Tehflakes.ca Gears of War 2 Community Night
Tehflakes.ca Gears of War 2 Community Night
Tehflakes.ca is hosting a Gears of War 2 Community night! More information will be available at http://gearsofwar.xbox.com/Templates/CMBlog.aspx?id=1326
Here is the important info about this community night:
This Saturday, January 17, you can test your skills against DarthAlbert III and Tehflakes
Date: Saturday, January17, 2009
Time: 9pm – 12pm EST
Come out and test your skills against Tehflakes.ca (and maybe win some cool Gears stuff), add the gamertags below to your friends list, and join them for a game this weekend!
Tehflakes
DarthAlbert III
I hope to see and play with as many of you as possible. So send us some friend’s requests, leave a message in this thread or send us an Xbox live message.
To be entered into the giveaways come out and play some GoW2 with us and you will automatically be entered to win some very cool prizes. Once the night is over we will collect all names and put them in a random draw for the prizes. We have 2 t-shirts and 2 golden weapon codes.Winners will be notified by Xbox Live message that they have won.
read moreAdventures to SilverSnail
On a cold Saturday in Toronto, I ventured down to visit SilverSnail for the first time and I was blown away with what is inside. I was on a mission to buy some Gears of War Comics and action figures, so I didn’t get too distracted by all the cool stuff inside. I ended up buying a Marcus Fenix action figure along with Gears of War Comic Issues #2 and #3. Check out the pictures below.
Check out SilverSnail on At www.silversnail.com
read moreGears of War 2 title update coming later this month
From Mark Rein at Epic Games
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.
Source Epic Games – More information can be found here.
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GoW 2 Launch Party + Quick & Dirty #4 – Gears of War 2 + CONTEST
Last night, in the tunnels that run deep under Toronto, Xbox Canada and High Road Communications hosted the Gears of War 2 launch event. The evening started with community members and press meeting at Bay subway station. Attendees were greeted by Xbox Canada’s own JadeLive. After receiving guest badges, we were escorted down into the bowels of Toronto’s Lower Bay subway station. Yes, that’s right… the GoW2 launch event was held at the abandoned subway station.
On the way in, we each received a swag bag containing a copy of Gears of War 2 and a Gears of War t-shirt. Swag in hand, we descended the stairs and found ourselves on a dimly lit subway platform flanked by two subway cars. Between the cars were dozens of wide screen televisions displaying Gears of War 2 start screens.
I headed to the back and started playing the five player horde mode with fellow community members KowZ and The Forum Troll with a few other folks. Horde is all about teamwork and communication. Considering all we could hear was the rumbling of the subways above us, we still managed to fight off the Locust and make it to wave thirty five. I avoided checking out any of the television sets with the GoW2 campaign mode going on as I didn’t want to see any spoilers! Also of note, was the set of ten televisions back to back (five on each side) where people were playing 5 on 5 COG versus Locust. Ridiculously fun. DarthAlbert III and Mister Switch of ohmpage.ca played on opposing teams with much smack talk between the two.
Thanks again to Jade and her team for inviting us to their brilliantly planned and executed launch party.
Some quick thoughts about Gears in this special edition of Quick & Dirty for GoW2:
Gears of War 2
Teh Good
- Horde mode
- Better cover system including meat shield (use your dead opponent as cover)
- Improved graphics and audio
Teh Bad
- The controls when driving vehicles are still a bit wonky
- Voice “acting”
- There’s still nothing you can do should a team member go rogue and chainsaw you from behind. I’m looking at you HalfLife84!
Teh Verdict
If you enjoyed Gears 1 you will love Gears 2. More than just Gears 1.5, the new weapons (mortar!), enemies, and multiplayer modes create a brand new Gears experience. This game will account for a ton of time on Xbox Live for me and many other gamers. Gears of War 2 is a must buy this holiday season, make sure to pick up and join in on killing the Locust!
CONTEST TIME!
EDIT: CONTEST IS CLOSED folks. Congrats to Carnage1975. Hopefully your golden Hammerburst will still look nice and sparkly when it’s on the ground beside your freshly chainsawed corpse.
Img source: IGN.com
I know you want this sweet gold-plated HammerBurst firearm. Well, thanks to our good friend JakenBear at Xbox Canada, tehflakes.ca has a code to give away for one. All you have to do is respond to this post with your comments and one lucky winner will be chosen at random to win the code. Good luck!
Photos by okaybuddy. More pics available here.
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