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    Epic's track record of late has been shaky Fingers crossed it'll be a good patch and get me playing this again....

    May buy the map pack for Fuel Depot, but I bought the first one and only got to play each map online twice. There's always a couple of people in each game who don't have it.

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      Originally posted by Chain View Post
      Epic's track record of late has been shaky Fingers crossed it'll be a good patch and get me playing this again....

      May buy the map pack for Fuel Depot, but I bought the first one and only got to play each map online twice. There's always a couple of people in each game who don't have it.
      I've never played them outside of selecting Combustible map pack on the search options. Played them plenty, Gold Rush is great fun, Flood is pretty good too. Also think Fuel Station could be good if it had decent weapons, but as it stands a mulcher, mortar and flamethrower just aren't good enough IMO.

      Stick a sniper on the roof, a torque bow in the middle where the gas is, and leave the mortar where it is and it'd be a fantastic map.

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        I didn't realise you could search for them. TBH that wouldn't have helped, I only ever play Live with friends and friends of friends, it's the only way to ensure a certain level of interpersonal skills

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          Great news! I have cable now too, so hopefully I'm getting back into my gears, wheres that Robster@?

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            Originally posted by Chain View Post
            I didn't realise you could search for them. TBH that wouldn't have helped, I only ever play Live with friends and friends of friends, it's the only way to ensure a certain level of interpersonal skills
            Same here, you can still search with friends? Unless you mean an entire team of friends anyway.

            They haven't priced the map pack yet, would be a really good show for them to give them away for free considering all of the bull**** we've had to put up with online, and even with the campaign. I remember near launch, I couldn't even play because it wouldn't let me press A. Then it nicely deleted all of my progress, so I lost about 3000 kills. Then when I finally got onto matchmaking...it wouldn't find games for AGES.

            Granted, most of those are fixed at this stage, it would still be awesome considering we got a free map pack for GoW1 within 2 months and that didn't have as many problems as this does. (the lag is MUCH worse on Gears 2 compared to Gears 1)

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              Well, Epic have just released UT3 Titan Pack for free, but not for the 360 due to issues with MS. So I imagine this pack will cost points - 800 hopefully, possibly 1200. All this does is fragment an already dwindling community.

              The heyday when my mates and I were on Gears1 every night are long gone, these days there are only a few of us interested in Gears2 and I really, really, really don't like randoms joining our games. Sometimes you get a really friendly guy, then other times you can a dildo. I wish the Rating system on Live actually helped!

              Fingers crossed it will be free. Epic do owe the community. As you say, they managed to **** Gears2 up worse than Gears1 in regards to lag, which is incredible really.

              I'm very interested in what changes they do to the gameplay, if any. The game is one of the cheapest I've ever played. There's the most amazing game EVER in there somewhere, but it's ruined by horrendous design decisions and dodgy net code. imo of course

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                Originally posted by Katsujinken View Post
                Great news! I have cable now too, so hopefully I'm getting back into my gears, wheres that Robster@?
                Im here mate and will get back on it after going too pub today of course



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                  Just realised one of the "new" maps is from PC GOW1; and one of them was meant to be released with the game but was held back. With the re-textured Fuel Depot, this seems like a pretty easy "map pack" to put together, so hopefully the price will reflect this

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                    Update 3 is out, if it's not showing up for you, do an xbox live connection test. That's how i got mine to show up, first impressions are good, I wasn't host...yet it was hard to tell who was! Bots a little bit jippy though, running and shooting and stuff, getting you down with hardly any shots etc. But they're an easy headshot, and epic seem to have fixed that quite a bit, I got 5 headshots in a row when i picked the snipe up

                    Only thing I'm not liking- they've removed melee from roadie run, now you can't do anything after running, it seriously slows the game down and makes running sort of useless.

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                      Followed your tip and it worked for me too, how odd.

                      EDIT: Except it states "Can't download update", which it has done 4 times, i'll give it a few hours and try later.
                      Last edited by SteveStuart; 24-03-2009, 10:04.

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                        Originally posted by Synthesthesia View Post
                        Only thing I'm not liking- they've removed melee from roadie run, now you can't do anything after running, it seriously slows the game down and makes running sort of useless.
                        Care to explain further? So there's a deliberate pause between letting go of A to hitting B to melee now? Might stop the running/rolling/melee/shotgun "abuse" perhaps...
                        Lie with passion and be forever damned...

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                          They've balanced the Two-Piece? Excellent. Was too cheap before. Do chainsaws lower when you shoot those annoying gits who run at you?

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                            Snowblind Map Pack is out 31st March for 800 points.

                            Also this is what was posted on epic about TU3

                            Hey All,

                            The much anticipated Title Update 3 is out of certification and is going live on March 24th at 2 AM PST/5 AM EST. Please remeber it takes awhile for the update to propagate so it may take up to several hours after that time before it's available locally. Also, if you start getting matchmaking connection issues, it means others have the update and you don't, so please exit the game and fire it up again in order to download the update. Also please note that some of the new achievements require the next map pack "Snowblind" which will be released next week.

                            We want to thank the community again for their patience and support and we hope you enjoy the changes we're bringing with Title Update 3.

                            Now for the details -

                            Gears of War 2 Title Update 3 Detailed Release Notes
                            The following fixes and improvements are included in Title Update 3.

