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    Gears of War 2

    Game » consists of 13 releases. Released Nov 07, 2008

    Join Delta Squad once more in the fight against the Locust Horde, in this "bigger, better and more badass" sequel to the 2006 smash hit.

    Matchmaking still broken??

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    William

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    #1  Edited By William

    I was in matchmaking for 10 minutes, i only found 2 people and then it reset.

    Is this happening to everyone else? Or is something wrong with my connection?

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    I would think that's a connection thing. It was never really "broken," people just disliked it.

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    #3  Edited By pause422

    There's a difference between people just not liking it, and it taking far too long to do anything. Who would possibly "like" that?

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    #4  Edited By William
    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.

    It seems worse to me...
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    #5  Edited By hungrynun

    Yeah its still janky.

    If you're playing with a full party then it goes by almost instantly.

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    #6  Edited By dsplayer1010

    I've been having trouble finding matches, too.

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    #7  Edited By ThaMilkMan

    yeah....EPIC Y!!!!

    You made a great single player game and tried to Halo-ize your multiplayer (besides horde) Y would you cop out like that...
    ...I'm disappointed in you soldiers, you make me want to play gears , just because of the matchmaking infrastructure while I like the gameplay better....Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cliffy B Y!!!

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    #8  Edited By bjorno

    Matchmaking is perfect.
    Just like me.

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    #9  Edited By Mats

    I think the problem is just as much MS fault as EPIC. Normally companies use APIs to implement common system features, and I suspect that matchmaking is one of those. Halo 3 matchmaking seems too similar. To be honest i think MS should further develop how matchmaking is done. Games that are latency sensitive means that not matchmaking people on different continents is a no brainer. By offering an option to avoid matchmaking on criteria like this can't possibly be that hard since i think atleast the American and the European continent has gotten "critical mass". Finding people playing the same game shouldn't be that hard.

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    #10  Edited By wefwefasdf

    It is getting better though. Slowly but surely.

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    #11  Edited By BD_Mr_Bubbles

    For me the patch fixed my problem finding teamates, but it still takes far too long to find an opposing team.

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    Well, I haven't had any problems finding teams since the patch. That's why I said it's probably a problem with your connection.

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    #13  Edited By Karmum
    License_To_Bill said:
    "I would think that's a connection thing. It was never really "broken," people just disliked it."
    Never broken? Surely not a connection issue, because I had matchmaking problems prior to this (before my 360 was RROD, as well). It would take sometimes 5 minutes to get a match, depending on what I wanted to play. Ridiculous, I don't think I was the only one who wanted to play Horde in Public matches.

    Keyword: was, I have not tried matchmaking after the patch. Wouldn't be surprised if its still bad.
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    #14  Edited By Prime20

    Tried it the day of and after the patch, and it was working fine.

    Tried it today and yesterday and iam back to waiting for ever. The amount of time iam waiting is equivalent to the time the matches take.
    Hopefully they fix it, and this tie they dont just throw a bandage on the problem and hope it goes away.

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    #15  Edited By DARKIDO07
    ThaMilkMan said:
    "yeah....EPIC Y!!!!

    You made a great single player game and tried to Halo-ize your multiplayer (besides horde) Y would you cop out like that...
    ...I'm disappointed in you soldiers, you make me want to play gears , just because of the matchmaking infrastructure while I like the gameplay better....Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cliffy B Y!!!"
    You do know that Halo 3 has far less lag, quicker match finder, weapon hit/damage inconstancy, cheaters, advantage glitches, and overall problems than Gears 2 does right?
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    #16  Edited By WilliamRLBaker

    yes and no, the game it self is still broken though shotgun weaker? yeah in a cold day in hell its the cheapest weapon in the game headshots galore againest me, instant kills though i have full health.

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