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Gears of War 2 |OT| ...Maria...MARIA!!!
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ThirdEngine
Member
br3kabone with the chainsodomy on Flunkie:
Decent shot of Recovery while being glitched out and not being able to move:
Flunkie and Pip:
'duf holding me tight while showing me the beautiful view:
:lol
Decent shot of Recovery while being glitched out and not being able to move:
Flunkie and Pip:
'duf holding me tight while showing me the beautiful view:
:lol
ThirdEngine
Member
Seriously tonight was fucking awesome and proves that more GAFers make the matches much more fun. Also, Boltok battles are now mandatory on Jacinto.
But really, this happens to me every night and it's frustrating as hell. The only thing remotely funny is when you're trying to doge them because you're crabwalking.
It really looks like he's trying to model. :lolAladuf said:
But really, this happens to me every night and it's frustrating as hell. The only thing remotely funny is when you're trying to doge them because you're crabwalking.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Full Recovery said:
I'd rather they take their time for creating a title update rather than going the Gears 1 route of releasing a patch every other week to fix one thing that broke other things.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
acm2000 said:
lolwat
Full Recovery said:
Fucking this. Region filter Aye SAP.
StickyFingers
Member
I was playing some coop and thought about something funny. How could 4 big guys like Dom, Marcus, Cole and Baird all fit in the Centaur? When you look at the Centaur, it's very slim on all sides and looks like it could only hold a maximum of maybe 2 people.
I thought it was funny, not to mention they were to move some Stranded aswell.
Also, I've noticed this a few times in coop where you are on the boat at the end of Act 3, one of the players always shakes about, like he has some bad lag, while the other has none. That's the one thing that they need to fix. It's like the 2 players is way toomuch on such a small boat.
It doesn't make the thing unplayable, but it is annoying. I just finished the campaign on Insane, it makes Harcore look like a walk in the park.
I thought it was funny, not to mention they were to move some Stranded aswell.
Also, I've noticed this a few times in coop where you are on the boat at the end of Act 3, one of the players always shakes about, like he has some bad lag, while the other has none. That's the one thing that they need to fix. It's like the 2 players is way toomuch on such a small boat.
It doesn't make the thing unplayable, but it is annoying. I just finished the campaign on Insane, it makes Harcore look like a walk in the park.
People still complaining about wait times for Matchmaking - guess I'll post what I caught on to by myself sometime ago - I figured some would figure this as well also by now, but here goes:
The longest wait times I've experienced in Matchmaking were when I search alone (1) and when I searched with four of us...
Searching with a group of 2 or 3 went fast, within 2 minutes, usually 1, and searching with a full party of 5 is almost instant... this of course doesn't include the two days when Live was acting up and randomnly disconnecting players since that of course kills the population you're searching in, and from what I can tell, Gears 2 really searches for the best matches in skill before starting a match...
So if you finally got a team when you searched alone, just invite them back to your lobby afterward, or before you search, invite friends and fill up your party before searching - makes a world of difference until Epic can optimize search times for searching alone or with 4 people, seeing as it's their first time using Matchmaking...
Seriously, what kind of connection do you have that that happens every night? I've seen it twice only, and I play every night, both instances there was lag, and it only happened to someone I was spectating, and never myself...
Don't know if you ever, ever played Gears 1 competitively in Ranked matches, but there were people out there that kept complaining about going against stacked teams (I never did, since I'd still have no problems winning when alone), and Epic listened to them and went with matchmaking so stacked teams could face each other...
So don't blame them for listening to their fans...
The longest wait times I've experienced in Matchmaking were when I search alone (1) and when I searched with four of us...
Searching with a group of 2 or 3 went fast, within 2 minutes, usually 1, and searching with a full party of 5 is almost instant... this of course doesn't include the two days when Live was acting up and randomnly disconnecting players since that of course kills the population you're searching in, and from what I can tell, Gears 2 really searches for the best matches in skill before starting a match...
So if you finally got a team when you searched alone, just invite them back to your lobby afterward, or before you search, invite friends and fill up your party before searching - makes a world of difference until Epic can optimize search times for searching alone or with 4 people, seeing as it's their first time using Matchmaking...
ThirdEngine said:
Seriously, what kind of connection do you have that that happens every night? I've seen it twice only, and I play every night, both instances there was lag, and it only happened to someone I was spectating, and never myself...
FF_VIII said:
Don't know if you ever, ever played Gears 1 competitively in Ranked matches, but there were people out there that kept complaining about going against stacked teams (I never did, since I'd still have no problems winning when alone), and Epic listened to them and went with matchmaking so stacked teams could face each other...
