Third Gears 2 title update already being discussed

by Dustin Burg { Jan 24th 2009 at 2:15PM }

If the first or even the second Gears of War 2 title updates weren't enough to satisfy your need to patch the Gears experience, then know that a third patch is already in the planning stages.

OrtanaIV of the official Epic Games forums put together a comprehensive list of quotes by Epic members who've been discussing features they're working on for the third Gears 2 patch. Among what's being discussed is toning down of the ever popular "two-piece", re-tweaking of smoke grenades, looking into the lag situation and more. Make the jump to read up on what the third title update may offer, but know that the Epic crew has yet to officially confirm a release date or even its existence.

[Thanks, Faiz R.]

Tags: epic, epic-games, gears-of-war-2, gow2

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Mr Zero @ Jan 24th 2009 2:20PM

Er....third times the charm?

I'm not really bothered. Gears 2 has really been the subject of hate ever since it's release, so I think releasing a 3rd patch will hardly impress anyone...

oh well.....

SToNeP2277 @ Jan 24th 2009 2:29PM

I hope Lag switching is in that list.

phinix08 @ Jan 24th 2009 3:29PM

WTF is it with you and lag switching...they cannot fix it its a server thing...deal with it

Easo @ Jan 24th 2009 5:19PM

phinix08
Lag switching is not a server issue. Its a device that can be purchased or made that can be used to introduce lag into a game. Usually the person with the lag switch is unaffected by the lag they introduce. What really sucks about lag switches is that they are extremely cheap and easy to make.

yolarrydabomb @ Jan 24th 2009 5:24PM

so in other words its your internet or their internet FUCKING UP!

Vcize @ Jan 24th 2009 6:33PM

Except that lag switches don't work in a lot of other games...

Dr Jeckyl and Mr ESC. @ Jan 24th 2009 8:24PM

People use that a lot in halo I think everybody. I always have lag just when I'm about to win or when I'm in 1st place.

Yes xbox f*gg*try goes that far.

You know they should have their own servers or remove all MP achievements. What’s the point of having them anyway if most people are going to cheat to get them and the guys who are trying to get them legit like me are frustrated by all the motherf*cking lag?

Thankfully a lot of developers are aware of this and they are making them easier to obtain in MP but then again what’s the point? I rather have achievements that require me to do something crazy in single player or Co-op.

SToNeP2277 @ Jan 25th 2009 7:52AM

@phinix08

I just cant believe people still playing Gears 2 and having fun with all them glitches and Lag switching.i hate waiting for a match for like 10mins or more then when it starts guess what good old Lag switching so yeah i cant deal with it.

eric f. @ Jan 25th 2009 1:49PM

Yesterday was my first time back to gears after the patch.

As the final round of an Execution match is about to begin, our screens freeze up and we wonder what the hell is going on. after about 15 seconds, the status on our screen shows that all five of us have been shotgunned by the same guy and we've lost. game over. WHat??

I've never seen this in Gears before, and I've played hundreds of hours.

SToNeP2277 @ Jan 25th 2009 10:46PM

@eric f. Welcome to the world of Lag switching bro.

scott @ Jan 24th 2009 2:31PM

Metal Gears Of War

ryan @ Jan 24th 2009 3:40PM

War has changed...here, have a patch. Or two, or three. :)

Mark @ Jan 24th 2009 2:45PM

What is the "two-piece"?

skin.bintin @ Jan 24th 2009 3:00PM

Equip Shotgun. Approach enemy. Melee. Shoot. Enemy explodes!

ryan @ Jan 24th 2009 3:40PM

I thought it was a downloadable top and thong for my meaty buff dudes. Guess I can keep dreaming... :P

ObiWanKennoli @ Jan 24th 2009 2:58PM

@Mark

"two-piece" is when someone runs up to you and bashes you and while you are stunned immediately shoots you with a shotgun, resulting in your body being split into two, or being "two-pieced"

hope that helps

Mark @ Jan 24th 2009 3:12PM

Thanks.

McWilly @ Jan 24th 2009 3:18PM

Two piece is referred to the melee and the shot. Not the body splitting in two.

Beagles @ Jan 24th 2009 8:21PM

If you played Gears of War 1 you would know that two piecing came from blowing someone into two pieces after a melee and a shotgun. The range and position your enemy was in would almost always blow them in half.

