Gears of War 3 causing some Xboxes to grind to a halt [Update: Epic responds]

by JC Fletcher on Oct 10th 2011 10:43AM

Gears of War 3 players are flooding the Epic forums with complaints of freezing issues, which occur when players attempt to load a game mode. Specifically, it seems to be limited to splitscreen Horde play with two profiles -- when the glitch hits, it permanently alters one of the profiles, making it impossible to enter any game mode. So ... that's not a great bug.

Epic is aware of it; in fact, Epic rep Rykard posted a questionnaire attempting to nail down the exact issue. We're checking in with Epic for an ETA on the fix. Until then ... try not to play Horde mode in splitscreen.

Update: Epic Games tells us, "Getting this resolved is a priority for Epic. We are collecting information internally, sourcing as much as possible from the community and exploring potential fixes. We do not have any recommendations to share with players just yet."

[Thanks, CJ]

Source: Epic

Tags: epic-games, freezing, Gears-of-War-3, microsoft, xbox

Reader Comments (55)

Oh, hey look 360's failing. That's new.

@HudsonX1

Oh, hey look a douche. That's new.

@HudsonX1 You know you don't just have to like stuff sony makes just look at your other comments.

@HudsonX1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaqC5FnvAEc&list=FLXFk8Ynpc5P0fOcu0UFmeCA&index=6

@HudsonX1

oh, hey look someone can't read the article. it says the issue is with the game, not the Xbox. but I guess JC can't come up with a better title that isn't flame bait. unless i read it wrong, this doesn't cause the XBox to become inoperable, just the game.

@Captain Planet Planeteer Power
Oh there's plenty of those around here.

@HudsonX1

An imbecile with a keyboard. Joystiq should permaban anyone who makes 5 posts that are voted down to oblivion. That would get rid of stupid kids like this.

@Meganinja

Maybe if you changes your name to "MegaAwesomeNinja" you'd fair better?

@HudsonX1 Oh hey, look reading comprehension fail. That's new

@OverDriven I've had way more than 5 comments down voted add this one to the list.

Yay for patches.

@floating coffins

Yay for the days of old when a game had to be a 100% complete and working before shipping.

@sin2sin Because games that came out before patching was possible were completely perfect.

@sin2sin

When were those days?

@zefur

The Tiger handheld days.

@sin2sin
You act like glitches never existed before this console gen.

@zefur

*looks at copy of Fallout: New Vegas.....weeps for future of gaming like the crying indian from the Keep America Beautiful campaign*

Minor glitches are one thing, but could you imagine selecting something like 2 players on Super Mario Bros and that making the game inoperable. Course, that might have been par for the course for poor underappreciated Luigi.

@sin2sin You must not remember the release of Top Gun for the NES.

@YourMomsLover "Last I checked all other consoles can only have one name signed in besides the original xbox."

PS3 let multiple users sign in since the first littlebigplanet

There's just too much "AWESOME" in that extra gig of available space on these DVDs.

Read the article, not just the headline.

@garbagejuicer

do you realize how hard that is for some people? that's like.... too many words and stuff.

@garbagejuicer
Good for you.

I had a problem with GoW3 also, but not this one. I played through campaign and finished the game. I then redeemed a 30 day XBLG card so I could play multiplayer, and logged in to Live. The next time I started GoW3, the game downloaded an update (which is obviously normal and common for a lot of games). However, when the update was finished installing, it corrupted my completed single-player game. It then told me that I had to erase the save game because it was corrupted. So I lost all the work I put in to Campaign. Not the biggest deal, but still pretty annoying considering the time I put into it.

@OverDriven But you didn't, as you can load the campaign from the exact chapter you were on.

Holy crap, glad I haven't tried any splitscreen horde yet

@The Tim

My brother plays split screen on Horde with his girlfriend all the time and they've never had any issues.

Let's get this in the right causal order:

Xbox 360s are failing at roughly the same rate they always are (like any electronic device) while people happen to be playing Gears of War 3.

