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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 9:30AM The Low King said

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Yes! The current ranking system sucks!
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 12:56PM Tiptup300 said

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Are they adding real Halo style matchmaking!? If not who cares?

I actually would love to know how Halo does it's ranking, because I'm only like level 28, but I frequently get like level 40-50 people against me. I usually win/lose about 50/50, so I I'm just a bit lost. I could definitely get my rank higher though.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 1:47PM SirUrza said

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I agree. I just hope the next update doesn't only address ranking issues. Host quits outs suck. Everyone that played in the game should report the game, host drop or not. If losing hosts still get their lose reported by everyone that was in the game there would be less host quits.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 1:54PM The Low King said

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The halo ranking system works on the amount of xp you have and your skill level. For instance, to become a major you need 200 xp and 30 skill. Your skill is the highest skill you've ever achieved so it doesn't matter if it drops afterwords. Hope that helps! :)
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 2:54PM anoffday said

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Why didn't Epic just do this to begin with?
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 9:37AM McWilly said

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I'm guessing a June release. By then no-one will be playing this game. By no-one I mean...edited for off topic stupidity.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 10:07AM TheFuzzFace said

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This would at least give me something to strive for while getting my ass two pieced to death online
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 10:27AM 007craft said

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Bad Idea. Sure the current ranking system needs a change, but basing it off of games played/expereince sounds to me just like the first GOW ranking system (leaderboards). Completely pointless as you will NEVER be better then the guy who plays 8 hours a day, even if you are the better player.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 10:28AM (Unverified) said

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And the broken matchmaking?
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 5:17PM (Unverified) said

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the stupid rank system cause the matchmaking problem
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 10:29AM Jawmuncher said

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If we see achievements for ranking, they better not be any crazy.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 10:40AM (Unverified) said

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LOL Tisk tisk gears, perhaps you should of actually finished the game the first time around instead of trying to cash in on the 08 Xmas rush......Im not a Gears fan, but I feel bad for Gears fans that had their hopes on a kickass sequal only to have them destroyed....Theres always Gears 3? Right?
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 10:51AM prence said

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I think 'broken' pretty much sums it up. I've got a better Kill/Death ratio and Win/Loss ratio than the majority of my friends that have higher ranks than me.

I still don't think this is the way to go though. I don't have the time to play for 10 hours a day every single day so I'll be ranked like crap. How is this any different than the first games leaderboards?
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 11:11AM jkrincon said

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"We support change!"
So...you voted for Obama :) *Just kidding*

On the bright side, they are finally gonna fix that broken system. Altough, I am not that much of a multiplayer guy, but hey, I guess lots of people are interested.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 11:13AM Deck said

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So this is going to be Call of Duty multiplayer now huh? Well nothing wrong with that, since I am a COD whore. But... this is quite an overhaul into the games life cycle...perhaps it just wasn't ready....
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 11:38PM Misfit Toy said

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COD has the perks and unlocking of weapons as a hook to keep leveling. What does Gears have...hmm? A number!
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 11:51AM Capitalist Pig said

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I hope they do change it. I'm getting pissed because I have a better kill/death ratio than some of my friends who have higher ranks. It's ridiculous.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 3:04PM (Unverified) said

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I agree.

And I hate getting deranked even though I have a positive K/D and our team wins... >.>
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 12:38PM (Unverified) said

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It's like they've never heard of this before...

"Hey! Let's see how this works out guys! You would gain experience for how good your individual performance was!"

Damn! That sounds like an awesome plan! Let's see how it works out!
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 12:50PM Muckrak3r said

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This is complete bull crap. What they need to fix is the lag switchers and host glitchers. You can't win a match if a standy-by homo decides to lag his connection. Up 4-0 in warzone because the other team sucks? Don't worry, you will lose 5-4 when the 5-bar host glitches out and nobody can move and everyone instantly dies 10 seconds into a round.

What they need to fix is the lag in general. When I have my chainsaw revved and TOUCHING a guy for 4 full seconds and they just turn around and shotgun my ass to death.... that's a broken game right there. They didn't really fix anything except the shield glitch with that 2nd update. Outside of that, the game is sill ephed. And most likely always will be.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 4:37PM (Unverified) said

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That about sums it up.
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Posted: Feb 9th 2009 2:16PM Ellianth said

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They didn't fix the shield glitch. You can still do it. What they did was a half-assed fix, and made the dpad controls even worse.

Anywho, they said they were working on a solution to stand-byers. I'm personally excited for the new EXP system.
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Posted: Feb 9th 2009 2:19PM Muckrak3r said

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well if their fix for the stand-by glitchers is as good as you say the shield glitch fix is, there will never be a good online following for this game. the cheating and bullcrap is so rampant right now, if they don't ACTUALLY fix it, gears2 online will never live up to what gears1 online was. And gears1 was a glitch fest in and of itself. just more playable. for example, you could actually win a game of gears1 when not playing on the host team. in gears2, go play annex and not be on host team and see who wins. you won't.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 12:53PM Mal F4cti0n said

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Sounds good. I have had either two or three stripes since I bought this game. There is no sense of accomplishment. You need that in order to keep people glued to multiplayer in this day and age.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 1:10PM erf said

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"There is no sense of accomplishment"

That is exactly what the problem is with Gears ranking. COD knows how to keep players excited about their progress with constant achievements, ranking and points that actually go towards something.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 4:04PM Mal F4cti0n said

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Yep, yep.

