheForce]

speaking of a gold plater lancer.... I have the LM edition and I used the code for the lancer and the maps, but where I can choose this golden lancer ? in MP it only shows me the lancer and the locust rifle ? ....

[Kubrick]

In the multiplayer options (Press RB on the main menu). You can change your default character and weapon there.

You also get a few seconds to change it before each match once the map has been decided. Use the triggers and LB/RB.

[El Leone]

Patch is out.

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

Hey all,

I’m happy to announce that this morning, at 3:40 AM PST, we released a title update that should help with the current matchmaking issues. In order to get the update out as quickly as possible, we focused just on immediate infrastructure issues and have left any potential gameplay issues for a future update. Here’s what’s in today’s title update:

• Adjustments to make Public matchmaking faster, especially in the single player party and the four player party case. Some of these adjustments should be felt immediately and some will play out over several days as our update enables us to reduce player segmentation by reducing the number of servers required to do matchmaking. This will increase the number of possible matches available for you to join.
• A tweak that should prevent us from losing some of our additional detailed stats data that we gather for gearsofwar.com. Due to the large number of concurrent matches, our stats gathering servers were not able to collect data for every single match played. The Xbox LIVE leaderboards are 100% accurate but our existing stats web pages may have some missing data prior to the update.
• A fix to address the issue where some players were unable to start the story-based campaign if Xbox LIVE was down or unavailable.

Something to keep in mind, if you have been playing Gears 2 since the title update was made available, then you will need to restart the game in order to be prompted for the update. If you don’t do this, then a situation will occur where people without the update will not be able to match make with people who have the update. This has nothing to do with the game or this update in particular, just the way the title update system works.

We want to thank everyone for their patience during this time and we will continue to monitor the situation. We’re hopeful that the matchmaking issues we’ve seen up till now are a thing of the past.

Thanks,

Rod.

[Neil]

That explains the problems I was having this morning matchmaking. Just one question if you have the game installed on the hd will it automatically update? Couldn't get mine to update before I went to work.

[Matt]

Full credit for such a quick turnaround with the patch, we all know how long some patches get held up in Certification - being the flagship title this season couldn't have helped

Now we have to wait for a full patch to fix the balance issues. I've little confidence in Epic changing things for the better though, given how the somehow managed to hurt Gears1.

[ezee ryder]

Yeah I wonder how long it will take for this gameplay patch to surface though. It is all well and good fixing the matchmaking but the gameplay issues in multiplayer are what I would like to see patched up. Until then I shall play the mountain of other games that are out

[Matt]

Flaws and all, I still enjoy the game a lot. Gears1 had horrible problems, even after the patches (which somehow made aspects worse!) but you learn to live with it; well you bitch about it in the lobby, but you get on with it. Gears2 has a load of different issues.

Personally, I'd like to see the Lancer damage reduced, because right now it seems to outshoot the Hammerburst and have the chainsaw as a bonus.

Chainsaw should be revved up before it kills, and whenever you get shot, it should get lowered, so you can't run through bullets and cheaply saw someone.

Shotgun I think is about right, maybe a bit too powerful over medium distance. I know lots of people hate it, but that's because firing without aiming is now pointless. Once you aim, it's a great weapon, so despite what others say, I'd leave that as it.

Grenade proximity needs to do a lot less damage; or maybe just a smaller blast radius. They should also blow up if shot ONCE. Players should be able to have only 1 grenade planted; plant number 2, the first blows up.

Mortar has little place in a serious player v player game. That needs a REALLY slow reload, possibly twice as long; and a more obvious tell that it's fired, like a huge, can't miss it smoke trail so you see it coming your way.

Personally I prefer the old cover mechanic, this one feels too slick and I can't attach when I want to bounce from wall to wall. Also, it seems to buffer your A bashes when you're down, so once you're up you often roll the opposite direction you wanted to. Which tends to lead to death. Frustrating.

There are probably smaller tweaks, but I think those would enhance the game. They've done a lot right. I'm SO glad an active reload sniper is no longer an instant down.

[MattyD]

The song used in the Last Days trailer is getting a special issue single to promote the game. The Microsoft website rather unhelpfully neglects to mention where you can buy it but I suppose the usual suspects will do it (Play.com, iTunes etc).

The song is How It Ends by a band called Devotchka, who fuse American indie / punk rock with a lot of folk influences, especially eastern European which is quite prominent in this song.

Really I just wanted an excuse to post the song because it's awesome

[Brad]

I've not played any multiplayer on this yet but the single player is dull as hell. I'm gonna co-op it with a friend to try and instill some life into it. It's not even remotely challenging on normal either.

[Dogg Thang]

The song is How It Ends by a band called Devotchka, who fuse American indie / punk rock with a lot of folk influences, especially eastern European which is quite prominent in this song.

They also did the score to Little Miss Sunshine, if anyone remembers that movie.

[Tyler Durden]

I've been re-painting my Golden Lancer, thought you might like to see my progress so far :-

[Spatial]

That's some nice work - looks great

[Synthesthesia]

Good job mate, looks really good. I'd do the same but I know it'd probably end up looking terrible haha.

[AaronBekir]

if you could do a step by step guide of what paints and how you did it i would love it!! lol. am looking to do the same, just havent started yet!