New Gears 2 Info

[JoeySnow]

<P mce_keep="true">http://xbox360achievements.org/news/...-War-2-Details--
<P mce_keep="true">Party System
<P mce_keep="true">5v5 online
<P mce_keep="true">Carmine is back!?

[DslRider]

I know i'm gonna catch heat for this but what is a party system?

Gears is basically the only game I play on live so I am not familiar with it.

[AzShrapnel]

dsm ... a party system is where you and your friends can join together in a party and when you move from GP room to GP room it makes every attempt to keep you together and on the same team, etc.

In Halo 3, we would all join in a party (like 8+ of us) and then just hit the GP ... when we would get matched it would stick us all on the same team and only bounce someone off to even up the teams .

Probably not as important, IMO, for Gears since the rooms are small enough to almost always have enough AGErs to round up.

May be they will allow parties in Ranked games?

Someone may want to provide a better explanation of parties than I did, though.

[albyhouse]

<P mce_keep="true">Hostages can be taken and used as shields.
<P mce_keep="true">OMG I can see Vcize dragging my sorry ass all around the map as a shield!! I'll for sure never get any kills now[]

[rakswp]

<P mce_keep="true">i hate games with vehicles..i hope they don't put that stuff in multiplayer. It just makes the map too damn big, and you have campers sniping from across the map.

[MarkcusD]

5v5 should be ok. Any more would ruin it.



There's a video of the designer talking about some of these things: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33955.html?type=

[IceLion]

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i hate games with vehicles..i hope they don't put that stuff in multiplayer. It just makes the map too damn big, and you have campers sniping from across the map.
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<DIV>If I wanted MP with vehicles I would play Galo.</DIV>

[vcize]

<P mce_keep="true">I'm slightly worried about the new weapon specific executions. It sounds like they won't be replacing the curb stomp and they'll be performed by pressing B, at which point it will choose the execution to do based on the weapon you have out.
<P mce_keep="true">This could really screw up the flow of the game in execution as that means to execute someone with a gun that isn't easy to execute people with by shooting at short range (pretty much everything except the shotty and lancer) you have to enter one of those 3 second long execution manuevers (which you're no longer invincible in to boot) to finish them off?
<P mce_keep="true">Melee'ing someone while they're down to finish them off and stay on the move is 100% necessary in execution. I hope they end up mapping the new executions to an entirely different button and not taking those melee kills on downed people away.

[bafroom]

sounds like a lot of work to finish off the kill.