Cliff: GoW2 fixes annoying shotgun host advantage

I've been called a shotgun newb, lancer newb, pistol newb, sniper newb, grenade newb, and torque bow newb all in one match. So I just stood out in the open and let the guy kill me and then called him a bullet newb.

I am a whore with the pistol, but their are trumps to every weapon. I never had a problem trumping the host and his/her shotgun.

Oh, its fun but it's by no means noob friendly.

I agree. I always get slaughtered when playing multi player

Yeah, just play with your noob buddies in private matches. You can suck it up all by your lonesomes.

They could, but then it would be called COD4.

The game is 2 years old. If you are a noob by this point you deserve all the rape that gets hefted upon you. You should have been playing from emergence day. Everyone was a noob back then, you would have been fine.

And I don't want to hear the "Oh, but I needed the money to pay for my baby's insulin" or "Oh but I was imprissoned in a Chilean POW camp for 2 years" or any other cry baby loser exscuses.

You get in there, you take your licks as you get better and you shut your trap.

hahahahhaha! Stupid babies and their stupid insulin.

Lmao..

What are you dumb shits talking about? Gears of War is the most casual shooter on the 360. No offense and I realize how oxymoronic a game is being a Casual Third-person Survival-horror Shooter.

You guys can't seriously say this is a hardcore shooter, hardcore gore? Yes, hardcore shooter? No.

I'd imagine the fix has to do with the netcode itself, since multiplayer for Gears 1 was such a late addition. As such, a fix for host shotty should be a fix for host anything.

Hopefully they don't forget to remove the stuff they put in there to hold the host back like the blood on the screen and the inability to mash A to speed up revival, lol.

There's now a mode called PIGGY, which is an eating contest. First COG or Locust to down 100 franks wins!

here you go.

http://xbox.joystiq.com/2008/05/24/gears-of-war-2-x360-multiplayer-details-confirmed/#comments

http://xbox.joystiq.com/2008/05/28/gears-of-war-2-multiplayer-detail-explosion/

Lol I'll tell you the new real modes.

GUARDIAN: What was Assassination has now changed drastically. While the same at it's core, non-leaders now respawn and the opposing team can now see where the other leader is at all times via a marker on their HUD (to stop hiding). When the leader dies, you can't respawn anymore.

WINGMAN: 2v2v2v2v2 - team up with a buddy, both using the same character model (Marcus & Marcus ect..) and try to get to the kill limit first (ie. first pair to 15 kills). Respawns enabled.

MEATFLAG: Using the new meatshield technique, you must down a "Stranded" character model (AI driven) running around the middle of the map (yup, he defends himself). Once down, you must try to drag him back to your capture area (both teams are trying to do this at the same time). However, the opposing team can kill you and/or shoot the hostage enough times that he will break free of your arms and turn on you. Respawns enabled in this mode.

We're also promised more modes / mode improvements as well. We'll probably see King of the Hill pulled over from Gears PC as well (Annex but 1000x better because it doesn't move).

How in the world would you ever get chainsawed from the front while you have your lancer out. One shot drops the saw, and you should be able to hit someone right in front of you with the auto-firing lancer, heh.

I guess if someone's hiding around a corner or something...

quicker *if*... Typing too quickly....

Cliff confirmed this in an interview with Gamepro (link below) that if you have your lancer out and someone trys to chainsaw you, you duel. That way it happens more often, but not a great deal more. And I believe this is only from the FRONT, if you chainsaw a guy holding a lancer from behind you do the "chainsawdomy" move (back of spine chainsawed up to neck).

QUOTE: What happens is when you come at somebody with a chainsaw and they're just holding the chainsaw, it will automatically engage in the duel. The guy doesn't have to press B to engage in the duel initially. And then of course he needs to press the B button to win.

ARTICLE: http://www.gamepro.com/microsoft/xbox360/games/features/193148.shtml