Gears of War 2 matchmaking servers boosted

I tried to play a couple of days ago, after not even trying for a couple of weeks, to see if it was any better. I tried to boot up a game, after 60 seconds it was still searches, I got annoyed and turned off the system.

I have no intention of even trying again until I hear it is fixed for real this time. I wont listen to Epic, I don't trust them. They say only a "small" percentage of people are having a problem, yet for every 1 person is says matchmaking is fast, 20 say it is slow. They said it was fixed on Thanksgiving after the patch came out, now they are saying it was fixed on 12/9 which it obviously wasn't, since I tried on 12/10.

I'm just going to wait until everyone online is saying it is fixed before I touch the game again. Until then, I will just know in my mind that I wasted my money on this game.

gears of war 2 left on four concrete blocks in alley

I have no idea how this never occured to me. I'll join you in spirit, brother.

You know what, I think I could actually live with slow matchmaking if we could at least choose what type of game we want to play. I want public listings of private games and/or the ability to stay in a damn lobby when the match is over.

just means you have to keep your head up more


the rules arent teh same as gears one. Different game, different strategies. If you use gears1 strats, you will get pwnt

Oh I've adapted, and still PWN little n00blets. I still think some things can be tweaked to make it a true blend of old and new.

All of the grenades need to be fixed, imho. Smokes aren't that bad aside from submission. In submission it's just crazy. Smokes are spammed hella lot and then while you're trying to get back up Franklin gives you a big "I ain't gonna go wif chu" and shotguns your ass back to hell.

The frags are stupid now. In pavalion you can literally spawn kill with the frags in submission/king of the hill/guardian, and it is really easy to pull it off.

The lancer is stupid now aswell, I can't tell you how many times I've played a round and the other team is either frag camping or running directly at you with the chainsaw. Even if you blast 1 with an active shotgun his buddy comes along and chainsaws you. It sucks because it's an auto 1-1 almost every time they do it.

I don't mind the nerfing of the shotgun, as I've gotten use to it now and pwn again with it. (Before I got use to it I was just using the pistol and basically said fuck you to the shotgun lol) And please, for the love of god, someone fix that shotgun glitch. Every 3 or so matches I play there is always some douchebag running around with his shotgun glitched so I can't kill him.

Good ol' Gears trash talk. Being killed by everything aside from Shotgun is cheap and n00b tactic while being killed by a Shotgun means the other player had host advantage...

lol j/k :P

Agreed Heh, I also hated the shotty but have gotten used to it now, really. This is what I would like adressed.

*Remove wall fragtag or *greatly increase frag respawn times
*Remove being knocked down w/Smoke or speed standup animation AND lower its proximity
*Still be able to tag a smoke in the wall but no knockdown
*Chainsaw should lower when shooting it


Not everything is bad though. Theres a shit ton of new MP stuff that is well, Awesome! :P

Meatshields = Awesome
Chainsaw Duels *this gets a special = Fucking Awesome
New Executions = Awesome
Shield = Awesome
Crawling = Awesome
Slowing down a rushing opponent = Awesome
No Sniper active downing = Awesome
3 shots in Boomgun = Awesome
Martyrdom = Awesome
Horde = Awesome
Submission = Awesome
Wingman = Awesome
King of the Hill = Awesome
Bots = Awesome
Gold Lancer/Hammerburst = Awesome
New Hammerburst (which I NEVER used in GOW1) = Awesome
Obtaining 90% of Ch33voz offline = Awesome

As Rhino the Hamster would say "FULLY AWESOME!" :P

It needs more speed. Such an insanely popular game still takes a bit too long a wait...

I haven't played Gears of War 2 yet to know the difference. Hopefully by the time I do, it'll be fixed :)

Agreed. In my opinion, the Halo Matchmaking should be the standard for all games.

True.

I'm also in agreement that Gears 2 isn't completely broken, as some folks like to call it...it's just got more variety now. On Gears 1, all you needed was a shotgun and some room to roll, and you got to be a god...at least this time they've fixed the rushing issue (except with chainsaws...that part still needs work).

Did the lag cause you to shoot yourself? I'm sure I managed to chainsaw myself the other day.