Comments on: Epic Gears of War 2 Patch Wishlist

By: ian

ian — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:43:08 +0000

in response to jerrit- first of all, no the shotgun is not THAT important. but since half the time you play execution or a game with execution rules, you have to be close to kill someone. the lancer and the hammerburst are somewhat effective at downing someone, but your gonna need to get close anyway, where the shotgun is more effective. so basically, you need a RELIABLE shotgun. and as for keeping the game similar, YES THATS A GOOD IDEA. fix the problems with gears 1, add some more weapons and abilities (meatshield, planting nades), revamp the graphics…BUT KEEP THE SAME CORE GAMEPLAY. you cant keep the same gears fans if you completely change the gameplay…take halo 2 and 3 for example, h3 way better, same core gameplay, but equipment, new maps way better graphics new weapons and far less glitches. if epic had made a sequel in the same way, gears 2 would of been way better.

By: Nizah

Nizah — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:07:06 +0000

i dont really see many chainsawers anymore on gow2 but the main things i see wrong with the game is
Two-Piecing – this is the most annoying thing about this game (not counting chainsaw).everyone does it and overuses the thing. it is really ridiculous how epic made the melee button the best tactic in a cover based shooting game. plus when you get that chance every once in a while to get away from it you still end up getting downed cuz youll be weak by then.

The Sniper – i think this is dumb. you simply subtract from the sniper. you take away the 1 shot down which is fine, but you take away blindfire/popshot/zoomer also? when i try to do any of those, my bullet flies in various directions. and blindfiring while on a wall takes forever.

3 bullets in a boomshot – why epic??? why? i guess they just sat down and decided that “you know what? lets give the already overpowered ridiculous high power explosive weapon another shot to get people more mad.” its not neccesary epic

those are my main problems

By: NTK kadems

NTK kadems — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:12:44 +0000

shotty is weak. but then learn to pop shot. one hit kills. the only thing truely shitty is the chain saw. but stop complaining or dont play.

By: XtC Hypnotic

XtC Hypnotic — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:44:38 +0000

they pretty much covered all of the problems with multiplayer, i havent done much campaign so i havent experienced many problems but the problem that is the most anoying is the regestering, especially with sniper off-host, on host the sniper is great but off host its hard to get a shot while there moving if its not actived, and if it is actived it still isnt actived for a long time, the chainsaw should definetly be fixed first because it just aggrivates everyone but the people sitting behind the chainsaw, the shotgun should be fixed to its to overpowered at long range if your host and if you blindfire sometimes out of nowhere it just hits the ground which is kind of wierd so i think epic should also fix that

By: KiLLaFOX525

KiLLaFOX525 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:34:32 +0000

I agree with all of the above changes!!! But theres six things missing… They need to fix both the shotty shield glich and the host glich allowing them to go invisable… They also need to fix the two smoke grenade glichs, the one river to get in the boiler room thing in both the barns, and the smoke glich threw the security beams in security… another thing is the fact that the shooty is WAY to weak and if someone is charging you wit the chainsaw and you shot them wit the shotty it does nothing… the last thing is that the gameplay is way slower than the first gears and it needs to be speed up…

By: mike.

mike. — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:57:46 +0000

the shotgun is more random then in the first one if you blind fire. but there are problems but once you get accustomed to it they arent that big of a deal you learn to play with them.

By: F A T A L 1 T Y

F A T A L 1 T Y — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:43:16 +0000

Well… this game was very dissapointing. I already took it back and bought Call of Duty 5. I was expecting this game to be Gears 1 with better graphics and new weapons. But Epic made it better for those people who quit ranked in Gears 1 and did nothing but lancer and chainsaw.

The shotgun shoots the same spread everytime you shoot it. It shoots an x (><) everytime you shoot, active or not, unlike Gears 1 being randoms shots. Yes, maybe its easier when you aim with the shotgun, but while your aiming, your taking away the advantage of moving and shotgunning at the same time, making it easier to get chainsawed(especially when someone can take 3 shells before lowering the chainsaw).

There are SO many problems with this game it seems.. Epic just threw it together, got what THEY wanted, not the gamers, and put it out there without evening thinking about the Gears 1 fans. I bet Cliff is one of those lancer bitches that unloads a whole clip to down someone. And if you look on the leaderboards.. notice how there is over 2.5 million gamers in ranked on 1.. and in 2, under a million… PATHETIC EPIC.

By: mike.

mike. — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:58:01 +0000

just report everyone thats using it.

By: oly

oly — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:49:25 +0000

they need to sort out the gay shield glitch that everyone seems to be using

By: mike.

mike. — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:14:18 +0000

thats just for people with lag. otherwise who ever had the best connection would always win.

By: amanfeard

amanfeard — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:47:30 +0000

One other thing that I still cant understand is if I down someone ( usualy with a shotgun), after that person is down I die from his or her shot.!? It shows on the screen that I down them FIRST, then I DIE from ….. a … downd person who is able to pull a trigger!!!???????

By: mike.

mike. — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:33:06 +0000

I agree the shotgun is unreliable up close and rarely does anything after 2 or 3 shots but I’ve been downed by people from a distance where when i shoot the bullets do nothing in 2 shots. You can see the bullets don’t spread at all they just are all clumped. I don’t understand why epic didn’t just try out the game and fix some of the bugs before releasing. How could you not notice something like the chainsaw not going down.

