Everybody loves playing with others who exploit and make a game completely annoying to play, right? Yeah, me neither. Perhaps it's a good thing that Epic is hard at work on a patch for Gears of War 2. This patch, among other things, will address a good deal of exploits that have cropped up in the game's multiplayer since its launch.
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.The update is said to be arriving at some point this month.
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.
We fixed the client side hit detection on the shotgun so that in a high-latency (i.e. “laggyâ€) 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.