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Gears of War 2 Gets Its Matchmaking Patch

Added by Jeff on Nov. 28, 2008 61 comments

I love that Microsoft essentially forces everyone to use the phrase "title update" when describing, you know, patches for Xbox 360 games. It's as if someone decided that "patch" is a dirty word. Instead, the net effect is that "title update" are now dirty words, and they have that sleazy "let's not call it a patch" vibe thrown in for good measure!

Anyway, there's now a title update available for Epic's Gears of War 2. Senior Producer Rod Fergusson posted these changes on the game's official boards:

- Adjustments to make Public matchmaking faster, especially in the single player party and the four player party case. Some of these adjustments should be felt immediately and some will play out over several days as our update enables us to reduce player segmentation by reducing the number of servers required to do matchmaking. This will increase the number of possible matches available for you to join.
- A tweak that should prevent us from losing some of our additional detailed stats data that we gather for gearsofwar.com. Due to the large number of concurrent matches, our stats gathering servers were not able to collect data for every single match played. The Xbox LIVE leaderboards are 100% accurate but our existing stats web pages may have some missing data prior to the update.
- A fix to address the issue where some players were unable to start the story-based campaign if Xbox LIVE was down or unavailable.

So those of you who were stuck waiting for what seemed like days to get into a Gears 2 public match should be seeing some relief right about now.

Filed under : Gears of War 2

61 Comments

Milkman
on Nov. 28, 2008

Sounds good.

brukaoru
on Nov. 28, 2008

I hope this solves the problem. I don't play public matches but I've heard plenty of people being frustrated about it. Looking forward to seeing less "match making sucks" threads now.

MattyFTM
on Nov. 28, 2008

About time, the matchmaking was horrible. I only played about 2 games of multiplayer because it took so long to connect.

daniel_beck_90
on Nov. 28, 2008

Now Gears of War 2 is almost flawless !!!

MrBrian
on Nov. 28, 2008

Its cool a big game like this gets fixed in a couple weeks but old broken Castle Crashers is still busted online even though they say the patch was submitted like a month ago

IncredibleBulk92
on Nov. 28, 2008

How come the Gears of War 2 patch has taken about 2 weeks to be certified but the castle crashers patch has taken over 2 months.

Its complete BS how long some things take to pass through

Driadon
on Nov. 28, 2008

Thank god. There where times I was sitting there waiting to find a match that I started thinking I was playing Shadowrun!

Afroman269
on Nov. 28, 2008

now if only we can fix the abusive smoke grenades and the god like chainsaw

heavymtlhead
on Nov. 28, 2008

I'm playing Gears 2 right now and its still taking forever to get into a match.

CylonAndrew
on Nov. 28, 2008

Well, this is welcome news. I also noticed that when people are burnt with the flame thrower, they are chared black instead of red now.

Branthog
on Nov. 28, 2008

Too many weeks too late. I got tired of spending 30 minutes to play 10 or 15 minutes worth of matches and took Gears of War 2 out of the tray to replace it with Left 4 Dead, which has not left the tray since it first went in.

Maybe when I get bored with Left 4 Dead I'll bother with Gears of War 2. They really lost me after the intolerable match-making, though. Great game and all, but . . . That really rubbed me the wrong way and will take awhile for me to get the bitter taste out of my mouth.

Not that L4D matchmaking is perfect, but as long as I don't care *what* I jump into, I can be in an actual game with other actual people in twenty seconds.

crunchUK
on Nov. 28, 2008

well duh patch makes it sound that it's incomplete somehow... whereas title updates sounds... more new lol

Tarsier
on Nov. 28, 2008

I didn't see any problems with the matchmaking. If you just choose "players choice" it only takes about 10 seconds to find a game! Am I the only one who figured this out?

code305
on Nov. 28, 2008

nice.

Daeth_On_Demand
on Nov. 28, 2008

Afroman269 said:

"now if only we can fix the abusive smoke grenades and the god like chainsaw"

Too true, too true. I like that it only took two weeks to fix a matchmaking issue that should have been ironed out long before the release of the game, but I want updates for smoke grenades, chainsaws, and (perhaps) the shotgun. The real issue I have with Gears 2 (now that the matchmaking is hopefully going to go a bunch faster) is the way that when I play at 3:00am, I get stuck with a bunch of UK people, and I get no kills because I have 1-2 seconds bullet lag. Seriously, I don't give a crap if I have to wait a little bit longer to play against people who won't lag me like crazy, I just don't want to continue lowering my kill/death ratio because of something that is outside of my control.

Double0hFor
on Nov. 28, 2008

THEY BETTER FIX THAT CHAINSAW VACUUM SOON, SHITS OUT OF HAND

Sir_Ragnarok
on Nov. 28, 2008

Tarsier said:

"I didn't see any problems with the matchmaking. If you just choose "players choice" it only takes about 10 seconds to find a game! Am I the only one who figured this out?
"

I think you're just one of the lucky ones. I've been spamming the "Player's Choice" option since the game's release, and I think I've played a whopping two matches? Yeah, two matches to date. Hideous.

Ninja_Tino
on Nov. 28, 2008

Milkman, your picture looks like Jeff giving a blowjob. p.s. I love Jeff, not taking the piss here, but it really does.

samcotts
on Nov. 28, 2008

The online isn't fixed untill the matchmaking system is removed altogether, and I know that's not going to happen.

Afroman269
on Nov. 28, 2008

Hopefully this includes laggy ass games. I have finally gotten used to the shotgun because all you have to do is aim at their body mass instead of blindfiring like most people did in the first one. Wish they kept the chainsaw configuration like Gears 1 where you can shoot them once and flinch them instead of emptying a clip into a guy in Gears 2 just so they can put down the god damn chainsaw. Way too noob friendly.

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