I presume this is just me seeing as the game I was just in never mentioned anything, but so far, i've been waiting 15 minutes for a game of Horde and all i'm getting is 'Searching for teammates'. Earlier, I was waiting for 20 minutes before I finally got a game and now this. Anyone else's lobbies seemingly empty or what?

yeah, I have this problem too.
it seems to be for all mp modes

Thanks a lot for that reply. I thought it was just me.

i think over the next few weeks it should get better as atm everyone is still waiting to buy it / playing the campaign

Yup.  I wish they'd get rid of matchmaking and make it like it was in Gears 1.

Not been having any issues with public games myself.

DOUBLESHOCK said:

"Yup.  I wish they'd get rid of matchmaking and make it like it was in Gears 1."

I knw somtimes it takes forever to get a match, sometimes doesn't.  And then random games I get hella lag

"Yup.  I wish they'd get rid of matchmaking and make it like it was in Gears 1."

everyone is playing it no doubt... it took me 10 mins to get a game at first, but now I hardly have to blink and my game's all set up. I'm in the UK so I dunno if that is of any importance.

"everyone is playing it no doubt... it took me 10 mins to get a game at first, but now I hardly have to blink and my game's all set up. I'm in the UK so I dunno if that is of any importance."

I'm having the same problem while searching for some matches. It takes forever!

Yeah it can definitely take a long time.  

I wish you could still at least set up player servers.

"I wish you could still at least set up player servers."

"SpikeSpiegel said:

"I wish you could still at least set up player servers."

They're called private games and that's exactly what they are. Public games are player servers too for that matter, you just don't know who hosts, and the settings are mostly fixed (other than possibly map and/or game type votes)."

"prencher said:

"SpikeSpiegel said:

"I wish you could still at least set up player servers."

They're called private games and that's exactly what they are. Public games are player servers too for that matter, you just don't know who hosts, and the settings are mostly fixed (other than possibly map and/or game type votes)."

I know what a private server is. I'm talking about one that you can set up and others can find through a list format and not just through invites to your friends. This would allow you to play more than one game with the same people without being shot out to the multiplayer screen."

The only big problems, other than the launch related ones (lag and search time), in my opinion, is the fact that there are no map cycles, and you can't just stay in a "game lobby" until you want to quit like with cod 4 or halo, you have to do a fresh "party lobby" (search / private game settings) between *every* map which greatly compounds the problem of lag and search times. That and the load screens to load menus.. Why there are even two lobby screens baffles me.

I'm having a bunch of problems as well guys.

When it works it's fucking awesome, but it takes over 30 minutes.

"I'm having a bunch of problems as well guys.

When it works it's fucking awesome, but it takes over 30 minutes."

"Artie said:

"I'm having a bunch of problems as well guys.

When it works it's fucking awesome, but it takes over 30 minutes."

What takes over 30 minutes? "

"SpikeSpiegel said:

"I wish you could still at least set up player servers."

They're called private games and that's exactly what they are. Public (matchmaking) games are player servers too for that matter, you just don't know who hosts, and the settings are mostly fixed (other than possibly map and/or game type votes)."

Horde can take a loooooong time to get into a game.

"prencher said:

"SpikeSpiegel said:

"I wish you could still at least set up player servers."

They're called private games and that's exactly what they are. Public (matchmaking) games are player servers too for that matter, you just don't know who hosts, and the settings are mostly fixed (other than possibly map and/or game type votes)."

He means public player games, like in Gears 1.  In Gears 2 I don't even want to play because it takes forever to find a match, I don't get to play on the gametype or map that I wanted, it puts me in a laggy match, and then once the match ends I am booted out to the menu and am expected to go through all that again.  I want to be able to search for a list of unranked public servers like in Gears 1, pick one with a good connection, play on it all day and meet new people."

i have a major problem - i can't afford gears 2 ;__;

Major problem I've been having is that matchmaking takes forever. (And  -- yeah yeah -- I've got an Open NAT and a 10meg Cable Connection.) Friday and Saturday I got into maybe two matches, and had to wait about 15 to 20 minutes for those. Other times I waited roughly a half hour and just shut it off. This morning seemed a bit better; I got into about four matches, and had to wait about 5 minutes for each (which still isn't great but), and then this afternoon I tried again and I waited for about 15 minutes of "searching" and "restarting" before saying screw it and clicking over to football. 

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I hate the new playlist system in the game. It's not fucking Halo it's Gears of War 2 damnit. I wish they made it like CoD4 where you can select a mode and then do matchmaking (matchmaking that actually works for that matter!!!). And private games aren't really private because unwanted friends of friends can still join my damn games and I still can't fucking kick them without closing the match. This game is making it very hard for me to like it.  I've waited 30 minutes to get into a game to no avail too. They absolutely destroyed the multiplayer.

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