GEARS of WAR

[Tain]

Best review ever.

lollin@ Gears being a PS2 game

[Cowdisease]

A patch is coming "before Christmas". Haven't said what it's going to be in it, but it sounds like it's just going to be bug fixes. Let's hope for team ranked games.

Team Ranked games won't come until next year according to Epic. The only thing that was confirmed for the next update was the VGA bug fix for non-widescreen monitors. I wonder if they'll allow hosts to change the map and gametype in non-ranked games without having to start a new room. It's a shame no one has commented on when the horrible headset bug will be fixed.

[Advocate]

It's a shame no one has commented on when the horrible headset bug will be fixed.

I put up a few pages back the comments from Epic themselves on the Epic Forums. Its a Microsoft bug, whenever MS gets off their ass it will be fixed.

[Brand X]

I like how Epic says it's a bug caused from Microsoft, but no other game I have played online seems to have that problem.

[MarkRyan]

A list of common bugs in Gears of War:

• Chainsaw: Someone chainsaws an enemy and some part of the animation gets interrupted--the chainsaw noise and screaming go on for about ten seconds while blood shoots out from the spot where the kill happened (or sometimes from the body of the killer).
• Dead Body Clipping: Enemy's dead body clips with the player and gets stuck--you end up running around with an enemy attached for a while.
• Pushing Cars: The cars you push in single player campaign get stuck before reaching the end of the line. Another problem: When the cars reach the end of the line, they lose their "cover" designation--you can no longer press A to take cover behind them.
• No More Textures: Very often in both single and multiplayer, the level loads with missing textures, either on walls or on in-game characters.
• Environment Drop: It happened to me online (and I've heard about it elsewhere)--character randomly drops through the environment. I ran around for about two minutes before warping back to the playing field.
• Voice Comm Bugs: Annoying echo is constant, seems like 90% of the time the game doesn't correctl synch up everyone in the after-match lobby. If you were the last man standing, you often sit there with no one to talk to until the next match starts.
• Instant Death What: This happened to me three times in one match, once. Got hit with something that should've been instant death and instead just got dropped to my knees (sniper rifle and grenade stick were the culprits).

I wish I was typing up this list while playing 'cause the game is seriously bug-ridden and I can't think of everything that went wrong. Gears is a blast but it could've used some serious extra time polishing.

[ElCapichan]

A list of common bugs in Gears of War:

• Chainsaw: Someone chainsaws an enemy and some part of the animation gets interrupted--the chainsaw noise and screaming go on for about ten seconds while blood shoots out from the spot where the kill happened (or sometimes from the body of the killer).
• Dead Body Clipping: Enemy's dead body clips with the player and gets stuck--you end up running around with an enemy attached for a while.
• Pushing Cars: The cars you push in single player campaign get stuck before reaching the end of the line. Another problem: When the cars reach the end of the line, they lose their "cover" designation--you can no longer press A to take cover behind them.
• No More Textures: Very often in both single and multiplayer, the level loads with missing textures, either on walls or on in-game characters.
• Environment Drop: It happened to me online (and I've heard about it elsewhere)--character randomly drops through the environment. I ran around for about two minutes before warping back to the playing field.
• Voice Comm Bugs: Annoying echo is constant, seems like 90% of the time the game doesn't correctl synch up everyone in the after-match lobby. If you were the last man standing, you often sit there with no one to talk to until the next match starts.
• Instant Death What: This happened to me three times in one match, once. Got hit with something that should've been instant death and instead just got dropped to my knees (sniper rifle and grenade stick were the culprits).

I wish I was typing up this list while playing 'cause the game is seriously bug-ridden and I can't think of everything that went wrong. Gears is a blast but it could've used some serious extra time polishing.

I've been playing this game since the day it came out, and have never experienced most of these, and only one or two of those have occured a few times.

[Revoltor]

I beat it on casual last night.

What's up with the super grainy explosion footage during the end? For a moment I thought I was watching it out of a PS1.

[Advocate]

I like how Epic says it's a bug caused from Microsoft, but no other game I have played online seems to have that problem.

From what Epic said MS knows of the problem and its on their end. The server end not the software end. Apparently the code they are using in GoW is a newer code or some shit. I find it BS, cause when RS6: BA had bugs in a voice the Ubisoft update fixed it ... not the MS Live updates, But whatever.

[mannerbot]

• No More Textures: Very often in both single and multiplayer, the level loads with missing textures, either on walls or on in-game characters.

I'm not so sure that this is a bug. I always assumed that it was intentionally put in to speed up load times, especially since the textures load as you play. The biggest bug isn't even on your list though, the one where the character freezes for no reason and can't move.

[Sqoon]

I'm not so sure that this is a bug. I always assumed that it was intentionally put in to speed up load times, especially since the textures load as you play. The biggest bug isn't even on your list though, the one where the character freezes for no reason and can't move.

That's the worse. Ususally involves a botched chainsaw job I think. In the off-chance you're playing with friendly fire on, have your teammates kill you and revivie you and you can move again.