This thread has gone in a bad direction, but hopefully a patch is on the way. I was just looking at some of the glitches posted on youtube and I'm assuming it's alright to call this games online versus multi broken? I still like many of the core concepts and a patch could get things back on track but people are definitely going to other games because of frustration with Gears 2. Did they test this before they released it?
Obviously the single player and horde are great and I think most people enjoyed them quite a bit but you can only play those modes for so long before it becomes stale. My personal list would be.
Boomshot- take it back down to 2 shots and it's also easier to use now, decrease the splash damage a bit.
Shotgun- fix the hipfire into the ground problem and increase the power. Melee someone 2 times they hit the floor, shoot them with the shotty twice and they don't. Doesn't make sense.
Lancer/chainsaw- Just make it stun them when you shoot them so it drops down for a second the vacuum effect isn't bad, it was much worse in the original before they patched that one.
Sniper- make it a little easier to get headshots, the torque bow is much easier to use than the snipe and a shot anywhere on the body with the torque is an automatic kill.
Mortar- I don't see that big of a problem with it, maybe lower the ammo to 3-4 shots instead of 5.
Smoke nades- The fact that they knock you down is stupid, smoke should be used in the most logical way for cover. Maybe a slight stun, but to knock someone down?
Wall tagging nades- Not a bad idea but detonation times are nil and grenades are way overpowered in this game. There are plenty of blindspots where you can plant a nade and get easy kills each round I also don't think they should spawn so frequently and that it should take a bit longer to detonate when you throw one as well.
Power weapons- In general I think some maps should have little to no power weapons at all, it takes very little skill to use most of them.
Connection times- big problem if you aren't in a party it takes forever to find a game.
Uneven numbers- Starting games out 5 versus 3? It's happened a few times while I've played and I just don't get that.
Quitters- If someone quits or drops they should be replaced by someone else looking for a game like in COD 4. Gears 2 isn't a game where it's easy to win if you're down a man or two.
Lag- It's not that I want to select my own room to play in, but for the love of God connect people to other people that will have a strong connection. In the old Gears you could at least see what you were getting into, I think it should show everyones connection rating, red, yellow, and green to give people an idea of what the game is going to be like. My connection is decent, 7mbps but it seems like I never get host yet end up in a decent number of laggy games.
Game modes- I played strictly warzone in the first Gears, and while it's nice to mix it up once in a while with different modes like king of the hill I'd like to decide what I really want to play. I hate execution, absolutely hate it and I'm forced to play it time after time because many people don't want to play warzone. I don't mind map type being determined by the people in the room, but when I don't get the gametype I want that sucks! I play the game to play what I like to play, not what other people like to play.
I give Epic credit for trying some new things, I like the overall mechanics and many of the new maps but the game could use a little tweaking. I'll be back for serious online multi when they put out a patch.
