""This map pack is going to fail so bad that it will be made free by the end of the year""
It could or could not be free, they're great maps nonetheless. As for free...Halo has been charging for maps and then making them free after a certain time since Halo 2 on the original xbox, and so has Gears.
Grab do you really think the thousands of players that left this game for this game to be #3 on the top played list over the matchmaking / playlist & lobby issues (not weapon issues) will come back to pay for a map pack that will no doubt introduce even more glitches ? I doubt it
Yes? Is stupidity really that fun for people? Look at what Halo 3 did.. it dropped off the CHARTS at points.. and Bungie released something, and huzzah.
But If they release a map pack this soon after release and charge for it I will be furious. Games doing this now(Fable 2) is ridiculous, include the DLC in the box if your releasing it so soon to the release date.
Um you guys the matchmaking issues are relieved, if it ever takes over a minute, cancel and restart search and it comes up instantly, it's not bad at all.
edit:: You can disagree all you want but their is nothing wrong with it anymore, I wait just as long for Halo or COD.
that is true....but dont bother with them cuz either they dont have the game....or its their own personal crap that is f ing up and they need to go and reset the settings in their routers oOo..........
good to know because the online problems are what put me off from playing it after i beat it, instead i went back to halo online. I guess ill hop back on gears after i beat mass effect.
Damn this was fast. This is the problem with DLC. Dont know if Epic jsut worked on this recently and was just fast with it or was it something that could have been on the disc but they left it out to cash in on only a month later.
Well, I "Gold Rush" is a remade map from Gears PC. The rest could have been maps they didn't get to finish in time for release, imo. And if it's free, who cares?
Btw, congrats to GTAIV for winning goty 08 and Gears 2 for "shooter of the Year".
Oh right, like I'm really gonna spend my money on something I know nothing about....If I had heard about what the maps are like sometime before this and it was just an unexpected release of it, I'd probably buy it, but since I have no clue what they are, most likely not.
Here, I'll tell you about them, I already bought them, had points lying around and Geow2 is the game I'm playing right now so...
Flood is ugly and quite boring, and when I say ugly, I mean ugly. Gold Rush is less ugly and interesting, several levels, pretty large, weapons are spread far away from each other, expect people to rush to the top to get the sniper, mortar in the middle down below. I think It'll be fun. Fuel Depo.. I mean Fuel Station looks much better, according to this site: http://www.gowfans.com/news... its a remake of fuel depot with a few differences. This one should be quite fun as well.
Overall DO NOT spend 800 ms points on this, it is a COMPLETE RIPOFF. Three maps!?!? One of which looks like they made during a boring afternoon. I would have rather spent my points on fücking themes, that's how much of a ripoff this map pack is. Shame on you EPIC, shame on you!
epic has not fixed none of the glitching/unbalanced boards from gears1. it even worst in gears2. all the mp boards are unbalanced and some are worst then others. you and your enemy spawn in the same spawn areas and sometimes at the same time as each other. people are planting grenades in your spawn base or just outside of your spawn base and kill you. wtf there is a old /new glitch with the grenades. people are planting their grenades right on top of the regular grenades inside your spawn base. when you go to pick up the grenades which is flat on the ground you die. wtf alot of boards have a torquebow or a sniper gun right across from a designated spawn location. you spawn up and they kill you. the gunmen plant grenades behind his location so it makes it hard to kill the sniper or torque..
lastly, you are suppose to be on your last breath for humanity. Why is most of the game sections foreground fighting is cogs vs 2 locust or 4/5 cogs at times fighting 8 locusts on the screen at one time. the boards are big enough for WAR but it is like a "WAKE" out there. i want CQC not BACKGROUND Quarters Combat. The background of the game is good. there is 20 enemies you are fighting at time on top of a burmack. The "Halibut" section was down right lame!! you shoot a couple of "cavities" inside of its mouth and it dies. you did not shoot the Brain or heart;but cavities and it dies. The BIG worm section also Lame. another prime example of wasted space and nothing to do but run and shoot five insects locust at a time. 4cogs fighting 5 insects locust at a time in all that space..Lame!!! a worm that size should of had 100 hundredth of parasites inside of its body. why we are only fighting 5 insects locust at a time???. we should of had encounters of 20 insect locust fighting us at a time. the insects locust could of been falling out of the top part of the worm or ground part of the worm at one time attacking you. Five insect locust rush you and 4cogs kill five insect locust. WTF!! WAIT!! you cut five veins and blood pours all over you. How Great is that!! WTF People who really played the game knows that there is really nothing going on in the Foreground of this game!!! Most people are just blind firing through the game and are not noticing that they are being attacked by 2 to max out 8 locust at a time. You kill two of the 8 locust and the game respawn only two. The boards are way to big for this "Bullshot". they should sent all 15 to 20 locust at you at a time not this "bullshot" this would equal out to 4 kills per cog and not 2 kills per cog in most cases. i am old school. i would advise people to play freedom fighter for the PS2 or PC. it was made in 2003 and you have 12 people at your command in a third person game. the foreground always had enough stuff going on to keep you and your 12 squad mates busy. you only have three people with you in gears and the game breaksdown into a bore!! freedom fighter has you plus 12 squad mates fighting a real war compared to gears 2. 13 vs a real army not this 4 vs 8 bullshoit that is gears. i really wasted good money with this game and will not lose anymore because of it!!! uck those map packs and Epic.
You now have 1 bubble(just a minute ago you had 2), but who's fault is that? Any "normal" person would have taken it to the OPEN zone(tab next to gamerzone).
