Gears of War update, Annex gametype today

by James Ransom-Wiley { Apr 9th 2007 at 3:52PM }

Microsoft has confirmed that the Gears of War auto-update, featuring the Annex gametype, will be available today at 4:00 p.m. PDT via Xbox Live. The now official Annex details mirror those released (and subsequently pulled) by Epic last week -- it's still just 'King of the Hill'. Here are the additional update tweaks:

VGA cable support: monitor resolution widths greater than or equal to 1280 now render as letterbox; VGA users running at 1280x1024 will now see the game in full 720p (1280x720) resolution in letterboxed form.
Adjusted Assassination gametype: leader no longer has to unlock weapons and now has to be executed to die
Adjusted Boomshot: splash damage to be more effective rendering targets down-but-not-out
Adjusted Hammer of Dawn: aiming will be more forgiving of moving targets
Adjusted Roadie Run: reduced frequency of accidentally grabbing cover while running
Kill message ticker: ticker can now be seen while down-but-not-out and spectating
General: addressed a number of possible exploits in multiplayer

Gallery: Gears of War - Annex

Tags: 360, annex, gametype, gearsofwar, gow, multiplayer, shooter, update, xbox360, xboxlive

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

menu @ Apr 9th 2007 3:56PM

sweet...can't wait to play...

Dadidito @ Apr 9th 2007 4:00PM

WOOT! Damn the real world and responsibility. Have to work OT today. Damn it all to hell! :)

cutspop @ Apr 9th 2007 4:01PM

Heck yeah!! I cant wait to respawn that is going to rock. Now lets hope they fixed the host name bug. Or should I say unfix it.

ZenGaijin @ Apr 9th 2007 4:09PM

Yeah, now thats what I'm talking about.

tj @ Apr 9th 2007 11:20PM

Typical. Still no host shotgun fix.

Miles @ Apr 9th 2007 4:28PM

If weapon sliding is fixed alone, I'm happy.

Jason B @ Apr 9th 2007 4:30PM

Why did you feel it necessary to say "it's still just King of the Hill". It's one more 'free' game type that you didn't have before. Making those backhanded comments make you sound like a fanboi.

C. Grant @ Apr 9th 2007 4:34PM

Jason B: It's not *called* King of the Hill, but it essentially is *just* that. And it's *still* just that because we already knew it was *just* that when the details were first dropped last week. What was that about sounding like a fanboy?

3cubedminus3squared @ Apr 9th 2007 4:35PM

ahh respawns. Now when a tard frags me I can come back. =)

LordMinogue @ Apr 9th 2007 4:39PM

and where is clan support?

Jason B @ Apr 9th 2007 4:49PM

Well, the way the statement came across to me was that he was minimizing the new game type to the point of saying no one should be excited about the new 'free' game type because its 'just' King of the Hill. Thus my comment calling his statement 'backhanded'.

If that was not his intention then I apologize and stand corrected. But if that was his intention then I stand by my first post.

And just to clarify I do understand that Annex is Epic's version of KotH ;)

theGreenGrunt @ Apr 9th 2007 6:56PM

Thank you for the update. Awesome support.

But...

How about the most requested update of all? A Halo2 party system.

LongshotX @ Apr 9th 2007 5:16PM

Jason B shut up in the presence of C.Grant, ruler of all Joystiqland.

John @ Apr 10th 2007 4:29AM

MS needs to work on the VGA support generally, its pretty bad lol!
and woo!
lmao!

R4B @ Apr 9th 2007 5:20PM

Lemme get this right, is 4pm PDT in an hour? AKA 11pm GMT?

Intentless @ Apr 9th 2007 5:56PM

3 PM Pacific is 4 mountain 5 central 6 eastern

Intentless @ Apr 9th 2007 5:57PM

Yes in one hour... but not 11PM.... Not even 11PM eastern.....

Fhaze @ Apr 9th 2007 6:09PM

So can we play Annex in ranked matches?

If so the 10,000 kills achievement doesn't seem so far away.

dan v. @ Apr 9th 2007 6:16PM

@ 15
its been said that the kills in Annex won't count because of the respawns..sorry.

Stitch @ Apr 9th 2007 7:11PM

Yes, 11pm GMT. Or UTC if you prefer the more nouveau style of timekeeping. But really it's a military game, so let's just say 2300 Zulu.

To clarify, no, not 11pm eastern, but 11pm England, where GMT is the local timezone, at the Greenwich (or "prime") meridian, which if you remember your geography classes is zero degrees longitude.

thebiggameover @ Apr 9th 2007 7:19PM

so i guess its been out for about 15 min now. wish i wasnt at work.... :(

Robin @ Apr 9th 2007 8:28PM

I still can't get it in Indiana.

asdfpoop @ Apr 9th 2007 8:40PM

it can take several attempts to get it, kinda sucks but it's worth it :D

Tyler @ Apr 9th 2007 9:58PM

if u can't get the update, go to your console settings and test youur xbox live connection. sign back in, put in the disk, and u should have the update.

by the way annex is a great mode!

Kritz @ Apr 9th 2007 10:01PM

"Adjusted Roadie Run: reduced frequency of accidentally grabbing cover while running"

Odd. I seemed to be a walking magnet in the last few games I played. Though, it might have something to do with how little I've played it thanks to Guitar Hero II, Call of Duty 3 and GRAW2.

Or maybe it's because in GoW I lag so damn much. Really, why is it I can play a 24 player game of CoD3 with no lag; but when I jump into GoW I have a two second delay from when I push the trigger until the bullets hit?

Bloody Australia. Someone needs to move this landmass closer to the US. Or increase the speed of light (Electricity).

Eh? Oh, right right. New gametype. Kinda got distracted there.

gowplayer @ Apr 9th 2007 10:14PM

@23

yeah man, i know. i started playing today and it didnt seem like that got fixeed, in fact, im pretty sure it got worse. im really pissed at them for fixing weapon sliding- it was a "stylish" way of curbstomping ppl.
all the annex games ive played ended in chainsaw fests.

Miles @ Apr 10th 2007 12:19AM

I gotta agree with the "wall magnet" statement. All i do is get stuck all the time. And once again, good riddance to weapon sliding. I just played 10 games of Warzone and won them all. Have fun playing fair cheaters!

fawazr @ Apr 10th 2007 4:28AM

The update seems laggy as all hell. And since all onscreen action is hostside, it makes the host that much quicker. It also feels like the range for shotguns has increased and some old glitches remain (ie. climbing up on invisible ledges). I wish there were dedicated Live servers. It seems dumb playing alongside host in 2007. It was acceptable back in 1992, but not now.

Samuel Febres @ Apr 22nd 2007 4:43PM

"Adjusted Roadie Run: reduced frequency of accidentally grabbing cover while running"

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to have been improved at all. It seems worse now. I used to be able to run all the way to the gernades in Old Bones but now I get stuck on the door on the way out or the cover area in the middle of the hallway. A minor annoyance.

Annex was kinda boring. I don't like the respawns and the game takes FOREVER! I play first to five and it took one hour and my team only won one round.

The nice thing about it though is that it seems all the "kiddies" like this game mode, so it makes playing warzone or execution a lot more fun for an older individual who want to play with mature players.