Game got an update today. Details here:
http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=653638
Can’t wait to try it out tonight. Only thing I might not like about it is that they took out ability to instantly shoot from shotgun out of a roadie run. We’ll see how it goes though.
Grenades spawn less (must be used before it respawns again). Also easier to destroy planted nades.
Shiiiiiit I bet most players didn’t even know half these problems existed lol.
Favorite improvements:
An issue where players could have shotgun or Boomshot rounds fire into the ground when shooting from the hip.
And all the balance changes:rock:
shotty is weird. I hit the trigger and doesn’t register, oh and cheaters still seem to be as abundant as ever. Got standbye’d my second game of wingman. I still have to play it more to notice the other things.
So is the patch out? If so, hows it working out? Is the shotgun anything approaching consistent?
Epic has shitty programmers.
To me shotgun feels more consistent, but with the new changes, I’m more inclined to just use the hammerburst from cover.
It seems after the patch it takes a little more effort to play. Not because it’s fast but because you have to play by those annoying rules of not moving when you pick something up, shooting when still, and other things. Feels like a chore really.
I still play it a little but this game has lost it’s pizzaz to me.
Ok, I REALLY tried. I really did. But it has to be said.
This game sucks cow shit through rotting entrails. This seriously has to be the worst online shooting experience I’ve had in a long time. As much as I disliked gears 1, it’s fucking counter-strike compared to this shit.
Once you get past rank 3 it seems like theres a lot of cheaters in this game 
They need to put unranked matches back in.
I don’t know why they took it out in the first place. I doubt these guys even tried the game out before shipping it.
ffafft3.
Public account at the 'cade, So whenever the guy sucks, there’s a good chance it’s not me(ego trippiiiiiiiin!)
Get at me.
-K7
Seriously. People stand by in this game all the time. Game is a lot better post-patch, but the community for the game ruins it.
That’s the only patch I was looking for. I had already adjusted to the normal shenanigans.
I refuse to accept that they testplayed this peice of shit game. How in the hell did crabwalking get in here AGAIN!? That’s like if Halo 3 still had superbounces, or if they make Cvs3 and it still has roll cancels.
Fuck this franchise. Fuck Cliffy B.
Gears of war is dead to me.
Glitches of Shit 2 will not be seeing my 360 once Street Fighter 4 arrives. This game is complete shit! Too many fucking glitches and the games isnt consistant at all. Since the update, standby punks have taken over.
Ive never been so frustrated with a game in my life.
throws GoW2 around the house for the hell of it
Weapon slide and back flip also and tons of others that were in GOW1.
Weapon slide was the only glitch that actually added to the game though imo.
Weapon sliding would be pretty cool if the rest of the game worked. Crab walking and back flipping just breaks shit though.
This post makes no sense:looney:
Meaning if the majority of the game played like it was meant to, weapon sliding may be a viable strategy.
However given Gears 2’s basic design and it’s many design flaws, nothing is a viable strategy when you play the game like IT IS and not how it was meant to be played.
You could weapon slide in order to make pick-ups safer. Not THAT big of a deal because nobody just camps weapons at high level anyway. but it can save your ass.
Or, you could just crab walk, which is another wall glitch. It gives you an unfair advantage for little to no effort at all!
I also find it hilarious that they intended for chainsawing to be unsafe. 
what did the most recent patch do? I dunno, i barely play this shit n e more :-/