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Gears of War 2 |OT| ...Maria...MARIA!!!
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bumpkin
Member
So I was playing the game online last night for a bit, and I have to make a confession... I got pissed off and started two-piecing. :lol The tactic I've gotten sick of being taken down by became my weapon of choice after one particularly annoying match. Though it was really funny when I got rushed by three or four opponents while holding my position in Annex and was dodging and two-piecing like a mad-man and somehow came out alive.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
whitehawk said:
"It never ends."
Kydd BlaZe
Member
wtfisthisshitwhitehawk said:
seriously, was this game not bug tested before release? there's no excuse for a game of this caliber having so many fucking bugs...
Mohonky
Member
2real4tv said:
No and if there were they'd all be in America which is useless to many of us that well...don't live in America.
Check Left 4 Dead as an example. Though lag doesn't really effect that game a great deal due to the gameplay itself, in a game like Gears though.......
Kydd BlaZe
Member
Doesn't matter, though. Game is chock-full of stupid fucking glitches...PSGames said:
Mr. Durden
Banned
Compared to how the first game was in the beginning, this almost seems glitch free. It took a lot of time and patches before the first game was playable without having a lot of people fucking up every game by using game braking glitches.Kydd BlaZe said:
PSGames said:
Exactly.
Who the hell would expect that a bunch of kids with nothing else better to do are going to sit on hours on end to do shit like that?
Anyways, like the rest of the glitches, they all stem from one thing where people sit and try other things from, so they just have to fix the source, which is in this case the abnormalities with the smokes...
DevelopmentArrested
Banned
Mr. Durden said:
:lol :lol
Are we playing the same game? This game is basically BROKEN and unplayable online.
I know I've said this a bunch of times, but seriously, WTF at those goddamn Cyclops.
If you have your chainsaw revved and they don't, you still go to a chainsaw duel (I've come at them from behind and we still went to a chainsaw duel).
On the flip side, if you don't have your chainsaw revved and they do, your fucking dead (and they just love to run at, you shoot you a couple of times to lower your chainsaw, and when you try and rev your chiansaw again you stumble two or three times).
If you have your chainsaw revved and they don't, you still go to a chainsaw duel (I've come at them from behind and we still went to a chainsaw duel).
On the flip side, if you don't have your chainsaw revved and they do, your fucking dead (and they just love to run at, you shoot you a couple of times to lower your chainsaw, and when you try and rev your chiansaw again you stumble two or three times).
Mr. Durden
Banned
Apparently you've never played the first game online. And CoD3 for that matter, shouldn't be playable for you either. Really, there are worseDevelopmentArrested said:
ok wtf. i'm playing co-op, on chapter 4 of act 4 (Hive: No turning back). i'm stuck or something. we cleared the guys, there was something on the other side of a big door but it stopped making noise. AI teamates are on a level above that we dropped down from to engage the enemy. there's a switch, but the AI guys won't press it and we can't get back up. are we literally stuck? we got down here by dropping down.. felt kinda wonky, but that's where the enemies were.
we dropped from this ledge...
http://upload.dfyb.net/uploaded/droppedfromhere.jpeg
hopefully this will give you guys an idea where i am (this is where the enemies were, the door back there was the one with something banging on it)
http://upload.dfyb.net/uploaded/location.jpeg
here's the switch we think opens the door, but our AI buddies just wonder around near it.
http://upload.dfyb.net/uploaded/switch.jpeg
we dropped from this ledge...
http://upload.dfyb.net/uploaded/droppedfromhere.jpeg
hopefully this will give you guys an idea where i am (this is where the enemies were, the door back there was the one with something banging on it)
http://upload.dfyb.net/uploaded/location.jpeg
here's the switch we think opens the door, but our AI buddies just wonder around near it.
http://upload.dfyb.net/uploaded/switch.jpeg
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Haven't played campaign since November. Try YouTube and just pause when it gets to where you want. 
http://uk.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=07ADDB826CCAA111&page=4
http://uk.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=07ADDB826CCAA111&page=4
Memphis Reigns
Member
I just played a few matches online and stopped after 3 rounds of my team getting murdered. I came in here thinking I was the only one frustrated at the online experience. Its pretty unmotivating when i'm firing my shotgun at an enemy and its completely unresponsive. The game feels loose or something. I was pretty darned good at Gears 1, and I'm having trouble even being decent on Gears 2. I know I haven't lost that much skill, so i've got to think some of my troubles (and everyone's) stem from the bad online.
DubloSeven
Member
Yawn...
So is that fucking patch out yet?
So is that fucking patch out yet?
cjelly said:Haven't played campaign since November. Try YouTube and just pause when it gets to where you want.
http://uk.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=07ADDB826CCAA111&page=4
lol....I did the same exact thing:lol. The only fix for me was to go to a previous checkpoint and next time don't jump roll down the cliff hit a switch which will bring down a bridge where you roll off at.
edit: whoops quoted the wrong post it was meant for the post above yours:lol
Memphis Reigns said:
Yesterday was the last time I played Gears 2 mp, 7 out of the 10 matches were laggy as hell - in one round I got the glitch were you shoot and nothing happens, another time I died because the stupid boomshot exploded in my feet and in the most matches I died because of some stupid smoke grenade...I just opened the tray and popped in COD4 - sure I'm a fuckin' n00b in COD4 and I still prefer Gears gameplay but the mp is unplayable & broken..the great thing about online mp games is competition and there is no such thing in Gears 2 especially for lonewolfs like me who 90% of the time have chainsaw n00bs/grenade tagging campers with no mics in their team and play against a team of friends who have little to no lag as most of the time the host is one of them.
