YES! ITS WHAT WE ALL WANTED For you people who didn't play gow mulitiplayer, the really bad downside to gow was the lag/host advantage, the host was very powerful especially with the shot gun. EXAMPLE OF HOST ADVANTAGE IN GOW 1: Cliffy B, ahem, Cliff Bleszinski has recently sat down with the guys at GamePro to detail a few mechanical and gameplay upgrades for Gears of War 2. Of major interest is how host advantages are gone in online play. Nothing on earth is more annoying than a shotgun duel going unbalanced in favor of the host. Well, maybe a hunting trip with **** Cheney would suffice. Both ways end with a mouthful of buckshot. Other goodies include chainsaw duels and multiplayer team slotting. Chainsaw duels are as figured, activated once two saw happy players face one another simultaneously. Unfortunately however is that chainsaw animations do not come packaged with invincibility anymore. Multiplayer considerations come in the form of bumping the number of players in each team to five instead of four. Unless of course you play wingman, an adaptation of Team Doubles in Halo 3 complete with five teams all facing off. The cover system has yet to be fully rehashed, but Cliff assures us that the team is intently working on it. -Xbox focus.
Now if only they could do this in Halo, I could play SWAT 24/7. GOW2 looks amazing, hopefully the shotgun will be a little less rape worthy than in the update.
wow the end to the biggest problem, gd find, and even on game battles u had to switch host to the other team after every game so that thers no advantage
I'm happy that Host won't be a problem also the chainsaw isn't a 50/50 coin toss anymore . I hated GOW 1 for those reasons but GOW 2 is definatly a must buy now. Can't wait to use the flamethrower and some of those new weapons.
I LOVED GOW. i played for hours everyday it came out i even got into the top 300 in execution and my friend is still in the top 5 till this day. But i had to leave because the host advantage was just too much. I remeber i hosted a game maybe a 1/2 dozen times and it was just me walking over everyone. you think the shotgun had an advantage i could machin gune people from accross the map like they were a foot away. when u get perfect aim and everyone got to shoot ahead... yeah..
This is a breakthrough. Maybe Bungie should take down matchmaking for a little while to apply the system that GOW2 figured out. I really hope that Bungie talks to Cliffy. Actually I hope they reveal it to every company... This would make every online multi player better.