Video: Cliff explains the Gears of War 2 update

Did they fix the matchmaking issues?

And the game still SUCKS!!! Face it! I don't care how big a Gears Fanboy you are... The game is Horrible!

I didn't know Adam and Morgan kissed so much butt.

cliff looks like he is mad in that first pic mmmm..... i wounder y.

I hope to get my 360 back to see if this patch really pumps the fun back into this game.

I never been a big fan of matchmaking in games and never understood why everyone was bitching so much about it not being in the first game. From my experience it seems to pick the worst gamestype possible then people get upset then quit out.

I must say since the first patch I have had no matchmaking problems at all and I tend to play around 12 to 5 am.... Which is one of the worst times....

Aside from that I CANNOT WAIT for a lil gaming tonight against all those cheaters from before. And there were ALOT of them. Every bug that I saw being exploited has seem to be fixed. Although I cant remember reading anywhere about the chainsaw pull in bug that people seem to LOVE doing to me....

Good luck every1 who was a non-cheater this should even the playing field for us very very nicely!

And btw the game hasnt been out that long, Epic might have released an extremely buggy game but they look like they are trying to keep us happy, so lets just go with it eh guys?

this game was a tremendous disappointment. easily the disappointment of the year. why can't gears have an easy playlist system like COD4 or Halo3? i beat the single player and traded this stinker in. multiplayer was horrible.

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Game= Still broken. Played a few games with friends last night and it wasn't much better at all.

if the game takes longer than 5 minutes to find a game i restart the search. Usually finds a game ridiculously fast for some reason.

What is this horror reboot he is talking about. Thats got me interested.

The update is pretty sweet im not having any connection issues, although it seems there is more people standbyin that anything else...its wierd when you play a game and there is only one person in the game getting well over 15 kills when everyone else is laggin...i wish they would go to dedicated servers allready....this stupid host crap needs to be killed

"shipped with a few glitches and exploits"? Really? I think "few" means three generally. Hell I'll even give you 6 as a few Cliffy. The list I saw read like a fucking laundry list. I doubt I'll ever put the game back in. The co-op campaign was weak as hell and really just more of the same old same old. It's obvious getting this out by Xmas was high priority and quality was not.

Game is super garbage now, they broke it even more GJ EPIC!

i wasnt impressed by the last update and the latest patch isnt gonna bring me back to gears of war 2 any time soon.

after being spoiled by cod4 and codWaW matchmaking that never takes more than Seconds even a couple Minutes is a lifetime.

so many ppl quit so often i gave up on finishing a 5v5 without being in a private match, the only way to choose your game type for sure.

im happy i didnt buy gears2. it feels like gears 1.5 to me and thats not enough. i was never impressed and i dont think a couple patches can fix that.

UPDATE: xbox 360 Gears of War 2
After returning the first game CD/DVD and getting a new one and having the same problem of " Disk unreadable: please use soft cloth to clean disk "
While playing the game. I took the CD/DVD and looked at it under my shop magnifying glass.
I notice a discoloration or for lack of a better word a water mark splotch looking dark areas on the disk.
I compared it with the Gears of war disk and you could see the defects in the Gears of War 2 disk.
I compared it also with my othe game disks none of them had it except Gears of war 2.
This is a manufacturing failure to check their blank disks for defects before putting the games on them. This is for sure a defect in the disk. I am returning the 2nd disk of Gears or war 2. Both game disks were purchased at Wal-mart ( not that they have anthing to do with how the game was made). I hope this helps those of you that are getting the phantom "Disk unreadable: please clean with a soft cloth. Anytime while playing the game.

You never answered why is still Lag switching after the second patch release Dustin.why why why

There is nothing you can do about firewall or standby switches until the servers go dedicated....your going to have to deal with it

matchmaking problems are all but fixed, as far as i can tell. it takes just a minute or two to get in a game for me, when playing alone. i haven't tried playing in larger parties yet, however.

now, lag issues, and the "tractor-beam" chainsaw, on the other hand, are still quite present, and very annoying. still, it's a pretty fun game, and it seems like the matchmaking problems are overstated by fanboys looking for something to scream and bitch about on messageboards.

How do you people feel about "fixing" the reverse shield bug? I happen to think it is a great feature. In public Horde matches I am usually the last one alive and depend on the shield being planted backwards to keep me alive.

it was disapointing. but not for a year award.

i have less issues with the patches but still competitive problems apear like people who leave the match even if they are about to start.
first gears multiplayer was definetly better but gears 2 improve a lot of things that makes the game better than the first one.

its gears of war, if the fan base wasn't complaining something would be wrong.

lets get real, the series has always been like this, its just been a couple years since we had to play gears1 before any title updates. The chainsaw was worse then because you couldn't ever die. Sure things aren't perfect, but the update was a start, and no this game isn't as big of a fail as everyone wants it to be. As far as everyone complaining about lag, well sorry you can't stop people from standbying you or using a lag switch in this host set-up so really don't blame the game its the players who suck. And this game attracts the worst of them.

Gears of War 2 movie, don't they have to make the first one before the sequel?

Game is total trash. Cliffy B can eat a fat one.

Unfortunately for me, this patch has come out too late. I tried the game, but I just couldn't get back into it. There are still a variety of general problems that I don't really see how they will end up fixing.

I have a pretty good internet connection, and I always play Gears 2 with my brother, this makes matchmaking easier, but still not perfect. The time it takes is about 5-10 minutes, sometimes less if we get lucky, but ultimately the problem is that we'll usually end up playing in a map or game mode that we simply don't like. In Gears 1, I could instantly find a game of Warzone. In Gears 2, who knows how long it could take.

Here's the main problem with the matchmaking though, even if it takes 5-10 minutes, the game itself doesn't last very long. There are a lot of times when the game lasts a less amount of time than the waiting period. That's one aspect that I find unacceptable. In comparison, with Left 4 Dead you can either join a game in progress, or join a lobby. The lobby depends on how fast people join and whenever the host decides to start. But let's assume you wait about 5-10 minutes, if you get the game going, it usually lasts the entire way, which tends to be about an hour, sometimes more.

Like I said, this patch for me has come too late, and still isn't enough to grab me back. In the time they took making these patches, I was already looking into other games, and Left 4 Dead is definitely a lot more fun than the mess they have going in Gears 2.

Can I just say to Dustin right now, I feel for you man. I just read the 46 comments above and it hurts to read so much negativity towards a game I love, and to know that it is justified makes it even worse.

Still though I have personallly never had the matchmaking issues others are having on such a wide scale and find the 2nd patch to have really improved the multiplayer. I think they have got the balance between the shotgun and the lancer so much better now and it still amazes me that it was launched with the shotgun being so weak.

For all of you trading in I think you are crazy, for me this is still one hell of a good game. It has its issues but Epic are at least focussed on fixing them if they aren't as open about admitting to the huge number of issues the game shippied with.

Then again, I don't have COD4 or Halo 3, so what do I know? Right?!?!?

They missed fixing the bug where some people will start matches without a weapon in their hand, and can't do anything but run around the whole round. Played last night and 3 people on my team didn't have a weapon in their hands!