Gears 2 is an awesome game, no one can deny this. But, you also cannot deny that it has its flaws, which are glaring in the matchmaking. As of early this morning, Epic released a patch that promises to fix the issues that were driving gamers nuts. Here is what they fixed:
- Adjustments to make Public matchmaking faster, especially in the single player party and the four player party case. 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. This will increase the number of possible matches available for you to join.
- A tweak that should prevent us from losing some of our additional detailed stats data that we gather for gearsofwar.com. Due to the large number of concurrent matches, our stats gathering servers were not able to collect data for every single match played. The Xbox LIVE leaderboards are 100% accurate but our existing stats web pages may have some missing data prior to the update.
- A fix to address the issue where some players were unable to start the story-based campaign if Xbox LIVE was down or unavailable.
I have not had a chance to play the game since the update due to traveling, but if any of you have, let us know if the updates did anything.
No adjustments for the hoover vacuum?
Well at least now I only have to wait half an hour to find a match so I can play for 5 minutes and restart. In fact I’m searching right now, have been for 15minutes. I think they should stop matching parties up by skill and throwing them into random games and just put everyone together in a party no matter your skill level. THAT would make matchmaking faster.
Oh and WTF is this, “Remote parties restarted the search” BS, is this some way of saying, ‘hey we’re gonna hop you over to this server over here and miss every one else.’