The fifth (and probably not final) Title Update for Gears of War 2 went live today, and will prompt for download the next time you boot the game up. What's being fixed this time around? Aside from patching that nasty little security hole from TU4, the new digital band-aid addresses a whole host of things.
Friendly stuck grenades are now viewable in your Tac/Com; the cringe caused when a smoke grenade drops your meatshield is gone; the Roadie-Run camera has been reverted back to its Gears 1 movements; turbo controllers for cheating your rate of fire are now nixed; glitching out of a map via a shield mantle in multiplayer has been fixed; sticky walk is no more; looping audio after a death has been corrected; scoreboard highlight issues have been addressed and EXP problems after Horde wave 50 round out the notable items that should, in theory, be axed from the game. We hope. You can view the full, detailed list after the jump.
Epic also confirmed that a Double EXP event is planned for this weekend, along with gameplay tweaks for making your Halloween sessions even more enjoyable. "...we wanted to mess with the waves in Horde to try and make it appropriately "scary" for Halloween. ... what if any of the many Boomers could attack on any wave and when possible, a full Boomer squad consisting of Grinders, Butchers, Flame Boomers and regular Boomshot Boomers could appear and attack all at once. And of course waves 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 would be nothing but wave after wave of Boomers." Pro-tip: nothing will scare off the kiddies like the sound of a Lancer ripping through your opponents' flesh, followed by a hearty "hell yeah!" in Surround Sound. Just sayin'.
Improvements
Title Update 5 makes these new improvements:
- Adds the ability to view friendly-planted grenades in Tac/Com.
- Removes the cringe caused when a smoke grenade forces a player to drop a meatshield.
- Adds bonus points to the winning leader's score in the Guardian game mode if the leader successfully survives the winning round.
- Changes the postmatch Invite button to only invite former teammates, so a player can create parties more easily instead of trying to create a Private Match that includes both teams from the former match.
- Returns the roadie-run camera movements to the way they were in Gears of War 1 by decreasing the dampening values.
Title Update 5 fixes these possible exploits, where under certain circumstances:
- A player could modify the game's behavior due to a security vulnerability introduced in an earlier title update.
- A player could use a turbo controller to artificially maximize their rate of fire.
- A player could mantle a planted shield in competitive multiplayer to hide inside geometry or to travel outside of the map. The ability to mantle shields was removed in competitive multiplayer but remains in Horde and Campaign.
General Fixes
Title Update 5 fixes these other issues as well:
- An issue that contributed to the "sticky walk" problem, where a player's avatar could stutter after the player picks up a weapon.
- An issue that could prevent players from hearing the "boom" telegraph from Boomers.
- An issue that could cause looping audio to continue playing after the player who triggered that sound is killed.
- An issue that could cause multiple names to be highlighted yellow on the scoreboard instead of the name of the player viewing the scoreboard.
- An issue that prevented the game from granting the earned experience points from the fiftieth wave of Horde.
- An issue that caused players at level 100 to see the "congratulations" message after every match.
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