Major Gears 2 update detailed (CVG 6/1/09)

Epic vice president Mark Rein has spilled the beans on a hefty title update for Gears of War 2.


The patch "will address bugs and exploits as well as add some new achievements related to downloadable content", and "all indicators are it will go live within January".

Here's the official word, straight from the horse's mouth:

We're fixing a whole bunch of online exploits. For example we've fixed the ability to wield an invisible shield, melee through some walls, gain infinite Lancer ammo and equip a shield and a two-handed weapon simultaneously plus many more.

We're also making several small changes to improve the overall online gameplay experience. A few of the ones that might interest you are; increased penalties for quitting matches early, adding additional spawn protection against planted grenades and chainsaw attacks, and adding the ability to see the Submission flag carrier destination by using Tac/Com.

We know you folks love achievements so on the achievement side we're adding achievement progress numbers to the War Journal, increasing the frequency of in-game Achievement progression notifications and adding some new Achievements for DLC.

About that shotgun...

We fixed the client side hit detection on the shotgun so that in a high-latency (i.e. "laggy") match, the shotgun will be more reliable. We've also fixed another bug whereby shotgun and boomshot rounds could strike the ground when firing from the hip.

If the fix you wanted to see isn't mentioned don't fret too much as Rein says the above is "just a very small list of some of the things that will be in the next title update". He adds that a more detailed list of update features will likely be posted ahead of its release.

Rein also says that Epic will be straight to work on the next title update as soon as this one's through the doors, and that the developer will "try to do a better job keeping you informed of our progress on future updates and we'll try to be a little more active in the forums once this update is released".

Tireless workers, those guys at Epic.

thank god was wondering when the new map pack would be wroth 800 ms points