As Full Recovery said "Gears of War: Let the man with the best connection win!".
DubloSeven
Member
Hm, I just realised that Mark Rein's post doesn't mention a region filter.
This does not bode well.
This does not bode well.
Mohonky
Member
DubloSeven said:
I doubt they'll include it.
They'll 'fix' it so the best connection to the server gets host. This will always be an American connection and thus, the problem will be solved for Americans while the rest of the world will have to simply take it up the ass.
That's basically what happen with COD4. I think it was the incessant bitching on the official COD forums that had Infinity Ward include the region filtering.
It shouldn't even be an option, region filtering should be mandatory in MP games. If it's not in future games, I'm not interested. I'm sick to death of having to spend hours searching for Australian hosts in shooters.
I'm not interested in COD: WAW but I may end up picking it back up simply because I know I can jump in a game and it'll be a good connection, rather than jumping from lobby to lobby. Though with Gears 2 matchmaking setup, thats not even possible, you can't see how bad the lag is or the connection quality and every game makes you join another random host. It's such a load of shit.
GAF interest in this game is so fucking dead, its so annoying.
Whenever I wanna play, I check my friends list and no one is playing it. Makes me feel too lazy to even bother getting the game out of the case and loading it up.
Who's willing to play some more? warts and all? I just wanna shoot some locusts now and then. The way things have gone I can't imagine a patch would even get people on my friends list playing this again.
I bought a new 360 and 12 months of XBL for this sucka!
Whenever I wanna play, I check my friends list and no one is playing it. Makes me feel too lazy to even bother getting the game out of the case and loading it up.
Who's willing to play some more? warts and all? I just wanna shoot some locusts now and then. The way things have gone I can't imagine a patch would even get people on my friends list playing this again.
I bought a new 360 and 12 months of XBL for this sucka!
Evonus said:
its terribly BROKEN, I can still play it for hours with a good group of friends. Said that all along, can criticise something and still like it.
anyway as soon as I made that post, started up a game, before the game even starts the opposition team is gone. Just 5 of us on one team.
Game still goes through with the mode and map selection, starts the game up, bam we win :lol
I got my "Its good to be king" achievement too for winning 10 rounds as leader, which was nice
But yeah fuck this game, fuck you EPIC!
Add me on XBL. I still play a lot. In fact depsite the mad glitches, Its still the only game I play basically :lolkaizoku said:its terribly BROKEN, I can still play it for hours with a good group of friends. Said that all along, can criticise something and still like it.
anyway as soon as I made that post, started up a game, before the game even starts the opposition team is gone. Just 5 of us on one team.
Game still goes through with the mode and map selection, starts the game up, bam we win :lol
I got my "Its good to be king" achievement too for winning 10 rounds as leader, which was nice
But yeah fuck this game, fuck you EPIC!
Zezboob said:
Well, the thing is, a good matchmaking system should be able to deal with that behind the scenes. It should know where you're from and match you up with people in the same region automatically.
The key part of that sentence is "good matchmaking system" which Gears lacks.
baka kitsune
Member
I ranked down from 3 to 2 today after the host quit and ended the match since we started winning. I always thought those didn't count against you. =\
Kill Your Masters
Member
Ranks are determined by your k/d ratio. I'm extremely sure. I was ranked up and down 3-4 times in about an hour. If I played good (more kills than deaths) I went to rank 3, if I had more deaths, I went down.whitehawk said:
I never lost a rank due to my team losing. It's something individual it seems.
Well, it's a bit more complicated, there is a lot of parameters in a matchmaking : level of the opponents, quality of connection, rapidity of the search etc...Falagard said:
Usually it's a good balance of all these parameters, but due to the bad netcode and to the nature of the fights on Gears (where the shotgun is really important, and in close distance fight any step can be decisive) the matchmaking should definitely make the quality of connection a priority.
That's said, it's true that either way it's totally unacceptable to enter in match with more 0,5sec of latency.... which happens a lot when you don't live on the North America...
I am extremely sure that's wrong. It's just broken, too.Hellraizer said:
Ok, I'm a total idiot. I cannot figure out for the life of me how you're supposed to use the mortar.
I'm in part 1, where
I'm in part 1, where
there is the large creature coming out of the traffic tunnel. I grab a mortar, aim it at the creature, and the round always falls right on the roof in front of me. If I hold down the fire button for one click, the round hits the rock face above the tunnel. I can't make the round actually hit anywhere but the rock face or the floor in front of me... not matter how long or short I hold the fire button. How are you supposed to do this?
Diablohead
Member
Keep trying because he takes quite a few hits, depending on what side you are on you just adjust the shot power, dunno why you are missing like that.