I liked the hosting way of joining games. Ranks are useless and sometimes, when you HAVE to leave, you get stuck with players that are worse than you, just because your trueskill rating is low. They need a TU that adds that AND the Pendulum Wars, if you've been on the GoW2 Forums.
same ol' thing on every site. Bleh bleh bleh the multiplayer is broken and I'm gonna b*tch about it nonstop even tho we know they have stated several times that they are working to fix it and since it aint fixed NOW I'm gonna whine about this map pack and refuse to buy it cuz everyone must know that I'm a big boy with big boy money. You know, cuz it is impossible for Epic to work on new maps while trying to fix the multiplayer at the same time. Impossible. That is like walking while chewing gum...cannot be done.
Regardless the MP works for me every time. Guess I'm the only lucky one that has no problem getting into games. Oh wait...cept the people I play with every time. Guess we are playing the game while you guys whine on forums.
apparently they are gonna cost 800 points. 10 bucks...which really means 12.50 or whatever for enough MS points if you don't already have some saved up.
Even with my defending GoW2 MP...that is too much for 3 maps. F that.
same rate they charged before in Gears 1. Only first batch of maps were free, but that only included 2. After a certain time they were made available for free, a la halo.
Congrats to devs @ Epic...gears 2 for best shooter.
With DLC coming so soon after the games Release i have to wonder. Were these maps already done when the game shipped and where simply held for later DLC? If so then I think that's BS because they should have been on the disc. If they made these after the game shipped then all i have to say is WTF? They have time to make new maps but not fix the broken multi player? Come one Epic get on the ball will ya.
"just read his last sentence. All you need to know about him and his attitude. No reason to try to read the rest of it." lol you turned a 180 in your next post!!!! lmao
serious the game Mp is broke!! on all ways possible. when you respawn in the enemy spawn spot; this is inviting problems. every thing i say about gears2 is the true!! what makes this more monsterous is the glitching. we can disagree to agree but a fact will always be a fact!!! correct me if i am wrong!!! FYI thanks for the LOL and bubbles to you!!!
You claim to know a lot about Gears of War 2 multiplayer eh? If so did you know about the title update and server consolidation? Probably not I'm guessing. Actually, I bet you don't even own GeOW 2... Ever since the title update, matchmaking has been much faster; on par with other multiplayer games almost. I played 5 hours last night without any problems. Guess it works for me.
I believe the reason why austere "did a 180 degree" is on account, paying $10 for maps is not very reasonable with a game that came out only 5 weeks ago. Otherwise, he isn't recanting that the game is not suffering problems. If you count him and I, we both aren't suffering multiplayer problems. Weird I guess.
I don't believe I will be purchasing the map pack out of principle. I thought it was an awesome idea to bundle the flashback maps with new copies of the game, however it is too soon to start charging for stuff. Just think...if there were customized game options and sharing of those games we wouldn't have to pay for maps. The sooner game designers include robust level creating tools in their multiplayer offerings, the sooner we will forgo purchasing maps that should be free with our $60 game.
Edit: The major weapon glitch in the game should be dealt with soon enough. With that said, there are few things more satisfying then snipping those glitching cheaters and hearing their whining pathetic cries.
I stopped playing gears after the first week because of the long waits. I finally tried again yesterday (taking a break from my Fallout addiction) and it's working great. I haven't had to wait more than about a minute and about 1/2 the matches come up almost instantly. Anyway, if you had put it down because of the ridiculous waits, you might want to try it again.
The teams are much more equal now also (at least for me). I just played a round of territories and each round was within 20 pts (out of 180. It seemed like before there were allot more lopsided matches. Hope it's not just me that it's finally working for. Enjoy.
not buying these, especially considering only 2 of the 3 are actually new
the gold rush map is from gears PC
10 dollars for 2 new maps is a bit much considerig it has only been out for a month
the game is immensely frustrating due to the lack of weapon balance and i've actually found myself pretty much giving up the online portion aside from horde
I always found the multiplayer like the basketball of the online world. 30 Seconds! Score! 46 Seconds, Score! I don't have ADD, I don't want my online matches to last a couple of minutes at the most. That's lame. I like long, drawn out, back and forth battles. Loved the single player on Gears and Gears 2 but once I finished them a couple of times - I'm not going to play this again. There's too many great titles out there right now to replay more Gears of War. Just my opinion.
You've obviously never played a Gears multiplayer match in your life. Most the matches are drawn out, and last quite some time, and at very minimal a few minutes. This isn't like some fragfest fps where you die every few seconds, and the points jump back, and forth every few seconds at all.
They Should Give us this sh1t as a compensation for paying 59 bucks for that sh!tty @ss Game. These Bullsh1t @ss Maps for a Broken @ss game and 10 a wop? Any person who pay 10$ for this sh!t is a Arsehole.
Epic pissed me off with this game and its broken physics. Today a Smoke Grenade killed me by blow me p into the air and i never land.i fell out of the map and died. Shotguns can't protect you in close quarters when action heats up and 2 pieces are ever worse than before. I could go on but for what? In short these 3 maps ain't worth the paper plates prisoners eat pork on. I'd pay 10 for a update before i buy this.
Im not to happy with the online gameplay, this game still feels like gears 1 with a different story, the only thing on this that looks cool is that higher ground level but Im not going to buy it im still addicted to RFOM2
what maps are on it?
...Once they get the Multiplayer in GeOW2 up to speed with the Multiplayer in GeOW1,that is.
They didn't say which ones.
This map pack is going to fail so bad that it will be made free by the end of the year
Who? Microsoft.
What? Er, a map pack (so informative).
Why? Who knows.
When? Midnight.
Where? On Live.
Overall? Fail.