Could this be? Did Epic finally acknowledge there are bugs, glitches, exploits and lag in Gears of War 2?
Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games posted today on the GOW2 forums that we should see a Major Title Update within January. Nice, the sooner the better!!!
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."
Is it to late for a patch though? I hope NOT! I guess will just have to wait and see once Major Nelson posts the Weeks Top 10 List and see if Gears can make it back to the top spot where it should be for longer then a week.
One thing not mentioned in Marks post that he should have mentioned would be the DLC that was pushed out way to soon would now be FREE for the bad business practices Epic displayed.
They should have been working on getting this Major Title Update out sooner then new maps. Most everyone would have happily purchased the maps if they came out after a title update, so long as it fixed the majority of the problems, but instead they got greedy and tried to take our hard earned cash instead. Not the best way to our wallets.
What say you Epic, FREE DLC for the shotty business practices?
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