Hopefully, this one will actually have polish to a degree that won’t require banning two billion things in the mutiplayer. If they at least playtest it alot more than they did gears 1, I’ll be happy.
EDIT: VERY good interview. I love that they’re taken note of the obvious dumb things from the first one (chainsaw invincibility). that and the actual kill animation for it is alot faster. I’m pleased.
I’m glad they nerfed the shotgun and made other weapons worthy of use in multiplayer
Yes, the devs didn’t intend the game to turn into a Shotgun+Roll roll fest it ended up turning into.
There will probably end up being some other weapon and tactic that gets abused in Gears of War 2. Isn’t that how all these games turn out?
Really what I like is the 4 player coop, no more having to start over because your AI teamate is fucking dumb.
agreed
horde mode co op is gonna be fucking sick as well!
That shit was aggravating as hell on Insane, I swear 3/4 of the time I had to start a checkpoint over it was because of my AI teamate.
Talking about Horde mode? That’s 5 player co-op. :bgrin: Campaign mode I believe is still only 2.
I never played GoW not being too into shooters myself but I’m honestly thinking of picking this up.
All about dat Hord mode man. I love Co-op shit and taking on endless waves of Locust with 4 buddies long into the night has me stoked.
The new balances to Multiplay ound bad ass to. I might ACTUALLY play multiplayer Vs. this time.
November is stacked.
This game will have to work hard for my attention.
I enjoyed the SP, but hated the MP.
We’ll see…I’m gonna go watch all the vids.
heres to the only game that made me think twice about trading in my 360. i hope its as good as its hyped up to be. it looks amazin thus far.
have fun fellas
Like I said when gears came out the host advantage is something too many people bitch about and it isn’t as good as it’s hyped up to be I myself have had no problem dealing with it but it should definitely be turned down because it does give an advantage on annex especially.
A lot of public games became shotgun fests but in gears against a team who knows what they’re doing or even 4 random strangers who work well together that shit would NEVER work you would have to actually tactically think n there’s more of that now then ever.
Gears2>all other shooters:loving:…I hope.
Anyone gonna hop on gears tonight?
Bah! Thought this was the Steampunk thread. leaves
Alright, scratch all that BS I said earlier. Having just watched all the vids…
Must have. Even if just for the SP/Co-Op. Since they’re cleaning up MP, I’ll give that a try again.
I’ll find some time between the other 8764676435121 games coming out that month.
< easily swayed
True, but as long as the default weapons are essentially balanced it won’t that big of a deal.
Another thing I would like changed but wouldn’t get to pissed about if they overlooked it was making all the character hitboxes the same. It would be cool to be able to use some the Theron Guards, Raam and Cole in multiplayer without getting raped due to their bigger hitboxes. :shake:
It’s still somewhat of a Shotgun fest even at the highest level of play(MLG) but a lot more tactical. Wall Bounce is used a lot more and teams rush/flank Boom/Snipe with a lot more strategy compared to the random open field Roll/Sidefire>Roll/Sidefire>Roll/Sidefire that online matches usually turn into lol. Host Advantage is a big enough deal that MLG rules require the host to switch after every map change, hopefully this is fixed in Gears 2. :tup:
It was pretty dope of Bungie(Halo) and Infinity Ward/Activision(CoD) to work so closely with MLG and the tournament scene, they actually care enough to add MLG game types and ask for feedback on their forums for upcoming patches and fixes. I’ve read that MLG has tried to work out something similar with Epic in the past but had been ignored, don’t know the details but that really sucks.
In high level play longshot and to a slightly lesser degree torque are as popular as shotty is on public online games. Default pistol was by far the most underrated weapon so few people knew that 4 shots to the head was a headshot, 4perfect active shots anywhere was a down, and 1 shot+clocking them once was a down as well. Then they nerfed it sometime in 07 and buffed up the lancer A LOT and I stuck with that ever since.
Anyways it’s good to now host is being toned down but check out the thread I posted it’s a good read on the topic and I still think way too many people bitch about the advantage though sometimes it is understandable.
Chainsaw camping was a lot of fun especially around a choke point where they know you’re there and cautiously approach then you double back when they turn around and get’em in the back:rofl: Anyone remember playing on canals? The first person on each team to get snipe both hide along the wall waiting for the other to stick the others head out lol good times.
Is there a PC release for this like the first game?