By: llamalord

llamalord — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:27:48 +0000

im starting to get used to all the new features in GOW2 but the thing that really gets me pissed off is the getting droped from games problem. almost every game is 4 on 5 or worse and when no one gets dropped, its a really laggy game half the time. these problems need to be fixed or epic will lose a lot of their fans and online gamers

By: Dan Landis

Dan Landis — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:26:29 +0000

Dear wacko kdalt 21,

If you are going to expose your stupidity the way you did, you should be prepared for the consequences. Learn to fucking read. This isn’t Chad’s list of gripes, this is G4′s list. Chad gave the game a perfect 10. Go read his review and shut the fuck up.

Good day.

By: wacko kdalt 21

wacko kdalt 21 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:55:42 +0000

everything there is reasonable except the bugs.

first off chad u dumb fuck the weapon slide isnt a bug or glitch its meant to be there its a fuckin button combination. That shit dosnt just land there.

second the glitching u refer too in annex and king of the hill well check ur conection ass hole.

and last but not least the voice chat between rounds wouldnt matter if they changed it or not because everyone joins a party chat.

o man Chad Lakkis i bet u feel pretty retarded right now. i thought people that write articles were smart. if u read this and dissagree with me then suck it. wanna fight on gears my tag is wacko kdalt 21, by the way chad ill kill u in that game. hahaha

By: bigbigbig

bigbigbig — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:47:54 +0000

The only huge thing that has bothered me with online play is that the active reload doesn’t matter as much as it use to. Especially with the sniper. It use to be that with an active reload you could down an enemy but now it seems that with any weapon the active reload doesn’t give you any advantage. Also there is no way to stop the chainsaw, it seems that once the chainsaw starts its no stopping it hardly, even if you blast them with any weapon. Those are my comments.

By: Ryanepic

Ryanepic — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:49:50 +0000

i honestly agree with everyone’s statements here, but I think they should be taken to somewhere where they will be heard, like over at the Gears of War 2 forums. So go post there about how the shotty sucks and everyone hates a chainsaw noob (which i do myself hate)

By: Jerrit

Jerrit — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:40:56 +0000

All I have to say “waaaah!”

C’mon guys, really…is the shotty that important to you? If you want I’m sure Epic could release a game for you where you only have ONE gun and that’s the shotgun. And with this gun only one shot is needed to take down any number of enemies. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but the game was built around that lancer that you all so dispise.

When you have an audience of 5+ MILLION people (within 2 weeks of the games release) it’s going to be impossible to make every single person happy. And on that note, why would Epic release an exact same version of their old game?!?!?!

“Hey let’s rev up the graphics, fps and a few other things and then just re-release Gears 1″. And damn those guys at Epic for releasing a game that caters to the hard-core as well as casual gammers. Damn them for wanting to make the most money possible from their product.

HELLO!!! Isn’t that what every single industry/service provider/business accross the entire world STRIVES to do??

Really guys, it’s a business and just like a band releasing a new album you’re going to have some fans that love it and some that don’t NO MATTER WHAT! And if all you can complain about is some lag time getting into multiplayer and how the shotty can’t blow someone away in one shot then go and play duck hunt for an hour, it might make you appreciate what an awesome game Gears II is.

By: Stick

Stick — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:28:20 +0000

Okay, the shotgun sucks a bit, but if you aim, it’s better. The chainsaw does suck big time, because of the shots it takes to stop it,but more than half the time, it stops them in one bullet for me. Sniper doesnt need to change much, just the zoom needs to be taken back to gears 1 style, the blindfire thing isn’t that bad, do you seriously think it’s easy to blindfire a sniper anyway? The blindfire thing is gears 1 for sniper was good and bad, because people kept using dots, making it hit almost every blindfire, and it always made ya feel good when ya did it, now you have to actually aim, idiots. I have gotten many blindfire headshots in Gears 2, so I don’t care about it. You think they should take stopping power out? Sure it’s a pain in the butt to get used to, but would you rather have someone run into a building where a boomshot would be, or kill him before that happens? I agree with the matchmaking, host should get that option. Mortar firing too quickly? I honestly think it fires slow, because it takes 5-10 seconds for it to even touch the ground. The mortar cant get anyone within a building unless it has holes in the roof anyway. I never had a problem with talking to people between rounds after I die? Must be shitty connections that do that. Damn don’t even compare Gears 2 ghost cam to Halo 3, they didn’t want to be too much like it, so they gave you a great chance to take some good pics. Back to the shotty, there is problems with it, nto as big probelms as people make them out to be though, there has been numerous accounts where the blindifre shotty has been very accurate, just that no one pays attention to the way it fires after shooting. All these arguements are pointless, besides I’ve heard of a patch coming that’ll fix almost everything that you guys/girls are complaining about.

By: KeNsHiRo

KeNsHiRo — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:02:47 +0000

They’ve done away with the shotgun roll but now the new trick is the chainsaw roll super cheap kill. I like stopping power but please please do something about the lag and the lack of blind fire with the shotgun and boom shot