McWilly @ Jan 24th 2009 9:37PM

Two piecing in Gears 1 and 2 is referred to the melee THEN the shot. NOT because the person blows in half. People split in two even if you don't melee and shoot.
So why don't people call it 2piecing when you do'nt melee first??.....because it's incorrect. According to your theory every shotgun kill in Gears 1 and 2 is 2piecing regardless of the melee. You are wrong.

Beagles @ Jan 25th 2009 4:17AM

Thanks for not reading my post. Let me reemphasize here that in Gears of War 1, the RANGE and standing POSITION of your enemy after meleeing would generally blow your enemy into TWO pieces. Thats where the term came from.

If you played the first game you would know that. People throw the term around like it applies to everything. It even sounds incredibly stupid when someone double melees and people scream "Two PIECE!!".

Its not really a big deal, but your arrogant attitude along with your wrongness warrants this post.

skin.bintin @ Jan 24th 2009 3:00PM

I live in hope....

DarkNightRJ @ Jan 24th 2009 2:59PM

Don't take away my two-piecing! I know its prob a noob tactic, but its so satisfying.

and @Mark, two-piece is when you melee someone and shoot them with the shotgun.

Nick @ Jan 24th 2009 9:05PM

two-piecing used to be n00bish, now with the system it's actually a bit more complicated to do. I quite enjoy doing it, but it IS tough to do.

Just like the lancer is more forefront, so is the two-piecer

No47 @ Jan 24th 2009 3:02PM

They need to tone down the lancer as well.

This is the new shotgun, ie gears of war 1 overpowered weapon.

McWilly @ Jan 24th 2009 3:32PM

IMO two piecing is by far the lesser of two evils when it comes to the 2piece and the chainsaw.
At least it involves some level of effort by the player but the chainsaw is much more unfair.
Hold B and you can run through a hail of bullets and chainsaw a guy even though he's been shooting the whole time.

I don't like either of these methods but if you're going to favour the worst of the two then I'm gonna come down there with a really big rusty cheese grater. Fix them both. Thank you and fuck off epic.

Psycho300x @ Jan 24th 2009 3:58PM

Little too late, even if they patch it I probably won't be back to play, and that likely goes for a lot more people than just myself.

EgoCheck616 @ Jan 24th 2009 4:24PM

The sad thing is you actually think people care...

Psycho300x @ Jan 24th 2009 6:08PM

EgoCheck616 : Pro dickhead

dunnypop @ Jan 24th 2009 4:45PM

I wish they had an old school mode (without grenade wall sticking).

djbuhhda @ Jan 24th 2009 5:07PM

i hope they make it so that if the host quits that it goes to someone else, and how about its someone stand-bys it would do something to stop the person who is stand-bying cuz its bull.

djbuhhda @ Jan 24th 2009 5:09PM

oh yeah and how about they do something about smokegrenade/chainsaw i mean if im on the floor defenseless with a chainsaw above my head i wish i had at least .5sec to try and roll away when i get up.

BUGz @ Jan 24th 2009 5:11PM

okay to fix the lag and lagswtching for good BRING BACK THE CONNECTION ERROR from gears 1...

djbuhhda @ Jan 25th 2009 2:00PM

yeh i was thinking they should do that to.

PicoBoocaburra @ Jan 24th 2009 6:12PM

I am a very loyal Gears 1 player:

I couldn't be more disappointed with Gears 2 multiplayer. Even after the first two patches nothing seems terribly different. Smokes are still annoying as hell, waiting to get into a match still takes forever, most the weapons seem horribly unbalanced, I get matched with foreigners all the time and to top it off the lag is worse than ever. The problems are compounded because they TOOK AWAY the server browser from gears 1 so I can't pick the match length, number of rounds, game type or anything, I just get shoveled into a game I don't want to play. Then, once the match starts a few people quit and I'm left in a 2 vs 5 king of the hill.

It's RIDICULOUS how terrible the multiplayer experience is. I tried playing 10 matches today and never got into a game that was fun at all. I can't understand what Epic did with their extra 60 million that microsoft gave them to get this game out in November. Maybe their high salary employee's like Cliffy and Mark Rein are now able to buy a few more sports cars or something, because they certainly didn't spend the money on hiring people to get this game to work. I would have waited another year to buy it rather than play this buggy, laggy piece of trash.

