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Mark Rein, Vice President of Epic Games, announced today that the studio is working hard on a major title update for Gears of War 2 that will address several bugs, exploits while bringing new features. Straight from the horse's mouth: Happy New Year!
First of all I hope all of you had a safe and happy holiday season.
As I mentioned before the break we’ve been working on a major title update for Gears of War 2. This update will address bugs and exploits as well as add some new achievements related to downloadable content. We don’t have an exact date for it but all indicators are it will go live within January. If that changes we’ll let you know.
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.
This is just a very small list of some of the things that will be in the next title update but one more item which has been talked about a lot in our forums deserves a special call out...
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.
So there’s a brief status report on the next title update. At some point I expect we’ll post a more detailed list but I assure you we’re working hard to get this out the door and once it’s done we’ll start working on the next update. We’ll 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.
As gaming continues to move into mainstream entertainment, I think you will start to see more and more quality actors lending their talents to the creation of video games. As evident in the popularity of the COD series, Treyarch was able to get Kiefer Sutherland and Gary Oldman to do the main NPC (Non-Playable Character) voices of SGT Roebuck and SGT Reznov. I think they did a great job and it definitely adds to the immersion factor. Check this video out to see exactly how it all came together.
Call of Duty: World at War - Voices of War Vignette
Well, with no real news on the gaming front, I faced the dilemma of updating the site before the holidays. I could either post another rant about how Gears 2 and Epic are true failures or maybe a holiday greeting with jolly ol' St Nick.
Neither one of those really struck me as much as this SNL short. So here is something to tide you over until something newsworthy graces the frontpage.
Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Mark Rein, Vice President of Epic Games, announced today that the studio is working hard on a major title update for Gears of War 2 that will address several bugs, exploits while bringing new features. Straight from the horse's mouth: 