                            Improvements
                            Title Update 3 makes these new improvements:

                            * Adds 100 levels of player experience that you can gain based on your score in Public matches. The game still uses Trueskill for matchmaking to find the most competitive matches, but the skill rank is now hidden. The new level of experience appears next to your gamertag, with levels 1 through 99 displayed as numbers and level 100 displayed as an icon. The game normalizes experience based on match type so that players earn an equivalent amount of experience across all modes.
                            * Adds an experience penalty for players quitting before a match is complete.
                            * Adds bots automatically to a Public Match if players quit and cause unbalanced teams. This ability has always existed in Private Matches if the bot count is set higher than zero.
                            * Optimizes playlists to only have two modes per playlist. Ties are decided by random selection.
                            * Adds the ability for teams to talk to each other between rounds in a Private Match.
                            * Adds the ability to save Public and Private Horde high scores after each complete wave, in case the host loses connection before failing or completing all fifty waves.
                            * Makes minor changes to general bandwidth usage.
                            * Adds region preference to matchmaking.
                            * Improves standby detection.
                            * Adds nine new achievements worth 250 points. Progress toward them starts after Title Update 3 is applied. Six of the new achievements require the Snowblind Map Pack, a set of four new maps to be released soon. The nine new achievements:

                            o "Rookie Gear" (10 points): Earn enough multiplayer experience to reach level 5 (Public only).
                            o "Seasoned Gear" (20 points): Earn enough multiplayer experience to reach level 15 (Public only).
                            o "Battle-Tested Gear" (30 points): Earn enough multiplayer experience to reach level 25 (Public only).
                            o "Battle-Hardened Gear" (50 points): Reach level 50 and play a match on each of the four Snowblind Map Pack maps (Public only).
                            o "Veteran Gear" (75 points): Reach level 100 and win a match on each of the four Snowblind Map Pack maps (Public only).
                            o "Never Eat Red Snow" (20 points): Complete waves 1 through 10 on all Snowblind Map Pack maps in Horde (any difficulty).
                            o "Icy Dead People" (25 points): Complete waves 1 through 50 on any Snowblind Map Pack map in Horde (any difficulty).
                            o "Frigid Body Dynamics" (5 points): Play a multiplayer match on each of the four Snowblind Map Pack maps (any mode).
                            o "The Weather Outside Is Lethal" (15 points): Win a multiplayer match on each of the four Snowblind Map Pack maps (any mode).


                            Exploit Fixes
                            Title Update 3 fixes these possible exploits, where under certain circumstances:

                            * A player could swap from a pistol to a two-handed weapon during a cover slide and then mantle greater distances.
                            * Players could kill themselves in Wingman to avoid giving their opponents more points. Now, suicides and team killing will reduce team score.
                            * A player holding a meatshield could melee through some walls.
                            * A player could equip a two-handed weapon with a shield using either the Boltok or the Gorgon pistol.
                            * A player could equip a two-handed weapon with a meatshield using either the Boltok or the Gorgon pistol.
                            * A player could prevent planted shields from being picked up by other players.
                            * Players could launch themselves into the air with a smoke grenade while mantling.


                            General Fixes
                            Title Update 3 fixes these other issues as well:

                            * An issue that caused chainsaw interruption when a player is shot to be less reliable in some body positions than in others.
                            * An issue where a third player could join a Public Wingman party lobby and remove another player from the game.
                            * An issue in Submission games where occasionally the meatflag would immediately run back to the spawn point after being dropped.
                            * An issue where players that were knocked down but not out (DBNO) while planting the Boomshield would appear to be standing.
                            * An elevation-based issue where the detection for a headshot might not align properly with certain character model heads.
                            * An issue that could cause Wingman teammates to have different character models.
                            * Additional miscellaneous bug fixes.


                            Balancing
                            Title Update 3 makes these balancing changes:

                            * Reduces stun duration of smoke grenades. Currently, characters always start to get up after 2 seconds.
                            * Gives melee the same delay after roadie running that shooting received in Title Update 2.
                            * Removes spawn protection from the Horde in Horde mode.
                            * Increased the forward angle that triggers chainsaw duels so that players with Lancers equipped won't be sawn from the side without a duel.
                            * Reduces the delay before a player can climb up after entering low cover.
                            * Makes minor changes to weapon spawns on the Subway map to provide greater balance.


                            We continue to test internally and monitor online gameplay to determine what else may need adjusting.

                            Thanks,

                            Rod.
                            __________________
                            Executive Producer
                            Gears of War 2
                            Last edited by Family Fry; 24-03-2009, 13:09.

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                              Originally posted by Mayhem View Post
                              Care to explain further? So there's a deliberate pause between letting go of A to hitting B to melee now? Might stop the running/rolling/melee/shotgun "abuse" perhaps...
                              Basically, when roadie running and then stopping, there is a 2 second gap between being allowed to shoot or melee, it's fine for the melee, but not being able to slap or shoot right out of roadie run makes the shotgun f**king useless . The connection has definitely been improved, you no longer seem to jip around all over. But they've made the game feel slow as hell, I personally hate using the lancer, and it seems all they want is for you to use that and the chainsaw.

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                                Shotgun useless? Well I've downloaded the update, played a few games and it is being used just as much so far. But we'll see in the long run. I've died most to the shotgun still too...
                                Lie with passion and be forever damned...

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