Epic lists Gears of War 2 issues (and solutions)

Just them saying the same thing in a different place.

as much as i love gears, the bugs in matchmaking are ruining the game for me. why is the weapon slide back when it was patched out in gears 1? and the chainsaw? dont even get me started about that one...

but, this is a step in the right direction. hopefully they will release a patch soon.

Like every game in existence, the multiplayer will need multiple patches.

You can only test the game so much.

Horde mode FTW!

So far, I have played co-op campaign mode, and Horde. On the basis of these two modes, and with the disappointing launch of LBP, GOW2 is my new frontrunner for Game Of The Year.

The game is meticulously designed. They have nailed two very difficult objectives in every minute of the 8-10 hours I have played:

1) There is always something interesting and exciting happening

2) Whenever I fail/die, I feel like it was my fault, and if I do things a little smarter/better next time, I'll be able to succeed.

I have not tried any Vs. Multiplayer so far, and I'm not really in a rush, since I didn't get into it in GOW1.

Whats wrong with smoke grenades??

Matchmaking is my only problem with this game.
Haven't experienced mP glitches

Issue: No PC version. FIX IT!

BRING BACK THE OLD SHOTGUN YOU EPIC BASTARDS!!!

Thanks for taking my favorite weapon from the game, my fav thing about playing the game, blasting people apart with instant kills of joy and totally ruining it!

I have problems with the occasional lag spike during multiplayer, long matchmaking times, and this really obnoxious issue where it says hit R to play while I'm in co-op sessions. The latter cost me my all levels on co-op achievement.

wow......glad its not just R2 then........lol

At least give us options guys. Why should Gears1 pro's like me suffer because they want noobs to have a fair chance. Fuck noobs! How about the option to turn off bullet stopping power. Rowdy running is pointless now. Option to use the old shotgun from Gears1. Let me tweek shit more! Option to turn off the crappy Halo like Lobby and bring back the old Lobby.

Yeah copa, but we were all good at shotgunning. So it all evened out. If you were a new player well tough. We wouldn't play with noobs anyway. Know your shotgun skills. To me gears was running and shotgunning. That was fun to me and my friends. At least give us the option to play like that.

I dislike getting kicked back to the menu after each match. There is no longer a rotation. I don't like playing a match, then having to hit start and wait for the load, only then to be able to select a new map and then load again. If they would add map rotations back or at least kick you back only as far as the map select screen. If you want to add in a new player, fine, then push b to go back, but don't make us go back every time. It slows things down. I thinks.

Hahahaha that Cliffy_B twitter is hilarious. Makes me laugh every day.

Sure there are glitches and no way to set up map rotation in private matches is bothersome, but as far as the new weapons/balance issues - I don't really have a problem with anything yet.

I think the shotgun is more consistent and accurate and has a slightly longer reach than the gears 1 shotty; but you have to get used to it. I personally hated when a tactical game devolved into run and gun/roll and shoot. Matches inevitably ended with two players doing the old shotgun dance...

I respect everybody's opinion but I really like most of the new stuff... even the smoke grenades.

It's the teamwork and tactical decisions and that you make on the fly that win you the game. That's what keeps me coming back.

I just beat this game last night and holy shit! The pacing was amazing, the battles are flat out epic, the enemies are intelligent, the mortar gun is a fucking blast to use, the cut scenes are beautiful, hell, I even enjoyed the story. And the ending! Maybe not a cliffhanger in the traditional sense but I'm excited for Gears 3. I wasn't expecting this in the least but this is very probably my GOTY.

Epic got themselves into an interesting dilemma with Gears 1.

The game was designed to be a cover oriented, suppressive fire type game. But, the multiplayer was rushed, and it ended up not balancing out that way, and instead focusing around close range fights, and mainly the shotgun, not the lancer as they had intended.

Well, that made it a very unique game, probably the most unique shooter out there. There are 16,000 xbox 360 games that focus around mid-range machinegun battles, but Gears was the unique, up close, in your face shooter. That led it to be very popular in MP, to the point that it still sat among the XBL top 4 most played games even a full TWO YEARS after release. And all those people that loved it that much, loved it because of that gameplay.

Now comes along Gears 2, and Epic really has time to spend with the multiplayer and to make it into the game they originally intended it to be. The problem is, all of the hardcore Gears fans that have been playing the last 2 years, are in love with the game they actually GOT, not the one they were supposed to get. They liked the shotgun shuffle, the in your face action, the relatively quick pace. So now, if you make the game you originally wanted to make, you're alienating all the people that loved the game you actually made, which is basically what has happened.