So don't blame them for listening to their fans...
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Deleted member 1235
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NutJobJim said:OK so with me Affluenza and you three guys we've got a party of 5
Hopefully we can get some games in.
I'm not sure if I'll be on tonight but I'll be on most of Sat/Sun for sure.
tonight is the night for me after 6pm ams time. had a visitor all weekend and I would have felt sad saying 'sit there while I play gears for around 3 hours'
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
Lag.Ryder said:
To be fair, this is almost the case with every online game I've played, especially those with matchmaking. Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 were also very painful to play with complete strangers (most of the time), moreso when you have to play against a group that are basically a bunch of friends.unomas said:
... Because people complained en masse about this, partially due to the fact you couldn't play Ranked Matches with friends unless you tried to arrange this by picking very specific settings? Which resulted in stacked teams galore every time you tried to play a Ranked Match.Black_Ice said:
The Librarian
Banned
:lol :lolFlunkie said:
Last night I won a Wingman game. We were gonna win 100% sure since we had the 15 points and the closest team couldn't get that on time. Then I see people start to leave and finally the host left.
What the fuck Epic? Was it really so hard to write a netcode ala Halo 3 that picks a new host? This is beyond lazy. You guys absolutely suck with netcode. Also, fix the fucking Dashboard thing. Everyone when losing just goes to the dash and doesn't lose any points on their rank. Reason why everyone leaves every single time.
What the fuck Epic? Was it really so hard to write a netcode ala Halo 3 that picks a new host? This is beyond lazy. You guys absolutely suck with netcode. Also, fix the fucking Dashboard thing. Everyone when losing just goes to the dash and doesn't lose any points on their rank. Reason why everyone leaves every single time.
Third actually has a pretty damn good connection, he always hosts our private matches and they are as lagless as could be. Anytime we have only 5 people, we'll head into matchmaking and these past few nights have had the most terrible lag, we've all been suffering through it. Last nights lag in matchmaking was far worse than anything I have ever experienced with lag before.Skilotonn said:
I honestly don't know why we even bother with matchmaking anymore because in private matches we remove the uber power weapons (mortar/mulcher) along with frags/ink 'nades, we love stopping matches to have photo-ops, etc. Gears 2 multiplayer sucks so bad in matchmaking and is just the greatest thing ever (for me at least) in private matches.
That's normal but what's happening to him is that he starts the match off like that because of lag. It sucks because whenever it does happen to him, he'll end up basically being out of the whole match.Manp said:that kept happening to me in Horde yesterday... basically every time after dropping the mulcher i ended up having no weapon. after selecting one with the dpad everything was back to normal.
The Librarian
Banned
I've been having a lot more lag in the past couple of matches as well.Aladuf said:
sixteen-bit
Member
*looks at photoshoot*
That looks fun. I wish I could have joined you guys but I was entertaining guests.
That looks fun. I wish I could have joined you guys but I was entertaining guests.
The Librarian
Banned
I hope Epic patches this game soon.
Aladuf said:
Well that's weird...
That sucks that you guys are getting these problems in Matchmaking - right up till the night before when me and MicVlaD were on a winning streak in Wingman, we only had one instance of lag, and no one else mention experiencing it otherwise...
The one instance we had was on Day One and you knew it was there because it was the horrible kind where you can't even roadie run properly - another issue I assume the Matchmaking may have is choosing a host because when there is lag, everyone gets it, meaning the host's connection is just crap...
I personally love the heavy power weapons, and about grenades - I guess I love 'em because I get loads of kills with them, and always look around corners and shoot them when I see them so I don't see as overpowered...
But yeah, nothing beats having a full 5 vs 5 match all with your real personal friends, last night I spent all day finishing off co-op on Normal (I'm up to halfway through Act 4 on Insane solo) and then spent the rest of the evening playing multi with a full room of friends - we keep it standard load out since we play Ranked often, and it would mess up how we'd play in MM, and it's always a blast...
They're working on this no doubt, and I hope that it's fixed soon so that you guys can get back into Matchmaking because you guys are missing out really...
JB1981 said:
Yes, I'm just making all of this up, I'm not getting into any matches at all, not knowing how to get around whatever issues are out there - and they're all Xbox exclusives you say?
Don't just talk out of your ass, list the games and the issues "that I never have" then!
About every fifth game I join end up being completley unplayable... can't fire weapons, can't move around properly, etc... definitely due to the host having a bad connection. They should have implemented some kind of network test in the game to confirm whether a host has enough bandwidth and no packet loss.
