TGS 2009: Capps talks about missing 'perching' cover system from Gears of War 2

yea, any video would be great: its kinda hard to picture what theyre describing at first.. definitely woulda made gears2 more unique, less like an expansion of gears1

Since when has unrealism ever stopped Epic?

Are you honestly saying that the company that made UNreal Tournament and the UNreal Engine is worried about realism?

Certain games have to follow a sense of realism from time to time. No matter how bizzare something seems, there is always some rule that companies mostly follow. I mean, if you were somewhat of a macine that can use the perching cover, then I can see how you can hang there with one arm, and shoot at the same time. But being a human in Gears of War...that luxery of perching doesn't work (unless you're the incredible hulk or something). Maybe "The Cole Train" can use perching, but not anyone else. You try to perch by hanging with one arm and firing at the same time--see how long you hold yourself up there (and looking forward).

As a Gears-a-haulic who pledges that I don't glitch, I can tell you I really don't see that much of this going on. The few who do it are a fringe group at best.

The multi-player issues exist on other games and are a matter of how the hosting is distinguished. I do wish it were done differently, but the game is still fun.

That being said, a column or interview on X3F with the developers addressing these issues would be good.

1 or 2 games a sitting has any remote cheating to glitching. Most of the time it's just host owning people and people BAWing.

Mcbrad and Dr. House. I am a level 85 on Gears 2 right now. Don't get me wrong, I play the game all the time and it is a ton of fun. (when the host has halfway decent internet, and when you don't face a team of turbo controller fags).

My team and I see the cheating that you guys rarely see, every single day. Sometimes 3 matches in a row we know for a fact guys had turbo triggers for hammerburst. And 7 out of 10 times when the entire other team is a clan, they bridged the host and keep their firewall settings jacked up so only their team has open packet flow to the host as trusted sources, and our team will have a medium setting (or worse) and every single thing we do gets scrutinized by the computer or laptop their xbox is hooked up to.

It's that cheating that makes me sick, there are websites literally devoted to cheating on this game, and youtube is a 'how to cheat on gears' playground. The Unreal engine is a beautiful end product as far as looks go, but it is a completely broken engine as far as stability and bugginess goes. Getting out of maps, sticky walking after doing almost anything (including getting smoke stunned or picking up a weapon), getting shot through walls, ink and frag grenades blowing up and doing damage (or no damage) somewhere other than where you aimed them, headshots not registered, shots from any gun not registering, and so on. Those are all problems I see with the game regularly, as I play the game for hours every single day.

When the field is "level" the game is absolutely amazing. There is always host advantage and I have no problem with this as long as my team can actually kill people. When it's the 4th round and my team, which is very very good, only has 1 or 2 kills total...... That's not bad play, that's an unplayable connection.