SToNeP2277 @ Jan 25th 2009 7:28AM

I feel your pain bro.

slickhead @ Jan 25th 2009 2:56PM

I couldn't have said it better.

horngreen @ Jan 24th 2009 7:33PM

Feel free to include free HDD space on some server Epic as all the number of patches needed to fix this game will fill my 20gig!

David Hinkle @ Jan 24th 2009 8:00PM

Smoke grenades definitely need to be toned down. Or, you know, just eliminated from the game.

CaramelZappa @ Jan 25th 2009 2:14PM

I liked the smoke grenades a lot better when they were almost useless.

The smoke grenade, chainsaw not being lowered, and melee's not stunning people completely ruined gears online for me.

Nick @ Jan 24th 2009 9:07PM

Epic, maybe you can work on not breaking things that aren't broken, and work on fixing the stupid things.

When I go to play against bots, it should not take 4 shotgun hits to the chest to down them, especially when, after 4 said hits, they turn around and blow me to bits with one.

This, just fyi, is with casual bots.

And not being able to shoot out of a roadie run?

Execution rules in Annex?

Really? REALLY?

And if you're going to fix the lag for the shotgun, maybe actually do something to fix the lag. Nothing, NOTHING has changed, except maybe for the worse.

Nick @ Jan 24th 2009 9:09PM

Exactly, player matches or STFU epic!

Why does it have to be so complicated? Just let me do player matches!! I don't care about matchmaking, I just want to play with people for more than 1 round, and NOT against people that take it too seriously. I don't want to care about rank!

I never played ranked in Gears 1, and it's stupid that we're forced to do so in gears 2.

I would love, LOVE, LOVE this game if player matches were an option. Whenever I play private with people, it's a bucketload of fun. It really is. But I don't have 9 people that can drop everything and play with me. 5, sure - but 9?

JEBUS!!!

mastercuddles @ Jan 25th 2009 7:44AM

guess I'll just be like everyone else and complain.
Epic really did drop the ball. The lag in this game is just stupid which would probably be sorted with halos system of matchmaking, region specific searches and good connection only settings. (also a 20 second waiting time at the end of a match before I can do anything else is just fucking stupid)

I loved gears 1, played it alot online. I thought gears 2 would rekindle that love...it didn't.

BFBeast666 @ Jan 25th 2009 9:01AM

What really bugs me is the total lack of UT3 support on the 360. No DLC at all. Where's all that "best of mods" that Epic was promising to give us in exchange for not having built-in mod support?

Maniaqc @ Jan 25th 2009 10:30AM

My people, sons and daughters of Sony. This much I vow. The history of this console generation will be written in blood. By crushing the fanboys of our enemy. By releasing the best game in the genre they thought to use against us.. we are fighting for our consoles very existence. But if there are those who want to deny us enjoyment. Refuse us our rightful place in this console generation. Then we will unleash such a terribly awesome FPS that generations of xbros yet unborn will cry out in anguish! -break- Th enemy may shatter our sales but they can not break our spirit. Even now they advance on our metacritic gamesections to troll by force what they cannot claim by right. They cannot imagine what awaits them. WE WILL SMITE THE XBROS WITH THIS GAME. Though they sweep over our forums like the trolls of summer vacation. Never again will we be trolled by them; Never again endure their jealousy; Never again endure their lies and oppression. We will enjoy ourselves for hours without caring; playing as one hand, one heart, one soul. We will shatter their dreams and haunt their nightmares. Drenching our ancestors PS2’s with their blood. And as our last breath tears at their lungs; as they try to rise again from the ruins of their RROD:ed consoles... ...they will know, Killzone 2 belongs to the Playstation 3.

C I2 I M S 0 N @ Jan 25th 2009 2:01PM

Oh no you didn't.

I was disappointed that Gears 2 was such an "Epic" Fail, but they are trying to make it better for us. You must give time for Epic and their even comeing out with a THIRD Patch. it doesn't really help if your crying all the time, and a tip if your playing public matchmaking, fill up your party, if so, and you have a good conncection, it should take no longer than 5 minutes to find a match, if so, is your connection that is absolute Sh*te

DRock067 @ Jan 25th 2009 2:38PM

Have you ever touched a woman's breast before?

Jerdude1234 @ Jan 25th 2009 11:06AM

Smoke grenades need fixing. They should tone it down to a knock back or something so that way you are still standing and able to fire your weapon. Something doesnt have you sitting on the floor for 30 seconds as the enemy team just stands there and picks you off.

I use two-piecing alot...keep that....plz