@mykevermin

Another illiterate imbecile. First, this is not causing a RROD. Second, this is causing a problem within the game, not a failure of the Xbox. It's funny how you're too stupid and too lazy to read, but you have no problem typing out your misinformed opinion.

@OverDriven

That's weird. I didn't see him mention RROD anywhere in his post. In fact, he even likened the failures to "like any electronic device". I was unaware all electronic devices RROD.

How you are upvoted to 3 hearts is beyond me.

@Co I guess he is another ANOTHER illiterate imbecile.

@Co Well he did use the phrase "Xbox360's are failing", that would lead us to suspect he thinks the systems are at fault here and breaking down.

I figured it might happen in splitscreen. Gears is so packed that the disc still spins sometimes even while it's installed. I never wanted to play splitscreen because I figured it'd be way too much strain.

I've been playing a lot of splitscreen Horde with my son while each of us is signed in to our own Live profiles. We haven't had any problems. Lucky? Or can it be sku specific?

I love my Xbox. Buts it's a PoS. even the slims are full of cheap hardware. But ive got. Far more playtime on my slim that I just bought last October than my ps3 that I've owned since launch.

Oh sure, fix this problem, but ignore the problems I was having. I had to trade in my xbox for a slim model just to get the game to work. Neither Epic nor Microsoft wanted to help me.

Funny thing is, this bug is not new, the exact same happened to Gears of War 2 when they applied the last update. I had my profile corrupted once, and had to reset it (And I was at level 100), and the same happened to my girlfriend twice. We were really hoping they would've sorted this problem out by the time Gears 3 rolled out, but from what they're saying in the forums, they didn't.

@Acid Fox
There are thousands of people complaining about that gears 2 bug on the official game forums too and basically the response to them was "there's a new game coming out, we're not patching Gears 2 again, sorry..."

That response is why i didn't buy gears 3 even though it looks to be an amazing game.

Now the exact same error is happening in gears 3... I feel both disappointed and vindicated at the same time.

I love current generation of consoles but we seriously need the next generation to come out, you guys who want the current 1 buy it, we that are getting tired of the current 1 will wait for the next generation and hope it comes in the next 2 years

@sonyforlife and this has any relevance to the article...how?

I had something similar happen when playing splitscreen with my wife. It wouldn't let us join any games or partys, or anyone join ours, when we were both signed in. I found in the end that if I invited everyone to a party and then my wife signed in, it would work and we could play. Not the quickest way to join games though and it obviously only worked when playing with friends

Not that Epic isn't completely at fault here but:

What people really need to be asking is: How in the hell does something like this get through the Microsoft cert process? (and especially with regards to who the publisher is)

Somehow this news gave me the impression Epic knew it all along, couldn't figure out in time to release and released it anyway, using players as beta testers to figure out what the hell is going on. I for one don't see it as something THAT bad. I mean, before the "patch age" that people are complaining about, they'd have to push back the game release 'till they got this issue nailed. An issue with a minor part of the game would delay the whole experience. So yeah, I'm fine with that.

"Getting this resolved is a top priority"

I guess testing the game before it was released wasn't anywhere near a priority, huh?

HAHAHAHAHAHA LOL HAHAHA ROFL HAHAHA...

that is all

Same shit as Gears 2. Pretty lazy there, Epic.

@grendelpoots

Yeah man, Lazy Epic. How dare them improve on gears 2 on every single level. How dare them not catch every single bug.

It's the same bug (but worse) as they had in gow2 that they didn't bother to fix, which left the game broken for a l

I never had it freeze up on me, HOWEVER after playing some spitscreen, I was not able to start any game mode. The game would attempt to launch the chosen game mode, but would fail. I tried clearing the cache and that fixed it.

Hmmm, I've played Horde mode two or three times in splitscreen mode so far. Looks like I might be staying out of that for a little while though and count myself lucky.

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