Halo 3 does a pretty good job with it too.

I just wish that COD4 had some un-lockable achievements with the online system. That is the only flaw, if you could even call it that.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 12:56PM Jerkamie said

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gears2 is dead to me
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 1:05PM Mazrael said

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I don't see how either Gears ranking/matchmaking system works.. I always get put with the weak, whether I've been playing well or not, especially because some one leaves my team for a 5v4 or 5v3,.. it doesn't balance out the teams, surely, excess players should be put as spectator, & rotate the playing members as each one dies..
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 1:16PM (Unverified) said

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Gooch
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 1:23PM Spunky Monkey 190906 said

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Am I happy? I suppose, depends on what this overhaul consists of :)
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 2:02PM (Unverified) said

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I'm not too worried about ranking, personally since the second update Im enjoying the MP sooo much. Sure people lag switching sucks but theres nothing they can do to stop that.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 2:07PM (Unverified) said

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I managed to get all the achievements from the 2nd title update. Hopefully they will have more as well as the fixes for the ranking system.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 2:30PM andsoitgoes said

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Call me jaded, but nothing is going to fix their system. Unless they can fix the UNENDING LAG, it's going to always be balls.

And unless they put in unranked matches, it screws over the general casual population. I don't want to have to deal with douches that lag switch to keep their rank.

Who gives a crap? I don't. I just want to play and have fun. I hated ranked in Gears 1, but at least there was an alternative.

Good job, Epic. Keep screwing up.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 2:55PM anoffday said

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I gave up on Gears awhile ago. There's too many good games out there that actually work for me to waste my time waiting for this one.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 3:49PM DelTrigger said

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Yeah, I don't care for Gears 2, honestly. I don't understand why they couldn't add a decent ranking system with ranked and unranked matches. Honestly, to make Gears 1 just about perfect, they just needed to have dedicated servers.

Gears 2 is a step down, honestly. They should replace the entire multiplayer with a 'go play gears 1 for online' message.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 4:01PM fanchax said

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fucking finally they get their shit straight...
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 5:16PM (Unverified) said

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It's too late now. Everyone's already moved on to other games like L4D.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 7:56PM (Unverified) said

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Most people I know are stuck on rank 2.
I just ignore the ranking system really, it doesn't bother me much.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 9:12PM dssdevl said

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Want to fix Gears, I got two words for you:
DEDICATED SERVERS!

Anything else is only window dressing. I am an avid Gears fan, and I don't want to play this game. It is a shame that a recent game has the lag this game does.
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Posted: Feb 8th 2009 10:07PM (Unverified) said

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Lets not forget about the kicking players.



but serously imo. match making blows. I like the old gears 1 multiplayer playlist better.



Like uno.
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Posted: Feb 9th 2009 12:33AM petepete said

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this is like the boy who cried wolf... i'm honestly fed up with epic for taking such a long time to do this while cliffy b struts around like he made the best game ever...
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Posted: Feb 9th 2009 9:02AM emirabal said

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BOUT EFFING TIME.
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Posted: Feb 9th 2009 10:40AM skfireboy said

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who gives a crap about a ranking system? It means nothing! Its a virtual number in a virtual game!

why not play to have fun and instead devote all your time and serious effort into something that might have some merit?

Don't get me wrong, I love online multiplayer games but when people get so serious over something so pointless, its pretty sad.......
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Posted: Feb 9th 2009 12:47PM (Unverified) said

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I fink a cod like ranking system would be better, as it is there are only 5 ranks on gears 2 anyway which is boring.

and the win loss system isnt really fair as we all start off as n00bs at some point and losing a lot of games will reflect whether or not we rank up... whereas exp would change that (:

also theres a flip switch hack where you can switch modem on and off and be host, and in game be the only person to spawn so u can just go and pawn the enemies, if enough people figure out how to, this game will be ruined, so that needs patching up.

(:
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Posted: Feb 9th 2009 1:29PM Troggie said

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A system based solely on experience would suck. It IS possible for someone with not that much experience to still be good at the game. I play with a group that was REALLY good at Gears 1 and we regularly beat higher ranked teams, but all of us are stuck at rank 2. So, either we aren't ranked high enough, or those others are ranked too high.

Experience does NOT equate to being good at the game. Everyone seems to like the ranking system in Halo3, CoD, Rainbow 6: Vegas, etc, so why not just mimic what their doing?

Who knows, maybe the current matchmaking system DOES work, but there aren't enough ranks to differentiate between good player and bad. There is definitely a massive amount of skill difference between someone that is stuck at going between 1 & 2, and someone that goes between 2 & 3, but you would know it if they're both at 2.
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Posted: Mar 5th 2009 6:54PM (Unverified) said

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i think the ranking system is pretty goo all ready people just dont like it cause they cant get past rank 2 so the new ranking system will just help out the people that play gears a lot so the they are higher rank but they really suck thats why they want a new ranking system if u think i suck at gears 2 look me up on the gears 2 homepage under wingman put in my gamer tag BlueCougar25 over 200 wins and about 260 loses i am good and dont want the ranking system to change and people that suck will just play at lot like 9 hours a day even thou they suck o they can rank up i mean if they do change it i will hit rank 99 in 2 weeks tops cause in wingman i averge 10 per match and warsone like 15 kill a match keep this system or add 5 more to this good ranking system
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