Gears 2

PiKe

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Oh my god, how hard is it to create decent matchmaking code, if it's not laggy it's massively unbalanced skill wise, why the hell can't the game just look at each players rank and spread them evenly between the two teams? Instead you end up with 1 team of 28-30 ranks and the other team with a rank 6, 10 and 21.

I haven't had one good game tonight because of this, Epic are Epically incompetant.
 
I find that the matchmaking is much better than it used to be. The ranks are also pretty meaningless right now as they are new. It probably matchmakes based on overall score.
 
I'm finding the same kind of thing... spent 3 hours on it yesterday, and i'm only rank 3, but playing most games with ranks of 20-40... because of this i find that playing Horde online is more fun than the PVP battles.

I have also noticed that since TU3 and a tweek to my modem/router thingy that it finds games much quicker now than it used to.

If anyone is interested in playing wingman and using comms mic2mic, i'd like to see how that goes, feel free to add me (see signature)
 
I've recently been playing GoW2 online too and consistently find it incredible that Epic created this system and still haven't fixed it - it's rubbish. Sometime (and I timed this) it can take 10 minutes to find a match!! TEN MINUTES!! What the hell!?

Teams are often completely unbalanced (as the OP says) - I agree, why couldn't it do it the CoD way, find 10 people then make the teams - even if some people are partied, it can still work.

Next up, whats with all the voting for game types?! I wanna play King of the Hill and I really don't like Annex... but I can't just choose that. If Annex wins then there is also no way for me to back out without quiting to the dashboard... What the hell?!

Early evening, lag isn't too bad. On some games my kills were fine, getting a good KD ration. Later on, when the Americans come online, I suddenly can't hit anything for trying... on the occasional kill I do get, I clearly shouldn't have done because I missed him by miles!! And why is it someone is close enough to punch me, but I'm not close enough to chainsaw them... I repeat... What the hell?!

I do enjoy the game when I finally get a game and when it is not as laggy as hell and when I actually get to play the game type I want... but sometimes it's just too much effort. I don't think Epic could have got this more wrong if they'd tried. Lets face it, GoW1 was pretty terrible at match making too.
 
Doesn't help when it consistently connects you to ****** americans. Nothing against them, just don't want a 150ms ping.
 
PiKe said:
Doesn't help when it consistently connects you to ****** americans. Nothing against them, just don't want a 150ms ping.
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yeah, that is kinda frustrating when a large lag gets involved.

I wonder why they decided to make the choice of games the way they did... I can understand the maps side of it, but not the actual game type being almost random... causes a few people to drop out and therefore land you with a short team sometimes :(
 
I got bored with the first Gears as it was never all that great, with the shotgun lag and dyson chainsaw shenanigans but Gears 2 is worse in pretty much every department. Really disappointed.
 
PiKe said:
Oh my god, how hard is it to create decent matchmaking code, if it's not laggy it's massively unbalanced skill wise, why the hell can't the game just look at each players rank and spread them evenly between the two teams? Instead you end up with 1 team of 28-30 ranks and the other team with a rank 6, 10 and 21.

I haven't had one good game tonight because of this, Epic are Epically incompetant.
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Code a better one then. Dare you.
 
PiKe said:
Infinity Ward managed it with COD4, so it is possible, Epic have no excuses, its just bad netcode.
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find it amusing that one can say 'epic are epically incompetent' when you consider they are one of the best known game developers and probably one of the best for making well coded engines, etc. unlike most developers. think of it this way, infinity ward made great code for generally quite poor game, and epic made bad netcode for a great game :p and hell there are tons of games with good matchmaking, play one of them instead...
 
I find gears 2 to be a very frustrating game.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to make the smokes knock you down needs a good slap.Most of the time they are a cheap and easy kill.
Winning for me depends who has the least lag.
And lag most of the time is ridiculous.
I really enjoyed gears 1 and played it all the time from when it was released.Looked forward to gear 2 but epic somehow managed to totally screw up the multiplayer aspect.
 
Gashman said:
find it amusing that one can say 'epic are epically incompetent' when you consider they are one of the best known game developers and probably one of the best for making well coded engines, etc. unlike most developers. think of it this way, infinity ward made great code for generally quite poor game, and epic made bad netcode for a great game :p and hell there are tons of games with good matchmaking, play one of them instead...
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But he doesnt want to play another game! :p

He's right the Netcode is gash, And he has every right to say so, Doesnt mean he thinks epic are bad, Just that if you're gonna make a great game like GOW, wouldn't it have been an idea to bring the MP upto the same standard. Why release a game as awesome as GOW2, and have it let down by something that has been done already time and time again, Very well by other developers
 
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