Gears of War 2 Gets Its Matchmaking Patch

Sounds good.

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. 

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

Now Gears of War 2 is almost flawless !!!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

nice.

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

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

"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?
"

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

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

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.

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

There's one glitch that no one is pointing out:

High sensitivity automatically changing to Medium after your Meatshield gets destroyed.

^This is really annoying.

I'm not really sure why people assume and expect things to be perfect the first time around. People and companies make mistakes, mistakes that are understandable and tolerable. Give every imbalance and every network issue it's fair share of time to get fixed. You have the time; I'm sure most of you have plenty of new games to play, seeing as nearly 15 decent titles came out in the last month or two.

- Edit -

On topic - Good to see Epic's getting things working for everyone.

Wish they would fix the split-screen chat already...

I'm still getting stuck waiting for matches for 10 + minutes sometimes :(

Before this I actually didn't have a problem getting into matches except for the occasional one where it would take 5 mins.

Yeah, I don't even like the matchmaking system at all.  I liked GoW1 Multi-player because I could just jump and play, with anyone I damn well please.  Matchmaking should be for ranked, and GoW1 type multi-player should be for unranked. 

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.

Good news :)

Sounds great....except now I've found Left 4 Dead's versus mode.

Yeah...maybe I'll go back if I ever get tired of tonguing people down elevator shafts to their dooooooooom.

This game is still mad broken, 6 ways from Sunday. If any game ever needed a Beta, this was it.

Can't wait to update this once my 360 arrives back at my house.

about damn time ill play it again hate waiting 15min to play a 5min game

I downloaded the update and have noticed absolutely zero improvement. The matchmaking is still taking forever both when solo and in larger groups - the system will still fill up a room then clean it out again saying "Remote parties restarted the matchmaking process." The problem is not fixed at all.

Also how come Epic released its update so fast and castle crashers is taking such a ridiculously long time to essentially fix what is the same problem. Although, the patch didn't work so I guess it doesn't matter....

It's bad to see this had to happen lost alot of players but it's better late then never I assume nice to know they actually fixed it.

I thought Gears 2 would be my main multiplayer game, but it's just not fun.  That's cool they are working to fix the slow matchmaking, but laggy games, smoke grenades, and unstoppable chainsaws really turned me away from this game.  COD5 is much more enjoyable.  I play it everyday with my brother and friends.

I'll remember not to use "patch" in public.

i wish socom reviewers were this forgiving. 

matchmaking was worse for me this time around.  maybe this will be one of those it will take a couple days bullshit

Good.  I've been playing with bots for the past few days because it was so bad.

People, this TU is just for matchmaking, now stop whining and go MeatBag some NuBs!

Glad to see the update sooner rather than later, it was taking an absolute age to get into any good games.

Since the update, I have no seen no improvement in online performance. If I wasn't playing with friends, it would have been frustrating to play...

It still takes a long time to enter into a match but at least they know that its an issue.

GoW2 rocks.

Well, they fixed it

Yea it was pretty ridiculous. Think longest i waited was 25 min or so for a freakin match!

Tried connecting to some mulitplayer games last night but i couldnt get into a single game, i didnt think it was possible but they have broken it even worse than before.  Worst thing was that before the patch i could connect after 5 mins or so, now it just sits waiting for players...