Oliath Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 I am disgusted that the Gears of War thread is so far down the list already. Anyhoooo... are any of you guys facing the HORDE tonight? I gotta give my girlfriend a bit of a seeing too, but its been over a week due to work and colds so i shouldn't be more than about thirty seconds inc cleanup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Pfft, that long? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboxy Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 can't you just do both at the same time. We'll keep reviving you and giving you a prep talk to help your performance. Turn on your live vision cam and it can be interactive as well. I love the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliath Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 yeah its a deal. Tell you what... If you are downed though Jimbo i'm gonna walk up behind you and dry hump you before reviving you... just so you feel all dirty and used for the rest of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illdog Posted November 27, 2008 Author Share Posted November 27, 2008 I posted in the Online Playlist thread but yea, im up for this like if Mariah was asking. Wave 37 to 50 tonight gents! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboxy Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 yeah its a deal.Tell you what... If you are downed though Jimbo i'm gonna walk up behind you and dry hump you before reviving you... just so you feel all dirty and used for the rest of the game. same shit different day im up for this like if Mariah was asking mariah carey? i'll pass thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliath Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 MATCHMAKING PATCH RELEASED Or should that go in the news?? Anyway... had a quick shuffle on the multi after installing and it DOES indeed fix it up and make it find games faster... in MOST cases. i.e. played a couple of matches... found them fast... played another... took forever. Oh..and the lag seems worse now but that might just be cos its thanks giving and every single mofo in USA is playing on xbox live... bastardos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hinn888 Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Finally! I hope what u said about the lag is right, other wise thats worse than waiting for a game to be made. On a different note, i like your avatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliath Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 Thanks I got bored and decided to make the most bizarre avatar i could. Next week i'll be going for the campest one lol. Its to scare off the kids from sending me friend requests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hinn888 Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 This is what they patched "Hey all,I’m happy to announce that this morning, at 3:40 AM PST, we released a title update that should help with the current matchmaking issues. In order to get the update out as quickly as possible, we focused just on immediate infrastructure issues and have left any potential gameplay issues for a future update. Here’s what’s in today’s title update: * Adjustments to make Public matchmaking faster, especially in the single player party and the four player party case. Some of these adjustments should be felt immediately and some will play out over several days as our update enables us to reduce player segmentation by reducing the number of servers required to do matchmaking. This will increase the number of possible matches available for you to join. * A tweak that should prevent us from losing some of our additional detailed stats data that we gather for gearsofwar.com. Due to the large number of concurrent matches, our stats gathering servers were not able to collect data for every single match played. The Xbox LIVE leaderboards are 100% accurate but our existing stats web pages may have some missing data prior to the update. * A fix to address the issue where some players were unable to start the story-based campaign if Xbox LIVE was down or unavailable. Something to keep in mind, if you have been playing Gears 2 since the title update was made available, then you will need to restart the game in order to be prompted for the update. If you don’t do this, then a situation will occur where people without the update will not be able to match make with people who have the update. This has nothing to do with the game or this update in particular, just the way the title update system works. We want to thank everyone for their patience during this time and we will continue to monitor the situation. We’re hopeful that the matchmaking issues we’ve seen up till now are a thing of the past. Thanks, Rod." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliath Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 MORNING!!!! I read somewhere (i am sure it was his post but can't see it in there) that the effects of the update might take a few days to have full effect... something with the way the xbox live system propegates information / patches to matchmaking. Anyway.... since the patch i have had ups and downs. Most matchmaking is far quicker.... although it now seems to have slowed down again! Not to the impossible pace it was at... but still not as fast as it should be since its only trying to find nine other players!! The lag is possibly getting better. I am not one hundred percent sure of this.... i could just be learning to adapt... but was not getting my ass whopped by sunday as much as i was on friday. The host advantage thing is an utter joke. Seeing as this was one of the things that they said they had removed from the first game! Clearly still there. I was told you can tell if you are host and HOW much lag you have by shooting a weapon and seeing how fast the bullet count goes down on your hud. If you are host this will be instant (the same as when you play offline). If you are not there will be a delay.... the amount of delay is how much lag you have! As host you can litterally mow people down, One shot gib them with the shogun and alll kinds of other crazy superman shit. The other thing the game is STILL doing is putting up unbalanced teams. I was in a game the other day. We were all 1 or 2 stripes in rank and one man missing from start. The other team were all 2 or 3 gold stripes....and of course we got absolutely anihilated. I am still loving this game though. I thought i was over it and then had an INCREDIBLE session which got me totally addicted again. Horde is also still the most awesome thing in the world ever. I was getting a bit bored as i had only ever played it on the same maps, but i had a go on HAIL last night and it was brilliant. Its quite a big map so it felt also like an epic campaign mission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hinn888 Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 lol they still have tht host thing eh? I really dno why they dont fiz this it makes it stupidly unfair, like have one active bullet in ur sniper and shoot just near the head u get a headshot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliath Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Actually they have nerfed the snipe to the point where you really do have to be aiming at the head... so that is good. I think the weapons and stuff are much more balanced... just when u have host you really know about it as your shotgun becomes a fucking rocket launcher! What i don't understand is that EPIC... a company that pretty much invented multiplayer gaming.... can't seem to keep up and produce stuff that works. Unreal Tournament III was an otherwise fantastic game on all accounts but the online implementation was appauling... games had constant lag, no party system... Gears 2 is the same... they have plugged in some weak excuse for matchmaking EVEN THOUGH they could just lift it from the mould that bungie set up since its technically owned by Mircosoft anyway!... and they use host side hit detection instead of client... or the other way around... i don't really get it... but basically it means that whoever is host has massive advantage in all their games. All other online games stopped using this technique donkeys years ago as it was proven to be a terrible way to handle stuff. Epic argues that their method makes it harder to hack.... but realistically HOW many people hack on xbox live??? Idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoobie Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 I didnt think I would like this game as much as I do but I am really enjoying it. I die lots, but its only cos I keep rushing in without my backup. It feels nice and chunky and solid and the explosions and what not are brilliant. I like the way you can choose a direction at certain points and still see what the other option is doing. I think I have broke my save tho - I was crawling up to the other man to get him to heal me and just as I died he killed the last 'thing'. I got the achievement for the completing the level and the next cutscene played but then it wouldnt load anything after that had finished. I was off to bed anyway so I didnt try to reload it - will have to see later on today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 I was wondering what you thought of it! Didn't think you'd be into it, to be honest, so that's a nice surprise. I got glitched (literally) right near the end so I had to re-do a chapter, but that should be the worst that you'd have to do. You shouldn't have to start from scratch, just pick an earlier chapter from the menu to start on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoobie Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 I was wondering what you thought of it! Didn't think you'd be into it, to be honest, so that's a nice surprise. I tend not to play shooters as normally you cant see the person you are controlling and I get confused with where I am, but the man in GOW is there and big and chunky so I always know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 You might appreciate the co-op achievements for the first game: Dom-curiousDomination I Can't Quit You Dom And this one: One-Night Stand Open Relationship Friends with Benefits It's a shame that Epic's sense of humour is often lost on many of their customers, at least the ones I've met online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hinn888 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 i was watching a video bout the achievements on gears of war 2. One guy came up with most of them because he was the only whore there. He tried to make all of them puns and he hates secret achievements so there wasnt any. I think he said he liked "Better wrapped in beacon" the most. Also has anyone downloaded the combustiable map pack yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoobie Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Is that the one with rejigged maps in from GOW1? I got a free code with the game that allowed me to download them for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hinn888 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 thats the flashback pack i think. I got it with the CE. Combustibale only come out a few days ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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