About one third of the games I join has the host leaving once things go bad for him.
About 90% of the games I join has at least one leaver (usually before the game even starts... which makes no sense).
And it takes around 3->10 minutes for matchmaking to start a game. A few times up to 15-20 minutes.
About one third of the games I join has the host leaving once things go bad for him.
About 90% of the games I join has at least one leaver (usually before the game even starts... which makes no sense).
And it takes around 3->10 minutes for matchmaking to start a game. A few times up to 15-20 minutes.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
EEEWOOOOO HOOOO!!!
Just beat the fucking game.
Holy shit.
That was one sick fucking ride.
I wouldn't say I teared up or nothing (obvs) but there was some mighty fucked up shit happening in this game.
And the end! Whoa, dude!
Prediction: Gears Of War 3 - More Mansions Than Last Time.
(Banjo is still my GOTY.)
Just beat the fucking game.
Holy shit.
That was one sick fucking ride.
I wouldn't say I teared up or nothing (obvs) but there was some mighty fucked up shit happening in this game.
And the end! Whoa, dude!
Prediction: Gears Of War 3 - More Mansions Than Last Time.
(Banjo is still my GOTY.)
things seem really bad for gears, I'm really disappointed. Its the weekend, I have 99 friends in my friends list built around gaf gears of war lists or old gears 1 gaming buddies and right now, only 1 is playing gears 2, and he's playing campaign!
if the community crumbles around gears 2 this early on, its never gonna pick up the legs when any fixes or patch comes out.
sucks that I can't turn it on, search for a quick casual game like I did on gears 1 and be playing within 2 minutes and finished playing in 30. why is every searchable game a damn ranked match I can't jump in or out of?
if the community crumbles around gears 2 this early on, its never gonna pick up the legs when any fixes or patch comes out.
sucks that I can't turn it on, search for a quick casual game like I did on gears 1 and be playing within 2 minutes and finished playing in 30. why is every searchable game a damn ranked match I can't jump in or out of?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
kaizoku said:
It's NXE weekend, dude. 80% of my friends are playing the hot new sci-fi shoot-em-up "Netflix".
No dude. What you don't understand is that kaizoku has EVERY Xbox Live member on his friends list. Normally when someone claims a game is in trouble using their friends list as a indicator I would tell them that they're fear mongering, stupid and being naive but when kaizoku says that no one is playing on his friends list then that means that game is DEAD.BenjaminBirdie said:
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Chinner said:
Fuuuuuuck.
I mean, I haven't played multi yet, but I loved the campaign. That really sucks that this is the end and we'll never have the hanging threads from 2 answered in a sequel.
Dang, man.
JimtotheHum
Member
he's right Ive been using the hell out of Netflix on Xbox live, but I should be back to Gears 2 soon...
also I would like to say one thing, yes, Gears 2 multiplayer is flawed and there are things that annoy the hell out of me, but to say that Gears 1 multiplayer is better is just wrong.
Go back and play Gears 1 and when you get shotgun blasted by the host for the millionth time, I welcome you to come crawling back to Gears 2.
I think someone posted something like this earlier, despite all the glitches, there is something so good about the gears 2 gameplay that keeps me coming back. Hopefully, epic can get all the crap sorted out, so I dont have to hear stupid comments about the good ol' days of Gears 1.
also I would like to say one thing, yes, Gears 2 multiplayer is flawed and there are things that annoy the hell out of me, but to say that Gears 1 multiplayer is better is just wrong.
Go back and play Gears 1 and when you get shotgun blasted by the host for the millionth time, I welcome you to come crawling back to Gears 2.
I think someone posted something like this earlier, despite all the glitches, there is something so good about the gears 2 gameplay that keeps me coming back. Hopefully, epic can get all the crap sorted out, so I dont have to hear stupid comments about the good ol' days of Gears 1.
Chinner said:
BenjaminBirdie said:
so...why have two of you come out swinging like I tried to instigate a fight? o_0 this is not some PR campaign, court room battle or presidential election. because I make a statement born from my frustration and disappointment with my experience, you do not need to dismiss my statement by mocking or belittling my character for crying out loud. This is not a propoganda war.
I play this game as much as any of you, and I hope for the best. I bought a new 360 for this game ffs. but guess what I'm flat out unable to get a session going, I'm not struggling to, I CANNOT.
But apparently its my fault cos I only have 99 friends and I should shut up and never say anything negative again cos it makes you feel a strange inexplicable urge to insult me.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
kaizoku said:
I was just....jokin' around man. When I fight, I carry Mortars.
COLE TRAIN BABY, WHOOOO!!!