Gears of War 2 patch coming soon

Epic says a major Gears of War 2 patch will go live this month, addressing bugs and exploits as well as adding new achievement points.

Gears of War 2 patch coming soon

According to Epic vice president Mark Rein, a Gears of War 2 patch will go live sometime this month that fixes a handful of online exploits, improves overall gameplay, and adds new achievement points related to downloadable content. No exact date is mentioned for when the patch will go live, but Rein does assure Gearheads that the patch will come out in "January... we are working hard to get this out the door." Here's the complete, more detailed forum post from Mark Rein:

"As I mentioned before the break we've been working on a major title update for Gears of War 2. This update will address bugs and exploits as well as add some new achievements related to downloadable content. We don't have an exact date for it but all indicators are it will go live within January. If that changes we'll let you know.

We're fixing a whole bunch of online exploits. For example we've fixed the ability to wield an invisible shield, melee through some walls, gain infinite Lancer ammo and equip a shield and a two-handed weapon simultaneously plus many more.

We're also making several small changes to improve the overall online gameplay experience. A few of the ones that might interest you are; increased penalties for quitting matches early, adding additional spawn protection against planted grenades and chainsaw attacks, and adding the ability to see the Submission flag carrier destination by using Tac/Com.

We know you folks love achievements so on the achievement side we're adding achievement progress numbers to the War Journal, increasing the frequency of in-game Achievement progression notifications and adding some new Achievements for DLC.

This is just a very small list of some of the things that will be in the next title update but one more item which has been talked about a lot in our forums deserves a special call out...

About that shotgun...

We fixed the client side hit detection on the shotgun so that in a high-latency (i.e. "laggy") match, the shotgun will be more reliable. We've also fixed another bug whereby shotgun and boomshot rounds could strike the ground when firing from the hip.

So there's a brief status report on the next title update. At some point I expect we'll post a more detailed list but I assure you we're working hard to get this out the door and once it's done we'll start working on the next update. We'll try to do a better job keeping you informed of our progress on future updates and we'll try to be a little more active in the forums once this update is released."

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htown4life

Awesome, bout time they can keep the achievements tho I only have 2 left an now they wanna add more shit pisses me off, thats why I don't play Halo fuckin homo's added stupid achievements to the game when I had them all already

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almost_hurley

This is good news for Gears of War fans, they should have done this long time ago instead of realeasing new maps and making money i stop playing Gears of War 2 when i got 890 achiement points went back to playing gears of war 1 shooty time love the shotgun. kosi_evolution

htown4life

Kenjikai wrote:

You act like you have to get all the achievements

I do I'm an achievement whore, well not really but I liek to have my games completed

VivaLeResistance

If they fix the shotgun lagging problems I will definitely play gears 2 again.

VivaLeResistance

almost_hurley wrote:

This is good news for Gears of War fans, they should have done this long time ago instead of realeasing new maps and making money i stop playing Gears of War 2 when i got 890 achiement points went back to playing gears of war 1 shooty time love the shotgun. kosi_evolution

I regret selling Gears 1 after playing multiplayer in 2. it sucks.

darkdayz

i threw in the towel on this one cause the multiplayer is down right aweful i cant believe i bought it from gamefly............. stupid rental!

XguniorX

thank you lord ... thank you ... wet dreams of good online play are sure to come :)

denveraic

It'd about fuckin time. I have to play Gears one because of this garbage.

TheMisfit138

The online multiplayer should have been good from the get go. But if these changes do what they're suppose to do maybe i'll actually play more than 3 matches of multiplayer.

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